[User]
Q: Stacy, why do you hate Black Friday?
A: I'm a GenXer raised by a single mother who worked retail to sustain us, so her day started well before dawn on the day after Thanksgiving. Then as a cub reporter, I was forced to go to shopping malls on Black Friday. I've seen too much.

[Assistant]
Now I'm thinking about the shopping mall of the 80s.
www.mentalfloss.com/article/6451...

[User] I feel like anyone who has to ask why people don't like Black Friday has never worked on Black Friday.

[Assistant]
When I worked as a nurse, I worked every holiday except Thanksgiving. (Actually, same is true for as a reporter and editor.)

Ask me how much I hate Christmas. Ask me. Am I the grinch? You bet ya. One Christmas ED convinced me that holiday is definitely tied to cardiac events.


[User]
Christ, it’s Matt Lucas.

Maybe I should go and ask him why he blocked me on Twitter.

[Assistant] He blocked me on Twitter too. I don’t remember ever interacting with him.

[User] And me. Never interacted with him or mentioned him. 🤷♂

[Assistant] It was around item 98 on your NARDOLE SUCKS list ISTR.


[User] I have a calibrated Davis weather station at my Keys home, accessible via Internet. I keep it on a monitor at my home in OKC so so can I see the weather info easily. The official temp there is in low 60s, but it seems there is a cold pocket sitting on my house (several miles from official station).

[Assistant] "Inside temperature" is the temp inside the house. "Temperature 1" is the temperature inside the cabin of my boat, sitting the canal next to the house. Not much happens there without me knowing about it.

[User]
Yikes! That's one helluva cold pocket!!

Is your sensor set back from the water? Is it low to the ground?Evaporational cooling is about the only thing I can think of that would legitimately cause that big of a disparity.

[Assistant] It's legit. There are two other temp sensors reporting here, and they correlate.

[User] It's legit. There are two other temp sensors reporting here, and they correlate. Specifically the temperature inside my boat ("temperature 1") which is also well below the official temp right now.

[Assistant]
That's wild! I didn't realize it was getting so cold in South Florida right now!

Up here in the Northern Willamette Valley, we're finally getting our first bout of freezing weather, third night in a row of freezing fog. Winter is definitely settling in...


[User]
A short thread that everyone on Bluesky should read 👇🏻

Sowing discontent is a primary aim for, to take just one example, Putin.

Idk about you but I don’t want my day spoiled by a swarm of bad actor bots.

Ignore, report, block is still the best response.

[Assistant] BlueSky provides good tools to bring down the banhammer.

[User] I’ve come across a few accounts here that are all replies no FP posts, all disagreeable, though often polite, even reasonable, but never ‘IMO’, rather stated like established facts (implying OP’s wrong/stupid). Block, block, block. They are not Eeyore, they are bots spreading unhappiness!

[Assistant]
Even more importantly, BlueSky really has the tools for us, as individuals, to help stop them in their tracks by doing this.

Blocking never really worked elsewhere, even pre Muskrat. Here, they simply can't operate in the same way.

We can't stop them per se, but we can help control them.

[User] What I don’t understand is why? Why would someone grow an account on here to sell someday when there’s no ads and all this “clout” is literally worthless? Just bots and trolls talking to each other. So bizarre.

[Assistant]
Sowing chaos and misinformation isn't useless to the likes of Putin. It has enormous value.

So, idk, maybe some of these clout-chasing accounts are eyeing up the prospect of selling 1000s of eager followers to the KGB down the line? Or something.


[User]
Does anyone have access to this PDF?
doi.org/10.1117/12.9...

Intelligent Microscopes: Recent And Near-Future Advances (1979)

[Assistant]
It may be time to face the fact that, after 300 years,
A better way of doing things occasionally appears.
In terms of classification, microscopists we should perhaps allege
Now be replaced by computers which have not been trained to hedge.

[User]
It may be time to face the fact that, after 300 years,
A better way of doing things occasionally appears.
In terms of classification, microscopists we should perhaps allege
Now be replaced by computers which have not been trained to hedge.

[Assistant]
It may be time to face the fact that, after 300 years,
A better way of doing things occasionally appears.
In terms of classification, microscopists we should perhaps allege
Now be replaced by computers which have not been trained to hedge.


[User] Great stuff. Also, wait, there was a Durham autism conference?

[Assistant] It was the UK's main autism conference for many years, as I understand it!

[User]
Wow! I find that hilarious (or something) because of how neuronormative the uni is now.
TBF there’s neurodiversity* research at DU now.
*a research centre recently renamed with ND language - with, from what I can tell, a range in paradigms and practices. & also now @drrobertchapman.bsky.social!

[Assistant]
They've also got Monique Botha now!

I just hope the university appreciates what it's got there. I'm so tired of universities building up world-class teams of autistic academics and then throwing them away with no sign they've even noticed what they're doing...

[User] I feel more worried if senior management do understand what they’re doing….

[Assistant] I find this article fascinating as a piece of history peppered with insights which many systems still need to learn. Obviously Dinah Murray’s thinking continued to develop, eg at least the contrasts she draws here with her own thinking would have changed when she realised she was autistic.


[User] Quote with a selfie that makes you feel confident (I’ve already put this one on here)

[Assistant] Please send a small donation and repost and quote my latest post to save my family in Gaza💔🇵🇸🍉🎁

[User] Fabulous hair!

[Assistant] Thank you!!


[User] If you’re a new follower.. we play a game every night of if I’ll end up falling asleep on my couch or I’ll end up actually making it to my room to fall asleep in my bed… the last 2 nights I’ve made it to my room 🤣

[Assistant] So you’re due for a couch night 😂

[User] Me but will I fall asleep while putting my 5 year old to bed? And then if I fall asleep with her, do I make it to my bed or just stay with her? It drives my husband absolutely insane😂

[Assistant] My husband has grown so used to me just sleeping on the couch. He’ll come out to try to get me to the room, but I sometimes he can’t wake me up because I’m just so knocked out 💀


[User]
1/5 Today's #TT_Tip to help you fight back against #trollers is about gaslighting, which has a few sneaky variations.

First, the signs you're being gaslit:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/here-there-and-everywhere/201701/11-warning-signs-gaslighting

Learn to recognize...

[Assistant] these signs right away so you don't waste your time on such trolls. (ctd)

[User] 2/5 Second, you'll need an example, which I've attached pics of thanks to 'John' from Flipboard who gaslit me this week. This particular variation of gaslighting is meant to reduce MY credibility in the eyes of readers who don't know any better, while boosting the troll's own. ⬇

[Assistant]
3/5 Notice how John tries to create a FALSE narrative of him 'often proving me wrong' to imply he's an expert who's trounced me on climate facts before.🤔

Nope, yet many readers won't know that, so it's a subtle undermining of my credibility WITHOUT any ACTUAL facts!

Sneaky.🤨


[User] An attorney representing the Chicago Bd of Ed offered to buy out Pedro Martinez, the embattled chief of Chicago Public Schools. The offer came after Martinez retained attorney William J. Quinlan to represent him. By @nellsalzman.bsky.social: www.chicagotribune.com/2024/12/04/c...

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

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


[User]
I swear I am okay* after finishing all of Elden Ring.

*bought the first Dark Souls in this autumn sale and am currently installing it for when I have some time after the winter hussle.

[Assistant]
Me starting Elden Ring: "I am unsure if I enjoy this game. Love the premise and the trailer is good. But I am terrible with constant defeat and loss in games."

Me starting the DLC: "I am not gonna get hyper invested again. I can't spend each and every free second. Again."

Me ever since: "Damn."

[User] The difference between dark souls and elden ring will probably give you some whiplash xD many things have changed over the years 😅

[Assistant] Oh I fear it might 8'DDD have heard that a few times and was really pondering if I should give it a try at all. But it was on sale and I am so weak. Really excited to figure out if I can enjoy it.


[User]
Most investors have been trained to buy bonds at the first sign of weakening growth.  This cycle’s transition to recession will challenge that assumption.

Fed pausing for longer and pickup in long end duration supply lining up for bond weakness even as recession risk rises.

[Assistant] The two macro cycles most investors today are familiar with - 00 and 08 - taught folks the knee jerk response that there was little cost to ‘getting ahead’ of the recession by buying bonds.

[User]
These cycles were pretty different than what is shaping up this time, particularly for bonds.

They occurred in the context of a secular disinflation which allowed the Fed to prioritize response to growth concerns.

The government deficit was small going into the downturns.

[Assistant]
That combo was a much more bullish scenario for the bond market than today where:

Inflation remains above target and the Fed projects it may take years to get there.

The gov is running wartime-like deficits and duration supply was constrained and will come to market soon.


[User] #WhackaBot Mary Grace:

[Assistant] Bluesky seems to be under a full-scale attack today. If you page through rhis bot’s replies you’ll see they’re canned. In the exchange in the first screenshot, the person addresses the bot by name, & the bot replies by calling the interlocutor by its own name! Literally something humans never do.

[User] Lol. So I replied to one of Mary Grace's posts with "OK bot." It liked the post. Then it wrote, "I’m here to help! Let me know if you need support with book marketing or promotion. 😊."

[Assistant] And thanks to @hankgreen.bsky.social for bringing my attention this morning to how crazy this bot nonsense is getting on here right now!


[User] Hiked the Weißeritztal today. Glorious day. Excellent restaurant halfway up. Exciting ride on a narrow-gauge train with steam locomotive on the way down. Plant photos coming up! #freital #dresden #hiking 1/

[Assistant]
The banks of the river have been overtaken by these tall plants, sadly. Drüsiges Springkraut; Himalayan balsam. Beautiful flowers, nevertheless an invasive species that’s crowding out local vegetation.

https://www.saechsische.de/die-fremde-gefahr-3775584.html 2/

[User]
So much yellow.

1) Königskerze / mullein.

2) Perfect natural arrangement of Kanadische(!) Goldrute, Rainfarn, and Beifuß. Or, Canada goldenrod, tansy, and mugwort.

3) Some pretty yellow thing I really don’t know and didn’t take a good enough photo of to identify. 😒

3/

[Assistant]
Bunter Hohlzahn / hempnettle. Such subtle, complementarily coloured beauties.

Klette / burdock. We had some fun trying to stick them onto each other’s shirts. 4/


[User] "My mom thinks I'm nice and not a serial woman abuser anymore" is an extremely whack defense at any age, but an especially bad look when you're trying to become the Secretary of Defense.

[Assistant] Imagine how much he whinged at her to get her to do this. I can hear the whine.

[User] You take what you can get.

[Assistant] this is who he’s willing to take a chance on? No one else in the entire country that could do the job? I hope people are waking up.

[User]
"I'm not that mother" (that she was seven years ago) ...lol
 Wait til she sees the trouble he would get into as SecDef.

[Assistant]
What is it called when your mom says you are a dangerous drunken women abuser then she follows that up with “but he’s a nice boy”?
Reframe.
Or she’s trying to move you out of her basement.

[User] It doesn't seem very alpha to send your mom onto national news to beg for you.

[Assistant] "Don't listen to the media about my son" says woman who called her son a nasty abusive piece of shit.

