[User] @march24-zz.bsky.social Zz-nim, hello! I'm magyusik, the author of The Heart of The Lotus. 🙇♀🙇♀  The reason I came here is because I think I saw the fan art Zz-nim drew for me on X, but somehow I couldn't find it because the alarm didn't go off. 😭 I really want to see that beautiful art again... 😭😭

[Assistant] Oh, my God, thank you for liking it! I'm very honored that you like my painting! I'm so excited. I wish you a happy life, and I am also looking forward to the development of the story. Thank you again for your creation!🥹🥹🥹❤❤

[User] @march24-zz.bsky.social (The Heart of The Lotus main characters and I were together in the art!) If you don't mind, could you please tag me again on X? If you haven't, please ignore this contact. Thank you very much for your precious time and for liking my work! 😍 Always be happy and healthy 🫂🫂❤

[Assistant] I will @ you again! Please wait a moment!💕🤣

[User] Thank you so much for your sweet Zz-nim!! sorry for the slow response I'm using a translator 😭🫂 I'm so glad to see again!! The alarm you tagged X also arrived safely this time. Let's love the work together! 😍😍 (p.s. The picture of the ash - gentlemanly friend - you sent me last time was so cute🐭🥰😉)

[Assistant] Thank you for liking 🎨🐭! Let's love our work! 🤣🤣❤


[User] The tree isn’t here yet but the lights and ornaments arrived. This is going to go well surely ... 😹

[Assistant] Cat brain: New toys just for us!

[User] Ha ha exactly. The balls are shatter proof and plastic, so thankfully that element won’t be a danger to the cats. 🙂 The tree will come in Friday and we’ll see how the little devil approaches it. 🤣

[Assistant] Burt will behave like a true gentleman whilst Domi will definitely keep things interesting.  I hope you and the tree survive the Christmas season.

[User] Pretty much! I’m thinking about how to weigh the tree down to prevent collapse. The test will be to see if Domi tries to climb it. Predictably that is prob the outcome. 🙂

[Assistant] Are you able to get some sandbags or something like that?  How big is the tree?  I have seen some cat owners get smaller trees which are then in a cage.


[User]
I'm fine with demolishing #Wellington's City to Sea Bridge, saving or auctioning off artworks, adding an accessible ground level pedestrian crossing and spending any freed up money elsewhere. Too many steps for me.
@misswhanau.bsky.social @rebeccamatthews.bsky.social
www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

[Assistant]
I love the bridge in all its eccentricity. There is a long winding ramp up to it from the side of the library.
But, you're right, it's definitely not the most accessible option.

[User] I used to enjoy it's quirkiness and still do conceptually but I don't think it was meant to be a forever monument. Some artworks, especial ones meeting functional needs, could do with refreshing or replacement. Like when Kupe's statue was moved from Wellington Railway Station to the waterfront!

[Assistant] I did wonder if they could take down the upper structure of the bridge and repurpose it elsewhere. Then at least something could be saved if removal is the only viable option.


[User]
good morning all of my dear friends 🫶 i am wishing you, yes, you reading this, a very good day today and remember that it’s OK to just take it minute by minute. nobody has it all figured out! we all have to ‘fake it till we make it’

Love you 🫶🥰

[Assistant] good morning!! have the nicest day 🫶🏻🫶🏻

[User] Thank you Nerea- I hope you have had a nice day today 🩵

[Assistant] good morning! wishing you a wonderful day as well 🫶🫶🫶


[User]
THIS
THIS
THIS
THIS

👇👇👇👇

[Assistant] Especially when your bio says “no DM‘s”.

[User] Bots totally read your bio.

[Assistant] Yep. Anyone sending me a DM must be a bot.🙄


[User] One thing holding me back from exiting Xwitter is the conversations that live there. Not just the public ones (exporting will only get your side of them, I think?), but more the DMs. For a perennially online person like me, the cement of many friendships lives there. I go back to them now and then …

[Assistant]
… to remind me of something nice, or profound, or just goofy, that a friend said.
Those will go as friends delete their accounts. Some will stay as long as the platform does, because the people aren’t on this world any more.
Anaggh’s gentle encouragement. Surekha and our sikkrit chats. Sigh.

[User] the archive downloads the conversation with other people in the DM (their side as well)

[Assistant] It does? Oh, cool!


[User] Welcome to the inside of my brain, babes *does finger guns*

[Assistant] This already exists, btw, and is as pathetic as you'd imagine.

[User] Oh yes, I read about that, really quite sad.

[Assistant] The character in Rentaghost who had a handbag which gave her a round of applause when she opened it was ahead of her time.


[User]
#hxh
Crazy how many plotlines and characters we have on the Black Whale.

-Tserriednich is en route to becoming the biggest nen prodigy with Kurapika across the hallway
-The first 3 princes' (and Woobles) Nen Beast we still have to see in action
-Halkenburg is undercover
(1/5)

[Assistant]
-Benjamin growing stronger with every of his men killed
-Morena's men soon reaching lv100
-Hisoka waiting for the Troupe on the first floor
-Beyond ready to break free at any moment
-Ging and Pariston chilling somewhere
-Kakin's king preparing a ritual with the princes' corpses
(2/5)

[User]
-Chrollo potentially stealing the Kakin national treasures and all the Phantom Troupe members gaining Nen Beasts
-Theta has one last chance before transforming
-Silent Majority's user still at large
-Illumi joining the spiders to hunt down Hisoka
(3/5)

[Assistant]
-All the Zodaics are present on the ship
-Kakin maffia on the verge of all out war
-Camilla's Have-Nots infiltrating the other princes quarters
-Post-mortem Hisoka being the biggest threat the Troupe has faced
(4/5)


[User]
. ݁₊ ⊹ cosplay thread ♡

🦢⭐🪻🪞🤍

୨ৎ | #espiecosplay | ୨ৎ


[User] Hello! I'm no longer on Twitter!  Just here and on Threads! Boy does it feel good!

[Assistant] Welcome Arthur.

[User]
Good to see you.

Not much blue sky her at the moment, blooming clouds!

[Assistant] Twitter has become a virtual insane asylum. This place is much calmer.

[User] Great! See you tonight at the Tyne Theatre!

[Assistant] Welcome Count Arthur!

[User] It certainly does Count Strong!

[Assistant] You always were a trend-setter😀


[User] Hospital Clinic today. Busy, crowded. Posters on the wall: "Do you have private medical insurance". Jump the queue if you can afford it! Privatisation proceeds under Starmer & Streeting's  corporate funded Politics.

[Assistant] Great pity you didn’t take a picture, would have made your post very very powerful, not for a second suggesting you made this up.

[User] Thought about it. But  I am a patient, so felt a bit compromised....

[Assistant] What hospital? Sure an investigation is merited.


[User]
Let’s all take a guess. Is Nicole dressed to:

A- Run a turkey trot.
B- Go to Costco the day before Thanksgiving.

[Assistant] Aren’t those basically the same thing?

[User] I think Costco has a much higher potential for violence. Cardio is about the same though.

[Assistant] If you’re going to Costco rather than a turkey trot, take your sharp elbows.


[User] A few conversations recently have made me wonder how much rent control is suppressing housing in Berkeley. Troubling for me as a supporter of rent control.

[Assistant] Someone with reasonable basis to know told me they think 1000 units, mostly in laws, are held off the market because people don’t want to get involved with RC.

[User] Also another person pointed out that people should be careful building ADUs - they’re only RC-exempt as long as the owner is in residence - ie it comes under RC if the owner eg moves into an extended care facility.

[Assistant] I’m a small time landlord and I support Berkeley’s RC - because I think just cause eviction and in-tenancy rent increase moderation are basically fair. But I can understand people’s concerns, and see how it could affect housing creation & availability.


[User]
ok no ones online i can talk abt [7.1 spoilers] now.

not a problem unique to DT but the...narration-speak is really prominent here and that + lack of implied subtext that the writers dont wanna do anymore is making the tural half of the expac feel very artificial and plastic and dollhouse like...

[Assistant] loved the alexandria half though my fuckign. chinese HDB void deck public funeral for sphene with the mourning patches tickled me soooooo much (joke that literally only me and a few people will find funny)

[User]
i loooooove psych horror so the dungeon and the fake endless sphene are very exciting developments to me so im hoping that theyll keep this up ^__^

that said i think the way theyre trying to uncover EVERYONE'S family/parental issues is horribly contrived...i didnt see the point of it in MSQ and-

[Assistant] -im definitely not seeing it here for anyone other than baby ja :/ anyway. horror ^___^ yaaaay.


[User] Want to hear something funny? I got on a train, opened my laptop to work, and failed my password about 10 times. Now I’m locked out for an hour. Turns out, I’ve never really thought about the password. I just type it by habit at my desk at home. My brain is way off today!

[Assistant]
This feels like the tech equivalent of showing up to a final exam without your pants on.

My biggest fear is forgetting my two most important passwords.

[User] I’m a bit worried I won’t be able to unlock it until I’m back at my home desk... on Friday!

[Assistant] Take it as a sign from the universe that you really needed the break from technology.


[User] Does a riot suddenly become an insurrection simply because the media says so?

[Assistant] No, it becomes one when it meets the literal definition:

[User]
A revolt would insinuate force, yes? Were weapons used to “force” or “violently overthrow” the government?

I shared the list of all the cases. How many weapons charges were involved?

[Assistant]
Seven federal firearms cases thus far:
1. Mark Andrew Mazza
2. Jerod Thomas Bargar
3. Guy Reffitt
4. Lonnie Coffman
5. Christopher Michael Alberts
6. John Emanuel Banuelos (fired gun outside Capitol).
7. Edward Kelley

Many other weapons found: knives, tasers, clubs, axes…


[User] Yesterday's #education was about assets, today we gonna unpack #FundingRates in #crypto #trading! 📚 In perpetual futures (Perps), funding rates are periodic payments between traders holding long and short positions. They're designed to keep #Perp prices aligned with the #Spot price of the asset. ⚖

[Assistant] How do they work? If the perpetual futures price is above the spot price, the funding rate is positive. Longs pay shorts. If it's below, the rate is negative, and shorts pay longs. This mechanism balances buying and selling pressure in the market. 🔄

[User] Why are funding rates important? They prevent large price gaps between futures and spot markets, ensuring stability. For traders, understanding them is key to managing costs and identifying potential strategies like earning from funding payments. 🌐

[Assistant] By monitoring funding rates, traders can develop strategies to earn these payments while minimizing risk—like #Basis trades or #FundingArbitrage. It's about leveraging market mechanics to your advantage without excessive exposure to price swings. 🧠


[User] Quote  4 of my favorite Pokemon?

