Bucephalus Jackal

@beaujackal.bsky.social

It's me! The writer dog you probably know from other places like FA or twitter. I'm also here! Probably.

Tickled by the idea of a bunch of jackals, hyenas and vultures working for a scrap/recycling outfit. Picking through the carcasses of old buildings for wire and pipe fittings. "What? You're just gonna throw that out? *hyena obsessively scooping up loose trimmings from an aluminum siding project*

I love when there’s a big blast email that’s a callout of a behavior that I in particular am infamous for. I always have to wonder “Ok are they just extra-salty about me or is this behavior much more common than I thought?”

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Ugh, so ridiculous that there are DOZENS of dangerous, potentially world-ending magical artifacts just like, kinda knockin' around. Nobody really sure where they're at or if anyone could be using them for something shady. It's bullshit! That would be like if here on earth- oh, right.

Article title mentioning the 40-or-so nuclear weapons worldwide that have gone missing and nobody can account for their whereabouts

Makin' great first impressions on the new boss~ NB: You know the acquisition comes with a 3% raise for you. Me: Strong opener, what do you want? NB: Ah, well, yes actually. We uh, were hoping that you could help head up the transition team. Me: Sounds tedious and unrewarding. I'll see what I can do.

That moment when you throw a bunch of acid all over the shower and the limescale and gunk all vaporizes at once. It's very like "Take care, adventurer. For you have called the demon's true name. And it has heard you! You must be ready for all that entrails." "You mean entails?" "Perhaps, hehehee~"

A fictitious DnD 5e spell card, detailing the process of cleaning a shower

So much of higher math is just like "Well we can't do this but we're gonna imagine that we can and see if we can bash our way to a solution before the math police find out that we're doing something illegal."

Boss: There's a company BBQ on Wednesday, all are welcome to attend! Me: Ok. It's from 11-2 and you assigned me 8 hours of work that day. Do I get a day off for this? Trying to double-commute this work wouldn't be practical. B: No do all your assigned work. But you can treat the BBQ as working hours

I've said before, the internet is really only useful for two things: 1. pictures of cats 2. pornography This is why furries are everywhere, running the internet and all. They're able to use the internet far more efficiently than anthropotypicals, since for them #1 and #2 can be the same thing

All the unlikeliest heroes emerging from this. Crackpot NIMBYs successfully fighting off AI datacenters. Apple sucking ass at AI and immediately giving up on it, which proved a winning long-term strategy. And now LinkedIn, where all the humans talk like awkward robots anyways...

Edd Coates | Game UI Database@eddcoates.bsky.social · 4w ago

LinkedIn added an "AI slop" button. The U-Turn is happening, expect to see a lot more of this from other tech companies.

Oh you have a fetish that involves being told what to do? You like having rules that are clearly and directly articulated to you? You like someone overriding your decision paralysis and task inertia by having someone else's expectations on you? Yeah no I'm sure the autism diagnosis was a surprise

Me: Sure, I'll go grab it out of my truck. Boss: Your company car is a Ford Escape. Heh, do you call it a truck because that's manlier? Me: I call it a truck because SUV is a fake term they made up to evade emissions regulations. Boss: That is the kind of answer you would have.