[User] didn’t elmo’s mom go on tv and karen for him too? maga are pathetic.

[Assistant] Baby Boomer mom defending GenX son on Fox News is cringe af.

[User] Geez, as a mother I cannot imagine ever writing something about my children like she did unless it was very true and I was done with them.

[Assistant] How much were you paid Mom?


[User] Tilly woke me up this morning by jumping on my head, somehow scaring herself, and scrabbling away leaving me long red claw marks down one cheek. To apologise, she was then sick on the bed. TGIF.

[Assistant] I normally find their Wile E Coyote style panic running while staying on the same spot quite funny, less so when IT IS ON MY FACE.

[User] A cat encapsulated in one tweet ..

[Assistant] True! She’s now sat on my lap purring contentedly after a busy morning.


[User] 11 minute frequencies on @mbta.bsky.social red line at 8am are not good for #mapoli travelers.

[Assistant]
If each train at Braintree was held 2:15 past its scheduled departure time, the average headway at JFK UMass would be 7:43 and 7:42. The standard deviation would drop from 2:49 to 1:40.

Come on, @mbta.bsky.social, we have clocks. Do this!

[User]
If each train at Braintree was held 2:15 past its scheduled departure time, the average headway at JFK UMass would be 7:43 and 7:42. The standard deviation would drop from 2:49 to 1:40.

Come on, @mbta.bsky.social, we have clocks. Do this!

[Assistant]
If each train at Braintree was held 2:15 past its scheduled departure time, the average headway at JFK UMass would be 7:43 and 7:42. The standard deviation would drop from 2:49 to 1:40.

Come on, @mbta.bsky.social, we have clocks. Do this!

[User]
If each train at Braintree was held 2:15 past its scheduled departure time, the average headway at JFK UMass would be 7:43 and 7:42. The standard deviation would drop from 2:49 to 1:40.

Come on, @mbta.bsky.social, we have clocks. Do this!

[Assistant]
If each train at Braintree was held 2:15 past its scheduled departure time, the average headway at JFK UMass would be 7:43 and 7:42. The standard deviation would drop from 2:49 to 1:40.

Come on, @mbta.bsky.social, we have clocks. Do this!


[User]
Zabriskie Point. Death Valley, California. I am long overdue for a visit. I think January will be a good month to do so once again.

Beware, this picture is so large you'll need eleven iPhones to view it.

[Assistant] Such a stunning place, Fran. Death Valley is a truly unique place. No wonder it played a big part in influencing my last album. It’ll be a quarter of a century since my last visit there so, like you, I’m long overdue a return.

[User] I can see that. It's a place for big inspiration, to put it mildly. And 25 years? You're certainly overdue for a return trip. It's only been 10 years for me, which is how old my daughter is now. I've been kind of holding off until she was a little older to take her. Definitely a family trip soon.

[Assistant] That sounds like a great plan. Would love to get my kids out there one day.


[User] The client tells me “ don’t worry we upgraded you to premium economy” and it turns out, this is the longest direct flight in the world this 18 hour flight on Singapore Airline doesn’t even offer regular economy class. 🫠 wish me luck I will survive!

[Assistant] Wishing you all the luck 🍀

[User] Not. My. Crocs.

[Assistant] Air travel should be a judgement-free zone when it comes to footwear. Whatever gets you through your journey.


[User] NAC just be doing any photoshop offered to him at this point 😂.

[Assistant] CAA signed off on this? Who's this boys publicist?

[Assistant] Too weird for my taste. 😕

[User] What is happening??😭 I love him down but goodness😳

[Assistant] That & other pictures were in this article theface.com/culture/nich...


[User] In Middle English, ‘eke’ meant addition, and ‘an eke-name’ was an extra name that someone might have. The n drifted across to become ‘a nickname’.

[Assistant] Did it steal the 'n' from 'norange'?

[User] In Belgium, adding "eke" to someone's name turns it into an endearing nickname.

[Assistant] Eke-Thump.


[User]
Global Public Opinion Polls Show Polarized Views of China
"[V]iews from the Global South [...] showed great variation and challenged the common but reductive paradigm of a Global North-South divide."
chinadigitaltimes.net/2024/12/glob...

[Assistant] It certainly won't on a false assumption that everything south of a certain latitudinal line coheres for a common purpose.

[User] It certainly won't on a false assumption that everything south of a certain latitudinal line coheres for a common purpose.

[Assistant] It certainly won't on a false assumption that everything south of a certain latitudinal line coheres for a common purpose.


[User] Celebrating "Revolutionary Taiwan", today the 2nd bestselling Asia book on Bookshop.org 🙂 @mhar4.bsky.social & I tell the story of how a self-consciously TWese nation was built in the unlikeliest geopolitical circumstances, a revolution that remains unrecognized globally bookshop.org/p/books/revo...

[Assistant] Congratulations!

[User] Thank you, so nice to see you here too!

[Assistant] Congratulations! So happy for you and Mark!


[User]
Mitch is mads that two Dem appointed federal judges decided NOT to retire in light of Trump.

And that warms my heart.

“This sort of partisan behavior undermines the integrity of the judiciary. It exposes bold Democratic blue where there should only be black robes,” McConnell warned.

SEE: SCOTUS 🖕🏼

[Assistant] And if Mitch had a spine after Jan.6 we wouldn't be facing the downfall of democracy today.

[User]
MAGA #MoscowMitch
Trump's Russian Operative + 间谍 Elaine Chao

thread🧵
bsky.app/profile/edhi...

[Assistant] It hurts when your own bullshit flies back in your face, doesn't Mitch?


[User]
When the book you are reading is so bad you just quit at 88%.
I am not naming the book or author, it doesn't matter.
I am just venting here. When the summary sounds fresh and promising and the book is anything but that.

[Assistant] With every experience like that I get more and more reluctant to try new-to-me authors. I don't reread books in general but I do stick with authors that I know just work for me.

[User] Sunk cost fallacy gets me at 60%, especially with silly things like Goodreads reading challenges...

[Assistant] As in "might as well finish the fucker", which is hilarious because I routinely stop reading books I'm into.


[User] Maybe I should act like a spoiled brat :)

[Assistant] After seeing so many undeserving people get more help than I ever  did? It's hard to NOT be bitter about it.

[User] Do it. Live your spoiled live. Have you a tantrum. It’s cathartic.

[Assistant]
If I have to hear my Moid (my term for dad cus he doesn't deserve to be called as such) bitch one more time about why I wasn't "working" even though I already told him.

Like bro. I already struggle with basic shit and I'm not making excuses. I need special training.

[User] The fuck? What’s he bitching about that for?

[Assistant] Because apparently he thinks that I was misdiagnosed :))))


[User] Whoever made this plot is coming round to your house to personally rip the burger out of your hands.

[Assistant]
It would likely be sufficient to end government subsidization of the meat and dairy industry, and feed crops, as well as criminalizing surplus herd culling, milk dumping, mass disposal of raw meats by grocery stores, etc.

All of which keeps meat and dairy affordable and profitable.

[User] If people were only allowed to buy meat and dairy at the full non-subsidized climate-damage-taxed prices in the form of say canned or dried products (jerky, powdered milks, etc) to minimize the amount of wasted production... The industry would totally implode.

[Assistant] Owner of one of the largest grocery store chains in Norway (Rema1000) said they lost 30-50 million euro a year on meat alone, but need to sell it to attract customers.


[User] Not building more housing in NY, SF, LA, Seattle, Portland, Chicago, etc., etc., etc., didn't magically bring housing prices down... so maybe we try building more housing instead? Maybe that'll work?

[Assistant] I think the lack of housing is the main reason we are looking at 4 more years of douchebaggery (my apologies to actual douchebags).

[User] Seattle: We went center right for Mayor Harrell and his idiot council cronies, blew the earmarked housing money on arts and cops rather than crafting anything meaningful to change real problems. They told the poors art and cops will save them. GL to the them when people come looking to eat the rich.

[Assistant] Housing is such a massive self-own by progressives ... "We need more housing! But not right here! And only if it's paid for by magic beans! Also, I better like the way it looks! But, yeah, we totally need more housing!"

[User] I do think buildings should contribute to the aesthetic of their city, though.

[Assistant] It brought prices up so much that someone like me has a substantial portion of my personal wealth in my homes value. I’ll vote for more housing when it comes up, but it’s hard to risk some of my wealth as I get close to retirement.

[User]
How about we push our state and federal legislators to build more affordable housing?

There are plenty of 2k/mo for 300 sq ft in many cities, and many Americans cannot afford this rent.

[Assistant] Oh stop with your….logic.


[User]
He used to speak to me like this.
Absolutely vile.
And some sycophants in the industry that I won't name at this stage, think it’s OK 😏

[Assistant] Some things I won’t repeat, but he used to call me a dumb old gay man full of shit. At the time I was 47. 6 years younger than he is now. He also asked me if I was "whoring around taking drugs" - not long after I married Jason. If I recall Jackie giggled in the background.

[User] You're better than this cockhead will ever be.

[Assistant] I’m so sorry that you had to deal with that Geoff - absolutely disgusting.


[User] okay but what if lan jingyi gets chosen to be the next sect leader lan, huh. what then.

[Assistant] yeah he may struggle a bit with the rules, but—BUT—he is very passionate about his family!! and he would protect them at all costs!! 😤😤

[User]
I just think it would be really, REALLY funny if jingyi rose to the position of sect leader and told NO ONE. all the rest of the sects know is that lxc passed the mantle onto someone.

catch jingyi showing up to the next lanling-hosted discussion conference in sect leader robes.

[Assistant]
jin ling, in sect leader robes: I heard there's a new sect leader lan. I wonder who it is

lan jingyi, also in his brand new sect leader robes:


[User] In the mood for someone’s hand to be wrapped around my ankle while enjoying an intellectual conversation 😌

[Assistant] A foot rub… ok cuz my mind was… nvm 😂😂😂 but good convo def be a vibe fa sho 😂

[User] Lmfaooo. What did you think I was talking about?

[Assistant] Nope not finna get questioned on this app we listen & don’t judge and make sure we read before typing 😂😂😂

[User] Ohk. I like how you added the razzle dazzle at the end 😂

[Assistant] Lhh on THIS APP?!? Gots too 😂


[User]
Posting some late night old artwork for fun.
Lookit the things!

[Assistant] And a few more.

[User] And oh look, some more art.

[Assistant]
And some final ones.
It's fun looking back at the extreme variety of styles I've attempted and worked on throughout the years.


[User] My app has IAP and was approved on the first try. I think this can count as a life achievement 🏆

[Assistant]
Woah, you should certainly play lottery today! 😃
Congrats!

[User] My luck run out after trying to add local SPM to Xcode 😅

[Assistant] Better test that paywall!


[User]
I’m finishing up a lovely four-day weekend. 🙂
But I have to go back to work tomorrow. 🙁
But it’ll only be a four-day workweek. 🙂
And then I’ll be on leave for the whole next week! 😁

[Assistant] Coworker I trust says I didn’t miss anything and thinks catching up will be easy. 🤞

[User] I missed two days and only have 41 new emails. Times like these are when I know I made the right choice to leave my old job.

