A whole 2.2bn teabags? That’s almost a month’s worth for the average Yorkshire family.
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A whole 2.2bn teabags? That’s almost a month’s worth for the average Yorkshire family.
Babe, new candidate for "most unfathomable spatial comparison" just dropped.
No. Next question! Also, this article could be better titled “the promised appearance of robotaxis in the US marks the moment its citizens realise frequent and affordable public transit might’ve been a better idea.” Just a thought.
They did indeed! And by the sounds of it modern Russia isn’t likely to regain those heights of scientific achievement. A shame, if political purging has hobbled Russian science for years to come.
sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
Agreed, looking at a phone is grim. That’s why I take my iPad instead.
This broke my brain. It’s entirely reasonable to do! And yet, the words, they are in the wrong order.
most people asking you for peer-reviewed posts with references are setting you homework. they are time vampires. they are sealions, and it is so important to be able to recognise them. wondermark.com/c/1062/
When I’m in the office on a Wednesday, and I see another person wearing pink, I always wonder if it’s coincidence or they’re making a deliberate Mean Girls reference. In my case it’s always a completely deliberate Mean Girls reference. On Wednesdays I wear pink, and have done for a long time now.
I can’t imagine going somewhere for a fortnight and not at least learning the essentials. Madness that people will go for longer and just assume everyone will accommodate them by speaking English.
I had a parcel delivered to my ‘enclosed porch’ yesterday, too! We live in a flat. The ‘enclosed porch’ is our doormat, in the corridor. Enclosed, sure; porch is a bit of a stretch.
Truly, a post for the ages.
Todayborday is Labor Day! Made this a couple of years ago and it still makes me chuckle. Credit goes to my fiancé TimmCosplay for the idea. I just drew it. Have a chill day today! #laborday #patlabor #homestarrunner #art #todaybordayislaborday
“Ho-bun,” “Ho-born,” and “Hol-born” are all valid IMO. Not a fan of “Hole-born” or “Hole-bun,” personally.
I can think of at least three ways to say that one…
I take the view outlined in the Yorkshire Day ‘declaration of integrity.’ That says something to the effect of “All persons born in or resident in Yorkshire, and loyal to Yorkshire, are Yorkshire folk.” Sub ‘Yorkshire’ for ‘Britain’ and you get the general idea. It shouldn’t be rocket science.
I work with a Kasia. Lovely woman. Definitely a storm, if she gets started.
This is my absolute favourite depiction of Brits by Americans. I love it. It’s true and it’s funny.
I love this. So well said.
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
I still remember someone in the fandom way back when, total Yzak fangirl, absolutely lost her mind seeing that image way back when. And yeah, fair.
University for me, same principle though. Hats off to the people who got really hi-res scans of these back in the mid-2000s!
Hopefully I can detect whatever may or may not be in this area…
Slowly descending from the mouth via the digestive system, I guess.
Wait, you mean your tour schedule isn’t decided with a map of the UK taped to a dart board? I’m shocked. Shocked!
I don’t care if it’s embarrassing to say this, but I want the internet to be kind again. I want people to care out loud without fear. I want sincerity not to feel like weakness. I don’t want to live in a world where caring about stuff is shameful. #blog #internet
How dare you not post a 100% screen-accurate, perfectly true to the character version as a first go. Yeesh, what a rube. What a pain, sorry to hear it!
Bluesky has a scold issue, people bursting into hobby posts to scream that the OP should be DOING SOMETHING IMPORTANT. I have come to the conclusion that we must fight fire with fire and scold the scolds.
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Remember how if a kid choked on a little plastic toy they used to stop selling the toy
There’s an enormous amount of stuff in this book I’d like to highlight, but start with: “What emerges as the most elementary insight is that, since we do not now have any ways of making computers wise, we ought not now to give computers tasks that demand wisdom.”
I expect it’ll be fine 😅 and nicely done on the clearing-out! Had a cable purge recently myself, tbf. So many cheap, short microUSB ones… the horror.
But what if, one day soon, you’re in dire need of a FireWire 800 cable to retrieve something from a mid-00s Mac? You know, an extremely common occurrence.
Don’t you have that Teespring page? You could make that shirt, if so.
