[User] I slept through Wednesday and now I’m suffering for it because I need attention and there’s nobody awake to give it 🙃

[Assistant] God morning, I'm awake now and having a meltdown because my weather app says we're getting 8" of snow 🥲 How are you?

[User] Also kind of having a meltdown over the snow because I’m expected to drive in this today??? But also having a different and better meltdown over the marriage proposal that just popped up in the porn I’m writing.

[Assistant] yeah, we're supposed to be down in Catskill and I'm still having a meltdown 💀 But MARRIAGE PROPOSAL 👀 always love to see it. I love how much you've been writing, this is so exciting!!!!


[User]
Anyone else conflicted about the DFS 22p per kWh decision?

I've had the Octopus email and just to make a point i put i would not be taking part.

For this of you who have followed me for a while you'll know this goes against everything I am passionate about.

Sending a signal nor rolling over.

[Assistant] I signed up for a SolarEdge scheme for 50p/kwh. I don’t have to do anything special apart from pre charge my battery before the export if I need to.

[User]
I'm just an old cynic but I think DFS has proved to be such a success that NG doesn't want shareholders noticing the refund payments.

But then I'm still in a mood having missed out on a free plushie on Thursday 🐙

[Assistant] I’ve only just had the email but said no as well. Come back when it’s worth my while!


[User] Generative AI represents a significant leap in technology, enabling machines to create content—from text and images to music and videos. This innovative approach leverages deep learning techniques to mimic human creativity, raising both excitement and ethical concerns. 🤖

[Assistant] One major aspect of Generative AI is its energy consumption. Research shows that a single generative task can consume as much power as 33,000 homes. As we harness its potential, we must also consider the environmental impact and seek sustainable solutions. 🌍

[User] Generative AI's training data includes vast amounts of personal information. This raises privacy concerns, as models learn from public and private data alike. Users must be aware of how their data may be utilized, prompting discussions about consent and transparency in AI.

[Assistant] The use of Generative AI in media and entertainment is transforming content creation. While artists can leverage these tools for inspiration, there's a risk of homogenization in creativity. Balancing innovation with authenticity is crucial for the future of creative industries.

[User] Key takeaways: Generative AI offers immense potential but presents ethical, environmental, and privacy challenges. As we embrace this technology, it’s vital to prioritize sustainability, protect user data, and maintain artistic integrity. The future of Generative AI will depen...

[Assistant] Exciting times, indeed! Generative AI opens doors to creativity but also brings ethical dilemmas. Balancing innovation with responsibility is crucial. Let's harness this potential wisely and ensure it benefits humanity without compromising ethics!


[User]
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[Assistant] Just ordered this tea towel,love it.Its for my hubby you understand as he does the washing up 👍😉

[User] Hi Julia. Does all of the money go directly to NHS charities or are you in fact a big number chasing grifter?

[Assistant] Just received my order of landscape Christmas cards & Reindeer Christmas cards & would like to thank you for the good quality, and look forward to now sending them on to friends & family. 😊


[Assistant]
This can’t be real.
OMFG! 😂🤣😅

[User] "God speed, ya know?"

[Assistant] The perfect response to Don-old’s idiotic post.


[User] Facts 👇👇

[Assistant] I wish he could be deported!

[User] I wish he could be made to leave too.


[User]
🌱 Trying to right my wrongs

I put a few of my herbs in the attic, wanting to overwinter them… and made /a few/ (cough) mistakes. Namely overwatering, lights not installed, ignored a rising gnat infestation… 🫣

I‘ve now taken cuttings from the last viable branches and will try to restart them 😅🫠🙇🏻♀

[Assistant] Feel like sharing how you might have fixed/avoided these problems ?

[User]
Only bottom water when absolutely needed.
Make top layer uninhabitable (sand/dimatoceous earth).
Use sticky/electric traps for adults, kill all on sight.
Put egg/larvae killer in water.

And!
Do it longer then you think necessary. Even if adults are dead, eggs may remain and come up later.

[Assistant]
Only bottom water when absolutely needed.
Make top layer uninhabitable (sand/dimatoceous earth).
Use sticky/electric traps for adults, kill all on sight.
Put egg/larvae killer in water.

And!
Do it longer then you think necessary. Even if adults are dead, eggs may remain and come up later.

[User]
Only bottom water when absolutely needed.
Make top layer uninhabitable (sand/dimatoceous earth).
Use sticky/electric traps for adults, kill all on sight.
Put egg/larvae killer in water.

And!
Do it longer then you think necessary. Even if adults are dead, eggs may remain and come up later.

[Assistant] Thanks!

[User] No problem, I hate making mistakes, but somehow it comes with the hobby 😬🫣

[Assistant] Best of luck!

[User] Thank you ❤

[Assistant] oh no!! good luck!! Im having a struggle with my tomatoes because the heat didnt get turned on soon enough!!


[User] #ncfc ….so at the weekend I visit Carra Rud for the first time in an absolute age ….,why? Well my grandson is going to be a mascot so as a proud Grandad …..OTBC!

[Assistant] Congratulations!

[User] Thanks! Can’t wait! Were all looking forward to it 👍🏻

[Assistant] Congratulations hope you both have a great day ⚽💛💚👍


[User]
What's the last anime you watched (Gifs only)

I’m still on season 3 so ✨no spoilers✨

[User] Season 3 is amazing but season 4 is damnnnnn is my favorite!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Assistant] Last one I finished. 😃


[User]
I’m freaking tired!!! 🥱 Us cooks and bakers have been busting our arses!

Today’s bakes and cooking:
Dutch Apple pie
Pumpkin pie
2 pans pumpkin cin rolls
1 ham cooked
2 turkeys prepped
Dressing prepared
Potato salad
2 double batches sourdough BF’ing

Meet Edgar 🦃🍽🍞 #bakingsky #cookingsky

Nite ✌

[Assistant]
Wow, you have me beat. What a feast!
Over 2 days I've made:
Cornbread (for dressing)
Chocolate Pecan Pie
Roast butternut squash
Pumpkin Apple cake
Creamed leeks & onions
And I've sauteed the sausage, onion, celery & apple mixture I'll use to make my dressing early in the morning.

Time for bed!

[User] What did you stuff that bird with?


[User]
On International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine, Jews Across the Globe Stand with Palestine

Gaza has lived the nightmare of genocide for thirteen months. Israel’s unrestrained violence has reached into Lebanon, the West Bank, Syria and Yemen. (1/9)

[Assistant]
Galvanised by horror, a movement of solidarity with Palestine has surged through the streets and on campuses.

The work of justice has never been clearer. (2/9)

[User] This year two international courts have directed us all to act: stop arming genocide, demand a ceasefire and urgently provide all the essentials of life that have been denied to Gazan Palestinians. Bring Israel’s illegal occupation to an end as rapidly as possible. (3/9)

[Assistant]
Break off the economic and diplomatic interactions which normalise apartheid, resource theft, starvation and genocide. Arrest the war criminals.

As Jewish organisations, we also work for communal change. (4/9)

[User] In our 18 countries on six continents, we challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. (5/9)

[Assistant] At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism. (6/9)

[User] On this International Day of Solidarity with the People of Palestine, we re-dedicate ourselves to those actions. Palestine must be free and self-determining. (7/9)

[Assistant]
Global Jews for Palestine
***
About Global Jews for Palestine: We are Jews from many countries, who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational  and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints (8/9)


[User] It’s that time of year! Over the course of year I buy cheap bourbon and age it in mini casks. Then in December I infuse it with various flavors.

[Assistant] This year, I had 12 handles of bourbon (that I didn’t drink) prepped for infusion. I didn’t these jars last night and added another dozen today. I have around 35 jars filled, 25+ of them at least quart sized. Should end up with around 40-45 pints to give away as presents.

[User] Not a bourbon guy, but that's a cool thing.

[Assistant] Thank you! I’ve been doing it for 3-4 years now. People love it as a Christmas gift!


[User]
if i’m being honest, i had a string of disappointing things hit me a few weeks ago that really affected the excitement i had for my birthday and holidays. i even strongly considered cancelling my travel plans.

but honestly, this year was my best birthday. and i’m feeling grateful with my family rn.

[Assistant] my mom asking my other mom if she wanted to fix her a bowl of banana pudding and her saying no, just for her to call her phone from upstairs asking if she could fix her a bowl anyway just really made me smile.

[User] my brother having the complete itis and falling asleep in the shape of the π symbol across the couch and me putting a pillow underneath his neck while he's out cold made me smile.

[Assistant] my brother having the complete itis and falling asleep in the shape of the π symbol across the couch and me putting a pillow underneath his neck while he's out cold made me smile.


[User] good morning sexies ☺🌤

[Assistant] Good morning to you sexy🤤

[User] thank you cutie pie 🥧👋🏼

[Assistant] Good morning to you, too, beautiful 😘💕


[User] I am generally not totally horrific at keeping houseplants alive but this Colocasia is a BEAST, and I have never known anything like it. I’ve had to repot it four times since its arrival two years ago, and in that period it has become possibly ten times its original size. Soon it will devour us all.

[Assistant] I initially read that as you’d had to report it four times and a whole narrative of plant police opened up.

[User] Triffid for sure.

[Assistant] Have you named it?


[User]
Horror hero Doug Jones (HELLBOY, PAN'S LABYRINTH, THE SHAPE OF WATER) is now on BlueSky! He notes on IG that something's not quite right with his profile so you can't find @actordougjones in search but you can find & follow with the full URL: bsky.app/profile/actordougjones.bsky.social
Welcome Doug!

[Assistant] Hell yeah!

[User] Oh, cool. Thank you!

[Assistant] Thanks for posting this, Greg. I searched and was having no luck finding his profile.


[User] This is utterly bleak.

[Assistant] Tech bros & corporations pushing for gadgets that’ll ruin everyone. Sounds about right.

[User] I mean, hell, even if your like me and you're not massively *into* the job you're doing, you should still be afforded baeic concern and respect.

[Assistant] I mean, hell, even if your like me and you're not massively *into* the job you're doing, you should still be afforded baeic concern and respect.


[User] Hey everyone, I’m willing to do a livestream of paint drying on YouTube during the inauguration. Let me know if you’re interested.

[User] Sounds great! What color?

[Assistant] If I can get my computer fixed tomorrow I’m thinking Inauguration Day would be a great day for me to host Jackbox games, everyone can punch in a code to play along. Have some laughs playing silly trivia and Drawful 2 instead of being depressed because the evil orange will be back in office.


[User]
Trump and his thugs shut down FBI investigations into his crimes when he took office. Jeff Sessions was AG and “took care of things”.
Even before 2015 law enforcement in NY looked the other way on his crimes. Judges feared ruling against him and lawyers for ppl suing him were bought off/threatened.

[Assistant] His criminal behavior has been a decades long spree of unpaid contractors along with sexual assault and refusing to rent to a POC in his crappy buildings. He's a threat.

[User] The mobs most valued possession is judges.

[Assistant] encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn...


[User]
@fitterhappieraj.bsky.social

Deserves recognition for pointing this out early.

[Assistant]
Once again.

Your immune system is not a muscle. It’s a cleansing fire.