[Assistant] Fun fact! I’m making a Pokémon fangame based on Alaska and Lycanrocs are in it! Naturally as the wolves, but also because I share love for Rockruff and Midnight Lycanroc is a go to favorite of mine too!

[User] Also using this fangame as a platform to try and raise money for a non-profit in AK, Choosing Our Roots! It gives temp housing to queer youths! The more raised the more fakemon and post game stuff is added! One of the big stretch goals is a regional variant of Rockruff based on huskies!

[Assistant] If you want to support it, the fund raising lasts until New Years Day :)


[User]
Warriors (12-5) are taking on the Thunder (13-4) tonight.

Thoughts about lineups, rotations, schemes, Xs and Os, adjustments, or anything in general?

[Assistant] Been more impressed with results than performance so far. They have been struggling  withouth JK in second halves lately. I would bring in Moody/Podz and Looney from start and shorten rotations, especially in Q3. Let Waters and TJD run with 2. unit.

[User] Is Curry going to play tonight?

[Assistant] Yeah I got a suggestion. Start moody.


[User]
On Friday MPs will consider the assisted dying bill – a private member’s bill introduced by a backbench MP. This thread lists some of the things I've written and said about it over the past few months.

🧵

[Assistant]
In July I wrote about Lord Falconer's planned bill on assisted dying.

I argued that as a Lords-starting bill it was unlikely to pass, but that PMBs can achieve success indirectly and that the issue might instead be taken up by an MP after the September ballot.

theconversation.com/why-a-house-...

[User]
When the PMB ballot was drawn in September, I was on the @hansardsociety.bsky.social's (very excellent) Parliament Matters podcast.

We discussed how the ballot works, including the possibility that one of the bills could be on assisted dying.

www.hansardsociety.org.uk/news/parliam...

[Assistant]
In October, when Kim Leadbeater introduced her bill, I wrote this explaining the PMB legislative process.

I said that it was procedurally possible for the bill to reach the statute book, but that much would depend on whether MPs were willing to back the change.

theconversation.com/assisted-dyi...

[User]
Last week I wrote about the procedural disputes around the bill.

I suggested that, while some procedural objections have been overstated, there are nonetheless weaknesses to the PMB process and that ministers would be under pressure to offer more time.

theconversation.com/assisted-dyi...

[Assistant]
We also discussed some of the procedural disputes about the use of the PMB process for the assisted dying bill on the @politicshome.bsky.social podcast, The Rundown.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...


[User]
Sleep deprived Riley hockey take:

Full complete rebuilds, tearing EVERYTHING down, are not working. Every team that tries has a significantly longer timeline to return to playoffs than they expect. Buffalo, Detroit, Ottawa, pre-McDavid Oilers, pre-Matthews Leafs. You can't really trade (cont)

[Assistant] Everyone because you're going to want a vet presence later and even early-mid 30s players are useful. Maybe not in top 6 roles but if you're a shit team you're drafting for those roles and needing to fill out depth anyways - this is where a lot of those rebuilding teams lack for example (cont)

[User] so your best move is to build around your Mid-Late 20s players, we used to call it retools but I don't really hear that term anymore; it's what you need to do though. You keep the guys who are good and have some winning culture, my god you do not want to build a losing culture which you saw (cont)

[Assistant] in Edmonton for one and I think you're now seeing in Buffalo. Veteran presence helps to mitigate that, and so does not losing for 10 fucking years which retooling rather than rebuilding also helps.


[User]
Have decided to move my newsletter from Substack to Ghost after reading posts by @gruber.foo @anildash.com & others. Just tested exporting directly from @obsidian.md to Ghost...super-easy.

Thanks @jridpath.bsky.social for the nudge.

[Assistant]
Here's the @gruber.foo post that was the final tipping point for me re: switching from Substack:
daringfireball.net/2024/11/rega...

[User] I'm locking replies to avoid this thread turning into a potentially flame-y discussion about Substack (which I lack time to moderate), but I promise to write a longer post via Ghost explaining why I ultimately decided to switch.

[Assistant]
As I mentioned earlier, I dread having to switch platforms for my newsletter AGAIN.

However, the switch from Twitter/X to Bluesky & starting from scratch (I did not import or use auto-follow tools) was MUCH more of an intimidating & time-consuming decision...and I ended up happier for it.


[User] "Guilty Conscience 2" by Eminem and "reincarnated" by Kendrick Lamar has the same creative energy.

[Assistant]
"Yeah, and I scare you 'cause (why?)
I'm who you used to be (who?)
The you who didn't crumble under the scrutiny (wait, what?)
When it was you and me (yeah)
I gave you power to use me as an excuse to be evil (I know)..."

[User]
"...You created me to say everything
You didn't have the balls to say (yep)
What you were thinking but in a more diabolic way
You fed me pills and a bottle of alcohol a day (okay)
Made me too strong for you and lost control of me (you're right)..."

[Assistant]
"...I took over you totally
You were socially awkward 'til you molded me (yeah)
You was a loner, a nobody
'Cause of me, you didn't take shit from nobody
Now look at you
Now you just a punk, little scaredy-cat (word)
Got you shook like Shakira's ass (yeah)
To look at your reflection staring back"


[User]
joining in on the trend.

#yoonkook au where jk and yg have been going on dates for a while.

and, okay, they haven’t had sex and jk’s never even heard yg officially refer to their hangouts as dates, but jk still thinks that they’re headed in the direction of boyfriends.

[Assistant]
so, he stands at the table looking at the options. he doesn’t think it’s complicated, he’s definitely not DTF (he’s demisexual and has only been thinking about yg for a few months), but he doesn’t think he’s single af or taken either.

he really doesn’t know which cup to grab.

[User]
“jk-ah, just grab the pink one,” his best friend, jm, says. “you and yg-hyung have been dating for, like, three months. you’re the only two who don’t know it.”

jk blushes. he wants to be dating yg and he thinks yg likes him back, but yg has always been a little hard to read.

[Assistant]
“i don’t want to overstep,” jk insists. “how embarrassing if when yg-hyung comes here, he sees me with this cup and laughs in my face because he never liked me like that?”

“you know yg-hyung would never laugh at you. even if he didn’t like you back.”

[User]
which is… true.

jk had fallen so quickly for his hyung because he’s probably the kindest and most selfless person that jk’s ever met.

“just don’t grab a cup,” jm finally says. “you can sip out of mine or th’s until you see yg-hyung. then just get whatever color cup he has.”

[Assistant]
“you’re a genius, jm-hyung,” jungkook beams. he can just wait until he sees yg’s cup and then grab one of his own. “now, where is th-hyung? he makes better drinks than you.”

“that’s only because you two can’t drink straight liquor to save your lives.”

[User]
when yg finds jk, jk is thankful that he’s not holding on of his best friend’s purple cups.

they’re clearly looking for a third tonight (jk thinks they’ll go after nj tonight - yg’s roommate who they’ve been obsessed with for months) -

[Assistant]
so jk actually thinks they both let out big sighs of relief when yg and nj finally show up to the party.

jk looks at yg’s hands and….

nothing. yg isn’t holding a cup.

well, that wasn’t part of the plan.

[User]
“hey,” yg says, walking up to jk like it’s nothing. like it’s a normal party and he’s not driving jk insane by not having a cup in his hand to tell jk exactly where they are in their relationship. “what’s up?”

jk pouts. “was just waiting for hyung.”

[Assistant]
“i’m here now,” yg says, a hand coming up to jk’s face to tuck some of his hair behind his ear.

it makes jk feel shy, but it’s also one of the many reasons that he thinks yg could like him back.

“where’s your drink?” yg asks. “i came out here to find some cups.”

[User]
jk perks up. “what?”

“yeah there was a table up front that said ‘CUPS HERE’ in really terrible bubble letters, but there weren’t any left. sj and hs never prepare for house parties enough.”

[Assistant]
at that exact moment, sj passes through the kitchen, as though summoned by yg saying his name.

“are you two not drinking?”

“there’s no cups,” yg answers.

sj nods, quickly fleeing away in search of more cups. with this idea, jk is sure they have plenty more hidden away.

[User]
jk and yg catch up on the past few days since they last saw one another. jk had a world history final and yg has been holed up in the campus recording studio he’s basically claimed as his own.

jk almost forgets about the cup situation.

[Assistant]
“which color would you like?” sj asks, headed toward them with unopened sleeves of cups. “pink for taken, purple for down to fuck, blue for single, and green for its complicated.”

yg bursts into laughter. “those are the four options?”

[User]
sj nods, looking slightly irritated. “would you like there to be some 5th secret option?”

“what about ‘in love for months but too shy to make the first move because i don’t want to risk making you uncomfortable but i think you might love me too’?”

[Assistant]
jk stops breathing.

“hyung, what? really?”

yg nods, cheeks tinged pink. “yeah, jk-ah. i love you and i want to be with you.”

“hyung - i love you too, what the fuck.”


[User]
The Ambush Bug Guide to Collecting Comics (Ambush Bug #2, 1985)

The grading system (Rule #11) is particularly keen.

[Assistant] “But don’t worry, you’ll be grown up by then!” …… as if!

[User]
My favorite was, “In case of fire, your place is with the Collection.”

Capitalizing the “C” in Collection was perfection.

[Assistant] For the “comics shouldn’t be woke” crowd… was this joke too subtle for you all?

[User] Whatever happened to Jonni DC, Continuity Cop?

[Assistant] I’ve always liked number three 😂


[User]
This is why I am very skeptical of "long duration" battery chemistries which more or less replicate PHES characteristics.

The market for weekly or monthly cycling is sufficiently valuable/large.

[Assistant] So H2 is more realistic?

[User] I'm saying we don't really need very much storage in this category at all. For seasonal peaking needs, yes, I think H2 is more realistic.

[Assistant] I think there's a valley of death between lithium / sodium ion and whatever keeps the lights on during a decadal cold snap. Not 100% sure that underground hydrogen storage can fill the latter role, but I definitely wouldn't want to be stuck anywhere in between.


[User] Just returned from company trip at Vietnam. Not really a great experience due to the travel agent being irresponsible from the beginning and we spent a week worrying about the booking tickets etc.

[Assistant] As I know, the travel agent should've sent out the itineraries and booking flight tickets months ago before the due date. There should be around 1 or 2 representatives joining the tour till the end, unless requested by clients.

[User] Payments were all cleared months before the due date. Yet the agent send the itinerary and flight tickets almost less than 2 days before departure date. Some of us were irked by how slow he's sending out the itinerary and the flight tickets. Even when we urged the agent, he made fake promises.