That’s two reported ChatGPT suicides in one week, plus the grandpa who died trying to meet Meta’s chatbot which had arranged an in-person meeting All going really well
Adults recoiling at the idea of reading "a whole" book, yet demanding to be taken seriously. What do we even do with this?
On the plus side, if you bury your head in the sand deep enough, the jackboots can press on your neck without much effort. This is the endpoint of refusing to call things by their name. Call it something else and everyone can pretend it *is* something else. That has, historically, gone wonderfully.
“The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.” - Jack Kirby Happy birthday King
I’d absolutely watch the LDS episode where you two have to put aside your awkward ex sitch to save the Cerritos from whatever ails it that episode. Something Rutherford invented in his free time, probably.
…whoa. Very cool! 🩵
Sorry to hear it! Well at least it’s over.
Depending on where you are, that could be a very short, very tedious journey; or a very long, very fast one. I’m guessing the former, though 😅 sorry to hear it!
Make it happen, then. If you’re going to wait for ‘the right time,’ you might as well just give MAGA the reins forever. The political climate wasn’t right in the 60s, and racial equality laws happened. It wasn’t right in the 70s and gender equality laws happened. Fight, or be damned by history.
In the UK we had a school shooting in Dunblane in 1996. A primary school, 16 kids of 5/6 years old and their teacher, murdered. In 1997, Parliament made private gun ownership effectively illegal in the UK, with a handful of very specific exemptions. Zero school shootings since. Zero kids shot dead.
did we? yes we did
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Werner Herzog is on Instagram. Their algorithm knows me well to recommend his account! Should be interesting to see what he posts. www.instagram.com/wernerherzog... (paging @ewacat.bsky.social as relevant to interests)
“Everyone I invited came.” “That’s how it usually works, yes.”
Absolutely agreed with this. Mainly because ‘being funny’ is my one major selling point. Also ‘cause my (much) better half is also hilarious. Can’t imagine anything otherwise!
I’m not sure there’s been a sculptor who could do adequate justice, Blue. Wow.
You did 5 miles, and thought “Heck yes, I can do this another 1.8 times”? 😅 Either way, just over a half-marathon distance is a heck of a run! Impressive stuff, Blue.
this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like
For those unfamiliar: the “brains aren’t fully formed until 25” myth was a misread of a study that measured subjects’ brain dvlpmnt UNTIL age 25 & then the study stopped, & it was misreported as development ending then when really the DATA ends then & past 25 we have no data yet. Misreported science
Absolutely spectacular, Blue 🩵
At the risk of Mansplaining (tm) to a very capable business owner - I take it you can’t take deposits and/or charge no-show fees? Very frustrating at any rate, sorry to hear it. Shame your doggo can’t leave a deposit on the no-shower’s front lawn.
Tony Hawk meets Jet Set Radio meets Densha de Go. This may well be the most insanely fun video game ever made in the history of the world. It sounds utterly ridiculous, and I love it. I can only wishlist it once on Steam. So I’m gonna need a whole bunch of you to go do the same.
If there ever comes a time I don’t consider the Millennium one of the coolest ships in all of Gundam - and her second captain the joint-best captain in all of Gundam - it’s a sign I’ve been abducted and replaced. I love this movie so much.
Aussie unions don’t beat around the bush.
She’s busy out defying gravity, I gather.
We must have missed those. I’m fairly sure we got right to the top, and no boars to be seen. Almost disappointed! Although also glad not to be gored by a boar. Maybe mid-March isn’t peak Fushimi-inari boar season?
Instructions unclear, became a bank manager instead.
The more I see of this man, the more I like him as a person. Clearly knows his coffee, without being a jackass about it. Also, very sharply dressed! So that’s another plus.
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
Absolutely! It’s almost a form of insurance, especially against lousy or hopeless employers.
I’d say one below the SCS, Grade 6. Anyone from SCS1 and up can be - and often is - named in published documents, so can be held publicly accountable. Plus anyone getting close to £200k is likely to be a Perm Sec, or a lucky Director General. And they definitely get held to account by Parliament.
One of the big reasons pay is so bad in the UK is the decline in unionised workforces. So yeah, 110% agree people should join a union! Not just for the pay, but for all the other protections union membership affords.
