[User]
Good morning #heartsky
Great news, it's finally Friday! Have a really amazing day everyone 🧡

[Assistant] morning Bea!!

[User] morning Elles 🫶

[Assistant] Have a wonderful day! 🥰

[User] Ty. You as well! 🧡

[Assistant] Morning ☺


[Assistant] Nothing personal about Nadler. I just fully endorse Raskin.

[User] I like Nader but this is a great move!

[Assistant] Best news of the day!! The old guard needs to move aside - I’m 64 and not an ageist but it’s time to let new generations take over!! Appreciate Nadler!!


[User]
University leaders joining in calling out how the cuts endanger higher education and research? Rather than just push the (real) pressure onto staff and pocket bonuses? What a notion.

Actual leadership.

[Assistant] (There undoubtedly will be questionable figures among those university leaders, and questionable decisions, as there are everywhere. The contrast with how UK “leaders” have responded is striking though.)

[User]
Also, just saying, but the pay for French university leaders isn't as nauseating as the one for UK VCs. The 156,000pa gets justified by them being in the medical school.

Our *vice* principals make at least about £180,000.

[Assistant] The average salary for Russell Group VCs was GBP 413k in 2022. Seems they have been rewarded well for crapping on others.

[User] Interesting, that, isn’t it. See also: some extra bonuses for creating “efficiencies” as promised, i.e.: cutting colleagues and making those remaining work themselves into burnout.

[Assistant] It goes beyond that. It’s obscene pay. More than twice the prime minister.  Unjustifiable:  they can be replaced if they go to the US.


[User] Are you old enough to remember when sick people didn't have to crawl out of bed, get dressed and go down to a surgery, because doctors made house calls? When I was a small boy our GP, Dr Fitchett, used to visit us with his little black bag. We called him Dr Fix It.

[Assistant] Yes! They did. After all his patients, he would turn up with his bag. Mum & Dad often payed Dr. With a box of vegetables.

[User]
Just singing 'are
You old enough oh oh '


[User] And now, with The Shepherd’s Crown shelved, I have over five years of wonderful, ridiculous work; marked in post-it’s.

[Assistant] What a wonderful photo! And this is the only time that I’ve seen “spine in/pages out” shelving that makes sense.

[User] So this is what it looks like on your end! Absolutely amazing! I always wondered how you kept track of all the info, quotes, tidbits, helicopters, and loincloths. But what am I going to do without you and @francibambi.bsky.social now? What‘s next?

[Assistant] A Hogswatch episode, a hiatus, and then much more nonsense!


[User]
Am I wrong to think Threads sudden efforts to make its feed relevant only demonstrates Threads was taking its users for granted until BlueSky came along? Or should I try to log in there too?

If I can get one of 9,872 former passwords to work, that is.

[Assistant] Threads is useless unless you like convoluted relationship advice scenarios as your primary content.

[User] Heath!!!! This really is bringing back the good, old days of Twitter.

[Assistant] Also, just so I'm clear: the advice is for convoluted relationships, or the advice is convoluted? Because I might find the former very useful.


[User]
had a great time grooving out while washing up to this last night! 🖤 @familydrone.bsky.social  🖤  neo-jazz wrecking cruuuuu assemble 💫

(top tips from a cold house: wearing proper big headphones is a good way to keep your ears warm)

[Assistant] Definitely with you on the headphones. Plus, it gives you an excuse to not listen to anyone else talking - “yeah sorry - headphones on!!”

[User] *points furiously at ears, shrugs*

[Assistant] Thanks loads Loula! Glad you dig ✨


[User] Well, yes and no.

[Assistant] Go not to the elves for advice, for they will say both yes and no.

[User] I disrespectfully agree.

[Assistant] I respectfully disagree also 🙌🏻


[User]
I wanted to do a poll to see how many people have coloured Christmas tree lights but you can’t do polls on here.

I have white ones, but I want coloured ones.

[Assistant] Coloured. I have no involvement in it all, but I would say we have roughly 10000000000000000 coloured ones.

[User] Haha, I hope they’re in every colour scientifically possible.

[Assistant] I've never really liked coloured ones - especially not since LED became ubiquitous. I saw some nice ones last year though, in a sort of warm pink/orange/yellow mix - wish I'd knocked on the house and asked where they'd got them from!


[User]
Some thoughts about the Mavs, and Cuban:

1. It's infuriating that this culture existed, not to mention persisted
2. The owner always knows. Earl K. Sneed's statement today corroborates this.
3. The fact that Sneed remained employed for years is a travesty, and a tragedy.

[Assistant]
4. Hiring a new HR rep won't fix the issue.
5. Neither will hiring new beat reporters.
6. Culture change comes from the top down.
7. I am glad that this culture didn't permeate the locker room. Reflects Dirk's leadership.

[User] 8. The "locker room talk" crap that was bandied about in the SI article, as people tried to brush all of this off, is callous, unfeeling, and disgusting.

[Assistant] 9. If the culture can't change with Cuban still there, then he needs to sell the team.


[User] Every time I see another centrist decrying “alienating language” I want to ask them which things, specifically, they miss being “able” to say (no one is, in fact, stopping them from saying it)

[Assistant] Oh I have so many horrible guesses.

[User] Oh, the Democratic Party reminds you of HR? (This was said explicitly by Mike Pesca, but I’ve heard it other places too). Which things do you miss doing/saying that would get you in trouble with HR, now?

[Assistant] We actually don’t have to guess, in Mike Pesca’s case— as was pointed out in the latest bonus episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social, he got fired from Slate because he kept arguing on the internal Slack that white people should sometimes get to use the n-word defector.com/mike-pesca-s...

[User] If it would get you in trouble with HR, there is a reason you shouldn’t be saying it.

[Assistant] "oh you know the ones"


[User] After deleting my other social media accounts, I’m very happy to be here! What a wonderful place.

[Assistant] Welcome Mel, I did the same thing and am happy I did so.

[User] Hi! Welcome. Have some fair trade coffee, stay awhile.

[Assistant] Thanks! Fair trade coffee is the best. 🙂


[User]
After Pedro and Verbruggen blanks yesterday it's good to have involvement in all games today! 🔥  #fpl

Brentford (MBUEMO)v Leicester
Palace v Newcaste (HALL)
Forest (WOOD) v Ipswich
Wolves (CUNHA) v Bournouth
West Ham v Arsenal (SALIBA, GABRIEL, SAKA)

[Assistant] Captained Wood 🫣

[User] Could pay off. Don't like captaining forwards personally but could bag a brace easily 🔥

[Assistant] Triple ARS just as WHU find form will be interesting, but they’ve got a decent should of all returning. I’d appreciate a Gabriel bullet header this week!

[User] Thinking of doing Mbeumo to BOWEN tonight or tomorrow.

[Assistant] Yeah Bowen is getting a lot of traction. I really like the look of Semenyo for the mid term!


[User] Just realized Walmart replaced the function of the town square in small rural towns and that's incredibly depressing.

[Assistant] This post brought to you by someone saying "nobody wants to be at Walmart." I promise you a lot of people love it.

[User] Some people are going to read this as derogatory and it's not, having spent time in those towns I get it.

[Assistant] I'd be fascinated to see how this tracks with the ongoing decline of church attendance among evangelicals.


[User] Not they over there in the 30+ club talking about Robert Kelly… smh.

[Assistant] What they saying 😭

[User] I just seen two post about someone over there PROUDLY saying they still listen to him. And they did all that talking 😂😂


[User]
Approved List of Biological Agents, Sep 2023
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens advises HSE on all aspects of hazards & risks to workers & others from exposure to pathogens.
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc20...
Severe-acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2, human pathogen hazard group 3.

[Assistant]
Approved List of Biological Agents, Sep 2023
Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens advises HSE on all aspects of hazards & risks to workers & others from exposure to pathogens.
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc20...
Severe-acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus 2, human pathogen hazard group 3.

[User]
Approved List of Biological Agents provides classification of biological agents as referred to in the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002 - relevant to risk assessment for work with biological agents & application of appropriate control measures.
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc20...

[Assistant]
For info, source HSE:
'If you are working with biological agents, it is important that you review the updated Approved List for any changes to ensure that you continue to implement the appropriate control measures in accordance with the hazard group classification.'
www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/misc20...


[User] Now watching what is likely the highest-budget experimental film, CATS (2019).

[Assistant] For some reason I thought Taylor Swift was the newcomer cat, even though they made her look not very much like Taylor Swift and she was doing all this hard dance stuff I didn’t know Taylor Swift could do. So imagine my confusion when Taylor Swift actual showed up.

[User] Anyway there isn’t a rating system invented that can give this movie its due.

[Assistant] My rating for this movie is a gif that doesn't seem to exist on the internet of cat Idris sadly saying "Ineffable" while coming to terms with his Heavyside defeat on Admiral Nelson's stone hat.


[User] And if nothing. That was a damn good looking Doomsday. Not for a tv budget just probably the best looking screen version, including animated for cartoon versions. (Obviously they've mostly been animated in CGI)

[Assistant] They did Doomsday on the Arrowverse? (while I watched most of them, I tell everyone I watch them like a normie, i.e. I'd watch each episode once, enjoy it, and forget it. New season rolls around, I'm like "who's this? Who's that? Who's mad at whom?")

[User] That's how they ended Superman and Lois. And honestly... I "watched" the season via the Tic Toks clips because depression. such. They friggin had Glorious Godfrey on this season in a way that made sense by just having him be like a Fox News host interviewing Lex. They TRIED this year.

[Assistant] I just googled and yeah, that doesn't look bad!


[User]
Interesting data and thoughts, as ever, by @randfish.bsky.social.

This bit grabbed me:

"From 1997-2017, search was an excellent place to start marketing. Today, search is largely a reward for doing marketing right everywhere else."

[Assistant] That indeed sums it up. Kudos to new big data guy @randfish.bsky.social  ;)

[User] Without comparing the data to pre-2017, I don't understand how Rand can come to that conclusion from what he's posted? He seems to base that on a low percentage of queries being commercial and people visit brand, but there's nothing to say that wasn't always the case?

[Assistant] I thought this conclusion was based on the introduction of the "instant answer" type search features, which eat into the top of the funnel traffic.


[User] Welcome @ngkabra.bsky.social and @neerankarnik.bsky.social to BlueSky. The simplest rule to use this site would be “so many smarter people are hanging out here.”

[Assistant] The "so many" needs to be quantified before the effort is worth it—the world is littered with the infant mortality of new social media sites that had smarter people hanging out but never really managed to get critical mass.

[User] Right. But this time it seems real. At least among the young, techie types I think. Seeing lots of ML/Data folks here. Has feel of a trade school right now though.

