I would take back the time that I would otherwise have wasted weed-whacking back attempts to install robot bloatware on my devices, and I would use it to do a little dance.

Charlie Stross@cstross.bsky.social · 6h ago

My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain) The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.

The only *guaranteed* piece of craft advice I can give -- I mean the advice that is universally applicable -- is that if you kill many other writers and eat their scribere gland (roughly the size of a black-eyed pea, so be careful not to damage it) then your prose will improve immensely

we present our new very business project ailurine* intelligence add cats to your business today! *cat-like

I have had an annoying day but have unwound somewhat by watching Stonehenge Apocalypse, possibly the only film to feature Misha Collins repeatedly hitting a bad guy in the face with the Antikythera Mechanism.

YouTube has slightly worryingly recommended me a video entitled 'The UK has too many living ex-Prime Ministers'.

I do not think we should nationalise the weather.

#GirlsOwnCC Farewell men, I choose the bear. What do you mean this is just a big dog? Well I choose this bear-sized dog and if I hear any whining about it I will not hesitate to punt the man responsible into the lake.

Girl’s Own advice@girlsown.bsky.social · 3w ago

Enjoy the Sunday caption contest, give away lots of ❤️s, repost to encourage more competitors, include #GirlsOwnCC

Looking for work: grizzled sysadmin in the south west. Can do 2nd/3rd line support and desktops. Branching into new energy could be fun.

It's a making LARP kit day. I have boundless confidence. And pliers.

Not a Catholic or any kind of Christian, but the pictures of the SSPX consecrating (?) their own bishops at what looks like an agricultural show in Switzerland are giving me the earworm. 'Oh, is this the way a schism's really mean to feel Or just fifteen thousand people standing in a field?'

WELCOME TO SCHISM WATCH 2026 WITH CLAIRE

Checked the tool to ask if my music had been stolen to 'train' Gen AI. 39 of my recorded songs got fed to the slop-machine. I feel sick. Don't you come at me with 'but I can't afford'. Yeah, well nor can musicians & artists BECAUSE GEN AI STOLE OUR ART & DEVALUED OUR WORK. #FuckAI #StopTheSlop

Giant fluffy cat update: while his brother stays in the shade under the bed during the daytime, he continues his usual toddler-like routine of 'explore, return to lap for cuddles, shout incomprehensibly, sleep, repeat'

Lobbyist: "We need to make a choice! Climate or AI! We might lose to..." Me: *smacks climate button Lobbyist: "But we have to open the conversa..." Me: *punches climate button Lobbyist: "But our competitive..." Me: *JUMPS UP AND DOWN ON CLIMATE BUTTON www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe must choose between AI and climate goals, data center lobby says

Tech sector says only carbon-emitting gas plants are reliable enough today to power the EU’s AI goals.

politico.eu

I'm being silenced, complains woman to uncritical mainstream press. There's discussion of morality in the Bible because *it is a book about people trying to figure out their relationship with the universe around them, including the unseen bits*. Correlation is not (sole) causation.

Tyron@tyron.bsky.social · last mo.

Okay but if we're talking about 'freedoms that built the West' Kate, people in Ukraine are literally fighting and being killed for gay rights by an invading force as we speak.

Me: do you really want to sit on me in this weather, giant fluffy cat? Giant fluffy cat: what kind of question is that of course I do

The Person Nothing Will Ever Be Enough For, a thread. Maybe you dated this person. Maybe you witnessed them dating a friend. If you're really unlucky, you were raised by them. This person will constantly present problems (though their end goal is to have everyone around them *anticipate* problems)

I made a mad LARP scarf thing because why be normal when you can be extremely extra. I say LARP scarf, come winter I will probably just wear it out and about.

I am watching a video by a Norwegian Youtuber whose accent makes 'he' sound close to 'she' (no shade, I couldn't even manage to ask where the toilet is in Norwegian!) and it is delightfully like living in an Ann Leckie novel.

This is unfeasibly interesting. I love when people share their very specific knowledge.

Buttons (Ashley) 🏴‍☠️#OFMDForLife🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈🤡@sevensugars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Since I did do my PhD in cyanobacteria growth and treatment optimization modeling AND work in the water treatment industry, I’m gonna share my theory as to what’s happening here and how to fix it. People are focusing on the painted bottom of the pool increasing residual heat, and while that 1/19

Many years ago I was walking past a table in a café where two ladies were sitting and one of them said to the other 'Well, you have to understand...' (heavy sigh) '... she's Monégasque.' To this day I still sometimes wonder about the rest of that conversation.

Every time an AI shows up as a little circle icon I think 'techbros read and misinterpreted Tolkien but they didn't even bother reading Zelazny'. Which is probably a good thing, thinking about it, because no one wants them buying a beloved app and renaming it Strygalldwir.

This whole thread! But this post jumped out at me particularly. It is not my job to mother, stepmother, babysit, or otherwise spend my energy raising your GODDAM CUCKOO ROBOT. It's definitely not my job to learn how to raise it better. I would literally sooner kick rocks.

Crystal Fleming クリスタル@alwaystheself.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Perhaps he was uncomfortable with being clocked. After all, he did not share at any point in the talk that he "works very closely with Claude". But I notice that he strangely encouraged the audience to work with AI as much as possible, romanticized "getting better" with prompts the "more you use it"

you do have to wonder whether perhaps the outsized reaction cis guys like this have to transmasc folks is the fear of what happens if a framework of masculinity that isn’t centered on violence, dominance or patriarchy ever took root more broadly. they would have no way to define themselves as people

gawdzie@gawdz0rz.bsky.social · 2mo ago

elliot page: frankly i think it’s good and healthy to express emotions as a man matt taibbi: being a man is about bullying and sexual assault and i’m going to kill you

Mushroom Pride necklace Whether you have no gender or are compatible with thousands of them I support you

In the first chapter the two main characters were doing an aerobics class and were supposed to be unfit and out of breath, but they were having a conversation in full sentences and body shaming the gym instructor. Suspension of disbelief fail.

ONeillJones@oneilljones.com · 2mo ago

alright y'all, what's the pettiest reason you DNF'd a book? I'll go first- the protag of the book disparaged Star Trek's Seven of Nine and said she wasn't sexy

Timeline cleanse.

Note to future self: the reason why you gave up on that #crossstitch chart is almost always 'sodding quarter stitches'.

The people who came up with the term 'sex-based rights' were approached for comment, and said 'It's been some *use* to somebody? Wow, we were honestly just trying to make sure trans people couldn't wee in peace, but we'll take it'. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man who grabbed woman's hair and asked for kiss sentenced in legal first

David Stroud was convicted in a first-of-its-kind sex-based harassment charge in May.

bbc.co.uk

YouGov just asked me whether if I could snap my fingers and get rid of generative AI I would, and when I looked at the unweighted results they were running at 50% yes, 37% no and 13% don't know. More people dislike the slop hose than I expected.