I have personally used the conversion chart myself for figuring out time adjustments to make when microwaving things. Like, I have a 1000 W microwave at home, but most everything is rated for an 1100 W one. Adjusting the cooking time really does help ensure the food cooks better.

Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫@lookitup.baby · 12h ago

The Microwave Cooking for One site is legit useful. You know that thing that happens when microwave food is half frozen? That’s not inherent to the microwave, it’s because most box microwave instructions are for 1100 watts and your microwave is something else. There’s a conversion chart for that!

Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying

It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...

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"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."

A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing

Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.

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I am conscious of the latter urge in myself, which is why I restrict it to my feelings about Barbecue.

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · yesterday

there are two types of fans of things- those who treat it like a hobby and understand it's ok to laugh at things you enjoy and those who use it to replace church or whatever in their lives and are very vigilant against Blasphemy

Here’s a juvenile starling my friend rehabilitated taking a bath.

sorry kaylin (game changer: noise some makes bonus BTS 🎬 )

i'm a real woman because no one takes my physical health seriously

Anyone in Los Angeles have a telescope with a Hydrogen Alpha Quantum Filter? There are crows who are flying across the sun in Long Beach right now and it would be super cool to get a shot of them flying across the chromosphere. If anyone is in circles with folks they can hit me up, I have thoughts

What actually counts as basic income? The most comprehensive definition — 7 tenets: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, sufficient. Read it here → basicincomeaction.org/about?tab=de...

Definition | Basic Income Action

The seven-part definition of basic income: universal, unconditional, uniform, individual, cash-based, periodic, and sufficient.

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I get a visceral reaction to body worlds - as in, in my viscera. I can feel my consciousness pass through the layers of my body, noting them as distinct and separable. I absolutely hate it. Which is, to be clear, an endorsement. On a fundamental level - as in, in my fundament - it moves me.

Alicia Ault@aliciaault.bsky.social · yesterday

ICMYI: Gunther von Hagens, the fedora-wearing founder of "Body Worlds," the controversial anatomy sideshow, died. #museums #culture #plastination #autopsy #meded

Conversations like this are why I keep this job 25 years later and I hope you’ll listen and tell a friend to listen.

Jesse Thorn@jessethorn.bsky.social · yesterday

No greater legend than Meshell Ndegeocello. Incredible, funny, lively conversation with one of my all-time favorites. youtu.be/9Z5nLx2giY8?...

I didn't put this line in my Stonetop not-review but "GMing is a practise" is a great way to put a fundamental truth about that bit of the form.

JP Bradley@jpbradley.bsky.social · yesterday

You might read this and think it doesn't seem simple, but the difference is just experience. Read more ttrpgs, and more varied rpgs, and run your games. Time will teach you how to read a game and understand what the important parts are to you and, crucially, your players. AI robs you of this craft.

Stopped by a farmer's market Sunday. Several stalls had near-identical ai-generated menu boards, and they just felt gross. I stopped by the place with a chalkboard selling pupusas.

Casey Explosion@caseyexplosion.bsky.social · yesterday

One of the things I find so off-putting about AI generated imagery is just how overgreebled it is, it always adds too much detail, and when it comes to trying to depict food, it ends up looking like it's crawling with insects or triggering trypophobia, it's extremely off-putting.

I was in my thirties before I saw my body type described as attractive. The way I found out was seeing a woman look at a body like mine and go, "I want him to put me through a wall."

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 2d ago

Guys will listen to male influencer bullshit about needing to have a six pack and manipulate everyone and meanwhile women will go “you know who is the sexiest fucking guy I’ve ever seen?” and post this

Today's bsky argument about "boots theory" seems to come down, from my perspective, to 2 different ideas of what it says- (1) believe that poor people could make better choices to save themselves out of poverty (2) believe that poverty enacts worse choices, creating cycles of more instability.

It's never occurred to me that the point of an allegory about cheaper goods being a worse long term investment was about poor people making bad choices. I recommend Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed for anyone confused about this or who hasn't had real, lived experience as someone with no good options.

Look at this absolute weirdo (complimentary) that I met today

Hey, you ever heard me (constantly) going on about Babylon 5? It's starting to air, in its entirety, on YouTube.

Midnight on the Firing Line | S1 E1 | Babylon 5

YouTube video by Babylon 5

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Nome@nome.bsky.social · last yr.

Broke: Star Trek says humans will abandon all religion in the future. Woke: Dune says religion will continue to be both a source of strength and a tool of control for oppressed peoples. Bespoke: Babylon 5 says we'll get MORE religions, and Jews will have to sort out what alien foods are kosher.

Hey, wanna see something special? Baby Dexter!

Let's talk about things our tax dollars pay for, which we never use, and for which we're grateful. I'll start: I live in a city with 6,000 acres of parks. I've been to maybe 50 of them. Many of them have equipment for children (which I do not have) and skateboarders (which I am not).

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Well, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.

I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy

When I started building my dwarven society, I snagged a mycologist to talk for a while about what kind of fungal crops might be possible, and in particular what food and textiles might be derived from them.

Louisa@louisathelast.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

I’m gonna say virtually all authors need to get serious about textiles. Who is weaving them? Out of what? Who’s turning them into clothes and how much does it cost and do you have any idea how HARD all of that was before modern mills

David J Prokopetz@prokopetz.bsky.social · last wk.

To write in the classic high fantasy mould, you need not be hung up on food specifically, but there must be SOME very mundane thing you're sincerely interested in and prepared to describe in excruciating detail every time it comes up. Clothing. Furniture. Architecture. It doesn't work without it.

That said, let us take a moment to thank our Bluesky Trans and Furry Elders for freaking out Jack Dorsey so much he bolted and left us this nice social media playground, taking most of his crypto chuds with him. We thank you for your service.

Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

The Loggerhead Shrike (Lanius ludovicianus) is also known as the 'butcher-bird'. This floof is a tiny predator with weak talons, but strong neck muscles, so she snaps necks with a hooked beak & impales her prey. Next post contains a *slightly* gory GIF, so I've marked it "graphic media".

Janet Hill@saskajanet.bsky.social · 2d ago

Seeing this little fluff-nugget today inspired a thread about the Loggerhead Shrike #birds 🌿

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude