Urgh I went to a union training where I knew everything already and didn't agree with half of it (yes, AI). Annoying use of time even if we had a good time in the chat
Isn't lovely how little has changed?! Notice in the bottom right corner the makeup "compact" with six pigments and a protective lid! Above it the funny thing like a thumb is the pestle of a mortar for grinding fine powders. BM 1861,0523.2
your boyfriend admiring his AI-generated LinkedIn post
Alistair Coleman@alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 8h agoHappy 12th anniversary of the day Kim Jong Un visited the lube factory.
slightly reminiscent of the “spoilers actually improve your experience!!!”research literature where what you are really testing is what is more agreeable to encounter in rudimentary experimental conditions www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
AI-generated stories rated better quality than human-written ones, study finds
Researcher says simpler writing by AI is easier to read and digest, but this does not mean human authors are obsolete
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ok well i wish I'd read it before seeing this post
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterdayToday, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.
gah, this is the bit I hate - I never use AI products and very much go out of my way to never interact with anything produced by AI (I'm not even on Linkedin!) so it will....make me worse at weeding it out of my life in the future? I just want to opt out! why can't I be allowed to opt out!
Will Davies@will-davies.bsky.social · 9h agoStunning opening sentence to this piece www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I think people are seeing the mass arrests of people for wearing t-shirts and holding signs in support of Palestine Action and are assuming there's One Weird Trick to force the cops to treat Nazis the same
Mallory Moore@sexabolition.blog · 23h agowww.thenational.scot/news/2641894... This is great and all, but the police already ignore it when Nazis turn up with Combat 18 flags and combat 18 has been banned since they went on a bombing spree in Muslim Jewish and Gay areas in London.
me when someone i dont like leaves up a post i dont like: does the knave know no shame? he makes clear his unrepentant, beastly nature! victory is mine! me when someone i dont like deletes a post i dont like: ha! the coward retreats, acknowledging his foul crime! victory is mine!
"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!
Huge wasp nest takes over wildlife trust's office. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Huge wasp nest takes over Norfolk Wildlife Trust workers office
Eilish Rothney says the nest, which has engulfed her ring binders, is about 1m (3.2ft) tall.
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'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)
I think this is a reasonable critique though frankly I would have been well into it
Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · 23h agoYeah, I’m not giving you the list :) Each individual book is fine. Some are even brilliant. The point is that collectively they describe a world of pain as experienced by teens, and at least one of them is a novel in verse.
"This presents a problem for the right: If your winning issue is trans women in sports, and you're struggling to uncover trans women in any league that anybody has ever heard of, then how do you keep trans athletes at the top of people's minds? Answer: You invent them." defector.com/the-right-ha...
The Right Has Created Its Perfect Trans Athlete | Defector
A lot of people in and around the WNBA are talking about trans women. In the aftermath of Indiana Fever role player Sophie Cunningham’s negative comments about trans people playing sports in an ESPN p...
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excellent local news (GDPR-blocked so here's an archive link archive.ph/VXY4m)
VT musical director of planned 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' created fake threats, police say
The director of a planned production of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" admitted to sending himself threatening texts that eventually got the play canceled out of safety concerns.
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Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Leaders 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.
you know when you keep going back to look at Citymapper just hoping the journey to somewhere has got shorter
@bparsia.bsky.social hello! No need to answer ofc but thought I'd ask - do you know of any good resources/guidance/training relevant for ADHD staff in UK higher education? Or somewhere good to start looking? I'm a manager looking into reasonable adjustments for an employee.
Whenever people say "weird question" it never is... and when people do ask weird questions they never say it
Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.
every single Windows program since the beginning of word processing: ctrl+C copies your text Teams: are you sure though. would you just like to confirm that again. you wouldn't want to accidentally copy some text
This is absolutely an illegal scam preying on heritage tourism. But I will say I… can’t help but admire this incredibly capacious hustle on some level—although I do think he needs to make reparations. www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
Italian conman jailed for building fake Roman amphitheatre
In Italy, a structure promoted for years as an "ancient Roman amphitheatre" has turned out to be a fake, constructed recently using modern materials.
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I recognise the specific context here but “Please, I need my car to meet criminals” is a very funny plea for leniency.
Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot@bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 2d agoAuthor Lynda La Plante banned from driving for six months
someone just posted about a plug-in you can use to stop seeing twitter screenshots? please tell me about this??
