[User] I think I am almost ready to shut the other account. I know I will lose a lot of photos from past devices but am okay with that. Prefer to live in the moment. Is it going to be difficult?

[Assistant] I've left mine to slowly rot.

[User] Maybe download an archive first from the other place before you shutter it. :)

[Assistant] Shouldn’t be Bec…there’s nothing over there you can’t find here. Oh hang on, yes there actually is!…KINDNESS & RESPECT. Make new memories😁👍🏻❤🐪

[User] Great advice.

[Assistant] You’re most welcome young grasshopper🤭❤🐪


[User] I forgot to go to BJ’s yesterday after my medical appointment to grab my donuts and I’m a little upset with myself now as a result.

[Assistant]
Is that like a punchcard?

10 BJ's a you get a dozen donuts?

[User] Thoughts and prayers to you in this trying time.

[Assistant] You forgot to go to BJs yesterday? You know that’ll make the Bear sad.


[User]
I had to call my patients insurance THREE times over the course of a month to get them to process a pre approval for her to see a liver transplant team.

When we say insurance companies are here to obstruct care, this is what we mean.

[Assistant] Project 2025 plans to privatize ALL of Medicare and if that happens the burden of prior authorizations will surge.

[User] Project 2025 plans to privatize ALL of Medicare and if that happens the burden of prior authorizations will surge.

[Assistant] Project 2025 plans to privatize ALL of Medicare and if that happens the burden of prior authorizations will surge.


[User] Still can't believe this tiny nRF52840 board I made actually works. Runs CircuitPython, Arduino sketches, or Rustlang. Bluetooth is awesome!

[Assistant] Working with the nRF52805 and Zephyr at the moment - or at least will be when our custom dev boards arrive - it’s a heck of a chip!

[User] Very nice! That sounds like a ton of fun!

[Assistant] OMG! That is tineeee! Where could we learn more about it?


[User] Not that it comes as a shock, but I’ve had some thoughts today about being wrong.

[Assistant] Bottom line: own your wrong. It's all good.

[User] The same people you might think would ridicule you will most likely be incredibly supportive.

[Assistant] But to throw your hands in the air and say “I FUCKED UP!” IS TOTALLY POSSIBLE. Not only that, but people will support your growth.

[User] (And no one would give a shit because it's Times Square)

[Assistant] 45, and a lot of people who support him would rather be liars than be wrong. Would rather run naked through Times Square than be wrong.

[User] It’s something you can own. Our president doesn’t seem to get that. Our president DETESTS being wrong.

[Assistant] What the HELL is so WRONG with being wrong? Being wrong and admitting it to yourself and to others is a measure of growth.

[User] It’s the base of a child's white lie. An adult ‘cover-story’. We'll do anything not to have to say those 3 dreaded words: I. Was. Wrong.

[Assistant] There is a terrible fear of wrong. A totally unfounded fear that starts EARLY. Admitting we’re wrong is the base of many a toddler tantrum.


[User]
When I was employed, Sunday blues used to crush me.

Now, every Sunday night feel like Christmas Eve.

Here's how I flipped the script (as an Entrepreneur)

(🧵 1/8)

[Assistant]
Three years ago, I was a consultant at BCG, a prestigious firm.

Every Sunday evening, I felt a heavy knot in my stomach.
Over time, I got used to it.
But this time, it felt heavier.

I hadn’t made the progress I wanted over the weekend.

(🧵 2/8)

[User]
It hit me hard.

I was working insane hours Monday through Friday.
Recovering from exhaustion on Saturday.
Stressing out on Sunday.
And then doing it all over again.

I was trading 7 days a week for a good salary.
Was it even worth it?

(🧵 3/8)

[Assistant]
I paused and asked myself:
When was I truly happy in my work?

I thought back to an internship at Glovo.
I was earning just €500 a month.
But those months were the most exciting of my professional life.

Why?

(🧵 4/8)

[User]
I was surrounded by a team driven by ambition and energy.
Oscar, Arnau, Ander, Guillermo.

The leadership team were only two years older than me.
Yet, they were building a unicorn from the ground up.

We were doing great things in a fun atmosphere.

(🧵 5/8)

[Assistant]
So when close friends invited me to join their entrepreneurial adventure, I didn’t hesitate.
I said YES.

Together, we co-founded Presti AI.

(🧵 6/8)

[User]
In doing so, I rediscovered what I loved at Glovo:

- The thrill of building something impactful
- The energy of a passionate team
- And the fun atmosphere that makes hard work enjoyable

I don’t work less—in fact, I work more.
But now, Sundays feel like Christmas Eve.

(🧵 7/8)

[Assistant]
Looking back, I’m 100% sure I made the right decision.
In my blog, I share the 5 reasons why employment sucks and entrepreneurship rocks (link below ⬇)

What’s stopping you from making your Sunday nights exciting?

(🧵 8/8)

[User]
I elaborate on the topic on my blog post on "5 Reasons Why I Quit My Job (And Why You Should Too)"

www.saadbencherif.com/2024/5-reaso...

[Assistant]
I love the way you put it "Sunday night feels like Christmas Eve". I can relate.

I can also relate to the Sunday blues. I definitely felt it in my last employed job.

Sunday blues should be taught as a red flag that something is not going well with your work/life.

[User]
So glad that it resonates for you too Gaël

And that you found your out the Sunday Blues 💪

[Assistant] It was the same for me. I hope I'll never have to do it again.

[User] Yes 😂 I'll have to come back to my blog article if one day I hesitate.

[Assistant] No better feeling that waking up everyday excited!


[User] what do you mean newjeans, loossemble and fromis_9 departed from their labels within the past 22hrs..

[Assistant] Hold on?!... also  Fromis_9??👀

[User] I was also shocked but not surprised .. I saw it coming since the release of "me now" they were poorly mistreated :<<

[Assistant] I don't know much of the group but it was obvious that the label didn't invest in them anymore because the group didn't bring much profits and the girls were already waiting their contract to expire then leave.


[User] sometimes people assume because of my vast extensive knowledge of x-men & sometimes batman that i read like. all superhero comics. i could not even tell you captain america's origin gun to my head. or any of the avengers. truthfully. i am so sorry y'all. i like what i like. i'm a bad superhero fan.

[Assistant]
every single comic x-men has ever put out since 1963? yes. i can do that.

captain america's love interests? um. uhhh. erm. idno. does he have any? i wouldn't ever be aware.

[User] Nah you just ARE an X-man. You think every x-man knows every superhero either? Naaaaaaaaah.

[Assistant] LOL SO TRUE WAIT ♡


[User] Sexpestery aside, Gr*gg W*ll*ce isn't exactly a talent anyone will miss. On MasterChef, he'd slightly rephrase whatever John Torode had JUST said. On Inside the Factory, we were there to behold the world's longest production line of Kit-Kats etc, not his astonished face. Tatty bye. Off you pop.

[Assistant]
I hated him on the factory show. Shouting and acting like a 10 year old, patronising everyone.

Won’t miss him.

[User] Never understood how he ended up being on the TV. There are plenty of genuinely entertaining food critics out there that have more charisma in their small toes.

[Assistant] A hideous man without talent, skill or ability; zero self awareness and an attention seeking nature. Atrocious.


[User]
Do first, be something later.

If you cannot do, you cannot be.

[Assistant] Productivity must also meet progress.

[User] Productivity must also meet progress, must meet results.

[Assistant] If the ends do not justify the means, the means do not matter.


[User] Good morning, and happy Friday, friends!🧡 Winter really is here.❄ The first snowflakes of the year were seen this morning with more on the way before lunch.😊 Was so cool to see flakes in Isabelle's window.😎 We dressed in "play in the snow" clothes rather than Kabuki's more...Breezy, suggestion. 🤭

[Assistant] Good morning and Happy Friday, Mark! I’m glad you are having a fun and cozy morning in the snow! ❄

[User] Thanks, and I'm hoping you're feeling a bit better today. 😉 Temps IRL here are like just below freezing, and while there's no snow it added to ACNH's ambiance this morning. 😇

[Assistant] Good morning & Happy Friday! 🤗


[User]
The feeling of impending doom is getting stronger and stronger.

I don't like it, I don't like being Right about this sort of thing.

[Assistant] you've not recently been stung by a Irukandji jellyfish?

[User]
i haven't been anywhere nearly exciting enough to come into contact with one, so, unfortunately, no...

I think it's my ASD spidysenses.

[Assistant] oh yeah i have that sense of impending doom too.


[User] Tell me you’re old without telling me you’re old.

[Assistant] Mine go off because I am anxious and depressed rather than old 😌

[User] I mean, that’s most of my pills too 😆

[Assistant] My reminder is at 4 PM but I still forget all the time.  😭


[User] We don’t talk enough about how anxiety around the effects of climate change is fueling this transnational turn away from granting asylum and towards retrograde punitive border policies.

[Assistant]
He had to apologize for being too frank but is the logic not a reliable predictor of policy across the West?

responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/10/26/j...

[User] Across countries, across parties, across seas and oceans we’re seeing a turn towards hard borders and deportation while efforts to arrest and reverse climate change flounder.

[Assistant] I think you're right about this but I suspect a lot of climate anxiety is still unconscious for many people. I suspect it's more about neoliberal and far right governments funneling all the money upwards and then pretending we're all in competition with refugees and migrants. It's scapegoating.


[User] Good morning from the very wise cat.

[Assistant] Morning George and Charlotte!

[User] Good morning today from Ezri, seen here watching the news. 😊😺😻

[Assistant] Good morning, beautiful Ezri. I hope the news didn't alarm you too much. 🐻🐱😻


[User] I'm trying to figure out how to entertain forest spirits that have taken to playing pranks and just goofing off with me. Meanwhile they fix one of my wife's crystal bracelets that broke lol. I love having them around but I don't want to be their only source of entertainment.

[Assistant] The white figure with a golden glow ran up behind me and when it did I felt a stick poke me in the back (my wife saw the spirit).

[User] The shadowy cat like one came around the corner into the basement and disappeared when I told it not now. Less than 5 minutes later I spotted it rushing at my leg like a cat trying to play with me just to disappear before making contact.

[Assistant] The final prank was that one of them turned off my monitor on my computer when I was using it. I heard the distinct click of the power button and had to turn it back on. I would think I'm crazy but everyone started noticing them at the same time after my ritual in the woods.


[User] I had a freak accident with a buggy today and my beautiful car now has a dent (and small scratch above the ridge). Car people, does this look fixable or am I stuck with it?

[Assistant] You want something called paintless dent repair. It's used by a lot of used car dealership to fluff up the little dents and dings before reselling.  www.dentwizard.com/service/pain...

[User] If you’re willing to get your hands dirty, paintless dent repair tools on Amazon. Lots of tutorials on YouTube. I’ve done it to fix bigger dents on my truck. 👍👍

[Assistant] That might be a husband task, but I’ll see if he’s up for it.


