Episode one of the series of a hundred years of solitude is right up there with the quality delivered in the first. Obviously the book is magnificent and one of the greats of literature, but the job they’ve done adapting it is exceptional
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Accessibility & Inclusive Design specialist @Digitas_UK ex @kinandcarta, member of @BIMA inclusive design council, BIMA 100 2021 & W3c COGA member. Living with dyslexia & dyscalculia, all spelling mistakes my own
I’m sure the company that *checks notes* exists because their owner wanted to rank women he didn’t know. & *checks notes* launched the pervert glasses that can privately film people. Did full due diligence on *checks notes* child sexual content in their ai ads. Oh… www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
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Ohh the second part of a hundred years of solitude is now on Netflix that’s my weekend viewing sorted @anton3ll.bsky.social
Presumably the shock is that the Neo- nazi didn’t join reform?
Alex Partridge@alexpartridge87.bsky.social · 13h agoA Reform UK spokesperson says it “beggars belief that Kemi Badenoch has hired a former neo-Nazi”. Says it’s “alarming news for the Jewish community in Britain”
Last part of the drop I ordered, need to put myself on a record ban for the rest of the month I think
I see @tonycampari.bsky.social has discovered the angry seppos on here. This could be fun
It would make no substantial difference to my work day. In fact it would probably decrease my workload as I wouldn’t constantly need to check other people’s work wasn’t shite
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
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Internet of Public Service Jobs - 05/08/2026
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today i learned that in the early 70's Chubby Checker released a psychedelic album called Chequered! and it is an absolute banger of an album www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fsh-...
Chubby Checker - Goodbye, Victoria (1971)
YouTube video by rocknrollwerewolf
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This might be a bit niche, but it’s very annoying hearing of organisations saying “well it’s the law to segregate trans people so hands are tied” when most of them respond to accessibility law with “eh who’s gonna catch us?”
If AI disappeared tomorrow, the only change in my life would be that google search suddenly got better again.
Ayo@darrylayo.bsky.social · yesterdayGuys like this don’t realize that they are the freak
Can we just, you know, stop very, very rich people fucking things up, where things include – but are very much not limited to – the moon?
Can’t be that good if their peers know what they’re doing tbf
The Guardian@theguardian.com · yesterdayMI6 is top European foreign intelligence service, finds peer review
So the derby is a bubble again this season. Bollocks to that, I’ll head home and watch it in the pub with my mates instead. Absolutely ruins it, completely over the top and draconian and just designed to get Hants old bill mode over top. Proper piss take
put these fuckin’ guys in jail. Also, check their hard drives.
Oxford Clarion@oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 2d agoLeaders of flag-raising group Raise the Colours Oxfordshire placed trackers on highway workers’ cars to find out their home addresses, the High Court has heard. RTC then attempted to intimidate the highway staff into no longer removing flags by repeating their addresses to them.
Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.
Tuesday afternoon tune. Because not every record needs to be obscure or cool, some can just be straight up pop bangers
The richest person in the world, an avowed white supremacist, today again posted "the next step is getting rid of 'source code' entirely and just making an efficient binary directly with AI" because he has no idea how anything works, not even the basics of industries he is in.
Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.
Has this place started randomly unfollowing people? There’s people on here I swear I was following who are now showing as that I’m not when they reply.
How can a song be that bad both lyrically and musically?! Plus the delivery and lack of rhythm?! It takes a special kind of “talent” to make music this bad AND this bland
RIP Rod Liddle (lol)@samuraicop69.bsky.social · 2d agoSorry but my inclusivity extends only as far as people with talent
We complain about the devaluing of creative work, then we feed our creative work into AI... for free. And no one sees a problem?
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
