Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social
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Solidarity against AI theft means everyone. You can't campaign for 'don't use the word plagiariser' while using the image plagiariser. @societyofauthors.bsky.social
“Name on cup?”
Apologies for the horrible AI illustration but, as Robin says, this is utterly fascinating.
New series of Undercover Boss just dropped
There is kind of a point in that thinking about it more - most of these small communities needed money coming in to sustain them. My great grandma was really into the Roycrofters movement which made money printing beautiful books (but managed to get wealthy Americans to do the work for free)
Most accurate portrait of modern culture currently available
Crow takes a drag on a cigarette.
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long time
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Boo. So it’s just chocolate then. Can’t be greedy.
I've forgotten who suggested this on stream, but it's a good suggestion - thanks! #OeufGame
A can of Left Hand Brewing’s Chocolate Orange nitro milk stout on a counter top
Unlike last night’s beer, this was proper lovely. I was actually more worried about the orange being that horrid artificial orange, but no it’s got real orange juice which makes it quite subtle and cutting the chocolatey sweetness of some milk stouts. Yum.
The shakers got kitchens, the quakers oats (and chocolate I suppose), 7th day adventists, corn flakes, Amish - barns, and the Mormons bad suits.
This is where the larger churches have gone wrong. Can’t make a lot of money off communion wafers (as evidenced by the invention of flying saucer sweets)
As a historian of C18th northern England who recently published a social history of religion in northern towns I obviously had to see the Testament of Ann Lee, about the leader of a group popularly known as the Shakers, who originated in Manchester. It was *quite strange* THREAD
NEW MAP MEN VIDEO!!!!! 🗺️
...in which Mark and I play another game of GeoGuessr travelling to the real places. Will Mark get his revenge?
Share and enjoy!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tO2...
Was so shouting at the screen to go for the antipode and then you started scrolling. Involuntarily clapped in evil glee.
Although this is probably my prompt to put together a talk on the London View Management Framework called “why is there a hole in that hedge?”
*cries in automated html form submissions*
Oof. Sold out in <10s :(
(Accidentally replied to this rather than quoting my own thing. Sorry)
10 print “hi guys it’s me, sentient Bob, the computer”
20 print “how are you today”
30 input t$
40 print “wow that must make you feel terrible, tell me more”
50 go to 30
Guys I’ve written my own sentient ai. Please use responsibly.
The Jimmy Carr story I always think of is when he was ruining someone’s gig years ago while workshopping his laugh to get presenting gigs & got told to stop from the stage because “I don’t come to your shows and laugh”
Available from all the usual online booksellers, or via your local comics shop, or may spontaneously incarnate if you stand under a cold night sky and howl.
Young woman holding a screaming child with captions: "How can a single night wear you down so much? I was finished."
Sleeping woman holding sleeping baby and sleeping axe, with onlooker saying: "But I do know not to wake a sleeping baby... and especially not the axe-wielding maniac she's sleeping on."
Woman screaming: "Mothers are just people!! Weare all people!!! Auugghhh!"
Cover of Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best, showing a woman with a grandma bracelet, hands covered in blood, holding a bloodied knife.
With Mother's Day coming up in the UK, may I suggest getting your mum or grandmother friend a cathartic copy of Golden Rage: Mother Knows Best? She probably has enough candles.
Massive career pivot but respect.
… so after distributing the client we needed to every computer and waiting a few days, we switched the entire office to the Dutch version of Barbie Girl, simultaneously.
Lovely.
We did something similar as a one time prank (because there was no way you could do it twice) after noticing iTunes could be called with a command line argument specifying an mp3 to play, and that it would do so immediately regardless of whether it was running already or not…
I also set the office printers idle display message to “Out of coffee” and “inset 10p to play”, and triggered a full hacking investigation before I could get them to stand down.
People are no fun
Excellent. We got kicked out of the computer room for a week because we created an inter-user messaging system. They had finally worked out that we were doing it by using elevated admin permissions to write files into other users’ directories. We got the password from the bin. It was secret1
Everyone knows he changed his name for the new material
