There’s a Turkish phrase about the upside of hitting rock bottom being that things can’t get any worse. It goes göte giren şemsiye açılmaz and it means “an umbrella up one’s ass cannot be opened”
Waitrose getting into the spirit of the times.
My god, this bullshit just never ends. (A perfectly solid one-line summary of most gen-AI output, come to that.)
Ah, you’re too kind. It was a shame it never got traction (or a trad home before my agent jumped ship). It was a lot of fun to write…
At the American Shakespeare Center’s Blackfriars Conference, if you run over your time, you are literally forced to exit, pursued by a bear.
The bear can and will take your paper from you to shut you up.
the "an average person eats 3 spiders a year” factoid is actually just a statistical error. an average person eats 0 spiders per year. Spiders Georg, who lives in a cave & eats over 10,000 each day, is an outlier and should not have been counted
I mean, it’s very poorly targeted spam anyway. It’s not like I (a) have an office or (b) need any furniture of any kind.
Minor gripe: phone’s on an office furniture spam list. Tapped “report junk”, which deletes msg & blocks. Get reply from O2: “our spam team will look into it. Pls reply with name or no. that sent the text”. … That’s not in the report? What *is*? And do it from memory, cos msg is deleted by reporting?
I've got no problem with people using their faith to guide their decisions, but a massive issue when they use it to make decisions about me. One day, I'll post about my beloved grandads final days, and why I've been a supporter of assisted dying (with strong safeguards) ever since.
Headline reads: Wearing A Salmon On Your Head Is Back In Fashion For Orcas, After A 37-Year Break In 1987, there was a strange trend amongst killer whales. Recent sightings show it's back in fashion.
*orca feeling good about his new hat*
orcawear killer whale: too small you fucking DUMB ASS
Not pleased that Bluesky's messing with the default order in which replies are displayed. It's only a small step to then having a fully algorithmic feed, which is what's shit about other places.
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A Christmas scene of wooden figures standing around a baby Jesus. The figures all have candles sticking out of their abdomens, unfortunately placed so that they look like they all have candle erections.
I am still confused about who buys this and how the design could ever get approved.
Whoever could have foreseen, in a petrostate-hosted COP, that etc. etc.
Editor: You get that chicken painted on to the van?
Photographer: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked.
Editor: what
-Gaetz had to drop out because he liked 'em young
-So, Em Young was a bar to being AG?
-Oh no, Em wasn't involved in that. It was Bush that made Barr AG
-Then Gaetz hated Bush?
-Yes, that's why he had to drop out
It's strange that ghost written novels are so accepted, if a celebrity said he was exhibiting a collection of paintings that turned out to be painted by someone else we'd all think he was having a breakdown.
photograph of a black kelpie in tasmania called "izzie" who is entirely surrounded by sheep (charlie mackinnon)
"okay! i've got all the sheep! hallo?! boss?? I HAVE ALL THE SHEEP!"
Well this is fucked. And good for @kibblesmith.com for kicking this to the curb. But this shit is insidious.
Yeah, that ship sailed long ago. Apparently taking everyone’s spines with it.
We're not a new release, but we're an important one, especially now. Proceeds go to the Chicago Abortion Fund. 🫀
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Yeah, it's luckily easy enough to toggle (unless people have followed some of the advice I've seen to edit their system registry to get rid of it...). I *am* mildly curious how many people doing it have left Windows Copilot on, though...
Potential snag in the "drill, baby, drill"-our-way-to-permanent-prosperity plan: The law of supply and demand.
I mean, anything that makes it less likely to look stuff up on Bing can only be a bonus (I, of course, joke), but to my knowledge - which could be wrong - all you're doing by turning Connected Experiences off is make Word's spellchecker and text-to-speech a bit shitter.
To everyone sharing the MS Word experiences post, it's not Gen AI at all AFAIK. "Connected experiences" is a dreadful term, but it's spellchecking, transcription/text-to-speech, machine translation, etc. that pushes/pulls data from another MS service. Full list: learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/micros...
Today, I will be showing you how to make a deliciously comforting beef ragu.
I've done both: sometimes had to ask around, hit-and-hope style, and sometimes my editor's said, "I'm going to ask [Big Name Writer They Know]."
We've seen so many pass, we're basically Statler & Waldorf by this point.
"Dog Poo Vigilantes Speak Out" - scream sheet newspaper headline.
Though graffiti-editing vigilantes still aren't top of my all-time favourites, as this archive gold dust from my local paper shows.
re the last repost, 2 weeks ago I started a part-time job proofreading clerical docs at my local hospital (hedging vs the vagaries of freelancing w/o needing to actually stop freelancing), and every day I pass by graffiti calling for: "Sex socks now!" I'm never less than curious what prompted it.
An example of Acción Ortográfica Quito doing the Lord's work (graffiti on a wall corrected with red spray paint)
Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.