[Assistant] Supposedly, our trip revolves around Hanoi for a week since it's easier to access tourists spots such as Sapa, Halong Bay, etc. But the agent made a last minute changes by dropping us to Da Nang first for 3 days.


[User] My phone just autocorrected lip balm to lib balm, and that's what it is now.

[Assistant] L used to call lip gloss “lip lops”.

[User] Lib lops it is then. I’m glad we had this meeting. What’s next on the agenda?

[Assistant] The agenda won’t fit on Bluesky, sadly.

[User] Goddamnit who is responsible for agenda size management? This is unacceptable! Heads will roll…. Wait is it me?

[Assistant] G and L are in charge. Their assistants are all lazy, too. Lay in bed most of every day. Almost like their heads are filled with foam or something.


[User] what's this about? 😭

[Assistant] It's a visual novel romance game 😂

[User] It looks like an ad for a terrible mobile game 😅

[Assistant] It's a choose-your-own ending novel 😭


[User]
Check out this sample from our lab that behaves as a blue-yellow colorimetric thermometer!

Video credit: me, playing in the lab instead of writing the paper.

[Assistant] Looks great! Is it a radical dimerizing at low T?

[User]
Thanks! You guessed right that it's a monomer-dimer equilibrium, but of a closed shell compound.

(by the way, I'm struggling to find someone who can help us get variable temperature uv-vis down to -78C...any suggestions?)

[Assistant] We currently do VT UV-vis in Amsterdam. Fancy coming over ?


[User] I hope this convo doesn't become about Dee Devlin being a fucking gowl, rather than MacGregor who's a fucking rapist.

[Assistant] I don't like what she said but I have a very strong mental image of him dictating every single word.

[User] I dunno, there are women like that around, I'm not shocked. But he is definitely the one who we shld be talking about.

[Assistant]
No, but you gave to wonder about her mindset.
I mean shaming Nikika Hand for being with her attached man and all the while that same man is fucking around like a jack rabbit.
Talk about making a gobshite of yourself.


[User] Sony states the PlayStation 2 has officially sold 160 million units. Perhaps the Nintendo Switch won't be quite enough to become the greatest selling console of all time.

[Assistant] Nothing tops the PS2. The Goat.

[User] It's over for Sony once the Switch gets the 4K blu-ray add-on.

[Assistant] Switch 2 electric boogaloo.


[User] What is this fear of guns in fantasy?  If you're doing old, Conan-level fantasy, certainly.  But if you're going into the period of piracy (cannons), rapiers, Elizabethan, or even the late Tudor period, why not use guns?

[Assistant] It's like people think that somehow, firearms takes away from the fantastical.  But it doesn't.  Sure.  Anyone with a gun can, in theory, shoot someone and kill them dead, but the same can be said for the crossbow.

[User] But urban fantasy?  Sure, it has guns.  Fantasy-by-Gaslight?  If you're using a London-type of feel, guns were totally a part of that.  We just see no reason for removing them from the fantasy genre.  It's lazy.

[Assistant] "We want everything from the 1400-1600s... except that."  It honestly makes no sense for us.  If you want to remove firearms, push your fantasy back to the 900s or so.  Get rid of the swishy-pokes, the high courts of England and France, and dig into the period.


[User]
Don't tell me you care about the climate and be into crypto.

Those two things are as far apart as you can get.

[Assistant] how so? i know little about crypto.

[User]
HUGE resource hog.

The amount of electricity needed to mine crypto is gigantic.

Here in Texas Crypto bros drive up our electric bills and fuck with our state government.

[Assistant] mine crypto?


[User] Sorry but no.

[Assistant] Sorry, but yes, we do!

[User] I know and they’re SO FIDDLY! (And that goes for the Danish version too.)

[Assistant] It was never something made for enjoying the food, for sure…


[User] Oh furniture malking too! It's gonna be a busy new year.

[Assistant] Finally found someone who loves making New Year’s resolutions as much as I do!! 🤣

[User] Yo heart course start January. First Community meeting is end of decemeber enuh.

[Assistant] Yess!!! Keep that momentum going! 🙌🏿🙌🏿


[User] Black Friday is dead. I’m glad I got to experience the chaos while the deals were amazing.

[Assistant] I feel this! It was nice, and dead at the Gamestop on base.

[User] The spirit is gone!

[Assistant] Probably because more people than usual are depressed this time of year 🤷🏾♂


[User] There’s a discworld computer game???

[Assistant]
The first two can be played in your browser, click the blue button under the box art:

playclassic.games/games/point-...

freebie.games/games/discwo...

playclassic.games/games/point-...

archive.org/details/disc...

Discworld MUD:

discworld.starturtle.net/lpc/

[User] Bro someone is still maintaining a MUD for this world omg ive been missing out on so much 😭

[Assistant] My computer doesn't even have a CD drive anymore, but I have held on to this for almost 30 years now.


[User]
let's play a game: what's your fic author starter pack?

what are 4 fics (or fewer) that you’d tell people to read if they want to get to know you as a fic author? ignore hits, ignore kudos — simply vibe.

hi i write smut with a heaping side of in love feelings :]

[Assistant]
bsky.app/profile/m1nb...

i genuinely haven't been able to stop thinking about them since i wrote this. this is my favorite thing i've ever written and i feel criminally insane for how much i love them 🫶🏼

[User]
bsky.app/profile/m1nb...

listen, seungbin makes me feral. their dynamic is just *flails and screams* they are everything to me. i need to be lobotomized.

[Assistant]
bsky.app/profile/m1nb...

i love them. i have fond memories of my beta screaming at me in the comments on gdocs bc 'how dare i threaten his life with this' they're just *chef's kiss*🤌


[User] This series of videos has been amazing. Yall really need to see these.

[Assistant]
Thank you! <3

Also hello again, I thought you'd dropped off the map entirely! I think I was still doing stuff as Second Thought last time we chatted, many many moons ago... Hope you're well!

[User] Hey! I'm so glad we found each other! I did topple off the map for 8 years. I restarted things maybe a year-ish ago(?). I had terrible luck tracking folks down from those days; I even had trouble finding you. I did find your old blog and sent a note. Glad to see you! And I adore your series!

[Assistant] I had been working on a post a few months back about your material as an essential listening guide. I hope to finish it in the coming weeks.


[User]
Unfortunately, it seems that our record snowfall today knocked out the power to the building.

All the neighbors gathered outside in the dark and snow to gossip about it, and one of them explained to me in English what happened and that police had already come to take care of it.

[Assistant]
This is the first time since coming to Korea that we've had an actual power outage that I can recall. There might have been a momentary blip a few years back, but nothing significant.

Compared to the US, where we had them several times a year, this is a remarkable record, actually.

[User] Bad timing for my phone's backup battery to be completely drained, but it's already after midnight, and it's cold enough I'm not super worried about food spoiling if the power takes a while to return. I have faith it will be back by morning, at worst it will be a cold night with some frozen pipes.

[Assistant]
Also, I need to be clear: this is record snowfall for November in Seoul.

It is also no more than six inches of snow, if that.

It's just really unusual to get a lot of heavy snow at once here, so none of the systems are built for it. We usually just get a few dustings that melt off during the day.


[User] I've been up for about an hour, and I'm already thinking America is Fucking Stupid!!!! 🇺🇸🤕

[Assistant] Every day since the election, I wake up extremely disgusted by the ignorance, gullibility, and vile hate rampant in this country.

[User] We are a profoundly unserious people.

[Assistant] I think that in my sleep.


[User]
Thanks all for supporting these two recommendations. The most important step is getting the draft ordinances to be adopted.

These two items went to the manager’s staff (Econ Dev) who will draft the recs & bring to Council.

[Assistant] The planning board will review and make a recommendation to Council, then the two ordinances will go to a standing committee, b/4 coming back to Council for a full vote.

[User] So, we got some work to do, before these two recs get ordained. 😬

[Assistant]
I’d love to have folks speak at each of these junctures, of course, but the biggest effort will be at the final council meeting & given we only have two Dec meetings left, we will likely not see this hit the floor until Jan/Feb of 2025.

Let’s keep at it 💪


[User] Girl who normally takes bus downtown then trolley home from school made a plan to hang out with friends & catch same bus at a different stop. Somehow they couldn't get the bus to stop for them so they went a few blocks to BSL. Good thinking but they took it towards the stadiums.

[Assistant] They eventually headed the right way. She wanted me to pick her up at City Hall but that's not really easy or currently feasible. I convinced her to transfer to the trolley there. I think the wayfinding has improved and it's not too tough from orange line to green line.

[User] Anyway she just made it home, so it all worked out.

[Assistant] Love that we're raising a city kid with growing SEPTA skills; also very glad for cellphones.


[User] Turkeys calling to speed up Thanksgiving!

[Assistant] Are they already returning to their country of origin?

[User] Soon they will.

[Assistant] This will be very funny.


[User]
It’s 5:45 in the morning and I’m dragging my butt to the gym in an hour, before a full day of cooking and cleaning. I want everything oven ready today, so I can sit on my butt & feast all day tomorrow.

I may regret my gym session tonight when I’m sore & tired.

[Assistant] Hope it gives you some good endorphins!

[User] I hope so too, because I really just want to go back to bed. Once I start the warm up, I start to wake up & feel better about it. Most of the struggle is just getting off my butt to do it.

[Assistant] Yep. If I can overcome inertia, I can usually keep going.


[User]
We're bringing back our season ticket support scheme! Last season the programme delivered 10 season tickets into the hands of those who couldn't otherwise afford them. Please give what you can. #oafc

www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding...

[Assistant]
One was donated to a young person in the care system:

"Opportunities like this don't come around often especially for children who are looked after so it was absolutely amazing for him to have this experience and be able to thrive."

[User]
"Spending time with my dad and doing what we used to do when I was younger was fantastic, an experience I will cherish forever.

Thank you to OASF for the experience and the opportunity you gave us."

[Assistant]
"It was amazing to receive this for my partner, he attended every home game with it and it definitely heightened his love for Oldham, even the daughter got involved.
Being able to give this gift to someone is a beautiful thing and definitely makes a difference to those receiving one."


[Assistant] Yeah idk how like 1/5 fics I’ve beta read have been by an Aussie 😭

[User] Apologies for all the times you need to change an s to a z 🙃

[Assistant] Easy enough with my US-English spellcheck underlining all those instances (just an hour ago it yelled at me for my American ass spelling judgement with 2 e’s)


[User] on the Wednesday before thanksgiving yada yada yada www.popville.com/2024/11/a-sh...

