Thefourthvine
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Time is doing my head in.
I favorite dog pics.
She/her.
I favorite dog pics.
She/her.
The Unsubscribening begins. It’s nice of companies to set aside a time of year for us all to consider whether we really want to stay on their email list.
November 27, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The Unsubscribening begins. It’s nice of companies to set aside a time of year for us all to consider whether we really want to stay on their email list.
A fun game to play when you’re reading a non-fiction book by a male scientist: see how many female scientists and students he mentions by name. My current book’s count is one (she’s one half of a husband and wife research team). But there’s still time! Let’s see how he does.
November 26, 2025 at 5:29 AM
A fun game to play when you’re reading a non-fiction book by a male scientist: see how many female scientists and students he mentions by name. My current book’s count is one (she’s one half of a husband and wife research team). But there’s still time! Let’s see how he does.
This is a fantastic idea. Overload the glurge with even more glurge!
Someone should be setting up counter content farm networks that just post inane things like “my grocery list: motor oil and live snakes” or “the best pizza topping is straight pins” and see how loud we can make the AI Summaries and inane ChatGPT requests scream
November 25, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This is a fantastic idea. Overload the glurge with even more glurge!
Anyone got any favorite kissing scenes in fic? I have once again reached the stage where I am no longer sure kissing is even a real thing that humans do (why would we?) and I need to remind myself that it's actually possible to write
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Anyone got any favorite kissing scenes in fic? I have once again reached the stage where I am no longer sure kissing is even a real thing that humans do (why would we?) and I need to remind myself that it's actually possible to write
I had a job I liked and then my sister got persuasive and now I have a job I like better. I help kids apply to college and I get to make the process less stressful and more appropriate for them!
November 23, 2025 at 8:21 PM
I had a job I liked and then my sister got persuasive and now I have a job I like better. I help kids apply to college and I get to make the process less stressful and more appropriate for them!
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What browser should I use if Google has succeeded in driving me away with AI?
November 22, 2025 at 4:41 PM
What browser should I use if Google has succeeded in driving me away with AI?
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It's Xeno's Paradox, writer edition
November 21, 2025 at 11:41 PM
It's Xeno's Paradox, writer edition
I know exactly what my ending scene is. I keep writing towards it and it keeps receding into the distance like a mirage. COME BACK, ENDING SCENE, I JUST WANNA TALK
November 21, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I know exactly what my ending scene is. I keep writing towards it and it keeps receding into the distance like a mirage. COME BACK, ENDING SCENE, I JUST WANNA TALK
It’s after midnight and I’m grouchily poking at the internet, trying to figure out what I want to read. But the awful truth is that what I really want to read is the story I’m currently writing. It’s wildly uncouth of the writer not to have finished it yet.
November 20, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It’s after midnight and I’m grouchily poking at the internet, trying to figure out what I want to read. But the awful truth is that what I really want to read is the story I’m currently writing. It’s wildly uncouth of the writer not to have finished it yet.
This is incredibly informative. If you don’t know what Makaton is: it’s a “system” that steals, breaks, copyrights, and sells signs from various sign languages. But it’s also a lot worse than that.
I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not fight with people on Threads about Makaton. I will not thebaffler.com/outbursts/si...
Signed Away | Sara Nović
The hearing world continues to pillage and caricature the deaf community—most recently with the proprietary, sign-based system Makaton.
thebaffler.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:24 AM
This is incredibly informative. If you don’t know what Makaton is: it’s a “system” that steals, breaks, copyrights, and sells signs from various sign languages. But it’s also a lot worse than that.
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Happy International Men's Day to the excellent men I know.
November 19, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy International Men's Day to the excellent men I know.
My health insurance, every time it emails me: Thank you for choosing GreedyHealthInc!
Me, in my head, every single time: You know full well I had absolutely no choice in the matter and would not use you were the alternatives not bankruptcy, death, or Kaiser Permanente.
Me, in my head, every single time: You know full well I had absolutely no choice in the matter and would not use you were the alternatives not bankruptcy, death, or Kaiser Permanente.
November 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM
My health insurance, every time it emails me: Thank you for choosing GreedyHealthInc!
Me, in my head, every single time: You know full well I had absolutely no choice in the matter and would not use you were the alternatives not bankruptcy, death, or Kaiser Permanente.
Me, in my head, every single time: You know full well I had absolutely no choice in the matter and would not use you were the alternatives not bankruptcy, death, or Kaiser Permanente.
What we need is a podcast called Fandom Time Capsule, where we examine artifacts from earlier fandom eras: TOS Kirk/Spock from an actual zine. Livejournal stories that have never been ported to AO3. Kink memes. Icons. Mailing list posts. Who's with me?
November 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
What we need is a podcast called Fandom Time Capsule, where we examine artifacts from earlier fandom eras: TOS Kirk/Spock from an actual zine. Livejournal stories that have never been ported to AO3. Kink memes. Icons. Mailing list posts. Who's with me?
Website: Check out this mug!
Me: Okay. Cute mug.
W: It comes with an app!
Me: The MUG comes with an APP?
W: Yes! Isn't that great?
Me: Do you even hear yourself right now? THE THING THAT HOLDS DRINKABLE LIQUIDS COMES WITH AN APP.
W: Yes?
Me: We are in hell because we deserve to be.
Me: Okay. Cute mug.
W: It comes with an app!
Me: The MUG comes with an APP?
W: Yes! Isn't that great?