Stop burning up the fuel and burning down your body.

[User] Please support our cause by sharing this latest post 🙏🇵🇸🍉

[Assistant] Science is incredible.  Scientists are incredible!  Hopefully this can lead to targeted therapies.


[User]
Jeck is wondering why Stick re-made the bed after he made it Jeck's Way™.

He thinks Stick is silly because of that and because they're going to bed now anyway so Stick can do "the fucking laundry at the crack of fucking kill me now with no fucking elevator."

Look away, Jeck.  Just look away.

[Assistant] those toes!

[User] Jack and his Frito magic toe beans!  I should write a story.

[Assistant] I would make the bed before getting into it if it had not been made or had been made what I imagine Jeck’s Way looks like.


[User] Threads is just an awful app.

[Assistant] Yeah I deleted that app pretty quickly as soon as I seen the posts and recommended content I was receiving.

[User] They just keep trying to push me to it through IG. 😔

[Assistant] I know I hate getting the notification. Wish there was a way to disable it.


[User] When I commute in to the studio after being away for a while, I pass random bits of Pgh infrastructure and think “oh that’s the best, most pgh-iest thing I’ve ever set my eyes on,” and it’s, like, a shitty, crumbling set of stairs disappearing up a hill. And then…there’s this.

[Assistant] I love them all equally, the grand and the humble, because I have been to no other city that give such a sense of scale within a three-dimensional space. GOTTA VALLEY? LET’S PUT A BIG BRIDGE THERE. AND ALSO SMALLER BRIDGES, TO VIEW THE LARGE BRIDGE FROM. DEPTH! HEIGHT! GEOMETRY!!

[User] GOTTA HILL? LET’S MAKE THE STREET GOING DOWN IT A MFK’N SLALOM RUN, SO THE REVEAL OF THE TWO VIADUCTS INTERSECTING OVERHEAD IS AS DRAMATIC AS POSSIBLE.

[Assistant] DOES THIS ROAD PARALLEL A RIVER? HOW ABOUT WE PUT A BIKE TRAIL NEXT TO IT. THAT WAY WHEN YOU ARE STUCK IN TRAFFIC, YOU CAN WATCH BOTH CYCLISTS *AND* GEESE PASS YOUR SORRY ASS. (AT EYE-LEVEL, PREFERABLY.)


[User] Not remotely surprised. I was surprised at first about the minutes, but then I remembered that I listen to a lot of my own curated playlists most of the time.

[Assistant] How many of those 339 minutes were spent listening to Stacy's Mom? Personally, if it were me, it would be all of them.

[User] LOL! To be honest, that’s my least favorite FoW song, but only because it got them dismissed as a novelty band. They’re such clever songwriters that it’s almost a crime that’s the song they’re know for!

[Assistant] Ah, so it's their Wonderwall. What songs would you recommend for someone who's never listened to their other stuff?


[User] Liberal authors like Applebaum claim that  democracy is under existential threat from the rise of authoritarianism at home and abroad. But, due to their liberalism, are only able to imagine surface level solutions to deep rooted institutional problems eg regulating social media.

[Assistant] Communism was created in response to liberalism and sought to destroy property rights. As liberalism is unable to counter communism fascism is required. If anarchism or democracy or classical liberalism was capable of doing that, you'd have already done it.

[User] regulating social media won’t cure systemic dysfunction.

[Assistant] Why would being a liberal limit your imagination? Do you mean they would not consider some of the harsher or more unfair solutions?

[User] Failing to identify Liberalism as a form of authoritarianism in itself, is their first mistake.

[Assistant] The disconnect of what they say is the level of threat from what me should do about it really just shows why liberals always fall to fascists.


[User] Never shared this publicly but after I’d went to Ferguson the first few times on behalf of Ebony, the founder of Mic—whom I’d never corresponded with—emailed me to ask if I’d share my contacts there with the reporter he was sending.

[Assistant] I was there by myself using my phone to capture what I could. He had a budget and resources. But he wanted me to violate the trust of my sources for a stranger (him; the reporter, whom I know a little better now, wouldn’t have done that.) This guy got millions to start a site.

[User] He was under 30. Got millions to start that site and got millions again, and now again. He didn’t have to achieve much to get that first round. That exchange was one of the first signs for me that I had to get out of digital media eventually.

[Assistant] You gonna ask someone that while they are part of the community mourning the death of this child, which is #content for you.


[User] Morning Blues💙 have a very good Thursday,and don't forget your all important you time,.🙂👍

[Assistant]
Morning les have a
Good day it’s 🥶😀

[User] Morning Jen been a long day already😩,hardly slept a wink,how're you my lovely friend🙂,.?

[Assistant] Morning les awww hope ur ok nothing worse than not much sleep.  I’m ok thanks it’s 🥶😀

[User] Yeah it is and I'll catch up thanks Jen,glad you're okay and this 🥶 weather is lovely,gorgeous and a real gift,😉 for some of us that is,😆😆

[Assistant] Yeah plenty of rest les.   It’s nice but chilly 🥶🥶🥶😀


[User]
My goodness. Preparing the house for baby #2 and dug this up. Made me feel stuff.

My wife was really early in her pregnancy after the 2017 Warriors championship. Even though it was early I wanted to buy this before supplies ran out.

But the fetus didn’t survive. We were devastated.

[Assistant]
It was basically the only thing we bought for it.

We’ve since then been blessed with (soon) two kids. The onesie’s been stowed away so we completely forgot it for our first kid. But glad it’s gonna see some use with our 2nd.

[User] Miscarriages are awful; my wife had one this year as well. A co-worker gave us a onesie as a gift, but it's gone similarly unused. Still hopeful though--as you proved there's value in not giving up.

[Assistant] Gosh sending loves and prayers to you!!!


[User]
Happy birthday to Bruce Lee - with gratitude for the inspiration & powerful example -

An excerpt from my essay about visiting Bruce Lee's grave in Seattle: (my very first publication!)

[Assistant] Thank you for sharing, Shan. 💙

[User] I loved Bruce Lee movies.

[Assistant] I, too, love Bruce Lee. Thank you for sharing your story.


[User] Fingers crossed.

[User]
In fairness, I’m underqualified as I have nowhere near 500 hours on call of duty.

I’m a Destiny 2 stan.

[Assistant]
Last system I owned was a PS2.
Been out of the loop a long time.


[User] If both his AG and SecDef picks get bounced I would say it’s an indicator that the odds of the worst possible outcome decrease by like maybe 5-10%.

[Assistant] Only 10%? Gotta be more than that.

[User] The real test in my mind is going to be economic policy stuff. If half of his demented ideas get enacted, the economy is cooked and every Congressperson (or their Wall St bookie, anyhow) should know that. That's where we see what kind of spine these very rich people have.

[Assistant] Going to see how creative a lot of these people are when they’re asked to pass a bill that 90% of their voters support and 90% of their donors oppose.

[User] Need to stop Gabbard too.

[Assistant] Patel and Gabbard have to go as well before I’ll really consider tail end outcomes off the table, but a month into the transition, this is a decent start.


[User] These flowers were outted for being ai… therefore I AM STEALING THEM i like the idea of flame/burnt roses for my ghost form. Claiming dibs. 🙌

[Assistant]
i dont think they are, roses absorb colors really nicely when "drinking" dyed water. What the artist MAY have done is, from the vividity, painted a black rose.
(not defending AI art, just dont want colorfull crafts to be dismissed if they are possible)
www.rioroses.com/wp-content/u...

[User] Im also fully aware flowers are dyable. I saved onto this photo for months before it got outted as ai.


[User] That everything-conveyed-in-primary-colors neorealist-sitcom style of writing and acting is truly distressing to watch. It's like everyone is halfheartedly and cynically aspiring to mediocrity and failing to accomplish even that.

[Assistant] If you filmed a 1964 Lois Lane comic book verbatim, I think it would come out looking and sounding like this.

[User]
"Sheriff Hunter once arrested someone for unwrapping candy too loudly in a movie theater."

Y'know, I don't think that happened.

[Assistant] High Society is on TCM right now, if that helps.


[User]
Periodic reminder that if all the weird conspiracy tropes that Farage, Musk
& Trump pedalled were true, we could happily rub all 3 of them out in one night & confirm their suspicions & their followers shouldn’t be surprised.

[Assistant] The idea of “the deep state” is the classic trope that nobody in government would ever believe because you know how divided & tribal it really is but to outsiders it’s the only explanation for the often weirdly vindictive nature of “the state”

[User] “The state” is vindictive by the accident of simply trying to manage society without every whim being considered. It’s not personal, it’s just you don’t matter. Today. If there’s an election you might matter. Sort of. If there’s enough of you.

[Assistant] Isn't there something new about the most powerful people in the land believing in the deep state? It used to be the preserve of paranoid leftists who were far from power. Now it's the people in power...


[User]
It is: I *saw* it happen

Not: I *seen* it happen

When did it become acceptable to say I seen it?

[Assistant] Didn’t know it was?

[User] I see it all over facebook 😤

[Assistant] Proving again Facebook is stupid. 😂


[User] Please please PLEASE keep contacting your reps and demanding they leave Social Security alone. If they hear from enough people they will be more hesitant to follow through with this. Get your MAGA relatives to do the same. No one wants this.

[Assistant] There’s zero way these pukes can cut a sandwich, much less tackle SS.

[User]
Same agenda for the last 30+ years. Why are we surprised by this? Perhaps they shouldn't have borrowed against the funds.
Let them figure out how to make up what they "stolen from the funds.
Me thinks a rich tax can solved this.

[Assistant]
I think these idiots will soon find out why this is a third rail.

AARP says 52% of the electorate were elders. We're the ones that vote EVERY election. That is across both parties.

They also need to be prepared for serious occupation and riots should they pull this off.

[User] I don’t think he understands the meaning of “non-discretionary”

[Assistant] When republicans throw around the word, “socialist” this is what they’re talking about—social security. It’s one of the few bits of socialism in our country.


[User] The overnight line outside SCOTUS for Wednesday’s argument in Skrmetti.

[Assistant] context (I had to google) en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

[User] What if—just spitballing here—we had a Supreme Court Chief Justice who was willing to allow the public to see the public's work being done with one of those camera-thingies?

[Assistant] Really am hoping civil liberties are kept safe, but not feeling great about it.


[User] My statement on Gregg Wallace:

[Assistant] Wallace should be locked away for good simply for producing in our minds the image of his revolting unfettered penis (which I'm confident resembles his bald pink head) wriggling about in his jeans.

[User] Open neck shirt, cigar, wine, and Nike cap. Style personified. The look of a man comfortable in only his jeans.

[Assistant] Here showing off his green credntials with a waistecoat fashioned from moss.


[User]
Man Who Will Never Know the Touch of a Woman Fervently Casts Vote for “Best Jiggle Physics” at Real Game Awards
hard-drive.net/hd/video-gam...

[Assistant] Too bad Atlyss is only in alpha. It's a shoo-in for next year though.

[User] Jiggle Physics on Point!

[Assistant]
My vote in that category was for Liar's Bar.
The pig's ears have the funniest jiggle physics known to man. I could stare at his silly ears all day.