Gundam definitely has some. For one, the UE/Vagan designs from Gundam AGE definitely fit the profile!
things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes
age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends
If anything they’ll go very pink, or red. People with the skin tone of watery ham tend to just burn.
This is true! WfM could have gone a lot further, had it had a full 50-episode run. Or even two 25-episode runs, like 00 and IBO. Even then, a lot of WfM got watered down as “these particular capitalists are bad,” rather than “the system that gave these men enormous wealth and power must be broken.”
I’d very happily watch mecha anime with a Cyberpunk type storyline. “Corps need to be reined in, or even smashed apart - and giant robots are the way to do it.” Of course, the irony involved in Bandai Namco funding an anti-capitalist mecha anime would probably create a black hole centred on Tokyo…
That’s my understanding, yeah. From what I’ve seen, the point Tsurumaki was making leaned more on the idea that the power fantasy in anime has moved away from mecha. The zeitgeist now is moving more to magic and the fantastical. Broadly, mecha is a shrinking genre, and even Gundam isn’t immune.
So much this. If people genuinely think asylum seekers are getting *any* of a hotel’s usual services, while staying indefinitely in a 20 sq. m. room - I don’t know what to say. As far as I’m aware people are lucky if they get the in-room kettle. Forget the restaurant, spa, even housekeeping.
Can companies just…. not fucking do this? The *actual* body of the email is essentially “We understand times are tough for a lot of folks, and we offer generic support via phone if you’re having money worries.” Starting the email like this just worries me I’ve been hacked or something. Not cool.
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
10 games to get to know you Deus Ex Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 G-Police Colony Wars: Vengeance Soviet Strike Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Age of Empires III Fallout: New Vegas Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty Cyberpunk 2077
I like it! Rusty in Strike vs. 4 of the 5 dudes Mu was escorting up to Heliopolis, based on Archangel. The ways that timeline would diverge, and fast… that’d be a real GQuuuuuuX-ing of the Cosmic Era. One day I’ll finish my Destiny sidestory, now I’m thinking about SEED fics. One day!
Congrats to eldest!
Peturbator’s track ‘The New Black’ samples Network spectacularly, too. As shown in this video that syncs the monologue to the song!
I’m looking forward to GSeeeeeeD in about 2040, the reboot in which Rusty manages to steal Strike and we see an alternate CE 76 where ZAFT won the war. Athrun and Lacus in a ‘cold war’ over PLANT’s future, both desperately trying to figure out the Coordinator fertility issue to gain an advantage…
Reggie, when interviewed later:
Fred Astaire should be an unlockable character in Tony Hawk
What an absolute fucking baller, 100% legend
Oh, it’s primed to burst alright, if this is the basis for OpenAI’s valuation:
If all websites could have a dark mode option, that would be grrrrreeaaaaat.
Go read a book. Specifically read a fiction book. There’s so much good out there and it’s enriching and wonderful and it’s so easy to fall out of practice at it.
For comparison, Microsoft Office 365 has 345m paid subscribers worldwide. The idea that ChatGPT will conjure up five times that amount in just a few years isn't just hypothetical, it's fantasy. These people are delusional.
You can also sing ‘seed ideas’ to the same tune…
There’s an excellent CIA manual from WW2 on how to undermine one’s employer through excessive dedication to rules and regulations, ‘asking helpful questions,’ and so on. Not, of course, that those in uniformed services should give any attention to such a document produced by a federal agency, nope.
The horrors persist, but so do you.
Nostalgia is a toxic impulse but also I miss the time when tech trends were things like "let's put everything in a translucent colored plastic case" instead of "let's add software to everything that lies and also accelerates climate change"
So in German, ‘criminal police’ makes sense. It’s the term for the plainclothes detective branch, as compared to the uniformed officers. (things I learned from Robert Harris’ excellent book Fatherland!) Presumably wherever this came from, it’s translated that same terminology somewhat literally.
Someone call Muse, we’ve found the Super-Supermassive Black Hole.
Reminder: If Visa and Mastercard are allowed to limit what games you buy, there's nothing stopping them from limiting what food you buy, where you buy your clothes, what services you're allowed to pay for, and more. This is a fight for your freedom to spend your money on your terms. Keep calling!