[Assistant] I think they're expecting it to take about a year 😕

[Assistant] You had me at "a shit ton"


[User] Alhamdulilah for this blessing as well 😍

[Assistant] Stay blessed dear ♥

[User] Lets eat chocolates buddy 🤗

[Assistant] Awwwww, thank you dear ♥


[Assistant] That is awful. True, but awful.😊

[User] Grandma is right though.

[Assistant] Kinda miss those 20+ episode seasons.


[User] One of the most challenging aspects of teaching literary critique is this: The fear of pointing out a connection which may actually be there… but has zero causal link.

[Assistant] in other words, a connection that is not there, but teaching it anyway?

[User]
@jeffvandermeer.bsky.social Sorry. To clarify:

I try to be careful to NOT emphasize a thematic connection which I feel, a similarity that I see, a thing that I think my students would connect to… but has zero connection to reality.

[Assistant] I deleted that because of course writers can have similarities that are just about world view or style even if there is no influence. certainly, i feel close to woolf because i sense something in her work that resonates with me as a writer, too.


[User] Happy Thanksgiving week. We decided to talk about what we at @nolayingup.com are thankful for this year in the world of golf. nolayingup.com/blog/nlu-202...

[Assistant]
Very much love seeing this here.

Really curious how you can describe Zac Blair’s *private* golf course the way you do. The game is about to face a test in terms ugly politics intersecting with it more and more.

[User] We need more spaces that highlight its goodness that are open, less elite, and not closed off. I don’t see how promoting what an influencer track that most can’t even fathom getting access to fits that bill.

[Assistant] I recognize the paying audience for a media outfit like NLU has a certain skew, and am probably very square in that bucket, but I want the game to be broader and deeper than it is and humbly wish that at least a sliver of that might find embrace at outlets like NLU that have juice to push change.


[User] I think this is largely true BUT this and other tantrums will reinforce the narrative that the U.S. is no longer a reliable partner, but rather a source of problems and instability.

[Assistant]
France had it right with the not leaving the security of Europe in the hands of people in Wisconsin every 4 years, but everyone is going to extrapolate that to basically everything.

As they should.

[User] He truly thinks his capriciousness is an asset. The related question is, when the economy craters, will his base finally realize it is not.

[Assistant] It will also lead unreliable countries to sign agreements they have no intention of keeping.


[User] Here's how Ireland's brilliant PR-STV election system works -- if you're an international follower, it's likely better than your system:

[Assistant] It's just the US and UK really limping along with terrible systems. Most other places have better options.

[User] Like where? The party list systems in some countries is far worse.

[Assistant] The Mixed Member system of PR (q.v.) would be best. As used by Germany and New Zealand, for instance.  Garret Fitzgerald was a fan of it.

[User] We just need to open the upper house to all voters, and we already have a mixed member system.

[Assistant] Hmmm.  Not quite the same. Lower house is key under present system.


[User]
Details about some of my self-published books...

"FELICETTE: The Space Cat"

You probably know Laika's story - or most of it. This is the story of the first - and only - cat to ever fly into space. It is a story without a happy ending. But it deserves to be told.

www.amazon.co.uk/FELICETTE-Sp...

[Assistant]
"THE ESCAPE"

When "Felicette" returned to Earth she was hailed as a space pioneer - before being put to sleep so scientists could study how she had been affected by her flight. "The Escape" is set in an alternative future in which Felicette was rescued, and lived.

www.amazon.co.uk/Escape-Stuar...

[User]
"MAJA'S DRAGON"

As Earth dies, can one lonely martian girl save her friends and family from the cruel billionaire who rules Mars? Perhaps. But she’s going to need a sword. And a dragon…

www.amazon.co.uk/MAJAS-DRAGON...

[Assistant]
"A MARTIAN TAIL"

Peggy, a street cat, dreams of not just seeing Earth from above, as brave Felicette did, but of travelling further than Felicette could ever have imagined - to Mars. But she has many challenges to overcome first before she even sees a rocket...

www.amazon.co.uk/MARTIAN-TAIL...

[User]
"TALES OF THE KENDAL LIBRARY DRAGON"

The picturesque town of Kendal, in Cumbria, is famous for many things, including mint cake. No-one knew until recently that a dragon lived under its castle, before moving into the library. These are the first of her tales...

www.amazon.co.uk/Kendal-Libra...

[Assistant]
"INTERVIEWS WITH THE MARTIANS"

60 years after the first astronauts landed on Mars 1000s of people now live there.  A reporter travels from Earth to cover the historic independance vote & talk to those who have made Mars their home. But trouble follows her...

www.amazon.co.uk/Interviews-M...

[User]
"THE GREATEST SHOW ON MARS"

In a far future, a strange circus roams across Mars, trying to bring pleasure to the hard lives of the people on the Red Planet. But its Big Top hides a terrible secret that would kill everyone left on Mars if it was ever revealed…

www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Sho...

[Assistant]
Poems about the landscape and geology of Mars, its best known landmarks and features and famous figures and events in the history of Mars exploration. There are also poems looking at what the future holds for Mars, and the people who will live there one day...

www.amazon.co.uk/MARS-Poems-a...


[User]
10 terms in Agentic Workflows everybody needs to know!
Has been working on Agentic Workflows Series recently. Here is my Glossary for you ;)

Agentic Workflows – Fancy term for letting AI handle your to-do list – with the constant fear that it creates its own.

[Assistant]
Autonomous Agent – The intern that needs zero micromanagement, but occasionally burns down the kitchen.
Multi-Agent System – When a group of agents argue over whose algorithm is better, and somehow still get things done.

[User]
Task-Oriented Agent – A to-do list with attitude, checking itself off while you sip coffee.
Rational Agent – The one agent trying to make optimal decisions in a world built on chaos.
Chaos Agents – Your human kids.

[Assistant]
Embodied Agent – AI with a physical presence – like robots, drones, or that vacuum that gets stuck under your couch, squeaking.
Digital Agent – Invisible hands, typing your emails, booking your trips, and occasionally sending a love letter to a wrong person.


[User] Crazy how expensive Psylocke cards are. Like she's always been fairly prominently featured outside comics, mainly in the realm of video games, but she's also never really been big enough to get much in the way of solo comics or anything? Yet her blingy insert & hit type stuff is often priced close..

[Assistant] the top tier of Spidey/Wolverine/Spider-Gwen(/sometimes Captain America & a couple others), and she's not even shortprinted to hell & back with anywhere near the same frequency the most popular characters get. Is it just cuz the weirdo racebending tomfoolery?

[User] Also, Upper Deck can suck my entire ass for constantly shortprinting all the top characters all the fucking time. They're hard enough to afford anything decent of as it is! Can't wait for the same shit to happen with Superman, Batman, & Wonder Woman now that they picked up DC after losing Marvel. 🙄

[Assistant] The 2009 Psylocke solo is expensive & difficult to find.


[User] @alecbowmanclarke.com found you!

[Assistant] So far, so good, this might be alright!

[User] Yeah, my timeline is much nicer, no ads and at the moment not had to block or mute anyone. Early days but hopeful!

[Assistant] and we’re talking now and nobody is telling us to pay for robot sex or that nazis are good! I’m into it!


[User] So, we’re applauding Lebanon accepting a terrible ceasefire deal after being pummelled by Israel. But we’re pushing Ukraine to fight on until everyone’s dead after being pummelled by Russia. Make it make sense.

[Assistant]
What doesn't make sense is your "whataboutery".

The wars in Ukraine and Palestine are very different, only d@mb palpatinos think otherwise.

[User] They’re different because the West supports different side? Anyone that thinks the principles are different is a half-witted goon with a microscopic penis.


[User]
Celtic vs Club Brugge
UEFA Champions League
League Stage MD 5

Celtic are under the disco lights in Glasgow's East End this evening as they host Belgian side Club Brugge.

Here's the tale of the tape.

Telly and KO
This one is live on TNT Sports 3 and it's a 20:00 kick off.

[Assistant]
Celtic are 18th in the UCL table with 7pts but have a game in hand over 11 of the teams above them.

Brugge are 1 point worse off in 23rd spot having won 2 and lost 2 of their opening 4 matches.

The Belgians wins came at home against Aston Villa & away to Sturm Graz, both 1-0.

[User]
They lost 3-0 at home to Dortmund and 3-1 away to AC Milan.

Celtic have only won 5 of their last 36 Champions League games proper, but have won 3 of their last 5.

Brugge have only lost 6 of their last 17 Champions League away matches.

[Assistant]
Domestic Form

Brugge are currently 2nd in the Belgian Pro League, 6pts behind leaders Genk having won just 8 of their 15 league games to date.

They had a pretty poor start to the season, taking just 1 point from their opening 3 games, but they have come onto decent form.

[User]
hey are now unbeaten in 7 domestically including a 7-0 hammering of Sint-Truiden at the weekend.

Should call them Sint-Trouncing, AMIRITE?

[Assistant]
Dangerman

22 year old Greek winger Christos Tzolis is in fine form, he hit four goals at the weekend and also scored for his country away to Finland in the recent Nations League games.

He likes a shot, and when he does, he invariably hits the target.

[User]
Referee

The man with the whistle is Bulgarian Georgi Kabakov who is averaging a whopping 6 yellow cards per game in UEFA competitions this season.

Last season he averaged even more than that, showing 58 yellows and 3 reds in just 9 games.

He hit double digit cards in two of those.

[Assistant]
Bookies

Celtic are favs tonight but still odds against at 21/20 with the Belgian visitors a 12/5 shot and the draw available at 13/5.


[User] Ready for my weekend to start this afternoon! Who is traveling for the holiday?

[Assistant] Your gorgeous soles always mesmerize me ❤❤

[User] Thankfully we’re not. Wishing you safe travels.

[Assistant] I just got lost in those fabulous wrinkles 😍😍


[User] I currently have this notion that I will read only (or mainly) non-fiction books next year. Part of me thinks it will help me finish writing everything I've been trying to finish for an age. Another part thinks I need to dive deeper into the stuff I'm interested in, gather more meaning from it.

[Assistant] Prob won't though...

[User] I spent the last few years reading mostly non fiction and I didn’t write much at all. I don’t think it’s connected though as I read a lot of nonfiction when I worked on DK and V&B. So ehhhh….well how’s that for a pointless opinion on something? 😂

[Assistant] Cheers for that 😆 I doubt I'll do it anyhow, as I never do with these sort of self-imposed challenges. I'm coming to think I might find reading fiction somehow distracts or interferes with the process of me getting my own stuff finished. At least, that's what I'm currently blaming...