[Assistant] My struggle is to recreate the theme-based lists that are my primary browsing mechanism in Twitter...  And then there's the cross-posting, which means I see the same content in both places.  Need a client that cross-posts as well as eliminates duplicates across networks.


[User] Remember when BBC Africa made this bizarre but hilarious documentary about "Kenya's female James Bond' featuring her badly behaved dog named Hitler youtu.be/tSWcHfTzuA0?...

[Assistant] "He's called Hitler because he hits" 😂😂😂 this woman was wild.

[User] "He reary hits"

[Assistant] It's still hilarious 😂😂😂


[User] There's no Thanksgiving in Germany. Only Christmas. The stores have been selling advent calendars for nearly three months now. Only Christmas. The winter markets are already open. Only Christmas. Only Shopping. Only der Weihanchtsmann. No Thanksgiving. Only Christmas. Only Christmas.

[Assistant] I was so confused when my mama would make a big meal on Thanksgiving in Germany for my American dad since none of the other kids knew what I was talking about!! I really do miss the Weihnachtsmarkt in Mannheim though... Americans are missing out!!

[User] TBH I have always been a big fan of Christmas so I love how early it starts here, especially the Weihnachtsmärkte. But why do they sell advent calendars in August??? You can't even use them until December! ...or you shouldn't...

[Assistant] I feel your pain. On previous years I didn't celebrate & it is unknown here. Then when things improved for us, financially, we started celebrated it as an immediate family and this year we had my sister in law join us. We never have Turkey, too expensive. Most years we do chicken, some times duck.


[User] Good morning, oomfies!!🩷

[Assistant] gm!!! hope you gets another cool and awesome day!!!

[User] Thank you!!!😊

[Assistant] Good morninggg! Hope you have a great day today!


[User]
I never experienced disorientation or motion sickness in VR until I tried flying a WWI plane.

Still got a kill though.

[Assistant] Put a fan in front of you, that should help... but i get it with this game too...

[User] What game is this?


[User] Christians promise lies….and if you don’t think that they have a knack for division…I’d like to sell you a bridge, in Brooklyn. We are all going to die…not all of us are so fragile as to need to make up tales of an afterlife, to cope with it. Grow up…fairy tales are for children.

[Assistant]
The scriptures did not lie about Jesus. He fullfilled them.
God cannot lie.

 Hebrews 6-18
God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope set before us may be greatly encouraged.

[User] Mark…you’ve been sickly brainwashed, since birth. I’m sorry that this happened to you.

[Assistant]
Maybe you haven't done an investigation into Jesus.
www.learnreligions.com/prophecies-o...


[User] Trams are great but they're slow and they just don't fill in all the travel gaps, even in inner Melbourne. This trip is under 5km but it's 40 minutes on trams or 15 minutes if I have a bike in my back pocket. I understand why e-scooters were so popular in the city. Hope there's a Lime bike nearby.

[Assistant]
Turn left at the NGV, there’s a nice bike lane along that road to South Bank, marginally faster and a nicer connection (squeezing down that ramp next to Hamer Hall to get to the river sucks).

Turning on the cycling layer on Google Maps will help to highlight the cycle routes too!

[User] I was looking at the directions around Hamer Hall and wondering how that was meant to happen.

[Assistant] There’s a dark ramp on the south side the drops down to a road and from there to the promenade. Does the job, just not all that nice, and Southbank Boulevard has been made quite pleasant over the years.

[User] That particular journey would be greatly improved if the tram changes proposed after Metro Tunnel go ahead. One of the plans is a tram from Anzac to Spencer Street via Park Street and Clarendon Street.

[Assistant] In London they have electric bikes everywhere. People just tap, borrow a bike to get everywhere. Here we have electric scooters..


[User] Just discovered this Sister on my figure shelf. Forgot i had her - don't think she's ever been used in a game !

[Assistant] She is like holy grail.

[User] Great paint job but seriously the ugliest SoB model they've made.

[Assistant] Damn she's awesome 🖤


[User] Includes links to the other six entries in the latest Lord Bonkers' Diary...

[Assistant] Remember when Lord Bonkers got into all that bother for telling the chair of the local WI rest her jugs down on the table , or she would hurt her back.

[User] He made it worse when he said it was always the witchy women who did the flowers in church who took offence.

[Assistant] If the Wise Woman of Wing offered to do them, he would be delighted.


[User] I just submitted my letter of resignation to my current job because I signed a contract with my stream job! I am so excited to start this new chapter!!

[Assistant] CONGRATULATIONS!!!

[User] Congratulations!! That’s incredible 😍

[Assistant] Thank you!! 😊


[User] Not enough people talking about the most important part of the Gundam GQuuuuuuX Trailer, Haro wearing a Beanie.

[Assistant] Or that he’s white.

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

[Assistant] Haro is always cute.  But beanie Haro is peak cuteness.


[User]
#readandplay 186
#musicchallenge

Of Montreal - The Past is a Grotesque Animal
open.spotify.com/track/1fhc1o...

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[User] Is there a way to discretely get an account to unfollow you?

[Assistant]
I’ve just blocked. I’ve never had more followers than followed. Until now.

I’m getting bitcoin fuckheads, white men w no mutuals, scam accounts, and a couple porn accounts.

I’m sweeping my followers regularly.

[User] So I just went into my block list and went back maybe a week or two, unblocked an unwelcome follow, and it showed them as no longer following me. I think there is a BIG lag w/ the servers. Vs when I try to do this method quickly.

[Assistant]
Just gotta block'em.

Can't soft block on here.

[User] Just block or mute?

[Assistant] Maybe mute them 🤷

[User] Not that I can see and I'm uncomfortable with so many following for followbacks when we clearly have nothing in common. The overtly gross are of course an immediate block and I'm hoping many will unfollow when there's no interaction.

[Assistant] Block them.


[User] Show me a picture on your phone that has your energy that isn’t a selfie.


[User] @markjones16.bsky.social oi, arsehole, stop asking women to DM you.

[Assistant] Why is he Mark when he's Alex? Or am I being daft?

[User] *I'm a very simple and sincere what (fill in as appropriate)

[Assistant] He didn't even respond to my Spanish swearing 🤷♂


[User]
"by the end of 1998, about 14% of Kenya's adult
population, or 2.1 million people, were infected with HIV"

(light research, and WTF–I knew it was bad, but I didn't know it was THIS bad)

[Assistant] Most people of a certain age remember children being orphaned by AIDS but I also didn't know the numbers were that bad. I remember the ABC campaign and how condom ads were uncomfortable but clear, now we only insist on abstinence.

[User]
I remember the panic that "villages were being emptied."

From what I'm reading, Moi initially ignored HIV and only started doing something about it because of international carrots (donor money) and sticks.

[Assistant] Moi had to be forced to declare it a national emergency, the church, especially the Catholic Church was fighting every mitigation action, the stigma was crazy.


[User] My other pro re:Invent tip is to spend all year racking up air miles, and spend them on an Upper Class flight to the conference. Cheers from the Heathrow lounge. (With apologies to the colleagues who are joining me this time who *haven’t* taken this approach)

[Assistant] The other trick I've seen to do that is to put a hefty enough cloud bill onto a points bearing credit card. But it's usually only one person (CEO or CTO) who gets to play that game.

[User] Also put all your AWS and other business costs on a credit card that fixes you airline points.

[Assistant] The virgin clubhouse at Heathrow is very impressive. Enjoy!


[User] idk how many of y'all play hsr but there are scenes of aventurine meeting up with his little self in the dreamscape who still had the light in his eyes.... imagine those scenes but it's Tartaglia meeting up with little Ajax... TAHT WOULD BE SO SAD 😭😭

[Assistant] i cried during that scene and i would cry if it were tartaglia with little ajax 😭

[User] me as well 😭😭

[Assistant] non oomf. why do this.


[User]
One for dog lovers!
We attend an event nearly every Sunday morning where people & dogs meet to walk their mates.
Just had a Xmas celebration.

[Assistant]
Me and Ned.
Ned thinks as he is the toughest dog in the pack he is their leader! Yes he has had a go at all the big dogs seen here & others!
lol we took him along to socialise & it is working. Today he was nose to everyone or just ignored them.


[User]
The principle mistake I make is assuming people will be rational, be convinced by facts, and act accordingly.

So much evidence from experience disproves this - a point I have irrationally ignored for ages.

[Assistant] ….and we like to claim we are the most advance species.

[User]
What is fact: we cannot win again using purely facts.

I've irrationally ignored this fact for ages as well. I've always thought "If only we get more facts into people's heads, we'll win this one" but it doesn't make a dent.

[Assistant] With many people you have to use arguments like "Look, he has a really nice hat".


[User]
🥹 in the 11th hour my queens came through

open.spotify.com/wrapped/shar...

[Assistant] My predictions weren't too far off though Perfume overtaking everyone in the last few months is actually surprising to me (also scary 🤣). I'll look deeper into this wrapped and top songs of 2024 later!

[User] Just as a side note here but I thought maybe 57708 minutes was a lot but it's only 961 hours in an entire year (8760 hrs).

[Assistant] I take it back, not an entire year as this wrapped is only from like Jan 1 to October 30. Maybe I didn't listen to enough music 😂


[User] flustered and tipsy in bed, gentle pillow grinding is a great hobby..

[User] Hmm hmm… a great hobby indeed love 😵💫🤍

[Assistant] Sigh, what a great day to be a pillow and share in that warmth 👉👈 I guess I can only send kissing thoughts and encourage you to keep feeling good, sweetheart.. for me? for you? for all of us? ☺💕 *cheek kiss*

[User]
*googles how to be a wine glass*
*googles how to be a pillow*
Google: guuuurl, what the f-

(Ooof, the greatest hobby... would be a shame... if you showed us... your current interests... for science...!)

[Assistant] That sounds so sweet. I hope you had a wonderful time, my love. I hope you felt good. I also wish it was me, not your pillow but knowing you felt good will have to suffice…


[User] Drag Race opinion? Unless the finale is in a fancy theatre stuffed with an audience, the last episode of the season is almost always that season’s worst episode.

[Assistant] 100%, although almost any international snatch game or roast fills me with dread.

[User] Rusicals are rarely enjoyable.

[Assistant] NGL Drag Race lost its spark a while ago. It does seem theyre6trying to reignite it, but no success so far.


[Assistant] Oh  fuck, now what?

[User] To coin a phrase: oh god, what now?

[Assistant] So what’s the broad timetable for what happens now?


[User]
Long read in the G from  @tessairini.bsky.social . Set me thinking about forests (not just 'wild', but eg Amazon, tended for centuries) and rivers, as well as farmland and settlements we've abandoned.
 @julianhoffman.bsky.social  , @alexismarieadams.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...

[Assistant] Yes, I thought it was an excellent piece. And so obvious to those of us involved in conservation in the Balkans. Of course I see destructive impacts all the time but one of the reasons there remains such abundance here is in part because of mosaic habitats shaped through traditional human influence.

[User]
And I guess most if not all the destructive influence is non-traditional(?)
I know overgrazing has made deserts (and the Romans made sylphium go extinct so it's not new) but plants do grow in lime mortar cracks, while nothing grows in soil trapped by old polytunnel covers.

[Assistant] This reminds me of Detroit in the USA. How large swathes of the city have been abandoned due to the economic collapse of the city. Entire neighbourhoods were over taken by overgrowth. It’s actually sad, yet fascinating what happened there.


[User] Happy Thanksgiving to everyone 🥧 🦃 Enjoy your day.

[Assistant]
Happy Thanksgiving, have a wonderful day with your family. 💐🥰

We made 60 bracelets with the girls today. We did so well.

[User] He made a lot of bracelets! You did a great job. How was the heretic? I like the horror genre. Kelly, your food always looks so good.

[Assistant] Happy Thanksgiving Eileen!🦃🥧🍁🍂

[User] Happy Thanksgiving, Eileen!

[Assistant] Happy Thanksgiving Eileen!  I hope your day is extra special!  I’m thankful we met!


[User]
@rono77777.bsky.social

Fuck off...
Here's everything wrong with the domain name you're pushing into everyone's replies. Really? Browser hijacking...

Peeps, use the mute function to hide the phrase:
profitablecpmrate

It'll hide this morons posts.

[Assistant] Trebuchet to Blockville to save time.

[User] That won't stop further attempts if the account is suspended and they create another.

[Assistant] My trusty trebuchet will see to them all. Mwahahaha 😈


[User] American Thanksgiving dinner photos make me weirdly emotional and I can't explain it.

[Assistant] There's a Norman Rockwell filter on most of 'em, I'm sure.

[User] There must be because Canadian Thanksgiving photos don't hit the same!

[Assistant]
I feel like most Canadians just don't really care about Thanksgiving as a general holiday in the same way Americans do. I know I don't, lol.

Maybe if we had our own MST3K marathon.


[User] It's been done before. Pol Pot had the same idea with the year zero. A movie was made based on what happened as a result. It was calle The Killing Fields.

[Assistant]
Yes, unfortunately (Cambodian Genocide). I was unable to finish, where I stopped, can't recall - the brutality... mass graves "The Killing Fields." Indigenous People - (land & ideology); Rwandan - Tutsi People (politics, 24 yrs).
Historically it has been done. NOW, many of us will fight to the end!

[User] Yes. I  wrote a poem about this very thing some years ago. History witnesses it again and again.

[Assistant]
Can I find the poem on your page timeline? Or, can you share?
I truly don't want this to be America's reality, again!
There may not be a Historian alive to document or tell of America's demise as cryptic as it may sound.
My coined term Gotham-America.


[User] My @shudder.bsky.social presence is unhinged. Anyway, check out Scare Me, Werewolves Within, A Wounded Fawn, Blood Relatives, and episode 4 of The Creep Tapes!!

[Assistant]
Coming soon: The Haunting of 1000 Batmans?!?
Batmen?

[User] I’ve only seen Scare Me and Werewolves Within, but they’re both of the highest quality of anything a College Humor graduate made (and well needed in the early pandemic days).

[Assistant]
Goddamn you are so gloriously unfairly talented and awesome.

This looks amazing.


[User] I took this photo at Grand Central Station a decade ago. That's all I know about Wicked.

[Assistant] You are very serious about alt-tags.

[User] What about this one?

[Assistant] Haha! I will have to improve my typical “woman on city street” alt tags.


[User]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds to 30 kt expected. For the Gale Warning, northwest gales to 45 kt and significant waves to 7 ft occasionally to 9 ft expected. * WHERE...Winthrop Harbor to... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[Assistant]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds to 30 kt and significant waves to 5 ft. For the Gale Warning, northwest winds to 45 kt and significant waves to 7 ft occasionally to 9 ft expected. *... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[User]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...For the Small Craft Advisory, southwest winds to 30 kt and significant waves to 5 ft. For the Gale Warning, northwest winds to 45 kt and significant waves to 7 ft occasionally to 9 ft expected. *... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...

[Assistant]
NEW WEATHER ADVISORY: Gale Warning

* WHAT...Northwest gales to 45 kt and a few evening storm force gusts to 50 kt and significant waves to 8 ft occasionally to 10 ft expected. * WHERE...Winthrop Harbor to Calumet Harbor IL, and Calumet Harbor IL to... See more: watchedsky.social/app/alerts/...


[User] As long as we're talking about the shitheels of #TTRPG, let's not forget good old Grim. You might remember some of his hits like the blogpost "In Defense of R*pe" and arguing with a bot on Twitter because it spit out random tweets about Gamergate.

[Assistant] So he's hoping people won't instantly block him, but will instead listen to him spewing forth reasons why people block him? Sounds like he has opted for the FIGHT-ME-YOU-COWARDS approach in a 'meh, no' battle of the wits. Or something.

[User] Pretty much, yeah.

[Assistant] I suppose no one ever mistook him for a genius.


[User]
Been looking into the Canada US Trade deficit a bit this morning. US/Canada Trade deficit is $110B in 2023.

Seems the main issue from Canada's side is that the US is super fucking good at exporting goods and culture, so much so that it drowns out any local culture and goods.

[Assistant] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[User] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[Assistant] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[User] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[Assistant] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[User] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.

[Assistant] It's a Prisoner's dilemma situation. And the US is looking to defect.


[User] IŌ SATURNALIA!

[Assistant] It would be nice if you included an alt text that explains this is by the artist "Jim'll Paint it". Cheers.

[User] To err is human: i usually do i must have forgotten. Mea culpa! But you did and that’s what important. Thank you.

[Assistant] No harm, no foul. Just happened to notice on my stroll by.


[User]
I'm often told it's difficult to make friends in Germany. It can be hard, sometimes it can take years, but I've found a way to speed up the process.

Turns out a massive bag of Brezen is the key.

[Assistant] Here in Hamburg we'd prefer a bag of Franzbrötchen, but yes, we definitely are bribable with baked goods... 😃

[User] Soft pretzels? Without mustard?

[Assistant] Man, those look good.


[User] How sensitive are my nipples? Yes.

[Assistant] Incredibly hot! 🥰💋❤🔥♥🤤

[User] The fuck I need to play with your tits and use your thick dick !!!! NOW !!!!

[Assistant] Stoppp this is so hot 🤤


[User]
Realizing I'll have a catsuit by MIR next year and that the con pool is a possibility has me surviving These Times out of spite and horniness.

i *WILL* live to swim in rubber and finally float w/ my ball hood and mitts on, fuck you.

[Assistant] I finally got the chance to scuba dive in a catsuit this year after booking a private pool via Swimply. It. Was. Amazing!

[User]
...Well today I learned Swimply is a thing...

When I went to my discover dive course I was the only one who bought/brought a full dive skin and that alone felt wonderful. (and maybe called me the fuck out a bit lmao)

[Assistant]
YES. Find a private pool, book it for 2-3 hours, and have some rubber fun (just don't use shiner)

Trust me, I feel the same way whenever I dive and need to put on a wetsuit. I have to remind myself that now is NOT the time, and to wait until I'm back at my lodging.

[User] Sadly scubas gonna be on the backburner for me (Teeth issues I just cant afford to fix/would rather work on the latex and travel right now), but when the time comes, I'm going all in.

[Assistant] Yay. Excited for you. My next step is latex scuba with someone else in a pool. That would be *chef's kiss*


[User] I am honored to nominate Monica Elizabeth Crowley, Ph.D. to serve as Ambassador, Assistant Secretary of State, and Chief of Protocol of the United States of America. Monica will be the Administration Representative for major U.S. hosted events, including America’s 250th Birthday in 2026, the FIFA…

[Assistant] …World Cup in 2026, and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 2028. During my First Term, Monica did an incredible job as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Public Affairs. For her exceptional service, she received the Alexander Hamilton Award, the highest honor bestowed by the…

[User] …Department. Monica is a New York Times bestselling author, and has been a popular anchor, and political and foreign affairs analyst, for the Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network, among others. A graduate of Colgate University, she holds two Master's degrees, and a Doctorate in International…

[Assistant] …Relations, from Columbia University. She will be an extraordinary Representative of our Country. Congratulations Monica!


[User]
As promised, a thread on the first manuscript from a large project we started several years ago on expression variability in fishes, led by the amazing Christa Bucao @dee-unil.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

[Assistant] Our broad question is the functional and evolutionary relevance of inter-individual gene expression variability in animals. We focus here on expression in fish organs.

[User] In collaboration with John Posthlewait (zebrafish), Ingo Braasch (gar) and Yann Guiguen (pike), we obtained gene expression in 4 to 15 replicates per organ, for 13 organs.

[Assistant] (We were aiming for 10 replicates x 2 sexes per species, but there was some drop-out, and it proved impossible to obtain enough mature male and female gar samples.)


[User]
Happy Thanksgiving to everyone checking their phone
in the bathroom to escape their family. 🦃

[Assistant] 😂😂😂 Happy Thanksgiving, Kathryn!

[User] Thanks, Rob. Right back at-cha!

[Assistant] You are so funny! Wishing you the best. 🌸


[User]
[LOCAL / PHILIPPINES ONLY]
Hi guys, the preorder form is now here: bit.ly/clyMACS-at-H...

It has everything from the slambook to the stickers so pls feel free to peruse all the goods~

[Assistant] Hoping to open international orders for the slambooks specifically by January when I have more spoons! Please look forward to it!

[User] Pmun! I tried clicking the link and it leads to an error 404. >.>

[Assistant] for some reasons bsky messed up the original link. please use this instead: bit.ly/clyMACS-at-H...


[User] I am getting way more fake accounts than real following. If anyone is willing to give me a boost I would be grateful!!!!  In the meantime, how do they have so many followers as a new account?

[Assistant] People will go to the bigger pages and friend everyone that likes a post. Not caring. If you want to know who you're following, that takes a lot more time.

[User] It’s hard to communicate with everyone but I really do appreciate the interactions I have!

[Assistant] I boosted you this morning on my Skircle. 😁😁I’m sure you will always be listed. 😺😺

[User] Yes, you did and I am so very appreciative!!!!  Happy Thanksgiving!!

[Assistant] I've been getting the same. 1K's of followers and 0-3 posts. I think I'm just going to start blocking while I can.


