I've had the time of my life
No, I never felt this way before
Yes, I swear, it's the truth
And I owe it all to you

I was in a Christmas community theater show as a teen. Places call was when the preshow playlist got to “(It Must've Been Ol') Santa Claus” by Harry Connick Jr.

No matter where I am, I *still* mutter “Places! Thank you, places.” under my breath when I hear it.

A guy in the barbershop chorus I used to be in desperately wanted to do this song for Christmas.

Me: “You know Jeff Buckley explained that his song’s a ‘Hallelujah to the orgasm,’ right?”

He *never* mentioned it again.

And some folks’ preferred audio platform *is* YouTube, so not being there also cuts out a chunk of the audience if growth is the goal.

I don’t have a podcatcher on my phone any longer; I have my YouTube subs tab.

You might not like it that trans people aren't willing to sacrifice themselves but a lot of them (and many allies) won't. You can't say you don't accept people holding their votes contingent; that's exactly what the transphobes who you're trying to win over by appealing to their bigotry are doing.

Didn’t you already do the “Colored People of Boston” broadside? That feels close…

Hey @thelouvreof.bsky.social - your presence has been requested! ;-)

The bigger change is presentation, historically, these emails were visually chaotic: sudden colour changes, ALL CAPS, screenshots pasted at random. Classic signs of disordered thinking. Now they’re neat, structured, and grammatically consistent. The delusion hasn't changed, but the formatting has.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language.
It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

Me: "Hmmm... he should reach out to Jason Sch- oh."

I've got an active search box and a printscreen button... ;-)

That said - when I login thru an institutional gateway it lets me. You need something specific or just doing the geek trawl?

Cloudflare being down is making accessing *anything* thru Nord almost impossible.