Unrivalling @ Highway to Grell
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They/He. 30s. FE3H. Sk8. Black Butler. TWST. Cowboy scholar. Whump enthusiast. Fuck the villain police. Should be considered an 18+ account.
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TITLE: At Stake
26k RookVil fic, Rated M
CHAPTER: 1 & 2 of 9
SUMMARY: When Vil and Epel find themselves cast through time, a local witchfinder identifies Vil as a dangerous mage.
What follows is about survival—and things he might leave unsaid to his hunter.
⏬⏬AO3 Link ⏬⏬
26k RookVil fic, Rated M
CHAPTER: 1 & 2 of 9
SUMMARY: When Vil and Epel find themselves cast through time, a local witchfinder identifies Vil as a dangerous mage.
What follows is about survival—and things he might leave unsaid to his hunter.
⏬⏬AO3 Link ⏬⏬
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Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
Mystery as hundreds of Victorian shoes wash up on Ogmore beach
More than 400 leather hobnailed boots, thought to date back to the 19th Century, have been found.
www.bbc.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Not now, haunted Victorian shoes
Don’t trust how you feel about your life when your mom has Covid, your dad has some other respiratory thing happening, and your dog has had a bloody nose for two weeks, and it’s Christmas.
December 24, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Don’t trust how you feel about your life when your mom has Covid, your dad has some other respiratory thing happening, and your dog has had a bloody nose for two weeks, and it’s Christmas.
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I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I don't think free speech on campus ought to mean that a young coddled bigot gets to use their ignorance to casually destroy the career of a knowledgeable trans person on a random Wednesday
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This can be a difficult and nuanced discussion, especially for people that are out of the tech loop. I try to break it down as
AI = shit you've been using for over a decade. Predictive text. NPC enemy AI. Specialized machine learning.
GenAI = shit built on stolen/scraped assets from the Internet
AI = shit you've been using for over a decade. Predictive text. NPC enemy AI. Specialized machine learning.
GenAI = shit built on stolen/scraped assets from the Internet
If we’re going to get really no quarter about genAI usage, I’m going to need people to learn the difference between AI and genAI real fast.
December 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This can be a difficult and nuanced discussion, especially for people that are out of the tech loop. I try to break it down as
AI = shit you've been using for over a decade. Predictive text. NPC enemy AI. Specialized machine learning.
GenAI = shit built on stolen/scraped assets from the Internet
AI = shit you've been using for over a decade. Predictive text. NPC enemy AI. Specialized machine learning.
GenAI = shit built on stolen/scraped assets from the Internet
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I'm as anti-slop as the next guy, but some of the articles coming out from gaming studios (if you READ THEM) are referring to machine learning "AI", not genAI. We can't keep responding to headlines like gospel you guys need to read the fucking articles.
December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I'm as anti-slop as the next guy, but some of the articles coming out from gaming studios (if you READ THEM) are referring to machine learning "AI", not genAI. We can't keep responding to headlines like gospel you guys need to read the fucking articles.
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The deadline is in 12 hours! (Dec 22 8:59 pm pst)
Your comment could be the one that saves the Endangered Species Act! Please comment on each of the four proposals (i have a link to a guide to help you!)
Your comment could be the one that saves the Endangered Species Act! Please comment on each of the four proposals (i have a link to a guide to help you!)
December 22, 2025 at 5:08 PM
The deadline is in 12 hours! (Dec 22 8:59 pm pst)
Your comment could be the one that saves the Endangered Species Act! Please comment on each of the four proposals (i have a link to a guide to help you!)
Your comment could be the one that saves the Endangered Species Act! Please comment on each of the four proposals (i have a link to a guide to help you!)
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December 22, 2025 at 7:35 PM
How it feels to be the only one in the house not presently sick
December 22, 2025 at 7:49 PM
How it feels to be the only one in the house not presently sick
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Decaf was named after its inventor, Deglan Caffeine, a bizarre person who is poorly understood by science
December 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Decaf was named after its inventor, Deglan Caffeine, a bizarre person who is poorly understood by science
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
How it feels to get my first true full night’s sleep in two weeks
a capybara with an orange on its head is swimming in a pool
ALT: a capybara with an orange on its head is swimming in a pool
media.tenor.com
December 22, 2025 at 5:16 PM
How it feels to get my first true full night’s sleep in two weeks
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December 21, 2025 at 10:19 PM
(Trying to convince myself I don’t need to go to the bookstore) We have books at home
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
(Trying to convince myself I don’t need to go to the bookstore) We have books at home
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"Fuck canon" has its virtues as an interpretive stance, but you've gotta know what the canon is before you can fuck it.
December 21, 2025 at 7:56 AM
"Fuck canon" has its virtues as an interpretive stance, but you've gotta know what the canon is before you can fuck it.
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A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
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my wife did do a very nice drawing of our toilet rat.
December 21, 2025 at 12:33 AM
my wife did do a very nice drawing of our toilet rat.
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"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"we only use AI for coming up with ideas" no you don't. you use AI to come up with the a bland version of other people's ideas. there is currently NOBODY more replaceable than you
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There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
December 20, 2025 at 11:23 PM
There's Discourse about using genAI for writing research, and I want to add that every time I've done research (reading books, emailing the library, talking directly to experts, etc) I always stumble across something that inspires a new direction or adds depth that wouldn't have been there before.
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The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
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If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality.
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
And trans lives are grounded in reality.
We see y'all. No matter what.
www.popsci.com/science/tran...
First-of-a-kind study shows encouraging data for trans kids who socially transition
Ninety-four percent of participants in a new study stood firm in their trans identity after five years, and "detransitioning" is rare.
www.popsci.com
December 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
If you're not trans, I don't think I can fully explain how important this is.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
It's so powerful that one of the most circulated science media publications in the world has come out and said "trans children are real and providing transition care improves their lives." That's groundbreaking.
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A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
December 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A very important thread. When I was probably no more than 10, I saw this picture of the woman known as Harlow in the Philly Inquirer. A little babygay, I was shocked that such a glamour queen could live in my hometown and even more shocked to see her described as "a former man."
I’m enjoying Red Dead 15th Century Bohemia 2
December 19, 2025 at 5:19 AM
I’m enjoying Red Dead 15th Century Bohemia 2
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Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.
In addition to this administration trying to kill kids, and they're also coming for our binders? OUR BINDERS.
December 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things.
There’s no third option.
There’s no third option.