[User]
Men who refer to women as “females”. 🤮🤮
I mean, what would it cost you to just replace that word with ‘woman’ or ‘lady?’ Literally nothing.

[Assistant]
Those are incells
#R&B-E (report, block, don't engage)

[User]
...to use "woMAN/WoMEN" instead.

Pretty confusing.🤷♂

[Assistant]
...to use "woMAN/WoMEN" instead.

Pretty confusing.🤷♂


[User] Sleep isn’t happening after all so building a new Lego set it is!

[Assistant] Nice. My wife loves the floral Legos. TBF- she loves almost all legos. But I digress.

[User] Me and your wife:

[Assistant] I still haven't got me a flower one. Are they fun to build?


[User] Deaths in Paris by cars, trucks, motorcycles and bikes. It's not even close. Cars are deadly. Apparently the NYT missed the actual statistics.

[Assistant] You have such tiny trucks over there; if you had the giant asshole trucks and SUVs we have here, they would be a bigger factor.

[User] The SUVs are selling more and we voted earlier this year to triple the price of parking for them. I hope the next step is to ban the things and the murder of the cyclist probably helped sell it.

[Assistant] Yeah. They are all a problem. Plus we have those ridiculous Waymo robot cars are all over the place now too.

[User] I can't believe those Waymo cars are allowed. It's like making everyone on the street a guinea pig for some techbro asshole.

[Assistant] Other drivers scare me slightly, but not like those erratic rob o things. And they can be erratic at any given moment.


[User]
Wasn't feeling very well in the night and my baby came on laid on my chest and grabbed my finger with his paw 😭😭😭.

I feel like pets always know the when something is wrong.

[Assistant] I genuinely believe they do. Anytime I feel really shit, Iris comes running and being extra snuggly. Bless animals.

[User] Hope you get well soon! I’m also sick and my kitty is looking after me 🩷

[Assistant] They absolutely do! 💜

[User] Couldnt live without them 💙

[Assistant] They very much do nurse kitty!


[User] Agreed in full. I started knitting in February this year. It took me four days to figure out that you had to wrap to get the cast on to hold… Now I’m by no means “good” but I’ve got a few bits done.

[Assistant] And again I must stress that initially I didn’t understand how stitches work. But I’m lucky to have housing security and not have to work two jobs and stuff, which gives me time to work on gitting gud.

[User] (I should stress that I did not knit the child, just the hat.)

[Assistant] This is since FEBRUARY??? I've been working on a single pair of socks for a month and a half now wtf! You're really good!!


[User] My room parties where we watch shrinking media are going to start getting interesting, ‘cause like… I’m truly having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find things we haven’t watched before.

[Assistant] "i got a audio reading of a 1979 sci Fi serial comic and that's all we got tonight ok"

[User] I wish I could be there!

[Assistant] Time to start delving into finding video game boss fights/sections.

[User] It'll likely be new to me, so whatever you've got I'll be down to watch!

[Assistant] Incredible Shrinking Woman with Lily Tomlin?


[User] #GenHour  At the moment I'm looking at William Bunce and his wife Mary Ann who were in #Colnbrook in 1851 with a nurse child aged 3 who does not appear to be related (at the moment) The couple appear in Mitcham, Surrey in 1861 with the same child - described as a boarder. This needs some thought!

[Assistant] I have a "boarder" in my tree. It turned out he was living with his mother's sister, husband & family. I'm not sure why he wasn't described as "nephew", but he was illegitimate, so may be a reason?

[User] #GenHour Caroline Ann’s wedding has William Bunce as witness & father as Harry Hickman Bailey farmer. The birth place registered could be fiction as #Colnbrook was only a couple of hours away by train and the birth was registered 6 weeks after the event.

[Assistant] #GenHour Caroline Ann’s wedding has William Bunce as witness & father as Harry Hickman Bailey farmer. The birth place registered could be fiction as #Colnbrook was only a couple of hours away by train and the birth was registered 6 weeks after the event.


[User]
Portland streets will get makeovers as 'Healthy Business' program rolls out  https://bikeportland.org/2020/06/18/streets-will-get-makeovers-as-healthy-business-program-rolls-out-317325

- @PaddysPDX will take over a lane on SW Yamhill between Naito and 1st.

- @PBOTinfo has...

[Assistant] received over 350 permits so far.

[User] sorry. Meant to write PBOT has received over 350 APPLICATIONS for permits so far.

[Assistant] UPDATE: @PBOTinfo just confirmed they've issued 180 permits so far. 61 were for "priority pick-up zones" and most others were for small plazas using former parking spaces.


[User] 47% turnout in NS election.  We really need to get people out to vote!

[Assistant]
polls = propaganda & behaviour modification.
polls = owned by billionaires & are not statistically valid

these manipulated sets of "data" create the scenario in which
folks give up.
lying polls are treated as facts by MSM.
statistically illiterate believe them & stay home.
teach stats in school.

[User]
Nobody here wanted it. Nobody talked about it. Half the people I work with didn't even know one was going on.

When all your provincial options are pretty much useless in getting things done, most simply give up.

[Assistant] It is tough.  A snap election. No voting cards sent out.  I really had to look for coverage myself.  But if we give up and stop paying attention the politicians are given free reign to line their buddies pockets and leave us with no services.  We gotta let them know we’re watching!


[User] I have to be at work early tomorrow, it’s retail, I’m filled with dread, but I need the hours. I’m sure it will be fine. They’re giving us lunch. I’m sure I’ll survive whether I want to or not.

[Assistant] You're gonna kick it in the ass 💙

[User] Aww thanks.😊

[Assistant] Good luck. I never understood the Black Friday thing. I’d rather wait a week.


[User]
Given how this Election played out, I believe it is a duty of any ally for whoever must come to terms, so let me be the first.

I am a cishet man who is Brown and not White, but my privilege as a cishet man still exists.  Regardless, I am a flawed human being.

This shall be a thread

1/?

[Assistant]
Unfortunately, I still cannot make light of perverted jokes women tell 100% of the time.  I should be able to laugh at that as I would with any man, yet my man-brain takes that as an opportunity for sex.

I take responsibility for that misunderstanding, I will continue to learn better.

2/?

[User]
I still have the habit of staring at women even when I am driving.  I do not do this with men because I am not looking at his body the same way as a woman's.

I take responsibility for that grossness.  I will continue to learn to focus on my path instead of being a pervert

3/?

[Assistant]
In the past, I have made homophobic insults against straight men.  It is pathetic to challenge anybody's sexual orientation because of how I do not like them for being irritating to me in any way.

I take responsibility for that, and I will continue to learn to never belittle anybody.

4/?


[User] question for cozysky — are there any good cozy games to play on mobile these days? (apart from pocket camp. which also.. is complete worth it?? only played the free version awhile back). 🤔

[Assistant]
There's a big pocket camp community here. Might be worth it if you want to play online.

Not sure of others but a reddit recommends Two Dot and a diner game.

Here's the link with a lot of options from people

www.reddit.com/r/CozyGamers...

[User] I don’t play mobile games very much these days, but enjoyed Neko Atsume and Hungry Hearts Diner. They are both cozy in their own way.

[Assistant] thank you for these suggestions! ☺🙏🏼


[User] music.youtube.com/watch?v=sHVL... #LoreenaMcKennitt #Music The first song I ever heard by her. Still love it.

[Assistant] Still one of my favourite Artists.  Such a unique vision and musicianship!

[User] I LOVE HER.

[Assistant] For me, the first LMcK song I heard was "The Mummers' Dance", but this one has become the solid favourite. If she tours the UK again in the near future, I'll have to buy tickets at the very back, just so she'll never hear me singing along to it 😆


[User] Can you play a solo DND campaign? Or does it have to be with a team? Also are there any other die based games with a different setting?

[Assistant]
There's lots of solo options for roleplaying games, DnD isn't the one I'd recommend honestly.

If you're just starting out I'd say just go and take a look around and at what you like. How you'd imagine DnD isn't actually how it tends to play.

There's systems for literally anything you can imagine.

[User] Thanks for the advice!

[Assistant]
There are scripted CYOA game books out there.

It is actually better to play this way because you do not have any new players : talking over each other, hearing everything said out of game context and ( most importantly of all ) NOBODY REVEALS THE PLOT TWIST TOO EARLY .


[User] @habaneroofdoom.bsky.social Anyone who has Calvin as a profile pic gets a follow from me!👊🏿

[Assistant] That’s the spirit! Love C&H.

[User] There's a C&H exhibit currently going on at the University of Oregon. If I'd had more time there during an October visit, I would've gone for sure.

[Assistant] Oh that would have been amazing I’m sure. Sadly I’m on the other side of the planet so can’t just pop over to Oregon. I did love BW’s new book.

[User] Can you post a pic of the book? I haven't seen it.

[Assistant] Sure! It’s a short book but beautiful and poignant. And, obviously, not Calvin and Hobbes 😊


[User] @jrobb773.bsky.social I have found myself outside without a hat for the foreseeable future. 🤦🏻♀

[Assistant] [chants] hat! hat! hat!

[User] I used to keep one in the car before the dog took over the backseat. I gotta start doing that again.

[Assistant] I used to keep one in the car before the dog took over the backseat. I gotta start doing that again.


[User] oh, i should introduce myself. my name is shades. that isn't my real name, but i prefer going by shades anyway, so who's to say what a real name is or isn't. i'm 25, like the body. i use he/they/she/it pronouns interchangeably. i am nonbinary and genderqueer. i might be a lesbian, or bi if not.

[Assistant] cool! nice to meet you! you seem great! good to have you here :)

[User] thank you. it is nice to meet you too.

[Assistant] i realised i could change my real name to one i liked better, so now i use the name constance as well as shades. please feel free to call me either of those.


[User]
Slowly, the people at the village meeting turned to each other, open-mouthed in horror.

"Wait, is EVERYONE here an ethnographic researcher?"

[Assistant] See also - everyone at the activist meeting was a cop.

[User] Please tell me this was lifted from a Far Side clip!

[Assistant] I thought of it while reading some ethnographic research today, but it may not be original.

[User] Definitely meant it as a compliment. 😉

[Assistant] Man, I so wish this was an episode of...something--Parks and Rec? It's Always Sunny? Welcome Back, Kotter?


[User]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 1 to 3 ft expected. For the Gale Warning, west winds 20 to 25 kt with gust to 35 kt and waves 2 to 3 ft expected. *... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[Assistant]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 1 to 3 ft expected. For the Gale Warning, west winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 2 to 3 ft... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[User]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 30 kt and waves 1 to 3 ft expected. For the Gale Warning, west winds 20 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 2 to 3 ft... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[Assistant]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 1 to 4 ft. For the Gale Warning, west winds 15 to 25 kt with gusts up to 35 kt and waves 1 to 4 ft expected. *... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...


[User] Pre-match entertainment facing where there's no crowd.

[Assistant] They're still playing but most of the crowd has seen the back of them.

[User] And now they're setting up to present the cup facing away from the crowd 🤦♀

[Assistant] All facing the rich, indoor seats.