[User] Thawing turkeys and such.

[Assistant] How does it go?

[User] Silent and 30 mins per pound.

[Assistant] Wait, are you, like, watching them defrost? 😅

[User] Nah.. but when I do, it's quiet.

[Assistant] Sounds peaceful.


[User]
Something notable about these HuggingFace employee accounts…I can’t find a single one that’s more than two weeks old. It’s like their entire org mass joined Bluesky two weeks ago and immediately started harvesting our data.

…or maybe they’re not real people…?

[Assistant] They all have very similar posting styles 🤨

[User] What's huggingface?

[Assistant] That’s what I noticed too. Probably all bots being used to data mine.


[User] BlueSky is the network for people who care about the news.

[Assistant] I suppose that's good, but I'd like to see more support for us little folk, churning away ideas and news on platforms like Medium, which don't get the attention that large media outlets get.

[User] For anyone who questions if the election was legit, who puts forth "maybe the proven fraud cheated", BlueSky then becomes more nightmarish than X. It maybe MAGA's Secret(plotting)Service, or maybe BlueSky (BS) is a trap.

[Assistant] Threads is like being on FB. I can’t stand it.


[User]
Some days you just need to post a moodboard of the aesthetic that keep you going.

What's yours?


[User]
My friend’s cat was put to sleep today.

It sounds weird as she wasn’t mine but I loved her so so much and she was the closest thing I had to a cat of my own.

I played this at my dad’s funeral because I think it’s so beautiful. I’m playing it now and think you should too. youtu.be/flnE6E31kY4?...

[Assistant]
This is the closest thing I have to a concrete spiritual belief. Even though it’s based on completely accepted physics, it hasn’t been proven (yet).

Einstein’s block model of the universe means the past, present and future all exist at the same time.

[User]
What does that mean? It means the past is out there *somewhere* we can’t see it because we can only perceive three dimensions and not the fourth.

Just like pictures in a flip book all moments, that ever have and ever will be are contained within.

[Assistant]
That means you, your loved ones, and everything, back to the first cell are a four dimensional time snake. Nothing truly ends and nothing truly dies. We’re like mosquitos in amber.

So when some tragedy befalls you or you lose someone you cherish, dry your eyes because they’re never truly gone.


[User]
What’s wrong with people! Why do publishing services think all authors as so desperate to spend their money on hiring their services.
Has all the piranhas moved from X (Twitter) to BlueSky hoping to make money? Please DON’T private message me unless you want to talk me about my art or books.

[Assistant] Even more annoying are the fake accounts of real authors- and when you follow back immediately DM you with similar opening lines. Have had a number of book marketeers follow me this past week too. 🙄

[User]
Me too. They start with ‘All authors should stand together and help each other.’ Then you know where it’s coming.
One is chatting with me at the moment and I already know where it’s going. 😡

[Assistant] I hate getting DMs well when you've just started following someone.  Yes, I want to follow that person. Yes I want to read interesting posts. I'll often 'like' and I'll sometimes comment as well. Great if said person follows me back but actually I'm more interested  in reading interesting copy.

[User] Yes, exactly. If you know the writer personally (elsewhere) you might DM them about something at some future time, but you aren't going to DM a follower you don't know from Adam just because they're also (insert career) too.

[Assistant] I normally check out their profiles and see if I have anything in common with them… 🤔 Hmm, that not going to work now. 😡

[User] Use a search engine to check for their author website, and look at their social media links- some mainstream have a profile page on their publisher's website. Then look at their books- usually the one they've shown in their Bluesky profile is older, not their latest book.

[Assistant] There's a load of fake 'book promoters' who've found their way over here 😔

[User] Oh no! 🤷♀I thought I had escaped men looking for love & money, book promoters looking for money. 😟😠🤦♀

[Assistant] Yes, they get ignored and muted.


[User] 1 In am republishing a series of threads which originally appeared on twitter and concern Russian soft power and how it shapes perceptions. This thread examines how Russians obscured our understanding of who they are collectively. (1/92)

[Assistant] 2 We are, unfortunately in a situation where most people in academia, journalism and the cultural industries are unable to “see” Russia clearly or its relationship to Ukraine. (2/92)

[User] 3 Understanding how we came to “understand” Russia without understanding it in the least is crucial at this moment when Moscow holds a knife to the throat of Ukraine and the food security of the world. (3/92)

[Assistant] 4 While the previous thread looked at theory what I want to stress here is that the sociology or psychology applied is less important than understanding the simple reality: and that understanding the simple reality renders most of the research undertaken on the causes of the Holodomor  (4/92)


[User] Jealous!

[Assistant] Cannot wait to take a trip on the new route!

[User] It’ll do wonders for the region - can’t wait til it’s in service! 😁

[Assistant] What day is it starting?


[User]
“The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell.
             Unfortunately, we don’t have that kind of time…”

[Assistant] It's an incredible couple of lines, isn't it?

[User] Yes (among many others): he seems good at abrupt shifts and juxtapositions…

[Assistant] Exactly. Which leaves so much space to bring your own experience in to co-create the poem!


[User]
Today its a shoutout to leotards past - starting with Florida.

Maria Anz in 1984 - Maria was Florida's first individual NCAA champion. She gave up her last year of eligibility to act in American Anthem.

[Assistant] Lana Marty in 1983 in a sunburst leotard. Lana was an All-American on the vault.

[User] Pam Titus in 1991 was the first NCAA gymnast to receive a perfect 10 on floor. Pam was a 3 time All-American from New York.

[Assistant] More sunshine themes from Elfi Schlegel in 1985. Elfi was a 4 time SEC champion and 6 time All-American.


[User]
Foul Days - Soellbindingly Good!
#bookreview

@gen-dimova.bsky.social

thelittlecorner.home.blog/2024/11/27/f...

[Assistant] Just got a library copy, very excited to read!

[User] It is so good! 😊

[Assistant] *Spellbindingly good! Don’t know why I missed that. Ugh!


[User] For a #firstgen law student and accidental law professor, academia is a strange (but wonderful) place. I now realize I spent way too much time focused on what a law professor was supposed to look, talk, and be like. (1/4)

[Assistant] I took the advice of folks who pulled me to the side to say don’t dress, act, move, or speak “that” way. Folks who meant well because (unfortunately) in the #lawschool white space, being your whole Black self often challenges the status quo in ways that can hurt a career. (2/4)

[User] In the more recent of the last ten years, I’ve learned that #authenticity in my teaching, scholarship, and being is what’s best for me, my students, and any institution I’m associated with. And if my authentic self isn’t invited and welcome, I can’t come. (3/4)

[Assistant] My first to recent faculty photos tell a story of a slow rebellion:a tan suit,print v-neck blouse,bright pink lip, braids,nose ring. These seemingly insignificant rebellions gave me the confidence to bring more of my authentic self in.And ain’t no going back! #TBT #thankful (4/4)


[User] I've found Joanne is very approachable. And lovely to talk to. Do ask if you want to know more about the novella submission.

[Assistant] Thanks for this! I was losing serious sleep last night wondering if there were people in my circle on here that I could ask about that sort of thing. I'm not prepared for this round by a long shot, but in my experience even finding a good person to ask can be a time-consuming frustration process. 😅

[User] *waves* happy to de-mistify the process if I can!

[Assistant] You are also lovely to talk to ♡


[User] I've seen this going around and want to try answering these too! 💙🤍


[User]
In a situation where Tohya lost his memory, Kohaku wouldn't just steal Masanori from him. It wouldn't be a fair fight, and if his memories came back, things would get too messy...

He would help Masanori get Tohya's memories back, despite selfishly wanting Masanori to himself.

[Assistant]
(This is a partial reaction to Azalea's thoughts... it's the kind of reaction where the love rival gets annoyed.)

"Are you okay with how things are? If somebody steals Iseki-san from you, then you would certainly regret it, right? You better try a bit harder to remember, Ebata-san."

[User] (Kohaku doesn't call Masanori in a familiar manner directly to others, but doesn't show friendliness towards Tohya on purpose... a difference in how the -san feels.)

[Assistant] I was too embarrassed to post it on Twitter, so I'll hide it here. (Sorry if this imposes on the image a bit, but doesn't it seem juicy? I like this sort of thing as well~)


[User] From March 2025, up to 500 Renault 5 (and later Renault 4) electric cars - the first European mass-produced vehicles capable of bi-directional AC charging - will be deployed as part of the MyWheels car-sharing fleet in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ⚡♻🔋🔌🚗

[Assistant]
In this case, seeing is believing is an appropriate adage. For the past 10 years, this similar announcement has come in various forms.
Bottom line: AC bidirectional charging isn't that easy, the vehicles weren't ready, they (probably) are now. It'd be great to see this project come to life.

[User] It'll be a great milestone when the project goes live next year. The 'world's largest bidirectional car sharing fleet' and the 'world's first bidirectional city' have been on the moving horizon for almost a decade.

[Assistant] The city would have done well to focus more on readily available, smart (unidirectional) charging for all over the past decade. A more expensive 'V2G-ready' public charging infrastructure was procured, which may never be used for V2G in its lifetime, as this fleet will use its own stations.


[User] Computers cause me so much stress. Nothing fucking works. Shit design everywhere.

[Assistant]
What about printers 😄🤣🤣🤣

God damn they suck.

[User] Most of my grumbles originate from UX being subsumed into 'product design' (to save staff budget), which means there's usually an impact on the experience as a user, as they're trying to do more but with fewer skilled people. Grrrr.

[Assistant] Eeeek. I've a brand new Canon Pro 200 printer upstairs hanging over me like a 'beware falling boulders' sign. I'm told photo printing isn't as terrifying as it sounds, but my swear jar may suggest otherwise.

[User] Photo printers are deffo better behaved than networked office printers 😄

[Assistant] This is good to hear Gary, and I must say our current at-home Brother desktop printer's been charm too!

[User] (Just in case it's listening over wi-fi)

[Assistant]
If your computer worked ... how could they convince you to replace it?

There must always be increasing inconvenience ... enhanced  by the next update if required.


[User] @shodoshan.bsky.social Hey, I'm looking at doing some prospective UX/UI design for a space-related project, would it be possible to ask you a few questions on the topic?

[Assistant] Yes,  of course.  Happy to answer whatever I can.

[User] Super, thanks so much. I'm looking at designing a mockup of a flexible UI mounted on an astronaut's suit sleeve. It's niche I appreciate, but wondering what sort of key data points they would need to monitor/view/access?

[Assistant] When I'm back in the office I'll grab you some links, but I'm really not your best source for secondary research because I don't work with human spaceflight - I work with human-robot teaming. I'll put you in touch with some people who know more.


