Laine Bell

Bar opens in 5 minutes. The kids are getting warmed up.

this is so fun because i know an LLM wouldn’t give me a response this creative. like this took the funniest shortcut possible. come have fun at youraislopbores.me

that they have kept their relationship intensely private to the point that this is how we find out is probably the best sign they might actually make it

anyway, rules are rules, here is the exact moment she fell in love

arawn king of the underworld and his hounds print..

arawn king of the underworld and his hounds painting

Happy St Davids Day Welsh friends!

This is an old painting/print of mine- ARAWN, Welsh King of the Otherworld and his hounds. They escort souls through the underworld.

Hir yw'r dydd a hir yw'r nos, a hir yw aros Arawn
"Long is the day and long is the night, and long is the waiting of Arawn"

Not sure if written by AI that picked the joke up from web scraping, or actual sabotage/malicious compliance by a staffer, but either way this is amazing.

A red dragon perched on a rock in an underground cave based on the story of the red dragon sleeping under Dinas Emrys - Upon being woken it fought and beat a white dragon also buried there.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Sant hapus / Happy St David's Day!

I thought I'd take this day to share some Welsh art and the stories that inspired them!
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Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete highway. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This, I repeat, is the best way of life to be found on the road. the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.

from Eisenhower's April 1953 "Chance For Peace" speech

The problem with watching all of WoT in between S3 and S4 of Witcher is I keep confusing the plot points of Ageless Lady Mages Plotting Continental Wars From Fancy Towers. I keep waiting for certain characters to show up and then remember they’re Aes Sedai. 🙃

I had the same problem watching WoT. 🙃

Today I learned red-bellied woodpeckers lick other birds to assert dominance.

my name is Red
and wen its day,
and other birb
wont go away,
and give me feed
but not disturb -
i get ril close.
i lik the birb.

(chuckle)

Rewatched the live action One Piece and then watched the preview for S2 and it’s SO GOOFY but it WORKS and I think I figured out why. It’s Muppet energy. The characters are so earnest and the actors just nail it no matter how ridiculous the line or scene (or costume.) Like humans in Muppet movies.

*also corn syrup. 🙃

Welp guess I’ll keep the Netflix subscription going and P+ cancelled. 😬 One Piece (live action) has S2 coming out March 10 and I’m still catching up on the latest seasons of Witcher and Wednesday, so plenty to watch!

It makes me wonder five or ten years from now what people will actually use AI for, after the novelty wears off and it’s more or less established that it’s fine as a shortcut, it’s *good enough*, but the real thing is usually better.

Maybe in the 80s someone did! Maybe it was a huge timesaver or so easy or it felt very modern! But by the time I got the book (early 2000s) it seemed weird to cook things like meatballs or a casserole in the microwave. Microwave was for TV dinners and reheating leftovers. And popcorn.

This is a really good comparison for what the AI impact on the world might become.

I bought a used Better Homes cookbook years ago and it was published in the 80s and most of the recipes have alternate microwave directions for them.

I’ve never used the microwave for any of the recipes. 🙃

btw for trans women to offer this kind of practical warning and sympathy is a serious mitzvah and we cis women really owe it to them (and to ourselves!) to step up our solidarity in kind

This is Gus. He really likes helping bring in the groceries. Makes him feel super strong and super proud of himself. 13/10 we're proud of you too, Gus (TT: angieee677)

Step Inside the Cargill Salt Mines Under Lake Erie The mines, located underneath Lake Erie, harvest about 12,000 tons of salt every day.

For those who might need inspiration for a Descent-style horror story, here is your periodic reminder that there is a 16 square mile salt mine in Cleveland, Ohio 1800 feet beneath Lake Erie

No, really:

A line graph with three points of information. At left, the word "Writing." In the center: "I haven't written in too many days, it's over, it's so over, I'm never finishing this and I'll never write again." To the right of that: "Writing again" with a happy face

The Graph of Eternal Hope is cross disciplinary.

Sometimes I forget how many years I worked retail, and then there are days like today where I find myself in the baking aisle properly restocking the cook & serve pudding boxes where they belong instead of lined up in the instant pudding slots. (Also I needed the instant hidden behind them.) 🙃

A pile of baby Boer goats, sleeping

The state of the goat union is adorable

Is some nonsense happening on TV tonight? Idk I have to run to the store and prep a dessert for our Chocomania potluck tomorrow so I guess I’ll miss it. What can you do?

• Picard (Paladin)
• Data (Wizard)
• Worf (Fighter)
• Crusher (Cleric)

A bunny sits on the rooftop, next to a hen ands two chicks. A 2nd chicken frantically flaps in the air nearby them, buoyed aloft by a bunch of balloons.

Daily bunny no.3239 made it to the top

Urgent dispatch from the desert: it is bunny bullfighting season

Oh 44 for me please!

This works. Takes a little spine from *you.* Happy side effect: people who pull this stunt in front of you, with your pushback response, are likely NEVER to try it again. (Because they're terrified next time you'll come back at them with *more* detail.)

A pack of instant noodles that reads “Shin Ramyun, Spicy and Creamy Toomba” and has all 5 Saja Boys from K-pop Demon Hunters along the bottom. Jinu in the center is reaching out as if beckoning you to try the spicy creamy noodles.

I’m not saying the Saja Boys MADE me buy this ramyun…but they might be the reason this brand made it into my cart instead of another pack of Buldqk. 👀

Because if you see this, and you vote for ICE funding at this point, in any capacity? I want you gone.