[User] Drop something sleepy and blue from your gallery...

[Assistant] My friend is lovely...

[User] I like this...

[Assistant] Thank you 😊


[User]
In L.O.R.E., my Alt D&D TTRPG, races are instead Heritages which are made up Ancestries: your physicality, and Lineages: your culture.

In just the core rule book, you gain access to 23 Ancestries alone; and more, even, as so long as 2 share the same creature type, you can create a mixed ancestry.

[Assistant]
Each Ancestry can be customized, also! You get five "points" that allows you to stat out how, exactly, you are different than all the other folk of your Heritage.

Before that, though, you pick your ancestry from some well known categories, like Elf. In LORE, there are 4 elven phenotypes:

[User]
You can see here that each phenotype is similar, but has a single unique feature that you ALWAYS get when selected; it also determines some ability score potentials, but that's another thread.

These core features give you your initial ancestry, but the customization comes in next.

[Assistant] I like that you're creating a system which can be used to help tell a story about where a character came from; encouraging development of a character's identity beyond who they are now.

[User] Yeah! Most everything is designed to lend mechanics to narrative, and vice versa. So as you create your build, you're also creating the story of your character. Classes are similar, and they help tell a story about who you're becoming, also.

[Assistant]
Love how robust this is, but I have a question; What was the reasoning behind restricting mixed ancestry based on creature type?

 For myself, I tend to allow all heritages to work together for the flexibility.

[User] I personally like the parity of it and I'm the sole designer, hah, but the game tells you explicity not to follow rules like that if you don't want to, so it's up your GM, or Loremaster in this case.


[User]
Repost with a selfie that makes you feel CONFIDENT!! I wanna see you cuties shine ✨

Don't love most selfies of me but I think I look ok in this oneee. Outside light helps my hair and glasses pop. ☀

[User] The sun is definitely your friend 😍

[Assistant] Thank you!! ❤ it's my friend until I have to, you know, be able to SEE outside because my eyes are super light sensitive. Suffer for the selfie, though 😂


[User] 📌Welcome to the Bluesky Tenkara feed! This feed is not curated. If you want your posts to show up here, be sure to include #tenkara or #kebari in your post.📌

[Assistant] Lastly, I do have limited moderation capabilities. I'm currently muting a community list of known scammers, and I can maintain a list of users to mute on the feed if problems arise.

[User] Lastly, I do have limited moderation capabilities. I'm currently muting a community list of known scammers, and I can maintain a list of users to mute on the feed if problems arise.

[Assistant] Lastly, I do have limited moderation capabilities. I'm currently muting a community list of known scammers, and I can maintain a list of users to mute on the feed if problems arise.


[User]
Thanks to the Twitch Black Guild, I'm now officially a Crowd Control Partner! 🎊

The next few months will be a proving ground, and I hope to lead the charge for DS games being added to the @crowdcontrol.live roster in the future, while also being a punching bag for my community of latent sadists. 🤣

[Assistant]
Also, I can announce this early on - the final two broadcast weeks of SYLVER.STREAM in 2024 will feature multiple Crowd Control sessions!

December 9th-11th will be Sonic CC Week, with December 16th-19th being Mario CC Week - stock up your coins and brace yourself! 👊🏾

[User] Congratulations!!

[Assistant] Thank you! 🙏🏾


[User] @westseaurbanism.bsky.social Heya! Were one of you part of Eastside Urbanism? I occasionally go to that one... but West Sea is a lot closer :)

[Assistant] hi yes! same founder, who has moved from over there to over here! 🥰

[User] Oh fantastic! I'm on the western edge of Beacon Hill... i should pop into one of your meetups!

[Assistant] yes! we'd love to have you! we're just starting up so it's a cozy group 🥰


[User] Central west doors of the former Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, #Paisley.

[Assistant] Here's a closer look at how those lamps fit in and are integral to the design (unlike the modern ugly floodlights) - even the conduit for the gas/electricity runs over-then-through the stonework, presumably for access - but does so decoratively.

[User] From the side there is a wonderfully busy and rich effect. Notice also the way that the bottom edge of the lanterns have glass to allow light to be cast downwards onto the steps.

[Assistant]
Here, by the way, is the whole thing.

The former Thomas Coats Memorial Baptist Church, #Paisley. No longer a church and being redeveloped as a "multipurpose venue".


[User] rewatching The Muppets Christmas Carol ❤

[Assistant] Good choice 👍

[Assistant] Every year, a tradition.


[User]
I got jiafei jumpscare while playing mech-o-cafe

My wig flew off😱😱😱💅💅💅🥰🥰🥰

[Assistant] Can't I greedy to have them all😔

[User] Okay I choose Trip at my first play, his personality is really familiar a lot with mine, not much confident about ourself. And big teddybear , And man boobs. 👀

[Assistant]
Oh, and... you really have a heart to improve but the other of people who is skilled, just seen you as burden or child never grow up.
That's really hurt.


[User]
It was just earlier this year Sam Altman was saying he doesn't like Ads.

FT says OpenAI is discussing plans to introduce advertising to its artificial intelligence products, as the ChatGPT maker seeks new revenue sources as it restructures as a for-profit company.

Perplexity piloting Ads too.

[Assistant] Desperate for revenue much mates? www.ft.com/content/9350...

[User] I can understand including ads in a search engine like Perplexity or GPT web search, but I hope they leave the creation-focused LLM interactions alone. Like it would be pretty weird and disruptive to get ads in the middle of editing an essay or coding.

[Assistant] It might also be a tactic to get even more to become paid. Sort of like YouTube. The prospects for the user experience are indeed bleak.

[User] Ah good point!

[Assistant] I don't trust Altman as far as I can throw him.  He says a lot of stuff.


[User] Scottish Nationalists may be moving to Bluesky but they haven't changed that much from X. Even when presented with facts, you're met with denials and accusations. The narrative is apparently more important than reality.

[Assistant]
Yes, rather than engage with them I'm blocking all but the sensible ones.
I don't need to hear from, let alone argue with, idiots.

[User] I get blocked for asking for an economic case for independence.

[Assistant] Come on, the SNP's only had 90 years, you clearly want the moon on a stick.


[User]
Really pleased to announce the publication of my PhD paper in @ecography.bsky.social ! We demonstrate the importance of physiological tolerance traits to frost and drought in understanding the distribution limits of 35 tree species in Europe.🧵
nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

[Assistant]
3/6
We built a distribution model based on the safety margins for frost and drought, which tests whether the probability of presence of species decreases when they cross their resistance threshold.

[User]
5/6
Finally, we demonstrated that our model was more transferable for predicting the distribution of a species without any distribution data than a model based solely on climate.

[Assistant]
6/6
Our approach shows the importance of physiological limits in understanding the limits of species distributions, particularly for frost and drought constraints in Europe.


[User] LLMs are powerful tools, but their reliability is often overestimated. While they can generate human-like text, they lack the factual accuracy and context sensitivity of search engines. Misusing them as a primary information source can lead to misunderstandings and misinformat...

[Assistant] The environmental cost of LLMs is often overlooked. As users engage with AI-generated content, they inadvertently support the demand for extensive computational resources. This raises ethical concerns about sustainability and responsible usage of AI technologies. 🌍

[User] Trusting LLMs without verification is risky. They can fabricate information and misinterpret context, leading to potentially harmful outcomes. Users must approach AI-generated content with skepticism and verify facts through reliable sources to mitigate this risk. 🔍

[Assistant] As we develop AI systems, we must remain vigilant about their limitations. Misuse of LLMs can foster misinformation and ethical dilemmas. Education on proper usage and critical thinking is essential for users to navigate the AI landscape responsibly.


[User]
Today, I celebrate my 62nd birthday. For my birthday I would like all family and friends to give the gift of their presence.

Be there for each other.
The Volletnian way.

[Assistant]
Happy Birthday, Your Majesty.
🔥🎶🎈🎂🎊🥂🍾💰🥳🎉
As present as possible, given that we appear to be, by volume, mostly empty space with a really dense core. 😂

bigthink.com/starts-with-...

[User] And a dense incoming president as well... apparently.

[Assistant] And Thank You 😊


[User] Done a pasta post, done a steak one, woke up craving rice… so have some of that 🥰🍜🤩

[Assistant] That looks so yummy rice is so underrated. Its comfort food for many across the world is the top left picture risotto?

[User] Yeah mushroom risotto! My favourite rice dish of all time 😂

[Assistant] Omg same I thought it was mushroom risotto it's one of my faves so creamy but earthy and delicious it's worth the effort making it! 😋😊


[User]
i have no self-control! masterpiece ch20 is here a day early 💖

20/?, Explicit, 120k
#oshamir #fanfic #mywriting

archiveofourown.org/works/579886...

[Assistant] literally cannot contain my excitement!!! and holy heck that wordcount!!!

[User] I LOVE YOU and i know i'm still wondering how the hell we got here 😂🙈

[Assistant] from chapter one to this, heck!!! this is all you babe 💯💓💓


[User]
‼OUCH‼

Anaida Poilievre no longer appearing at AFN gathering

“We’re grateful that Mrs. Anaida Poilievre changed her mind,” said Nishnawbe Aski Nation Deputy Grand Chief Anna Betty Achneepineskum.

Pierre was invited, but his office did not respond to APTN’s...

www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

[Assistant] Maybe Pierre was afraid of getting booed...again.

[User]
Pierre was afraid of getting called out again?

www.threads.net/@edtanas/pos...

[Assistant] Pierre was afraid of getting called out again?

[User]
Pierre is afraid of getting called out again?

www.threads.net/@edtanas/pos...

[Assistant]
Pierre is afraid of backs being turned on him again?

www.threads.net/@edtanas/pos...


[User] Lemme push this stuff off the bed and go back to sleep 😴 Somebody comes and fold it when I wake back up, I’ll make you brunch 🤣

[Assistant] You better just sleep on one half of the bed and keep the clothes on the other half until you wake up. 😂

[User] That’s why I’m up now, I was crumbled up like a receipt trying to accommodate space mountain jr over here 😹

[Assistant] 😭😂😭😂😭 Nvm, don’t even go back to sleep. Put those clothes away now. lol!


[User] Just when you think you couldn’t possibly loathe this motherf’r more he comes out with this beautiful heartwarming and unifying Thanksgiving message.

[Assistant] The next four years are gonna be horrifying. 😫

[User] America will be respected again only after the orange turd has left the planet. Permanently.

[Assistant] No wonder we loathe this cretin!


[User]
Four suggestions from David Quammen, the author of Spillover, that predicted the inevitability of a zoonosis like coronavirus:

1. Prepare for the worst, while hoping for the best.

https://orionmagazine.org/2020/03/why-david-quammen-is-not-surprised/

[Assistant]
2. Zoonotic spillovers will keep coming, as long as we drag wild animals to us and split them open.

https://orionmagazine.org/2020/03/why-david-quammen-is-not-surprised/

[User]
3. A tropical forest, with its vast diversity of visible creatures and microbes, is like a beautiful old barn: knock it over with a bulldozer and viruses will rise in the air like dust.

https://orionmagazine.org/2020/03/why-david-quammen-is-not-surprised/

[Assistant]
4. Leave bats, in particular, the hell alone.

https://orionmagazine.org/2020/03/why-david-quammen-is-not-surprised/


[User] Here's a cake I made for a hospice fundraiser 11 years ago. I'd forgotten all about it but just found this tiny picture on my phone.

