[User] because Bluesky is cropping it weird:

[Assistant] Oddly Chappell Roan only starts at #22 for me, I swore I listened to her more.


[User] I know God is fake because they have multiple accounts on social media.

[Assistant] I mean, have  you noticed that no two Christians seem to be following the same religion?

[User] I’ve been to Catholic mass, Baptist youth group, and Mormon church. It was all weird and gross.

[Assistant] And Santa too 🤷♂


[User]
why do so many usually well educated leftists hit a wall when it comes to disability issues?
instead of engaging with disability activists they do this "let's make fun of the anxious weirdos" spiel Every Single Time talking down on disabled people.
imagine doing this with any other important issue.

[Assistant]
when it comes to any other topic you know that you educate yourself on the topic and listen to the activists doing the work.
but never when it comes to disability issues.

[User] instead you get a few of them going "as a disabled person mysef" and sound like tradwives saying they don't need feminism because they love being mothers and housewives.....

[Assistant] Do you mind saying which podcast?


[User] You just know that Ellis took this photo for the boys.

[Assistant] And they promised him he could be in the next one.

[User] “Hans… Bubi… what are we, amateurs? Give me that sexy European brood.”

[Assistant] It's like a Grinches convention. Must be nearly time....

[User] Yes!! Absolutely!

[User] Man, I miss Alan Rickman.

[Assistant] It says something about the casting for this movie that fully seven or eight of these guys are instantly recognizable to me even though I haven’t watched the movie in decades.


[User]
Tonight on the Mead Hall menu (top table only) Palma ham wrapped, smelly cheese stuffed, chicken bits served with asparagus and roasted herby potato cubes.

Lower tables. Bloater supreme.

Vegetarian/vegan option. Organic, cruelty free(ish) peel.

Scraps and scrapings by the leper gate as ever.

[Assistant]
I might make a risotto. I am frozen to the marrow.

No, not that kind of marrow.

[User] I love a bloater!  Not easy to come by these days.  Where did you get yours?

[Assistant]
The peasants are very happy with their soup and sandwiches again.
The bloat is a terrible thing.


[User]
How exactly are the "Russian" people going to compensate everyone for the damage they have done? All the deaths, pain and suffering, but also the ecological damage. This is a huge question which must not be ducked by European leaders.

There is no merely monetary solution to this issue.

[Assistant] 3rdly it must prevent the peoples of Moscow's empire from ever being reconstituted into a Russian state, or empire or federation. That must go, completely and forever.

[User] 3rdly it must prevent the peoples of Moscow's empire from ever being reconstituted into a Russian state, or empire or federation. That must go, completely and forever.

[Assistant] 3rdly it must prevent the peoples of Moscow's empire from ever being reconstituted into a Russian state, or empire or federation. That must go, completely and forever.

[User] 3rdly it must prevent the peoples of Moscow's empire from ever being reconstituted into a Russian state, or empire or federation. That must go, completely and forever.

[Assistant] 3rdly it must prevent the peoples of Moscow's empire from ever being reconstituted into a Russian state, or empire or federation. That must go, completely and forever.


[User] I hope everyone had a good holiday with lots of good company and games. Lots of board games made it to the table at my place, but there were definitely three favorites. (I pushed a few of my recent pickups) 🧵

[Assistant] If you enjoy planning ahead, cornering your opponent, and thinking through a changing spatial puzzle then The String Railway is the game for you. It takes a lot of table space but ended up being a great game to play with kids and adults alike!

[User] My favorite party game is now My Favorite Things, but it really depends on who is around the game with you. In this game everyone makes a top five list and then you play a guessing game where you try to guess everyone else's top five list. Every part of this game was fun!

[Assistant] But by far the most popular game was the most accessible one, this is why board games are easier to pull out with non-gaming family around. We had people playing Railroad Ink alone, or with a group, it takes one game to understand how it works but we were all hooked afterward.


[User] I don’t care if it’s taboo to say this but I’m thankful for Wegovy and Ozempic this year because they have changed our lives and our health. Thanksgiving 2023 vs Thanksgiving 2024.

[Assistant]
How was thanksgiving this year on them? Like how soon did you get full I know my mom got full fast.
You both look great! & Happy thanksgiving. 🍁

[User] Congratulations, Gracie! Keep it going!

[Assistant] Thank you!!

[User] If it improves your life, then good for you.

[Assistant] No judgement here! Working for me and managing my blood sugar without the side effects Metformin gave me! You look great.

[User] What a wonderful thing to do together! Being over 50, my husband and I are definitely struggling. Me more so, he was able to drop 40 lbs. with ease, and I am still fighting my first 15, sigh. Did you have any side effects with your methods?

[Assistant] Not taboo at all! I’m so glad those meds helped you.


[User]
An unrelated but kinda related question - has anyone looked into the effects of stress (capture myopathy) for birds from being captured for scientific banding studies in mist nets, untangled & removed by hand, banded, then released?

rebeccalexa.com/capture-myop...

[Assistant] Interesting article. This is a good topic to discuss. In short, any human interaction is recognised as potentially stress inducing - hence the strict protocols & licensing process for ringers. Handling time & time in a net is as short as poss to reduce capture myopathy. 1/2 🧵

[User]
2/2 🧵 Many ringed birds live for very long periods (years or even decades) after ringing, which indicates generally overall effect is minimal.
However, I think these discussions are important for us all to explore new & alternative ways to study wildlife while minimizing our impact - thank you!

[Assistant] I don't have hard data, but this  was the primary reason I used bioacoustic recorders and camera traps to do both bird and bat surveys at my study sites. Its SO much less risky, invasive, and certainly has less impact on how the animals in question perceive the danger levels at sites!


[User] Good morning!

[Assistant] Good morning 🌞

[User] Good morning!

[Assistant]
I’m adding some
🍹Baileys🍹to mine!


[User] Dad gave me some Stephen King books to give to J for Christmas. I think he's really gonna like them. ^_^

[Assistant] Ooh great gift. Care to share which ones?

[User] He gave me Finders Keepers & End of Watch so I just ordered Mr Mercedes to complete the trilogy!

[Assistant] Perfect!


[User] Update: we’re (finally) on a boat! Not moving yet, but progress.

[Assistant] Not moving on a boat is my preferred status. Calm waters Lisa.

[User] Where's your destination?

[Assistant] Heading to Gladstone’s Library…so still need to get from Holyhead to Chester and then onward from there. Was meant to get *there* around 2…now we’ll only get to Holyhead after 2.


[User] Yesterday, the ruble plummeted, nearing 115 to the dollar on some markets. Economists describe the situation as unprecedented and are calling for urgent government intervention. Here’s how we got here and what Russia can do about it.

[Assistant] They could leave Ukraine. Then the sanctions would end.

[User] The big question is, what is Trump and Musk going to do about it?

[Assistant] it’s almost poetic how economic mismanagement leads to such financial melodrama. perhaps instead of intervention, a lesson in accountability would serve them better.


[User] About AI assisted writing, keep in mind students are becoming more adept at use. A few of mine were discussing use in class and advised classmates to use it but then instruct chatgpt to "simplify it or lower the language level" to sound like a hs student. I was taking notes while they talked. 🧐

[Assistant] If AI is a spectrum (1 zero help and 5 is copy and paste) we have teach students to live at the 2/3 st least. Otherwise they’ll never be literate 😔

[User]
One of the 7th grade students asked me why I wasn’t using Gen AI for the final paper I’m writing for grad school. I said I have many reasons, especially that it is plagiarism.

So he told me to just include the instruction “get around AI detectors.”

Not sure what we are doing here as a society.

[Assistant] My answer is “because I acutely want to learn this stuff”


[User]
Every single character knew (of) her, be them black, white, or green. Hundreds upon hundreds; what does that even mean? Common denominator.

I said her name wrong in the beginning: —fine instead of -vigne. Also has a sister, who’s a -fine. With a zee. They loved each other.
youtu.be/XyrcQAmuBz4?...

[Assistant]
When things first were taken into the hands of the law, she & her group finally contained, each put in their space/place. She was the only one positioned on the floor. That’s quite racist, I thought. But that’s where she was: kitchen & study.
Later, with hybrids— she was somewhat subservient to.

[User]
Back track: they loved each other, but that in a childhood story: two sisters, sombre, but inseparable. But seems -vigne forgot about that.
I should dislike her… but I don’t. Indifferent.

[Assistant]
I think I’m forgetting a lot. Too many things have happened, too many stories, too many impressions, too many sides.
Or, made to start forgetting.

I don’t even really need to know, so it’s ok.


[User]
Man, I love working retail. Unfortunately, some disability I have makes it extremely painful for me to stand all day.

I get we all have foot pains from standing a long time, but I'm talking about so much pain it has a negative impact on my ability to think after two shifts.

[Assistant] I hope to figure out the problem soon and get treatments for it, simply because I hate being a bad employee due to circumstances outside of my control.

[User]
I'm not going to start a suffering olympics over foot pain from stand-up jobs. Foot pain from this line of work sucks whether you are feeling a normal amount of pain or not.

So if you're working one of these jobs, make sure to take care of your feet.

[Assistant] Keep your feet up when you're not working, Epson salt soaks, comfortable shoes (if viable- if you need ankle support like I do you're more than likely out of luck on that), compression socks, and supportive insoles are things you can do/use to limit the pain.


[User]
"Incorrect": A Monologue in Tweets.

Identity politics makes no sense. It is fundamentally incoherent. It is mental gymnastics. Its arguments crumble every time.

We must always debate the arguments. No identity politicking on my watch! We must steelman. Starman. Strongman. 1/

[Assistant]
I always start with the arguments. Tackle their claims to the ground into an incoherent heap, like I do.

"Found the 🤡."

2/

[User]
Never make it about anyone's identity. Stay as far away from identity politics as you can.

"You haven't been paying attention, have you?"

3/

[Assistant]
It's their arguments that really don't hold up. Every time. I tackle them, they crumble. It is a beautiful sight, truly.

"Lol 🤡 you really have no clue what you’re talking about."

4/


[User] this bullshit really grinds my gears.

[Assistant] if you care about food security, you want a farm making £20k of profit a year to cost around £200k, so it might be worth someone's while buying  it and raising productivity to make, say, £50k profit a year. If the farm costs £2m because it's a tax shelter, that is no use.

[User] but that aside, doing things to support farmers in poor countries is merely one way of trying to reduce poverty. "We should not be trying reduce poverty abroad while [something something] in the UK" is a terrible genre.

[Assistant] That wouldn't be from a certain publication starting with a 'T' would it?


[User] I’ve learned not to pollute my brain with other people’s thoughts on products.

[Assistant]
I learned early the products I enjoyed most were those that were spoken of least.

Meanwhile the things that people rave about often to always disappoint me.

Not sure if it’s just that we are not the same or if reviewers should not be doing so.

[User]
Not sure about you, but…

I’m really weary of reviewers saying headphones are bad because they have very specific ear shapes, or that cars are bad because they have very peculiar body types.

