If you're creating user personas as part of your process, and those personas don't include "user stalking their ex", "user who wants to traumatize vulnerable folks", and "user who thinks it's funny to show everyone their genitals" then you're missing an important design step.

Adventures in automatically generated captioning during family video chat.

Quantitative literary analysis is the shit I do like! fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-g…

This weekend I have baked AND sewed. Lockdown is teaching me all the skills no one could get me to learn as a child.

being a writer is so silly lmao type type type

"I am now a Liffey spirit I suppose. Weed in my hair. My skin pale, except where the plastic ties at my wrists and ankles have brought forth blood in red bangles." ICYMI Just ran across Adam Trodd's wonderful flash "Ophelia" in Banshee Press bansheelit.tumblr.com/post/157648417…

[ emerges from my house gremlin cave, after swearing I'd learn to use Twitter better during lockdown ] Still very fond of this poem — thank you for the shout-out!

I keep seeing essays about “how to build the perfect body” but not one *single* essay about how building a body is an act of monumental hubris that will backfire tragically when it comes to life and escapes from the lab, swearing vengeance on you, its creator.

So very grateful for this.

This image is my Personal Brand.

What I want to know is if there were people in the roaring 20s who, like future me, were faced with the prospect of putting on nice clothes post-pandemic and just went "yeah I think the fuck not."

I would like to request that all future productions of Hamlet use a famous skull as Yorick and that any audience member who guesses the identity of the skull wins a prize.

Okay, so a thread about prose poetry and the most common mistake people make when they're first exploring working in the genre. First, prose poetry is nebulous and ill-defined. In a way, all sorts of writing can fall under the umbrella of "prose poetry", and we have ... /1

Love to give myself a pap smear every time I need to get my credit card out to pay for coffee.

Now that that’s done, my creativity and productivity should return any moment!! *touching ear piece* Ok I’m hearing from the booth that’s not true

Devs watching QA test the product

Listening to the most recent episode of Lady to Lady Podcast with @KarenKilgariff and I had to re-share this LinkedIn experience wherein a recruiter realized I'd looked at his profile (after he messaged me approximately eight hundred times and called my office) and then sent me this.

I saw this months and months ago and didn't get it, but now that I'm [ redacted ] hours into Breath of the Wild I am absolutely losing it. Dr Amy Borsuk, please witness this.

#LGBTMH21 9. A 1995 "Dear Abby" letter mentioned asexuality. "I work in an office where employees have photos of their loves ones on their desks. Because I'm not married at my age and have no photos, people assume I'm gay – which I am not. I have no feelings for men or women."

A new challenger for Book Twitter’s Main Character of the week has appeared.