[User]
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Want to know why Masterchef was back on TV?
Why Farage in on Questiontime constantly?
Why Hugh Edwards was tolerated?
Why …. Insert own scandal here ….
Johnson’s handpicked rightwing men now run our BBC
No women.
Starmer can/ should sack them.

[Assistant] Re. MasterChef - it would be wrong for the finalists/winner to miss out on the publicity that they deserve as this is great for them to advance their careers. All episodes will have already been recorded.

[User] Getting the bbc out from under Tory control would be a big improvement. And why isn’t KS addressing this?

[Assistant] I agree, what is holding them back? Cast iron contracts maybe?


[Assistant] Please use alt text for images, someone of us don't want to see that piss-brained frog creature even in satirical form any more!

[User] I've got it. Very funny.

[Assistant] How did some smug blue blood called Nigel get so many followers?

[User] Leavis Carroll…nice 👍

[Assistant] Relatable. Send coffee. (Just kidding...mostly).


[User] Why y’all be posting yall nether regions on here so freely? I know you grown and can do what you want but idk yo. Just out there? Publicly? Like yall really dgaf? Not even for money or something?

[Assistant] Im tired of seeing straight cock on the TL 😒

[User] Are you black? We don’t use that term over here lol. It’s dick or penis. I almost blocked you 😭

[Assistant] Am I black? Is the sky blue? And You can call that mf a Tally Wacker if you want im tired of seeing that shit 😂


[User]
Happy Thanksgiving, Star Wars family ✨

Hope everyone has a great day!

MTFBWY! 💫

[Assistant] You, too, Jenna. Happy thanksgiving.

[User] Happy Thanksgiving!! MYFBWY too!!

[Assistant] Happy thanksgiving to you Jenna 🥰


[User] Ooooooo, I bet I know which CEOs are next!

[Assistant] That is so morally bankrupt!

[User]
They don't care if you live or die and serve no function except to take your money in exchange for roadblocks to care.

For profit medicine is inherently evil.

[Assistant] Wtf! So, basically people will wake up during the op?


[User] Today is Christmas Tree Day. I am hugely excited. It truly is the most wonderful time of the year.

[Assistant] Forget Mr. Potter, or Harry and Marv: Todd and Margo are the biggest villains in any Christmas movie.

[User] “Why is the floor wet Todd?” “I DON’T KNOW MARGOT!” Is one of my favourite dialogue exchanges of all time.

[Assistant] Who are you and what did you do with the real Chris.


[User]
Finally finished the last set of role quests for Dawntrail, and now that I've done them all I stand by my initial reaction of "...meh".

I miss actual job quests.

[Assistant] Same... I liked the shb role quests and feel like it worked for that expac but I wish they went back to job quests after...

[User] Big Same. Plus I miss seeing my quest buddies! Especially because many of them disappear from the world entirely once you're done. 🥺

[Assistant] Yeah, these were a miss for me. I enjoyed the Endwalker ones where we got to see what some older NPCs are up to. I just never really got invested in any of the NPCs involved in these side stories.

[User] ive only done tank and phys ranged dps so far but yeah while i find it more comedic than serious (in contrast to SHB/EW) i do feel that the story leaves more to be desired :')

[Assistant] Similar feeling, tbh, and I'd make the argument that role quests have only very rarely been about the actual role. The ones which worked, like ShB's, did so because they were good character studies - but they've never been a successful substitute for actual job quests, as you said. 😔

[User] I enjoyed learning a bit more about the people of Tural. The solo duties were personally a struggle though. I just wanted to get them over with.

[Assistant] I *wanted* to like them, but yeah. The execution fell flat for me.

[User] What bums me out the absolute most though is that I think they are trying to serve you "look, see! your wol is a mentor to new adventurers!" but for the reasons you've stated and because of (what feels to me like) a failure to adequately connect us with these new NPCs, it just Feels So So Bad.

[Assistant] What bums me out the absolute most though is that I think they are trying to serve you "look, see! your wol is a mentor to new adventurers!" but for the reasons you've stated and because of (what feels to me like) a failure to adequately connect us with these new NPCs, it just Feels So So Bad.

[User] I will say, though, that the melee quests *were* extremely funny to play on a character who's also from a culture of hunters (but who actually has the glasses he needs to see with something approaching decent vision). 😄

[Assistant] I'm going through the melee ones now & found myself going "Wow! It sounds like something really cool just happened! I can't wait - oh, it's already done? Offscreen? We're just going off to fight 3 kojin in the world's most obvious trap instead of seeing Yugiri & Hien be awesome? Ok, sure, I guess."


[User] The golf shoes I’ve been wanting are on sale. Aaaahhhhh!!!! To shop for myself or to shop for others! Christen’s Black Friday Dilemma.

[Assistant] Yay!!! Buy them! Buy them!

[User] Buy them - you can still buy for others!

[Assistant] Waterproof is important if you think you’ll be playing early in the morning, dealing with dew; otherwise, just go for comfort & style!


[User] Feel like I'm lost in crystallized despair, trapped in a pointless life. I'm glad my loved ones still love me but it increasingly feels absurd that they do.

[Assistant] Your brain may be lying to you. The do that I hear.

[User] I've heard this but have you considered that mine is Built Different.

[Assistant] There it goes again.


[User]
Oh! This made my day!

From phylloxera to French imperialism in Algeria there's so much to think about!
I don't mind a glass of "mousse" on the side 😇

[Assistant] It is an amazing advert, isn't it? I still cannot quite believe it exists!

[User] It also reminded me that paradoxically, Arabic has more than 70 words for "wine"!

[Assistant] It’s real? I feel like I’m hallucinating.


[User] #flowerfridayfamily #Photography 📷🌼

[Assistant] That’s a beautiful photo Jessie. 💗

[User] Thank you!

[Assistant] Good morning, Jessie. That's a gorgeous red rose!


[User] I don’t know what all the fuss is about- I think Jaguar’s new concept car looks great.

[Assistant] Not a Jag. It’s a Ford Fiesta.

[User] That's part of Jag's smart camo approach, instead of tape-masking the shape they just built an entirely different body.

[Assistant] The doily is an extra that costs £1000s more.


[User]
Bunny's Todo list for today:

-Workout BEFORE blood work
-Bloodwork at 11am
-Eat Food (can't eat before blood work)
-Make my new BSKY lists
-Update Steam and Twitch Profiles
-Work on the raffle art and a commission
-Be done in time for #AEWDynamite
-Only girl voice all day!

[Assistant] omg i have bloodwork today too! 🫶

[User] I want to get into AEW as an old WWE fan but I'm worried I'll be overwhelmed and confused! Could I ask you where to start? Or.. how?

[Assistant] I think part of the beauty of AEW is that you can start pretty much watching it from any point because it doesn't rely super heavily on the story. But once you start watching for a while, you start to notice that it is full of story, and you begin to get even more enjoyment out of it.


[User] This is very serious.

[Assistant] I already knew that if I was diagnosed with a neurodiversity, I could not expect treatment. I'm not surprised by more abdication, but still horrified.

[User] Oh joy, because my latest attempt to access talking therapies for the anxiety consequent to decades of almost certain undiagnosed ADHD has been so useless that I was going to ask them to put me in the damn waiting list rather than picking a counsellor off the BACP website.

[Assistant] I’m sorry. It’s appalling (fwiw I’d say get on the waiting list right now…)


[User] Sorry I can't answer work related emails today. The University email server says I don't exist, and has therefore sent me on a spiral of existential despair. It's only taken until Wednesday. A new record.

[Assistant] oh dear - glitches like that always unsettle me. When online tells me I don't exist, I kind of believe it. Hope the help desk can rescue you asap.

[User] Thank you. I don't know, I kind of like this purgatory. It was unsettling at first, but at least I don't need to work on an ethics application. Swings and roundabouts.

[Assistant]
Commendably robust. And it's only work email.
And from the point of view of academic philosophy, in a Berkleyian sort of way, you obviously can't work on ethics if you don't exist, because ethics doesn't exist. or not for you. till you do again.

[User] Sorry, it's too late, I've quoted you and cited you (incorrectly and with maximum bias). I now have a reference that ethics doesn't exist for me, and now I have to justify this position once I leave academic limbo.

[Assistant] Suggest you justify this as an instance of différance (Derrida) - the white space between your 'ethics' application before the email glitch and afterwards. The signifier has been deferred.


[User] It’s never “just bantz”.

[Assistant]
My initial feeling is, why didn’t the TV team, producers or senior people around, call him out, then and there.

I understand more junior runners, camera operators etc couldn’t. But there is always someone who overhears. They should say something. I also get the “power “of these people… 😡

[User] I am so sick of predatory behaviour in organisations being “an open secret”. Fucking call it out, guys.

[Assistant] Bang on. That phrase should be extinct. Had it in so many organisations I’ve worked around.


[User] Today at Thanksgiving I found out one of my older cousins was not born from a first relationship before marriage like I thought but actually a sidepiece affair 😵💫

[User] Let's just say Unc got real friendly on the church board...


[User] I haven't looked at a lot of OSR games, but the few that I've looked at do the thing I don't like and have Races be Classes. I know it is part of the old games they are building on, but I just don't like it. It honestly turns me off a lot of OSR games. That and how deadly they are meant to be.

[Assistant]
While it's common, race as class isn't a universal thing in OSR games. Even the current 'community standard' OSE has the Advanced Fantasy rules where they give you rules for splitting them back into two parts of the character.
The lethality is oversold a lot. Mostly the HP scale is just different.

[User] There are plenty of B/X-based OSR rules that have race separate from class. OSE Advanced Fantasy being the most well known at the moment.

[Assistant] The race-as-class can be thought as archetypes. I find it great because it makes it easier to make your own without having to worry about it applying to all races.

[User] Funny. The one I like most don’t have that problem. Cairn, Knave, ShadowDark. For 0DnD I’ testing race as background. Dwarf is a stone mason, hobbits are urchins, elves are academics. So all characters are human and can take any class.

[Assistant]
I find how many run and a subculture amount OSR fetishizing stuff like TPKS and a low level PC death cycles to be bigger issues than mechanics.

Also there's always house rules/rulings to adjust stuff. And the OSR folks who don't encourage those frankly don't remember/know what old DnD was like.

[User] Even B/X, which can be painfully deadly played absolutely Rules as Written, isn’t excessively deadly with max hp and 1st level and death at -10 hp.

[Assistant]
There are a wide variety of OSR games, but even the ones with Race as Class usually have alternate rules for splitting race and class (OSE Advanced has both options).

If race as class bugs you in DCC, I’d honestly just run it without the non-humans at all.

[User] The big draw of DCC isn’t the emulation of old school D&D, it’s the embrace of absolute insanity based on high or low rolls.

[Assistant] Really you've just been unlucky with the games you've looked at, very few use race-as-class and most of those that do have the option to change it.