Me: Do you even hear yourself right now? THE THING THAT HOLDS DRINKABLE LIQUIDS COMES WITH AN APP.
W: Yes?
Me: We are in hell because we deserve to be.
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Website: Check out this mug!
Me: Okay. Cute mug.
W: It comes with an app!
Me: The MUG comes with an APP?
W: Yes! Isn't that great?
Me: Do you even hear yourself right now? THE THING THAT HOLDS DRINKABLE LIQUIDS COMES WITH AN APP.
W: Yes?
Me: We are in hell because we deserve to be.
Me: Okay. Cute mug.
W: It comes with an app!
Me: The MUG comes with an APP?
W: Yes! Isn't that great?
Me: Do you even hear yourself right now? THE THING THAT HOLDS DRINKABLE LIQUIDS COMES WITH AN APP.
W: Yes?
Me: We are in hell because we deserve to be.
Me, through gritted teeth: MALIBU DOESN'T HAVE A HEART. I mean obviously let's have fewer profiles written by journalists who are horned up for their subjects, but also can we have fewer profiles of Angelenos written by New Yorkers?
you can’t be putting this in the paper (gift link but i do not recommend you use it www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/s...)
November 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Me, through gritted teeth: MALIBU DOESN'T HAVE A HEART. I mean obviously let's have fewer profiles written by journalists who are horned up for their subjects, but also can we have fewer profiles of Angelenos written by New Yorkers?
Say, would you like to have your every move observed when you’re sleeping?
November 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Say, would you like to have your every move observed when you’re sleeping?
This is absolutely true and the correct procedure, and yet in this case, even reddit failed me. I had to turn to Weird Website Run By Hater Who Is Here To Help, which was honestly a pretty nostalgic experience for
Honestly I just include 'reddit' in all my solution searching because no matter how strange or rare the problem, someone will have posted about and solved it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is absolutely true and the correct procedure, and yet in this case, even reddit failed me. I had to turn to Weird Website Run By Hater Who Is Here To Help, which was honestly a pretty nostalgic experience for
Love to fight to solve a technological problem via the manufacturer's troubleshooting and help sites only to find the solution on the website of a random dude who hates these kinds of products but included actually useful troubleshooting information anyway because people seemed to need it.
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Love to fight to solve a technological problem via the manufacturer's troubleshooting and help sites only to find the solution on the website of a random dude who hates these kinds of products but included actually useful troubleshooting information anyway because people seemed to need it.
10yo me had her brain rewired by:
-I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which taught me to love robots, cold women, and men who are curiously into each other
-P.G. Wodehouse, who absolutely nailed my sense of humor and whose pacing awed me
(I do know the problematic nature of these authors, thanks!)
-I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which taught me to love robots, cold women, and men who are curiously into each other
-P.G. Wodehouse, who absolutely nailed my sense of humor and whose pacing awed me
(I do know the problematic nature of these authors, thanks!)
performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO!
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
tell me about a book that changed you
for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"
November 12, 2025 at 12:55 AM
10yo me had her brain rewired by:
-I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which taught me to love robots, cold women, and men who are curiously into each other
-P.G. Wodehouse, who absolutely nailed my sense of humor and whose pacing awed me
(I do know the problematic nature of these authors, thanks!)
-I, Robot by Isaac Asimov, which taught me to love robots, cold women, and men who are curiously into each other
-P.G. Wodehouse, who absolutely nailed my sense of humor and whose pacing awed me
(I do know the problematic nature of these authors, thanks!)
Never thought I’d find myself googling “does the peacock die?” but here I am, incredibly disappointed that the internet won’t tell me
November 11, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Never thought I’d find myself googling “does the peacock die?” but here I am, incredibly disappointed that the internet won’t tell me
A fly has gotten into the house and Nessie is very scared by the Mystery Buzzing. I've explained to her that some dogs chase flies, but she is not taking suggestions at this time. She's got to stay alert in case the Mystery Buzzing attacks her.
November 9, 2025 at 12:36 AM
A fly has gotten into the house and Nessie is very scared by the Mystery Buzzing. I've explained to her that some dogs chase flies, but she is not taking suggestions at this time. She's got to stay alert in case the Mystery Buzzing attacks her.
Today in the grocery store a woman told me “I can see you’re a good Christian lady,” so obviously I am now considering changing my entire look
November 8, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Today in the grocery store a woman told me “I can see you’re a good Christian lady,” so obviously I am now considering changing my entire look
I'm experiencing the Moment of Concern where a character in a book brags about their puzzle-solving abilities and I have to wonder if the author truly thinks that's a good score or if it's just that the character does (and it's a character note).
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I'm experiencing the Moment of Concern where a character in a book brags about their puzzle-solving abilities and I have to wonder if the author truly thinks that's a good score or if it's just that the character does (and it's a character note).
My state senator hosted a Halloween boat tour thing and the pictures are amazing. Everyone is in normal clothes except one guy who clearly was panic-assembling costume like an hour before the tour; he’s wearing graduation robes and carrying a hot pink Kylo Ren lightsaber.
November 7, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My state senator hosted a Halloween boat tour thing and the pictures are amazing. Everyone is in normal clothes except one guy who clearly was panic-assembling costume like an hour before the tour; he’s wearing graduation robes and carrying a hot pink Kylo Ren lightsaber.
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If the hotel room is suitable only for certain kinks, the hotel should be required to make that clear before you book it
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
If the hotel room is suitable only for certain kinks, the hotel should be required to make that clear before you book it