My i3 automatically puts itself into park when I press the button to turn it off, and if I try to leave the vehicle with it in Neutral or Drive it yells really loud (and may also put itself into park in that scenario, I don’t remember).

RIP Anton Yelchin

Skipping from the “Ain’t Anyone Here for Love” to the comments. That scene is so HILARIOUSLY subversive I’d forgotten how amazing it is. Those nude trunks with the black trim that looks like bondage gear. Jane and her INSANE body acting like she’s never worked out in her life, and not a man in the room paying ANY…

I know of someone that did this. The surrogate had a life changing event that caused a lot of family heartache and big time debt to go along with it. She was able to do this and get their family back on track. I believe she thought about it long before their family had issues, but this gave her the reason to move…

That fanfic mess was 15+ years ago. I think Cassandra Claire is a cruddy writer, but as far as I know she gave up plagiarizing when she started getting paid to write.

Kenyon reportedly became preoccupied with fantasy writer Cassandra Clare, filing a lawsuit in 2016 claiming copyright infringement and other offenses, before dropping the central but difficult to prove copyright claims.

The way people talk about the romance genre upsets me so much that I just try to avoid thinking about it too much. It’s the best selling genre in the world, a huge number of smart women read these books, and people act as if it’s the dumpster fire of publishing. There is obviously a lot to unpack in this particular…

He was so sweet and real as Ian in Only Lovers Left Alive

this is gonna DESTROY me, im gonna be a bawling sack of blubber and i havent even dared watch the trailer, but my massage therapist/psuedo therapist thinks that i still need to have a good balls-to-the-wall cry session after my breakup a few months ago, so i look forward to seeing this and ~letting go~

Yelchin's death was so sad. I felt so bad for his parents, especially after learning he also had cystic fibrosis, so they always knew he could pass before they did but not like this.

We used the BPL during MLS classes to talk about stakeholders, and our group project involved mapping them out prospectively for a project involving underserved populations. It was my first experience with Boston libraries, and I’m madly impressed. Yall have your own music librarian, who is an actual composer. I’m…

Fellow Brooklyn resident here. I love that the Brooklyn Public Library hosts Drag Queen Story Hour in its branches, sometimes while bigots stand outside and say things like, “We are not against loving who you want to love, but just don’t take away our kid’s innocence. Kids shouldn’t be raped in bathrooms by men who…

IMO, as a non-public librarian, the fact that my public-facing brethren help close the digital divide is one of the most valuable things about public libraries. In my old job, only a few years ago, I had a young 20-something student who didn’t understand computers to the extent that she thought something saved on her…

I haven't played the second but really enjoyed the first. It's a game smart enough to give Willie Scott a glass shattering scream as her main ability.

Silent LEGO games are the best LEGO games

My maiden name was Anglicized French for “of the laurel”. Which isn’t really a proper last name; some ancestor of mine got an award and tacked it onto his name. It’s like if I said my name was Jane Wonfivebucksinthelottery.

Search and Rescue helicopter pilot guy here. In case any of you are wondering if this will happen to you after falling off a cliff face or something and needing an airlift, it won’t if they do their jobs right. In the organization I fly with you have to use a line attached to the litter that’s held by a member of the…

or his loud proclamation that while gas grills are easier to use than charcoal grills, nothing beats that charcoal flavor.

The only thing more fascinating that listening to people talk about their Sims series playstyles is listening to them talk about what kinds of mods they enjoy most, because no other series in all of gaming reveals more of what we’re really like as people through play quite like The Sims.

This was fairly well covered by the NY media when it happened, but its roots stretch back a long way.