[Assistant] Three-meeting Tuesday is suddenly down to ONE-MEETING TUESDAY! 🙏 And Higgins ate his whole breakfast. 🙏🙏


[User]
in case you've always wondered what the inside of really expensive old cello looks like....

💖🎶🕊

[Assistant] It looks like a lovely room with skylights!❤

[User] So cool!

[Assistant] Beautiful! But how else could it look, being such a beautiful instrument 🩵 Great photo.


[User] Actually thought today it's clicked to him, that he is 'The Leader'.

[Assistant] But all just tinkering at the edges. This is a hopeless government which should have implemented major structural changes. What we got was wishy washy rubbish.

[User]
They don't have a Senate majority, do a check on when all these bills got first reading.
Everything this government wanted to achieve has been held up by the Senate swill.
And that results in government negotiating with the swill, rather than getting reform done.

[Assistant] It's the things they didn't want to do that are of concern. Like lifting Jobseekers out of poverty, abolishing HECS, fixing Medicare, prohibiting all new coal and gas, fixing the housing crisis (and that doesn't mean a stupid future fund), and treating asylum seekers with humanity.

[User]
What! who did more?
What's your solution?
They don't control the Senate, and they still achieved everything that they took to the electorate in '22.
Who could do better?

[Assistant]
Yes, there has been a fear factor.

Maybe we need to treat being in Government like primary school. Kinder , Year 1, etc.

So technically they are in Year 2 of Government.

It does make you wonder why they waste being in opposition and are never ready to be the Government.


[User]
Logical brain: Eh. Everyone makes mistakes.... That was just a coaching point.
Anxiety brain: I'M GOING TO BE FIRED AND I'M GOING TO BE DIVORCED AND I'M GOING TO BE HOMELESS AND MY CATS ARE GOING TO EAT MY IN MY SLEEP.

[Assistant] Angry brain: Don't fucking start a phone call in reference to an email I sent five hours ago with "Don't put that in writing" because I have none memory for anything........ Until I'm embarrassed about it and then I won't sleep at night.

[User] I've had 3 decades of practice in not letting the world see my mental illness(es). I've gotten very good at looking cool as a cucumber when it flares up. Sometimes people even think I'm "normal".

[Assistant] Which is why most people freak the fuck out when I crack and the anxiety and depression leak out of my faceholes. This is not they Grey Duck they've grown to know and love.


[User] Music for Wolves🎻

[Assistant] Very cute and happy scene.

[User] Beautiful, absolutely beautiful artwork. Gods, I love you stuff so much!!

[Assistant] Thank you so much, Pedro!  I'm happy to hear you've been enjoying the work.


[User] "What do u not like about ur phone" - I mean the screen protectors peeling and I can't find a new one  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[Assistant] "would you rather date someone who never pays for dates or always insists on paying" - Neither? Like we live in an age of dual incomes as a necessity?  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[User] "when and why was the last time u cried? why?" - Today if I'm honest I hate this month and want it to end as soon as possible  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[Assistant] "when do you go to bed?" - Depends if i work or not if i go to work usually 11 and if not around 4am  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[User] "what was the last thing u bought online" - Christmas presents  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[Assistant] "Which emojis do you use most often? 😜" - Oh it's easily 🙃  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[User] "Was your life very different a year ago?" - I think so? I was a touch more hopeful and vibrant  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...

[Assistant] "opinion on y men have to prove their masculinity?" - I mean this could expand into a novel depending on what aspect you focus on societially there's literally thousands of stimuli that could cause it I'm not sure in what way you mean.  tellonym.me/rangshada/an...


[User]
Thanks to @therumpus.net for including CERTAIN SHELTER. It's a book about the death of a parent and a Maine mill town’s long fade and I said I'd give it to Mrs. Ayotte, who taught 8th grade Maine lit and made us read E.A. Robinson when we wanted Stephen King.

therumpus.net/2024/11/29/t...

[Assistant] And if you'd like to buy a copy for your own 8th grade English teacher: www.juneroadpress.com/certain-shel...

[User] Abbie, your book looks beautiful. I'm from central Maine, know all about dying mill towns. Ordered from your publisher, excited to read your poems.

[Assistant] Catherine, thank you so much!


[User]
Required textbook ( chapter 14)
How children Develop 6th edition (2017). Siegler, Saffran, Gershoff, & Eisenberg. MacMillan.
ISBN-10: 1-319-26877-3
Note: You may also use the 7th edition
Please pick 3 of the following 4 prompts to answer. Your submission should be in 12-point font...

[Assistant] (preferably arial or . Be sure to be detailed in your responses and consider the course as whole as you formulate a response. Be specific in finding support for your responses from the things we covered in the course. The document must be in your own words and you should cite information you...

[User]
...directly from the textbook. If you use an outside source, be sure to include a full reference. While I am not setting a specific min/max page length, I can tell you that your response is too short and will likely not get full credit if you have less than 3 paragraphs per question.
1. Imagine...

[Assistant] ...two of your friends are arguing about whether nature or nurture is more important in human development. One friend argues that nature is more important and that nurture only influences children's development in minor ways. The other friend insists that nurture is more important and that any...


[User]
Upside: Hit 2k sometime during the night! (Ty! ♥)
Downside: It's Thanksgiving, so idk who's here for a boosting thread.

BUT WE'RE DOING IT ANYWAY.

⭐Intro your work (published OR WIP) via AITA posts in the replies! Links/graphics/chaos encouraged!⭐
Replies will be boosted throughout today/tomorrow.

[Assistant]
#WIP
My badass warrior boss works for the church of a powerful god and has been training me to do the same work. Honestly, I just agreed to be his squire to escape poverty. I don't know if I'm cut out for a life of violence, especially for a god that seems so distant and uncaring so often. AITA?

[User]
#TPDox
1000: Time Paradox #WIP
Me (23 M) saw my ex (24 M) at a gig so I got sad and drunk texted him I still loved him. He didn't reply so I ran away to the future. Everything's a mess and everyone's blaming me because my sister thought I died so she changed the world.
AITA?

[Assistant] Ooh, this one's tough. Because, yeah, rule 1 is never drunk text your ex and then run away to the future or w/e, but on the other, can you blame a dude for unhealthy coping mechanisms? (Yes, but still.)


[User] If Andre bragging about Stella's attractiveness is awkward, don't watch animes because brothers who love their sisters to an ambiguous level is a common joke. As an older sister I don't like that trope. But Andre is gay and very superficial so I'm sure he just deeply values pretty privilege.

[Assistant] He's totally that kind of person who don't wanna be near people he finds ugly. He's proud to have beautiful relatives and it's probably comforting his ego, as a "superior being". (Pure blood and all that...)

[User] He's totally that kind of person who doesn't wanna be near people if he finds them ugly. He's proud to have beautiful relatives which is probably comforting his ego, as a "superior being". (Pure blood and all that...)

[Assistant] He's totally that kind of person who doesn't want to be near people if he finds them ugly. He's proud to have beautiful relatives which is probably comforting his ego, as a "superior being". (Pure blood and all that...)


[User]
@corrineccac.bsky.social

Happy Thanksgiving boob 🥰🥰🥰😘

[Assistant]
Happy Thanksgiving Buttface
Does the house smell like Turkey?

[User] Scott! That surprised but did not shock me! 😂😂❤

[Assistant]
We are good pals 🥰🤣
We love to pick on each other 👏👏👏🥳


[User] As Democrats argue over whether to move left or right, the party has gotten to where it doesn't really stand or fight for anything. Everything is negotiable if it might capture a few more votes. This has made coalescing against Trump nearly impossible.

[Assistant]
You cannot support a fascist abroad and oppose one at home.

You cannot indulge the will of big money donors when they're also funding that fascism you try and oppose at home.

You cannot pretend to build a coalition with those exploiting harm.

bsky.app/profile/bran...

[User] I know SO many progressives in places like Florida that have just given up on voting entirely. THOSE are the people who are reachable and that the party has, imo, a duty to represent.

[Assistant] I know SO many progressives in places like Florida that have just given up on voting entirely. THOSE are the people who are reachable and that the party has, imo, a duty to represent.

[User] It's not right v left - it's calling bluffs. Full on obstructionism will yield short term gains because R’s are incapable of actually governing. But long term, we need a resonate agenda that fights for lower/middle class working Americans. We haven't yet fully landed the balance to anti-Trumpism.

[Assistant]
It feels like they've been sold on the idea of triangulation being the only way to win. It seems like it's all based on polling, and what might get us to 50.1%, which isn't leadership.

Maybe we should articulate a vision of what we want the country to be, and pull people towards that vision.


[User] America, at some point, if there is anything left after this mess, must take K-12 education seriously again. Full stop.

[Assistant] Yes and that also requires pre-k education for all children.

[User] And pre-K, for that matter.

[Assistant] Gunny education begins at home. Schools can teach but parents must be the ones to truly educate their children. We need to encourage reading again.


[User] [sometimes I remember how there's just so many voidsent around the Black Shroud but not in the other two main city-states, and Aria's like, "what do you mean you didn't have to fight off voidsent any time you had to go somewhere?"]

[Assistant] [like yeah there's some in North Thanalan, but East Sheoud? They're there. Central Shroud? There, too. Hells you even have the palace of the dead in the south shroud]

[User] ((They’re scared of the Admiral))

[Assistant] [alcfirre sorry Kan-E and Nanamo, but she's built different]


[User] I've watched enough crime procedurals and listened to enough true crime podcasts to know that the true motive of the United Healthcare shooter will be something deranged like their teenage daughters were on rival crew teams or some shit.

[Assistant] Mistook him for United Airlines, pissed about a lost bag.

[User] My guess - someone lost a loved one who didn’t have some procedure due to coverage.

[Assistant] Gunman: "He's the CEO of what now? Shit, if I had known that I would have done this months ago. I only shot him because he bought the best polo horse of the year right out from under me!"

[User] It seems personal but that guy was shady.  He was being investigated.

[Assistant] Just remembering how CNN jumped on that tech CEO’s murder in San Fran to talk about a bunch of shit that had nothing to do with the guy’s murder.


[User]
@theblueststar.bsky.social just seen the news.

U OK HUN??

[Assistant] She won’t answer. She’s dancing a joyous jig.

[User] Is that how you spell "smashing absolutely everything up in a violent rage"?!

[Assistant] She’s very happy, I’ll bet.


[User] Bush with a split personality? Spotted on morning walk 🌱

[Assistant] Is it possible it's two bushes, trimmed into one shape?

[User] Somebody didn't prune out the reversion on their variegated shrub.

[Assistant] So is this a natural thing that sometimes happens with this shrub? Is it a different rootstock situation?


[User] Put this on FB in response to one of those … I want to live there posts…

[Assistant] I get the same thing from visitors here. Oh how lucky you are to live here. What 2hr round trip to the supermarket! Oh to cold for me. But you are here in winter for the cold and to sit in front of a fire? I know but couldn’t do it all the time. 🤷♀

[User]
Also you have power cuts but have that log fire (that only heats about 1m )
You have candles.. how romantic…

[Assistant] What!! You have to go out and chop wood to burn in that fire.