[User] Chaos garden sweet potato grow bag gardening result- using here a 10 gallon grow bag w/flap, left pic shows I filled it to top, middle pic is haul from just that one bag. I found flap shown at right not very useful though for getting out potatoes. 🌱

[Assistant] So that’s one sweet potato?  I have the two gallon bags but it seems they’d never hold this.

[User] These are purple sweet potatoes & they grow ridiculously huge. Orange sweet potatoes may grow smaller, but I think your 2 gallon bags would better fit something else. I have a strawberry plant in a 1 gallon grow bag but it likes a container under the grow bag for watering from both above & below.

[Assistant] Looks great! I grew them in a big flowerpot. Delicious with herbage and Olive oil Baker in the oven.

[User] I also love that they are incredibly resilient and will grow in almost anything, anywhere - plus any cut vines can be put in water to be rooted and planted.  I started out with just ordinary sweet potatoes from the grocery store also, rather than using slips or seeds.

[Assistant] Yummy! Try air frying French fries!


[Assistant]
You can get anything you want🎶
At Alice's Restaurant 🎶🎶🎶

[User] 🎼 you can have anything you want, at Alices's restaurant 🎶

[Assistant] Excepting Alice...

[User] Maybe the best album ever.

[Assistant] I have this on vinyl. Played it earlier.


[User]
Ooo perfect! Lol

Drop the lock screen 🐃🌟

[Assistant] Who is this character? 👀

[Assistant]
It really depends on the day that I am having!

Drop your lock screen! 🥳🇩🇪


[User] I’m a born pantser. I’ve been trying to force myself to outline but those first drafts are not the same.

[Assistant] Pantser all day over here. Every outline is a battle.

[User] I always abandon the outline and then ignore it when I start actually writing.

[Assistant] I'm outlining currently and I can already feel myself gearing up to ignore it completely, but I keep thinking, "maybe this time"


[User]
58 Christmas cards have been addressed, signed, packed with pictures, and stamped.

Whew!

[Assistant] Ah -- the *other* person who still mails out hand-signed Christmas cards 😉 (Credit to you for not giving in to the 21st century!)

[User] But.....it's not the last minute yet.

[Assistant] We haven’t even taken pictures yet. I get worse and worse at this every year 🤣


[User] Morning Joe is now going on about “let’s not blow everything up” after they spent weeks talking about how Democrats should get a clue.  We lost by around 1% in a barrage of gaslighting with a woman of color as our candidate.  I say the “mandate” is that we are doing something right, not wrong.

[Assistant]
I stopped watching all talking heads on tv after the election.
Thanks for updating what is going on.
This just confirms that they have learned nothing and are more responsible for this mess that we are in,  than they will ever acknowledge.

[User]
This is the first time
I have watched since a few days after the election. I had to catch up on all the nominees, Kash Patel’s apology for 2000 Mules got me to turn it on.

[Assistant]
❣  It is important to stay tuned in.  Unfortunately,  my health right now, just does not allow for it. Currently watching "White Collar"  again showing on Netflix.

I have heard of 2000 Mules but not sure what it is about.  If Kash Patel is involved, it must be full of conspiracy theories, right❓


[User] Also acceptable are The Santa Clause, Nightmare Before Christmas, A Christmas Story or National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.

[Assistant] What about Christmas Chronicles? 🥺

[User] I don’t think I’ve ever seen it, add it to the list!

[Assistant]
Could we add A Christmas Carol (muppet version of course)???

I’m going whipped cream with my hot chocolate… you????


[User]
*watching a review of Back to the Future*

They think the Kal Kan is beans. I comment that brand doesn't exist anymore, or at least I don't think it does.

It's Whiskas now.  fascinating.

Awwww Why did I hold on to the memory of that?

[Assistant]
Well, I just watched some people react to the classic Indiana Jones trilogy.

And I just wonder if they just don't make movies like that anymore.

...I know even the modern Indiana Jones movies haven't measured up to the old ones either.

[User]
The comment I make in my head isn't entirely good.  "When is the last time anyone just had mindless fun?"

That's what I consider these movies now?  Mindless?

...I don't even know what kind of movies exist now other than remakes and the MCU.

[Assistant] And I KNOW they were intended to be mindless.


[User]
In a healthy functioning socialist democracy with a functioning public health service, i would be vocally in favour of assisted dying.
In this neoliberal hellscape where every element of our life is beholden to the interests of capital above all else, it feels horrifying.

[Assistant] Legit this might be my final push to leave the nhs. I can't be complicit in this any more.

[User] Consider a person with a life limiting illness weighing up a £1.5k per week nursing home and looking at (or being pressured to look at) their kids' potential inheritance. This suddenly doesn't look a lot like dignity or personal choice.

[Assistant] I think the alternative is horrifying.

[User] It's all horrifying, Linda. And I've seen many people die in pain, the current system is failing people on every level, and offering death as an alternative instead of making the rest of it less shit is, imho, evil.

[Assistant] I don't just want the rest of it to be made less shit. I want the choice to die.

[User] I'd argue that under this system,  people who wouldn't otherwise make that choice will be coerced into it because the alternative is so bad. If someone would prefer a hospice bed but there isn't one available so they choose death, it doesn't feel like an acceptable choice to me.

[Assistant] But what if my choice is that I want to die?


[User] Best albums folks, do you actually listen to each album all the way through?  Do you do it more than once?  Do you make notes/have a rubric of some sort?  What does everyone do???

[Assistant]
I usually listen to music while
I work, which is fine because it’s usually something I know. I don’t want to attempt to listen to two albums I don’t know while I work. Aside from that, how’s someone have the time and silence to listen to two whole albums?!

[User]
I usually listen to music while
I work, which is fine because it’s usually something I know. I don’t want to attempt to listen to two albums I don’t know while I work. Aside from that, how’s someone have the time and silence to listen to two whole albums?!

[Assistant] I listen to each at least once, but I usually know how I feel about an album after 3-4 songs.


[User]
Excellent piece from @simplicitly.bsky.social on the now published social housing tenant satisfaction measure and the enduring indifference of housing providers and, it seems, the regulator of social housing.
simplicitly.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/1...

[Assistant] Going to try and find time to be pragmatic about solutions, fear I let my frustration with it run away a little bit. I do feel like the new remit and powers should be put to use more, but overcoming the obstacle of featured landlords learning from the ones getting it right seems doable.

[User] Agree on the new remit, but it should maybe have been emphasised it would be seriously and boldly exercised from day 1. Still NHG getting a C3 is a start...

[Assistant] Yes, we're not alone in thinking a line should have been drawn from other conversations I've had but this worry about the C gradings affecting investors might be holding the Regulator's hand a little. Agree non-compliant gradings are good. "What do you have to do to get C4?" for another day.

[User] On the C4 - indeed!

[Assistant] Although perhaps it is telling that regulator talks of non-compliance on governance and economic standards but calls it serious failings on consumer.


[User] I had my cat Lobster for fifteen years. I got him as a kitten when I was in college. Today we said goodbye to him and I am so sad and unsure what to do now. Here's a photo from when he was last looking healthy and beautiful.

[Assistant] I’m so sorry Megan.

[User] Oh, I'm so sorry. What a beautiful kit. 😥

[Assistant] I’m sorry. Lobster is an incredible cat name and I love that he had so many years with you.


[User] i wish more black ppl were into psychedelics. the girls be too scared. i be like bitch you better come eat this, yo grummah wanna talk to you 🤣

[Assistant] i think that we all know the amount of trauma we as black ppl have waiting to confront us is immeasurable and that’s the reluctance. it makes sense. i’ve continuously faced a lot of sadness while taking psychedelics. it’s true.

[User] but i feel like when i look back i’ve always ultimately been empowered by these types of things. even my “bad” trips. i still gag at how i keep understanding some of my trips differently 5 years later.

[Assistant] but i feel like when i look back i’ve always ultimately been empowered by these types of things. even my “bad” trips. i still gag at how i keep understanding some of my trips differently years later.


[User]
Just posting this to say that today is mine and my partner's 21st anniversary and also we're not married and likely won't get married.

The relationship is the priority, not the label ❤

[Assistant] Congratulations! My partner and I were together just shy of 30 yrs. We never married but when you call each other “my heart’s true love”, you don’t need to.

[User] Congratulations!!!

[Assistant] Happy anniversary, y'all! ❤🥂


[User] "There are no “humanitarian zones” or “evacuation orders” in Gaza. There are land grabs, extermination and atrocities at industrial scale. It is time we drop all the euphemisms that help Israel shield itself from accountability and start calling what’s happening in Gaza what it is: a genocide."

[Assistant] This is war. Don’t start wars.

[User]
Israel started the war when it invaded Palestine more than 70 years ago. Also, war has rules, but as always, Zionists love war crimes.

I hope the ICC hangs Netanyahu and all other complicit war criminals, maybe Biden one day.

[Assistant]
Where is “Palestine” exactly ???

The corrupt ICC Judges and Khan will be lucky if they can afford food after they get sanctioned by the US.

[User] My family is in urgent need of your support. Please repost my latest post or donate if possible, so we can endure and protect what remains of our children in these difficult circumstances🙏🇵🇸

[Assistant] This is a very confusing paragraph . A little bit more understandable when I figured out its an opinion piece and he is also the CEO Action For Humanity, but still really weird to name them like something separate, then say “our”


[User]
Dad, a minute after explaining he watched a replay of Sunday’s Cowboys-Commanders game thinking it was happening today:

“Entropy is the decay of all systems into disorganization. It will happen to everything, even football.”

[Assistant] Sounds like something Euro Jym would say…

[User] He was on his fourth glass of wine *since we arrived*

[Assistant] But was it, “white. wine?”


[User]
We get to do our huge family Thanksgiving today but I’m really enjoying all your posts from yesterday.

Also I just have to shout out all the single moms doing the thing. It’s not easy. Note to self: give yourself grace.

[Assistant] Single dads do this too.🙂

[User]
And be good to yourself ❤
You deserve it !!👍

[Assistant] When I got divorced, we split the holidays. My ex got Thanksgiving with the kids and I got Christmas. Child 2 is here now, child 1 is arriving this morning. It's going to be a very good day.

[User]
Big shout out to single Mom’s working in retail, transportation, service industries today! They don’t get a four day weekend. They are too busy trying to keep their kiddos fed and a roof over their head!
Be kind today, people. Their job is incredibly hard.

[Assistant] When you see you have raised a good, happy, responsible human that contributes to making life better, you will know that all your sacrifice was worth. And you will catch up on your sleep😂


[User]
@spokenlikeageek.com, if you remind me later, I'll send along a code change for your "link card" BlueSky function which allows the actual image for that item to be posted, rather than the default website image.

Made adjustments last night on @fearlessfriday.com & this morning on @hogville.net.

[Assistant]
Clarifying a bit more: IF the image URL isn't included, it'll default back to the primary website image. Really simple change, but allows for custom images to be used. :)

Should also note image dimensions that should be used, as well (I believe 800x413 or 16:9 is recommended. Will test today)

[User] Great, thanks for that. Probably easiest to post the change as an issue here and I’ll apply it. github.com/williamsdb/p...