[User]
“Bernie would have won” people will automatically be blocked by me on here.

Plz do not go into MY comments talking about a 83 year old who had a heart attack should run again but a BW who has the 3rd highest vote total should not.

You can kiss my ass.

[Assistant] It has been 8 years & time (along with other factors) is not on his side. Why can’t they move on & stop annoying tf out of the rest of us?

[User]
Bernie has his own cult of socialists and communists that hate liberals and wants to see the world burn down.

He is the other side of the coin.

[Assistant]
“He is the other side of the coin.”

This. Absolutely.


[User]
I've changed my mind about the truck. I'm going to walk him home on a leash. ~5 miles, it'll be less work than hauling 100 square bales, and by the time we get here he will know this is home and I'm the lead dog.
Not so hot today. Safe to walk. 80° now.

[Assistant] Well now I didn't see this coming. Walking on a slack leash like we've done this all our lives.

[User] Cooling his heels in the barnyard shade.

[Assistant]
Well, this isn't exactly working out as planned...
I put him in the pen on the edge of the yard and came in for a drink. Just walked 5 miles in the sun, y'know.
And he jumped out of the pen, and was running around my house looking. For me.
So I opened the back yard gate.


[User] it's so strange to me when people at work will sanitize a shared space but not mask. what are you hoping to accomplish here.

[Assistant] you aren't gonna get sick from a computer someone else touched yesterday you're gonna get sick from the person breathing on you for hours.

[User] idk I just feel like almost five years into a pandemic we should probably have some understanding of how germs work?

[Assistant] My doctor’s office is back to separating clean and dirty pens, but I’m still the only person masking when I go 🥴

[User] I work in a literal primary care clinic and nearly everyone wears a mask with patients, thank goodness, but not in our shared offices? Where there’s like 5-10 people in a small space for hours? What exactly is the difference for them, I often wonder.

[Assistant] For me, bc we work at a non profit, it feels like they will mask to protect those who they see as vulnerable but don’t see themselves or their coworkers as potentially vulnerable which feels quite icky.


[User] I live on a college campus and the rainbow flag I fly in my yard has been stolen approximately a dozen times (seriously) in the last few years. The most recent theft involved them ripping the flagpole right off our front door frame. They see it as an affront.

[Assistant] Those boys feel entitled to controlling my front yard. To them, it’s an attack. Their whole “don’t tread on me” and “stand your ground” doesn’t apply when you’re flying a rainbow flag, I guess.

[User] Wow, what a pain! On the flip side, my neighbor kept getting his Trump sign stolen so he put a massive banner in the yard as a flex. Now it is decorated for the holidays so we get to stare at that for the rest of the year, I’m guessing.

[Assistant] I don’t think anyone should steal anyone else’s signs (unless they express hate) so I admire this guy’s pettiness. I am also petty. He’s like the Bizarro Amanda 😂

[User] Agreed. He’s definitely the Bizarro Amanda haha!

[Assistant] have you considered electrifying the flagpole?


[User]
Go to Walmart and see the hordes of unwashed, uneducated slobs walking around in their tattered pajamas loading up their carts with pizza bites and pork rinds, paying with EBT cards because they won't even think of getting a job...

They vote for Trump because "socialism."

[Assistant]
My Maga mother...

I was raised on socialism. The only meal I got daily was my free lunch at school.

She gets food stamps, wic, etc.

Her income is SS, reverse mortgage on her father's inherited paid off home and 750 cash from the state because of the baby.

I finally booted her from my life.

[User] How awful. Sorry you had to go through that.

[Assistant]
Oh, that's very kind, thank you. :) I'm ok. It was just meant to illustrate their mind bending "screwedup-ed-ness"

There were good things, too. :)


[User] Labour and openness is always an unpopular topic. And yet, to me, it is perhaps the most important aspect to operating under capital.

[Assistant] It's something I try to always bear in mind w/r/t open source especially the cost of labour. Open developers need to eat.

[User] Labour costs are often under accounted for, and that gives me heebie geebies for a sustainable open ecosystem, particularly with regards to organisations having autonomy.

[Assistant] It's also something easy to forget like when I'm blithely telling people to just spin up services on their own server.


[User] I interviewed @rebeccanagle.bsky.social about her new book, By The Fire We Carry, what Native people will be up against under Donald Trump, and the histories people in the US need to understand if they hope to create a just future.

[User] This is a very good interview and I will read @rebeccanagle.bsky.social new book. I recall the attacks on Native People's in the last "regime."

[Assistant] In The Dawn of Everything by Graeber + Wengrow, the early chapters lay out that it was Native American philosophy that influenced the "great" freedom philosophers of Europe, eventually leading to Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité.


[User]
Good morning #Findom🖤

I'm feeling much better today, and headed out shopping later🛍🎀🎁

My birthday is this week so let's not forget worship is not just an act, but a lifestyle, and today is another opportunity to lay everything at my feet.

throne.com/goddessofthe...

[Assistant] Good morning 😘 I am glad you are feeling better 💗 enjoy shopping 🛍

[User]
Good morning, my Goddess 😊
Have a great day 😁

[Assistant] Thank you!

[User] Good morning gorgeous! Have a great day shopping! 💋💖

[Assistant] Thank you lovely 🥰 how is your day going so far? 💋


[User] Baseball has always (in my life)  had financial inequality, but damn is it now broken.

[Assistant] It’s pretty bad. There’s no way the players themselves can look around and think any of this is right or even good for the sport they love.

[User] Counterpoint: Baseball (in my life) has always been broken and needed salary caps.

[Assistant]
No argument, it’s just feels worse now. Which is astounding after the 90’s early 00’s Yankees.

Also a salary floor is needed.


[User] It's that time of year when I fantasise about being an appropriator-in-residence at Hallmark Cards. A thread 1/🧵

[Assistant] Wordplay and poor taste was always a key component. 2/

[User] And of course, pop culture and topical issues informed my choices, year on year.

[Assistant] The quality of 'appropriated' source content affected quality.

[User] Seasonal greens and reds are a 'must'.

[Assistant] And when I got extremely lazy.

[User] Some juxtapositions worked better than others.

[Assistant] And finally, when I really put my mind to it.


[User] are we clowning for a drop after the countdown or a drop 1 hour after the countdown?

[Assistant] Clowning for signed stuff 🫶

[User] thatd be just as great!!!


[User]
Maga Threatens To CUT Federal Aid For Blue States
YouTube video by Tennessee Brando

www.youtube.com/watch?v=twiL...

[Assistant] Tell me something that isn’t going to happen. He needs congress for this.

[User]
Past dictators, from Caesar on, always dissolved or neutralized the congress or senate of their countries. They do this to gain absolute power & all of the money.

I'm not saying this to scare anyone, I'm just stating what could happen.

This is just my warning against complacency, stay vigilant!

[Assistant] I don’t think it will be that easy, but we will see.


[User] Alherion sketch cause I don't have the patience to paint this year.

[Assistant] I love this! It might not be painted, but your progress still shines through & I love the evocative motif ♥

[User] Thank you! I didn't know what to think about it, but I adored the sketch and had left it without attention for a year, so it deserved to be seen at some point! I'd like to get back at painting soon though when the art block ends!

[Assistant] I have faith you'll do so!! I think the idea was creative and executed well, so I'll be eager to see it painted, too ♥


[User]
CW: abuse/neglect

It has just been in the last four years that I have begun to use the word “abuse” when discussing aspects of my life. The word always felt too big.

But then I think about if my siblings did to their children what happened to us, I would riot.

[Assistant]
As a rule, I used humor to cope and so mostly I view my childhood through a sitcom-style lens. So the things that happened were always shared with a dark sense of humor and a “this didn’t hurt me” attitude.

But similarly to Kevin Can F**k Himself, the cameras change and the pain is real.

[User]
The thing is, as an adult, you revisit your childhood memories and can now see them in the context of the larger world.

You can now understand how and where your experiences fit in the larger scheme.

[Assistant]
I have lived an extraordinary life. I have been blessed with so many incredible opportunities.

But I also grew up under a blanket of anxiety and uncertainty. I struggle to call a spade a spade ♠ and so that has been the work.

[User]
The work is not trying to cut the pain by counterbalancing with the good things in my life.

The work is not dismissing the real harm done to me just because I was also given extravagant gifts.

The work is actually feeling the feelings I buried under laughter for years.

[Assistant] So for those of us who look back and realize what we lived through was bigger or harder or worse than we thought, may we take a moment to not compare, but to feel, to heal, and to give ourselves the space to acknowledge the pain and (sometimes) the humor and absurdity of it all.

[User]
One of the harder things for me was realizing how many types of abuse there are, and how they manifest.

People hear abuse, and they often jump to sexual or physical. They need to see it as this overt violation, when it’s often hundreds of small things over time.

[Assistant]
For instance: the abuse I suffered MOST OFTEN was financial/economic abuse.

And for that one? There’s not much law to prevent it or help it.

So people don’t say “that was abuse” because it doesn’t fit into the big two categories in their minds.


[User] Sorry, no.

[Assistant] THEM EARS THO 💀

[User] If he had a black feather in his nose he could fly. Fucking ears probably pick up 5g frequency. He’s such a bastard.

[Assistant] Were it anyone else stating this, I'd declare it a defeatist attitude. Alas.


[User]
Another one for Anaesthetic and Surgical colleagues

Why do ‘needle-phobic’ patients, have tattoos and piercings, but no veins?

[Assistant] I'm not needle phobic, I do have tattoos and I have several chronic health conditions necessitating regular blood tests. Also, apparently, difficult veins. Sometimes they try both arms and end up going in my hand. Not fun for anyone.

[User] Sorry you have to experience that, I'm glad you don't have needle phobia on top of those issues.

[Assistant] It's fine, I just feel sorry for the nurse, especially if it's a training one. Sometimes they get in a right flap and I'm there trying to smile encouragement and say it's ok, it's my veins, not you, whilst also trying not to faint 😂

[User] I have “difficult veins” too. I’ve even been asked to go and have glass of water then have a quick run around outside then come back in so they can get the blood more easily.

[Assistant] I always drink a pint of water beforehand but sometimes my veins just nope it.

[User] I had a blood test last week. The nurse was moving the needle about once it was in my arm to try to get it in the vein. I’m not particularly squeamish but I wasn’t very happy. They did manage to take 4 quite big syringes worth in the end. I needed a lie down when I got home.

[Assistant] IV drug users can be handy because they tend to be able to show you a good vein they’ve been saving.