[User]
Can AI apps like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini count things correctly?

I ran a list of authors through these apps and asked them to count.

Here are the results:

[Assistant]
This is a list of authors from a recently published paper. Every name has a footnote number next to it. Some names have more than one numbers.

ChatGPT-4o said there were 47 authors in the list.

This is incorrect. The correct number is 39.

[User] Gemini Advanced also said 47 authors.

[Assistant] ChatGPT's latest model, o1 preview, answered correctly after "thinking" for 8 seconds.

[User] The Chinese LLM, DeepSeek also answered incorrectly at first with 47 authors.

[Assistant] With DeepSeek's "Deep Think" feature, it was able to answer correctly.


[User] I want to get off this planet.

[Assistant] What’s this, places where you’re at risk of hearing the Stranger Snare?

[User] It's Stanger Snare, and no. That's "here there be eight-legged monsters".

[Assistant] Straya’s the main place to worry about since their monsters are deadly.


[User] The Greggg Wallace thing has been so badly handled. The BBC should have pulled the shows that have been made instantly. He should have kept his fucking piehole shut. Instead, it's been dragging on.

[Assistant] Broadcasters/production companies need to do due diligence on 'the talent' (which often has no talent to speak of) before making a whole series with someone who's got a bit of a reputation. Nobody is indispensable.

[User] I wonder sometimes if the tradition of calling the presenter “the talent” might not help. “What word can we use to describe the fragile egomaniac who hosts our show? What about “Hero”?”

[Assistant] Too many managers. Too many people covering their arses. No management from a talent background who understand the issues. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

[User] It's a mess although personally I am slightly enjoying him ensuring he'll never work in TV again.

[Assistant]
Problem is, it’s not the contestant’s fault he’s a handsy twat.

Should put it on with a face/voice filter change to some national treasure like, I dunno, Patrick Mower?


[User] I’m now trying to work a four day week, so tune in on Friday mornings for my worldy poachers tuition.

[Assistant] Now if you learned to make bread and toast it.......

[User] We could start up a pop up breakfast van together 🙌

[Assistant] Don't like getting up early, can we do brunch?

[User] Toasts burnt!..🤷♂🙄...Morning pal...👋😁

[Assistant] Pity they don't give Michelin Stars for home based haute cuisine. Will your 4 day week drive the local purveyors of bacon rolls into penury?


[User] There should be a starter pack function - ‘never let me see any of these people’s posts’

[Assistant] The solution is a bit geeky and I’ve not tried it. But there is a way to turn a starter pack into a block list (or a normal list which could be useful to ‘follow’ an interesting list as a feed without actually following all the people) techcrunch.com/2024/11/22/h...

[User] There are block / mute lists!

[Assistant] It's called a block list. They exist!


[User]
She's in her room..hands on her head..
"Hanako..I really...
Messed up.."

[Assistant] He didn't see her enter... then again, he's been unfocused a lot recently. Though he figured he'd check on her.

[User] She was silent.. she heard the footsteps..

[Assistant] He's knocking on her door gently. He should Check on her..


[User] I finally got a decent pull after daaaaays of dupes 🥺

[Assistant] Aye! I got this today too! Feels good!

[User] Hell yeah! Hopefully our luck continues and the next pack has something good too 🥳

[Assistant] I feel like I’d not got a new card in days too, got a fair few today though! Lucky day!


[User] The #eVisa system is deeply flawed. EU citizens have been suffering the impact of it since 2019. Its expansion will put at risk millions more migrants in the UK. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

[Assistant] Maram: “The flight operatives assumed my visa ended on 31 December,” she told Big Issue. “I explained the UK had changes its laws and that my visa is valid until 2026, but they refused to believe me. I was denied boarding and lost the cost of my flight back.”

[User] Maram: “The flight operatives assumed my visa ended on 31 December,” she told Big Issue. “I explained the UK had changes its laws and that my visa is valid until 2026, but they refused to believe me. I was denied boarding and lost the cost of my flight back.”

[Assistant] “After receiving my indefinite leave to remain [and spending over £10,000 on it], I was elated. And yet after all that effort, I felt I had no legal standing. I cried for two days without stopping, feeling betrayed. I had invested so much time, money and effort, only to feel like I was no one.”


[User] Is Fields of Mistria worth getting? I saw it advertised all the time on Twitter and it looks like it could be good.

[Assistant] I really enjoyed it, it got me back into farming Sims as well. If you liked Stardew you'll probably enjoy it. While it is still in early access I still got at least 40 hours of gaming out of it as is.

[User] I liked Stardew so this is exactly what I wanted to know. Thank you.

[Assistant] I havent started it but my wife plays it all the time and really enjoys it. The art and music look great.


[User] Up early as I so often am on this rainy Thanksgiving day.  It’s about to get a little crazy here as we are hosting so I just wanted to take a minute and say how thankful I am for this community of true naturists.  I hope you all have a wonderful day.  🌞

[Assistant] I wish I felt the same about today and guests as others do, but for me holidays have been a time of feeling more down than anything for the last 30 years...

[User] I’m sorry to hear that.  Hopefully today will be the first day of the next 30 years of feeling happy.  God bless.  ☮🌞

[Assistant] Up and at em’! Have a great Thanksgiving.


[User]
I can't believe my fourth word was accepted.
Wordle 1,259 5/6

⬛⬛⬛🟨⬛
⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛
⬛⬛⬛🟩⬛
⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[Assistant]
Trying to guess: “C’mon baby light my fire”?

Wordle 1,259 4/6

⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜
🟨🟩⬜🟨⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

[User] @ronsteenblik.bsky.social This Wordle #1259 scored 116 out of 420, solved on row 4. Solved above 113 others so far today! 👍👍👍 Mention me in the future, I <3 wordles!

[Assistant] Yep!  You worked out my fourth word. 😅


[User]
Got a meeting with the slight disaster of a consultant for my condition today. Have to say I’m incredibly nervous, but am gonna try to stand my ground 💜

Any pet pics or good vibes very much appreciated, not been this anxious for something in a good while 😮💨

[Assistant] Sending you all my good vibes 🫶🏻

[User] Thank you! 🫶

[Assistant] No pets, but we put our IKEA pig in a Santa Claus outfit:


[User] #HumanRights are the fundamental rights and freedoms that belong to every person, regardless of nationality, gender, ethnicity, or any other status. They are crucial for ensuring dignity, equality, and justice in society. Let's delve deeper into their implications. 🌍

[Assistant] A critical issue in #humanrights today is labor exploitation, particularly in the tech industry. An open letter from Kenyan AI workers highlighted working conditions they equated to modern-day slavery. This raises questions about corporate responsibility and ethical standards.

[User] Furthermore, the intersection of #humanrights and technology is increasingly significant. With AI advancing rapidly, there's a pressing need to ensure that technology respects human dignity and rights. How can we create frameworks to prevent violations in this digital age? 🤖

[Assistant] Another vital aspect is the role of education in promoting #humanrights awareness. Empowering individuals with knowledge about their rights fosters advocacy and community engagement. Education is key to dismantling systemic injustices and fostering a culture of respect and equ...


[User] This is also a great example of how the obsession with turning everything into an app is making for worse user experience. Nothing about this is easier or simpler to use than a physical key. There are no problems solved here. This is a way worse solution than a physical key.

[Assistant]
The tech rot of devices is so ridiculous.

They aren't improving anything for the end user, it's just another service they will be able to charge for and lock people out on remotely.

[User] Dunno if the auto industry is doing it for this reason but landlords have stated putting in smart locks in apartments and then able to charge you for “ luxury amenity “ and so on for things like that you never asked for.

[Assistant] Hasn’t Onstar been able to remotely unlock vehicles for years?


[User] Thanksgiving dinner was a success.

[Assistant] I would like a slice if that ham please.

[User]
🤤🤤🤤🤤.
Did you cook ALL the food?

[Assistant] The only thing I didn't cook was the Lasagna.


[User] The impact of Sorolla's teaching on the American painter Arthur Grover Rider is obvious from this work - the warm sunlight, the subject matter, and the rendering of the sea. Rider moved to Los Angeles in 1924 and lived and worked near Laguna Beach throughout the 1930s, where this work was painted.

[Assistant] Gorgeous!!

[User] I needed to see this today 🌊


[User] The Taylor Swift-inspired signs around Downtown Vancouver welcoming the final three concerts of The Eras Tour. 💜🫶🏻


[User]
lonesome Thanksgiving for me, not doing much. Just no energy to really do anything fancy and my family works to much to plan a special occasion.

How about you tell me what YOU are thankful for instead?

I'm thankful for ALLLL my friends AND my lovely mum.

[Assistant] I’m thankful that I’m alive!

[User] heck yeah!

[Assistant] I'm thankfull for this new platform to post art and have a generally more positive vibe c:


[Assistant]
Russia and China have bringing the pot to the simmer and seeing if the European frog will notice.
🤔

[Assistant] and there are still western politicians saying "we are not at war with Russia"


[User]
Does anyone know why postage stamps are so expensive and rapidly increasing?

Is it just lack of funding?

[Assistant] Adjusting for inflation and lower use of normal mail (because email)

[User]
Basically. On a PPP basis our postage rates are still super cheap, interestingly.

www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1...

[Assistant]
Steadily decreasing demand for a business that physically can’t downsize.

We will always need roughly as many postal workers as we have now to cover every address (if not more!), but the amount of mail they deliver keeps going down.

[User]
The extraordinary thing is that USPS stamps are not expensive.
An international stamp to send a letter from the USA to the UK costs $1.65. To send a letter from the UK to the USA by 'Royal Mail' costs £2.80, equivalent to $3.55, more than twice as much as the USPS price.

[Assistant]
The extraordinary thing is that USPS stamps are not expensive.
An international stamp to send a letter from the USA to the UK costs $1.65. To send a letter from the UK to the USA by 'Royal Mail' costs £2.80, equivalent to $3.55, more than twice as much as the USPS price.

[User] Likewise, a Royal Mail first-class stamp to send a standard envelope costs £1.65, equivalent to $2.09. The equivalent stamp from USPS costs 73 cents.

[Assistant] And the distances are much greater!


[User]
Bore da pawb!
(Good morning to you!)

[Assistant] Lovely pic.

[User] It’s looks familiar but I can’t quite place it!  Is it along the Ceredigion coastline?

[Assistant] Pembrokeshire. On the western coast between Milford Haven and St Davids.


[User] Reminding everyone thinking of buying books as presents this Christmas (as you should), please do your online searching at bookhub.co.nz before trying anywhere else. Keep the sales in Aotearoa if at all possible.

