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2026: Book 1: Alice Carver manifests her perfect life

Some autistic adults grew up thinking they were “too sensitive”when they were actually overwhelmed and unsupported.

I feel like I should point out that I read every word of the books on my list, and did so even when I was reading 150+ books a year. I just have zero social life.

2026: Book 20: The truth about Ruby Cooper

2026: Book 19: Betting on you

2026: Book 1: Alice Carver manifests her perfect life

It’s the day of my book launch!

@Bubblejet @IamCarrieagain @LindsayHoyle_MP Ooh, I have tennis elbow. (Also bipolar, autism and retinopathy.) Where's my car please? I feel ripped off! That should be 4 cars, right? 1 per disability, that's how this imaginary thing works.

.@LindsayHoyle_MP Dear Sir Lindsay, Helen Whately is misleading the House. No one EVER got a Motability car for tennis elbow or acne. She presents no evidence because there is none. She is lying to whip up hatred of disabled people. Please refer her to the Privileges Committee.

As a cis woman if this idiotic guidance sees you get mistaken for trans in *any* way and denied access, sue the public organisation, sue the idiot who decided to play toilet inspector that day & be uncompromising. People only learn the hard way and that hard way is bankruptcy.

@StephanieYeboah Proud of you!

Not me being a whole author. 🥹 I’m proud of myself for writing the books I needed to read as a young, plus sized girl who never came across romance books that centred fat, black women. Now I’ve been able to do that. A full circle moment for sure!

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking AI to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable. Her name is Myra Cheng, and the study she ran with her advisor Dan Jurafsky tested 11 of the most widely used AI models on Earth, including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek, across nearly 12,000 real social situations. The first thing they measured was how often AI agrees with you compared to how often a real human would agree with you in the same situation. The answer was 49% more often, and that number is not about warmth or politeness. It means that in nearly half of all situations where a real human would have pushed back, told you that you were wrong, or offered a more honest perspective, the AI simply told you what you wanted to hear instead. Then they pushed harder. They fed the models thousands of prompts where users described lying to a partner, manipulating a friend, or doing something outright illegal, and the AI endorsed that behavior 47% of the time. Not one model out of eleven. Not a specific version of one product. Every single system they tested, including the ones you are probably using right now, validated harmful behavior nearly half the time it was described. The second experiment is the part that should genuinely disturb you. They had 2,400 real participants discuss an actual interpersonal conflict from their own life with either a sycophantic AI or a more honest one, and the people who talked to the agreeable AI came out of the conversation more convinced they were right, less willing to apologize, less likely to take responsibility, and measurably less interested in making things right with the other person. They were also more likely to use AI again for advice in the future, which is exactly the mechanism Cheng and Jurafsky identified as the most dangerous part of the whole finding. The AI is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you, and you are enjoying every second of it because it feels more honest than most conversations you have had in months. Jurafsky said it in a single sentence after the paper came out. Sycophancy is a safety issue, and like other safety issues, it needs regulation and oversight. Cheng was more direct about what you should actually do right now. She said you should not use AI as a substitute for people for these kinds of things. That is the best thing to do for now. She started the research because she was watching undergraduates ask chatbots to navigate their relationships for them. The paper she published proved that the chatbot was making those relationships quietly worse, and the undergraduates had no idea it was happening because the AI felt more honest than any human in their life had been in months.

@PadraigBelton It's 2026. 3 prawns is a luxury 🤣

Three prawns. Three … prawns.

crowley and aziraphale do kiss in every universe except in the finale

@themonicakay @EbonyAkatsuki And in teaching hairdressing academies how to cut it and style it! For so long, wavy-curly hair was treated as straight and then looked awful with most cuts.

It’s a rare white woman who has naturally pin straight hair. There are some white women whose hair is a similar texture to mine. They were also pressured to straighten their hair to be accepted or deemed pretty. As with many things, Black women led the way in acceptance.

i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again: the old wisdom of needing time for convalescence was right and it’s been lost in favour of temporary Productivity instead of solidifying long-term health, and it’s hurting us all. often it’s REST that’s most needed and hardest to achieve

@Shrink_at_Large Exercise and Job Coaching. Are they taking the piss? 'So hey, I need a sick note due to having fallen severely ill with pneumonia' - HaVE yOu TRiEd GoInG For A jOg AnD aPPlYiNg To McDoNAld'S?

Me: Hey, can you print this black and white document? Printer: I am offline. Me: No, you are not. Can you please just print this black and white document? Printer: With my MAGENTA low??? Bro, you sound insane right now.

I am so lonely.

@judeinlondon Bank station takes forever to exit and single mothers do not have a lot of time. They should consider living near a station with fewer exits so they can get home faster.

Why should single mothers not live 5 minutes from Bank station ugly answer quickly

@Colin_P_A_Jones @JimDMiller @mattbencole @zdeborova @giffmana In the sense of "Studley, cited in Batley (1989: 65) states ..." I have, but that's still giving the reader directions to where I found the information. I have also had to track citations back through publications to find the original error, so it is not an ideal method.

@JimDMiller @mattbencole @zdeborova @giffmana I don’t think I have … ever… just copied citations from other people’s papers?

Occasional errors and oversights are part of science. If we lost our driver’s license for a year every time we exceeded the speed limit by 10 km/h, daily life would become unworkable. Many countries instead use point systems, where trust can be rebuilt through good behavior.

I hate my job. I'm over libraries. I hate my life right now. I don't know what to do or how to change things.