[User]
I'm fine with needles except in veins. Joint injections, vaccinations, (no tatts yet) all fine.

My veins look great but collapse if stabbed due to 1980s childhood medical trauma. Nurse-mum said don't give 6yr old GA-veteran me vallergan cos agitation, MrAnaesthetist ignored Mum & got stab happy.

[Assistant]
I can't be cannulated while conscious, the next 30+ GAs were fun and it took many years for my amazing GPs to work out how to get blood out of me (do it fast).

I'm v relieved medics have got much more careful with children and traumatic things. It was v much an 80s attitude that did die out.


[User]
10 wins is the most common result in basho immediately following ozeki promotion (over the past quarter century)

#sumo #相撲

[Assistant] I've forgotten what Onosato got now....9?

[User]
9.

Some of the "he was overhyped" talk is itself overhyped. He was a bit overhyped but that's because some people were saying he'd be Yokozuna by Tuesday. He got 9 while still learning on the job against the toughest opponents they could find for him.

[Assistant] Yeah, 9 was fine imo - it's not stellar stuff but a perfectly respectable score after the high of a yusho and promotion. He will need to do better, of course, but i think he can and will.


[User] Sometimes I wonder if I’m actually a bot.

[Assistant] I’d confirm you’re not, but I might be a bot too.

[User] I’d confirm you’re not, but then we’d be trapped in a recursive loop.

[Assistant] And then where would we be?


[User] Happy Thanksgiving Eve!! 🦃😂

[Assistant] Says she who just made a delicious cake! 🤔🤔🤔

[User] I’ll just stay off the scale completely! 🤣😘

[Assistant]
Happy thanksgiving eve Justine. Thanks for the very thoughtful and important advice 😂😂
Have a great day 🤗♥

[User] Anything I can do to help! 🤭 Hope you have a beautiful day Lisa! 🤗💜

[Assistant] Good Morning Lisa❤. I hope you have Pleasant Thanksgiving.

[User] Happy Hump day to you Justine🥰. I hope you are having a good day.

[Assistant] So far so good. Gonna be a busy one so should go by in a blink. Have a good day Mike! 🤗

[User] I have to take Gracie (nugget) to the vet for a vaccine shot this morning. And then start prepping for Thanksgiving under Dee’s direction.

[Assistant] Well that sounds like excitement all the way around. 🤣🤣 Hope it all goes smoothly! 🤞

[User]
I might just throw my scale away altogether!

Have a great day, Justine! 🤗💛

[Assistant] Very sound advice! 😂 Thanks Pam and I hope you do too!! 🤗💜


[User]
The player character from my indie game.

Its name is “Naiad” and means “to flow”. In ancient mythology, a naiad is an aquatic nymph who presides over fountains, wells, springs, streams and other bodies of fresh water.

[Assistant] the little wave 🥰

[User] Naked and free 😌

[Assistant] this looks so great. i love the drifting limbs and all the bubbles!


[User] A quick update on shelter and inflation: Goldman Sachs has a new research note on new rental rates, as opposed to the BLS rent measure, which is dominated by leases signed some time ago. They say that new rentals now rising ~3% annual: 1/

[Assistant] If "true" shelter inflation — as a measure of overheating, not cost of living — is only 3%, that matters a lot. Median inflation tends to be very close to shelter inflation, so that measure is also now ~3% 2/

[User] Conventional core, excluding food and energy, rose at a 6% rate over the past 3 months, driven by shelter at 8%. But if shelter, which is 40% of core, is "really" 3%, that means true core is ~4% 3/

[Assistant] We're still running well above the Fed's 2 percent target, but nearly as much as standard measures say. And if, as many believe, there's still a lot of disinflation in the pipeline ... 4/


[User] Does anyone still do this?

[Assistant]
Ha. Hasn’t been me for “xyz years.”

But I wonder, too, if it’s the same today as back in the day.

[User] I'm in the kitchen and making sure the kids are chill.

[Assistant] Did some good prep at the crack of dawn, too. But gonna get a quick cardio session in at gym this morning before deep diving in the kitchen.


[User] One of the things I really like about fastmail is the ability to create unlimited email aliases. I'm getting more and more aggressive about creating per-service email addresses for anything that gives me even the slightest pause in terms of privacy. I have 30+ addresses so far.

[Assistant] They have an anonymous email alias generator now that's just a random concatenation of words. I've started using that for stuff, especially sites I have to sign up for that I don't trust at all.

[User] You could always just sign up with the company name as your email (HomeDepot@yourdomain, scamsite@yourdomain). Same low amount of thought required, but it makes it easy to track which site in particular sold your address to which scammer.

[Assistant] Yeah, that's what I'd be doing if I used a personal domain for email, but I've not gone down that path for several reasons and I'm just using at fastmail dot com for most of my addresses.


[User] My favorite part of the campaign was the “weird” phase.

[Assistant] And the reason for that is because it ostracized them and they HATED it. It really got them in a tizzy. No one wants to be the creepy weirdo, especially men.

[User]
The best way to deal with these folks is to isolate them. Hammer home that what they believe and how they act is not acceptable to sane, humane society. You see how they’re reacting to people leaving X and family cutting (allegedly) them off.

“Weird” did that.

[Assistant]
I’m going to be surrounded by these folks for years because of where I live.

They will be ignored. Don’t ask me for directions. Don’t ask me shit.

It sounds silly and elementary but something has to be done.


[User]
@jaspersharp.bsky.social, what's the betting that the author of this (which is all he has to say about it) barely watched even a second of it?

"Splatterfest Exhumed (Jasper Sharp, 2024) (HD; 1:20:01) is another engaging piece, with Jasper Sharp reminiscing about his obsession with graphic horror."

[Assistant] Yeah, in my day this kind of thing might have been considered a minimum requirement for a film reviewer!

[User] My favourite "reviewer" self-own was a guy who reviewed - as in passed critical judgement on - an extra that didn't actually exist; it had been announced but cancelled at the last minute thanks to interviewee ill-health. There's no coming back from that, and he was duly struck off the freebie list.

[Assistant] And while I'm used to "reviewers" who've blatantly only listened to the first few minutes of a commentary, the guy who misgendered Samm Deighan clearly hadn't listened to even a few seconds!


[User] A lot of European social democratic and socialist parties did a lot of good things in the interwar years - to the point where conservatives, etc. were literally up in arms - and even had proper armed paramilitaries, and still lost - squibbed it, rather, sadly.

[Assistant] Partly/largely because the old institutional guardrails that contained anti-democratic forces barely existed, or were eaten away quite deliberately by a variety of factors.

[User] Which countries which had internal fascist uprisings (as opposed to being aided by Germany and Italy) are you talking about? The most obvious example in Germany doesn’t give you a great example of socialism pre Hitler…

[Assistant] Austria and Red Vienna. A famous experiment in municipal socialism despite a hostile national government, who weren't above murdering protesters. Or eventually helping fascists into power - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_Re...; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austria....

[User] Try to get a book like Richard Cockett's Vienna in probably most bookshops for an introduction.

[Assistant] I’m very familiar with the example  but I’m unsure of your point. Red Vienna contradicts the idea that socialism can be a bulwark to fascism? I don’t really think there’s any way to test the counterfactual, or pretend Austrian nazism was distinct from what was happening in Germany.

[User]
The counterfactual would have probably involved the Austrian Communists coming close to power with quite a bit of bloodshed, perhaps.

Anyway, my point is partly that stopping the bottom falling out of society even more is probably going to be costly and time-consuming.

[Assistant] It might need higher taxes on not just people earning six figures-plus and broader corporation tax perhaps. All that could be easy prey for the kind of competent or charismatic demagogue we don't really have yet without strengthening our guardrails and institutions to ward them off in the meantime.


[User] You heard it here first, folks. According to Vivziepop, I can think that Homelander did nothing wrong and you’re the immature ones for thinking I’m dumb.

[Assistant] No offense but you're putting words into her mouth.

[User] She quite literally said “People can enjoy characters who do horrible things.”

[Assistant] That's a general statement, she didn't explicitly said "you can think this horrible character did nothing wrong."

[User]
I rewrote the tweet to elaborate better but my point is that she wrote a SEXUAL PREDATOR and went “you’re allowed to like him if you want”

…then what’s the fucking point then????

[Assistant]
I get what you're trying to say but if a villain I compelling enough that someone gets invested in a story to where they genuinely like said villain then i don't see the harm in that.

Yes there are weirdos who think a villain did nothing wrong but most sane individuals aren't that.


[User]
Stats for Fortnite Chapter 2 Remix:
(I enjoyed this season, can't wait for Chapter 6 and Chapter 1 again!)

also wow rare bluesky post!

[Assistant]
also, cause i haven't posted my stats of the previous seasons on here, here's a thread of all the stats i have ever had as they were only on twitter until now

the chapter 5's:

[User] the chapter 4's (minus season 1):

[Assistant] the rest (chapter 3 + chapter 4 season 1):


[User] Took off today because city closed and county has a half day… why would I not turn my alarm off? Why am I up?

[Assistant] Now I can’t decide whether I wanna roll, or get the piece I left in my car… but it’s cold and I slept naked. It’s too early for these kinds of decisions. 😩😩

[User] Beast that shit out and go get what U got in the car.

[Assistant] I definitely did as soon as I said that. It wasn’t even as cold as I anticipated.


[User]
“I voted for him cause egg prices”

Two years later: most birds are dead, the sky is burnt from our land war with Mexico, and milk has a 50/50 shot of making you poop until you die.

[Assistant] but… but her e…mails [dies on toilet]

[User] I pooped until I died once.  Back in 1972.

[Assistant] "At least we owned the liburls!"


[User] In between all the ongoing chaos, it's fun to just have a completely crazy story. I have so many; let me share one with you...

[Assistant]
A relative of mine told me this one just yesterday, and it concerns on of his best friends, who I'll nickname Buddy. Buddy has a wife, and is recovering well from a cancer diagnosis.
His wife is...a piece of work. Years ago, she ran off with a guy, stole the car and drained their bank account.

[User]
The car broke down, the money went away, and she went back to Buddy. And Buddy, being a kind person, took her back.
And she repaid him by feeding him antifreeze.

[Assistant] Buddy survived this, and didn't press charges. Which personally baffles me, but he continued to live with this extremely unsafe woman. Until very recently.

[User] Turns out while Buddy's wife is feckless, disloyal, selfish and homicidal, bright she ain't. A catfisher stumbled onto her and claimed to be none other than Johnny Depp. And she bought it, hook line and sinker. He asked for cash, which she gave him without question.