[Assistant] Hmm... looking at github.com/williamsdb/p..., I wonder if my change would address that issue.


[User]
Tinnitus is properly getting on my tits today >< 👂⏰
What I mean to say is... "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

[Assistant] Vyvanse gave me tinnitus. They asked me to clear it from my system, then try it again - it went away (relief), I went back on a low dose, it came back, they took me off it. I'm still getting the tinnitus though. Do you know why you have it?

[User]
Ugh, that sounds bloody awful, Jo.
Yes, mine was triggered by extreme work stress (I was sent to work / do sleepovers in a registered s3x offender/ pedo's house and the chronic fear triggered my Labyrinthitis/ chronic tinnitus) I've never been right since & my hearing is eroding.

[Assistant]
I did also abuse my hearing: throughout my teen years into early 20's, I roadied for Punk bands and spending every night down by the PA system WITHOUT hearing protection (while mis-using substances) is what first damaged my hearing.
I thought I was invincible.
Stress triggered it into being chronic.

[User] Ugh, that's all freaking hideous. We all did the band stuff, you're not alone.

[Assistant]
20yo me, standing at a Punk show, with my head leaning against the PA system after days without food or sleep: "This is great, I can't wait to party later"

40yo me, boards a busy train in the AM: "Can you lot keep it down? You're triggering my Misophonia! Aaahh." *cries* 😂


[User] One of my absolute favorites from @aspectedgay.bsky.social back from old pre-DT era. Xolotl was so gropeable that it couldn't be helped.

[Assistant] Some very hot miqos, and that lighting is just perfect 💙

[User] God, that is hot!

[Assistant] waking up to this... blessed...


[User] I’m going grocery shopping and I’m leaving my phone at home on purpose. I expect that to take a little over an hour.

[Assistant] Back in under an hour. Because of that walk, I learned that today is Albanian Independence Day.

[User] I wonder how Adil is doing.

[Assistant] I wonder how Adil is doing these days.


[User] Trying to re decide if 20F merits the cold weather army boots or if my more broken in and comfortable regular pair would work with thicker socks.

[Assistant] Broken in but 20f is too few degrees.

[User] Indeed. I will have to go with the winter ones. I know they can handle it. Of course because I don't wear them as often the tread is stiff.

[Assistant] When it gets that cold here, PNW, I bring yaktrax cause you never know when there will be a chance to wear pseudo crampons.


[User] China just banned rare mineral exports. Here is another place where critical minerals can be found ⬇

[Assistant] Send them to my house.

[User] In all the discarded electronics on earth.

[Assistant] It’s kinda like biomass, use our waste to produce energy.


[User] Today sees me venturing into the very centre of the second city…

[Assistant] …just like Cliff. May get a Brumburger.

[User] Debbie looks happy to be there 😂

[Assistant] Brumburger-induced acid indigestion, I expect...


[User] Watching the timeline become Westbrook fans in real time has been one of my most joyous experiences as a fan. Westbrook has always been awesome, one of the few players that you could never question his heart and effort every single night he laced em up.

[Assistant] Most players I hate, I hate because they're good and I resent respecting them. There are exceptions, like Embiid and any of the abusers, but for the most part its because they're good.

[User] I get it, and Westbrook was an especially good villain because he's got attitude on the court. I've always found him to be so much fun though, like the Rocky stuff was hilarious. Man never takes a play off, even between quarters.

[Assistant] I sure the same thing is happening in the group texts.


[User] Here's another one to block & report. Went over to their website to see what they were about. They talk about conservatism, authoritarianism & nationalism.

[Assistant] Yep, I saw it and I was like, "You're right with the acronym, NAH....."

[User] Yeah, they followed me and just the name made me suspicious.

[Assistant] Their website is super creepy. Got out of there fast.


[User]
Yesterday my flatmate sent along some questions to consider in reflection on 2020... thought I would share here, probably should have posted yesterday but whaWWWever.

Thread:

[Assistant]
What you miss from your life before 2020?
What things you are grateful not to have to deal with in 2020?
Reflect on your own personal response to the many situations in 2020: How did you feel?  How did that challenge or deepen what you believe?

[User]
What do you most value, perhaps unexpectedly, through all of this? What are you unsure of?

What “shadow” aspects of yourself did you have to confront or what aspects gave you trouble?
What shadow aspects did you see in others, and how did you respond?

[Assistant]
Who do you want to be? Envision your best life and your best self coming out of this.

Who are you going to be, moving forward?  What inner work might you need to do in order to get there?

That's it! I shared in hopes some of you will find this reflection helpful to you. 💕


[User] This is a great article and I have thoughts! First thought: it's often good to end a scene when a new thing has happened, even though it seems wrong. If Carmella announces she's pregnant, you should end the scene there, when though it feels you must play on.

[Assistant] Second thought: I like to cut back and forth between scenes. I would cut Jason's scene just before the fight with the boar, but then cut back to the fight with the boar.

[User] Yeah, I think the example would really benefit from having a second player character involved, either in that scene or off doing their own stuff. The challenge of RPGs isn't just drama, it's balancing time/attention/energy/story among multiple participants on the fly.

[Assistant] These are so good. Perhaps a "More ways to end things" is in order, with more sophisticated ways to play around with time, space, and focus.


[User] The optimal pricing of goods and services represents a fundamental economic problem wherein traditional supply-side analyses prove insufficient. Contemporary demand-side methodologies, particularly the Four-Point Price Sensitivity Model, enable precise calibration of the price points.

[Assistant]
This methodology employs four critical threshold queries:
1. Price point of quality disbelief (lower bound)
2. Price point of consideration elimination (upper bound)
3. Price point of perceived value (lower optimal)
4. Price point of marginal acceptance (upper optimal)

[User] The theoretical foundation rests upon behavioural economics principles: consumers maintain implicit price expectations that form psychological anchor points. These anchors create discrete threshold boundaries within which optimal pricing must necessarily exist to maximise revenue potential.

[Assistant] Critical insight: The intersection of these four data points reveals the "optimal price band" - not merely a single point but rather a range within which price elasticity demonstrates maximum efficiency. This enables dynamic pricing strategies while maintaining psychological congruence.


[User] Y'all, I just got done dining at an establishment that I haven't been to in several years, and I was very clearly reminded why that was. Debating on if I want to turn this experience into a thread or not...

[Assistant] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[User] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[Assistant] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[User] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[Assistant] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[User] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[Assistant] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[User] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.

[Assistant] 0/10. Can’t recommend this place less. If you’re considering eating here, just skip straight to disappointment and save yourself the time and money.


[User]
Final push for bipartisan PRESS Act
Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Director Seth Stern joined National Public Radio’s 1A to discuss the urgent need for the Senate to finally pass the bipartisan PRESS Act and protect journalist-source confidentiality.
Stern emphasized (1/6)

[Assistant]
that the PRESS Act is a bipartisan solution to a bipartisan problem — administrations from both political parties have come after journalists’ sources, as have local prosecutors and litigants in cases that have nothing to do with presidential politics.
“A subpoena is a subpoena. A contempt (2/6)

[User]
finding is a contempt finding, and jail is jail,” Stern explained. “And whether it's Donald Trump, Barack Obama, or somebody else who is coming after a journalist, the repercussions are the same."
He added that Trump, who recently called for Republicans to kill the PRESS Act, “should (3/6)

[Assistant]
consider that this is not only about the mainstream media, not only about the journalists that he personally dislikes. It's about all journalists, including journalists who benefit him by exposing the stories that he wants told."
Axios journalist Sara Fischer and former Fox and CBS (4/6)

[User]
journalist Catherine Herridge — who is currently appealing an order holding her in contempt of court for not burning a source — also joined the show.
Herridge, who has requested a conversation with Trump to explain why he should support the PRESS Act, explained that if she hadn't had a (5/6)

[Assistant]
credible pledge of confidentiality, she would never have been able to expose what she characterized as defects in the Russia collusion case.
You can listen to the full episode here.
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freedom.press/issues/final-pus… (6/6)


[User] Rereading some of those delicious 🍞 fics in the secret Santa 2022… oh how time flies... so many have changed 🥺🫠

[Assistant] I just have an insane thought... like... I have been wanting to do some 'gifts giving' for this Christmas, inspired by 🍊🐑... i guess if you want a little loaf of 🍞 from me (pls give me prompts) I might... try? to see what I can come up with? (it'll suck and no promise it'll arrive in time 🫣) but 🥹

[User] I'll give you a few words as prompts: mistletoe, chestnuts, mittens, wrapping paper 🥹

[Assistant] ooh so homey christmas-y vibe, thank you 🥹


[User]
Sucks having no appetite.
I've not eaten, and I'm not hungry. In fact I don't think I've felt genuinely hungry for over year now. Just self medding to induce food cravings, and forcing myself to eat.

[Assistant] Depression and lack of exercise?

[User] No, had some mystery thing since last August, no appetite and completely exhausted all the time. My GP tested me for loads of things but they can't find any cause. Life was actually going really well when it started, so not depression.

[Assistant]
I can only speak for my own situation. I'm having to work with my own MP's staff to sort my healthcare out and find the mythical GP who's nice to their patients and listens.

One reason I'm trying French, Spanish, Italian etc cooking is to spark creativity and interest.


[User]
When approaching the Steam Sale you must do so with purpose and must not make eye contact.

It can sense your desires, well your wishlist at least.

[Assistant] She got me gal!

[User] I nearly bought some Assassin’s Creed but I’m not a button smasher fighter, they just look pretty & historical.

[Assistant]
Loved Still Wakes the Deep!

Enjoy! :)


[User] I don’t have many followers, so this should be easy.

[Assistant]
Lucy and Linus

www.youtube.com/watch?v=00gX...

[User]
Town Called Malice by The Jam

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

[Assistant]
Caught Up in the Rapture by Anita Baker

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz-b...


[User]
GOOOD MORNING PARTY PEOPLEEEEEEE! It’s fridaaaaaay!
FRIYAAAAAAAY!
Hope you guys get some cool stuff on Black Friday sales, hope have a great day ahead!
Let’s do it! The weekend is on the horizon!

[Assistant] Good morning, what's going on?

[User] Good morning! I’m trying figured my Streamlabs for go live later, nothing much just doing some adjusts and making everything more nicer. What’s up? Plans for today? Enjoying the holiday?

[Assistant] Thanksgiving was not for me. I barely ate and watched a couple of movies and that was it.


[User] Mysty Mornyng! A day to be indoors writing about medieval #fairy encounters!

[Assistant] Not like that here, clear and nearly sunny.

[User] I’m often convinced of Earby’s liminality on days like these!!

[Assistant] Sun came out eventually.


[User]
Weather models are currently indicating strong wind gusts from Friday night, mainly through Saturday and slowly dying down into Monday.

Yellow weather warnings may be issued by the Met Office and a storm name will possibly be given. Next up would be Darragh.