[Assistant]
Truth be told: the best pair of headphones and phone I’ve owned yet was panned and jeered by the most popular tech reviewers, and the best car I’ve ever owed was panned by the most popular car reviewers.

Good thing I know who not to listen to.


[User]
I remember being in the club when the DJ would drop Throw that ass in a ⭕

And bitch, we complied. No matter where you were.

[Assistant] Those were some good times to see.

[User] Business casual in the club. Color coordinated and sweating out all the edges 😂

[Assistant] Lmao exactly. These kids today don’t know anything about that!

[User] At all but these old ass knees never forget 😂

[Assistant]
Aye, when this come on in the club.. it’s over!

I couldve had a bad day but certain songs like this gives me powers 🤣

music.apple.com/us/album/up-...


[User]
♟RPG Chess is officially on Steam!♟

Ready to experience chess in an exciting new way? In this turn-based RPG, instead of simply capturing the pieces, attacks initiate fierce 1v1 battles⚔

Add it to your wishlist here👇
store.steampowered.com/app/3383450/...

[Assistant] Having reached this milestone, I want to give a big thanks to the Bluesky community for all the support you've shown💙 It really makes working on the game a breeze knowing that there are people out there who believes in the project🤗 I will make sure the game meets all your expectations, and more!💪

[User] I'm excited to see how well this chess game goes (≧▽≦)✨✨

[Assistant] Thank you!😊✨


[User]
Block this sack of shit.  @nataliadavis.bsky.social  She liked a shitload of my posts, which caught my attention -- as in WTF?

What fucking brainless bimbo.  Nothing I can add to my lists.

@lepapillonblue.bsky.social she was on a comment from me to you.  Be sure to block her too.

[Assistant]
There seems to be many of this type of follower. I wonder their true purpose.

Even their pictures and limited-to-no profile suggest that they are actually just fakes.

[User] I mostly get hit by the whorebots / camgirls.

[Assistant] I get those too.  Fast block.  Although I have nothing against sex workers. I'm just not here for sex.  I've met some that are actually here for regular engagement.


[User]
🚨MECFS & Long Covid need to invade more the public domain🚨

I see that billions are donated by phylantropers and other NGOs in health fields like cancers, rare genetic disorders, Alzheimer & so on. Although there is something supporting #mecfs & #longcovid, that is nothing comparable.
Why?

1/

[Assistant]
because among the public there is no proper understanding of the global burden of ME/CFS-long covid and how patients suffer.

We don’t need only trials and evidence, but entire clinical and research areas dedicated for these diseases.

2/

[User] For some reason  they like to pretend still that post viral disabilities are all in the mind. Could it be that if they accepted these are real, that they would have to acknowledge that a lot of people are incurably sick and it is only going to get worse as more and more pandemics flare up?

[Assistant]
All in the mind, sure… for real. But denial is a hard drug!

neurosciencenews.com/long-covid-s...


[User]
Ah, the classics.

The Folio Society are one step away from those people who made fake leather book covers for video tapes.

[Assistant]
What if we took the Marvel cinematic universe and turned it into....a book?

You mean, like a comic?

[User] My first reaction was, “that’s a little unfair on the Folio Society”. Then I thought about it and realised, you’re right, that’s exactly what they are! They do it very well, but the point remains!

[Assistant]
I managed the financial reporting for Everyman Classics some years ago, a small cog in a large publishing house.
I felt a bit like you just did when I saw, in amongst Turgenev, Defoe & Flaubert on their 'New List' was one Martin Amis.
Anyway, it is actually a good collection of modern & let's say...

[User]
..erm, supplementary additions previously not in the original list of 1,000 titles.
So I get a call from New York office as they'd like to work out how to transact buying up all available collections of Shakespeare's Tragedies, Comedies etc in UK.
They've got no stock & they cannot wait for reprint.

[Assistant]
Why the urgency & why this particular set of editions?
The 'collected works' featured a portrait of Shakespeare etched over the spines of each book when placed in the right order.
This had recently appeared on a bookshelf featured in an interiors mag or article & huge demand ensued amongst the...


[User] Now watching ZACK SNYDER’S JUSTICE LEAGUE on a regular TV, to my chagrin.

[Assistant] Steppenwolf might have to pee at some point. What then?

[User] I have watched a normal movie length and there is still a long movie length to go.

[Assistant] Family has called it quits on AVENGERS for the night, so I’m back to the other movie with muscly stranger-rivals who team up to keep mean aliens from taking our glowing boxes.


[User] Nothing proves that billionaires are fucking idiots like their cult-like fetish of colonizing Mars.

[Assistant] They want a world where they can be kings, even if they're the only ones on it.

[User] Even if we could get enough humans to Mars to establish a viable gene pool and somehow make self-sufficient habitats, it will be a miserable existence. Mars can never be terraformed because it is missing a magnetic field so humanity's existence will consist of living in habitats until they fail.

[Assistant] Well, that and convincing women to go: if it's mostly men and only a few women, then it's a "28 Days Later" castle scenario.


[User] This is a piece I did for the Hyperborea adventure, The Vanishing Isles of the Summer King. I had a lot of fun designing, writing and doing the art for this one. Definitely my largest project to date. It has given me a little more (just a little) confidence about putting out my own stuff. Cheers!

[Assistant] Oh wow, I just realized you wrote that. I saw it floating around online but hadn't really peeked at it. Congrats, man. Looks amazing. I'll have to pick it up at some point. I still don't own latest Hyperborea stuff. I own the original box set.

[User] Thanks! I had been working on this off and on since 2011. The original idea was part of the Sea of O'Sr blog challenge. Each participating blogger was supposed to create an island in an OSR island hopping campaign. I originally had it written for Swords and Wizardry but then pitched it to Jeff T.

[Assistant] Oh that's super cool. I discovered the OSR around 2012.


[User]
With Musk shartposting about how to corrupt UK politics as he has the US's, it would be a good time to revist our older policy paper on data protection and democracy.

https://commonweal.scot/policies/data-protection-and-democracy/

[Assistant] My own views have hardened somewhat since then but the principles remain the same. A firm limit on the amount any individual can give in donations to campaigning organisations and a hard limit on the amount any organisation can spend on campaigning. The £20k in that paper is likely too high now.

[User]
I'd also limit donations to individuals who are registered to vote in any particular election - yes, that means no funding from outwith Scotland for a future referendum in Scotland.

Same goes for sponsored advertising in any medium from outwith the electoral area too.

[Assistant] The problem comes with digital companies who can set up branches anywhere - I could see Musk setting up a legal entity in every council ward to bypass restrictions. So organisational bodies need to be firmly bound, spending they do must count against their owners' personal limits and all owners […]


[User] The way I love this man makes me question whether I have truly loved before.

[Assistant] Love is the most beautiful thing in the world 💕😊

[User] Inject it into my veins!!

[Assistant] This sounds so exciting lol I love that for y’all !


[User] Another piece that I'm very excited to share, this one on the history of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America (aka the Episcopal Church), in which I argue that the Articles of Religion were much more important for PECUSA than is commonly understood. ⚓

[Assistant] Just incredible, how do you do it? How many hours a day do you spend writing? Can't wait to check this out.

[User] Ha, you are too kind!! One of the privileges of the doctoral student life is having a lot of time to read and write and I try to make the most of it...

[Assistant] Well good for you! Your writings are such a gift to the Church. Thank you.


[User]
A fairly uninspiring #FACup 3rd Round draw for #WatfordFC 🎩

A Premier League team but not a big one. Even if we drew a big team, we’ve faced them as ‘equals’ often enough in recent times for it to be a 🤷♂

So was the ideal draw with a few balls left Stockport or Bristol Rovers away? 🤔

[Assistant] On the other hand, it's a big draw for the 🐍 emoji. It could be quite fun if it was at the Vic...

[User] That was our initial reaction. At least there’s a bit of needle!

[Assistant] I had hoped for City at home tbh. But it has to be played this Saturday 😂


[User] Numerical targets you set for delivery are rods for your own back. Achieve them and nobody cares - it’s marking your own homework. Fail them and voters conclude you’re rubbish.

[Assistant] I seem to bang this drum at every piece of political news, but where is Sir Humphrey when you need him to make horrified faces/noises at the mere prospect?

[User] Morgan McSweeney knows better.

[Assistant]
But, but, but...  Morgan McSweeney has a plan!

"Sports socks!  Two for a pound!"


[User]
The CDC map for influenza like illness is getting more active, especially in Washington DC, Louisiana and Georgia. Get your flu vaccine! Plus COVID-19 vaccine, and RSV vaccines if over 60.
www.cdc.gov/fluview/surv...

[User] Interesting to see what vaccination rates are like in the red states.  I just got Covid, Flu, RSV, 1st Shingles, and Pneumonia shots this Fall.

[Assistant] ... winter is coming...


[User] I truly should be doing this whilst beading. I’ll sit there for hours and hours beading and not take a break.

[Assistant] My back hurts just thinking about that! But I miss beading, I can’t wait to get into it again once we move.

[User] Yeah I gotta take better care of myself when I am. But I just get so much into the zone of it. I can’t wait to see what you create!

[Assistant] Oh I know what you mean, I get into it too! Then I eventually adjust my posture and start crackling. 😂 Thank you, I always look forward to seeing what you’ve made when you post pics!


[User]
I saw a photo of Russian donated flour to Gaza with the caption that it was announced to cost $200 today. I'm concerned that as much money as you donate, supplies stay as scarce, and without more aid, prices just inflate. Made me think of this post.

We need to actually get food and water to them.

[Assistant] docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

[User] I agree. Sending money will not make a difference if the prices rise and the food gets scarcer. The evil genocidal Israelis need to be stopped from preventing the food aid trucks to get in. People need to speak up against the evil genocide Israel is committing on Gaza by starving two million people.

[Assistant] It feels like a really American way of looking at things to just throw our money at problems, but on the other hand we are feeling very disempowered, and may not know what else to do.


[User] I'm not super familiar with D&D, but I wonder just how much influence it had on early RuneScape. So many early quests having failure rates for doing actions just screams D&D to me as an outsider. Pre-EoC combat also feels like a real-time implementation of D&D rolling as well.

[Assistant] Just in general, it's very interesting to trace the progression and development of games to their sources of inspiration and groundwork from earlier work. Gaming is incredibly iterative, so it's important to look at the past to build a better future game.

[User] Yeah the early days were much more of a true RPG sandbox. There was no make-x, no toolbelt, you had to have items in your inventory and use them on each other/the environment. Everything was much more manual and intentional. I'm not even sure what the game's identity is these days tbh.

[Assistant] D&D and LoTR are generally the inspiration content for nearly all medieval games. LoTR is where every species was sort of defined and everyone has variations based on Tolkiens characters. However he did base the early RuneScape quests on some of LucasArts early work.  arstechnica.com/gaming/2016/...


[User]
Isn't the follower growth is dropping here now??

Is it only for me or for everybody???

[Assistant]
It is. Often the early mover advantage when there’s a rush is a tiny window.

