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Sometimes religion has its priorities right.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

(To be fair, I work in tech and end up evangelising AI a lot; I think there are tons of actually valid use cases, including for generative AI, once the issues around climate impact are more urgently addressed. This “human or computer?” question is still an appropriate lens on the issue!!!!)

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

My biggest petty sadness in the great Bluesky migration is that I can't find my buddy Ralph when I want to gab about Apple Watch bullshit. Hey man, you still out there? Talk to me about that Hermès metal band!* *Others are also allowed and encouraged to talk to me about that Hermès metal band.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

all the Limes are (all the Limes are down) and the sky is grey

submitted 86 days ago • 22 comments

Just made a scammer burst into laughter by shaming him for his stupid technobabble and then tried to guilt him into not scamming too many people right at Christmas . Uhhhh am I doing this right

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

the ninja turtles have elected a new mayor

submitted 486 days ago • 14 comments

Reminder that they/them-ing me is misgendering, and we can all tell when you’re doing it specifically to de-gender a trans woman. Don’t give me this “default pronoun” bullshit.

submitted 93 days ago • 3 comments

@marcoarment.bsky.social Hi hi, feature request - you've already made the thing I most needed (automatic "all episodes" playlist) but I'd also love an automatic playlist that's just 10-ish "recently added" eps. I often add one-offs that someone links to me, but I don't find them easily if older. ✨

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

I'm so sad that I missed this before actual American Thanksgiving, but still relevant for all the UK folks gearing up for Christmas. Weirdly, I'm gonna share this on LinkedIn too 😂

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

submitted 98 days ago • 438 comments

Oh, man, I spend so much of my professional life as a technical trainer making dry-content slide decks more engaging. I just passed by a classroom in which teenagers were being subjected to a slide (titled “Essay feedback”) that was just a wall of tiny bullet points in Calibri. Ya hate to see it.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

First time in the 5 1/2 years I’ve lived in London that I’ve actually had a legit reason to go across the Millennium Bridge.

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

The thing that keeps getting me about all the pieces fretting about Bluesky being too insular is that the argument seems to be that those of us who are most likely to be abused by the right (BIPOC people, trans people, queer people, etc) must put up with being abused for the sake of public discourse

submitted 100 days ago • 200 comments

@jay.bsky.team et al, I 💙 that Bluesky has a setting to require alt text. It would be user-hostile in many ways to turn that setting on by default, but it would also help a from an accessibility perspective, right? Or a flow that prompts about the setting at first image post? Tx for considering ✨

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I haven't been actively using Bluesky, but now that we seem to have hit critical mass, I'm starting to. However, it's hard to find the same communities! Early Mastodon days had those import tools you could use, before Twitter got weird about its API. Does anything similar exist to port from Twitter?

submitted 105 days ago • 2 comments

Today in relatable science: Gulls making a mysterious daily trip that turned out to be to a potato chip factory

submitted 108 days ago • 250 comments

🧵This is a thread about Reply Guys. I like it when posts go viral coz I'm a big show-off and the internet is responsible for most of my career. When you go viral you get new followers, fun replies, sometimes even industry interest omg. But you also get: Reply Guys.

submitted 107 days ago • 212 comments

Watch Diarra from Detroit if you’re not yet! It’s so snappy and sharp and fun and funny as shit (and profane and self aware and just refreshing as hell)

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

posting "Gentle reminder that it's okay to unplug today and take care of yourself. Pass it on." immediately before commencing a 19-hour, 277-post meltdown

submitted 118 days ago • 90 comments

Where have all the Apple geeks from Twitter gone, and can I find them despite any API BS? I have lost the way. Anyway, who can tell me what to do about how much the HomePod/HomeKit ecosystems suck (without telling me to switch back to Alexa bc no I prefer this creepy capitalism to that one thx)

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CEO: why isn’t anybody in-office. This place is a ghost town (an employee enters) CEO: you’re fired

submitted 402 days ago • 12 comments

showed up to a new pal’s kid’s birthday party with a bottle of bubbly and a carafe of French 75 upgrade made with lemons from my own garden. In a moment of perfect self awareness I said that 1/5 times they see me, I’ll be on some Pinterest-level bullshit like that; every other time a total hot mess.