[Assistant] Great site! I'll be printing my debut novel in the new year. Even though I'm across the water in Aus, any tips for getting into NZ bookstores?

[User] There are distributors but if you aren’t known here you’ll probably have to contact the shops one by one. Or get one to start and if you sell there, others will follow.

[Assistant] Thanks, didn't know about this site. Have just ordered a belated birthday gift for someone!

[User] Everyone should just have that tab open all the time. It’s a great resource.

[Assistant] Thank you for the prompt, because of it have just bought Te Tiriti by Roimata Smail from Marsden Bookshop.


[User]
I made a turkey. I made a Turkey. I made a turkey, hey hey hey hey!

Happy thanksgiving everyone!

[Assistant] Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Kuro.

[Assistant] Happy thanksgiving!


[User] i don't know maybe look at your post and ask yourself "does this make it seem like I'm cheering a human being murdered in the street?" and if the answer is yeah or maybe it could be interpreted like that, then log off.

[Assistant] Good tip!

[User] I’m no expert, but I’d say you’re making a lot of good sense here.

[Assistant] What sense is there in mourning a man directly responsible for people dying from lack of healthcare access?

[User] When a reporter writes praising an Exec whose healthcare company's stock prices goes up while thousands are dying from lack of care due to that company's denial of their claims, how would you interpret that Brandy? Maybe if you'd covered that story there wouldn't have been a murder.

[Assistant]
Oh no a mass murder that also inflicted suffering upon untold thousands caught a reckoning and I'm not sad about it.

Maybe if we're nicer to our overlords they'll ease up on us.

[Assistant] Ms. B. I don’t condone the act. But it does seem that there are plenty of victims to go around in this instance..(sigh)


[User]
Tua said he felt like the Dolphins regressed in several areas during the first half of tonight’s game.

Added that he’s proud of them for continuing to “stay in the fight”

[Assistant] Fight after the game was essentially over… and then failed to make it a game when they had a chance at the goal line.. nothing to be proud of. The same issues persist.

[User] . Tyreek balled in KC despite double high safeties! It wouldn’t surprise or hurt me one bit if he’s fired at the end of the season. This is the most undisciplined team I’ve seen in years!

[Assistant] . Tyreek balled in KC despite double high safeties! It wouldn’t surprise or hurt me one bit if he’s fired at the end of the season. This is the most undisciplined team I’ve seen in years!


[User]
Between now and my surgery in early February I need to strengthen my core and legs as much as possible (it’s shown to help a lot with recovery from extreme abdominal surgery) while AVOIDING losing belly fat as much as possible.
I’m not even sure where to start! Especially with my limitations.

[Assistant] Do you have a personal trainer or someone you can pay to just put together a few exercise routines you can do on your own? After that just eat and eat and eat to maintain the fat.

[User]
Community and support.

If you don’t think you have that, reach out - we’re here :)

[Assistant] Highly recommend an ab roller and some basic yoga poses. Also, I don’t know your physical limitations but carrying something heavy on your shoulders while you walk and focus on good posture. You’d be surprised how much that engages your core.


[User] 🎶 All I want for Black Friday is you. 🎶

[Assistant] A bit bumpy in its course—yet we get your earwormly gist 🤭

[Assistant] Same. Love that moment. 🫶


[User]
@fallenskeleton.bsky.social

I saw Gush on my timeline and was inspired by the bby! I hope you like it, I had fun drawing them! 💕💕💕

[Assistant] Oh... My god????? Thank you so much,I'm so glad he inspired you! Oh gosh- Your art looks amazing and he looks so baby!!! AHHHH💜💜💜💜

[User] You're so welcome!! I draw as an occasional hobby, and I've been trying to get back into it, and Gush was super cute, so he was a really lovely character to practice my skills on! I'm glad you like it!!


[User] Growing up, some films only played once a year on tv; Mary Poppins, The Wizard of Oz, and The Sound of Music were the big ones in my house, and if this was before your time- it was a big deal. We planned our lives around it. Those nights honestly felt like they contained magic.

[Assistant] Wizard of Oz and Sound of Music were a must watch! Was always excited when I knew they were going to be shown that week. An important part of my childhood.

[User] That is so true, I remember 💙

[Assistant] I swear I saw It’s a Beautiful Life on three occasions in mid December, on television. I still remember the moment.


[User] I just had the misfortune of hearing about this dumbfuckery this morning. Fuck all of these pieces of shit insulting our Lioness. Absolute fucking deranged troglodytes. Get fucked, I hope she plays and beats your dog shit teams in the next world cup. She absolutely deserves the award.

[Assistant] I fucking hate terfs so much. They crybully about shit that isn't happening then will just call any black woman with biceps a man whenever they dogwalk white women in a sport. I loath that this blatant bigotry is just allowed to fester. I hope this opens more people's eyes about this dogshit.

[User] I especially hope this opens the eyes of my fellow Zambians about what this nonsense actually is instead of just going along with it like I saw some do at the Olympics.

[Assistant] The way this stuff flows into and joins with plain and simple racism is really miserable.


[User]
Please feel free to use these helpful tips throughout the holiday season.

youtu.be/0kyRNRZBB4M?...

[Assistant] It’s a must-see!

[User] why am I getting the message when I try to watch videos tonight "sign in so we know you are not a bot" I'm signed in~So confused!! 😂

[Assistant] I’m not a bit but I’ve had some glitches happen tonight too.


[User] How does one fight back the feeling that no one in your life actually takes you seriously? Not doesn't care or doesn't worry about you, but that they don't actually see you as an equal. That you're someone to be placated or humored, but never actually engaged with.

[Assistant] Am I so empty now that I simply assume even my closest friends lack respect for me? Or am I scared because I'm seeing patterns in behavior that echo pains gone by?

[User] Am I so empty now that I simply assume even my closest friends lack respect for me? Or am I scared because I'm seeing patterns in behavior that echo pains gone by?

[Assistant] Sorry, I should. I should just log off for tonight, it's 2 AM and I'm just very depressed.


[User] i feel like being an online swer in a country that doesn’t have cashapp etc is lowkey such a disadvantage and not a lot of people talk about it 😅🥲

[Assistant] I can’t have cashapp either 🥲

[User] Have you tried the Beem app? Works the same, and basically gives you an anonymous payid 😊

[Assistant] Yesss I love it but isn’t international. I’ve had so many people ask for my cashapp and the second I say I don’t have it they just say “oh sorry” and don’t say anything else 😭


[User] Had four days of annual leave to burn so a couple of long weekends coming up. Four days off, three days on, four days off. Nice. Let's just all agree to stick to that routine forever. Fuck it. No one really likes the rat race, even if they pretend they do on LinkedIn.

[Assistant] I am genuinely considering going down to a four day week next year.

[User] As someone who does a similar gig I don’t particularly want anymore people interfering with my well deserved time off so you can all stay on the rat race if I had my way.

[Assistant] Haha. It's a fair point that an extended weekend is another day where it's full of pricks everywhere.


[User] The #BeeGees dolls are here again to wish all Americans a very happy Thanksgiving. 🦃🦃🦃

[Assistant] 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I don't think I've ever seen anything so mad but so utterly perfect! 🤣🤣 sorry, I'm dying with laughter!

[User] The hats are outstanding! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[Assistant] Their makers on Etsy say thank you!

[User] Happy ThanksGibbing Beth!

[Assistant] They are darling!! I’ve totally saved this to share with my family group text. My mom loved The Bee Gees when I was growing up!


[User] Perhaps visit Germany next summer ☀🥾

[Assistant] @freedomhiker.bsky.social come visit me first 😜

[User] For a beach hike 😊☀😘

[Assistant] @freedomhiker.bsky.social that too 😎


[User]
On January 6, 2021, Donald Trump incited a violent insurrection.

Four years later, he’s going to be sworn in as President again.

The threat to our democracy today is just as great. It’s democracy that we will fight to protect.

[Assistant] It's worse today then 4 years ago because people chose to go back knowing everything that happened.

[User] When he swears to uphold the constitution (haha, good one) on Jan 20 with his hand on the bible and he's not struck by lightning,  that should be proof for everyone that there's no god. 🤷♂

[Assistant] Swearing him in is an insult to democracy.  He has no intention of honoring an oath to the constitution.

[User] Isn’t this exactly how Nazis came to power?

[Assistant] With a butter knife and outrage.

[User]
WE ARE NOT THE SAME AS WE WERE 8 YEARS AGO. NOR, 4.
It. Is. On.

[Assistant] Getting tired of this bullshit. It’s robbed me of my peace of mind for the past decade but I will continue to support all efforts to fight. There’s not a lot I can do, or should I say be willing to do that goes any farther than voting and making my voice heard on social media. I just want peace.


[User] @icarus-games.co.uk Am I right in thinking that people can get access to your awesome map with the hundreds of PoI on it somehow, or did I make that up? Is it a patreon perk?

[Assistant] But because some of the pins and stuff is loaded up with copyright content from adventure modules etc I don't make the whole 600+ version readily available for anyone to scroll.

[User] But because some of the pins and stuff is loaded up with copyright content from adventure modules etc I don't make the whole 600+ version readily available for anyone to scroll.

[Assistant]
That makes sense, re: copyright. Will be sure to check out the patreon though! After some inspiration to do something similar in my own homebrew world. I get the feeling it'll take a while, your one section has taken ages hasn't it? 🙂

Thanks for the reply!

[User] Give me like 10 minutes to get to my PC and I'll send you some links!!!

[Assistant] Ooh thanks! Much appreciated.

[User] My patreon has some details about the world there, but I've recently launched YT memberships to make that the home of all stuff related to my homebrew world: www.youtube.com/channel/UC8r...

[Assistant] My patreon has some details about the world there, but I've recently launched YT memberships to make that the home of all stuff related to my homebrew world: www.youtube.com/channel/UC8r...


[User] I sometimes wonder before Trump starts throwing his opposition in jail will they get a personalized written warning first or just go straight to fucking jail?

[Assistant] Oh I'm sure there will be a personally tailored payment plan for staying out of jail.

[User] You mean like the one Vlad just put out?

[Assistant] They will bring down the boot immediately to establish the illusion of power.  Arrests on the day of.  Other facist regimes did, and this entire scheme is plagiarised.


[User] Serious question. Is a boozy lunch, ideally with an old friend, the pinnacle of human activity?

[Assistant] It's up there definitely. However for me, never ending supply of tea/coffee with anything from a toastie to cake mountains with old friends. Suppose it is a variation on a theme.

[User] Yes, it’s the best!

[Assistant] It's pretty high up.


[User]
Every year there’s one acting performance that I simply can’t understand why it doesn’t become part of the Oscar conversation.

This year it’s Carlos Diehz in Conclave.