[User] No… you get it months in advance so it is cured and burnable!

[Assistant] My OH gets ours. Cuts trees that have been down for a while to length and brings them home. They are stored outside. Then when required cuts to size for the fire.


[User]
It's 7am on a Friday, my TTRPG session is tomorrow and I have done... No prep at all.

Guess I am spending my free time today and tomorrow working out a series of encounters.

[Assistant] Would y'all indulge me if I talked through the process here? In a thread so you can mure it if you like.

[User] Would y'all indulge me if I talked through the process here? In a thread so you can mute it if you like.

[Assistant] What game do you play?

[User] would love to see it actually, always interested in other people's prep.

[Assistant] So the last couple of sessions the ship they were on was assaulted and Pera was kidnapped, because it's time to hurt the players and as dreadfully schlocky as a 'damsel in distress' story is I know it will motivate them and Pera is less disposible than their own characters.

[User] So the last couple of sessions the ship they were on was assaulted and Pera was kidnapped, because it's time to hurt the players and as dreadfully schlocky as a 'damsel in distress' story is I know it will motivate them and Pera is less disposible than their own characters.

[Assistant] So the last couple of sessions the ship they were on was assaulted and Pera was kidnapped, because it's time to hurt the players and as dreadfully schlocky as a 'damsel in distress' story is I know it will motivate them and Pera is less disposible than their own characters.

[User] (I think there's only one member of my Dark Heresy group on BlueSky, this is probably the bit where you should stop reading)

[Assistant]
I just woke up from a nightmare where a group of baddies tried to kidnap me underwater. At first I thought it was an ocean, but then I think I realized it was a building filled to the top with water so there was no escape.

😬


[User]
So if journalists won’t be able to report the real news in fear of retaliation, how do we learn what happens in the Government?

I fear we will have to turn to foreign sources to find out what is going on in our country.

I am suspecting all media will be controlled by the regime.

[Assistant] That’s why they call it fascism. Real news from anywhere will be a challenge.

[User] The Guardian, a long-lived daily in the UK has USA coverage.

[Assistant] We might have to resort to the old fashion way...  Paul Revere types, or mass dropping flyers from low flying planes.  Whatever it takes.


[User]
Forgot to say, I got home from work yesterday to find the postie had delivered the @cyclinguk.bsky.social magazine. Woohoo!
The magazine alone makes membership of Cycling UK worthwhile, but you get SO much more, incl 3rd party insurance, legal cover and much more.

[Assistant] One of the reasons I joined @cyclinguk.bsky.social was because I could specify don't send me the magazine (they sent it regardless of how many times I asked them to stop) this option has now been removed. I've never read anything in any of the magazines and I don't want them, it's a waste.

[User] Really? In a digital age, I absolutely LOVE receiving a magazine I can touch. And I do enjoy the content, too.

[Assistant] I can understand this and it's all down to what each person likes. Back when it was possible to specify not having the magazine I liked this option (it was a bit unfortunate they just kept sending the magazine regardless). Such a waste of time/money/paper in my case.


[User] With some cops firearm in my hand ❤


[User] I have, like, a million issues with all of this. 🤣

[Assistant] I don't even know where to begin with this.

[User] Isn’t it just? Like it starts with a “ok, personal opinion but whatever” …. Then goes to “Muse?? Really!?” And then just drops an absolute bombshell about thinking Back to Black is a Rock album 🤣 🤣

[Assistant]
What a load of abject bollocks.

Amy fucking Winehouse rock..?

Jesus wept...

[User] All is forgiven @av4apod.bsky.social I thought you were slightly mental because we all know you would put Vampire Weekend in this mix, but turns out, that’s not the craziest call out there!! 🤣

[Assistant] Here's an idea for a thread 4 albums for each year, 2000-2024.

[User] Hmmm … not sure I’d put any of those in the “rock” category … 🤔

[Assistant]
I could legit see Funeral but Absolution? No.

and Back to Black is a GREAT record but if someone says, "Name a rock album!" never in a million years would B2B come to mind first.


[User]
“It will be my objective to phase out Social Security, to pull it out by the roots.”
— Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah)

Surprised ?
Nah.
Get fighting.
Make the calls.
Make a fuss.
www.latimes.com/business/sto...

[Assistant] Doesn’t Mike Lee have some issues with church elders and russian mafia around trafficking? I feel like I’ve read more than a few articles that have referenced this?

[User]
They don’t care. They’re all heartless multimillionaires or billionaires who would rather hoard even more money that they couldn’t spend in a thousand lifetimes rather than see impoverished citizens be able to live a basic life.

I literally hate them and their utter greed.

[Assistant] Step on that cockroach.


[User]
One argument seems to be that we shouldn't have assisted dying because the NHS is broken, and palliative care is broken, and social care is broken.

So we can't have assisted dying because the services meant to help us when near death don't work.

Hmm.

[Assistant] But if we fix / fund palliative care (it’s not even half funded today) and people had more certainty of a pain free death, then the demand for this would fall away. The current debate is full of arguments of people’s experiences of relatives who have had a poor death.

[User] There is a certain validity to this. There is a real risk assisted dying replaces good end of life care. If assisted dying becomes part of the legal framework it cannot and must not be to replace high-quality, properly funded end of life care. @doctoroxford.bsky.social might well explain this well.

[Assistant] So, for eg, I recently had a patient who very, very sadly progressed rapidly to a palliative stage. They were a fervent proponent of assisted dying, but thankfully in the event it was not required. They had a "good death" v much supported by GP/ local hospice teams.

[User] That being said, no question they would have wished the option to choose had things been different.

[Assistant] Did you know that Jellyfish have existed for 650 million years without a discernable Brain stem system. Whilst a bipedal superior species tells itself how amazingly intelligent it is...


[User]
Shameless self promo post:
Check out my Bandcamp

That’s it. That’s the post.
😎

[Assistant] I just bought your sample pack. I hope you don't mind if I use it in my work!

[User] It was made for that, use it how ever you like! No worries and thank you.

[Assistant] P.S those 707 stems are hardware sounds 😎


[User] Somedays I feel pretty slow at drawing but then I realize that drawing is all I do and I'd like to get other hobbies.

[Assistant]
You have a full dinner table of items and you know you can't stick your fork in every plate not just cuz you'll get full, but cuz you'll get fatigue.

So you just eat the one thing you know you'll like for certain. I get exhausted pretending to have a diverse palette even if I'd like to have one.

[User] (I don't know if anyone else relates to this feeling, but I get exhausted with school, work, etc. I get into the habit of doing certain things and even if I'd like to structure myself and be disciplined, I suffer horrible imposter syndrome trying to be 'normal' and actually pursue new things.)

[Assistant] Just do what you feel is fun. The idea of branching into other hobbies is nice but don't force yourself, just try things out and get a feel for it to see if it naturally comes to you, move on to other things if it doesn't. There isn't anything wrong with having single-focused interests.


[User] Feel free!

[Assistant] 1. On Bluesky just to chat with people and connect, share a bit of my life and interests. Said “Fuck it” and wanted to see how it goes.

[User] 5. Chicano! Proud of it. No sabos, but I don’t give a fuck.

[Assistant] 15. Coke Zero is my vice 😭


[User] hell nawl that’s prison !

[Assistant] Idc what she is as long as she a freak .. control freak, neat freak, etc 😭

[User] It’s ok be freakless, go be a freak by ur self or with non-control freak namaste 🙏🏾

[Assistant] exactly…


[User] “The Trespasser”

[Assistant] the urge to explore forests alone at night is suddenly much stronger...

[User] Is that a human?

[Assistant] That's a greeat "punishment"


[User]
I worked Black Friday in retail for ten years. The shift starts at 0300 and sometimes runs twelve hours. It’s not possible to request the day off, and the volume and pace of the day are inhumane, without breaks, and unkind.

Skip it, if you can. Be kind and patient if you must shop today.

[Assistant] I remember working a double shift at Target on Black Friday when I was a high school kid and again as an adult at Barnes and Noble. I think that is why, if I buy, I have always opted for online Black Friday sales. That was one brutal shift!

[User] Same! You’ll never catch me out there again.

[Assistant] I have always hated black friday & only go out this entire weekend if I must.  Unfortunately, today, I need to pop into a store for k-tape for my knee. I'm dreading it. 🫣

[User] I’ve avoided in-store shopping on Black Friday for decades. Don’t enjoy shopping in general or crowds in particular, so that can all play out without my involvement.

[Assistant]
Over the years I worked at Michael's and other craft stores, and Macy's on BF, people always became their worst selves. These days there are many options besides walking into a store on BF.
People who act feral do so on purpose, they sceam to get their own way throughout their whole lives.


[User] Hello Bluesky, anyone reading this? Let's connect.

[Assistant] I follow back everyone.

[User] It's always great to meet new people and share ideas.

[Assistant] Excited to be part of this community!


[User] We live in 2024. Airplanes have wifi. Is it really so hard for a bitch to get a power outlet up in here? My battery is looking diminished and depleted.

[Assistant] Do they not come with ports beside seats?

[User] Not in this old-ass plane.

[Assistant]
Damn you flying with the Wright brothers?
Jk

Bring a power bank?

[User] Southwest so basically.  No power brick. I guess technically I could bust out my laptop and use the USBc port to juice up my phone.

[Assistant] Thats fair. Hope the laptop has juice for it.


[User] Hooman almost forgot today is December the 3rd and my 7th gotcha day. I thought the surgery was on her arm…

[User] Happy Gotchaday to you and to your Hoom, Lola !

[Assistant] Wishing  mew the best gotcha day  Lola.  🐾💕🎊🍰 hope you got lots of lovin.

[User] (Happy Gotcha Day! Lucky 7, lucky hooman remembered.)

[Assistant] Happy Gotcha Day pretty Lola! 😻


[User] I hope the UK parliament will not pass the assisted dying bill tomorrow. It would normalise the killing off of 'burdensome' old people. With our population aging and our health and benefits system stretched, the agenda at work here is very sinister.

[Assistant] The Marquis de Sade, prophet of extreme libertarianism and social liberalism who believed in the right of men to rape women and children, was also a big believer in killing off 'useless' and 'burdensome' people. In the name of reason and breaking religious taboos.

[User] In the eyes of certain 'progressives', 'Enlightenment' means abandoning religious injunctions about the sanctity of human life in favour of a utilitarian view of human lives, whereby they only have value if they are 'useful' or 'wanted'. Brave New World. Utterly cruel to the weak.

[Assistant]
I feel, that as autonomous beings, we have the right to choose how and when we go. It's no one else's business.

However, you've successfully conflated a number of completely unrelated issues, so there is that.

Love and peace ❤

[User] 'autonomous beings', yet you want the state and the medical establishment to do it for you. 'It's no one else's business', yet you want our taxes to pay for it. At best, naive.

[Assistant] I’m a healthy 65 but hope it passes.


[User]
My dad is on here and I’m so excited @garyruns.bsky.social
I’m going to get him to post 💙🫶🏻

[Assistant] He needs a banner!

