I know I say it all the time but I'm right

[huariqueje]

Dirty Martini - Paul McCreery

American b. 1970s

Watercolour on paper , 26 x 26 in. Framed.

[catchymemes]

[madrassoup]

I finally saw Obsession and need to know why reviewers are dancing around the fact that the lead male is the actual villain? I'm trying to say this without spoilers...

The sex scene where she's fully out of it and he's just banging away at her with no regard for her pleasure tells you everything about what he wants from this woman. The only problem he has with this new version of Nikki is how "weird" and "scary" she is, but he's willing to stay with her if she can tone things down a bit even if she's still not herself but rather an empty vessel of love and sex for him. You can also tell that he's resentful of everyone who questions their relationship, especially the ones who know for a fact that the real Nikki wasn't ever into him. He wants to prove them wrong and throw it in their faces. And then of course he manages to convince himself that it's morally good, actually, to stay with her. Worst of all: he clearly wants to punish the real Nikki. When she briefly emerges from her spell to ask him to kill her, his response - "is it so terrible to love me?" - was the scariest part of the whole movie, honestly.

[importantcatpics]

[xanadontit]

Luke Wilson, 54, and girlfriend Kendall Yates, 24, welcome their first baby — Entertainment Weekly

Luke Wilson is a first-time dad at 54. The Legally Blonde and Royal Tenenbaums actor welcomed a baby girl with his girlfriend Kendall Yates,

[xanadontit]

She’s closer in age to the baby than she is to the father of said baby.

[madrassoup]

Taylor Swift music producer deleted wedding invite because he thought it was spam, wife says — Entertainment Weekly

“We’ve been married for 32 years and have lived in the same house all of that time, but apparently we occupy two different worlds,” Melissa

Her manager was sending random spammy - but real - texts that said “You’re invited to Taylor and Travis’ wedding.”

[fakenerdboy]

I mean how many times can we say “the best choice was not to make the obviously stupid decision in the first place”

[afurioushawk]

[beggars-opera]

"I had a perfectly cordial 20-minute conversation with Mitch McConnell about world politics. I don't know why you would doubt this. Here is a photo of the conversation to prove it"

[hannbl]

[chrollo-tw]

me after I eliminated 21,042 people

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req'd by @earthquakening

fiction or non-fiction

text: Very podcast of you

[madrassoup]

I’m kind of obsessed with that wedding, just…from every angle honestly. Inviting 1000 people, including talk show hosts and morning show news anchors but swearing them all to secrecy; NOT inviting the parents of your godchildren but definitely inviting randos who don’t even have your number to drive home the insult and destroy any chance of reconciliation; in general inviting so many people that anyone in your real life who you excluded feels extra slighted; having a literal raffle where people can win a Chanel bag and a Chevy car; holding it in a sports dungeon but not the kind the groom plays in, again while demanding utter privacy; I mean the list goes on. I could read about the silly petty tackiness hypocrisy and excess of it all for the rest of the year 😍😍😍.

[madrassoup]

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/bats-rabies-marriott-lawsuit.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vlA.6qCb.7B5NyM-gBJzu&smid=url-share

"A commercial pilot from California awoke in the middle of the night last August to a swarm of bats in his Denver hotel room, one of which bit him on the foot, leading to expensive rabies treatment, according to a lawsuit filed last month in Colorado state court. Staff members at the hotel, a downtown Sheraton, refused to provide the pilot with a new room after the creatures were discovered, according to the suit, which was filed against Sheraton and its parent company, Marriott International. The staff did not “adequately repair” an opening below the room’s air-conditioning unit through which the bats had appeared to enter, forcing the pilot to try to stuff the hole with a towel, the suit says."

Well now when I hear that something is "batshit" I will think of this absolute fucking nightmare scenario.

[enki2]

[thebdelliumlady]

For anyone wondering, the PhD student's name is Myra Cheng.

Here's a link to an article about the study from the Stanford Report: link.

[chapscher]

Across three preregistered studies, participants interacting with sycophantic AI became more convinced of their own rightness and less willing to repair relationships. Yet at the same time, participants rated sycophantic AI models as higher quality, more trustworthy, and more desirable for future use, which may explain why this behavior has persisted despite its harmful impacts.

Myra Cheng et al. "Sycophantic AI decreases prosocial intentions and promotes dependence." Science 391, eaec8352 (2026).

[lesbiamlycenterforsocialanalysis]

Perhaps I’m being dramatic, but it almost feels as though the original phrasing (that I see being reflected quite heavily in the comments) focuses on Cheng’s inspiration from AI-generated breakup texts. The article goes much further than that; Cheng and her team clearly spent time acquiring data and then processing it to tell the story of how AI-dependence is fundamentally shifting how people interact with others. This change in human interactions didn’t happen overnight. We are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we interact with other people and a simultaneous diminishing of how long people will spend on any given task. Focusing in on the more click-worthy problem of breakup texts overlooks the underlying issue that, after being discovered, can actually influence policy change as Cheng discusses

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

You know how wealthy people turn into stupid arseholes by surrounding themselves with vapid yes-men? ChatGPT is vapid yes-men on tap. Now you, too, can subject yourself to the phenomenon that we've all long known turns people into giant toddlers who are impossible to deal with.

[sandersstudies]

Every time you go in a public place and something ISN’T disgusting it’s because somebody cleaned it. Every time you feel comfortable using a public bathroom or sitting at a restaurant table or setting something on a gas station counter or playing on a playground it’s because somebody cleaned it.

Thank you to everyone who cleans the world, especially those who are underpaid and under appreciated.

[my-life-is-a-sidequest]

I worked in a supermarket for 7 years and I don't think I can understate just how much cleaning you had to do for it to look clean (it very often where not in the places you aren't supposed to see)

[sandersstudies]

True for food service, retail establishments, gyms, outdoor areas, schools, religious buildings, office buildings, hospitals and medical buildings, etc. People usually only notice when a space is NOT clean, meanwhile every time a space is clean it’s only because of the diligent work of janitors, maintenance staff, custodians, parks workers, or volunteers.

[livinces]

[girlfailure-poetics]

this website is always finding new and exciting ways to prove this image true

[bookshelf-in-progress]

I hesitate to make this a sweeping statement, but I do think that to be a writer, you have to on some level love words as an artistic medium. Words can't just be the annoying limitation that make it more difficult to share your beautiful daydream. They can't just be the storytelling method you choose because you don't have the skills or resources to make any other kind of media.

You have to love the art of words for its own sake. Love the sound of words--how you can make music of a million different rhythms and moods, how the words and sentences you choose can make a million different atmospheres. Love what you can do with words--paint an image, share an emotion, put a person into a scene that only exists in the world of imagination. Love the different ways you can use words--different points of view and tenses, different formats and styles that can each provide a different experience of the story for the reader. You have to love words as your artistic tool and delight in learning new ways to wield them and new effects that you can create with them.

If you don't love words, there are other ways to tell a story. Writing is an artistic medium with it own strengths and weaknesses, and using it as your artistic medium should be a deliberate choice made out of love for this artform.