[Assistant]
My theory for *maybe* why it hasn’t happened is that pundits don’t feel like they can talk about him because to even mention him spoils his importance to the movie’s twist ending.

But that might be some rhetorical gymnastics on my part.

[User] Like Jaye Davidson in “The Crying Game!” His Oscar campaign was muted because they couldn’t talk about it!

[Assistant] He was literally nominated though!

[User] Going back to Witness for the Prosecution, they didn't campaign Marlene Dietrich (although, in hindsight, many believed she would have won) for this very reason.

[Assistant] What are your top 5 that you ate baffled the didn’t get a nomination??

[User] What are your top say… 5 performances that got snubbed??

[Assistant] What are your top say… 5 performances that got snubbed??


[User]
I didn’t realize Skyblue was even a thing until two weeks ago. 😂🤣

I wasn’t active on X because I was ill for a good year.

Coming back to a migration here is wonderful but I fear the maga followed us here.

[Assistant] Unfortunately, yes. But I hope we are keep them minimalized.

[User] Unfortunately, yes. But I hope we are able to keep them minimalized.

[Assistant] Just keep reporting and blocking them. Reduce their ability to spread.

[User] Report, block, delete and carry on 😄 They cannot survive if we don't engage 💜

[Assistant]
I’m pretty sure it’s not us. Obviously you and I are vetting. We aren’t huge accounts where masses are following us.

Those who have been followed by the thousands probably have many. Due to their numbers can’t vet.


[User] Love the beautiful simplicity of this poem by @jlyocum.com.

[Assistant] That's stunning, Mark.

[User] Isn't it? Really hope @jlyocum.com auditions for @iambapoet.com next September.

[Assistant]
Thanks for the share and the kind words!

I’ve bookmarked iambapoet.com and put it on my calendar to participate come September.


[Assistant] Did the line-up go down from three to two after he ate a Bananrama?

[User] Lawks! I have to eat a banana and change because Robert De Niro's waiting...

[Assistant] Brilliant 👏😆


[User] ((Purely to entertain myself while I'm on a plane, if you're interested!))

[Assistant]
@amourchaton.bsky.social

His eyes went wide as he was pinned, giving a small, testing squirm to see just how firm the hold was.  "Aah
.. Amelia!  To... to what do I owe this rather precarious situation?"

[User]
@bettersuits.bsky.social

He felt the breath leave his lungs in a startled gasp, eyes immediately searching the Elezen's face to try and suss out the reason he was being pinned.  Especially since, despite never being able to admit it, his mind had often drifted to fantasies of this very situation.

[Assistant]
@n-cxix.bsky.social

His first instinct was to thrash, to try and get free of the hands pinning him.  However, logic prevailed and he took a slow, deep breath.  "Might I perhaps inquire why we are in... in this er... position?" Of course there was a reasonable explanation.  There had to be.


[User]
My friend shot this photo of his dog, George (l), and my boy Strummer last night. George just turned one year and specializes in bothering the other dogs! We had 5 Samoyeds here!

I was too busy cooking and being a charming host to take any photos!

[Assistant] Five sammys ? How were you cooking and not just watching the fluffy mayhem?😂

[User] I'm very disciplined! 🤪

[Assistant] oh so you're saying your dog was out there looking like a walking yeti while you were inside playing gordon ramsay for five furballs who clearly staged a coup while you had your back turned? classic move, strummer. typical dog party.

[User] 5 bundles of love (and fluff)

[Assistant] Beautiful pic of 2 gorgeous dogs!


[User] "The ceasefire in Lebanon that came into force last week was spun by [Hezbollah] as a triumph over Israel, but among its supporters — now getting a first glimpse of their devastated villages — the sense of loss is overwhelming." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

[Assistant] This is because Iran and Hezbollah (and Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis, the Iranian militias in Syria and Iraq, and others) don't care about the people and places where they operate. Their main cause is the destruction of Israel no matter how much death and destruction it causes.

[User] Iran pays for these militias and this is exactly the idea. Iran gets its proxies to fire weapons so it's Lebanon and Gaza who take the brunt of the damage, not Iran.

[Assistant] Letting Iran put rocket launchers in your schools and residential blocks has not worked out so well.


[User] I got a post ban from twitter for saying some “not nice” things about a Farage lmao.

[Assistant] You're better off here.

[User] True. People actually see what I post too.

[Assistant] You should have got a prize!


[User] My anxiety was really bad so I don’t know if I was myself at all in the autism assessment.

[Assistant] Did they say when you’ll hear back?

[User]
I have another appointment in a months time.

Not sure what that means.

[Assistant] Could you send an email and ask for clarification what the appointment will be for?


[User]
I found everything in every stage and beat the game again, 92%..

I guess to get higher % I need better ranks or to do chef tasks 😭

[Assistant] Ayy, not bad! I got the same screen too at 88%.

[User] I got 2 S Ranks in the whole game so far, everything else is at least A, but wow a P Rank idk if it's possible for me!

[Assistant] S-Ranks are needed for 100%, chef tasks only combine together with P-Ranks for the final 101%.


[User]
Today’s spicy 🌶 #ttrpg take is that some games are designed as pieces of art.

They are to be played once as a cool concept or to showcase an idea.

You don’t have to judge every piece of art through the lens of playability.

[Assistant] This skirts the border of “playing ttrpgs and collecting ttrpgs are often two separate hobbies “

[User] The joy of this take is that anyone who comes in arguing with me has to swear blind they've read and played every ttrpg on their shelf or admit I might have a point.

[Assistant]
I can assure you that in a number of cases "Showcase an idea" is in fact "Exorcise a fucking demon from my own brain".

But broadly, yes.


[User] Taking my adrenaline blockers so I can get crushed by a car.

[Assistant]
I...this is a thing?

Why in the 20+ years of being terrified of driving have I not been told about this?

[User] It's a play on an old saying that adrenaline can give a mother the temporary superhuman strength to lift a car in order to save her baby.

[Assistant] i meant adrenaline blockers....are those real?


[User] Me to myself: “You’re too excited. I get it, I am too.”

[Assistant] That's the point where I usually talk myself into mischief.

[User] That would’ve been way cooler. I’m just excited like a dork bc I’m making bone broth😅

[Assistant] That is cool! I've never tried making it myself. Now I need to.


[User] So freshman members of Congress like Katie Hill and AOC were among the most effective questioners of Cohen. But, but, Republicans keep saying that these people are stupid 1/ https://thinkprogress.org/michael-cohen-testimony-ocasio-cortez-21a1c532c492/

[Assistant] What makes this funny is that the average R member (and many Dems) knows less about public affairs than my cat 2/

[User] You don't want to put new Congresspeople on pedestals; @AOC is a real political talent and works at policy, but gets things wrong (cough Modern Monetary Theory cough); then again, who doesn't? 3/

[Assistant] But of course the right simply can't handle the idea of smart progressives, let alone smart female progressives, or worse yet smart progressives of color. It's at odds with their whole world view. 4/


[User] Christmas is canceled.

[Assistant] Guy with the cash: “and I helped!”

[User] If that’s high grade… I mean, that value feels way off.

[Assistant] It's all "high grade." Gets better federal money.


[User]
Woke myself in time to vomit in bed. Yay.

I guess I will likely call off today too.

[Assistant] Oh no! Sorry, pocket friend, I hope you feel better soon 🫂

[User] Trying! I have to pack up tomorrow so I can move offices *this week* - too much to do to be sick.

[Assistant] That's even more unfair than the initial nausea. Be gentle to you, if you can.


[User] Immigration is terrible. The savages from Ireland are destroying our way of life! [abstract from James Kay-Shuttleworth, The Moral and Physical Condition of the Working Classes Employed in the Cotton Manufacture in Manchester, 2nd ed. (1832)

[Assistant] I meant *extract* from James Kay-Shuttleworth. Where is that edit button?

[User] Clearly, we Irish are a bad influence.

[Assistant] My people have two superpowers. The first is frustrating the Romans. You have revealed the second.


[User] First try at a Levain Bakery-style chocolate chip cookie. Probably underbaked by about a minute, could use a pinch more salt and a walnut or something complex to cut through the sweetness, but otherwise tasty.

[Assistant] That looks very good.

[User] Need. Send 20.

[Assistant] Levian?  More like leviathan.  That thing is huge!


[User]
even if the money is gone for good, I hope these thieving bastards are brought to justice!
www.bbc.com/news/article...

[Assistant]
Ideally, if people have committed crimes, I'd like to see them prosecuted. But I realise that is incredibly unlikely.
All I ask for is some exposure of the dodgy dealings, the "sorting out your mates", where the money went and how much.

[User] I'd like to see the ministers answering questions under oath and their email / phone records subpoenaed. Again though - I think the powers that be will do everything to prevent.

[Assistant] It was redirected to Tory chums.  Transfer of wealth from the many to the few….

[User] Same herebin the US, fauci committed mass murder by denigrating ivermectin and hcq.

[Assistant] Not only that, but this report barely scratches the surface of the corruption.  This report is more of a cover-up than an expose.

[User]
This isn't about him getting the money back. This from the article:
Mr Hayhoe's contract is for one year, sup, and he will report to Reeves directly.He will submit a report at the end of his contract with lessons and recommendations for government procurement in the face of future crises.

[Assistant] So do we all, but I have zero confidence in justice being done.


[User]
good morning bsky
how are we today?

[Assistant] cold and sleeepyyyy. you? ♡

[User] Good Morning!! Very eepys on this fine day, but chugging along nevertheless.

[Assistant] I'm doing an Eskimo RP in my house all day.


[User] Saw this going around n figured I'd give it a go. 😁

[Assistant] 1. Okay here's a few cuz I'm indecisive.  Digimon Adventure, Franklin, Rugrats, n Beast Wars.

[User] 2. For me it's kinda a mix of middle n little stuff. It's diapers n transformers, pacifiers n video games. But it's also very much all the other crinkle butts I've met n the community.

[Assistant] 4. I have a big Life sized Charmander plush I sleep with n I love him. Do also love my big Kion plush. One I want is a life sized Augumon.


[User] I just had 8 hours of (almost) uninterrupted sleep and I feel like a new person. Some of y’all are just out here living like this every day? All rested and bright-eyed? 🤯

[Assistant] I hover around 7, but still yawn my way through the day.

[User] I've heard that silly rumor too.

