macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Hey @bsky.app can we have a setting that strips hash tags into normal words? They are just blue noise nowadays, nobody uses them except boomers

@alexvonwitzleben.bsky.social · 3d ago

Within two years, Australia has managed to drastically reduce its use of fossil fuels because #batteries supply the electricity at peak times. We need much more #energystorage for the energy transition! #ActOnClimate #ClimateActionNow

[taps the sign] According to USGS GNIS "Per Secretarial Order 3453, Lake Ontario has been renamed to Lake America. The basemaps for GNIS are in the process of being updated." So Google (& Apple, OpenStreetMap, & everyone else who ingests GNIS) will start calling it Lake America within a few weeks.

Colin McMillen@mcmillen.dev · 2y ago

this is both: 1) an extremely stupid situation caused by a deeply unserious individual and 2) 100% the correct product call by google they do this all the time for disputed names, and even change borders depending on who's viewing, e.g. the disputed border between India and Pakistan.

Autocorrecting every instance of 'America' that you type to 'Ontario'. Not just for the lake. For everything.

This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

[Exit Queen.]

Assume away. You will not be wrong. With regard to humanity, men are generally the biggest shitheads that nature and nurture could possibly construct. In all respects, women -- whether birthed as such or transitioned as such -- are moderately better.

Kate Watson@loreandordure.com · last wk.

I probably don’t want to know why some dude is throwing dildos at basketball games, do I?

They're even more unpopular than data centers.

Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It's Almost Hard to Believe

A new survey of 1,000 young adults in the US found that nine of the top tech executives are deeply loathed.

trib.al

If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:

I don’t like when people think Being A Dick is the same thing as Having Balls. It’s not. Not even close. In fact there’s a Vas Deferens between them.

It feels mad how blasé we seem to be about an incessant run of weather that (a) will have killed a lot of older/vulnerable people and (b) will cause havoc with agricultural supply/prices.

@darcyswickham.bsky.social · 3w ago

My son was born earlier this year. This is his first summer. We have bags of clothes he’s never worn as it’s dangerous to wear them in this heat. Every day we black out the windows as our flat gets too hot for him. Everything is too expensive and next year is going to be worse. BBC? It’s sunny!

It is just unacceptable that the NHS may have to find funds to fight potentially a slew of nuisance lawsuits funded by one extremely wealthy person with an obsession.

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3w ago

Just so predictable. Labour got themselves into this because those who aren't True Believers thought they could appease those who are then the issue would go away. Not so. The GCs are obsessives attempting a top down reorientation of our culture to spite a minority they despise. They must be fought.

Wow. Just wow.

I've created a new package called MacBundle ✨ It integrates into your .NET project's build pipeline as an MSBuild task and automatically generates an `.app` bundle to run your application on macOS. Completely plug-and-play. github.com/Tyrrrz/MacBu...

At this point of seemingly unending heat, the sun can fuck off now thanks very much.

let trans women play sports with their friends, end of story

i've run the numbers three times now and it's always the same

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

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Unanimous. 💪 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Uefa agrees to boycott Fifa competitions if World Cup sell-off plans proceed

Uefa nations have agreed to boycott all Fifa tournaments if the global governing body continues with its plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup

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I’ve known this was coming and so has everyone else. It doesn’t exist, keep burning, it doesn’t exist, keep burning, oh, it *does* exist but it’s too late to do anything, so keep burning. The sheer cynicism should carry a jail sentence.

Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last mo.

Nighty night.

> Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains. I have heard of nirvana of course but .. really? Is this all you’ve got? Smashed out the park.

Kevin Jones@vcsjones.dev · last mo.

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains.

It's the @mobute.bsky.social tweet all over again

so anyway, I’m not allowed back at the bank

So excited to have spotted this gem for my collection today

Been doing this for years after I heard my kids say it - I stopped using Google when they stopped being not evil. But kids say ‘Google it’ again now :(

Mark Harris@markharris.bsky.social · last mo.

I'm actually fine with sounding old.

When I was a roadie the band members (posh wankers to a man) used to call me ‘accent man’ because I did just this, pick up on local accents if we played a few nights in the same place

Sheo@sheologian.bsky.social · last mo.

Unintentional accent mirroring is positively correlated with higher levels of empathy, by the way

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, reports Anl Seth. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth

Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and…

theguardian.com

AI Expert Advice: Make Claude Code work faster by telling it to type with a Dvorak keyboard layout, which is optimized for speed

once again, the absolute worst thing that could have happened in venezuela is complete operational success they thought they could do anything and immediately started another Forever War

Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · last mo.

Trump allies believe the President has now exhausted most options to exit the Iran war and are now “afraid” a longstanding, unpopular, expensive conflict is inevitable, causing major anxiety about GOP chances in midterm elections.-Politico