I predict once Money X sees the numbers there will be waves of this though. You got in at the right time.

[User]
I needed to jump a bit earlier and should engage a bit more.

at that time I was exploring a bit and didn't thought it to stop haha..

but again, it was just a wave, gone and will come again on some topics or sth.

there is always new opportunities.

[Assistant] Absolutely. I’ve been beta testing social media since it started and it always does this. Grab the waves, then learn how to shift the tides.

[User] It is calmer now.

[Assistant] Yes. When did you join the bsky first?

[User]
I was an early adopter – I think it was April 2023.

Then started using it again on Nov 4, 2024.

[Assistant] Bsky's had two waves of hype. This is the second one, and it’s dying down. Waiting for the third in late January))


[User] So, Gregg Wallace….

[Assistant] what have i missed?

[Assistant] Oof. Can't say it's a massive shock. He does come up quite  high on the creepometer.


[User]
Here’s 4 gig reviews from the Melody Maker, 30 years ago this week.

A very early Elcka gig
S*M*A*S*H at the legendary CBGB club.
David McAlmont early solo gig
Dodgy at the famous @kingtuts.bsky.social

Which of these gigs would you like to have been at?

[Assistant] Oh wow, don’t recall Elcka at all. Digging into them now.

[User] Their album was decent.

[Assistant]
15 year old me would not be able to stretch to seeing S*M*A*S*H in NYC so it would be Dodgy.

That's a fairly decent and kind review by 90s standards of the Dodgy gig.


[User] And I’m telling y’all right now…everyone better keep it cute in my comments in this next #RHOBH recap bc I’m airing out my thoughts about Garcelle. Don’t bring all that hyper sensitive Stan stuff over here. We’re talking facts lmao!!

[Assistant] Everyone just keeps forgetting why Garcelle feels a certain kinda way towards Dorit. She's still carrying it. Kinda don't blame her. Don't go too hard on her pls 😄

[User] Can you also mention how up Kathy’s ass she is. I like Garcelle but dats a lot. That old lady is not that funny.

[Assistant] I don't know what you're going to say, but I think we're on the same page. It was out of order for her to even say anything about Boz and Dorit having a conversation. That was so unnecessary and feels like she'll take anything Dorit does as some sort of slight against her. It's WEIRD!


[User] So very thankful for the friends made, love discovered, and daily moments of joy you all have shared so freely over the years. My bestie, my husband, and my tribe are here, and I love you all. 🥰

[Assistant] Big love from the California kids.

[User] Thank YOU for sharing with me.

[Assistant] We love you, Gunny 🥰


[User]
I have to make a phone call. I do not want to make a phone call.

But I have to make it.

[Assistant] I made the phone call. Good job me.

[User]
As a result of the phone call, I have added "shower" to my list of tasks that must be done today.

So. Not thrilled about that.

[Assistant] Also on my list: get garbage around and take it out and drop off my rent check.

[User] Sending spoons. That is the worst.

[Assistant] It's like you're in my head with this thread.


[User] not to be vulnerable but does anyone wanna be discord buddies... i've been very sad and lonely lately i would like to make more friends. i can send you cat pics🐈⬛

[Assistant] I think I might have u added already but I can’t remember 😦 I am down to interact more for sure but I’m also bad at conversation and keeping up with it …

[User] i think so yes!! expect cat pics in the near future 🔜

[Assistant] We need to talk more im also bad at convos but i enjoy talking to you.....


[User] I just waited 2 hours to let this turkey thaw out some more so that I could get the giblets out and I can start brinong it. And there is no fucking giblets in this turkey. I got a defective turkey!

[Assistant] At the risk of sounding clueless, what the hell are giblets???

[User] Lol the giblets are the organs so like the heart and the liver etc. I can't make gravy without them or rather I won't make gravy without them.

[Assistant] Granted this does make me feel less crazy because when I first tried to get them out I was so confused because I couldn't see if they were in there. Now I know I was not crazy they were just literally not in there!


[User] This popped up on my FB feed and... I ask you... why. Why. Please explain. 😅

[Assistant] there are upcycle designers playing around with stuff like this, but i think it loses a lot of its impact when it becomes a mass produced item.

[User] It's just like... why make each of your legs have pants.

[Assistant] oh, i've seen pants made entirely out of wastebands. there's some nutty stuff going on! i don't know why. queue the Jeff Goldblum quote from Jurassic Park, i guess? 🤣

[User] Are those leather zipties holding each leg up or are they mini-belts?

[Assistant] Little tiny belts! WTAF.


[User] Academia needs an AI-Inquisition. At the root of problems with AI publications are people who use their real names because that's the only way to get credit. Universities need AI-Inquisitors whose job is to find and trial these people. Get them fired when it's as grievous as in this thread.

[Assistant]
Interestingly, it is possible that that author’s affiliation mentioned in their papers may not be the real one either as I and others could not locate them in the University of Aveiro directory. The discussion on this issue:

bsky.app/profile/sand...

[User]
I did notice that the gmail didn't match the author name.

But it must at the end of the day be done by individuals for personal-professional benefit somehow, no?

Unless the entire AI-endeavour is fully run by entities who just want to sabotage the credibility of science broadly?

[Assistant] Oh yeah definitely the former I think. It is possible they might be an alum (as other preprints have a different .alumni.edu email address), but their LinkedIn profile also does not reflect that. So it is a bit suspicious.


[User] And for this #SketchbookSunday some megalithic tomb from the archaeologist's travel sketchbook: #Klokkestenen ('bell stone') from the Danish Baltic Island of Lyø.

[Assistant] The dolmen's (modern) name comes from the bell-like sound the capstone produces when pounded with another handstone:

[User] Of course, this has become quite a fun thing for visiting tourists. There are many 'hammerstones' lying around - and deep dents and hollows can be found all over the capstone, most of them with fresh traces of hammering.

[Assistant] Which, again, brings up one or two questions about the wide-spread phenomenon of #cupmarks associated with #megalithic architecture. An 'archaeology of acoustics' seems a very intriguing thought ...


[User] All good things come to an end. @guywithadadbod.bsky.social has headed back to the Northern Hemisphere and we've reset the clock till our next reunion. Looking forward to lots more love and laughter next year 🥰🥰🥰

[Assistant] Ah, parting is never easy but it looks like you have had fun together while you could.

[User] We certainly made the most of it 😊

[Assistant] That first one! 😈🥵❤


[User] The next 3 opponents for the Nuggets are the Clippers, Warriors, Cavs… 🙃😰🫠

[Assistant] This took me out of my Thanksgiving food coma quickly 😂😭

[User] Woke up and felt more positive about it now. Thanks Nuggets BlueSky 🫡🙏🏽

[Assistant] I'm positive about it. Nuggets can easily win all 3. Jokmas is near.


[User]
I'm digitizing my eBay haul of 1984 Bogart Productions U-matic tapes and dumping them raw on one of my alt youtube channels.  (I'm sure I'll get some nasty-grams that it's not electronics)

These aired on a KEPR in the Tricities, WA area.

youtu.be/AVowxpU-xec?...

[Assistant] It really was a different world back then. Also the ad where the guy just happens to be driving past the woman with a broken-down car, and she just hops in with him.

[User]
Haha.  Yeah.  Some real doozies on these tapes that show the dated ideas.

I like the one with a Honda gas generator in the family kitchen.

[Assistant] Salt Lake Playhouse presents: “Seven Brides for Two Brothers”


[User]
Mille — May 2011-December 2024

My heart is broken. My eyes are like waterfalls. But I'll carry you in my heart and mind forever. You were my best friend.

I love you forever Millie. Sleep well my angel ❤

[Assistant] I’m so sorry for your loss 😔

[User] I'm so sorry James 😔🫂🫂🫂

[Assistant] James im so sorry 😔

[User] Ohhhh James, I'm so sorry. Be well soon, my friend.

[Assistant] I'm so sorry mate. She had a great life with you and hopefully you only have the best memories of Millie 😢


[User]
100% a flagrant foul from Jae Crowder on Jalen Green.

Zero play on the ball and just hits him directly in the face.

Unreal.

[Assistant] The refs always screw us this season. That was so ridiculous not to review.

[User] Yea that was about as clear as it gets imo. The only thing missing was a wind up, but that isn't a requirement.

[Assistant] And the King's commentators said Jae needed to do that to make Jalen avoid driving.


[User]
#VRChat, is there a non-distructive plugin in unity that allows me to mask and remove polys? I'm looking to delete polys for optimized avatars without having to make a base for each one.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Currently utilizing Modular Avatar.

[Assistant]
remove mesh by mask in avatar optimizer, along with its many several other mesh remover tools. And just generally being incredible in general.

It integrates with MA and all the other tools that use NDMF
vpm.anatawa12.com/avatar-optim...

[User]
AAO. Made a post about it month or two ago and aside from some silly comments from self-absorbed Bl*nder users, it mostly went unnoticed.
github.com/anatawa12/Av...

[Assistant] I recall you making a big post, but didn't get the opportunity to bookmark it. Largely, I did most of the things that were on your list, but I didn't realize that was an option!


[User]
Anyone else in the northeast (US) managing a #migraine today thanks to this weather? We’re at 8”+ of snow & counting. I woke up feeling rough. Meds helped some. At least there will be pie later, even if the power goes out.

Thankful once again for the growing #MigraineChat community here on BlueSky.

[Assistant]
Southeast with a sinus infection.

It's no fun being sick on a holiday. Enjoy your pie, and hope the migraine eases up some.

[User] Lake Erie snow belts are due for multiple rounds of lake effect snow for the next few days. I'm feeling it building up. Solidarity 💜

[Assistant] Eight inches of snow? Oof. That’s brutal. Hope the barometric pressure gets a bump soon.


[User] bloody start to the morning...

[Assistant] I hate how uselessly we all stand by and let this happen to Ukrainians. It's so morally and ethically wrong.

[Assistant]
russians are so afraid of anything good they defenestrate ballet dancers.
they defenestrate those below them who could rise in any way and challenge their power.
what a pathetic shithole.


[User]
@juicentaro.bsky.social ;

⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"l - love . . . ?"  she tilted her neck to the side,  allowing him better access to her neck.  "must you ?"

[Assistant]
"Ssshhh. I didn't give you permission to speak yet, darling." He tugs slightly. Knowing, of course, his beloved could rip the chains with her bare hands. Yet it adds to the thrill.

He tugs her again. Bringing her close to his waist. "I can see you're enjoying this."

[User] she falls silent,  asking no further questions as her eye glances down to the chain in his hands.  clumsily stumbling towards him,  she sighs softly.  ". . .  yes,  i am."

[Assistant] "You remember our safeword, right love?" He smirked as he leaned down to meet her lips with his own. His tongue slowly invaded her mouth. Pulling on the chain to make the kiss deeper.


[User]
Dear well meaning corporation,
If I click on the “contact us,” button and you bring me to an FAQ page, I have no problem showing up on your CEOs lawn with a bullhorn. P.S. Fuck off.

[Assistant]
FAQS and community groups are worthless. Outdated or dangerous guesses. Hard to search.

Another huge FAIL caused by outsourcing.

So far, "assistants" are simple FAQs in disguise. Usually have to demand a human, who *might* understand the app, but too often are reading a script.

[User] 😂🤣 I'm dying of laughter you're awesome but I also really understand this post!


[Assistant] Thanks for reminding me Tokyo Mirage Sessions got remade for the Switch, been meaning to buy that since the wii u 😅😃

[User] That's one of my favourite games of all time 🤩 I hope you enjoy it!

[Assistant] I do have that game on the left side of the screen but sold my copy to GameStop because I bought it at a time when I just buy games because it was a switch game and I only played for about 30 minutes.


[User] Very pleased that just about every @webdirections.bsky.social Developer Summit conf session I MCed directly referenced #accessibility. It's how it should be, of course. There's hope!

[Assistant] This is great to hear. 👏

[User] It is, isn't it? Made me quite emotional.

[Assistant] I'd also be proud if I were you. You're among the few people who have a great impact and positive influence on the dev community. I've personally learnt quite some from your recent and past #a11y writing. Thank you.


[User]
Your 2024 ✨Journal of Democracy Wrapped✨is ready!

Check out the essays you read the most this year 👀👇 (a thread🧵)

[Assistant]
🥁Drumroll, please!🥁

Your most-read essay so far this year is "What Putin Fears Most" by Robert Person and Michael McFaul!

www.journalofdemocra...

[User]
Your ✨number two✨ essay of the year:

2. "Why Ukraine is Starting to Lose" by Zoltan Barany

www.journalofdemocra...

[Assistant]
👀⚡ in third place:

3. "How Viktor Orbán Wins" by Kim Lane Scheppele

www.journalofdemocra...


[User] So someone is now briefing that Haigh was seen as being too close to the unions 🤔

[Assistant]
Probably just the left of the party seeing this as an opportunity to stir up trouble and division against the leadership.

The government is actively working with the unions on workers' rights legislation, and Starmer appointed Haigh, so it little makes sense he'd suddenly sack her for this reason.

[User] It’s certainly something that the left has jumped on but the report I heard sounded very much like it had come from “someone in Downing Street”.

[Assistant]
Who can know?

It's an anonymous briefing, and as such, I don't put much stock in them.

They certainly shouldn't be taken as gospel.

[User] As so often we’ll have to see.

[Assistant] I don't think there is anything to see. The media cycle will move on, and within a few weeks, this'll all be forgotten.

[User] Unless it’s the latest example of internal Labour Party battles?

[Assistant]
Even so. Give it a couple of weeks, and it'll be old news.

The nature of click bait media inflates these stories, but it also means the media will move onto something fresh quite quickly as long as Labour end the story as they have done.

Starmer is seen to have dealt with the left of the party.


[User]
Since my spinal injury, everybody knows that cooking costs me. Getting a turkey & 11 sides on the table in under 4 hours is impressive as hell, but I used to enjoy the process & now I'm game theorying it?

How can this be most efficient & meet all our wants in the least amount of steps/time/effort.

[Assistant] I relate. Hope you had a nice day.

[User]
I did, thank you! There were many hugs & we had room at our table for kids whose family doesn't make room for them at theirs. All good things. <3 Also, I don't have to cook for many days!

I hope you had a nice day, too!

[Assistant]
With ONE working burner, I might add.

Maybe one day I'll get back to playing with recipes & being excited by ingredients. I've had many eras in my life, this is one too & it'll last what it lasts. For now, I'll take pride in a job well done & a happy family.


[User] On an exposed chunk of shale this Calogaya decipiens stood out and nearby these lovely apothecia caught my eye !Caloplaca chlorina 🤔

[Assistant] …or dull orange apothecia typically characteristic of Caloplaca chlorina. Again could be, but you probably need to consider other Caloplaca sens lat with grey thalli that lack K+ red anthraquinone pigments, and microscopy would be necessary to confirm. Caloplaca sens lat can be very difficult group!

[User] …or dull orange apothecia typically characteristic of Caloplaca chlorina. Again could be, but you probably need to consider other Caloplaca sens lat with grey thalli that lack K+ red anthraquinone pigments, and microscopy would be necessary to confirm. Caloplaca sens lat can be very difficult group!

[Assistant] Would it make any difference if it was burnt shale spoil from old Allum works ??


[User]
Pips is the cutest “tough guy” in the world.

Thanks to military movies, police work, and youtube videos, the Malinois breed has become unfortunately popular with the same kinds of folks who want to carry their assault weapons into Arbys.

But my Pips is friend to all humans.

[Assistant] That’s similar to my baby Ivan. That dumb fuck Michael Vick (among other shitty “owners”) has tarnished his breed. But he’s just a 65lb, pure muscle, lap dog who wants all the attention.

[User] That smile of his is heartwarming.

[Assistant] Look at his FACE! He would definitely get head-strokies if he wanted them 🥰🥰


[User] what’s the worst part about leagues and why is it the tasks? i have to do 80 more of these arbitrary little ‘to dos’ just to be able to go to another area? no ty, i will just stay on karamja and fish I guess.

[User] am i not engaging with the premise enough for you, ingus? 😂

[Assistant] No, not at all. More shocked that you just ain't wrong 😅


[User] So this can be hard to do sometimes. Cops will use all sorts of tactics, from being your friend to straight up bullying you to get you talking. Saying no can seem like an impossibility. But it feels so good when you do it and they know there's not a lot (currently) they can do about it.

[Assistant] In the moment, it can be nerve wracking. I knew I was relatively safe, I had a ton of lawyers behind me, I was licensed to do this shit and the cops were on video fucking up, and it was still difficult to say no. Practice knowing that it works and they can fuck off.

[User] In the moment, it can be nerve wracking. I knew I was relatively safe, I had a ton of lawyers behind me, I was licensed to do this shit and the cops were on video fucking up, and it was still difficult to say no. Practice knowing that it works and they can fuck off.

[Assistant] Busy=bust and I need an edit button or more coffee.


[User]
I have to admit, some people are coming up with some seriously narrow, closed-minded takes on why swords shouldnt be in #StarCitizen.

"ITS THE FUTURE, WE USE GUNS"

m8, their only benefit is being ranged and a sword can very easily out-match a gun.

We need variety in fights, in skillsets.

[Assistant] Swords and desync... that would look epic :)

[User] the subreddit and spectrum are absolutely full of trash 😞

[Assistant]
Light sabers pls, thx.

I gave up on thinking SC would be a realistic game years ago. Just do what is fun.

[User] Nope. They havent figured out palm sized fusion reactors yet. Not even close. Sorry.

[Assistant] Space Tonfa.

[User] I mean.... Once we get police batons, it wont take much to add them in 😂

[Assistant] There will be much smiting. For medical reasons, obviously...


[User] Saw seven magpies in the garden this morning. Feels like some sort of omen.

[Assistant] Or the beginning of a new terry pratchet book🤔

[User] I wish!

[Assistant] You should be ok...


[User] Store brand is not the same as the brand. 😬 This is not the evil cool whip that I need.

[Assistant] You should try this!

[User] Legit got this for pie tomorrow!

[Assistant] I was gonna make a no bake coconut creme pie with this stuff, but we'll see how early I wake up tomorrow 😅


[User]
As a photographer, there are a few things I’m curious about Bluesky:

📷 How the compression looks in these HQ photos

👥 How does engagement work when you have literally 0 followers (like me right now, hehe)

#⃣ Do hashtags influence the type of audience your post gets?

Can you help me find out 😳

[Assistant] Also the network part of social network means something again. Find some starter kits (premade lists of people to follow) and make some connection's, it's actually nice ti interact with people here.

[User] Also the network part of social network means something again. Find some starter kits (premade lists of people to follow) and make some connection's, it's actually nice ti interact with people here.

[Assistant] Hey! Thanks for taking the time to answer; I’m hopeful that this app can push less controversial, negative, sensationalist ideas 😩


[User]
#영상좋아백업_사희

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm81...


[User]
Hey @bertsbooks.bsky.social can you add this to preorders for me?
Thank you!

[Assistant] Ooh, that's a nice cover!

[User] Also it's payday today, last one before Christmas, so I might have some requests later as well!

[Assistant]
Added for you here! - Michael
bertsbooks.co.uk/product/shig...


[User] - 🧵 Master Thread 🧵 -

[Assistant]
~ ℕ𝕊𝔽𝕎-𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕠 ~

bsky.app/profile/texp...

[User]
~ ℕ𝕊𝔽𝕎-𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕠 ~

bsky.app/profile/texp...

[Assistant]
~ ℕ𝕊𝔽𝕎-𝕚𝕟𝕗𝕠 ~

bsky.app/profile/texp...


[User]
My grudge list:
Author001 (who made my friend cry & who was incredibly rude to everyone including the waitstaff)
Author002 who caused me to be harassed on twitter for her internet progressive points & wouldn't apologize
Author003 who posted how she couldn't be bothered to finish one of my books.

[Assistant] lol I will probably delete this in a bit esp since I can't talk about Author004. Know I want to. And will one day. 💀

[User] I cannot remember what I had for breakfast or if I took my meds but I remember my extensive heavy grudge list.

[Assistant]
God I remember 002

And my very near miss with Author005 (where you helped) who would have harassed me off twitter for some imperfect phrasing in that database I was making at the time...if my name was anywhere on it 😬

(And I can only mention that because no trace of the interaction remains)

[User] I mean, I fixed it, but god I was shitting my pants because of how vicious and worst-possible-faith the replies were. And I had like 50 followers at the time.

[Assistant] Oh I forgot that 005. I was thinking of someone else 😭


[User] Gradle fellows, how to resolve in 2024 a file from the Internet, in a way it respects cache and offline mode?

[Assistant] Release your file to Maven Central 😅

[User] I'm close doing that..........

[Assistant]
I've been looking for the same thing recently.
Below is my current solution but TBH I'm not happy with it (no download progress, re-runs every time the classpath changes, not cached with other dependencies).
So half joking about maven repos.

github.com/GradleUp/gr8...


[User]
Now, tonight's inventory thread.  It won't be much a thread:  one item.  But it goes perfectly with today's featured work [shown below], and I would love to see these two items go home together.

Today's feature was the Deco cuff in shades of purple:

[Assistant]
To match?  The necklace featured Sunday, "As the Night Falls":  wingssilverwork.com/as-the-night....

Pendant:  sterling silver; purple/red flower jaspers; carnelian; hematite.  Beads:  amethyst; hematite; old red & black glass; ruby; lepidolite; sunset jasper; OLD hematite; onyx:

[User] Seriously.  These belong together:

[Assistant] As always, you can order them via the form here: wingssilverwork.com/contact/, or directly via e-mail at NDNSilverByWings [at] gmail [dot] com.


[User]
Something fun for the weekend - here’s a short I did for MoMA a couple of years back. It’s based on real conversations with my daughter about #art and what art is for. #comics #writing #moma

www.moma.org/magazine/art...

