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Ooh, receipts!

submitted 15 hours ago • 0 comments

I just got accused of using ChatGPT for something on reddit. From what I've seen of the current AI discourse, I think my use of dashes was considered suspect? Given how long I spent considering and rewording what I'd said, I found myself blinking in bemused offence.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

When I think about Musk going to Mars I think about the end of the South Park episode where they send a killer whale to the moon because of a prank and there's just a dead whale at the end...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Just a reminder, for anyone who might have let their communicable disease knowledge lapse - measles destroys immune memory. Survive measles, and you'll still HAVE an immune system, it just won't remember what the enemy looks like. So it won't fight back till the enemy has started properly attacking.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Channeled my existential dread into responding to my MP on the AI copyright consultation.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Having the weird realisation that I haven't had a cold since some time before 2020. Which is to say, for 5 years. I used to get one every year, minimum. Closest I've gotten was a horrible sinus issue when there was smoke in the air.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

No one on CSI has a sensible sense of self-preservation. You're chasing a serial bomber and find a deliberate clue left for you to find, with coordinates. WHY would you go there with only one cop who you leave outside??

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

There's very little I'm going to miss when we eventually move out of this open plan split level house, but one thing I will miss is being able to put something on one of the stairs running from the middle floor up, and reach it from the bottom floor. It's like a small item teleporter.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Hey, want to have nightmares? It was scary when it came out in 2018. It was scarier in 2020. It’s even scarier now! Learn why measles is a scary bitch, courtesy of @seananmcguire.bsky.social.

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

It occurs to me that, firing your enemies is a bad plan. Because you already had enemies, and now you have given them motivation and the sympathy of others, and, critically, copious free time. The best thing the rest of us can do is support them so they can use that time effectively.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Evergreen reminder

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

So there's this Ben Elton book, called This Other Eden. Set in a future extrapolated from the 90s, so sunlight is deadly and pollution is killing the world. And people have geodesic domes to survive a potential climate catastrophe. For various reasons, people end up using them.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Went to the Dr recently for a new script and a new referral for my psych. Saw a quite young Dr I didn't know and she was weirdly thorough. She decided I should do blood tests cause it had been a while since my last ones. Did that last week, went in today to go over the results.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I remember reading something from the guy who made The Apprentice in America, shortly after the original NDAs lapsed, talking about how sorry he was for the false image he'd presented and misleading people completely. Given the firing going on atm, I wonder how he's feeling about his work now?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Who would have thought the trick to getting away with being cartoonishly evil was to be so over the top that ordinary people didn't realise you were being completely serious?

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely the most charitable view of this would be that he's thinking "these groups have gotten in my way, they must be bad for business in general, let's fix that". And even that pov would indicate ENTIRELY the wrong mindset to bring when approaching oversight and compliance matters.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Ooooh, can you imagine the reaction if the press just didn't turn up??

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

It feels downright unfair to have to watch a coup attempt in America that's being executed by people who wouldn't have been able to avoid the buttbuttin problem on a 90s gaming forum... Just because you find the letters a-s-s doesn't mean you're not the only donkey in the room.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

So much for free speech. Let's make this cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social go viral. I'm married to @tealcartoons.bsky.social so I might be biased, but cartoons have long played a vital role in shaping political debate - both past and present. This type of censorship is deeply troubling.

submitted 15 days ago • 27 comments

Reminder warning to American cat owners - cats can catch bird flu. Cats can catch bird flu from their food. This specific brand of raw food has been the source of multiple cases. Take care of your kitties and watch out for fevers.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 16 days ago • 413 comments

Allegory alert!

submitted 17 days ago • 221 comments

Oh AliExpress, why are you so weird? This was recommended to me amongst projection mood lighting and fidget toys. a.aliexpress.com/_mMKRQjp

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

"I didn't feel like it" isn't a good enough reason to skip a meeting, is it? 😑

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

sighs Mum's gone to the office for the morning, Raq's asleep, and I'm sitting here at my desk desperately trying not to fall asleep sitting up. I have tasks, but nothing urgent or especially engaging, and I'm so damn tired...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Currently trying to do some PowerBI training because I'm quite behind on my assigned stuff for work, but the online course is covering visualisations and it's just how to create and format a graph or data widget, so I had to go for a brief walk to stop myself falling asleep >_<

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Successfully got blood tests done this morning before starting work. Always an achievement where fasting bloods are concerned. The carpark at the pathologists is hellish, but I also successfully managed that!

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Come to Australia! Sure, we have some deadly wildlife, but we also have state-funded healthcare available if something bites you 😁

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Data is super important and useful! But data includes things like "this family of four with two parents working two jobs are one bad week from living in their car". You can't ignore that because interest rates.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Why are we giving the computers access to better trips than we get??

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This caused me to audibly snort in the workplace.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the things Mira Grant's Newsflesh and Parasitology series have gotten right. For countless little reasons, the truth will be concealed/denied/minimised until it can't be.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

This is part of how you know this is fascism and not just out of control capitalism - capitalism says businesses should be free to do what they want to make a profit. DEI policies bring in new ideas that can make more money. Prosecuting it is about idealism.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments