Non-artists: please gently let your well-intentioned niche blogger friends know that generating an AI illustration for their posts is not a harmless novelty. There are so many sources for free, eye-pleasing, not-environmentally-rapacious images. Creative Commons licenses, public domain art history.

Her campaign started with the "fuck you" attitude that signaled the Dems finally understood the post-Trump landscape. And then it transformed into the 1990s playbook like this. I really hope they know what they're doing because I'm skeptical that his gets her even one additional vote on balance.

Seriously, some of the most toxic, combative parts of the internet are parenting groups/forums. Because little galvanises people like proving they're 'a good parent' to others. The social status and group dynamics take over fairly rapidly. And it that seldom leads to anywhere reasonable. /4

It’s an absolute frog-boiling situation, too. From the outside looking in, it’s unbearable, but the people who still insist on posting are just numbed and calloused to the Nazi bar slowly congealing around them. I don’t get how it’s worth it, anymore.

(also worth mentioning: I only instructed her on the Probate because she was already working on amending and updating the Trusts that would be involved. Which she took so long to do that my mother FUCKING DIED before the work was finished.)

I rang yesterday, to point this out, leaving a message obviously as she did not take my call. I rang again today, and today's message was: I will ring EVERY DAY until this is done. EVERY DAY. I have chased her for every bit of this over nearly 2 years, I am FUCKING DONE.

Solicitor on Mum's Estate: Yes, this really needs to be finished, doesn't it, I'll have it done by... 4th October. Me: rings up to remind them on 1st October. She does not take my call, so I leave a message. 4th October comes and goes.

No

I think they ought to start naming them after major corporations who contribute significantly to climate change. Hurricane British Petroleum. Hurricane Nestle.

Quote post with the fictional character you are in your head (Embarrassing these days but still true, ever since I first read the books)