[Assistant] This is wonderful, Nick! "I don't like art that makes me feel poor" is a killer line!

[User] This is great. I love an art gallery and enjoy dragging my kids around them. THEY WILL LEARN CULTURE.

[Assistant] My Mum did exactly that. I wonder how much culture is a learned response and how much is universal and emotive!


[User] People have largely given a pass to carter, but the more I find out about him the more I think his legacy needs to be interrogated as harshly as any other president. He is basically the midwife of the Clinton conservative that did unending damage up to contributing to trump double election.

[Assistant] The narrative I grew up with as a gen x person that got tail end of his presidency was that he was simply too liberal and too filled w integrity to be president.

[User] I remember Ted Kennedy running against him *from the left*

[Assistant]
😑
- Carter funded the Taliban in the never ending proxy war in Afghanistan against the Soviets.
-Carter also relaxed the rules for Cuban refugees coming into America (which Reagan did not tighten up after Mariel boatlift; so many famous Marielito murderers)


[User] Older people who eat cheese have higher cognitive functioning than those who do not.

[Assistant] This is the whey forward.

[User] Presumably only applies to actual cheese (made with cow's milk) as opposed to the fake chemical stuff sold as cheese.

[Assistant] No clear cut whether that is causation or correlation.  But very mature or blue cheeses definitely have one confirmed effect on the mind: super-surreal vivid dreams!


[User]
Last night my partner came in as I was wrapping up to inform me that they had finished their second run of Dragon Age: Veilguard. Such a gamer move, truly.

www.twitch.tv/mordenriese/...

[Assistant] This is literally the note they handed me while laughing.

[User] Meanwhile, I have three characters, none of which have beaten the game, and I'm now considering a fourth.................................

[Assistant] An incredible gamer move on your partner's part. Excellently played. Brilliant work 🙏✨✨✨


[User]
My ADHD Dad self wants to create a playlist with the goofy, upbeat, and kinky-underlining songs for sessions. First song on it: "Whip It" by DEVO - classic! 😍

What are your favorite songs that check off these boxes?

[Assistant] YESSS that’s what I’m talking about! 🤣


[User]
One of them built their new home in a way that flooded our lot and then called me an a-hole when I asked them to please stop. Another told us to "move back to California" when we said it's annoying that their kids doorbell ditch the entire neighborhood. They also have >$140K in IRS liens.

So no.

[Assistant] Entirely related, our long-term plan is to build a new home on a lot several streets away next to someone we already know is awesome. Corner lot, so fewer neighbors.

[User] Our original neighbors were great but one of them turned into an overpriced rental and the other pretends we don’t exist (whatever). At least they’re quiet.

[Assistant]
"Move back to California..."

FOH, Diane 😂


[User] Once you pick up enough experience in something (a function of consistency and time), you realize that a lot of popular gurus are basically either bullshit artists, or blew up something trivial. e.g. Taleb just allocated a small portion of capital to out of money options to account for rare events.

[Assistant] However, it's interesting that most still tend to hold the solipsistic view that outside one's area of knowledge, the public experts are really experts.

[User]
*way out of money options
To be clear, this is still something most options traders won't do: they are either conquered by greed enough to not do basic risk management, or are lulled into complacency by a locally-stationary view, or both.

[Assistant] Taleb wants you to think he was basically some kind of real guru, like E. O. Thorp... no way!


[User]
*WHEN* I win the lottery, I'm going to book a wrestling show.

The commentators will be myself and Crowbar on commentary doing dueling- Gordon Solie Impressions for the entirety of at least one match.

Because that needs to happen.

[Assistant] I had Crowbar on the show and one of the things I had to bring up was the Gordon Solie.

[User]
I did a podcast with a buddy who's interviewed Crowbar and did my Solie impression for him. his immediate response was "I need to get you on a show with Crowbar."

Guess I'm kind of okay at it?

[Assistant]
Haha yes! Crowbar and your's impressions are different sides of Gordon, so people would be able to separate you.

P.S. Triangle was a big (on joke) thing in my high school band percussion section.


[User]
I have a rather unsettling feeling that my dog is trying to kill me.
I mean, it’s completely understandable, but can we get Xmas out of the way first?
Please and thanks sir.

[Assistant] Sounds ruff.

[User] Kill you? Not until I've had my doggy treats first!

[Assistant] 😂😂 now I refuse to believe that dog could hurt anybody. Totally innocent!


[User] Here are a few of the reward items you can get in the Cozy Celebrations Event!

[Assistant]
We're having a Grinch trait? lmao
I feel seen.

[User] Finally! I can make my husband in the Sims!

[Assistant] Oh these are very nice(well the items, unsure if a grinch trait will be used a lot for me). I wonder if that means more scarfs as accessories?


[User]
#metalsky #stonermetal #electricwizard
youtu.be/NFc3LjvlLeM?...

[Assistant] song for you: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HymG... ❤

[User] Nice thanks 🤗

[Assistant] www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6NS... I blast this one all the time too !


[User]
FACTS:
VicNews. First commercial news site online in Australia, 1994. (16yp).

VicNews. First commercial news site on BlueSky in Australia, 2024. (46yo).

Well, some things take time ... wow, yeah, I can't believe this happened ... thanks BlueSky and your team ...

[Assistant]
In 1994, it was "no big deal" hardly anyone was online and VicNews went out across Melbourne's north-eastern suburbs in print.

Just some text on BBS and the beggining of a website back then, as teens ... the interner itslef was a "new thing" in 1994 ...

[User]
Yep, even with that bad spelling. But we, the VicNews team (it wasn't just me, it was ateam effort) and we got the paper put in print, then by 1994, we had a digital copy online via BBS and text (internet).

Only other media online then? ABC, about 5 days before us ...

[Assistant] The chance to beat ABV2, HSV7,  GTV9,  ATV10, SBS28, 3LO, 3AW, Herald & Weekly Times and The Age has for the first time since I was a teen cadet in th 90s, being thrown right in front of me ... thanks BlueSky ...

[User]
Words I never thought I'd ever write again ... here it is - thanks to BlueSky - the modern online digital equivilant of what us teens did in the 1990s ...

Bulls. Horns.
Irons. Hot.

[Assistant]
I am, and you're welcome to have your say btw, stunned that this platform (bluesky) is providing something that (a) the dead bird once did, and (b) supporting actual bona fide journalists. (Yes, BleSky staff check bona fides).

And here we are. Genuinely stunned, so don't waste the opportunity.

[User]
Besides, when (they will, I bet) the ABC, Age, Herald Sun, turn up here, well, I've been here before them ... just like me and my mates were with VicNews in 1994 ...

So, I'll always have proof, that I was here, before any Melbourne MSM turned up ... oh dear ...

[Assistant]
Wasn't much, nor often (took a lot of work for teens) but see the bottom "Victoria's official monthly updated newspaper."

BBS (early internet) so we could update the news, from 1992, but it wouldn't be until 1994 when we were "fully rolling."


[Assistant] I have this experience at work. Sometimes I repeat what someone says back at them. They do not like it. At all and it’s funny as heck.

[Assistant] Reflection is a great way to make friends and get rid of enemies. They choose how they'll get treated by putting the responsibility solely with them.


[User] If you want this place to stay healthy, never engage with trolls or sharers of misinformation, do not hesitate to block accounts - it's your right to tune them out. Do not hesitate to use moderation lists. The quality of this platform depends on each of us.

[Assistant] Hi. I’ve noticed a problem I didn’t expect from liberals and leftists: blocking true information presented respectfully, simply because they didn’t like it. People can do that, but I’m concerned that it makes us less able to effectively combat impending fascism.

[User] Take it from someone who communicated covid science and vaccine information for over four years on twitter. Those trying to promote false information or silence me knew their account got one shot before being blocked permanently. Eventually they died out, like bugs to a zapper.

[Assistant] I've never blocked so many people in my life. I'm beginning to feel like a football player. Blockety, block ... block, block, block. Touchdown....


[User] Does anyone know how many tags you are allowed to have on here? I am just curious to see if there is a limit or what would be recommended?

[Assistant] You're only limited by the 300-character-per-post limit.

[User] Aye, I know with character limit but it's tags, that I am trying to see how many I can have for each post.

[Assistant] Tags are part of those 300 characters, so you can have as many tags as will fit within that.


[User]
🔮 Ketanji Brown Jackson is getting dragged on X for comparing restrictions on children transitioning, to interracial marriage.

🔎 Comments are bringing up the fact that KBJ can't define a woman, and that interracial marriage isn't a sterilizing permanent surgery.

[Assistant] Why does a gender need to be defined. We have other things in this world to worry about.

[User] You can't fix this level of stupid.

[Assistant] And yet she's a judge for the SCOTUS. 🤦♀


[User] "By now we were in full stream of unconsciousness. The west was dying on its feet because of the rise of neo-Marxist philosophies. Joe Biden, Rishi Sunak, Keir Starmer, and Emmanuel Macron were all part of a communist conspiracy. It would be news to them. As it was to us."

[Assistant] I don’t know whether to laugh or cry!

[User] Best laugh, it's better for you 😻

[Assistant] 😏 It is John Crace, after all!


[User] Sorry if it's weird when I like your post from yesterday; my Discover feed is currently stuck in the past.

[Assistant] Is that what I did?

[User]
I've asked specifically, for the ability to see only new'er posts!

You can already tune your own Discover feed, w the "show more/less like this" menu choices.

Though you can also never know what counts as "like this," so I never use that. Have also asked for a reset button, for any choices made.

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[User] Is a word of the year the Word of the Year if most of the people who hear it don't know what it means? That's the debate happening in Japan as the annual U-CAN award goes to a term that doesn't seem to ring many bells.

[Assistant] I mean, this one I'd at least heard of, as opposed to the previous triple-three... They always have to slip at least one generic baseball term in there.

[User] (my vote would have been blingbangbangborn, our 4 year olds say it constantly)

[Assistant] (my vote would have been blingbangbangborn, our almost-4 year olds say it constantly)


[User] Metaphor last night was like three straight hours of peak.

[Assistant] What date are you on?

[User] I just finished the icy area and wow.

[Assistant] Oh hell yeah. That's one of my favorite parts.


[User] Does anyone else feel like we're more of a family over here? I see so many accounts I follow responding to other accounts I follow. It just gives me really happy purple vibes, you know? 😊💜

[Assistant] Absolutely. The sense of community over here is strong.

[User] Fewer distractions from obnoxious people too.

[Assistant] I love the conversations we're having here.


[User] This man... no wonder i call him a Doglander... He literally acts like a dog. He even has puppy eyes 😂

[Assistant] Ear scratches?

[User]
You can do that all you want 😁
He will look a little embarrassed but he will enjoy it 😂

[Assistant] Yippe, but aww him embarrassed 😆


[User] Cherry Muse of the month: Kali Roses 🔥

[Assistant] One day maybe youll do tutorials on how you do tattoes 🫣

[User] I just drew them by hand 😅

[Assistant] Makes it sound so simple. Youre too good man.


