The flat is now as tidy as I can get it without a backhoe and the sofa bed has been made up into a bed bed and, at great cost to the cat's nerves, the hoovering has been done. So time to make a cup of tea, have a quick shower, and put a frock on.

JL Kaufmann@jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 4h ago

Kitchen done, bread done, bathroom done, livingroom done apart from a quick hoover, lukewarm coffee drunk, I’m doing great! What about the study, JL. BUM

And the Voice of the Vacuum Cleaner was heard in the Land.

I don't dunk on people but the dude saying 'If you hate AI, could you get through a working day if it all went away tomorrow?!'is testing my resolve on that so much. I don't use your dogshit thief machine incompetence tech, Sparkie. I fucking work for a living.

Kitchen done, bread done, bathroom done, livingroom done apart from a quick hoover, lukewarm coffee drunk, I’m doing great! What about the study, JL. BUM

JL Kaufmann@jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 6h ago

JL Hmm? Why are you lying on the couch pootling about online? Well... Have you finished tidying the study? Errr... Up you get, my girl.

JL Hmm? Why are you lying on the couch pootling about online? Well... Have you finished tidying the study? Errr... Up you get, my girl.

JL Kaufmann@jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 8h ago

Accountability - So far today I have tidied the living room, got a loaf of bread started, partially tidied the kitchen, argued with the cat*, and now I am having a cup of coffee. That done, I tackle the bathroom. Then lunch. *She didn't want me tidying stuff. She wanted me to play with her.

Accountability - So far today I have tidied the living room, got a loaf of bread started, partially tidied the kitchen, argued with the cat*, and now I am having a cup of coffee. That done, I tackle the bathroom. Then lunch. *She didn't want me tidying stuff. She wanted me to play with her.

HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD AND STAR OF THE SEA, IS THAT RAIN?

My sib, who I am going to the Late Prom with tomorrow, has just called to point out the last train will have gone before they can get to the station afterwards, so can they stay the night? Of course they can! That's fine! *looks at state of flat* oh damn...

Let's talk about something interesting - what are you all reading right now? I am reading The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, and Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Jones, and they are both most excellent but also really quite stressfully scary and gory so I need something to refresh with.

Frickin' bread has gone mouldy. Bloody hot humid weather, hell and damnation and blast.

Academics and scoleres are not gate-keeperes. Thei will talke to you about their topiques. For dayes. Thei will sende lynkes. Thei will order bookes. Thys ys why thei lyve. Thei are the route bitwene past knowledge and future knowledge.

Thread.

Paul Bernal@paulbernal.bsky.social · 2d ago

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Ohhh the ratio on this.

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

I am so sick of being too hot. I am sleeping badly and eating weirdly, can't think for more than three minutes together, and have the executive function and productivity of potpourri.

The vet called. Jellybean's thyroid levels seem to be elevated? We need to take her back to be weighed this week. I'm incredibly overwhelmed thinking about it. At $615/1600 to pay off her first vet bill. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

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Lev Mirov@thelionmachine.bsky.social · 3d ago

The hole in my back tooth is growing, the tooth next to it is chipped further, there's always a bad taste in my mouth, and we have no appointment because very few dentists take medicaid. And Jellybean's vet bill still isn't paid, which means I can't just buy a water pik. Paypal.me/thelionmachine

Rod Liddle, eh? ... Anyway. I can't let my grief interrupt my busy schedule of not giving a shit.

I went out to do some errands this morning before it got too hot (spoiler, it got too hot) and treated myself to a peach and mango iced tea from the Oriental Supermarket. I regret to inform you it tastes very like mango-flavoured bowel prep solution. My mellow is harshed.

First task of the morning, clean up revolting hairball. It can't be helped - it is hot, so The Squoof is going to shed. She is also going to lick herself because she is a clean little creature who likes to be nice. I tell her that in cold weather her plush double coat is WONDERFUL. We both sigh.

It has cooled down a little in the flat so I want to do the washing up before I go to bed but The Squoof is snuggled against me purring very softly and the idea of displacing her is unbearable.

There is a cool breeze coming in the windows this evening. Tomorrow will be grossly hot again so this feels like a tiny moment of grace.

You should read Premee’s stuff, it messes you up in new and exciting ways

Premee Mohamed@premeemohamed.com · 3d ago

Still on sale! :D Buy my book so I can replace my craptop!!

Squoofie… WHAT? I’m working on that blanket. I HALPING.

It would not be Sunday without some Stupid Lore to inspire you.

Andy Clark, Nerdling Herder@andycruns.bsky.social · 3d ago

Stupid Lore Sunday The Deathwatch is an unusual organisation, even by Astartes standards. They are not really a chapter in the traditional sense, rather they are the order militant of the Ordo Xenos of the Emperors Holy Inquisition. 1/

I cannot TELL you how offensive I find a certain type of evangelical Christianity. Not to kink-shame, but can you take your fetish for public humiliation somewhere that is else? I will not abase myself and grovel and confess my 'sins' and I REALLY do not want to watch you doing it either.

I will not read your Substack Not EVER Substack is owned by literal Nazis Is everyone there a Nazi? No. But the money GOES to Nazis So yeah. I will never, ever, ever read your Substack

The Screamers For Jesus are back on the Green and frankly, I am awestruck by their confidence in picking up a mike, opening their mouths wide, and absolutely butchering It Is Well With My Soul at window-trembling volumes.

The noise stopped at 10:30pm. So of course I didn’t go to bed until 2am, and then I slept fitfully (good word that) until 7ish, and then I finally slept like a happy little log until 11:30. Everything is sideways and off. Especially me.

I’ve seen a lot of my colleagues’ interactions with Claude working on research problems & it would be easier for me to accept it as a serious scientific tool if it didn’t end every single response with the LLM equivalent of “you want fries with that?” — constantly trying to goad you into asking more

I could get up and prepare myself a healthy meal with vegetables. Or I could just lie here rage-eating pistachios.

JL Kaufmann@jlkaufmann.bsky.social · 4d ago

There's a festival with loud music happening out on The Green, and the pub next door has decided to go ahead with karaoke in the beer garden, which is frankly twat behaviour, and they both keep turning the sound up to drown each other out, AND I LIVE IN THE MIDDLE. Pray for my sanity.