#use google

[pinkbirddiaries]

I JUST started this new trad pub book and on page 24 there was a mistake. The editor actually failed this author bc I’m liking this book so far but wtf!

Polychoric correlation measures the association between two ordinal variables, assuming they represent underlying continuous variables with a bivariate normal distribution

Polycoria is a rare condition characterized by the presence of more than one pupil in one eye

The author meant Polycoria but I guess neither the author nor the editor had access to the internet bc we got Polychoric instead.

The book is called “I Am Made of Death” by Kelly Andrew. I’m having fun so far but I also just started it so

[artistformerlyknownasbutttrumpet]

no i don't want to use your ai assistant. no i don't want your ai search results. no i don't want your ai summary of reviews. no i don't want your ai feature in my social media search bar (???). no i don't want ai to do my work for me in adobe. no i don't want ai to write my paper. no i don't want ai to make my art. no i don't want ai to edit my pictures. no i don't want ai to learn my shopping habits. no i don't want ai to analyze my data. i don't want it i don't want it i don't want it i don't fucking want it i am going to go feral and eat my own teeth stop itttt

[shefightsforall]

[monstertsunami]

i spilled pasta in my backpack and got so mad that i made a traumacore edit about it

[teabree-shark]

in b4 95% of all websites in june 2024 announce that "for security" they will only work with browsers that use manifest v3

E: "Oooh I'm just gonna use Vivaldi." "I'm just gonna use Brave 😏"

You damn poor pitiful fools! Vivaldi is chromium! Brave is chromium! Edge is chromium! Opera is chromium!

Blink, avast, falkon, Samsung, epic, yandex, and whatever basic "internet" browser your phone came with, all chromium!

Anything on iOS ever, now, is safari (including firefox, brave, vivaldi). If they're chromium, they're limited. If they're safari/webkit, they're limited by apple (y'all already had your extension apocalypse two years ago and now have to, like, install and use three local VPN servers in a trenchcoat that call themselves an ad blocker but still break the *shit* out of a ton of professional work).

If you used Firefox 3+ years ago and it was slow or whatever, there's been a complete rebuild and it rules and is mature and stable. Firefox Android allows extensions, including ublock origin! Marketing and business and research wings of big businesses *do* care about 2% of users, if it can even come back to that.

I wish there were other options, but there aren't, really.

This, legitimately, will shape the rest of your digital lifetimes, however long that is.

[transgender-png]

why is my mom allergic to looking things up. actual conversation we just had.

mom: how do i get these back? they're in the recycling bin. now what?

me: in OneDrive? i dont know i dont use OneDrive, look it up.

mom: well how do i get them back, do i just download them?

me: i Dont Know. just Look It Up.

mom: ill just download them.

me, knowing she's about to potentially fuck everything up again:

[spaceyshenanigans]

🎉🎉🎉

[prlssprfctn]

I know the fandom mostly agrees that Jason is that one always unemployed sibling in the family, but let me offer you a slightly enhanced concept - unemployed sibling Jason, who is the busiest sibling in the family.

No one can get hold of him. Like, ever. And it is not like he is lying, he is genuinely always has something else to do! Something random and unexpected, and, honestly, all his family can think is: what the hell?

Bruce, frowning: Remind me again, why the dinner in the circle of the family today doesn't suit your... schedule?

Jason, shrugging: I have a book club evening in the nursing home. We are discussing Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad tonight. Can't miss it. Also, Jennet-

Alfred, confused: Who is Jennet?

Jason: One of the old ladies in the nursing home, duh... Anyway, yeah, Jennet is having a birthday. She would be hella mad if her favourite grandson missed it, you know?

Bruce: ...Jason, you are not her-

Jason: (leaves)

Dick: Hey, wanna join me for tomorrow morning's training?

Jason, sighs: Sounds nice, but I have classes tomorrow.

Dick, confused: Classes? Since when you are enrolled in college?

Jason: Oh, no. I am a substitute teacher in one of the school's around.

Dick: WHAT-

Damian, calling Jason in the middle of the day: Can you pick me up from school? Others are busy, there is an emergency in the town.

Jason: Damn, sorry, kid, but I am not in the country right now. By the way, do you want to talk with your mother?

Damian: ...What that supposed to mean? Where are you?

Jason: I was planning to visit All-Caste, but first decided to meet up with Talia. I am kinda in Egypt right now, anyway.

Damian: ...

Tim, already used to Jason's constant busy status, sighing: I bet you won't agree if I call you on the lunch tomorrow?

Jason: Uh, no. I have plans. But if you tag along with me, we can get lunch together later.

Tim, surprised: ...Okay. What do you have tomorrow? Knitting club? A shift in library?

Jason: Nah, graduation ceremony.

Tim: Right, you are a substitute teacher.

Jason: No, no. My graduation ceremony. I am getting my PHD in literature.

Tim: SINCE FUCKING WHEN-

[mewvore]

[ishtanya]

I dont't have time to research all of these, but I've researched "the customer is always right", and that always was the full quote. Selfridge and the dozen or so entrepreneurs who came up with similar phrases all meant that the customer is always right (or a king in France and Germany, or a god in Japan, etc...).

At the time of Selfridge there was literally no customer service department, every complaint was considered a potential scam, that's why some people who managed big malls started to promote that in their mall, you were always right and you would be listened.

Of course, now we see the problems of an absolutist approach to pleasing the customer, but at one point it was a good idea.

Oh and for Jack of all trades, yeah the second part was not there either. In fact the original saying we have trace of was juste "Jack of all trades". No master of none, no better than master of one, just Jack of all trades. Then someone added "master of none" to précisé that it was derogatory (it was used as both), and people used that.

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

enough about the timeloop I wanna hear about the post-timeloop.

person who just got over the horror of being trapped and settled into a comfortable routine...but then the timeloop breaks and they struggle to reacclimatize. person trapped in a loop for years who grieved their loved ones—who are suddenly back and acting like nothing happened (because for them nothing did). teenager who aged physically and mentally during the timeloop and now they're so much older than they're supposed to be. random strangers who were trapped in a loop together relieved to get away from each other at last, but feeling oddly bereft of familiar company. service worker who is pissed as fuck to have to go back to work

[thecoolertails]

thanks that was really helpful

[lui-the-cute-snek]

Quit your job, join our toxic yuri polycule

a bit inpired by this post because it opened my eyes to the shipping possibilities

also here's a close up of them

[egophiliac]

A guy who just wake up from a coma -> what did i miss?

Pomefiore was the last plot i follow before real life made me forget about our silly boys. How bad has the plot become now for our gang? Also who is that Gojo looking guy?

anon, I am so sorry and I mean this in the best way, but I do think episode 5 is the absolute funniest place to have stopped following Twst because shit starts escalating SO fast after that. episode 6 literally starts with a secret government shadow agency breaking down our doors and kidnapping students. zero to a million instantly.

and like...that's not even the zaniest thing so far? Ortho's hacked into the collective human unconscious. there's time travel (sort of). "Crowley might be Malleus' long-lost father" is a serious theory. if you'd told me any of this back pre-episode 6, I would have asked for the link to this unbelievable but highly intriguing fanfic.

also, episode 7 gave us (and then immediately took away 😔) the best character in the whole story:

[destiel-news-network]

(Source 1, Source 2)

[niamhthefae]

just gonna leave this here for anybody who wants it

free copies of:

the bonnie and clyde proshot

hadestown

the great gatsby(jeremy jordan)

dear evan hansen

jekyll and hyde

ride the cyclone

enjoy!