Anna Holmes

this is like

the thesis statement of our times

Eating the freedom raw causes all kinds of conditions

Maybe just start with sitting with your own discomfort and turning that into curiosity.

I also don’t know if you know, but you can disagree with the vehemence of a position without accusing public health officials of aiding and abetting child murder.

how many of you are wearing masks as long covid is now the most common childhood health condition?

Because public health is everyone’s responsibility, right?

People stop me all the time and say I’m “smart” to mask with all of the disease running around, and yet, they never do it, even at hospitals.

So. Check your own behavior before applying sanctimony.

I get it. It’s enraging. Infuriating. Maddening, even.

And: if you want uptake to improve, you cannot do that by accusing people of hating their children. It’s actually a really great way to get them to double down.

Also, how many of you are wearing masks?

Hi, I’m someone permanently disabled because a classmate’s mother was too selfish to get her vaxxed and a nasty case of rubella went around and kool-aid manned through my vaccination.

I don’t think that mom would have changed her mind if you called her an evil, gullible bitch. Just me.

When you hear people ask
(and you will hear people ask)
if these machines
are conscious,
please try to remember:
that the question is not
if these machines
are conscious,
but why it is that we
treat people
we know are conscious
like they are machines.

Most meds are like this in the UK! Unsure why the US is married to bottles.

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

I'm unsure how people really think people were downplaying a virus that can kill you, make you go blind, wipe out your immune system for years, and oh yeah come back and kill you a decade after you thought you'd shaken it.

Anglo-saxons: Heroes are fragile things. The constant urge for glory and war will lead to nothing but a dead, buried heap of old metal.

Celtic epic: Rage and hypervigilance are a path to the doom of all around you. The land has its own rules; do not ignore them. Be very careful what you promise.

It's always funny what gets left out of "tradition" and "the West"

Mesopotamia: Reams of poetry written by a trans woman, epic about trauma, grief and failure.

Greece: Queer loss and the futile brutality of war, societies brought to ruin by aristocratic pride. Also everything Sappho wrote.

There is literally someone sitting on the floor.

I’m going to need people who think they can bring large items onto the accessible car because “there’s room there” to read about why the room is there.

Photo of me standing by a pool wearing a houndstooth KN95

kn95s are great for pollen but unfortunately wearing one might make you look like you care about protecting disabled people and i know we simply cannot have that

‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator Is Making a Decidedly Gay Netflix Show About Alexander the Great A second season of the gay hockey show will have to wait until 2027.

Oh this is gonna piss off some dudes with white marble busts as their profile pictures. Good.

www.them.us/story/alexan...

He’s visiting the guy behind him, who is a very good sport about being thoroughly snuffled. Owner keeps apologizing, but he’s chuffed. Conductor also getting some pets in.

Dog is dramatically sneezing for attention.

This scruffy black dog on the train has one (1) white toe. Ran out of toner at the very end.

this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal

I loved this show very very much a long time ago

it is long past time to let it (and certainly Whedon and Baldwin) fade away

Writing an essay about how clinging to neutrality threatens libraries and I only have 1500 words. Hope this professor likes really direct arguments

Couldn’t have happened to a nicer ghoul

Lol. This is amazing

I do not like this gen AI
I do not like what it implies
I do not want it in my art
I do not think it makes you smart
I do not want it in my games
I do not like its goals and aims
I do not want it in my books
I do not like the way it looks
I do not like it, I don't care
I do not want it anywhere

Here's the thing about using AI for lit reviews ... If you've actually read the scholarship, writing the lit review yourself isn't that taxing. But what's gonna happen is folks will use AI to save themselves having to *read* the scholarship, which will then make the rest of their article trash.

Well…that’s a relief. Maybe politicians shouldn’t be able to decide who’s in charge of them, though. A thought.

I have had my issues with Walz lately, but him refusing to answer “what is a woman” is honestly so good. More like this.