[User] Recording an episode of Podcast Is Broken, then tonight at 7CST, watch me play one of your childhood's most unwinnable games, Aladdin for the Super Nintendo! Streaming on Twitch and YouTube! Hopefully. The tech was a whole mess today. But I'm sure it's fixed this time! *looks around nervously*

[Assistant] One Cone's favourite games. He used to play it as a kid, while listening to Metallica. We're rooting for you, Boots!

[User] One of Cone's favourite games. He used to play it as a kid while listening to Metallica. We're rooting for you Boots!

[Assistant] Oh man, the flying carpet level... *shudder*


[User] A magat to add to blocking.

[Assistant] Thank you 💙

[User] Imagine an insane human purportedly believing himself to be sane! What a country!

[Assistant] I dunno. The self-brainwashing is almost, breathtaking.


[User]
us sowing (the gun death of a health insurance CEO): Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
us reaping (the capricious rise of social violence in a collapsing empire): Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

[Assistant] If the healthcare ceo rich guy can get gun down in the middle of the subway, what does that say for the rest of us poor fucks?

[User]
This will in turn cause shortages of basic-need supplies, such as power and food.

Even if it doesn't, inflation will rapidly increase, which is almost as bad as group panic.

[Assistant]
This will in turn cause shortages of basic-need supplies, such as power and food.

Even if it doesn't, inflation will rapidly increase, which is almost as bad as group panic.


[User] I don't care if the coup attempt was illegal or not, or how much notice you had before needing to move out, did you or did you not conduct PCCs/PCIs on your soldiers' gear to make sure everything was tied down with 550 cord, Sergeant?

[Assistant] With any luck the new LT lost them.

[User] “Siri, Show me what a Spec 4 dreams about finding unattended...”

[Assistant] When you need a coup done right, call Jane.


[User]
Lana will follow suit..

Since she practically lives with Gunnhild at this point. For uh.. all the working out they do! Yeah~!

[Assistant] That is how Lana gets bent over and filled. She should be careful flashing her pretty pussy so much~.

[User]
No need to be careful if that's what she wants.

Coming downstairs shortly after the redhead, after all Lana slept in a little after.. last night~

Also pantless, her already great ass looking greater after all the time spent with her PT.

"Morning~"

[Assistant]
"Ah, you're finally awake."

Gunnhild remarked, stepping back into the kitchen. She was in the middle of preparing breakfast.

"What do you like in your omelettes?"

The redhead asked, turning to the fridge.


[User] #blacksky I’m over here watching my cousins play Tonk like I’m in school, like I’m NOT getting the game 🤣🤣🤣

[Assistant] i just don’t make eye contact when anyone plays because i’ve been taught multiple times and cannot remember how to play for the life of me 😭😂

[User] What’s crazy is I can play Pitty Pat perfectly fine but any game other than that I struggle with!!

[Assistant] lmao i can play spades and uno …that’s it 😂


[User] I need someone to analyze this like it’s my horoscope. Is this good or bad?

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[User] private content thats too good to miss. Ready to explore? 🤤😍💦 https://privatevid.vercel.app/

[Assistant] private content thats too good to miss. Ready to explore? 🤤😍💦 https://privatevid.vercel.app/


[User] Nothing like a big dose of man ass in the morning.

[Assistant] For real.

[User] Right on the face 👌🏽

[Assistant] More like, right on the tongue.


[User] If you could cast one spell in real life, what would it be? (No cheating with unlimited wishes!)

[Assistant] Can it be a selfish one that doesn't benefit anyone other than me?

[User] It's yours to choose.

[Assistant] Then today it has to be a selfish one (sorry world). I want an end to my mental and physical health battles, so a spell to make my body and brain work properly.


[User] So Hannah Kobayashi was seen crossing the border on foot and people are giving up on her? Leaving your life behind without notifying a soul is a very clear indicator of a mental health crisis.

[Assistant] Or she's healing her mental health by doing this.

[User] Healing implies she is unwell so my point still stands. She is troubled by something. If she was ok there would be no problem notifying her family that she needs time alone.

[Assistant] Her family might have been the cause of her needing a break. The way they are acting might make me do the same thing. She's a grown ass woman that's can make her own decisions about her own life.


[User]
We have so much to be grateful for in our recovery from COVID.

At the time, it was very frightening, and we're forgetting that.

We would do well to do more remembering. There is a lot unresolved.

[Assistant] I'm going to post this more. What may seem overreaction now was what was needed to stop that exponential rise.

[User] I am not sure there was much of a "recovery". Public health remains in shambles (and is set to be in much worse condition in the next 4 years), and we are arguably *less* prepared for the next pandemic than we were before. Many people still think COVID is over! Our response has been shameful.

[Assistant] I'll be posting this graph again. And again. The measures necessary to stop that exponential curve will always seem like an overreaction if they accomplish their goal.


[User]
me: “I need to go to CVS to get Xmas candy for my students as an apology for late grading.”

my husband: “Ali, you don’t have to buy their love.”

me: “I’m not buying their love, I’m trying to buy 5/5s on the evaluations that will be used in my tenure & promotion case.”

my husband: “…”

[Assistant] Seems perfectly understandable to me.

[User]
Last semester, I had a prof give us an extra 10% on our midterm b/c it was later being returned.

He told us that since he would dock us 10% if it was late, then it was fair to give us 10%

[Assistant] Buy their love!  Buy their love!  And a little treat for yourself!  And a little treat for yourself!


[User]
Crypto boss EATS banana art he bought for R112 million – PHOTO

www.thesouthafrican.com/news/offbeat...

[Assistant] As well as heading for hell in a handcart, the world has gone bananas.

[User] Selfish entitlement. Think of all he could have helped with that money.

[Assistant] Everything wrong with the world in one photo.


[User] If you celebrate the holiday..what do you actually like getting or giving in a stocking stuffer?

[Assistant] I love a really good high cocoa content choc bar 😋 and very boring but functional hair ties - I keep loosing them :/

[User] Traditionally I got socks and sweets generally speaking. Maybe a card with some cash if I was on the right list 🤣

[Assistant] The stuffing is the best part!


[User] There is nothing better than being up early before it’s light, sitting in a warm kitchen, drinking tea and making up stories. Thanks to @panmacmillan.bsky.social and the lovely readers who make this possible.

[Assistant] I love writing in the early morning too, but the problem is I also like late nights.

[User] Thanks for always posting positive - what do we call them here "tweets "

[Assistant] I’d argue that being up early before it’s light, sitting in a warm kitchen, drinking tea and reading great stories is as good. Thanks for all you do to make that possible 🙂☕📚

[User] Thanks! But it's the readers who pay our wages...

[Assistant]
It is so lovely to see you here Ann

Enjoy that cuppa and looking forward to reading the stories 😊


[User] Kaos is extremely fun and good, and the soundtrack is tremendous. naturally it is canceled already.

[Assistant] I typed this before they played fatboy slim. FUCK. bring it back, dammit.

[User] Really good. Glad some other folks are watching it.

[Assistant] Solely on the word of my First GF, I re-subscribed to Netflix JUST to watch "Kaos." It took me a few episodes to get into, but once I did I was hooked. After the season finale I told her "I really hope there's a second season" and it was canceled within 48 hours. So that's on me. The Hunter jinx.


[User] After the damp and mould problem I moved all the furniture from around the TV and now it looks comically small in the middle of a blank wall…

[Assistant] Go big or go ho... O wait, you're already home 😔

[User] I think I have a mould problem too. What did you do to fix it?

[Assistant]
Moved furniture away from the walls so it wouldn’t trap cold air and condense so much, leaving a sizable gap seems to be recommended. It’s some consolation that it seems to be a very common problem 😬

Also running a dehumidifier know. Though I’m not sure it’s fixed!


[User] The Internet and virtual platforms have amplified the potential for intellectual inattention paradoxically created by the attention devoted to spectacles, fake news, etc. consumed and frantically shared with the help of small/large personal and even portable screens connected to computer networks.

[Assistant] I am a user of these media, but I have not stopped being a book reader. Old habits tend to prevail over new communication technologies. But the power of seduction of books has not completely disappeared.

[User] Culture may be in danger, as Postman said. But I believe that many young people who grow up immersed in this new Plato’s hig tech luminous cave can escape it through reading. And I see some doing so on public transportation.

[Assistant] Not to mention the competition between good content (like this video, which reached me driven by the same algorithm that drives much lower-quality content) and banal and even harmful videos produced only to obtain easy profit by spreading misinformation with great potential for emotional engagement.


[User]
“Man. Our consoles not really selling well. What should we do?”
“Make it more expensive?”
“BRILLIANT!”

[Assistant] (It’s a special edition, nothing more. This one doesn’t track as a dumb move, which is rare for them this gen for sure.)

[User] An extra Benjamin for extra storage, something that gets progressively cheaper as time moves on, four years later when the only alternative is ALSO expensive, just feels indicative of Xbox’s poor planning at large. Especially when every single competitor has that aspect open to whatever.

[Assistant] An extra Benjamin for extra storage, something that gets progressively cheaper as time moves on, four years later when the only alternative is ALSO expensive, just feels indicative of Xbox’s poor planning at large. Especially when every single competitor has that aspect open to whatever.


[User]
Hey.  I'm seeing some moots starting to repost some real trash.

VERY LOUD REMINDER from the back:

LEAVE DUNK POSTING ON TWITTER.  IF YOU SEE A PIECE OF SHIT BEING A PIECE OF SHIT, LEAVE IT.  Block em and move on.

Nothing is better for ur mental health and worse for their egos than IGNORING THEM.

[Assistant]
No, I don't care that "big funny account" is the one doing the dunking.  Ur friends don't need to see transphobic people being transphobic or racist bigots being racist followed by ur take on why they are dumb.

We all know they are dumb.  We do not need to see it.  Stop spreading it.

[User] I have unfollowed people I like, for the reposting they do. I just don't want any of it.

[Assistant] Attention is the water that makes the weeds grow...


[User] If it’s Wednesday, it must be the collapse of the French government.

[Assistant] If it's Thursday, it must be Rome?

[User] Who knows what other geopolitical joys this week will bring us?

[Assistant] Is it Wednesday?


[User] An acrid mist rises from the frozen sludge of the cave mouth. The misty tendrils form themselves into a robed human figure.

[Assistant] He says "You've come. I've been waiting for you. Please listen to me. Long ago I dueled with my disciple, Dracan, in this place. I confined him here in the ice but his power was too much for me.

[User] I am now forever locked in this dimension with only the ability to project my image into this cave. I ask a favor of you, my son.

[Assistant] Send the sleeping Dracan in the ice, away into the dark world!!" with that, the old man disappears.


[User] Depressingly, he’s not wrong. The international art market is a fiction kept alive by investors, just like NFTs were.

[Assistant] That fella should have worn a 'Notice me, Elon!' t-shirt for the full effect.

[User] Yep. Once a piece starts selling for more than 5 figures it's 100% part of a money laundering operation. And the probability started rising when it went for 4 figures.