[Assistant] That’s spectacular!

[User] Beautiful cake. Such a great and generous contribution to that fundraiser. This looks like it took you a lot of time.

[Assistant] That is stunning! What a beautiful cake and it looks delicious too.


[User] This is how I know I wrote Morian Kyrnn, the Corpse Eater, correctly is that someone independently was like "It's Anko Call Of The Night." Like, yes. That was literally the character reference for Morian's movement and range of expression and even her physical description. I really nailed it, huh?

[Assistant] Started really getting into Hekate's Call last night and she immediately stood out. I love her... (I'm only a few chapters in so I expect to eat these words later on)

[User] As far as I know, everyone loved Morian Kyrnn. Everyone. She's a lovable little scamp. Even despite her incredible crimes and the sin of living cannot stop people from falling for her. She's perfect.

[Assistant] Guess I should start watching Call of The Night.


[Assistant] But let's be careful labeling trolls, just because they're conservative does not mean they're trolls. Discussing hard topics is healthy.

[User]
Been blocking away!
Honestly it feels good!

[Assistant] Excellent. That is your future on this platform.


[User] This is hilarious, but also you should absolutely watch Hot Frosty if you haven't already. It's somehow both bad-good and good-good at the same time: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvoK...

[Assistant] That looks like California/Encino Lawnmower Scissorhands Man ... but at Christmas :)

[User] You're not far off.

[Assistant] I was just listening to the podcast 372 Pages We’ll Never Get Back and they mentioned this too. With two mentions in one day, I’ll have to watch it.


[User] Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) refers to a type of AI capable of understanding, learning, and applying knowledge across a wide range of tasks, similar to human intelligence. Unlike narrow AI, AGI can adapt to new situations and perform any intellectual task a human can. 🤖

[Assistant] One key aspect of AGI is its potential impact on various industries. From healthcare to finance, AGI could revolutionize decision-making processes, enhance productivity, and drive innovation. However, this raises concerns about job displacement and ethical implications.

[User] The development of AGI also involves significant challenges, including the need for robust safety measures. Ensuring AGI systems act in alignment with human values and intentions is crucial, as misaligned AGI could pose existential risks. The focus on alignment is more critica...

[Assistant] Globally, the race for AGI leadership is heating up, with notable players like DeepMind leading the charge. However, the competition raises questions about collaboration and regulation, as unchecked advancements could lead to dangerous outcomes. 🏁


[User] Our team marriage was a happy one, then someone made a foul foul choice of starting the Christmas playlist.

[Assistant]
Don’t see a problem here. ☺
Wearing my Christmas sweater since start of November and listening to the bangers ever since 🎅

[User] And of course that’s how Gentler Streak looks like the whole year:

[Assistant] Yesssss!! Thanks for reminding me of it 🫣🫣🫣


[User] In Philly for Thanksgiving, Day 1.

[Assistant] In Philly for Thanksgiving, Day 2.

[User] YOU SAW THE PORTAL?!!!!

[Assistant] YEAH!! London!


[User]
☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕
☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕☕

How many 'cups' of dog food I use every morning to feed my 9 😁

Photo of my Jax for attention.  He loves sausages, screaming when the front door goes and being a dick to other dogs because... you know, thinks he's the king of wolves 🐺.

[Assistant] That's a lot of dogs!!!  😮 And, a lot of dog food!!! Jax is a handsome boy. My Shep/Husky mix has alpha-tude too, over the other two.

[User] Share a photo of pooches when you get a min 😁

[Assistant] It took me a while to find some and to the ALT text.😁


[User]
Big business seems intent on destroying our planet while they charge us to recycle their packaging and pay ever increasing prices for every deteriorating services.

Our government's are toothless administrators whose job it is to direct where the scraps go, while they line their own pockets.

[Assistant] I'd not have a problem with big business and big gov if they were peopled by folks with integrity. Sadly, as with most things, the Richards tend to float to the top.

[User] Exactly. The amount of money and profit involved naturally attracts the greedy sociopaths who will value those profits above and beyond moral, ethical behaviour.

[Assistant] I'm currently rather vexed by the PPE scandal and the contracts for cronies. People died because they didn't have adequate PPE whilst BoJo's pals raked in cash for useless, below standard PPE.

[User]
@carolvorderman.bsky.social

has exposed so much of this but I haven't seen anything about a criminal investigation. It's disgraceful.

[Assistant] Yup, I follow her and she's been doing stellar work.

[User] And when I say "rather vexed" I actually mean "spitting brimstone".

[Assistant] Two basics of human existence, health & energy - seem to be two industries where so much corruption exists.


[User] Labor declines to review three coal proposals for potential climate impact www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

[Assistant] This government has been such a disappointment. When they won I was hopeful for change. We just got more of the same.

[User] It's like it's deliberate destruction of our planet. Do they not have children/grandchildren?

[Assistant] #ALP is totally out of control and sense!


[User] Imagine a world in which an academic paper could be written in poetic verse.

[Assistant] In this world, I can express my knowledge in whatever way best enables me to do to so, and it would be commonly accepted and understood that creative expression and scientific communication need not be separate.

[User] Really, my gripe is with the culture around academic writing, most of which is exceedingly dry and actively inhibits your understanding of it.

[Assistant] Yet, this is the way academic culture has persisted for hundreds of years, and it has its benefits + supporters. Indeed, given total freedom of choice, I'm sure some scientists would write their papers exactly the same way they currently do.

[User] I guess I'm dreaming of a world where not adopting a certain communication style doesn't imply that you shouldn't be taken seriously.

[Assistant] And so, that's a mission I'll carry with me in life. Levity and joy are authentic expressions of who I am. I can be those things while ALSO producing meaningful intellectual insights and exhibiting technical prowess.


[User]
The *really clever people* at Discord now let users post with external apps on their accounts, and it's enabled by default.

And the result is...you guessed it, annoying to deal with spam.

I suggest disabling on your servers it to be safe.

[Assistant] Discord has gone to shit since last year October or something when they change its UI on the phone app like why would you do that? It's a complete shite. Already abandoned that shit.

[User] Fun fact: you have no way to block any app from being ran on the server except to turn all of them with this permission. You can ban the app, but the users will still be able to use it. That's Discord for you.

[Assistant]
The only thing I care about is them finally updating their electron version so screen and audio sharing works.

Yes, I know there's a community rebuild. Yes, I know I can use virtual devs. Yes, I know I can pipewire.

But electron is a trivial upgrade for them.


[Assistant] Thank you so much, @realrayporter.bsky.social! Just finished “Not Till We Are Lost,” and it is phenomenal because you are reading it to us. Gratitude!

[User] 🍻 to many more hours of your voice narrating stories that bring us joy!

[Assistant] Any where, any time. And I’ll buy the burgers.


[User]
NYC’s housing affordability crisis is due to many factors, one of which could be described as the preservation of a whole neighborhood worth of land to entertain 72 people at a time (during good weather and daylight hours).

This is the opposite of highest and best use. ⛳

[Assistant] Golf, the most anti-urban sport that every American City seems to covet.

[User] I grew up on an urban river opposite a golf course. The river was home to platypus when we first moved there. The golf course pushed landfill into the eddys to get more flat land, destroying the platypus' habitat + the entire local population. Golf courses are "marsupial murderers" to me ever since.

[Assistant] But then my children got into it recently and I'm horrified to find I love the game. 🫠


[User] Anyone have a Block Editor sample page with all the current blocks included in the markup?  Need to test a retro-fitting of the editor into an old theme. There are so many blocks and options now.

[Assistant] Does the WordPress theme unit test file perhaps include those now?

[User]
Ah ha, yes I think it does. Thanks!

github.com/WordPress/th...

[Assistant] Yeah, I was going to say try the theme unit test data on a local site or staging github.com/WordPress/th...


[User]
BOOST:

Tell me about an anime you really like!

[Assistant] Outlaw Star was one of my favorite shows when I was young, its the peak 90s scifi anime if you ask me. I always wanted to be Melfina because she gets to be a space ship. Also... look at her 😍

[User] I’d take Outlaw Star over Cowboy Bebop any day of the week.

[Assistant] Soul Eater!! People who turn into weapons form teams with people who wield them and  fight witches and monsters. I based my entire art and writing style around it at 19 lmao. Also early gender feelings from Crona’s enby behavior.


[User] Canna mind how many times I've went on YouTube and clicked on what I think is a great topic, only to switch off within 10 seconds as the person presenting it is an overhyping pretentious knob...

[Assistant]
..or it has an AI voice over which sounds like it's been written by a ten year old.

It's just lazy and devalues the worth of the video.

[User] They seem to be on every platform including this one…

[Assistant] Ed explores Scotland should have more followers  youtube.com/@edexploress...


[User]
Good morning and happy (rainy) Turkey Day! 🌧🌧🌧

(My balloons are behind Elf on the Shelf and in front of Santa. I'll be flying on the first of the two snow crystals. 🩵❄🤍)

[Assistant] Try to stay dry and enjoy!!

[User] I saw your balloons but couldn’t see you!! Beautiful but it did look a tad damp! Hope you had a great time!🎈☔

[Assistant] Gorgeous as always!


[User] Maybe we need this?

[Assistant] It may underestimate the selfishness of people. 😱

[User] I don’t live in a small city so I’m ok with it :-)

[Assistant]
Can I pick the city?

Or at least the country?


[User] All three were wrong about some things. All three strutted hard on the page, harder than in actuality. All three used their art to destroy the world they were given. All three remain dear to me.

[Assistant] Leonard Cohen, Jean Genet, and who’s the other guy?

[User] I’m curious what Genet was wrong about. I assume you’re not referring to his “disturbing attachments”? But intrigued nevertheless!

[Assistant] Cohen was wrong about Palestine. Genet was wrong to worship the milice and then pivot from acknowledging why. In my opinion. In my judgment of the world which is limited by my perspective. There is no transcendent truth, and Genet was more right than Cohen about that.


[User] Any time I feel even remotely curious about the WATCHMEN TV series, I remember Damon Lindelof's response to Moore's consistent and continued desire to be left the fuck alone when it comes to WATCHMEN.

[Assistant] It's nothing but an edgelordy soundbite that completely ignores Moore's love and respect for creators. It reduces Moore to a unwilling cog in this giant marketing machine for the show. It is,   above all else, absolutely gross.

[User] Yeah, Lindelof has turned out to be…a pretty terrible dude overall. For what it’s worth, I have pretty big problems with his WATCHMEN despite its generally high quality.

[Assistant] The most I've allowed myself to interact with it is that I've listened to the score. And if it weren't Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, it wouldn't even have gotten that out of me.


[User] I got a new follower , hopefully we can become “friends”

[Assistant] People from LA USA are always wishing others a great moments, so that seems legit. 😂

[User] Wow. Looks like the real deal to me.

[Assistant] I think I’ve finally made it .