Since Storm Conall was already issued.

[Assistant] Another one!

[User] The UK storm season officially goes from the start of meteorological autumn until at least mid Spring (usually worse late autumn to the end of winter) but storms can be added from any given season provided the wind gusts are substantial enough to warrant it.

[Assistant]
There was me thinking it was just around October 😬
Thanks Mike. 🙂


[User] When I first joined Bluesky back in *rocks back in rocking chair, looks off into distance* May of 23, it was a parade of shlong. I saw more hog on main than a pig auction. Nude Alf is our true representative. And the HELLTHREAD. Getting on "what's hot" with 6 likes *weeps in remembrance*

[Assistant] Who is nude Alf?

[User] There were fairly frequent furry parades also.

[Assistant] I found the early adoption by furry artists to be a strong indicator. Many furries are in tech, many are queer, I trust their judgement.


[User] Rise and shine,peeps❣ 😊☕☕💟🐾❄❄

[Assistant] Have a great day Vicki! ☕

[User] You too, Matthew. 😊 I have to work today. It's only a half day, but I still wish I could've slept in this morning.

[Assistant] Good morning Vicki!  ❤ Have a great day.  ☺


[User] Hamilton an extended family member.

[Assistant] Cuteness overload!!!!!

[User] So cute in that suit. 🥰🥰

[Assistant] So incredibly cute! That suit is the cutest thing I have seen since yesterday! There is hardly anything more delightful than miniature human beings dressed as adults. He is rockin' that suit. 💜💙 ... "Boss Baby"!!! 🥰


[User] Michigan State flips East Lansing running back Jace Clarizio from Alabama in surprising reversal. www.lansingstatejournal.com/story/sports...

[Assistant] I realize I’ve lived out of state a while but why is there a freep (Solari) article in LSJ? Maybe I’ve never noticed…

[User] Hey, Karen. We’re owned by the same company and share content quite a bit.

[Assistant] Pledging can be complicated.


[User] An 18 yr old just asked me out as I was walking on the sidewalk. 18. Generation Z, out here.

[Assistant] A bird side swiped my head this morning. It flew right by my head and I could feel it graze my neck.

[User] me, pretending to like the Generation Z rap music.

[Assistant]
His opener was "Ma'am can I help you with that? I can carry that for you."

I was holding a cup of coffee.


[User]
As all you Americans have your Thanksgiving dinners tonight, please remember us Canadians had ours back in October so won't be eating yummy turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, and pie tonight.

If you need to eat a little extra, just pick a Canadian and say you're eating it on their behalf 😋😂

[Assistant] I already used you as my excuse. 😉😊

[User] Great idea!  I'll gladly volunteer to be someone's excuse for their poor decisions.

[Assistant] Ugg...I ate enough extra for both YOU and my other best Canadian friend. I'm going to recover...then I'll eat a layered "Frankenpiecake" (pumpkin pie layer inside a graham cracker crust, with cheesecake on top) in  your honor. You're welcome...ugg...my waistline.

[User] Love me some Canadians! We had a house on Vancouver Island in Sooke for three years. ❤

[Assistant] We should have ours in October.


[User] I rewatched this recently and loved it. The thing that dated it the most wasn’t the computer tech (it was the 90s, nobody knew back then) but the fact that everyone dresses in trench coats and panama hats like they’re Secret Squirrel or something.

[Assistant]
I recently rewatched MI:2 and was surprised how that has aged... like a kipper behind a radiator. For all the stunts and bluster it feels quite superficial.

The original is hugely enjoyable, probably one of the last Tom Cruise films where his boyish charm really shines through.

[User] It's good looking fun until the train nerd baiting tgv vs helicopter finale.

[Assistant] I’ve got mixed feelings about it. Sure De Palmas direction (as usual) is excellent but having Jim Phelps be a turncoat like that sticks in the throat a bit. And this series became very much a showcase for Cruise & his outrageous stunts rather than staying true to the TV series.

[User]
I was always more drawn towards the Morocco Mole look with tan suit and red fez, myself.

Funny, the look you describe is exactly how everyone dresses in The Third Man which I have only gone and watched for the millionty eleventh time again.

[Assistant] Yes, but that was the 1940s. Not 1996 or whenever.


[User] Keep marching for Palestine.  London tomorrow. Park Lane to Whitehall.

[Assistant]
I'm totally anti genocide but you lost me on don't attack Iran.
They are happily supplying shaheed drones on an industrial scale which are used EVERY day to bomb Ukrainian civilians .. never once a military target. Whilst they actively support the intended genocide in Ukraine they are the enemy.

[User] We don't want escalation.  World dangerous enough.

[Assistant] Good, because to the Ukranian public There's nothing but genocide, rape, torture and looting in store if they are defunded. The escalation of atrocities against the same profile of innocent civilians, as there is in Gaza, of supporting Russias allies would be 100 fold.


[User] First post on here, hello everyone! If anyone can even see this... hopefully less craziness here than in the other place. Fingers crossed.

[Assistant] Hi Peter:) Welcome to the 'nice' place. I've added you to the Boldwood Starter Pack.

[User] Thanks MJ 😀

[Assistant] Hi Peter, and welcome!


[User]
It's Cyberweek and I'm adding a heavy discount to AI Art Weekly Premium and my Midjourney Prompt Library!

40% to be exact 😎

With this you'll know what I know and get access to all my prompts to create the dopest of images (check ALT for a freebie).

[Assistant]
✨ PROMPTCACHE ✨

A few weeks before Mini-Tulpa's birth, I launched Promptcache for sharing my Midjourney research.

The library now has over 200 SREF codes, with more content planned (SREF combos, guides, V7 updates etc).

It is what I use on a daily basis to create my art.

[User]
✨ AI Art Weekly PREMIUM ✨

With how fast things are progressing, researchers can't always release their code right away.

Premium lets you bookmark papers directly in the newsletter and alerts you when new code is available!

I use it every week to bookmark my favourite papers.

[Assistant]
The 40% discounts are now live and last until the end of the week!

You'll find the links to both in my bio.

Happy Cyberweek 🥳

(P.S.: I'm not used to market my stuff, am I doing this right?)


[User] eating nothing all day long only to binge on so much food it could fill a 3 course meal for a family of 6 (omad 💖🎀)

[Assistant] and then the meal lasts like 10 minutes. (i suffered and for what)

[User] 10 Minutes, didnt even enjoy it and now my stomach still hurts 😒

[Assistant] that's why i can't do omads😭


[User] I remember when they announced that Quantum of Solace would be the twenty-second Bond movie and I was like "Damn, that's not very long."

[Assistant] Pity it wasn't 20 seconds. A film about fresh water monopolies and Bond never visited Nestle, Coca Cola or Danone. Pft...

[User] What’s worse is that I read that literally the first time around. What is wrong with me—

[Assistant] Disney touted the Lion King was their thirty-second film in a trailer and little me was having trouble understanding how they could advertise a film shorter than the commercial.


[User]
New jockstrap! I think it looks cute.

(Happy american thanksgiving, to those that observe)

[Assistant] This is actually what I’m thankful for 🙌🏻

[User] Looks great, son! Love the fit and color 🔥

[Assistant] Frames you very nicely 😍


[User]
Could we see a reignition of the Browser Wars?

If OpenAI manage to build and launch an attractive browser with integrated AI features, it really could upset established digital ecosystems.

Will be interesting to keep an eye on.

www.reuters.com/technology/a...

[Assistant] great more annoying notifications from websites and apps to please remember to set us as your default....

[User] This is a bold move by OpenAI, and it feels like the right time for it. Combining intelligent search with a browser could completely change how we use the web. If anyone can make this work, it is OpenAI.

[Assistant]
The only thing 'bold' about it is that they are trying the exact same thing, for the exact same reasons, that Google just got ruled against.
I don't need AI in a browser, just something that quickly and accurately displays the carefully designed work of others without scraping it.


[User]
We are expected to get anywhere from 25-50 cm of snow.
I'm so glad I took the day off.
Time to get kiddo's sled out.

[Assistant] What!? Where?!

[User]
See that pink spot to the West. That's @karynrn.bsky.social and I.
Send shovels ;)
In Toronto Tuesday - have to dig out.

[Assistant] Oh gosh...I am at a conference Tuesday! This should be interesting.


[User] Driving down the highway. Radio on as always. Playing “Let it snow” ‘cause it’s the season, right? But, was a sunny day. Hot inside the car! Checked the outside temperature. A scorching 72 F! Let it snow? This is what SouthTexas does to you at this time around! How do I not miss Appalachian winter!

[Assistant] And don’t judge me! I love Texas and all that, but I spent most of my life in Ankara, atop the Central Anatolian plateau, the Turkish Appalachia without the thick forests. 🤷♂

[User] I'll swap with you! I really miss Appalachian winters. I live in Houston, where currently it's 56F and people are wearing puffer jackets and toques.

[Assistant] 😂 Yes, they in fact do in Katy, too!, where I live now. Smh 🤦♂


[User] How the fuck do I have more followers here than than Neil Patrick fucking Harris?!

[Assistant] Well, I’m following you. And not NPH. So there you have it.

[User] Because most of us don’t think it’s legit.

[Assistant] Ah. Excellent point. Maybe I should delete this.


[User]
@scottcrates.bsky.social Had to follow you since we have over 3,800 of the same followers! That's my highest iverlap so far, pretty darn great!

🦋💙🌎💙🦋

[Assistant] 968 and counting....🤔

[User] Go under discover tab, where I saw this greatness!

[Assistant] Lovely to meet and welcome aboard.


[User]
BREAKING: Ministers postpone the full shift to eVisas next month. We welcome this news and the promise to fix the glitches.

However, we’re concerned this last-minute decision means that people’s basic rights will still be at risk in the new year.🧵
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

[Assistant]
The Home Office stopped issuing BRP cards on 31st October. This means that many people will have to rely on the flawed eVisa system.

Other people have a BRP card with an expiry date of 31st December, even though their status continues next year.

[User]
In both cases it was assumed people would have an eVisa account to prove their legal status.

What measures are being put in place to prevent people without a valid BRP from being locked out of basic services?

[Assistant] This is a positive first step, but we need urgent clarity to ensure that people can still prove their basic rights - to be able to rent, work, access healthcare and more – next month.


[User] Please give us a listen, would you, darlings?~

[Assistant] So YOURE the other voice. Well done, I've enjoyed all of them. :)

[User] Thank you very much. ☺


[User] Summa y'all act like y'all too bougie to invite cousin Velveeta to Thanksgiving dinner...

[Assistant] You cannot make mac and cheese without it. It's also great for grilled cheese sandwiches. Nothing else comes close.

[User] That's me!

[Assistant] It's not the bulk or the only cheese I use, but I like how it melts.