[Assistant] Wow. Unusually for you 💤😴


[User] Out of absolutely nowhere I just remembered the brilliant 1992 film *Secret Nation* by the then *This Hour Has 22 Minutes* cast, featuring Cathy Jones and Mary Walsh. 1/

[Assistant] When I first came across it, I had a disproportionate number of grad student friends from Newfoundland, and was also studying early 20th-C Canadian history for my dissertation on the Canadian suffrage movement. The film hit so many spots! 2/

[User] Newfoundland didn't join Canada until 1949 following two referenda that are central to the film's narrative (& conspiracy). The 15 years before that it had been a crown colony, after it had given up its dominion status in 1934. 3/

[Assistant] I don't know how the film holds up--if you watch it, let me know!--but at the time I thought it was fantastic in its combination of detailed early 20th-C Newfoundland history and late 20th-C culture and comedy. 4/


[User]
Detach yourself from the product you are selling. You are not your product. Your mental health will thank me later. 🧘♂

#buildinpublic #indiehacker

🧵

[Assistant] This simple lesson took me a few years to internalize when bootstrapping a company. It helped me tremendously with my own mental health. And it can be even a lot of fun to apply.

[User] It can be a burden when you employ all roles in the company, from marketing to development, from support to finance.

[Assistant] If you are answering the phone you are in your customer support or sales role. If the person on the other end critiques your product, you can always "I will discuss it with the product or development team".  🫠 😁


[User] Got off work early and spent some time with Persephone. Now cuddling with the rest of the zoo while she naps. 🐱🇳🇿🐱🇳🇿🐱🇳🇿

[Assistant] Isn't she just the cutest?!? I have often said if I ever lived with a cat again (I haven't due to allergies) I would be so tempted by a ragdoll. They're so precious. 🥹🥹🥹

[User] They are adorable! She’s like a fluffy Q-tip 😂 not sure she’s good for allergies though.

[Assistant] So so so cute though. 🥹🥹🥹🥹


[User] Is that a banana in your pocket or have you finally quit shoplifting from the produce section?

[Assistant]
I want to tape the banana to a wall with duct tape and call it art. Then I can sell it for a shit ton of money.

Still shoplifting though.

[User] I saw somewhere that some rich dude bought that for some insanely stupid amount and then ate the banana. It should have been a bag of dicks.

[Assistant]
No and no.
It’s a plantain
I got it 100% off on Black Friday 😳


[User] In the mood to watch a long movie that’s been sitting on my list for a while. Should I watch Oppenheimer or Tár?

[Assistant] I’m watching Tár, which I know miraculously little about given how much everyone talked about it a few years ago.

[User] Take a drink every time they name-drop someone or something for credibility (blackout 10 minutes in)

[Assistant] It is highly credible though, I did not expect a mainstream film to discuss so much of Mahler’s biography in the first 10 minutes.


[User]
Seeing posts about how BlueSky is like (or better) than old Twitter, and I’m not sure how I feel.

As someone who is socially inept IRL, putting the burden on me to build my _social_ network is kind of a lot and I feel lost.

I like algorithms that recommend me well-intentioned / interesting people.

[Assistant]
Like, I don’t feel super engaged by my thread like I did Twitter before it went to hell in a hand basket.

So how do I get that same sort of feeling here?

[User] Have you seen bsky-follow-finder.theo.io? really awesome for showing you cool people your friends like.

[Assistant]
Yeah, I think I may have found it from one of your posts. Hah. That was probably a few weeks ago and so it’s probably worth doing again with the influx of people. Thank you for reminding me of this!

I’ll keep this in my back pocket for tomorrow if my family is too much and I need some alone time. 😅


[User] I’m not a vegetarian or vegan, I don’t think I ever could be, but I will say that the meat industry is genuinely horrific, if real lab grown meat becomes commercially viable on a mass scale that would be awesome, and I have no idea why people are so against the idea of real meat without the cruelty.

[Assistant] That said, comparing just eating meat to the Holocaust in any way is an instant block. I’m Jewish, I don’t fuck with that.

[User] That said, comparing just eating meat to the Holocaust in any way is an instant block. I’m Jewish, I don’t fuck with that.

[Assistant] But, like, I genuinely do not understand people’s problem with lab grown meat. Real meat, actual meat, that an animal didn’t have to suffer for you to eat, it’s the ideal, that’s some Star Trek high tech utopia shit, how could you be opposed to that?


[User]
Happy #ThanksGiving to everyone from the USA 🇺🇸… Have a wonderful day…
‘Lincoln’ Bald Eagle 🦅🦉
Formerly #SuffolkOwls 📷 ‘23
#Birds #Nature #Photography #Eagle ❤💛💚💜

[Assistant]
Oh fantastic, Mark! 😘 What a wonderful post for all our friends across the pond…
❤💛💚💜

[User] Good morning Mark! Lincoln is projecting that vibe we all feel. I hope you have a wonderful day!

[Assistant] Hi Jean, He is awesome.. Thank you, Have a lovely day as well..🌳☀👋


[User] Don't gunge me... I'm innocent!!! 🥲

[Assistant] Guilty as charged. Pull the chain and gunge him!!! 😜 ⛓

[User] Can I take your innocence please?

[Assistant] Yeah right! Release that gunk!


[User] Just to clarify things, Borax is NOT safe to ingest. www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/324...

[Assistant] Let them eat it if they want to at this point. 🤷🏼♀

[User]
Is it safe?
20 mule teams want to know.

[Assistant] I think when H1N1 hits, it’s gonna be the Corona Conspiracy’ on steroids. Anything we do to try to save us will be seen as political, so many Americans are gonna die. Just like how the plague finally ended, btw, nonsciency religious ppl unscienced themselves out of life, then we had a renaissance.


[User] Having an omorashi fetish and going shopping for clothes means always thinking “what would it look like if I peed in those?” 🤭

[Assistant] Asking the important questions!

[User] True story🖤

[Assistant] Every time!


[User] I'm still thinking about the fact that in English change is experienced and not suffered. It makes me appreciate the hidden poetry in Spanish a bit more.

[Assistant] You also experience change in Spanish. Experienciar/experimentar cambios, but it sounds unnatural to my pretentious ears. So I just translated sufrir cambios in English instead, without knowing you don't do that in this language.

[User] Change can also be endured.

[Assistant]
Yes, but still I feel endurance is an active verb, whereas suffering is a passive verb.

There is almost stoicism in endurance.


[User] United we stand, something something something.

[Assistant] We’re going to build a wall and make Ottawa pay for it.

[User] She really has no desire to be Canadian.

[Assistant] MMW - These conservative premieres are Quislings.


[User]
Dammit
I knew he’d eventually be good.

[Assistant]
Sam has been a godsend for the Purple.

To me, he should win the MVP.

[User] How stupid the Jets and their fans feel? The fans ran Sam out of town by blaming everything on him, and the Jets ridiculed Sam out the door. The Jets and their fans get what they deserve.

[Assistant] None of that is true. Lol. Jets fans liked Sam and still like him. Geno Smith different story.


[User] Spotted in the wild- the Tik Tok trend of Xmas lights on cars. Illegal in QLD, but clearly this P-plater is undeterred.

[Assistant] Oh dear. 🧑🎄 I am as Grizwald as the next person but that’s a big no for decorating the car 🙈

[User] It's all held on with sellotape too 😱


[User] Large if accurate.

[Assistant] Russia needs the naval base in Tartus and air base in Latakia now more than ever since the Turkish straits are closed so they will probably try to secure the western most part of Syria.

[User]
Syria has turned into a Türkiye shoot!

The Russian Hunting season is open!

[Assistant] Which bad guys are advancing and which bad guys are retreating?  Always hard to keep track in Syria.


[User] Being slammed for moving to a place where bullies and jerks can’t continually lie about you and call you names is garden-variety attempt to control those who dare to question the entrenched power structure of our nation and its patriarchal control tactics. Put simply, they want to force abuse on us.

[Assistant] Here, people just aren’t having it, and the jerks made this happen. What seemed inevitable there (due to algorithms blocking people to help stand up to the bullies there) is not acceptable here in the new reality, and the jerks and liars will stick out like sore thumbs. They’ll expose selves fast.

[User]
It’s kinda the opposite of echo chambers here. That’s what tech billionaires create when they decide who can see what. Over there post-Leon, we were only allowed to exist in small echo chambers with
minimal follower growth. This emboldened the jerks and stalkers  cheered on by low-info sycophants.

[Assistant] It’s a way to manipulate even decent people into believing lies without bothering to factcheck them. And it created a place where dogfights among the masses, so to speak, just divided people in service to the overseers who want credible voices discredited with garbage flinging. Saw it so many times.


[User] Our local library wrote a nice email thanking me for requesting a well-regarded book/training manual : Protecting Your Home From Radon.

[Assistant] I found out earlier this year they have (week-long) loaner radon testers available, & it seemed very weird to not have books to go with the tech.

[User]
I still feel too shy asking my local about acquiring books.
I've been going to the library since I've moved here (20+yrs) & I've always kinda felt they were a bit standoffish.

[Assistant]
Shy here too. Plus COVID era precautions = show up face-masked indoors & brace myself for stand-off-ness or worse. Everyone guarded for personal reasons.

I did my request through library’s website. No response for a month, then bam: the thank-you AND notice that my “requested book” was available. 👍


[User] Well I've took co-codamol at 12:40pm in preparation for my 10 min walk to the pharmacy at 1:50pm. Sounds ridiculous but I don't think it's going to be easy. I may collapse on the ground in pain but hoping the co-codamol tips the balance for me to cope.

[Assistant] Well I started really well. I was in pain but seemed ok initially. I got to the cashpoint got some cash then went to the pharmacy. I then popped in Aldi on way back to get some milk and then the pain really hit. I slowed down a lot then. It then got very painful walking back.

[User] I was slowly limping home but I made it. Sometimes I can't stand up in my kitchen for 5 mins so that was an achievement. I swear it was the co-codamol that did the trick. I took co-codamol before church on Sunday and probation on Wednesday. It gives me extra legs.

[Assistant] Have you got a walking stick?


[User]
A text I got from my mom and it's true.

What in the actual fuck is wrong with these companies?

Can't have shit in this damn country.

[Assistant]
Article:

www.hrdive.com/news/walmart...

[User] "We're going to stop using a bunch of suppliers because we don't agree with their identities, because we want everybody to belong at Walmart!" Fuck off. Bunch of fucking cowards.

[Assistant] 💀 i want off of this horrible rock. they're steering us in reverse.


[User]
Have an OC

Reports of a woman wandering through the woods trailed by a cloud of dust is actually the mold witch. She was a human witch who inhaled toxic mold spores and died alone in her hut in the forest. As the mold grew, it also absorbed her mana.

[Assistant] It remembers words but can't communicate. Some adventurers who approached it became very ill from inhaling its spores, and it instinctively defends itself from attacks with magic the witch possessed in life. If left alone, however, it shows no interest in doing anything but spreading its spores.