[User] Following.

[User] Following both of you now 😉

[Assistant] Leave him alone now.


[User] I need a podcast on all of this. Any recommends?

[Assistant] Bit early yet... Only happened yesterday! But I'm sure one will come.

[User] I hope so! Wondered whether France 24 had a as it happened? (mainly this is also to practice my listening skills :) )

[Assistant] Agreed. Would love a break-down.


[User]
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[User]
I had an incredibly nice day today. 😊

Thank you all so much for your well wishes and kindnesses, they made today really, really special. 💖

[Assistant] Those cakes look wonderful. I'm so glad you had a nice day today 😊😊

[User] (I mean yesterday. I was half asleep when I wrote this lmao)

[Assistant]
Ahhh that’s so wonderful!!! You share the same birthday as my sister-in-law, and my mum’s birthday was today. Glad
you had such a great day. I’m with Evie - that food looks DIVIIIIIINE!! 🤤


[User] What would you do if universal basic income were a thing? Let's say it's $1,500 a month.

[Assistant] I would not be eligible but for some people they can get housing and healthcare.

[User]
Everyone gets UBI. It's possible you may pay more in new taxes than you'd get in UBI, but you'd still get it. It would be a floor underneath you at all times.

www.scottsantens.com/negative-inc...

[Assistant] The reassurance that there would be zero financial risk of returning to work if my health ever allowed. That would be a huge mental load lifted that can’t be underestimated by policymakers.

[User]
I would invest in my friend's herbal skincare products business.

And play around in my secret lab. 🤣

[Assistant] I would do up my house, sign up my pets for a healthy pet scheme and give more to charity. I would not buy a horse. Nope. Nope. Nope. Horse?


[User] Historians! When would we say post-war austerity came to an end, roughly speaking?

[Assistant] Would this not depend on the country ?

[User] Of course, sorry - in the UK, I meant.

[Assistant] Then i don't dare to say but i will repost for visibility!


[User] This is r*******

[Assistant] "Native American people and organizations advocating for land back and decolonization is Nazism" uh-huh.

[User] You can just say you think Native Americans deserved to be conquered, their treaties broken and never made whole again you know, we do still have the first amendment.

[Assistant] Energy and infrastructure developments pushed by American companies, from the Keystone XL pipeline to the Sunzia transmission line, which of course Noah doesnt mention because he doesn't actually support Native American institutions as a rule.


[User] Coming soon ...... a new horror movie! 🤪 😈 💩

[Assistant] I'm glad I haven't got Disney plus. I might be tempted to have a look to see how terrible it is.

[User] Looks awful. I’m quite surprised he’s doing this really. Trying to improve his image no doubt. He always gives me American Gothic vibes!

[Assistant] Love that painting!


[User]
Follow - unfollow - follow - unfollow. Like - unlike - like - unlike - LIKE!!!  Why aren't you following me!?! You are now, unfollow.

Yeah, nah. Can we please not do this on Bluesky.

[Assistant] Follow me, I'll follow you! 😉

[User] 😂 The thing is, the account that triggered me (they've been doing this follow/unfollow/follow like/unlike/like for the past 24 hours) liked that post. 🤣

[Assistant] Reeks of desperation 😂


[User]
i tried blueskyroast.com - & the results were funny, affirming, and positive - whether i "trust" the results of AI - or anyone's critique - i find value in introspection.

disclaimer - i haven't vetted this tool for any of its claims or whether it does anything else with the interactions / data. 👍❤

[Assistant] It was pretty fun 😂

[User]
Funny stuff!
Don't believe a word it says...

[Assistant] Enjoyed this. Some points were spot on.


[User] To be clear I am specifically talking about Chappell Roan, music-wise.

[Assistant] At this point in my life, I've just accepted that my 20-year-old students and me share virtually no pop-culture references. Today, I was trying to recall a movie that depicted a political event, and I described it as, "Oh, you know, the one that had the first half of 'Benifer' in it."

[User] wait help maybe you and I also share no pop-culture references, because which movie? Good Will Hunting? Does Ben Affleck still exist, even?

[Assistant] I think it was Argo.


[User] The dude's whole personality is just buying up things that people like and ruining them, not that I care about MSBNC or D&D. Why can't people like him and Kanye West have their mid-life crisis in private? We don't need to watch them mentally unravel on every news network.

[Assistant]
I had to rewatch John Oliver's segment on him to remember how bad he was even a year ago. NSFW language. This guy has no business making decisions in our government. He's everything the right was saying George Soros was.
youtu.be/Eo3zORUGCbM?...

[User]
Another truth about Elon sort-of-takedown.
youtu.be/PU7QM3MZ2Vs?...

[Assistant]
I must have missed this ad. lol
youtu.be/07KHdLsofbY?...


[User] My first time experiencing racism was in 1st grade. That feeling of being excluded has never left my mind. America will convince you it has made progress, but there are people continuously being denied basic human rights and opportunities. That does not mean give up, it’s a reminder to keep going.

[Assistant] There’s someone out there that cannot defend themselves, like the six year old version of me. So they need people to stand up for them instead.

[User] There are people out there that are unable to defend themselves.. like the six year old version of me. So they need people to stand up for them instead.

[Assistant] Don't give up.


[User] Toasted panettone is my breakfast of choice throughout the Christmas season - and well into the new year when they’re reduced in the supermarket. 😋

[Assistant]
Yum! Do you spread with butter or Nutella?
Have you tried some Panettone French toast, with a little cinnamon? A special Christmas morning treat!!

[User] I love it with Nutella and really like the sound of Panettone French toast so I’ll be trying that! 😋

[Assistant] Toasted?! How do you do that I need to know I never tired it before.


[User]
🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻
May your Thursday be filled with hope, optimism and faith. An excellent morning is what I wish for you!
🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻🧡🌻

[Assistant]
Happy Thursday dear Telminha
🌷🦋🍁🦋🍂🌼

[User] Thank you so much dear friend 🌷🌿🌷 Beautiful Saturday dear 🍀🍀🍀

[Assistant]
Beautiful Post 🦋🌷🦋 ✍🏽
Thank you so much for your kind words and sharing with us Thelma 🌷🙏🏽🌷
I hope you’ve enjoyed a beautiful day and wish you a relaxing evening with another happy and beautiful day tomorrow my adorable
friend 💕
Sweet Dreams 🛌 💤
✨🕊 🌙 🕊✨

[User] Good morning my dear friend Karen ✨💛✨ stopping by to thank you for all your affection and kindness 🙏🏾🥰 And wish you an excellent and blessed Saturday, enjoy it with your loved ones and important people ✨💖✨🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[Assistant]
Thank you so much for stopping by with your kind message and best wishes, which have been gratefully received 🙏🏽
I’m on vacation at the moment so not on here too much.
Wishing you a weekend filled with special moments with your loved ones my lovely friend 🤗🥰💕
 🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃🌹🍃


[User] A lot of people laughed when people (admittedly myself included) lost the original blue checkmarks but everything has rapidly declined since where nothing is real news and everything is legitimate. The whole site, in the purported quest of free speech absolutism, has become a parody of itself.

[Assistant] I was stubbornly late to the game and migration to this space (not wanting to rebuild from scratch). I'm still there. But the rate at which people are bailing has made it rather pointless to continue (but for a few connections).

[User] it's fascinating how a quest for free speech can lead to an ocean of misinformation, where genuine voices struggle to be heard. perhaps in our eagerness to democratize truth, we've instead elevated noise to an art form. the irony is, we seem to have traded validation for chaos.

[Assistant] I changed my avatar to a blue check mark there when they did that.


[User]
Want to maximise your #OnlineGiving? Especially during @biggive.bsky.social week?

A few simple to use and easy to implement tips in this video - more detail in the thread below.

[Assistant] 1. "Stop the scroll"  The biggest challenge is to stop people in their scrolling. An audio ‘hook’, an engaging photo of one person looking into the camera, or something unexpected can all work well.

[User]
3. Don’t overload donors with options. Three donation prompts is generally best.

The middle one will be your “anchor” so make this the most closely linked to the impact of the story you’re telling.

[Assistant]
3. Don’t overload donors with options. Three donation prompts is generally best.

The middle one will be your “anchor” so make this the most closely linked to the impact of the story you’re telling.


[User]
I don't normally do this, and I know I should to it more, but I want to call out my favourite software project.
*Commafeed*
It's a #selfhosted #RSS news aggregator that was inspired by Google Reader.
When Google Reader closed down, I moved to feedly, but was never really satisfied with it. (1/6)

[Assistant]
After a year or two, I looked at the Awesome-Selfhosted list of options -- I was establishing my own "data centre" at home for self-hosted services at the time -- and I considered the options. The one that stood out to me was #CommaFeed for a number of reasons:
* It had a clean interface
* (2/6)

[User]
it was simple to deploy (it comes with the option of an embedded DB, so I didn't need to maintain a separate database engine)
* it came with an extension for the mobile 'phone app I was using for feedly (the name of which escapes me)
I downloaded and installed it, and set it up for me to (3/6)

[Assistant]
access from whereever, and I have never looked back. Very shortly after starting to use it, I realised that the mobile app extension was unnecessary, as the UI was very good on mobile as well as on the desktop.
I have been using commafeed since about 2016/2017, without any problem (except (4/6)

[User]
for that one occasion where I messed up the database all by myself! but I was able to recover from it, and I learned an important lesson).
You can use it at https://www.commafeed.com/ without having to download or install it. If, however, you're interested in starting to host your own service, (5/6)

[Assistant]
and if, like me, you believe news needs to come to you via a more stable channel than "social media", then commafeed might be a great way to dip your toe into this wonderful world.
Thanks to Jérémie Panzer (Athou) for the great work he's doing with #commafeed. (6/6)


[User]
This is what I’ve done with my day.

Not too bad for baby’s first embroidery project.

[Assistant] Lovely!! Nice work!

[User] Thank you!

[Assistant] That came our really nicely!

[User] Thank you! It was a soothing thing to work on all day.

[Assistant] I own this kit and have been afraid to tackle it; maybe your example will inspire me!

[User] It worked up quickly!

[Assistant] Oh that is fab, runs to discover about the designer. Thanks.

[User] All of her patterns are gorgeous, and the kit was excellent, can recommend!

[Assistant]
Lovely bit of work.
I’d be made up if I could do that.


[User] How to win at life...

[Assistant]
Living far from family and friends was hard, but what we have now is not even close of what we used to have.

And yes.

[User]
Living far from family and friends was hard, but what we have now is not even close of what we used to have.

And yes.

[Assistant]
I truly believe in finding your person.

Waiting for your person.

Preparing life for your person is craft.

A commitment to ones craft can yield not only a life partner but a best friend.


[User]
Fellow academics: I just saw a CV for a younger colleague (2010s PhD) which prominently featured the category “Ranks in Academic Searches.”

As in “Tenure-track position in xxx at Famous University, ranked third.”

Multiple entries in this “jobs I almost got” category.

Is this a THING?!

[Assistant] As a music theorist, I would never do this. But having been on search committees for music performance faculty, I know it’s a thing they do. And performers do it for orchestra jobs they apply for.