[User] 🎉 Hit over 2,000 subscribers on YouTube overnight!! 🥹

[Assistant] I've just subscribed, can't wait to listen 😊

[User] Love you Rosey! 🫶

[Assistant] Loved it! I can't wait to read Jade City now, I'm thinking Memoirs of a Geisha meets Dune meets The Sopranos and I can get my Mafia on! Side note, I genuinely enjoyed how much you say bloody (it reminded me of myself) your enthusiasm is infectious ❤


[User] Name a TV series you love with a number in the title. 📺

[Assistant] You stole my answer, sir! This series needs both more love AND a modern reimagining.


[User] I accept this award.

[Assistant] I don’t know what band  I expected you to be the ‘Top 500 listener’ of but this is a nice surprise lol Congrats!🙂↔

[User] this is what happens when you use a very specific chill electronic album to help get you to sleep at night...

[Assistant] Now I have to go find Chairlift and check them out. 👍


[User]
Guy makes perfectly reasonable assessment of why right wing populist parties are winning then takes a hard right term over “WOKE” while espousing liberal values.

Check author bio. Author is British.

[Assistant] They are never beating the “TERF Island” monicker.

[User] Long sigh from me. Of course.

[Assistant]
I had to look what makes this guy such a right-wing threat to the Western order and oh, pro-Putin.

The British journalism circles can't see that they've probably been manipulated by the same powers, can they?


[User] Morning heresys!

[Assistant] Happy Friday pits.☕🖖🐯

[User] Happy Friday night matey!

[Assistant] sleep well and may Saturday be quiet and userless..


[User] Over 300 Watchers here?! Crazy! Anyhow, this looks fun, so let's try it! Thanks to @kemslash.bsky.social  for creating it!

[Assistant] 1. Giant, obviously! I get some appeal of the like... borrower style, repurposing stuff for tinies, but macro stuff is my passion!

[User] 2. Around four years, I started an account in 2020 after lurking for a few years. It's been funny to see how my tastes have shifted in that time from pretty singular and story focused to more fluff and slice of life stuff.

[Assistant]
4. My niche? I operate in a venn diagram of transformation, size and monster girls!
I'm genuinely unsure if any of my characters are a full fledged 50 ft human, etc, expect horns, tails, wings and weird colours!

[User] 7. Favorite Size Setting? Probably a toss up between fantasy and slice of life. The Aptophiliac in me loves characters struggling with traffic, clothes, work, helicopters, etc, but the more... power dynamic version does like the notion of looming over a castle and embodying the untold wilderness.

[Assistant] 10. To shout out a writer- go read my best friend LulutheKaiju's stuff at www.deviantart.com/luluthekaiju, she rocks and we do lots of collab ideas together!


[User] I'll be glad when MasterChef ends. Years and years of macho cooking, as if they're in the SAS. It's bullshit.

[Assistant] The sub-Requiem for a Dream soundtracking always felt just a teensy bit over the top.

[User] It's the same in so much of society these days. Everything is geared towards maximising your potential. Your watch chides you for not doing enough steps. An Instagram artist tells you to draw every day or you'll never improve. If you want to play piano like a pro, watch this video.

[Assistant] British masterchef is crap - the Australian Mastetchef on the other hand is a supportive delight with actual cooking and learning involved. Once seen you’ll never need the homegrown version again.


[User] Just when I can least afford it – half a month of work in December has to take me through to the end of January – I find myself completely disengaged. I will work, but sheesh, I no wanna. I just want to waft around my house painting things and baking, and pottering.

[Assistant]
Empathy.
Year-end entrepreneur flat battery syndrome is real. And the older you get, the slower the recharge.

[User] Is THIS what it is?! I just thought it was my annual done-with-people's-nonsense-for-the-year syndrome.

[Assistant] It seems particularly bad this year.

[User]
It was a year designed by Satan.
I hear there are even personally signed t-shirts available online.

[Assistant] Ah,  so it has a name .


[User]
I’ve been sitting on this for a wee while now so I’m glad finally to be able to say that my poem “Ingleby Greenhow” has won 3rd prize in the Manchester Cathedral Poetry Competition. There are no words other than ‘dead chuffed’.

manchestercathedral.org/news-events/...

[Assistant] Huge congratulations, Richard!

[User] Congratulations!

[Assistant] Thank you!

[User] Congratulations Richard 👏👏👏🔥

[Assistant] Congratulations Richard.


[User] What the hell is "Hoop-tober" on Letterboxd? What does that mean?

[Assistant] It's a reference to Tobe Hooper.

[User] I see. But the movies aren't all his?

[Assistant] I think it's just a way to signal horror-themed viewing around Halloween.


[User] I was wondering if Mads and Hugh would ever come to a convention in California. I guess they're more likely to attend LACC than SDCC? 🤔

[Assistant] Mads was at silicon valley comic con in 2016, in San jose.

[User] woo, I didn't know! 😳🥰 Maybe he'll come back to conventions in California someday!

[Assistant] LACC is entirely possible, but it depends on the event 🤔


[User] Next up some favorites from the PS3. This era was just an odd one for me. Games were changing a lot and my tastes changed a LOT.

[Assistant] Yas Deux Ex and Assassins Creed 2, Metal Gear and The Last of Us, love them all ❤

[User] As always, you have excellent tastes ❤

[Assistant] Yep, did platinum AC2 before and yeah I miss the old Prince of Persia games as well, thank you. You have great taste always too ❤


[User] People complaining about lackluster enthusiasm & attendance from Twins fans don't remember it was like that in 1987 until last home stand.

[Assistant] Has been like that/this a lot throughout the history of the club, even at times one wouldn't expect it to be so.

[User] And near as I can tell we're seeing a lot more casual attendees of games at Target Field who are there for atmosphere more than the games.

[Assistant] Target Field is known as a nifty place to visit even for non-baseball fans. Thus the emphasis on food & drink & so on in promotions.


[User] Trying to pick out some board books for my little 1 year old Landon. So far i have selections from 2 of my favorite franchises, Little Blue Truck Christmas and construction Site on Christmas Night. Any other ideas out there? Never enough books!

[Assistant] There's a box set of about 10 board books called My First Library. I think they have them on Amazon.

[User] That’s just wonderful! I started with my son when he was a baby also;  today he’s 12 and he absolutely loves reading! The Little Red Hen” is always a fun read for that age! 🐓❤

[Assistant] I called Landon mine, but actually, I’m his nanny! I’ve never heard of the little red hen. I will definitely look it up. Thank you.


[User] I'm not falling for this one again. Next time they need to give me some newspaper too.

[Assistant]
Aw, how cute.
I was able to take a photo of a wild one feeding nuts to it's young.

[User] That looks like one of those rare 10mm baby's in there...NICE!!!

[Assistant] I spent hours in a blind waiting for that shot!🤣🤣🤣

[User] I spent milliseconds stealing mine.

[Assistant] It’s emaciated. Give it a damn cracker or it’ll starve, and then you’ll have a dead parrot.


[User]
I didn't have a huge following on Twitter & even with the numbers I DID have, very few ever actually interacted with me

Since BlueSky, even with less follows, I've had more interactions than ever with lots of different people. I just wanna say thank you to all of you, truly 🫂💞

[Assistant]
Same here. At most, I had 100 followers on Twitter after a decade. Followers sometimes interacted, but mostly not. And new people could barely find me because I didn't pay.

Here, I got over 250 followers, regular interaction from everyone, and I don't have to pay a penny.

[User]
I think I had 300 something followers but like 250 of those were dead accounts from people that didn't use the app anymore or bots etc & like you, of the few that were left, barely any interactions

I think asking to pay for interactions & to have your posts noticed is just stupid 🙄

[Assistant] Yeah, it really is. Elon fucked a lot of people over really with how he changed the "verified" stat, despite it now not even meaning you are verified 😂


[User]
Riding is much more fun in a car or on the couch or on a chair > bed

Riding requires a stable surface.
The only thing bouncing should be ass…

[Assistant] That's so true, those provide stability and you're able to position your bodies at the perfect angles 🙂↕

[User]
Exactlyyyyyyy
Bc once that spot is found, I don’t need anything fucking that up. Gotta be on my toes & stable so it’s consistent and on balance 🙂↕

[Assistant] Yes ma'am, you got it! It's so more pleasurable than that bed. Top tier no question 🤌🏾


[User] I used to be able to spot a bot a million miles away, but now I'm having a tougher time.  I hate the stupid chat gee piss tea shit so much.  Just leave me the fuck alone, you fake people weirdos.

[Assistant] Yeah I'm getting sus followers too, it's honestly making me want to use everything less and less.

[User] I just mute the sus followers so I don't have to see anything they post!

[Assistant] Unfortunately, internet is my jorb.  I can't just... fuck off, as much as I just want to live in a shack in the woods sometimes.


[User] Happy Thanksgiving! Lincoln made it a national holiday to mark the saving of the republic from the Slave Power. Today the republic is in danger from the Trump regime. Let us continue to fight for the composite nation.

[Assistant] The Rev. J. Sella Martin and his wife Sarah (fr. Albany NY) attended that first T-Day dinner in London with other Americans.

[User] a dream we don't live up to often enough - but isn't that often the case with dreams?

[Assistant] Bruh, that's so not what it is.


[User] So, folks, where have I been over the last year or so since quitting 🐦? Mainly struggling with my mum's escalating 💔-breaking #dementia (now in care home), trying (unsuccessfully) to sell her flat to pay for the CH & trying to manage my #c-PTSD which this has re-triggered... 😬😬😕😕

[Assistant] Stay as strong as you can and be kind to yourself.

[User] Lovely to see you back, sending best wishes ❤

[Assistant] Thank you 😊


[User]
This is how I see food now!
Don't ask... It seriously puts me off eating.

English breakfast - High fats, moderate protein, moderate carbs, oily.
French breakfast - High carbs, low protein, low fat, almost dry.
German breakfast - High protein, moderate fat and low carbs, health veg portion.

[Assistant] A French breakfast would be most welcome 😋 I do like a fry up but can't really face it first thing, happy to have that for an evening meal.  The German option can get in the bin! 😂

[User] I’ll take that as a vote for Germany.. 😄

[Assistant] Germany option minus cheese.


[User]
Happy Friday!
I hope you find your Joy this weekend!

[Assistant]
Looks like Fishtown
Have a great weekend
I don't have to get out in the cold and snow until tomorrow.

[User] It’s Friday already? Have a fantastic Friday.

[Assistant] I have!  Comfy kitty in the lap with coffee and visiting dad snoring in the next room.


[User]
🏳⚧ The UK Supreme Court has heard defenses of and challenges against a Scottish court’s ruling that trans women with a Gender Recognition Certificate are women for all legal purposes.

www.wearequeeraf.com/supreme-cour...

[Assistant] Fuck me, independence from the ass backwards UKGov cannae come soon enough.

[User] Do you know how much FWS have spent on this?  Their funder shows £212k pledged.

[Assistant] I’m so tired of people wasting tax dollars because they failed biology (and apparently don’t know how adjectives work). Trans women are women. That’s objective, scientific fact confirmed by medical consensus, no matter how much “gender criticals” whine about it.