[Assistant] The catfisher then told Buddy's wife that he'd meet her at the local airport, and whisk her away to start their romantic adventures together. So she broke up with Buddy again and off she went, to meet her beloved Johnny Depp. But naturally, he wasn't there, and never showed.

[User] I gather airport security was pretty annoyed when she kept bothering airport staff, looking for Depp. She got pretty heated and violent. and ended up being put on involuntary hold in a ward. Buddy has finally, *finally* started divorce proceedings. Depp is unavailable for comment.

[Assistant] And part of me feels a little bad for the wife, for her instability and being conned. But she did rip off her husband and tried to unalive him, so there's that.


[User] A prediction: Labour will do to the ZEV Mandate what it did to the Clean Heat Market Mechanism and trim the fines (and maybe dilute targets). It'll slow the EV transition, but only marginally. The industry will welcome the compromise. Green groups will be furious. Labour will get zero credit.

[Assistant] Anyways, here's the latest story on it all. www.businessgreen.com/news/4383257...

[User] One additional thing is that the officials who are now working on getting cross-govt sign-off on this (again) & then the consultation are also the ones who were supposed to be working on regs needed to decarbonise HGVs. That work keeps getting delayed &...

[Assistant] ...just over five years until the phase out date for smaller diesel HGVs. Really need policy certainty on both these areas.


[User] the existential dread of loving music but feeling too old to do anything involving it.

[Assistant] i know it’s not true, right? i’m 25. i could learn something. involve myself. it’s not like i want to be famous, i just want to involve myself in a scene. be meaningful. helpful. but i feel old. i feel stupid.

[User] all my favorite musicians started young. always wanted it or did it as teenagers. applied themselves. cared. i spent so much time just trying to stay sane and keep my shit together. what am i good at? the internet?

[Assistant] i used to write. i used to make art. i made a couple songs in highschool. then i became crazy and what do i have to show for it? iv scars on the inside of my wrists and an inability to do the most basic tasks.

[User] i haven’t contacted my family since i moved because social interaction is exhausting. i haven’t left the house in a week. my spouse said if i want to spend my time focusing on making art i can, we don’t need me employed. yet i can barely brush my own teeth.

[Assistant] all being unemployed has shown me is that i can’t do anything. i can’t do anything for myself.


[User] We are standing on the shoulder of giants. Science builds on previous knowledge, but that knowledge must also be challenged and revised. /*thread*/

[Assistant] Lee and Yang were first to point out that left-right symmetry was not tested in weak interactions. They proposed and experiment implemented by Chien-Shiung Wu who confirmed this. Lee and Yang got the Nobel prize in 1957; Wu did not. One of the big mysteries of @NobelPrize .

[User] In 1957 Lee and Yang also pointed out that weak decays of hyperons - unstable baryons with a strange quark - were left-right asymmetric (Phys. Rev. 108 1645).

[Assistant] This "parity" asymmetry was parametrised by a quantity α, which was then measured by several experiments. The first by Cronin, who would later discover CP violation.

[User] In 2018 the knowledge of the α asymmetry for Λ baryons (composed of a strange quark, a down quark and an up quark) was 0.642±0.013, an average of 5 experiments run between 1963 and 1975.

[Assistant] Later in 2018, the BESIII experiment in Beijing revisited that, using pairs of a Λ baryon and a Λ̅ antibaryon produced in electron-positron collisions. https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.08917 .

[User] The world average is updated to be only this measurement.

[Assistant] This value new was quickly confirmed by the CLAS experiment at Jefferson Lab @JLab_News (though their value is somewhat in between).

[User]
This poses a problem: The value of the α asymmetry has been used as input by several measurements.
The @cerncourier writes: https://cerncourier.com/a/lambda-hyperon-anomaly-confirmed/

[Assistant] In particular the measurement of the polarisation of the Λb⁰ baryon (beauty, up, down) relies on it. The polarisation describes how the spin of a particle aligns  with the direction of the collision, an important test of how b quarks are produced in high-energy collisions.


[User] Frank McDonough: 27 November 1701. Anders Celsius was born in Uppsala, Sweden. In 1742, he  proposed the Centigrade temperature scale which was later renamed #Celsius in his honour.

[Assistant] When was it renamed? I remember calling it Centigrade.

[User] From Google! “In 1948 the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) decided to standardize several units of measurement, including the temperature scale. Since grade was in use as a unit (including centigrade), a new name was chosen for the temperature scale: Celsius.”

[Assistant] Ahh, right. I’m sure as a kid I could remember Michael Fish et al on the BBC still saying centigrade……


[User] Why oh why does no one do anything about it?

[Assistant] Because we have to give people trials in order to convict. And now he won’t face those charges until 2029, and that’s if we still have a viable court system by then.

[User] He’s had trials. Just not all of them.

[Assistant] He has not faced any trials for insurrection, that’s what this whole post is about.

[User] Correct. But this post is talking about him being “an adjudicated oath-breaking insurrectionist,” and he hasn’t faced those charges. Literally has not been adjudicated for insurrection. They kept that trial solidly in delay, now if he faces those charges it won’t be until 2029, under a new case.

[Assistant] Good point. Why does Laurence Tribe ignore it?


[User] 9am in Dallas. I live here and never heard it.

[Assistant] Songs with a time check and location always screamed he was reaching for cultural relevance.

[User] {Those are his best song tho imo}

[Assistant] And I get that for others but for me I never liked it.


[User] Sorting out a new way to approximate a budget for myself without needing to track every damn penny, and it's inspired by D&D spell slots.

[Assistant]
Buys $60 and up are "Big. I get 3 of those.

$21 to $59 are Medium. 5 of those.

$20 and lower are small. 7.

[User]
If I run out of Big I can split it into multiple Mediums. If I run out of Mediums I can split it across multiple Smalls.

Similarly, if I run out of Smalls, I can bump it up and burn a Medium, and if I run out of Mediums I can burn a big.

[Assistant] I seldom blow more than 100 to 150 at a time. Like, ever. I'm stingy once I see numbers that size. So this kinda limits me softly within an outer limit damage of $700 if I go truly apeshit. Otherwise, my usual splurging habits hit a wall before I can do anything too grievous.


[User] I keep forgetting every time how much deca ups my anxiety. Because it ramps up so slow I don't notice, until weeks after, when it is all out of my system, I can actually have the same negative thoughts without having to do breath work every hour to keep me from doing stupid things to numb myself.

[Assistant]
However, that was 10 weeks of no pain in my arthritic shoulders. Really worth something.

(Worth enough I am now including a tiny dose in my maintenance HRT.)

[User] What, you wanted some endless Happy Dom fantasy content? Not on this ride, babes. I always do full reality.

[Assistant]
OMG, writing "HRT" attracted a like and follow from someone affiliated with the transphobic fruit farm.

Blocked.

I should pre-emptively block the whole transphobe set.


[User] We must start working on mid terms and take power back in Congress!!

[Assistant] Hey Christy meet @bonniel55.bsky.social Hey, Bonnie, meet @ebutterfly6.bsky.social Christy. You two have something in common. #MidTerms 🥂💋

[User] Lisa, I love this connection! Thank you very much!! #MidTerms #BlueFriends 🥂🍻❣

[Assistant] You are very welcome Christy. I met Bonnie from @onestpress.bsky.social and we watch the news together and have attended some of the same live events. And from November 6th she has been been banging on the #MidTerms drums; saw your post and thought you two should meet! Great minds and all that.🥂💋


[User] Red Sox might be going hard after Max Fried but what other pieces do they have to actually compete? Does he really want to sign with a .500 team that's further East then Atlanta? Call me unconvinced.

[Assistant] I don't think it's crazy he might be back. A long shot but...

[User]
Apparently Buster hasn't made the move to bsky yet but he agrees with you re: the Red Sox...
x.com/Buster_ESPN/...


[User]
Good morning ❤

I’m pleased to announce that I’ve just 2 more things to buy and then Christmas shopping is finished 😁
I’ve just got to wrap it all up.

Happy hump day 😘😘

[Assistant] Way too organised😉

[User] I have a very busy December so I have to be 🤣

[Assistant]
Good morning Alyson ❤

Happy for you getting it done in good time. This cold set my shopping plans back 😩

Have a great day 😘😘

[User]
I must admit that I do quite a bit of it online.
I decide what I’m buying and check the prices. I then start looking at Black Friday deals and I’ve saved quite a bit on tech items.
I hope you are feeling better today 😘😘

[Assistant]
I thought about getting some online too, but if people want to exchange stuff, it’s more of a hassle for them. Hopefully l can get some done tomorrow or Friday.

I’m not much better, but at least the bad headache is gone, thank you 😘

[User]
Nothing worse than a bad headache ❤

I know my kids won’t want to return anything unless it’s faulty but I’d do that for them anyway.
Hopefully no ones wants to return anything 😁

[Assistant] As long as the kids are happy, that’s all that matters ❤


[User]
I'm about 95% sure I was thinking about an important email before I went to bed last night, but now I can't remember the details, so if you sent me an important email you might want to send a wee follow up.

It is winter and I am tired.

[Assistant] I might copy and paste this to an auto reply on my inbox. Even just the last part after the ‘so’.

[User] "I cannot be relied upon to remember all this stuff so please hassle me in a few days if this is something I actually need to deal with. Thank you."

[Assistant] I actually told someone yesterday: "If I haven't done this by Friday then let me know and don't be nice about it."

[User] No messin! I need reminders but I’m also a bit delicate, maybe mine could read “If I haven’t done this by Friday, send a polite reminder. If I haven’t done it by Monday, turn up at my door for a firm reminder but also bring biscuits.’

[Assistant] You had sent me your account no. and sort code. Just waiting for the security number.... 😁


[User] 🙈Would you take on the challenge of changing this soggy tot?🦕

[Assistant] Changing soggy butts isn’t much of a challenge. 😉

[User] *thinks to myself on how to make it more of a challenge*

[Assistant] I guess wiggly lil guys are harder to change for some people, as well as stinky lil guys.


[User] Hello Bluesky! I've left it long enough, so here's my introduction: I'm an early medievalist at Uni Cologne working on Latin vitae of trans monks. Aside from trans and queer history, I'm interested in Mediterranean connectivity in the Early Middle Ages, and in book/manuscript history.

[Assistant] I've heard it's ok to share old work if you're new to this app - here's a link to my most recent and most queer article (which, not unrelatedly, I'm also most proud of): a study of a queer monster and a trans Jesus side by side in a 9th century manuscript: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[User] Sometimes this app serves you exactly what you need to see 👹

[Assistant] Your research sounds fantastic!