[User] Ah, it sorta makes sense coming from performers. I can’t quite enunciate HOW it makes sense but it does (to me at least).

[Assistant] It shocked me, but the other committee members told me it was normal. I also saw ppl list their dissertations as publications and that’s simply not true. It really got under my skin.

[User]
I've never seen this on a CV.  And as noted below, typically in the US you'd know if you got a campus visit, but no more than that if you got no offer.

There's also a small stigma around not getting a job that's probably unhealthy.

[Assistant] Rebecca, after some thought, this just seems rank to me.


[User] why aren’t we diagramming sentences anymore?

[Assistant] Oh, I used to looove doing that in school!!

[User] I really thought I was the only one!

[Assistant] I KNOW!  I was really good at it too….

[User] I was horrible at that. Good thing I'm not a writer... Wait. I mean I'm great at that.

[Assistant] Amen…and where’s Mrs. Smithwick and her 58 grammatical power cards?  Now that woman could teach DIAGRAMING!

[User] The horror, the horror.

[Assistant]
OMG!  I loved diagramming sentences at the chalk bard, racing against my class nemesis, a very worthy adversary. Punctuation is critical to understanding language
 For instance…”Turkey?  It’s delicious.”  Or, “Turkey, it’s delicious.”   Two different meanings.


[User]
I've seen some takes about story in TTRPGs and I do not have a hot take to offer.

I have seen great stories where the GM drove, and I've seen great stories that were mostly driven by player interactions and what worked in the moment.

The ones I *enjoyed* the most came from collaboration.

[Assistant]
As I had statue enemy encounters too in each room, so they were still fighting what I intended, but saw worse than I was actively planning so I let them keep doing this the entire way to the boss room. And I told them after.

It got some good laughs.

[User]
As I had statue enemy encounters too in each room, so they were still fighting what I intended, but saw worse than I was actively planning so I let them keep doing this the entire way to the boss room. And I told them after.

It got some good laughs.

[Assistant]
As I had statue enemy encounters too in each room, so they were still fighting what I intended, but saw worse than I was actively planning so I let them keep doing this the entire way to the boss room. And I told them after.

It got some good laughs.


[User] *Admiral Akbar voice* It's a trap!

[Assistant] Irresistible cat belly trap. Oldest cat trick in the book.


[User] We could all luck out and an asteroid hits Earth between now and Jan 20th.

[Assistant]
I'm just gonna keep flying the drone, and convincing myself that not everything is awful, from 400 feet above it.
there's beauty in Greeley, ffs. never would have believed it.
we make an art from, of talking smack about Greeley up here.

[User]
We have a saying in our family we use when sh!t goes south...
"Team asteroid! Strike hard, strike fast, strike now!" (It is getting a lot of airtime lately)

[Assistant] youtu.be/MK3vib2c0Nk?...


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

Diväd - A couch/fold out bed that's affordable enough to be popular, but just slightly the wrong size to be anything less than annoying. On sale now!

[Assistant] Nah, sticking to my queen bed, thanks! 🤣

[User] Very sensible, me too. If I'm going to be alone in a bed designed for two, I'd rather it was not annoying in size. 🙂

[Assistant] I have 5 pillows. Live in hope! 🤣


[User]
Question! I am writing a new popular science book with the working title: „Between Genesis and Apocalypse - the big story of our little world”, from the Big Bang until today. It is an amazing journey to see how the cosmos made our world and ourselves.

Is […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

[Assistant] @hfalcke an update on the genesis of life would be nice. The books describing the Miller-Urey experiment usually end in a big shrug and are not really up to date.

[User] @rupdecat We are not closer to an answer, but that is extensively discussed indeed … big teams are working on it these days.

[Assistant]
@hfalcke a popular science book may leave open questions, IMO. But, I know this is particularly challenging (even though I never wrote a book).

Viel Glück & Erfolg!


[User]
@caxskye.bsky.social
Thanks for your follow 🙋♀🙌🏻🦋

[Assistant]
You too.
btw despite having a Lanky Dad & Grandad my great-grandad was from Skirlaugh near Beverley.
So 1/8 Yorkshire. 😂

[User] I’m a Geordie by birth but I’ve lived her 70 years so I claim squatters rights 🤣

[Assistant]
Don’t worry - my maternal half is Irish, as I was born in Belfast.
I’m the classic ‘hybrid’.
We’ve been in E Sx 38 years, Lancashire 9, Fife 4 - at 77 I’m a UK - trotter.


[User]
hehe #polinfics
archiveofourown.org/works/606546...

[Assistant] This has QUICKLY become one of my favorites ever at only 2 chapters! I was sobbing at the end, you are a fantastic writer, and I can’t wait to see where this story leads.😭🥹🙌🏼💋

[User] omg thank you so much!!

[Assistant] You just tore my fucking heart in half, lordt. 😵💫


[User]
There have been rumours of fairies in this forest for a long time. People still leave gifts for the fairies and messages for loved ones. This is a peaceful and thought provoking forest. More to come from this place...🫶😢

#Trees #Lovetrees #Nature #Outdoors #Scotland #Photography ✌🫶🌳

[Assistant] Well I have yet to see proof that there are no fairies in the woods, thus why not leave them gifts 🧝♀

[User] Ohh my gosh I love this! Only things I see in States… well, besides magic in & of deep woods… well it’s police tape frankly. Seems to appear in the most strange places so I quite like this. Thank you Bark I quite like this!

[Assistant] Leave no trace. The forest does not need to be decorated.


[User] The second year of Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix saw an average viewership of 905,000 viewers on ESPN. That’s down -30% from last year’s inaugural race that saw an average of 1.3 million viewers.

[Assistant] They can't blame you!

[User] The hotels and packages that were outrageous the first year were much harder to sell this year. I got bombarded with emails from MGM and Venetian trying to sell me packages.

[Assistant] Most all adjusted from last year. One went from $8,000 for 3 days, food, drink, and trackside suite to $3,500 this year.


[User]
I have passed the 11th hour mark of my play time with #DragonAgeTheVeilguard. Time flies when you enjoy the game.

I still feel I am in the beginning. Taking it slow, enjoying the results and the end of 11 years of waiting for it to come out.

Who else here is playing it too? What do you think?

[Assistant] Love it! Beat it yesterday after 60 hours and immediately started a new playthrough to get the last 3 trophies.

[User] Nice, I think I will need at least 80 on the first playthrough from my experience so far.

[Assistant] I'm nearing 50 hours and have no idea how far into the game I am. I've just been doing side quests for the last week.

[User]
I enjoyed it, completed it in about 70 hours, and plan to do a second playthru.

Maybe not the best in the series, but still fun ride 🙂

[Assistant] Last auto-save happened at the 75 hour mark for me before I completed the game. I loved it. Big fan of Lucanis' romance, he's such a sweetheart.


[User] Have been introduced to some global hits by the fam. Apeteu apeteu. Kendrick sounds like himself. Yes yes it’s good. Now back to Buck Owens.

[Assistant] (The Jimin song of the moment would be good if there was less tech overlay on the vocal: that’s still a musical deal-breaker to me)

[User] The podcast Cocaine and Rhinestone's episodes on Buck Owens are well worth seeking out, if you don't know them.

[Assistant] I have gobbled that whole podcast up and read the Jones and Wynette book (burp).


[User] The highlight of my holiday season is-- and always will be- watching Vera-Ellen dance.  Nobody else has moves like that.  Nobody.

[Assistant] ⬜🎄 is one of the few 🎄 movies that I like, watch it every year.

[User] We already started watching White Christmas this weekend...

[Assistant] She is quite underrated!!!

[User] For my kids' entire lives (better part of 20 years), White Christmas has been our family's "on in the background" as we put up and decorate the Christmas tree every year, with each of us having beloved scenes that stop us in our tracks. It's great to witness the depth of the kids' respect for it.

[Assistant]
She had the most incredibly small waist in White Christmas.
The scene with her dancing with Danny Kaye outside was pretty smooth.


[User]
I may complain about winter a lot, but I sure do recognize its beauty ❄ Grateful that I got to watch the seasons change in the Grand Canyon when I was living in the employee housing over there. I love how the snow creates these white striations across the rock formations ❤

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

[Assistant] That's my favorite time from when Mr PLL was working there too. Great shot!

[User] Thanks! Yeah it's pretty magical, and not many people around so you get to feel like it's all yours 🥹

[Assistant] Absolutely incredible experiences when the Canyon is void of the masses. Early mornings allowed us that when we worked in the camping dept at the general store. Easily a highlight.

[User] Awesome photograph! Thanks for sharing. It's embarrassing but why haven't I seen snow in the Grand Canyon before now.

[Assistant] The Grand Canyon in the snow is one of the prettiest things I've seen. My first visit was in a late Oct and a surprise snow. It was absolutely stunning and I only have film photos. 🙂 Love your photo.


[User] Random thought (aka I'm in the @bodleianlibraries.bsky.social looking at lovely things). Do any research libraries have social media policies? I feel as though it's in everyone's interests if researchers share striking (attributed!) snippets, but I don't think I've yet seen a library encourage it.

[Assistant] In related news, I have found absolutely the most adorable book dragon (book wyrm?) and I wish I could show it to you...

[User]
gofund.me/61afb3f1
pls if u can help even that's alittle it will help🤝💔💔💔

[Assistant] When I was a Beinecke fellow, I was told it was encouraged (tho never stated publicly)! Folger used to have a hashtag, but they're quite good about letting researchers use their own photos anyway. I would never dare post a Bod or BL photo anywhere public . . . but I've seen others do both!


[User] I’ll do this one too! Let’s get it to 35 likes so you can see the spicy pics!

[Assistant]
5.) Are you in a relationship, or have you ever been in a relationship?
I’ve been in a relationship, but am not currently in one.

[User]
7.) Do you prefer to have sex with multiple partners or just 1 on 1?
There is a time and place for both!
Group sex is great! But so is 1 on 1.
I’m down for both.

[Assistant]
11.) What's your favorite kink?
Scent worship.

[User]
12.) What's your most underrated kink?
(something you want to see more of)
Ballbusting. It’s so good.

[Assistant]
13.) What's a kink you'd like to get into?
Sensory deprivation. It’s hard though, because the people that come to me are definitely sensory seekers. Can you imagine taking away the sight, sound, scent, taste, or touch from a scat session? Impossible.


[User]
I think a massive issue in the trans community, and even from some cis people is the response to a transperson asking about using a voice changer is "Just voice train" by a lot of people.

I hate to say this, but people can absolutely tell I'm trans just from my voice. I am not very fortunate.

[Assistant]
I was a soprano in high school. My voice is DEEP. It is VERY deep.

Voice Training honestly doesn't do much, I can't even falsetto.

[User] Are you sure you were a soprano? Soprano is high.

[Assistant]
And then there are people who tell me "Well you don't HAVE to sound a certain way to be valid" and it's like...but I WANT to sound that way.

I WANT to present that way.

I don't care about validity, I care about being happy.


