Stuff from a tired person

For everyone who ‘used to love reading’ but now hasn’t finished a book in years, you CAN get it back. Genuinely start bringing a book (preferably short and either fiction or a non fiction topic you already really enjoy) everywhere you go and when you have 5-20 mins waiting for the bus or at the doctors office or mechanic or whatever, get out your book and read it! You don’t have to finish it quickly or even read it often but it is so good for your brain and fun to get into the habit of reading more (and replacing being on your phone for those moments). Source: I read 0 books in 2023 and I’ve read 12 in the first 4 months of 2026

Other things that can help: start with small books. Short story collections, plays, poetry, novellas, etc. They are all still books, just in more bite-sized quantities. For longer books, go for "fun reads" before you try to hit up any "classics." I can tear through a light fantasy novel in a day or two, but I'm fighting to get myself through the prologue to A Scarlett Letter. The writing style/difficulty of the book absolutely makes a difference.

I am shamed to say this and this probably gets me cancelled but I'd literally spent my entire life thinking rasputin song was about vladimir putin. like every time I listened to the song / every time I heard it play, I literally thought it was about vladimir putin 😭😭😭😭

I'm guessing you either never listened closely to the lyrics, or you thought it was a satirical song about an alternative universe where Putin got knocked off for being such a weird dude?

I don't know what else I expected him to do.

Found the source of the infographic that explains how the results were obtained!

we did it, we created furry gerrymandering

Can anyone explain wtf is going on here especially a Korean speaker

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That is one of the most astronomical fuck up translations I have ever seen.

I wonder if this something that any native Korean would have understood. That is, if we asked 10 Korean speakers who are also fluent in English what that meant, would they understand it? Would they ever think of AI's interpretation? If I'm understanding correctly, and this is a mistake impossible (or nearly so) for a human to make, it speaks to the limitations of LLM for translation.

I have seen human children do this awkward run so many times. 😭

I tried distracting a vampire by throwing rice at him, but I only had two grains with me so it didn't work. He counted them instantly. Then he asked me what I was even doing with exactly two grains of rice, and I explained how a bowl of rice tastes better if you spread it out over an entire day. I asked him if he was gonna suck my blood but he said no, he just had a lot more questions about the rice thing.

did a bit of driving through the state of georgia today and wound up driving through a small town that i later discovered was called newborn, which is an odd name but doesn’t technically have anything wrong with it, except for the fact that i nearly gave myself whiplash doing a double-take at a building sign advertising NEWBORN TAXIDERMY

high product standards will do that, yeah

goddam no wonder it hurts to step on em

I love how there's a little push as the studs on top give way... and then the real battle begins

Vulcan teen on Vulcan [tiktok] saying "I have just lost track of my father in the grocery store." The camera turns to show the viewers the grocery store in which almost every single older middle-aged man has a bowlcut and long robes. Camera turns back to show the teen's face which is expressionless and yet communicates all it needs to.

@revlerie