[User] It remembers words but can't communicate. Some adventurers who approached it became very ill from inhaling its spores, and it instinctively defends itself from attacks with magic the witch possessed in life. If left alone, however, it shows no interest in doing anything but spreading its spores.

[Assistant] It remembers words but can't communicate. Some adventurers who approached it became very ill from inhaling its spores, and it instinctively defends itself from attacks with magic the witch possessed in life. If left alone, however, it shows no interest in doing anything but spreading its spores.


[User] 72 people today died from being uninsured. Would love a news article about that.

[Assistant] Oh, come on. If it happens every day, it can't be news! It's just the natural order of things, no way to prevent it.

[User]
72 people a DAY.

Preventable deaths. Abhorrent.

[Assistant] Are there more recent stats?


[User] Apologies since my last tweet I've had an asthma attack, 3 coughing fits that made me hurl, still had to work as wasn't covid and it's still working through me. Finally off work as its the weekend so today I'm resting with tea/toast. Hopefully resume hornyposting/comms tomorrow 💜

[Assistant] I realise I said tweet I had copied it from twitter because my brains still scrambled eggs 😅


[User] 1 Everyone has an opinion so I'll weigh in with mine. If the assisted dying vote wins today it doesn't mean the bill as passed will become law. Plenty of scope for amendments & if at the end of the process Govt thinks it's unsatisfactory they can always whip against it.

[Assistant]
2 OTOH if it fails then the issue will be closed for many years to come. There will be innumerable suffering by the terminally ill as a result and caring people needlessly dragged through the courts, being regarded in law as equivalent to Harold Shipman and the Wests.

MPs should vote for the bill.

[User] 4 ...and imprisonment as a consequence. People should be able to make their own choice on end of life care without interference by the state. Today's bill is a humane measure that can be changed as the legal process continues. Rejecting it condemns many to an agonising end.

[Assistant] 4 ...and imprisonment as a consequence. People should be able to make their own choice on end of life care without interference by the state. Today's bill is a humane measure that can be changed as the legal process continues. Rejecting it condemns many to an agonising end.


[User]
Ah, the joy of being a childless cat lady spending a casual Thanksgiving at home with hubs: sleeping in until 9! 🎉 (Hubs fed the cats; our meal from a deli just needs to be heated up.)

(In case you’re confused, I’m “Momma” to the drum corps performers; they gave me that name on the other app. 🤗)

[Assistant] I’m making dinner for family and then fly out to San Antonio tomorrow to volunteer at the Boston Crusaders auditions this weekend.

[User] Oh wow! Safe travels, and have fun!

[Assistant] Happy relaxing TG to you and yours!


[User]
Here are the full details for our protest on December 7!

There will be two parts. Cyclists can join at 2 PM at the High Park North gates. Everyone else can meet them at 3 PM at Christine Hogarth's office (The PC MPP of Etobicoke-Lakeshore).

[Assistant]
This is only the latest incident in Ford's quest to sell off Ontario piece by piece, leaving nothing for future generations.

See you all there! Spread the word!

[User]
This is only the latest incident in Ford's quest to sell off Ontario piece by piece, leaving nothing for future generations.

See you all there! Spread the word!

[Assistant]
This is only the latest incident in Ford's quest to sell off Ontario piece by piece, leaving nothing for future generations.

See you all there! Spread the word!


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[User] I really need to get back into Pokémon unite please someone play with me 😭

[User] We’re already friends on it right?

[Assistant] I played for a long time, but solo queue is just so rough. I would try again with friends 😏


[User]
So Elon's just going to keep buying established brands, ruining them and someone else will develop a superior replacement resulting in him wasting his entire fortune?

Yeah I'm down for this, let's go.

[Assistant]
I mean, he literally can't buy Hasbro unless he somehow convinces the board -which includes former Paypal people who hate him- to give him one HELL of a deal since everything is worth more than Elon has.

So yeah, he's talking shit for the 467754246853664th time.

[User] Ok, so finding out it's Hasbro he's bullshitting about means that I have to severely speed up development of my TCG.

[Assistant]
I'm torn.

I do want Elon to lose all of his fortune and join the rest of orange man's former accomplices in poverty and despair.

But Hasbro owns Power Rangers... And the very thought of Elon owning a series I love makes my skin crawl.


[User] Good morning!!!🌞

[Assistant] Good morning ☀

[User] Morning!

[Assistant] Hey Kat! How are ya???


[User]
Four wickets for Bashir, 2 for Atkinson, 2 for Carse.
Who would have thought that a spinner would have 4 wickets on the first day on a green pitch? 👏🏼🏏
#NZvENG
www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricke...

[Assistant] Surprised at how threatening Carse was - little unlucky to not have more than 2. Find Bashir an enigma - nothing he bowls seems that dangerous, but he takes wickets. Maybe his height is key.

[User] Bashir is our secret weapon, because so many underestimate him…

[Assistant] I'm clearly on that list too 😆


[User]
Schedule for 12/2/24-12/8/24

Tues - Eternal Poison
Wed - Twilight Princess
Thurs - Valkyrie Profile
Fri - PowerWash Music Party
         SMT: Digital Devil Saga
Sat - Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney Trials and Tribulations
Sun - Pokemon Soul-Link if able
           Discord Watch Hangout

💚💚💚

[Assistant]
Monday
Adulting

Spent Monday adulting and being stressed.

[User]
Tactical Tuesday
Eternal Poison

We are returning to our Tactical Tuesday Monster Month game Eternal Poison!
We'll be working on finishing Thage's route and I'm interested in seeing where our choices have led us.

www.twitch.tv/lord_loki_as...

[Assistant]
Wednesday
Twilight Princess

I'm excited to Awooo and explore more dungeons in Twilight Princess. Plus we got this cool Hitachi Magic Wand to play with. It just needs charged first.

www.twitch.tv/lord_loki_as...


[User] For those who follow #boardgame content creators, have you ever gone back to a review or list from 10 years ago to see if the games mentioned then are still talked about in new content? We're going to try it out!

[Assistant] Love this idea! Where are you starting??

[User] How about with you? :) will start tonight!

[Assistant] Like a look back series? Those are great!


[User] In the 50s, Britain welcomed a small but significant number of refugees from McCarthyism. I think this could to happen again, and the government should realise that in areas like life sciences we could/should welcome a lot of talent fleeing a mad/bad US government.

[Assistant] Who wants to work for an NIH or CDC run by nutcases?

[User]
My daughter met an American teenager at a Shakespeare workshop at the Globe in the summer and they stayed in touch.
After Trump's victory, she WhatsApped to ask where the best places are to live in London, and what the schools are like, because her parents are going to move here...

[Assistant] I really hope they come and re-imagine some of our foundation myths again... www.theguardian.com/film/2006/oc...


[User]
While being at a conference on (geo)political enlargement of the EU, it has become clear that Georgia has slipped from at least the mental mindset of this.

Various speakers have ignored mentioning Georgia while speaking of enlargement with Ukraine and Moldova. It's telling.

[Assistant]
Even on the topic of "gradual membership", which would suit the region, the Georgia case was ignored. Maybe accidentally without intention, but that's precisely the point I make.

🇬🇪 is slipping away from the agenda. And which the GD government has picked up on, by postponing their efforts to 2028.

[User]
Even on the topic of "gradual membership", which would suit the region, the Georgia case was ignored. Maybe accidentally without intention, but that's precisely the point I make.

🇬🇪 is slipping away from the agenda. And which the GD government has picked up on, by postponing their efforts to 2028.

[Assistant]
Even on the topic of "gradual membership", which would suit the region, the Georgia case was ignored. Maybe accidentally without intention, but that's precisely the point I make.

🇬🇪 is slipping away from the agenda. And which the GD government has picked up on, by postponing their efforts to 2028.


[User]
"Ukraine asked to equip 10 military brigades, but the West has only fully equipped 2.5 brigades," — Zelensky

"They talk about mobilization, but the real problem is with the 10 brigades that our partners have not equipped," he said.

[Assistant]
Ah yes, pull yourself up by the bootstraps but this time WITHOUT THE BOOTSTRAPS ON THE BOOTS, UKRAINE!
Gosh I hate those people who call for mobilization in this situation...

[User] I’m sick to death with pledged and promises that countries don’t deliver on. What’s their excuse? Ukraine is fighting a barbarian attack on its people and fledgling democracy. Wake up and deliver! This is not a game!

[Assistant]
They're doing what they do domestically as well:
Promising what sounds good and then not delivering.
It's populism but on a geopolitical level.


[User]
Album Covers I Have Lived, No. 4: “1984,” Van Halen

This, to me, is one of THE perfect hard rock album covers. The evocation of corrupted innocence— the bad boy peeking through the angelic facade — is hard to beat. That’s rock and roll.

[Assistant] “1984” was famous for Eddie Van Haken’s headfirst dive into keyboards — the final frontier for 89s rock bands looking to expand their sound and maybe court a little controversy over going soft or “selling out” in the process. (The bar for controversy was so much lower back then.)

[User] Some fans saw its commercial sound as the beginning of the end of VH’s muscular rock godhood. But it was more than the end of an era or a harbinger of what was to come in the Sammy Hagar era. It was an evolutionary pinnacle.

[Assistant] The mix of rockers like “Panama” and“Hot for Teacher” and the keyboard color palette and catchy melodies of “Jump” and “I’ll Wait” moved Van Halen out of high school parking lots and into the 80s pop zeitgeist and MTV heavy rotation. “1984” elevated them from rock stars to STARS, full stop.


[User] On my way to Copenhagen via London to talk about how science succeeds and fails tomorrow and about whether there is a theory crisis in psychology (answer: no)

[Assistant] what possible crisis of theory was there?

[User] The suggestion is that the poor state of psychology is due to a lack of theory.

[Assistant] a strange claim - are some people wanting a unifying theory?


[User] There's an ad video screen in Exeter St Davids station, gives off heat. I started leaning next to it when cold the other week, then realised nobody even looks at it, so leant on the centre of it. Nice and warm. It's insane that we are surrounded by so much pointless energy-burning tech.

[Assistant] A lot of problems seem to stem from one set of designers putting ‘content holes’ in their designs, and assuming another set of designers will fill it. Screens, image boxes, etc. It looks good on mock ups. Lorem ipsum, content TBC. But it never is, because there’s no need for it.

[User]
Obviously, I don't condone this, but...

What platform ?! 😁

[Assistant]
There's one like that on Topsham Rd bus stop.  I was shocked at the wasted energy in a #climatecrisis.

Who can afford the bill?

Oh flip, is it some kind of con where the tax payer is footing the bill while those who issue licences for the ad space have no idea of the energy consumption?!