[Assistant] This is the only based and artistically sound thing I've ever seen a crypto fool do. Probably on accident but he's right! He's right and we should say it!


[User]
Unsolicited Chris lore!

From childhood through my junior year of college, I was an outspoken young earth creationist. I had planned on being a creation scientist. I was frequently in contact with Kent Hovind, who once offered a summer job at his "Dinosaur Adventure Land." Thankfully, I passed!

[Assistant] Did you also learn from him how to commit tax fraud?

[User] Well I watched through his seminar video series dozens of times and he definitely encouraged tax evasion!

[Assistant] I once spoke with Kent Hovind on the phone! My sister was considering attending Pensacola Concentration Camp- I mean "Christian College." We got his side of the dispute between Hovind and PCC.


[User] Good morning everyone 💜. I'm ngl the only things I know about Thanksgiving are from Bob's Burgers but I hope you guys all have a good day 💖

[Assistant] gooooood morning, kate! have a great day! ♥

[User] Good morning! 💕

[Assistant] Morning! Hope you have a lovely day 😊💜


[User] Good morning indeed ☺🔥

[Assistant] I got two of those now! So dope to see. I just got my rarest card yet yesterday 👀

[User] Congrats!! I still don’t have any immersive card 😭

[Assistant] I haven’t opened anything good in days now 🥲


[User]
🧬 “…take a sample of water, a sample of soil or even a sample of air, send them to our laboratory and we can extract the samples of DNA and tell them what animal they came from. We can get long lists of all the animals that were in that area.”

Very cool!

[Assistant] Hell yea, science🔥

[User] But such analysis is also quite sensitive to pollution of the sample. Its an amazing tool which can greatly impact biology studies (and more), but it is not without limits.

[Assistant] Send them a sample from Loch Ness @schreiberland.bsky.social 😉


[User] The UK PM is actively participating in a genocide against the will of his own people. What is the mechanism to remove him?

[Assistant] I'm not against Starmer, but have struggled with his stance on Palestine. Can only imagine what reform or the tories would  be doing would be considerably worse though.

[User] I like Green Party position. They seem to have the best policy platform.

[Assistant] Inclined to agree, if a green candidate had any chance where I live my vote may have been different.


[User] Before Comic Book Guy there was “Super Fan.” Tim Donnelly plays a sad sack who steals superhero posters on Dragnet 1967. The first time the now cliched trope of the adult cosplaying sci-fi nerd was negatively depicted in media? Or are there earlier examples?

[Assistant] Okay, this doesn't technically count but since you gave me an excuse to post it...

[User] The Crimson Crusader!

[Assistant] An unfortunate storyline I can totally see in that era’s Dragnet philosophy of “Cops vs. Hippies”.

[User] Tim Donnelly? The sad sack from "Parts: The Clonus Horror"?

[Assistant] A butterfly flaps its wings, and we are cursed with Big Bang Theory decades later.

[User]
I watched this episode last week.
So much I like about it.
Dragnet called out a cliche long before it became a cliche!

Tim Donnelly was in many Jack Webb shows, Dragnet and Adam-12

Then was featured as a regular in one of my favourite classic shows, Emergency!; part of the Jack Webb legacy.

[Assistant] Did Joe Friday approve?


[User]
I had another dream this morning, it might be relatable as it appears to relate to the zeitgeist.

I’m showing a number of VR horror games to friends. As soon as you put on the headset, flying knives and zombies start chasing you.

[Assistant] Off on a side path, there’s a gigantic ice cave where a space base can be built and a portal to Active Worlds—3D worlds with VRML technology that I used to build in high school.

[User] Back in Horrorland, we discover a very small house, with two rooms on the ground floor, completely covered in graffiti and in a dilapidated state. The electricity still works, but smoke is coming out of several still-plugged-in appliances like sandwich toasters and heating boilers.

[Assistant] Eventually, we unplug all the burnt-out devices and start wondering if we want to renovate this little place or not—if it’s even worth it.


[User] Cats have 230 bones, while humans only have 206.

[Assistant] That's because cats are LIQUID.

[User] Most of those bones are teeny tiny.

[Assistant]
And flexible. Less likely to break.
9 lives.

[User] All mammals - at least mammals - are more efficient than us, basically. But because we have invented stuff that surpass all terrestrial performances, we consider ourselves the masters of the world!

[Assistant]
That’s it. We are not the top of the food chain. Far from it. But gUnS. 🤣
Wait till the wasps and spiders get together and go bowling.  😎

[User] Animals live on a higher plane than humans. One day we will figure this out.

[Assistant] Yet they seem boneless;)


[User]
I feel like we should start a class action suit ..

“ If you are someone you love was left traumatized from viewing this film…”

[Assistant] I need to call the hotline. I am entitled to some sort of compensation after viewing this film.

[User] Because.. what the fuck was that??!?

[Assistant] A twisted tale to highlight SA/molestation in family homes?


[User] As the year winds down, it's time to reflect. 🌟 What worked well for you this year? What were your wins? What can you celebrate, no matter how small? We'd love to know for an article we're pulling together for Creative Boom 👀 Share your stories below!

[Assistant] Teaming up with excellent folks (such as yourself) to create new projects. Getting closure on some other stuff, by chance or by choice… and moving the long-term projects a few inches forward…

[User] I managed to push through some great Social First content for a known brand, who are very strict on their brand perception, that got some great results!

[Assistant] Focusing on volunteer work with local nonprofits as I prepare to transition away from my foodservice business. Benefit posters, brochures, mailers, and the like; nice mix of creative and production work, and the book is benefitting. Might be a food cart in Portland for sale sometime in 2025...


[User] And the winner is @milkyhorchata.bsky.social !! Congrats 🥰🥳🎉

[Assistant] Yay!! Thank you, I’m so excited!!! 🥹💖💖

[User] Yay Congrats!!! 🎉

[Assistant] Congratulations 🎉🎉


[User] Bb-8 is just perfectly snowman shaped. ⛄

[Assistant] He really is!

[User] This is so precious 💖😭

[Assistant] Thanks! 😊


[User] Manchester's Best Beer Pubs and Bars is now *multi award winning*. Many thanks to both the The British Guild of Beer Writers and the North American Guild of Beer Writers for honouring my book, and to the Campaign for Real Ale for publishing it, and trusting me with the project.

[Assistant] Huge congrats from me to all the winners, esp the incredible @amethystheels.bsky.social, and to every single @pelliclemag.com contributor. Props too, to all the editors and publishers investing in this kind of work and making it happen.

[User] Also just totted up the Pellicle pieces that, in part or in full, contributed to award wins, and there were eleven in total. Just incredible. So proud of our team and every single one of our contributors. And to all our subscribers who give us the resources to do just this.

[Assistant] My go-to guide when using my pensioner bus pass for days out.


[User] Yall ever start justifying your purchase of a game with "Well..At least I don't waste money on smoking"

[Assistant] No but from now on I will 😂👌

[Assistant] Books and video games are my two “it could be drugs” purchases 😂


[User] The Georgian people, with the Georgian flag, standing on Rustaveli Avenue, Tbilisi, to defend Georgia's European choice and the national sovereignty. On the other side, an illegitimate force that has sided with Russia, which fights against liberty and calling itself the "government." Sanction them.

[Assistant] There is no such thing as a Georgian government anymore. They are Russian thugs.

[User] This is Russia's invasion of Georgia, but through Georgia's self-proclaimed, illegitimate government.

[Assistant] I wonder how long the good people will attend the demonstrations because the cops will always riot. It's getting more and more dangerous.


[User]
Hello Bluesky friends! Happy Tuesday! 🤍💚🤍

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWhite #photography #flowers
🌱📷

[Assistant] Happy Tuesday, Sevy! 🤍💚💛🌻🤗

[User] fabulous layers of different textures. it's like a rich nature cake. the top layer is def the icing!

[Assistant] Thank you so much, Lori! So nice of you!💜😀🌞


[User]
#Veilguard

Someone make a mod that puts back the vendor in Minrathous (or Treviso if you choose that). Please.

[Assistant] There's a wisp on the Crossroads that does that last time I checked!

[User] Does it give Shadow Dragons rep too though? That's what I mainly need it for, to sell stuff to it so I can get rep.

[Assistant] Yes! It does that for sure. Not 100% certain when it shows up, but I believe it's during act 2.


[User] Given how many trans people self-accept after playing characters other than their gender assigned at birth in D&D, the idea that Elon Musk might buy it in a continued attempt to “un-woke” companies he thinks transed his daughter is not the world’s least plausible theory.

[User] if anything could get people to finally try other TTRPG systems...

[Assistant] How's he going to force people to play D&D with characters that match their assigned sex/gender tho?


[User] Is this an AI image of a cunt?

[Assistant] I can't believe they got a Tory Kit Conner 😭😭

[User] Oh no... you've ruined Kit now 😅

[Assistant] Oh this his evil Tory twin, it's not him it's fine 👀


[User] This. Look, I'm a few years older than McCarthy was when he came across this girl. Part of my job is to talk to 16yos in schools. And even for those who are most emotionally mature, there is NO way that I could have a relationship with any of them that would not involve a massive power imbalance.

[Assistant] And I've read some of his work. He knew all about power, in a granular way. We've been through all this with Gaiman.

[User] Can you please share a recent rundown article or thread on the Gaiman thing cause I've only vaguely seen mentions of it?

[Assistant]
Oh, there was an entire podcast by, I think Tortoise Media? But there are some unpleasant terfs who were involved in producing it.
This article is quite recent and credible, I think. Content warnings apply, of course - SA, abuse, etc
www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...


[User] It’s called, “the British Method.”

[Assistant] Come on now, there's trolling and there's trolling.

[User]
Actually this is a sex position.

But after the sex, we microwave our tea.

[Assistant] Given everything else going on I thought this was a reference to Carrot Top's technique.

[User] You’re going to make us cry again..

[Assistant] What else would you do, crank up the welder and dip the ends into the cup till it starts to boil?

[Assistant] But you don't have kettles in America.


[User]
A question for all my scholar, linguist, translator, historian etc. homesliceses:
Has anyone come across references to the I Ching in Japanese history or thought? Confucian thinking is hugely influential as I understand it, but I'm curious whether the Book of Changes made it over here.

[Assistant] I'm not 100% certain without checking my translation memories, but something's ringing a bell that it was mentioned in something I translated.

[User] I'll check in the morning and see.

[Assistant] It rides pretty high among the classics, and so many of the others were important here, but I don't think I've ever come across it in my reading. Kind of curious. Thanks!


[User]
Gooood morning!

Zelda is not impressed!😂

Have a great day!♥

[Assistant] I'm with Zelda 😂. Good morning. Have a wonderful day ☕✌💙.

[User] Good morning Jarett, happy hump day.😊

[Assistant] That’s what happens when you wake a Princess up too early …😼


[User]
“most americans live paycheck to paycheck…they are one crisis from homelessness. a job loss or an unexpected illness and they are where i am. they are on edge, driving bigger and faster and louder cars—a society speeding along as it disintegrates.”

what a piece.

www.esquire.com/news-politic...