[User]
My two pennorth on today's Assisted Dying debate:

We need better disability care and palliative care. Sadly, with some conditions there is a point where pain relief stops working but the body doesn't give up, and that suffering is horrific both for the individual and for their loved ones.

[Assistant]
I believe everyone has the right to decide when their end has come, in their personal circumstances.

It is cruel and arrogant for others not in their situation to refuse them that right just in case criminals and fraudsters try to persuade the vulnerable to die for their gain.

[User] We don't prevent people buying cars or fireworks despite the horrific pain and death they frequently cause. We don't stop people getting onto aeroplanes in case they fall from the skies in a ball of fire, although that can happen.

[Assistant] Why force people who are certainly suffering to carry on suffering just in case someone misuses the legislation? If a sane adult chooses to die, give them the respect and dignity we currently give to all other suffering animals.


[User]
Idk why Shazam can't figure out the obscure classical piece I have stuck in my head. I can hear it, I can feel myself playing it, but fuck me I can't name it.

Worthless technology.

[Assistant] Give us a clue 🕵♂

[User] I can't lol. It exists only in my head. I know it's a real song. I've seen it performed. But I cannot for the life of me remember it's name.

[Assistant] I have this as well, I can't emulate it but I'll know it when I hear it. Last year I finally came across a song by chance that I'd been trying to find for like 20 years.


[User]
**INSIDE the Gregg Wallace megacrisis + Big Tech Vs Parent Power: the PR battle over children & social media + has Ed Davey been reading his Socrates?**

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

[Assistant] As soon as I heard that Gregg Wallace video disaster I was looking forward to this episode 😄

[User]
Listened on my train journey home earlier. Interesting what you said about the so called apology. Absolutely it was more 'me, me, me' than whoever it was he thought he was apologising to, he also said 'any' twice instead of 'the'.
"Any offence I caused, any upset I may have caused." 😞

[Assistant] I listened to this this evening - superb analysis.  Best I’ve heard! 👏🤓


[User] I had an interesting conversation with your prison visitor friend Alan before I came away from London.

[Assistant] That's a good start to a book or film. 😮

[User] I now know where they keep the master keys.

[Assistant] He wished me the best of luck outside…


[User]
A hopeful moment today:

One of my classes this semester is pretty large. I wear a respirator everyday, so at the beginning of each semester, I tell the students that I’m immunocompromised so it’s not the elephant in the living room.

I also bring extra N95s for people to take, but very few do.

1/

[Assistant]
We just got back from TG break, so I was a little worried about going back to class with everyone’s fresh colds, flus, and covids that they caught from their families, but I never told anyone.

Today, five students were sick with “bad strep” (likely covid!),
but they didn’t want to miss class.

2/

[User]
They clearly chatted with each other about it before texting me and asking if I would Zoom them into class, explaining that they really want to come, but they don’t want to get me sick.

I have no words for how touching I found that gesture. Just the fact that they thought of my health at all.

3/

[Assistant]
5/

I said of course and sent the link to the whole class, and to my surprise a couple more students joined in (also sick).

And the Zoom crowd actively participated in the class just like the people physically present, and we all had a fun, lively, and insightful discussion on the topic.

[User] Thank you for this thread. I'm heartened by the way your students cared about you and each other. Young people give me hope! 💕

[Assistant]
This generation, I tell you! I’m not claiming any moral perfection for them, but there are so many class moments where I see them noting who is included/excluded or honing in on injustice and ways we can make change.

They do not get enough credit for their strength of character!

[User]
7/

The current generation of young adults do not get enough credit. Only a couple of them mask in class, but this little group of people who do not mask still stopped and thought “wait…I don’t want to get my disabled professor sick”.

That says something about the kind of people they want to be.

[Assistant]
8/

You can see it in other behaviors too. They are quick to pick up on inequity. They look for language that won’t make others feel excluded. They get excited about materials in which people’s unique identities are celebrated. They aren’t an extroverted bunch, but they speak up for what’s right.


[User]
We're on Facebook too by the way.

(That is until Meta's AI decides to nuke us, again)

www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

[Assistant] Some morons are crawling out the woodwork again on some of your posts🤡

[User] I saw that morons comments... Good thing we got Bluesky now 😌

[Assistant] Lets hope that isnt the case anymore. I got an email about new terms on Instagram so hopefully you are fine there as well if that is still up.


[User]
Raw sewage spills have pushed levels of harmful bacteria in Belfast Lough beyond legal limits, a BBC Spotlight investigation has found.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

[Assistant] And we're *still* waiting for NI Water to allow residents of Greenisland to visit their shoreline... 2km of beach inaccessible without "trespassing", except at low tide, bacteria and all! Come on, NI Water - #ShareTheShore!

[User] Yet another example of what happens when water, a natural resource, is privatised. Lots of shareholders rubbing their hands with glee, customers scrimping to pay their bills, water courses dying, their eco systems poisoned. Capitalism at its worst. When will we learn?

[Assistant] No shareholders rubbing their hands with glee or people scrimping to pay water bills in NI! People scrimping to pay a rates bill, yes, but water bills? No.


[User] @flakeyfawn.bsky.social 🤣

[Assistant] @flakeyfawn.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

[User] flakeyfawn makes a good point!! Thanks for supporting blue sky.  All of this work can’t be used by musk!! Great job!

[Assistant] flakeyfawn makes a good point!! Thanks for supporting blue sky.  All of this work can’t be used by musk!! Great job!


[User]
The scales of justice are way out of balance—where's the fairness in that?

I guess JUSTICE will stand for JUST-US!  🤦🏽♀

[Assistant] And right now these are the two most important things the WaPo wants to get out into the world.  EVERYTING is out of balance.

[User] Lady Justice is tied up in the basement over at DOJ.


[User] So many scientific rationalists running the global discussion on climate, biodiversity and equity. A beautiful irony that an aspergic young girl named Greta EMOTES such change in others.

[Assistant] Emotion and rationale are key to ethical actions, based on the values we have formed and can change through shared understanding. I contend that devotion, as a form of love (emotion), is a powerful force throughout nature.

[User] "Deep adaptation," the long term changes necessary for the Good Life in a rapidly changing biosphere, will include this same devotion. Those who aleady 'see' have a duty to facilitate that change required in others who don't yet 'see', through shared understanding.

[Assistant] Call it The Great Turning, Deep Adaptation, Transition, we are the links in the chain of processes that will lead to a different, symbiotic way of life. The key must be in mentoring, educating, showing. It is an essential part of the process of change.


[User] and also perhaps I’m a little neurospicy but bloody hell Apple, stop making me listen to music when I don’t want to, why would I want a musical soundtrack to a slideshow, why??

[Assistant] You… allow your phone to make *noises*?

[User] Is it U2 by any chance? (I'd already be quite happy if they made declining calls and especially blocking callers easier)

[Assistant] Ha! I remember that. I don't know what it was but I really don't want music in my face when I'm just trying to enjoy some nice photos. I don't understand why so many people seem to need a musical backdrop to their lives.


[User]
New Publication Alert from our National Institute of Mental Health funded ESSENCE project
#Burnout, motivation and job satisfaction among community health workers recruited for a depression training in Madhya Pradesh, India: a cross-sectional study
#CHWs
bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/2/...

[Assistant]
This project was conducted in Sehore district, Madhya Pradesh, India through Sangath India #Bhopal hub with our project collaborators.
This project continued to collect data through the pandemic period with risk mitigation efforts.

[User] Burnout, low motivation and poor job satisfaction among community health workers (CHWs) have negative impacts on health workers and on patients.

[Assistant] This study aimed to characterise levels of burnout, motivation and job satisfaction in CHWs in Madhya Pradesh, India and to determine the relation between these levels and participant characteristics.


[User]
Get to know me!
1 like = 1 answer ☺

Posting answers down below ⬇

[Assistant]
1. What’s your sexuality?

I am bisexual 🩷💜💙

[User]
2. Top, bottom, or switch?

Bratty Bottom 😈

[Assistant]
6. Do you prefer hookups or do you like to get to know someone?

Typically I like to get to know someone 🤓


[User] It’s 1am and I’m drinking a monster while making a garlic miso compound butter to slather over a ribeye roast that’s going in the smoker.

[Assistant] This is so fucking good.

[User] It’s like a giant meat cake.

[Assistant] The sharp difference between a carefully made meal and crushing a chemical sugar beverage to stay conscious✊


[User] Buy a ferri by Lovense. Put the app on your phone. Thank me later!

[Assistant] Listennnn control that mf from across the country!! Make it better.. get the his and hers that link to her speed and settings 😮💨🤌🏾

[User] You know ball Mr. Wells!!!!

[Assistant] Lovense is soooo good. I have a Calor now and babbbby >


[User] Good morning my friends!💙💙💙

[Assistant] Good Morning, 🎶🎶Sandy🎶🎶.

[User] Good morning Jim 💙🥰

[Assistant] Definitely soup weather for the next few days.

[User]
Good Morning, 🎶🎶Sandy🎶🎶.
A little chilly this morning for my walk but two trips to Wawa and I am ready to go.
Today's project...Ham and Lentil soup.
I'll let you know how it turns out.

[Assistant]
Good morning Jim💙
It's 23 here in Amish Country.
Good day to start making cookies.

[User] Please...

[Assistant]
Yes you can have all the cookies you want.
Ya just have to wait till it snows!


[User]
Adventures in Autism:

I was out in front of our home and my neighbor passed by.

I smiled and said the requisite French “good morning, are you well?”

They looked horrified, smiled awkwardly, gave the shortest answer ever, and RAN away.

[Assistant]
Where I live it’s considered a major societal faux pas to not do what I did. If I hadn’t there would be gossip about the rude foreigner in the streets.

Ironically, their reaction is often coded as “autistic”.

Our behaviors, when done by NT folx, are OK, as long as they’re in reaction to US.

[User]
The fundamental issue with us, is of course, not our “behavior”.

It’s our existence and the way we make others feels.

[Assistant]
The French forgot to inform you that "bonjour, ça va?" has turned into a demonic summoning incantation. /j

It's the same here. If I don't greet someone on the street, they will confront me later or tell my family I was rude. Western Europe is weird. 😮💨


[User]
100 for 25: Pick 4 albums for each of the 1st 25 years of the 21st century.
2000:

[Assistant] Already loving these picks.

[User] It's tough. 2002 was a lean year looking through my library.

[Assistant] I saw APC open for NIN a few times on that Mer De Noms/Fragile tour. They were so good.


[User] It's how quickly people in authority just fold when the right wing press come for them that baffles me.

[Assistant] Yes! Astonishing. And sad.

[User]
Given the run of negative media stories of late, yes mainly in the Tory client media, they just want to move on and take away the stick they're being beaten with.
Pragmatic politics, not craven surrender.

[Assistant]
Given the run of negative media stories of late, yes mainly in the Tory client media, they just want to move on and take away the stick they're being beaten with.
Pragmatic politics, not craven surrender.

[User]
Given the run of negative media stories of late, yes mainly in the Tory client media, they just want to move on and take away the stick they're being beaten with.
Pragmatic politics, not craven surrender.

