It's really noticeable in things like "light" tonic (I think the alcohol makes it worse in a g&t). Makes a lot of adult soft drinks undrinkable.
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It's really noticeable in things like "light" tonic (I think the alcohol makes it worse in a g&t). Makes a lot of adult soft drinks undrinkable.
AMOC is a climate-driven overturning current that supports northern Europe's warm climate. It's collapse would result in a colder Europe. The Gulf Stream is powered by the rotation of the Earth. For it to collapse, the planet would have to stop spinning. That, the physicists tell me, would be bad.
Weirdly bitter and sticky. Can't drink the diet version of anything.
Oh, her.
Are You There, Charlie Brown? It's-a Me, Mario
Sadly, I can't link to the story b/c of Globe & Mail paywalls. But I feel that I have to share big news from the Royal Canadian Geographical Society. It has bought at auction the plaid shirt & the Mountie costumes used in the Monty Python skit in which all sing "I'm a lumberjack and I'm okay." π
Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.
Post a random picture or else everything will go bad in September
The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering
If you have not been, now is a really good time to start tracing your multi-size patterns instead of cutting them out. This is a resource we'll never have again.
Dick Grayson debuted as Robin in April 1940, became Nightwing July 1984, so June 2028 will mark the dickquinox, the exact point he was Robin and Nightwing for the same amount of time.
Love that food discourse is an obvious trap, with a large sign pointing at it saying trap, and when asked about the trap the entire Anglosphere says βIβve always been a fan of traps, in fact Iβm something of a collectorβ before jumping right in.
When the Beano starts taking pops at you then it's probably time to question your amazing comms and policy strategy.
I'm calling it the mail loneliness epidemic
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this is the first time in my life it has occurred to me to draw a line between the AIDS epidemic and the 2000 election and now I'm floored we have no idea what country we'd be living in if AIDS hadn't happened
Because some people haven't heard it yet: PAYPAL IS NOT A BANK, DO NOT LEAVE MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED DOLLARS SITTING IN YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME. MOVE IT TO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT IMMEDIATELY. Paypal can and will close your account and steal all your money without warning. And have done MANY times.
Ooooh there a lot going on there, especially with her setting it up after losing her own child. But the lack of regulation shocks me because I don't remember seeing that come up with the recent Hull scandal (though it makes a lot more sense now).
I'm always baffled by this behaviour on news sites/feeds. Like, you clicked on it, you viewed it, and you commented on it. Do you think they care what your comment says? No, just that you gave them 3 times the engagement of the average user. Enjoy seeing 3 times as much of the thing you don't like!
An @afm-union.bsky.social and @sagaftra.org gal. An NFLPA guy. We love a union love story. Congrats Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce!
Love the bit on a long train journey when you get to the West Country and the trolley girl calls you "m'angel" as she dispenses packets of milk.
Does Not Rhyme -through -cough -though -rough -bough Does Rhyme -pony -bologna
Mum has briefly fallen for an AI fake news post about him getting divorced from Pamela Stephenson, but has had the sense to search further. She was got by an Attenborough one in Facebook the other day, but suspicions were raised by the lack of wrinkles.
At the parents, so watching stuff we wouldn't normally. We've settled on a Billy Connolly retrospective (consisting of other comedians interrupting his routines to say how much they like them), which has reminded me of how I can't use the toilet on a train without "wee beige jobby" coming to mind.
How Google AI Surprised Me
I am very ready for the retellings fad to be over. DNFing so many books. I do not like them Sam I Am, I do not like them, not my jam. I do not like grimm's fairy tales, I do not like the Greek gods' fails, i do not like ol' Shaky-speare, I do not like them there or here.
The existence of biscoff implies the existence of homoscoff and heteroscoff
Also still slightly obsessed with that episode.
I mean, he's been dead for 16 years, so probably, but also no?
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I do sometimes wonder if maybe Ed Miliband wished to be the most popular and effective person in Labour on a cursed monkey's paw.
Shazam but for who people are subtweeting
But we're taking about median, so they are earning more than 95% of households in the country, even as the curve steepens above them so the 1% and the 0.1% are orders of magnitudes wealthier. Agree it's is insane that we live in a country where you can be in that position and still feel the squeeze.
I do find people complaining about the loss of tax free childcare and moving up a tax bracket at Β£100k irritating; I think it's maybe the salary at which you're more commonly competing/working with overseas colleagues so you forget that you're literally in the top 5% of households in the UK
TV execs completely siloing the market and then being baffled that there's no Must See TV any more, nothing that everyone is talking about, so grasping for properties that used to be must see rather than accept that they've got to lie in the beds they've made.
I'm not even sure it's for nostalgic adults, which is a pretty small market. It's trying to repeat the phenomenon - most of HPs sales were to people who don't normally buy books, and a lot of the film viewers were people who don't normally go to the cinema. I don't think that works with TV!