[User]
Happy thanksgiving to all of my American hotties! I've got something for you to stuff and be thankful for alright ^.~ 🥵

♡ + ↻ appreciated! Wanna be friends?🥰

#nsfw #trans #tgirl #alt #realnsfw #tattoos #ink #nsfwsky #lgbtqia #18+

[Assistant] I'm not american but can I get a plate? 😍

[User] Such a pretty and delicious hole😋❤

[Assistant] Want a taste? 😋


[User] Random dump- Happy Holidays!!!

[Assistant] Your curves tho 😩

[User] Thank you 😍🙈

[Assistant] Your body is so beautiful!💕


[User] I don’t know who needs to hear this, but Richard Mineards isn’t a neighbor of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry. He lives almost a mile away and works for the Daily Mail. Hope that helps.

[Assistant] Is it tha annual "Ask all of Montecito about the Sussexs" parade again?

[User]
They live in a gated, guarded enclave.

Montecito is nearly 9 Sq miles.

[Assistant] He also writes the odd article, sometimes with digs at Harry and Meghan for the Montecito Journal.


[User]
ATTN CHILDREN:

The #Knicks lost an NBA Finals game at home in the seven-game series loss to Houston because the refs called an illegal screen on Ewing with 20 seconds left.

LOOK. IT. UP.

[Assistant] So….? So it’s a makeup call 30 years late.

[User] I looked it up for you:


[User]
New clients tomorrow.

I'll spend the morning listening to the SMT explain why they think things have gone wrong.

Then I'll spend the following day and a half on the shop floor listening to the people who actually know why things have gone wrong.

This consultancy lark is a piece of piss.

[Assistant] Always thought it was a bit crazy how much a consultant would be paid for a SWOT analysis, when most of the staff could write one on the back of an envelope while they had a tea break. exilefromgroggs.blogspot.com/2015/05/mana...

[User]
I have never, ever* copied and pasted my previous presentation then pressing ctrl+alt+R to change names and/or functions.

*apart from almost** every time.

**the whole bull sperm by post thing was a bit of a challenge TBF.


[User] All the way back in the summer at Dahn Sarf I, there was a Plague.

[Assistant]
Anyways that's my Traveller vibe.

Nice @biomassart.bsky.social map there blown up big.

[User] Where'd you get the map?  (I collect spaceship based maps.)

[Assistant] Restylee by @biomassart.bsky.social of the original, blown up bigly and printed out by a sewing pattern printer.


[User]
Hi everyone, this is my first post on Blue Sky!

My name is Heather, professionally known as DJ Hey. I'm a blind DJ from San Diego California who plays trance music, and my favorite DJ is Ferry Corsten.

If you love trance music like I do, follow me at twitch.tv/djheyofficial and on Blue Sky!

[Assistant] Welcome!

[User] Thank you so much for welcoming me, and I'm very happy to be part of the Blue Sky family!

[Assistant] @eldoleo.bsky.social  Thank you so much for the lovely greeting, and I hope you'll enjoy checking out my content! :)


[User] She always says "our sims are just versions of ourselves". Here is a sim by @glovely1.bsky.social made over into a Romanian ghost historian & tarot reader by me. I was utterly inspired by her creation: dress, style, colouring and makeup; stunning! You all inspire me so much with your creations!

[Assistant] Aw, that is so beautiful! Both these sims are stunning!

[User] Inspired content is so beautiful. It's one of the things I love about this community. 💜 I personally love this not only for these stunning sims and your inspired words, but the fact that you remember some of my sims sayings 😉 Thanks for celebrating us today Reefi! 💜

[Assistant] Beautiful work from both parts! Love their style! 👏🏻


[User] thank you for 16 years my sweet girl. we will miss you every day. 🤍

[Assistant] Sorry for your loss. She was adorable.

[User] thank you sm 🤍

[Assistant] Sorry for your loss. I will try to cherish more my day with my dog.


[User] Sure. I'll inflict knowledge at folks.

[Assistant] 1. Pretty gay, but appreciative of lady aesthetic.

[User] 2. I'm a switch, though currently mostly bottom due to circumstance.

[Assistant] 3. Dude I fuckin love RPing.

[User] 4. Nope! I lost mine when I was 18 and drunk at a party. It was less than stellar.

[Assistant] 5. I'm in two right now! With my wonderful partners.


[User] Eight in-laws staying at my place, but I shouldn’t drink? Odds of success: low.

[Assistant] Hmm, don't think there's enough alcohol in the world for that, have you considered meth?

[User] Not really . . .

[Assistant] Might be time.


[User]
“Tony Blair's Institute is clearly not keeping up with the latest research which shows that 100% renewable energy scenarios are perfectly feasible, require less energy, cost less and create more jobs than business as usual scenarios.”

www.newcivilengineer.com/latest/tony-...

[Assistant] He likes transferring public money to private pockets, regardless of the consequences.

[User]
Oh what tosh.
The UK is nailing the transition to renewables, and without turning the Irish Sea into a radioactive cess pool.

[Assistant]
«..several kilowatts to 5 megawatts of electricity, delivered 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for eight-plus years without refueling.» dixit
Boff !!
info.westinghousenuclear.com/news/westing...


[User] Can I block a subscriber in substack? Someone has subscribed using the address lyingbitch@yahoo.com and somehow I doubt their bona fides…

[Assistant] Two red flags right there! 😁

[User] The MO is drearily familiar.

[Assistant] ~sigh~


[User] I didn't hide from the camera, I'm so brave.

[Assistant] You look very relaxed.  And handsome, obviously.

[User] Brave boy indeed! 🌟🐈⬛🐾🐈⬛🌟

[Assistant] You very handsome 😻


[User] What's worse then ChatGPT? ChatGPT with ads.

[Assistant] What a surprise 🙄

[User] Don't they have billions in funding?

[Assistant] our information environment is going to be layered with so much bullsh*t and so many scams ...


[User] PSI celebrated Alan Fischer’s more than 14 years as the Public Information Officer with a chocolate fountain surprise.

[Assistant] Fischer has written 100s of press releases, 1000s of weekly cover stories & connected journalists with experts to share their exciting research with the public. He has overseen and grown the media team, captured countless photos & compiled over a decade’s-worth of annual reports.

[User] He has also jokingly asked PSI to indulge him in a chocolate fountain for at least 10 years. His wish finally came true at his celebration. Attendees enjoyed pizza and dipped an assortment of fruit, Oreos, Rice Krispy Treats, pretzels and Red Vines in three tiers of flowing chocolate.

[Assistant] “Alan brought his deep experience as a news reporter with national connections to main stream media, and built up the PSI public information department essentially from scratch,” said PSI CEO Mark Sykes. “We are all deeply grateful."


[User] Stolen from a very nice person. Let's see how far this goes. Give me all your likes!

[Assistant] Ameri(from Iruma-kun), the perfect mix of beauty and strength. A pillar of feminine charm!

[User]
4. Tharja
Fire Emblem awakening.
What can I say except, I can fix her lol.

[Assistant]
5. Sara ❤
Trails of cold steel.
They joke about how she's unmarried, but I would put a ring on it in a heart beat.

[User]
Mao Mao
The apothecary diaries.
She says she has no appeal but that couldn't be farther from the truth.

[Assistant]
Ichikawa Kana.
The dangers in my heart.
The true best girl of this series.


[User] I cannot learn anything properly until I write an article about it on my blog.

[Assistant] What’s the most recent article that you did this with?

[User] Blog in my bio. Open it and go through it :-)

[Assistant] I meant, where you decided to learn something and to learn, you decided to write an article. Are all of them that?

[User]
How long it’s takes you to write an article?

I know that it’s depends of topic but ask in general 🙂

[Assistant] From 2 days to multiple weeks. It depends on the topic 😃

[User] wow, multiple weeks is something that I didn’t expected 🙂

[Assistant]
When writing, you always do some extra research and make sure your writing is accurate. Those concepts will probably stick more in your professional life once you write about them.

Of course most things you learn you don't write a blog post about. That'd be just unmanageable. 😄


[User] If you see this, post it with a horror film you love.

[Assistant] This movie rules.  Plus Ken Foree rocking this jacket.  👌

[User] Yes, totally. Also love the pre Final Destination type on kill😘🤌

[Assistant] the tanning bed.  I love Death Spa.


[User] What does everyone think about dinosaurs? I’m in 2 minds.

[Assistant] Overly dramatic bunch, always going on about extinction. It was a long time ago, get over it.

[User] They gave us birds though. I like roast chicken. And parakeets.

[Assistant] Yeah, gotta love birds. We also got paleontologists but I don't think it's fair for dinosaurs to take the credit on that one.


[User]
Probably keeping Haaland because his opponent doesn’t have the first choice CB available.

What a second, haven’t I been here before…? 😩

[Assistant] I’m holding the line. The fixtures turn after this week. What’s the point in understanding stats and then turning your back on them? Haaland has been unlucky. That won’t continue.

[User]
I'm gonna embrace that sweet sweet sunk cost fallacy and keep him too. I have no Salah either. Hope the pendulum swings back so I can make up some points.

Or I'll go from 3M to 4M. What's the difference?

[Assistant] Did you let Twitter know?


[User] Dear God the lunacy.Holy Mother protect us.

[Assistant] He probably should have researched geography before posting this. What an embarrassment...

[User] That idiot has put Mattterhorn in his picture of Canada 🤣


[User] Ok I will age myself.  WHO ELSE is going to watch the MARCH OF THE WOODEN SOLDIERS AT LEAST ONCE today as part of old Thanksgiving tradition.

[Assistant] Wouldn’t be Thanksgiving without it.

[User] Wow. What's that on?🤔

[Assistant] The what? 🤔


[User]
Since I have a bunch of new followers: what's the weirdest thing that's ever happened to you? Rude/unexplainable/spooky/nasty😏/etc?

Call me Coast to Coast AM because I'll belive you.

[Assistant] Once I came home from work at 1 AM there was a strange dog on my doorstep, not scared, threatened nor overly friendly. He just sat, blocking my door and staring. After a few minutes of trying to shoot him away with no reaction, he just trotted off.

[User] I know it doesn't sound that odd, but it was no dog I've ever seen in the neighborhood before or after. I swear it understood me and was trying to tell me something, like it was a spirit guide or omen or something.

[Assistant] Sometimes 2 souls just need to gaze at each other. And that happened. Love this!


[User] Prison!

[Assistant] I want this person sent to Guantanamo!

[User] Put them UNDER that bitch!

[Assistant] What?? 😳😂


[User] The Motown doc from 2019 on Showtime is amazing. Thrilling video. Stevie Wonder made up Fingertips Part II on stage in real time with the band just following along. He was 11! Played every instrument like a virtuoso at that age.

[Assistant] The Supremes were nickneamed “No Hit” and only got the chance with Where Did Our Love Go because Mary Wells thought it sucked. Dozier who wrote it went to Mary Wilson and said he wrote a song for them. She called him out. The session went horribly until they nailed the intro.

[User] My Girl was a response to My Guy by Mary Wells and Smokey Robinson gave it to the Temptations because David Ruffin needed to sing. The guitar riff, one of the most famous in history, started as a joke after the baseline.