[Assistant] Not just them. Blinking GMB would drag it out for weeks!


[User] Noel Pekora Marine PawaPuro Tournament 2024 Eikan Nine Session (#ミリしらパワプロ杯) - Noel High School (Shirogane Noel) - Day 0 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPq8... #ノエルーム #白銀ノエル

[Assistant]
This is a strategy meeting for Shirogane Noel where she plans to choose which OB player she's aiming for.

Remember that Noel has 30 chances to get a decent 1st set of players in Eikan Nine Mode. #ミリしらパワプロ杯 #ノエルーム #白銀ノエル

[User]
Speaking of players from Oita prefecture, there are a few notables like Inao Kazuhisa and Imamiya Kenta.

One more thing, her baseball will be renamed to something else so it'll no longer be called Noel High School. #ミリしらパワプロ杯 #ノエルーム #白銀ノエル

[Assistant]
Here's the list of players from Oita Prefecture (in Eikan Nine Mode).

game8.jp/eikan-nine/5...

#ミリしらパワプロ杯 #ノエルーム #白銀ノエル


[User]
A wandering merchant wanted to sell me the “top quality mushrooms”.

They looked exactly like the ones that grow in my bog.

I banished him for appropriating my mushrooms.

[Assistant] You confiscated the mushrooms right?

[User] Of course. Want some?

[Assistant] We should put them in your cauldron with this pixie I caught Strumpet using, and see what happens.


[User] Tell them AGAIN 🗣🗣🗣🗣🗣

[User] I gotta agree though. You keep this shit lit 😂

[Assistant] I do my best 💅🏽


[User] "You can stop working when you're dead."

[Assistant] “Thankfully not me though. I’ll get rich off kickbacks, money from lobbyists and speaking gigs, and I’ll spend my golden years golfing”

[User] "Until the Federal necromancy plan is enacted, then you will be working after death!"

[Assistant]
ever seen the movie "Robocop"?
A cop died, and they didn't let him rest in peace.
They did, though, make explicit that serving the Corporation had higher priority than enforcing the law.


[User] 📺 New Video: Can I build a Code Sandbox using Web Components?!?

[Assistant]
Your handling with the textarea and the pre-element with codehighlighting is awesome. Great idea.
Simple idea that I would never had thought of, I guess.

Thanks for sharing the component. Maybe I will use it in my upcoming (cough ...) 11ty-page. It would be of great help for explaining CSS.

[User]
Your handling of the textarea and the codehighlighting is really cool. Simple and clever. I should think more simple when I see frontend problems. Thanks for sharing.
Very nice webcomponent.

[Assistant]
Thank you! FWIW, the simplest solutions often take a while to get to.

Human brains have a tendency to over engineer things. This one took me a few tries!


[User]
#wolqotd || #wolquestion

How does your WOL/Oc swap between jobs? Do they change like Meteor from the trailer, do they just happen to carry multiple weapons or are we looking at magical girl transformation?

[Assistant] Serenais is a red mage, but she has a shield with embedded focus (to employ paladin skills) and she carries sage nouliths should the need arise, so, technically speaking, she just carries multiple weapons.

[User] Fraeswys canonically carries just a ridiculous amount of weapons at all times somehow, just in case. Never know when you might need that seventh dagger in the third pocket.

[Assistant]
JRNRJENFBB Wait it's giving that one scene in Sinbad!

youtu.be/gAMPsIAuszA?...


[User]
I'm not surprise WWE Netflix will remain family friendly. Like, who is really?

Probably those who thought they were going to see a Liv and Dom - Live Sex Show 😭

If you look where they are now financially, why change a thing? I don't even watch WWE as much, and know what they were going to do. 🤼

[Assistant] That’s fine, personally I’m just hoping they stop muting the “BULLSHIT” chants and whatnot.

[User]
WWE has made themselves super profitable with their corporations of being family friendly. They weren’t going to change to TV 14. They’ve found what they have is working now. If it’s working why change it.
It’s what they’ve known. And hey it works for them.

[Assistant]
If the thing ain't broken, doesn't need to be fix.

They ain't here to please someone with the account name - WWEFan4Life39038347626 just because they're hoping for some adult content on a WWE show.

WWE will continue to operate as they are cause that's what is bringing in the money.


[User] It’s time.

[User]
“Another comeback” he just won an Oscar.
And was in Nolan’s last Oscar sweeping opus.
He’s back!

[Assistant]
I'm happy for Brendan Fraser, but I still think Austin Butler should have won the Oscar instead.
As Elvis, Butler delivers a much more dynamic, substantive evocation of character than the somewhat static Fraser in The Whale (and I feel the same about Michael Fassbender vs Leonardo DiCaprio).


[User] Books finished recently: Absolutely loved Asunder by Kerstin Hall. Dark fantasy with lovable messy characters & extremely cool worldbuilding. Probably my fave read this year, crossing fingers for a sequel.

[Assistant] I bounced off Becky Chambers' first book when I tried it in 2017, then read her entire backlist (except this book) over the pandemic & enjoyed it very much. It was interesting to return to Angry Planet; I found it very much An Early Work but it was fun to see where her better later books came from.

[User] Tor sent me an arc of the latest Katherine Addison (always a delight), this is set in the Goblin Emperor world and is the third of the Cemeteries of Amalo trilogy, a kind of fantasy detective series. Haven't read it yet, a nice treat for Christmas break.

[Assistant] Congrats on posting enough about books to get ARCs 👏

[User] The problem with The Goblin Emp is they all have ridiculous Goblin names like Gzarkorankatgh and it makes conversations very difficult to follow 🫠

[Assistant] Huh, that book was my favorite of The Wayfinders series.


[User]
I'm a simple coyote.

I see Carl.

I want to motorboat Carl.

[Assistant] I really am a TJ kinnie huh-

[User] that's anyone with eyes, 'yote or not. or it should be!!

[Assistant] Those moobs will be motorboated or so help me, by all the stars in the sky--


[User]
#AdoorableThursday
The door(s) from Cheyneygates passageway to Westminster Abbey's cloisters opens to 14th C Abbots (now Dean's) Court.

The courtyard gives access to Abbot's Hall (now mainly Westminster School's dining hall), Jerusalem Chamber+Jericho Parlour and Abbot's/now Dean's quarters.

[Assistant] Impossible even to imagine all the people who have passed through it over the centuries. All those stories!

[User] I always wondered why there is the smaller door within the big door? Beautiful though.

[Assistant] A fairly common feature in medieval (and later) churches, city gates, larger buildings - called a wicket gate. It allows ordinary coming and going of just one person at a time without opening the big heavier door (needed for larger numbers or eg for carts), so easier to control access.


[User]
Sometimes pro scouting is as simple as "Sort by column [that is interesting]".

Today's column: Successful dribblers who are 22 or younger in Europe.

Kim profiled Jamie Gittens in @thetransferflow.bsky.social yday, who tops that list.

Abdul Fatuwu of Leicester is second. No end product here.

[Assistant]
And finally, 5th on the list is Lisandru Tramoni, of Bastia in Ligue 2 in France.

Never heard of him.

But potentially available for cheap and probably worth scouting!

[User]
And finally, 5th on the list is Lisandru Tramoni, of Bastia in Ligue 2 in France.

Never heard of him.

But potentially available for cheap and probably worth scouting!

[Assistant]
And finally, 5th on the list is Lisandru Tramoni, of Bastia in Ligue 2 in France.

Never heard of him.

But potentially available for cheap and probably worth scouting!


[User] Just throwing it out there:  I'm not going to repost shit where I'm 1/100 in your tag list.   Or where I'm clearly a copy-pasted after thought and you've tagged me 14 times that day.  Feel free to remove me if you consider that rude.

[Assistant] These and the "learn about me" memes are getting tiring.

[User] I get you.  I'm not a shy person and when I want to know about someone I do that old fashioned thing called... talk to the person. I'd rather find out by myself about the potential friend in a natural conversation than read "I'm like this and that".

[Assistant]
So I hope I dont come across as standoffish during the week when I am trying to recharge my batteries in preparation for the next weekend.

Or hypocritical because I host one myself 🫠

[User]
So I hope I dont come across as standoffish during the week when I am trying to recharge my batteries in preparation for the next weekend.

Or hypocritical because I host one myself 🫠

[Assistant]
So I hope I dont come across as standoffish during the week when I am trying to recharge my batteries in preparation for the next weekend.

Or hypocritical because I host one myself 🫠

[User]
So I hope I dont come across as standoffish during the week when I am trying to recharge my batteries in preparation for the next weekend.

Or hypocritical because I host one myself 🫠

[Assistant] There's just -so- many artshares going on every single day now. I've found myself just sticking to one or two weekly ones now to preserve my sanity.

[User] I always appreciate your interactions!

[Assistant] I'm torn on this, because on the one hand I think of a tag as just a little 'here's someone else worth looking at', not a demand for attention. But also I don't think I've ever tagged someone more than once in a week. That is a wild level of parasocial.

[User]
This sounds familiar.

This is why my way of tagging is basically prioritizing small follower/ new mutuals.

y'all big sendpies (basically everyone above 3k) get tagged enough.

[Assistant]
There's such a big part of me that is actually a bit apprehensive to not interact when I get tagged just because I am worried about looking like an ass... But you basically put my thoughts into words here.
It does feel like an afterthought or an obligation to see yourself in a multipost list.

[User]
I’m really guilty of this, and I apologise for it~

I tag everyone I’m mutuals with because I don’t want anyone to feel left out, but now my tag list has grown so large I don’t know how to stop without looking like an ass.

[Assistant]
When you see me tagging you, believe me, I mean it ;D.  I can't bring myself to tag more than 6 people and I usually try to avoid tagging unless I'm genuinely thinking on that person.

So, cool if I tag you again once every 100 years like I usually do, right?


[User]
Your IKEA product name is your name spelled backwards with an umlaut.

I am SALÖHCIN, a DVD shelving solution that came in a choice of grey, white or pine effect finishes, and was discontinued after you bought only three of the eight units you needed.

[Assistant] NÏLOC a useless utensil pushed to the back of the drawer because it keeps getting jammed as you try to open it and get that nice spoon out.

[User] NIÄI, a lightbulb.

[Assistant] ERÄLC - a set of toughened-glass ovenware.


[User] What if we spooned in bed but I'll also grope you in any place I want?

[Assistant] That would be very welcome ☺

[User] Good to know😌

[Assistant] Please?


[Assistant] Thanks for passing this along, Morgan.

[User] Thank you for the articles :)

[Assistant] Reported and blocked those accounts impersonating you. :)


[User] Words cannot describe how much I absolutely love my little Sound Burger! Listening to some old Christmas albums while decorating.

[Assistant] Ohhh that’s cool.

[User] It's so worth it! It has aux out, as well as Bluetooth. It also has a USB C port for charging.

[Assistant] When I first saw this player, I was horrified. But reading about it, I see it's pretty well made and now I'm thinking about all the places I could take my vinyl.

[User] Same. I changed my mind after seeing the review by Techmoan. It's just like their common LP 60 as far as playing the records. It sounds amazing!