[Assistant]
That's a very dark read, Hayley...

The dark underbelly of an impoverished America, like homelessness everywhere. The anguish of mental health and the depravity of any decency for those whose struggle is so real.

I think of the yachts and collections of the wealthy.

Enough to make one vomit💔

[User] Having been homeless in a car at several points in my life, I winced every time he tried to stay in the same place 2 nights in a row. His car works, he could have shifted. Sleeping in your car the same place again & again is going to attract a LOT of attention. Poor bastard.

[Assistant] The Louis Vuitton ads throughout. Jesus!


[User]
One of the hottest feelings ever was when I was being relentlessly tickled to a point where sir just started laughing too from how much fun he was having torturing me.

Uncontrollable laughter and rope-bound spasming while listening to sir laugh at my misery.. My dick almost exploded tbh 😭

[Assistant] Getting pleasure from your sir’s pleasure, good boy!

[User] Was pretty much just a feedback loop lol.. He gets turned on by my laughing, I get turned on by his, and the cycle repeats 🐶

[Assistant] You sound like you’re real fun to play with 😉


[User] Good morning everyone 💜💜💜 how're we all doing today?

[Assistant] doom scrolling at 1am and setting my tomorrow up for failure 🤗

[User]
Ran out of hormones because of an aopthecary strike and i feel weiiiird....

Hope you're wellll? 💜

[Assistant] Oh no! That is the absolute worst, it's happened to me a few times and it does not feel good at all 😭 hope you're doing okay otherwise 🫶. I'm getting there 💜


[User]
Good morning Bluesky

Couple things to keep in mind… that jaw? Yeah, relax it.

I hear tell of some fooball game in Columbus, Ohio today… so #GoBucks.

Last but not least, on this #Caturday,  remember to protect your peace.

[User] Be a cat and don’t give a fuq!

[Assistant] Love 99% of your views. Go blue!


[Assistant] Good morning, Neal. Hope you have a wonderful Monday! 👋

[User] Good morning, Neal! Hope you have a wonderful Tuesday!!! 👋

[Assistant] Good morning Craig! Happy Tuesday!

[User] Good morning Neal ☕ 👋🏼

[Assistant] Good morning!


[User]
David is among my favorite "content creators." Beyond his engaging personality, archery prowess, and adorable charisma, his videos are incredibly useful and informative for us fantasy-creator types.

If you don't already follow him on your platform of choice, check him out.

youtu.be/PR-vyk9BeNo?...

[Assistant] Most of David's videos are much shorter than this one. The reason I post this video here today is because unlike most "real weapon & armor" video creators (who usually dismiss fantasy tropes as stupid even though they're big ol' geeks themselves), David addresses the Rule of Cool in fantasy tales.

[User] I love watching his videos - a great blend of funny, informative, and entertaining.

[Assistant]
it's good content.

And seems to have a LOT less ego investment than many "historical" content youtubers, like Metatron, Shadiotversity, etc.

I have him, Tod's Workshop and Scholagladiatoria all in my regular follows, along with Drachinifel.


[User] It’s a yes here.

[Assistant] Cough candy twists. Great stuff.

[User] Are they barley sugars? My Gran ALWAYS had barley sugars! Gosh I remember them now :)

[Assistant] Cough candy twists.

[User] I always have a bag in the car. Mainly because the rest of the family hate them, so I know the won’t demolish them like they do every other boiled sweet.

[Assistant] Oh, cough candy twists! My mum always bought sour plooms, but I was more of a butterscotch kinda girl.

[User] Wow that’s a blast from my childhood.  Might try and find some today 🤣

[Assistant] Oh no! I couldn't stand the smell of them when weighing them out.


[User] Spy magazine co-founder Kurt Andersen said “WWE is, if not the key, a large key to the Donald Trump phenomenon we're experiencing today." Well, I’ve been watching the documentary series “Mr. McMahon” on Netflix and the key is pumped up and glaring.

[Assistant] I grew up with Mid Atlantic wresting: my brother was a fan. We had one TV. Now you know why I read so much.

[User] My husband is a huge fan, since birth it seems. And he was transfixed by the documentary, and my call-out of McMahon’s bullshit - his use of the wrestlers. Like they were his real-life dolls. The death of Owen Hart 100% makes my point.

[Assistant] Hart dropped 78 feet to the ring and died from internal bleeding. McMahon decided “the show must go on,” Hart’s corpse was removed, but his blood stayed behind. Every wrestler had to perform that night seeing his blood on the ring. Why would you do that to your employees?


[User] This is depressing. Everyone over 70 needs to step down and make way for younger leadership.

[Assistant] This is the most dry unseasoned photo of old guard Ive ever seen.

[User] There isn't enough seasoning in all the world to fix it either.

[Assistant] Nope time to throw them all out to fertilize a new crop of fresh Dems.


[User] Good morning ☕

[Assistant] Good morning, hope you have a nice Thanksgiving 🌹❤

[User] Good morning!

[Assistant]
Good afternoon (here)!  🌞

Hope you're having a good day!!


[User] Good morning, everyone!

[User] Good morning starshine.

[Assistant] Morning, Megan.  Have a great day!

[User] Good Morning.

[Assistant] Good morning! 😎


[User] can I get a good morning?

[Assistant] Good morning beautiful❤

[User] Good morning, beautiful! 😘😘

[Assistant] Good morning 😘😘


[User] I’m ngl. As an only child, there are times where I really wish I had a sibling.

[Assistant] Omg as a fellow only child I thought I was the only one who had that thought. My friends who have siblings are always like "no you don't" but it's definitely crossed my mind.

[User] I feel like it's hit or miss. My siblings I don't talk with anymore because I can't relate with any of them and/or they're so bigoted that talking to them just wrecks my mental health, where my partners sibling is so close they're actively over to our place and they both have these inside jokes.

[Assistant] Even at my lowest point I have never wanted anyone remotely like myself near me.


[User] To Western tankies sipping latte or conservatives howling for freedom with their guns - great job advocating for a Ukraine scenario to be prevented in Georgia, while pushing for a Belarus scenario instead. That's your "freedom" and "justice."

[Assistant] They don’t care about those things, actually. The Western “patriots” only care about satisfying Putin’s ego and making Russia great again.

[User] Some westerners are quite coo-coo!

[Assistant] Glory to the Ukraine! CALA YKRAINI !!!🇺🇦🇦🇴🇧🇧🇪🇺🇬🇪🏴


[Assistant] Is that half dome in the back there?

[User] Kind of looks like it. Wouldn’t surprised. It is a MAGA meme.

[Assistant] Or is he going to declare war on Italy or Switzerland since he's staring bewilderdly at the Matterhorn.


[Assistant] Thanks! Sorry about the mess down here.

[User] You're welcome! No need to apologize; not holding you responsible, Elle. 😀

[Assistant] Thank you - and Canada is a wonderful neighbor!


[User] Oh, those Victorians!

[Assistant] Mrs Beeton’s laudanum and crack marmalade (later editions recommend a pinch of radium)

[User] "You'll glow until your teeth fall out."

[Assistant] Original meaning of ‘glow-up'


[User] A little context from Robert Reich. youtube.com/shorts/CvBpz...

[Assistant] This is going to be one wild ride!

[User] I know I wasn’t the only one who noticed his cognitive decline!

[Assistant] I watch The Coffee Klatch podcast weekly. He makes so much sense as does his co-host Heather. They are so smart and- more importantly, they both have heart.


[User]
🚨NEW: our investigation is out in the FT which shows that the Overseas Territories pumped nearly £6bn of suspicious money in the U.K. property market.

www.ft.com/content/7fcd...

[Assistant]
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) stands out as the worst offender. Over 90% of suspect
funds invested into the UK via an Overseas Territory went through the  BVI, equivalent to £5.5 billion in value.

[User]
The British Virgin Islands (BVI) stands out as the worst offender. Over 90% of suspect
funds invested into the UK via an Overseas Territory went through the  BVI, equivalent to £5.5 billion in value.

[Assistant] The BVI stands out as the worst offender, involved in 90% of the cases where money was funneled via an OT, and equivalent to £5.5 billion in value.


[User] I'm gonna have 3 different meetings at work today, all like 2-3 hours each, and I just know I'm gonna die from social anxiety 🥲

[Assistant] We're with you in spirit!

[User] Thank you..! I'll try to live through it 🥹

[Assistant] I lived... Having a whole day of only meetings made it feel like time went 5x slower... But I'm finally free... ☠


[User] Instead of all this debate about assisted dying complexities, why not when you have to sign a waiver saying you understand the risks of surgery you just give a little wink and a nod to the surgeon?

[Assistant] That made me think of this @privateeyenews.bsky.social cartoon from a while back.

[User] You may joke, but it's a widely acknowledged open secret amongst the surgical profession that major orthopaedic surgeries requiring general anaesthetic (eg femoral nails) on elderly/infirm patients are a means of legally/medically acceptable euthanasia. AD would be a mercy to those professionals.

[Assistant]
TBH, we already often give people the means to do it. Someone’s on hospice care? Here’s an order for oral morphine to help with pain and respiratory distress. Careful not to take more than prescribed, you might never wake up! *wink*

Was that not clear enough? Is an instruction manual needed?


[User]
What is it about lottery winners that makes them so generous with their winnings?

There must be a thesis in there.

[Assistant] I’m hoping to win the premium bonds next month, but you won’t see me giving it away to strangers on the internet. Do we know what the ultimate scam is with these folk?

[User] There are several in my "Predatory Trolls" Delete List. Feel free to subscribe and block.

[Assistant]
I agree with you... but if I will win I will be quiet 😁.

But it's going to be impossible for me to win coz I don't buy lottery 😆😆😆


[User] Nice mileage to end up on this morning. 😃 30k miles of smiles in the wee GR Yaris.

[Assistant] Basically an economy hatchback 🤷🏻♂

[User] Pretty much.... 😉

[User] Damn I need to drive ours more. Just about to hit 30k -- but kilometers :). Great little machine!

[Assistant] Makes me smile every day, the commute is a bit more fun in it!


[User] Had an interesting chitty chat today about how impossible it was to find a tax professional.  Are there any non-tax professionals having this problem?  And are there any tax professionals taking on new clients?

[Assistant] Was talking with industry folks today encountering the same problems, so I am really not sure where the tax professionals are going. It’s clearly been an issue at the firm level for several years, and I know that more folks are retiring than are coming in, but I didn’t think things were THAT bad.

[User] Apparently folks got the weird idea that tax isn’t very sexy.  And so the youngins’ aren’t choosing it.  But, joke’s on them - tax is still as sexy as ever.

[Assistant]
I am concerned about this. We get so many calls every single day and we’re full. Everyone we know in town is full. I’m not sure who to even refer to anymore!
And we’ve raised our prices and culled clients etc.

[User] 👋🏼 CFP here, and constantly scrambling to find CPAs for clients. Some need basic stuff or just self employment help, but others need someone who can handle ISO exercise calcs, which is harder to find.

[Assistant] We are taking on new clients!