It's also the median household income, which means half the country is living on less than that.
Some 3,300 years ago, an ancient Egyptian artist painted this humorous illustration of a cat herding geese on a flake of limestone. From Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. π· Egyptian Museum, Cairo. #Archaeology
I wish ill on jkr.
We visited Kiruna some years back. The locals we spoke to felt moving the city was mainly propaganda for the mining industry; "the mine is vital so the city moves" sort of message, raising Kiruna's profile. Though, honestly, kinda working!
We visited Kiruna some years back. They're moving the whole city, which is fascinating (though the locals we spoke to felt it was a bit of a propaganda boondoggle for the mining industry). It did mean the train station was in the middle of nowhere, so hopefully the town has caught up to it now.
Last time was a non-league team, this time League 1, so at this rate by the time Small Child is in her teens we'll be travelling alongside Spurs. Not sure why they'd be traveling standard class on the train, but that's to be seen.
We're 8 hours into an 8.5 hour train journey and Small Child has finally agreed to some screen time, which I know is not the 'right' attitude as a parent, but dear god we're sick of stickers.
This is the second time we've ended up on the train to Cornwall next to a professional football team. Drinking their fruit juices and talking about the best train booking apps.
I'm sorry, but I need you to see this rock that looks like a sandwich that I just found on Instagram.
Trying to pack for two weeks away, in which we're spending several days at the beach, going to a music festival, and attending a funeral. In one suitcase and a hiking rucksack, for three people, to manage in an 8 hour train journey.
The Full English Breakfast Thali is only a short step away
The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) βnot primarily aimed at protecting childrenβ but at regulating βservices that have a significant influence over public discourse.β
Noticed the sky isn't as blue today? Smoke from wildfires in Spain & Portugal, plus Saharan dust, has drifted over the UK Expect enhanced sunsets & sunrises in the coming days β deeper reds & oranges thanks to light scattering π₯π
Lads the HONK I just honked
Con drama makes me miss fandom_wank for a really deep dive. I'm a little surprised there doesn't appear to be a reddit master thread yet.
"there is [a] dearth of references to Spiders Georg on this platform" actually just statistical error. Average bluesky user sees 10,000 references to Spiders Georg per day. Tobias Wilson-Bates, who lives in a cave and sees 0 Spiders Georg skeets, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.
Imagine it's 1850 and you've just been flattened by an elite cavalry officer who just yells "SOWWY" as he thunders away.
![Screenshot of a tweet: British cavalry in the 1850s consisted entirely of twinks who used UwU-speak... [Photo of a book page]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uqonrv6u7reqli3kksljamwr/bafkreifqd3kvkwqy6k2vuajha3vrughks5bfvl72vglbaywl7nnzyxwqp4@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"Men will always crave a cunning flirt" is an incredible line to whisper sing. #SueWilkinson #totp
A bored Roger Daltry refering to David Bowie as "one of the guvnors" and fluffing an answer on the Who's next album is why we need to resurrect the chaos of TOTP.
Knowing that the victorians used to grind up ancient Egyptian mummies for paint (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_b...), I would not be shocked if the original is made from actual pompeiian ash.
Retelling of Frankenstein in which undergrad Victor uses an LLM to learn the science of his field and doesnβt fully realize itβs feeding him discredited 18th-century ideas
Time to walk the walk on this one! A few things that people seem to miss/get wrong, as someone who's been in media/making media for about 10 years now. If you have any questions, drop them in the comments! If I have pertinent experience I'm happy to respond.
Us: was there anyone you knew at sport camp today? Small Child: how could I already know anyone when I made six new friends? Us: not mutually exclusive, but k. Can you tell us about your new friends? SC: no Us: any of their names? SC: ... Glad she's making friends, even if they are mysterious!
Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Thanks google AI but I meant to type βshutββ¦
This does feel like it is the cold open to a sci fi show!
Today is the 47th anniversary of this clearly unimprovable photo, from a story so absurd that it shouldnβt be true, but is: the day a team of workers from British Waterways pulled the plug out of the Chesterfield Canal, and all the water emptied out
Just seen a terrifying video of a scooter battery exploding in a workshop caught on CCTV thatβs on an Australian TV news channel, and unfortunately the guy involved has his arse crack showing throughout and thatβs all thatβs in the comments π
Sometimes I miss the days when the internet literally screamed at you, rather than figuratively.
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
Ignoring OceanGate for a second, there's two amazing things here. Firstly, Boeing didn't even blink at composite structures over 80cm thick. Secondly, Boeing confirmed they're already playing with some seriously chunky carbon fibre structures for... reasons.
Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend!β¨ Don't forget, look up . . . βοΈππ "This weekend there's plenty to see in the night sky, from the Sturgeon Moon rising to one of the best meteor showers of the year, and some of the brightest planets." www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/full-mo... #sky #nightsky
Turns out Wesley mistranslated Sole as Soul, and Harmony happened to be wearing Loubotins at the key moment...
So would I, but it's hard to see how they bring any of the vampires back with the visible aging (though how funny would it be if the shanshu prophecy beneficiary was Harmony!)
Yes I assume they'll have to jettison the comics generally (part of the point of them was to do stuff too expensive for tv), though I did love Harmony as a reality star, and I think there's space to play around with vampire influencers etc.
It's almost as though scraping the intent for source data was a terrible idea, with poor quality images and no way to distinguish between facts and shitposts. Genuinely starting to wonder is bluebberries is some ship name in a k-pop fandom or something.
But are there really enough people out there writing BlueBBerries to be statistically significant in the dataset? Is it viewing letters as shapes as well? I don't understand how no one has taught the predictive text generator to count, even if actual maths is too challenging?
But the lists of countries with Ls etc make less sense to me. Presumably some of the errors come from common misspellings and ocr errors, and the fact its dataset doesn't include it's immediate output means it contradicts itself constantly.
So with the images, it does ok labeling large areas, presumably because the source data is clear and consistent, but smaller areas are increasingly nonsensical. Presumably the source images are poor quality, so the letter shapes are harder to distinguish (because it's predicting shapes, not writing)
"Germany include Poland" sure is one way of describing what happened.
My goto is to ask LLMs how many states have R in their name. They always fail. GPT 5 included Indiana, Illinois, and Texas in its list. It then asked me if I wanted an alphabetical highlighted map. Sure, why not.
Honestly, I've you've decided to look like a cartoon character, it's a lot easier to live your best life (barring deliveries from acme). Man has clearly escaped from a lego set, and he's having a lovely time.
hopefully someone can help me with this⦠does anyone know if I can get some sort of wire/rack add on thingy for this market display unit that I could have hooks on to hang up sticker packs with?
So often going abroad is about nailing the nouns and leaving everyone slightly confused about who is supposed to be doing what to them.
Of course, I'm on bedtime tonight, so though there's a solid chance of a repeat chorus of pink pony club (one of Small Child's all time favourites) I may yet regret some other parts of this evening.
I am having an excellent evening, by which I mean I've had two glasses of red wine and an espresso martini, Small Child has decided daddy is her favourite this evening, and this pizza express is playing wall to wall gay bangers.
The hotel bill for the next week is due today, but I had an unexpected vet trip this morning that's making covering it difficult. Any help at all is greatly appreciated, even if it's just sharing the post. #MutualAidRequest #TransCrowdFund cash.app/$Settiai paypal.me/poicelle venmo.com/u/Settiai
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Emma Baggott's female-orientated retelling of Dracula, starring Umi Myers as Mina and the British East-Asian Mei Mac as Lucy! lyric.co.uk/shows/dracul...
This is absolutely the key point about. When I was a programmer, I used to absolutely hate end users, because they would take my lovely software, use it in ways I hadn't thought of, and break it completely. The function of software is what users do with it, not what its creators intended.
Paradise, Shogun, and A Thousand Blows
*second bong rip* if we view RFK and MAHA as the culmination of a vast disgust-based movement against evidence and life itself, weβre in a grim place. itβs not easy to un-disgust people. you canβt logic them or fact them out of it. you want to know the best way out of disgust? teaching ppl empathy
A watch frozen forever at 8:15am, the moment an atomic bomb exploded over Hiroshima on Monday August 6th 1945. #Hiroshima #August6th #HiroshimaPeaceMemorialMuseum #εΊε³Ά #HiroshimaDay
#NEISvoid, #MECFS & #LongCOVID folks! I got tested because I reported more hair loss than usual (after #COVID, so probably autoimmune). But apparently that gets you tested for zinc, tho literally any other symptom of zinc deficiency (cognitive dysfunction, fatigue, immune dysfunction) does not. π π§΅
Pink Fairy Armadillo. π
Academics in August (blue faience spherical bead in the form of a curled-up hedgehog π¦) Egyptian, c.1985 - 1650 BCE. www.nms.ac.uk/search-our-c...
Ryanair are the worst. And the problem with them being the worst is it always takes forever to get through check in, baggage check etc, because so many people are caught out by the fees the queues take forever. And they hold a monopoly on so many routes so there's not even an alternative!
Tales From Green Valley was the first one of those "__ farm" experimental archaeology ones, which was excellent (though there was some weird rights issues which meant I had to pirate it to watch back in the 00s, which hopefully are resolved now!)
There was a UK version, Farner Wants A Wife (2001 - predates The Bachelor as a dating reality show), and I think there are Spanish and Australian versions which ran for longer.