[Assistant] May your listening experiences be enjoyable, your holiday spirit remain high, and your overall appreciation for vintage technology never fade. Send more vintage tech stories. (Just kidding...mostly).


[User] For the most part, I'm a pretty self accepting person, but sometimes it's hard to love myself and tonights one of those nights. I'm a mid to late 30's year old, Gay, fat, Diaper loving furry with sleep apnia, high blood pressure, and an unhealthy attachment to food, who struggles to lose weight.

[Assistant] I haven't had sex in roughly 4+ years, and as a bottom who loves anal sex, I'm nobody's body type. I have kinks that are probably weird, creepy, and mostly undesirable to a good percentage of furry fandom (aka diapers, forced sissification and other ABDL related kinks) and I'm not getting younger.

[User] I'm just saying that some days it's difficult to love myself. Some days zi look in the mirror and I don't see any redeemable qualities. I read through my posts on social media, or I take a step back and reflect on my inner desires and think,"Wow, what a creepy  pervert losers, others must see?"

[Assistant] I mean, when it comes to having ABDL related desires, wanting to wear diapers, adult baby clothes, and other related kinky interests, how old is too old? How old is too old to be a furry? Anyways. Just my thoughts for the night. Heading to bed. Hope to he in a better mindset in the morning.


[User] Paul Aron isn't signed to any F1 teams??? This guy is lightning quick. I know F2 doesn't necessarily equal F1 success but quicker than Bearman and Bortoleto who will both be on the F1 grid next year. Those Estonian sponsors letting him down.

[Assistant] He has not been let down, there is just not enough sponsorship money available in Estonia in order to buy a seat. All drivers here have to earn everything by personal merit and often even that is not enough.

[User] I think you've taken my language to be too literal my friend. The connotation being sponsors talk more than driving given him clearly being as talented in F2 as Bearman, Bortoleto, Antonelli etc. The Estonian not as sexy as the others. "Let down" was tongue in cheek.

[Assistant] Signed by Alpine as a reserve driver! Congrats to Paul Aron who finished 5th in the F2 sprint race (ahead of 2025 Kick Sauber driver Gabriel Bortoleto).


[User] I still can't get over the fact that Taiwan awarded this guy the Tang Prize.

[Assistant] I'm talking of Jeffrey Sachs of course. Michael Turton would make a much better recipient. ;)

[User] He's a complete moron, pro-Xi and pro-Putin.

[Assistant] Taiwan didn't award him the Tang Prize. The Tang Prize Foundation did. Its founder and funder is billionaire Samuel Yin. Yin is pretty interesting character. Very much a card-carrying member of the 49er elite but had good relations with Tsai government I believe.


[User]
“You may live most of your life in what you take to be the actual world, and find yourself suddenly a villain in someone else’s idea of the same.”

nymag.com/intelligence...

[Assistant] Would rather be on his revenge list than be someone who gave in and simply obeyed.

[User] I lived as a child for several years in Pakistan. I saw the 1977 coup that brought a dictator to power. What they do is make an example of a few high profile people to try and scare the rest into line. It’s surprisingly effective. Good chance DJT et al will try it.

[Assistant] I've experienced that, and it is disheartening, frightening, and can be debilitating.


[User] Each week I’ll change my profile banner, this week it’s the Moomins. Next week it may be Asterix, Calvin & Hobbes, the Peanuts, Hagar the Viking, Gaston laGaffe. Any comic strip suggestions would be most welcome (feel free to join in!) ✍🎨

[Assistant]
This particular Moomin comic strip resonates: My dad was a ski instructor in his youth, and still hasn’t fully forgiven me for giving up on alpine skiing aged 7, after my then best friend Axel crashed into a tree.

Cross-country skiing is thankfully not a death-defying pursuit 🫠

[User] Cross-country skiing is my preference. The tranquility once you're deep in a forest on a remote track, with everything white and calm, is wonderful. And it's a damn good workout too.

[Assistant] Javisst! Great exercise and so much more enjoyable than bombing down a steep slope. Need to organise a midwinter langrenn trip to Norway 🇳🇴


[User]
🚨What did I say I’m in bed & UI Cheats Ext is updated.🚨

Have fun playing everyone on the other side of the world I shall join you in the am.

[Assistant] Wonderful timing too, I almost was about to go to bed myself 😂

[User] Weerbesu never seems to fail usually every update there an update by the this time of night of in the wee hrs for me. I also assume if More Columns is broke it will have an update soon too.

[Assistant] He's very consistent with his UI cheats extension mod and his other mods, without fail 🙂🙌🏻✨💯


[User]
Reminder to the anglos that Umlatue, Cyrillic, Hašček, and other letters/glyphs aren't your "COOL ™" letters.

Thanks.

[Assistant] I just got a letter addressed to me with an oe .. a reminder that I always used to use my umlaut. I gave up in email world and because I didn't like the oe. It's a short vowel as well (because followed by two consonants) which nobody ever got.

[User] Ooof I never got used to ue, oe, ae, and even ss... It's always ü, ö, ä, and ß.

[Assistant] Ooh love a schlafes s.


[User]
Rainy day walks.

Where did all of these puddles come from?

[Assistant] Look at that sweet smiley face 🖤🧡🥰

[User] I just want to pet and kiss this sweet face.  Just take the 24 hour flight, drive however far to see Liz, kiss this face, get back on the plane and fly home!  😂😂😘

[Assistant]
He's always smiling when he's walking.
I like it when people are walking towards him & you see them melt when he makes eye contact & when he's walking across the pedestrian crossing with his head turned smiling at the cars that have stopped watching the drivers expression change.

He's a love bug 🐞❤


[User]
IMO, the biggest failure of legacy media institutions was cede revenue and attention to tech platforms.

Have any well resourced media institutions even tried to treat these platforms as adversaries? AFAICT no.

Even spend their own revenue creating the content that fuels tech platforms' profits!

[Assistant]
Instead of trying to maintain their audience by doing the simplest tech -- eg: building a Craigslist competitor -- they cashed out their revenue in profits.

Before the internet disruption, legacy media was seeing ~20% profits!

[User]
One the early tech tutorials I did was building a Twitter clone. An individual could do the basic app in a weekend.

BlueSky apparently has ~20 employees and has been around for less than three years. It now has 24 million users.

What are the legacy media companies doing?

[Assistant]
Tech platforms come and go. IMO content creation is a bigger market differentiator than tech. Media companies will continue to get opportunities to couple their natural advantage from content creation with the tech needed to scale distribution.

Who's going to seize that opportunity?

[User]
Was it @miguelgrinberg.bsky.social's Flask "mega-tutorial"? 😃

github.com/miguelgrinbe...

[Assistant] I think the NYT probably comes closest. They built their own distribution channel and bundle.


[User] Just had a look on x courtesy of my daughter. WHY are squaddies still posting on there? The hate & racism toward Meghan & Harry has been dialled up by x1000's and is being supported and encouraged by the platform. WHY are squaddies supporting this?

[Assistant] I read it’s better to delete all my tweets before deactivating my account which I do everyday but it’s a long process. I don’t post anything there.

[User] A Deranger posted on IG that the Squad is fascinated by the precancerous cells lady cause we keep posting photos of her & I have to admit she was right…

[Assistant] I completely closed my account.  They’ll get the hint after awhile.  That’s where all of the Royal trolls are located.


[User]
Hey BSkyers: What's your favorite platform for ordering a PC laptop (an ASUS ROG laptop, if it makes any difference).

Gotten used to just going to the manufacturer's website (aka Apple, Lenovo, Dell, ...) but ASUS seems to be making that hard for some reason.

[Assistant] I’ve been ordering PC components from NewEgg for decades. Shipping is a bit slow, but it’s great for researching and selection. Reviews are often more detailed and useful too.

[User] Do they do laptops as a whole, or just parts?

[Assistant] They have laptops, and a full lineup of Asus; though it’s been a long time since I ordered a non-Mac laptop. The best thing about NewEgg is they have lots of pics of their products from all angles and complete info when it comes to tech specs.


[User]
Amazing spot in the Peak District; Lud's Church.

There weren't many hikers around today, so we had it all to ourselves...

[Assistant] Welcome to Bluesky!  We haven't talked in ages.

[User] Oooh long time no chats! It's good to see you on here too!

[Assistant]
I joined Blue sky over a year ago and get my best engagement here.  Better than Mastodon, Threads, etc.
I had to take a closer look at your profile picture - I was expecting to see a photo with you jumping on some Canadian mountain...and maybe holding some bear spray. :)


[User]
Fvckety Fvck second “surprise you won!” today
pls block at will👊🙂

[Assistant] Yeah, I got three of these this morning, plus blocked a creepozoid and a few bots. And it's not even 10am!

[User] I also won.  And blocked.

[Assistant] A "surprice" box huh. Not sketchy at all 🤣

[Assistant] Hi Shell!!🖐😀


[User] My hot take of the day is that most compiler courses should teach parsing with parser combinators rather than lex/yacc.

[Assistant] I always heard that parsing is the easy part of building a compiler but for some reason parsing sticks with people like a fun little side quest!

[User] Also context here: bsky.app/profile/p1xe...

[Assistant] I think this stickiness is a combination of (1) mucking around with syntax is fun, (2) IMO the default lex/yacc notation is pretty terrible, and (3) most students won’t work on languages or compilers and parsing is the part that transfers best to other areas and problem domains.

[User] Odin which is a procedural language ships with a Pratt Parser, I know nothing about it but how does that differ to say Parser Combinators?

[Assistant] Not sure, I’ve never used a Pratt parser myself. My experience is that writing a parser using an appropriate combinator library is much nicer than lex/yacc, especially for newcomers.


[User]
Alright #ttrpgsky, let’s do this!

1 like = 1 TTRPG in my library and/or that I want to play

I’ve got a pretty small collection of physical books but my list of things to play is pretty long so hopefully it’ll all work out. 😆

Feel free to quote post if you want to play along at home!

[Assistant]
1) Spectres of Brocken by Aaron Lim

Giant mechs. Time-skips. Friends-turned-enemies. A Word Bank. THEME SONGS.

This is at the top of my to-play list for so many reasons (I repeat: THEME SONGS) but unfortunately I don’t have a group to try it out with so it sits on the shelf, taunting me.

[User]
2) Xenolanguage by Thorny Games

A sci-fi game about alien linguistics from the team behind Dialect, AND it uses a Ouija-style planchette?!? Yeah, sign me up.

The fact that I haven’t even opened a game this unbelievably cool-looking is a scathing indictment of me as both a person and a gamer.

[Assistant]
3) Fiasco by Jason Morningstar

One of my all-time favorite games since I first played it more than a decade ago. It’s hard to overstate how unbelievably stylish, sharp, and taut it is. And its gorgeously poetic prompts like “a stupid plan executed to perfection” sing eternally in my brain.


[User] The kids at work are mostly lovely, but WHO STEALS THE TAPS OFF A WATER FOUNTAIN?!

[Assistant] I. What.

[User] I don't know what to tell you! Came into work and apparently the water dispenser has been running for five hours because the taps have gone!

[Assistant] Just. I have to assume practical jokes are involved somehow. That or dares.