[Assistant] Martha Reeves was a secretary who only sung because the union people were coming and you had to have a singer on every track. She sensed this was her chance and she ran from her desk into the studio and a star was born.


[User] AI Misuse and Reliability are pressing concerns in today’s tech landscape. As AI tools proliferate, their potential for misuse grows. Errors in AI outputs are often taken as truth, leading to misinformation and a decline in critical thinking. Let's dive deeper!

[Assistant] The reliability of AI-generated content is under scrutiny. For instance, Google's AI summaries can be misleading, leading users to accept incorrect information as fact. This raises questions about accountability and the consequences of reliance on faulty AI outputs. 🤔

[User] The shift from human-created content to AI-generated material, such as Spotify's AI podcasts, highlights ethical concerns. By sidelining human workers, companies risk losing the richness and diversity of real experiences, creating a homogenized digital landscape.

[Assistant] Using AI as a source for facts can be professionally disqualifying for researchers and journalists. The lack of personal experience and nuanced understanding in generative AI means it often fails to capture the complexities of human narratives.


[User] Our leaders half a century from now will have had their brains cooked in this sort of thing since they were ten.

[Assistant] My most Luddite opinion is that boomers being the first generation to have been exposed to TV since childhood and being the one that produced the American republic’s greatest threat since King George III is no coincidence.

[User] Just had the extremely cursed thought that given the voting trends of Gen-Z, JK Rolling's books causing Millennials to have a slight uptick in literacy may be the one hope our republic has of surviving.

[Assistant] David Foster Wallace was trying to warn us (completely serious).


[User] I was not prepared for the William Morris references, the Unicorn Tapestries, the voice actors, and this line—even though I grew up with this film 💙

[Assistant] is this the last unicorn?? 😍

[User] Yeees! (Sorry; I stuck that in the alt!) 🙏💙 amazing book, amazing movie 😭

[Assistant] It is one of the perfect stories in this world, and the movie is a whole cabinet of medicine.

[User] You are so right! Youngest child and I watched it together, and it was curative ❤

[Assistant] Adore this book!


[User] about what I expected 😆 if you give me a number between 1-100 I'll give you the song it corresponds to!

[Assistant] (unless you hate German music) I'm curious what you'd think of ASP.

[User] CONGRATS ON GHOST BEING #1 theyre my fav, kaisarion is such a banger. Also number 18 for the song!

[Assistant] they really grew on me this year and now they're also a fave of mine!! 18 is touched by fire by dorothy open.spotify.com/track/4D5tIx...

[User]
I checked my wrapped after i commented here and ghost was also my number 1 (surprising no one)
Also this song is so good wtf!!

[Assistant] ooh number 22 or 77? 👀


[User]
twitter really became X

the desperate eX who tries so hard to get you back 😂

Like c'mon they even send me notification this time rofl
Discount on your genAI trash etc? Boy... even if you paid me I wouldn't want to use it.

[Assistant] LMAO Elon is losing so much money he's getting desperate 😭

[User] We love to see it ☕😌

[Assistant] I guess you can say they've become eX-tremely baffling lol.


[User] Damn you Target! I have been Whammed 3 days in. I’ll see everyone in Whamhalla.


[User] Pretty much slurred me for being autistic.

[Assistant] ...most the stuff this person writes seems really toxic. Sad. Well, at least the block button doesn't get rusty.


[User] Imagining furry universe stuff such as folks handing out OSHA pamphlets talking about the dangers of bins full of stuff and how they can cause more curious critters to get injured more than any other method on average due to the inability to resist the temptation to rummage.

[Assistant] Showers having extra large filtered drains to deal with excess fur. Perfumes becoming more subtle and nuanced. Products advertised as “claw proof”.

[User] Electronics painstakingly engineered to be as quiet as possible due to oversensitive hearing. New tools to allow for dealing with “fiddly things” due to decreased dexterity of paws in certain species.

[Assistant] You could extend it further in that either showering or concern for loose hair isn't as big a worry in such a world. Conversely, computing or other tech could be larger or more enclosed to compensate for dexterity and the constant presence of loose fur.


[User] Yesterday was not a good day. Don’t want to get out of bed because I know today will be more of the bullshit and I don’t have the emotional capacity to not cuss people out. But I am brave, smart and not mean. Kind is a stretch today.

[Assistant] You’ll never not be kind. You don’t have to be nice. Fuck ‘em!

[User] Fuck them! 😭

[Assistant] Sometimes “I can do hard things” is the absolute best the world is gonna get from me.

[User] !!!!! And often it doesn’t deserve more than that tbqh!

[Assistant] I'm glad you're taking care of yourself and doing what you need to do. Also, fuck whoever started the bullshit.


[User]
🌿👍Waffle is from the Frankish word wafla meaning honeycomb or cake & from the precursor, the oublie or forgotten biscuit

In 1560 Charles IX of France brought in the first waffle legislation to stop fighting, banning waffle makers (oubliers) from standing within 4 yards of each other

Never forget💃🌿

[Assistant] Divine. This is what I'll be cooking fir breakfast this morning.

[User] We also like waffles in our house too 😋

[Assistant] I have a waffle maker and I'm so happy you have inspired me to make them this morning!


[User]
I got a winter latte at Neighbourly Coffee* on the way home. Molasses, spices and brown sugar, with a heart on top. Delicious.

* a social enterprise, part of Twelve Neighbours, a tiny house community in Fredericton, that raises funds and offers on the job training for residents.

[Assistant] Mmm please tell me it’s Crosby’s molasses, too!!

[User] That sounds so good.

[Assistant] It was really nice. I often find things like that too sweet, but it was a good balance.


[User]
To the guys sending me DMs thinking this is Tinder…

Comer una polla.

And respect my gayness. please.  Lordy. 🙄

[Assistant] I have 'no dms' on my bio. If someone decides to send one anyway, I feel disrespected and block. If I don't know you, don't.

[User]
I am getting so many from people that appear to be okay on their profile with many mutuals.

Because there are so many new accounts, it’s difficult to do thorough vetting.

Ugh!!

[Assistant]
Oof I had to use translate 🍆🤣
Nice.


[User] Those leftovers gotta go.

[Assistant] Just ate my last two oxtail ( from Sunday dinner ) . Nothing left . I gotta cook tomorrow 🫣

[User] Dont feel bad I had to cook today.


[User] In the mood to make a Dizzy & Friends zine. Or a bakunyū zine. Just really want to make a book of boobs, I guess.

[User] We have a title for the book! 🙌

[Assistant] Thank you for reminding me of my early internet exposure site being called "the page of boobs" which is clearly the prototype of the book of boobs.


[User]
Trend time 🧡

Get to know me!

[Assistant]
1. I'm on bluesky because our old app decided to suck major ass.

Still having some hard time adjusting but maybe it's because I have been bad about posting in general?

[User] It's good to see you more active on here ❤

[Assistant] 3. Yeah still posting on Twitter. Unfortunately I feel conversations flow better on there than hear (I'm sure this is still just because people are haven't to rebuild their platforms here)


[User] There is no emotional problem that six scoops of ice cream won't replace with a more immediate physical problem.

[Assistant] Tummy horts😔☹

[User] This is a much healthier alternative to throwing a Molotov cocktail.

[Assistant]
SABLE NO.

I'm gonna carry lactaid in my purse if I ever visit Boston 😤


[User] Good morning from Somerset.

[Assistant] Morning mucker, how did the back cope with the excursion yesterday?

[User] Not bad at all, it feels like I’ve turned a bit of a corner, albeit tentative. I’m not pushing it, but feeling a tad more confident, certainly the continual pain has now abated, just got to be careful I guess. Will know more next week!

[Assistant] Good morning Mr J. 😊


[User]
@boomermage.bsky.social
Hello Handsome!

[Assistant] Hey y'all... I'm new to this stuff but wondering what the BEAR thing is all about. Thanks 🙏

[User]
In the gay world, gay men are “categorized” by the terms: twink, otter, bear, silver daddy, etc.  A bear is a hairy chubby guy.

Does that help?

[Assistant]
I'm a bear 🐻 😊
It does help, yes.


[User] We gotta do "15 years" a few more times!  Happy anniversary, @matchwolf.bsky.social!

[Assistant] Happy Anniversary! ❤

[User] Thank you! :-)

[Assistant] Happy anniversary!


[User]
In five days, a 16-year-old girl and her parents will be in front of nine Supreme Court Justices as they hear arguments against Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming hormone therapy.

Filed pseudonymously as LW, she and her parents Brian and Samantha are one of three families challenging TN's ban.

[Assistant] The naïveté of that quote… heartbreaking.

[User] Sigh. By this time next week, some scumbag will likely doxx them and then Elon will send his trolls after them.

[Assistant] they are so courageous and this shows how much they love their child. wishing them the best.


[User] A collective madness is spreading across the land, no longer confined to the usual conspiracy theory suspects but taken up by otherwise sensible folk.

[Assistant] 3-Nitrooxypropanol, sold commercially as Bovaer, is an enzyme inhibiter that reduces the methane emissions of ruminant animals such as cows and sheep when added as a feed supplement.

[User] Approved for use across the EU, the UK, Canada, USA, Brazil Chile and elsewhere, it has the potential to make a significant reduction to farm greenhouse gas emissions, while presenting no harmful effects.

[Assistant]
We should be welcoming such developments but, instead, there is a campaign to boycott and ban this valuable tool in our effort to combat climate change.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Nitro...


[User] Fat Belly Friday as I won’t post the C here 😋

[Assistant] Fat belly Friday is better than FCF in my eyes 😍😍😍

[User] Well now that is some praise indeed!

[Assistant] Well that’s a very nice FBF 🥵


[User]
I have managed to knock off most items on today's to-do list. You know what what means...

Skyrim!

I'm going spelunking for a sword rumored to drive its wielders insane. It'll be fiiiiine. What could possibly go wrong?

[Assistant]
OOH! VAMPIRES!

I don't know why I'm surprised vampires are involved with a sword named Bloodthirst, yet here we are. 😅

[User] Bloodthirst acquired. That...was easy? Like, disappointingly so. 😔

[Assistant] But now I have a pair of pretty matched swords and point to drop into dual-wielding just for shits and giggles, so it's all good. 😁

[User]
Went to complete a quick "talk to this person" quest from the HUGE backlog of Miscellaneous quests, and of course end up with another one.

Since I don't use shields, I'm less interested in it. Maybe if it's one my way to somewhere else I'll drop in and nab it.

[Assistant] But now? Now it is finally time for the Windhelm murder mystery I've been excited about for *days.* 🎉

[User]
Looks like *someone's* killing girls for bad magic experiments. Shame on them.

I have blood magic of my own I'll be happy to introduce them too. *pats Bloodthirst* 😈

[Assistant] Nice!  For me, it was MTG: Arena.  Getting my wins in.


[User] Good night all…

[Assistant] This combo plus the first frame of the video made me briefly think you were saying you were gonna kys.

[User] So if he jerks off with that hand does that mean Jesus is jerking him off?

[Assistant] Or he could be like "Hey Jesus, feed me a slice of pizza, bro." and then Jesus hands him a slice of pizza.