All while the world is burning.
I feel guilty for playing and enjoying a game. Or being privileged enough to know I'm ensured a paycheck next week. Or that the only thing to worry about is how to fit everything I want to do in a day.
Got the game on launch day, but was only able to start last night played for an hour until I really had to sleep.
So played today with sis, hoping to finish it. But apparently it's bigger than yhe first one. And it's still as compelling.
I have stuff to finish!
Because tacking on "literary" classes it up a bit!!! /s
I spent Sunday with these guys!
Ron Attends Kilig Cafe rondoesstuff.com/2026/02/25/r...
As one of the cover artists, so so ridiculous 🫠
If I were any of the victims that survived or the families of the ones that didn't? I would take Sam Altman & company to the fucking cleaners.
I'm talking suing the company for so much money that his great-grandchildren would be paying my family line in installments.
AI is the “asbestos of the internet”
🐎✨ Happy #YearoftheHorse ! ✨🐎
These mobile wallpapers are part of the free 'Year of the Horse' calendar project found here: cmykae.itch.io/yoth
#cny #lny #pixelart
Year of the Fire Horse ! Comic for my mom and the new year !!
Cover of contemporary romance novel, Win Meah Over by Ana Tejano, pasted over a night photo of a city in Manila, Philippines.
Win Meah Over is out tomorrow *gasp*
Contemporary romance, enemies to lovers x second chance, heat level 0, set in 🇵🇭. $2.99 until release day! ☀️
Amz: www.amazon.com/dp/B0GK9T4R7H/
Kobo: www.kobo.com/ph/en/ebook/...
Bookshop: bookshop.org/p/books/win-...
#romanceclass #romancelandia
Happy year of the Fire Horse. Let it cleanse the world. 🔥🐎
Promo banner for NaNoRenO 2026 featuring Ren, a young artist with short hair and headphones.
It's that time again! The NaNoRenO game jam is just around the corner. Make a visual novel in just one month!
#NaNoRenO #NaNoRenO2026 #GameJam #VisualNovel #GameDev
itch.io/jam/nanoreno...
h/t @floorlibrarian.bsky.social :)
Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.
You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻♀️
The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen is going on sale today! Snap it up for $1.99.
Gentleman/smuggler romance with awkward families, sinister secrets on the marsh, bugs.
It's on sale wide but I'm not going out to the shed in this weather so here's the kobo link
Fuck this.
The image is a meme with three panels, using a scene from a movie to humorously convey a conversation about prosecuting people associated with the Epstein files. 1. Top Panel: Shows two characters, with the left one facing the camera and the right one seen from behind. The text reads: "prosecute everyone in the Epstein files." 2. Middle Panel: Features a close-up of the right character facing the camera. The text states: "if we prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, the whole system will collapse." 3. Bottom Panel: The left character is in focus, looking at the right character, with the text: "I already said prosecute everyone in the Epstein files, you don't need to sell it to me."
Uploaded the final final FINAL files to KDP/D2D AND sent the final final FINAL files to my printer 🥳 Three days to go till I have a new book out again (after almost 9 years gasp)? What a time. You can still pre-order and get the discounted price - anatejano.com/wmo ☀️
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
feels like i should re-post this every few weeks
Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.
Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store
What does Ina Garten's memoir Be Ready When the Luck Happens and Deepa Paul's Ask Me How It Works: Love In An Open Marriage have in common? Quite a bit if you ask me.
biancamori.com/2026/02/14/t...
I got a new Kakuno! maedinn.fyi/black-and-wh...
(I can't believe it's been one year since the first one)
All about our next RomanceClass event on February 22 at Ayala Malls the 30th!
kiligcafe.romanceclassbooks.com
books on a shelf at a book shop arranged so that they create a hole to see through
No, AI written romance novels are not inevitable: aftermath.site/ai-romance-nov...
I read My Usual and You (Cafe Titas, #2) by Mina V. Esguerra
(Apparently you have to be signed in to GR now to read reviews because why not make life a little bit worse for everyone.)
www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them
Australian here. We've been suffering with this for almost two months and the UK lads for far worse.
Their verification system is a sham, and once you're falsely flagged they'll refuse anything but your ID.
Don't fall for their shit, cancel your nitros.
Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.
And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!
Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)
RomanceClass2026 starts on February 16 and 22 authors have confirmed participation. All drafts finished by May 15 will be considered for an international publishing/translation deal with TrendLit (Singapore).
Page is updated as authors confirm their slots:
romanceclassbooks.com/romanceclass...