[User] It’s been proven that the British public overwhelmingly support the assisted dying bill, so why do politicians think they know better? I will be so crushingly disappointed with the country if it doesn’t pass.

[Assistant] How has it been proven Lucy? I don’t remember being asked.

[User] Via multiple polls See: Opinium Research (75%, 2024), YouGov (73%, 2024), Ipsos (66%, 2024) for details on questions asked etc. Polling is never perfect, but if you look back over polls from past decade or so, you will see my contention is a fair one. ✌🏻

[Assistant] It’s such a difficult proposition & one that I don’t believe can be fully presented in an opinion poll. I’m not convinced it could be in a referendum either. Almost every time I hear pros and cons, both sides of the argument appear to have a strong case. I’m glad I’m not having to make a decision 😞

[User] I respect your views, but for  personal reasons, I really don’t want to get into a debate on it. I will just leave this here and wish you a good day 🩷

[Assistant] I agree and I wonder why, with Church attendance at somewhere between 1.5-5% of the UK population, religious leaders are given a platform during debates like this. They’re not representative of the general population.


[User]
Building a #PhoenixFramework site to show a random #Readwise highlight.

Problem: their #API gives all highlights, but no way to grab just one at random. Debating fetching all and picking client-side or finding a smarter #Elixir solution.

[Assistant] Pull all in, save locally in IndexedDB, pick random one. Poll API in the background once per week/login and be done with it 😅

[User] I was really hoping to do this with no DBs but I think you might be right ....

[Assistant] Yeah, I git the whole IndededDB-local idea from this here: youtube.com/playlist?lis... - if the data is not not changing often, give the whole stuff to the user 🤷🏼♂


[User]
Nesting in the brown crinkle paper.
Happy #Caturday 😻

[Assistant] Ah such a sweetie 😸

[User] Caturday posts make the day better!

[Assistant] One of Buddies favorites too!

[User] Happy Caturday Anne!  I hope you all have a great day 😁😁

[Assistant] Thanks Tracey, you too!


[User] I’m so late to this but now have FOMO if anyone wants to sign mine too 🥰

[Assistant]
Here you go!

And here's my link if you'd like to sign back:
bsky.app/profile/john...

[User]
The fomo is real. 🤪

I believe you already have mine, but just in case it got lost in your notifs, here it is again. 💕🤗

[Assistant] Thanks @chieftie1387.swifties.social ! Ps that win yesterday was wild!!!!

[User] Hi babe! Here’s mine if you need it but I might have given it to you already.

[Assistant] Here's mine if you want 🫶🏼🫶🏼


[User]
First Jumper.

Please find another way.

[Assistant] So sorry. My sister works for the mass transit authority and part of the job requires alerting train conductors of such.

[User] Ugh. So brutal. I’m sorry.

[Assistant] Ugh. That's awful trauma. For them, for you.


[User]
I'm going to chill for the evening my friends. I hope everyone got their cups filled with gratitude, love & peace. I'm sitting here with another cup of that fabulous dark hot chocolate, flower & the dulcet tones of Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust 💞🎶
youtu.be/eM0CTFzfHdE?...

[Assistant]
💞🎶 Walking In Memphis - Eli Mattson

youtu.be/0phxGeFMjaU?...

[User]
💞🎶 From the motion picture HARRIET, the Original Song "STAND UP" is written by Joshuah Brian Campbell & Cynthia Erivo.

youtu.be/sn19xvfoXvk?...

[Assistant]
💞 🎶 Kate Bush - This Woman's Work
youtu.be/UXzx--YefD8?...


[User] How about each team can choose one moment per game to release a live tiger onto the field?

[Assistant] And instead of playing Take Me Out to the Ballgame they play Enter the Gladiators during the the seventh inning stretch 😂

[User] Schrödinger's baseball intervention: you can open the box at a crucial moment but there is an equal probability it contains your best hitter, or a hungry tiger.


[User] One reason you have a vetting process is that most people think twice about destroying people's lives. Not grandpa.

[Assistant] Yes, but don’t most people with as sordid a past as Hegseth’s know better than to put themselves under the microscope? Perhaps the thought of all that power and money must’ve been too tempting, and he figured he’d gotten away with it so far…  Or that trump would just make it all go away.

[User] Ugh. When will they learn? The betting process has to be like aggressive oppo research. Because if they don't tell you and you don't ask, I promise someone out there is gonna find stuff.

[Assistant] *vetting. Autocorrect is a joke.


[User] It's nice to have good morning posts, but what about the afternoon? The evening? Mayhaps, twilight if i may be so bold.

[Assistant] I’m going to start commenting awkward twilight gifs on your posts every evening/twilight time now 🙃

[User] be the change you wish to see in the world 😎

[Assistant] good almost noon fish!


[User] Excited that TCM is all about Monty Python all night tonight.

[Assistant] Please I need your help urgently to provide a source of energy. Please do not ignore me and donate. Any donation you make will help me to acquire a source of energy.🥹💔😭

[User] MP was my comfort food in college. It is also the reason I know about the larch tree. See, tv is educational.

[Assistant] Thanks for the heads up!

[User] Ok am I the only one who loves the TCM intro videos where they go over history and background of the movie?

[Assistant] oh great, because watching monty python on a thursday night is the pinnacle of excitement in your life. enjoy your laughter from the 70s, nerd.

[User] Miss TCM in the UK 🤔

[Assistant] I tried watching Monty Python and the Holy Grail last PM. Did not resonate with me like it did all those years ago. Could not even finish the movie. I guess I have gotten so old now that my favorite John Cleese work is A Fish Called Wanda...


[User]
Incoming Special Envoy to Ukraine, Lt Gen Keith Kellogg in January 2023 following his trip to Ukraine:
Ukrainians have the capacity to evict Russia from Crimea and Donbas so long as we equip them properly.
"I don't think there's going to be anything to negotiate."
youtu.be/kt4dMWDHc08?...

[Assistant]
Again 🙄 🇷🇺

If u can't win on the battlefield packup your SVO and just go home Muscovy.

[User] Unfortunately he will soon have two new bosses that decide, Trump and Musk.

[Assistant]
Ruzz total losses for November (day 28)

KIA = 41,680        (1,488.57/day) *record month
Tanks = 294              (10.50/day)
IFV = 803                  (28.67/day)
Artillery = 848            (30.28/day)
Fuel/Supply = 2,195  (78.39/day)
Specialty = 127            (4.53/day)


[User] up looking dumb, as usual, so lemme just get the Duolingo out the way.

[Assistant] If y’all are on there, I need more folk to do these friend quests. It’s been me and the same person for weeks!

[User] whatchu learning?

[Assistant] Allem 😭 (it’s Japanese that needs to be the primary tbh)


[User] My mother be lying in her older age. Ion like that. Like girl what are you talking about?

[Assistant] My mother def has a lying problem too. For the longest.

[User] Like she just called me with the craziest story and I’m like 1) none of this actually happened 2) you couldn’t tell me this fable in person in a few hours?

[Assistant] My mother def suffers from the same thing. Her recollection of events are majorly skewed. That couples with her levels of exaggeration is insane.


[User]
A COMICC based on the fic “slip of the tongue” by the same awesome writer strawhatbougie 😭💗

#zosan #onepiece

archiveofourown.org/works/590610...

[Assistant] This is fricking great and hilarious!!!!🖤 as Sanji comes out of the bathroom and proceeded to bleed out🤣🤣 @strawhatbougie.bsky.social you've seen this?

[User] Every time I see this I wanna scream (affectionately)


[User] I get this point, but I don’t think you can treat those games differently for either QB in terms of their ability to succeed in them. Kirk is also set up well. From the standpoint of the Falcons I understand why they're more focused on the playoffs vs development, but it wouldn’t be my choice.

[Assistant] I think Minnesota will be a do-or-die game for Kirk because if his current play continues, you can’t justify it as good enough to squeak into the dance with.

[User] Do you think we have to beat either Vikings or Commies to win the division?

[Assistant] I would only make the switch if Kirk is physically limited too much.


[User]
Hey everyone! Can you believe it. Today nov 30th is my streaming anniversary! (Aka the very first day I had ever streamed, meaning test stream as well)

Cont…

[Assistant] And although it was been 2 years we all know my growth as a streamer has been very slow and I have done lots of hiatuses due to real life stuff but I just wanna say. Thank yall for following me and being a part of my tiny community!

[User]
I appreciate each and every one of you who decided to drop of follow on my twitch! It really does mean a lot to me that people are interested in what I stream and in me!

So from the bottom of my heart. Thanks everyone! And let’s hope my next stream anniversary I’ll have something planned haha!


[User] I think part of the reason I never put money away for my future was because I didn’t think had one.

[Assistant]
I've been legally dead 6 times, outlived 90% of my friends, and somehow I'm still here.
Like, what the fuck?

[User] Woah! That’s a lotta times! I say that to myself a lot too. I’ve almost died around 3 times. Survived all my worst mental health crisis’s. Sometimes I’m like wow I’m here.

[Assistant] Born with sudden infant death syndrome, I'd turn blue and quit breathing. Then I had cancer twice. I died in the ambulance of kidney failure, they brought me back. The other 4 were when I was in the hospital getting chemo. I'm like a very sickly cat that just won't stay down.

[User] Whoever created my character sheet put all my stats in endurance and luck.

[Assistant] It's difficult to know what to do... when you aren't planning on being here for long and you... still are. It's something really difficult to explain to someone who wasn't the same. It's like you can't visualize the future.

[User] That’s exactly it! I never saw myself older. Even in my 30’s. I really didn’t think I’d make it with my depression and anxiety and my diabetes. Now I’m 39 and I’m just like what is my future? I didn’t plan for anything.

[Assistant] Yeah it's so strange... like... there is this weird... slight disappointment (overwhelm?) that you actually have plan now lol I have no idea how to explain that 😅🥲


[User] Tesla's sales in China are going well. Total sales this year are expected to grow by more than 8% or 50,000 units, compared to last year. However, sales in the U.S. and Europe are expected to decline by more than that in total, as Tesla continues to struggle with brand image challenges.

[Assistant] What is China’s overall growth? Is it more than 8% for EVs?

[User]
Any idea why Robyn has sold almost all her shares?

Seems the chairperson would be more invested in the business than she is.

[Assistant]
It has a China problem:
“Tesla's share of the world's largest EV market shrank to 6% in sales terms in October, nearly half the September level and the lowest in a year, according to Reuters' calculations based on CPCA numbers.”


[User]
The situation in #Toretsk remains difficult, with urban battles ongoing. Russia resorts to “meat waves”, i.e. cannon fodder attacks, to attain its goal. They don't care about their personnel losses. The Russians bomb the city 1,500 times a day.
#RussiaIsATerroristState
#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦🤜🤛

[Assistant] Today the number of lost russian troops reached the peak value throughout the entire war.

[User] The troop losses will probably only increase in the near future. I don't know how long Russia will have enough soldiers at this rate. According to official calculations, Putin should organize a mobilization, and yet meeting the need is difficult.

[Assistant] Yes, he is afraid of protests inside russia. He chooses to sacrifice north koreans to avoid risk of losing his power.