[User] You know what's crazy?! I've shared several of the same things on BlueSky and Twitter today, I'm only getting hater trolls here though. Friendly reminder to not engage scumbags here, blocking is best imo because all they want is to argue and get a rise out of people. They don't mean shit though 😎

[Assistant] I’ve also been worried about that. I think with an influx of 10s of thousands new accounts flooding in the past three weeks #bskysafety needs to update its  moderation practices. I’ve also abruptly gotten much fewer responses which makes me wonder why?

[User] I'm pretty sure millions of new accounts have been set up in the last few weeks. Hopefully BlueSky can expand who they employ, last I saw there are only 20 people running things and eventually that's going to wear people down...it's nonstop work I imagine.

[Assistant] Agreed . I have a ,massive porn bot influx in my Dms.  Block those as well. 😎


[User] West Ham United fans made their feelings heard during their 3-1 defeat to Leicester City.

[Assistant] They are not serious as a fan base. They wanted Moyes gone. He left. They got a new manager now, they want him gone too. They need look at where the problems began which was when Steidten came into his role at the club.

[User] The board are to blame tbh.  Have zero footballing knowledge because anyone with an ounce of football knowledge knew that Lopategi wasn't the right fit for the job.

[Assistant] @footballcliches.bsky.social "sacking in the morning"?!


[User]
Apparently American Alligator is friend of the week...
and I just learned their scientific name....

I'm sorryyyy! 😂😂😂 I couldn't resist...

Feel free to send me to Japari Hell later😂💖

[ #Art | #Yuri | #百合 | #KemonoFriends | #けものフレンズ | #AmericanAlligator | #ミシシッピーワニ

[Assistant] "really"

[User] That deadpan gator face killed me.

[Assistant] Someone is really thirsty... 🤣👀🤭


[User] Haven’t eaten since Monday. I have food I like. I just see no point in eating now.

[Assistant] Hey is everything okay?

[User] 😞 i'm sorry you're struggling. you're always in my heart and on my mind, Jisu 🫶🏽

[Assistant] :( I doubt there's anything I could say that would help, but I will say that my dms are always open. I'm sorry 😞


[User] This is accurate. We made a ton of gumbo.

[User] the beloved is making ours today. cannot wait.

[Assistant] Our Friendzgiving had a few smoked turkeys, I told Mac I wanted one of the carcasses. Unfortunately someone already claimed them all. It's fine he made smoked turkey gumbo for actual thanksgiving at the bar so it went to a good cause.


[User]
Every day is immeasurably improved by a puffin kickboxing a pobbly bear under the #northernlights! 🐧🐻❄ Happy Thursday to you!
#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekVforVibrant
#MobilePhotography 📷
#Iceland 🇮🇸 #StreetArt #aurora 🌌

[Assistant] Love it!

[User] Thanks Sheena! 😁

[Assistant] Ok - this time you were faster 😁, nice one!


[User] I’m going to pick back up the interval discovery project. I previously used an off the shelf changepoint algorithm. Changepoint basically looks for a change in mean and clumps/splits with a penalty factor. It works very well for say a structured interval workout.

[Assistant] … it works less well for more dynamic racing and training data where there are pace changes within an “effort” so it doesn’t always clump a full MMP effort into an “interval” … the initial surge or slump at the end may get split off if the difference from the mean is too far off…

[User] … the approach I want to try now is an algorithm that hunts for intervals that maximize percent MMP for a range of durations that sufficiently cover 1S-1800S …

[Assistant] … thinking my way through this the first step is to fit a model or smoothing spline to the reference MMP (for example MMP for past 12 months). You can’t use the raw MMP as you will get spans of equal 100% MMP from single intervals (pacing nose, peak, and averaging tail)…


[User]
Jean Grey: Logan, I’m going to need to see a little more teamwork out there.
Wolverine: No can do, Jeanie. This one bub who goes his own way.
Jean Grey: I don’t know who told you that that whole lone wolf thing was cute but I’m here to tell you that that person was wrong.

[Assistant] The lone wolf with the record for most superhero teams they're on.  Objectively the least lone of all wolves.

[User] That or Wolverine just knows that the "lone/alpha wolf" thing is BS & is just the parents or elders taking charge to guide the young, so...

[Assistant]
He does a lot of black-out drinking if that were true.

But now that you say it I have this fear of a Logan with access to social media posting about how he's so alpha and like, accidentally becoming big in the manosphere because he doesn't understand the internet.


[User] There’s now a cottage industry researching Auckland’s zoning reform. My takeaway is that townhouses or plexes can significantly add to overall supply and the capacity to deliver this type can ramp up quickly.

[Assistant] I like it, but "townhouses or plexes" is a broad category. What are we talking about? Townhouses, or plexes?

[User] Has there been research into the total potential of townhouses in Auckland?  After legalization there is a rush to build them but is that temporary?  When is the supply of suitable lots where the economics of a townhouse makes sense exhausted?

[Assistant] The market has collapsed with the rise of interest rates. There is a lot of room for more townhouses (terraces) when the market recovers. Apartments are limited by lack of zoned supply in high demand areas. We have a swathe of close-in neighbourhoods that still restrict infill apartments.

[User] Thanks.  Was the upzoning for higher density (NPS-UD?) in core areas effective or was that watered down by the new govt?

[Assistant] That’s the tool that Lower Hutt used to upzone. It’s still in effect.


[User]
Well, fuck.

The Deer Hunter.

Why’d this movie elude me for so long?

[Assistant] Its the feel good hit perfect for any holiday!

[User] I remember the first time I watched that. I would've been... maybe 18 or so. It was incredible, but it sure destroyed me alright. Naturally I watched it again really soon after that haha.

[Assistant] I once met the screenwriter, Quinn Redeker, at a cafe in Burbank. He was probably about 80 at the time, but was still writing.


[User]
[241203] Dreamcatcher JUSTICE Promotions Behind Selca
#Dreamcatcher #드림캐쳐


[User] Is the South Downs National Park account trolling GO fans or have I just not had enough sleep?

[Assistant] I think they might be one of us 🤡

[User] I wouldn't call it trolling, but oh yes!

[Assistant] They’re definitely doing something 🤡

[User]
I think they’re Aziracrow shippers like us!
😏😏

[Assistant] they def one of us 🤡🤡


[User]
Thought I'd re-introduce myself! 👋

I'm Sora or Kiba whichever you prefer to name me by.

I'm a fan of Kingdom Hearts and lots of other Video games! 🎮💜

I love Coffee and good vibes! ☕🌸

Hope to meet new awesome friends and have a very wonderful day~ 😊🦋

♡/🔁 are appreciated! 🙌✨

[Assistant] I've always been curious - which one do you prefer, Sora or Kiba? I know you have both in your nickname, just curious if you like one over the other haha.

[User]
Most of my friends call me Sora so I guess Sora!
 but I really don't mind either one lol 😆👍

[Assistant] The question I think is on everyone’s mind is what kind of coffee? 😂💖

[User]
Very good question lol 😆
Well, I enjoy Coffee with two sugars and sometimes a Latte ☕✨

[Assistant] Sorry did someone say "coffee"? 🤤


[User] Flashback #FCF to when I was a little builder boy!

[Assistant] Let me suck on that foreskin 🤤

[User] Suddenly have the desire to have a wall built 😉🥵

[Assistant] Want 🥵😍


[User] What’s your favourite insult? I’m quite fond of wanker. But sometimes only cunt will do.

[Assistant] The only c-word insult I use is "clown".

[User] That Jules, is because you are not as potty mouthed as I am 😘

[Assistant] I had a lot of feminist friends in the 70s who told me that word was demeaning to women, so I've always honoured that. The goalposts may have changed, but it was already cemented in my mind. I have to be seriously out of my mind angry to use it.


[User] Yes, this.

[Assistant] The idea of finishing something like these in one sitting is always a delicious prospect. They need to spin them as the same as watching a 2+ hr movie, because that's about the time frame you need to get rocked by a good novella.

[User] A lot of indies are doing novellas now and as usual Trad Pub won't do anything until someone else takes the risk first and shows them that it's popular. But part of the reason indies are doing well with them, I think, is that they work better as ebooks- they're cheap and you can read them on....

[Assistant] ....your phone, on the bus or in a waiting room or wherever.


[User] Guy who celebrates changing an OC Design by having them transform/vore the old design.

[Assistant] So true, still love the new design for Kuba's cock (banger)

[User] Ooo their old oc is still a part of the new one. 🥰

[Assistant] So they always have something to remember them by~


[User] I know a lot of people think stuffing is gross but it's basically soup and bread that you can eat with a fork and I really appreciate that in this season of life.

[Assistant] What's not to like about savory bread pudding?

[User] Exactly. Maybe if bread pudding were more of a thing, which it should be. Perhaps the path there is through reminding people how great French Toast is.

[Assistant] It can also help cooks use bread pudding as as a target to put some life into a family recipe that needs some modernization.


[User]
When I was a little kid, my grandparents had an ever growing Christmas Village that my grandfather would pull out and set up every year. It always seemed like a lot of work to me.
But I just discovered #LEGO has Xmas Village sets, sooo...

[Assistant] Last year, the Harford Lego User's Group had a display at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, and they built this from Legos.

[User] Last year, the Hartford Lego Users Group had a display at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford. They built this.

[Assistant] OK... so no images let me try again.


[User]
This won't just affect teenagers. This will affect everyone. How do you enforce this? Mandate people upload their IDs to use social media services?

This is an attempt of controlling access to information, and mass surveillance on people.

www.theverge.com/2024/11/28/2...

[Assistant] But agree it will be difficult to enforce and there will be work arounds. However, just this publicity blight contribute to tech giants thinking about their responsibilities and the impact of uncensored content.

[User] But agree it will be difficult to enforce and there will be work arounds. However, just this publicity blight contribute to tech giants thinking about their responsibilities and the impact of uncensored content.

[Assistant] Also will be terrible for trans people that don't have their names changed yet.


[User] The real question is - how in the name of sweet baby Jesus in the orphans did I lose my glasses overnight? They're in non of the places I normally put them on sleepy. They have vanished into the ether.

[Assistant] that sounds inconvenient!

[User]
Would be if it were true.

The "old" glasses I found were my glasses. And my brain just decided in the night to swap them out with my sun glasses frames.

For shits and giggles like.

Went downstairs to get a cup of tea saw my sunnies and just... cussed my brain out. The little shit.

[Assistant] lololol so all is well?


[User] I’m cooking for the first time since like November.

[Assistant] Pa Finch’s birthday was nine days ago, but we time-shifted it to today so I could make him this meal that he really likes. (I was pretty proud that he asked for it for his birthday.) @themafinch made her famous Hit And Miss Cake with fudge icing. 😋

[User] Pa Finch loves restaurants more than anything in the whole world, and this is his third birthday in a row we couldn’t go to a restaurant because of Covid. 🙁

[Assistant] (I forgot to take any pictures of the tacos, but they were good.)