acro a. matica

a full-size pumpkin with a smaller pumpkin carved into it by peeling off the outer skin. it has a very small :D smile and a lit candle inside.

"i only want to carve a little pumpkin this year", i said

And baptized her painting in a large amount of blank white negative space a little bat done in soft Shades of Gray

Bat and Moon — Yamada Hōgyoku, c. 1830

image text: What are Cat 6 Cables? by AJ Born / Meet the Connector: Cat 6 Cable / CAT 6 is a twisted pair cable for Ethernet-based computer networks. It is used in phone lines, PCs, televisions, CCTV cameras, and other networking devices.

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a middle-aged white person with short hair, wearing cat ears and cat whisker/nose facepaint, a black shirt and a collar made out of network cables with a medallion that says "6" - i'm a cat 6. i have a look on my face that suggests i think this is funny

a little telecommunications industry humour for you (my boss approved this joke)

the great thing about trying longer hairstyles is it is a twenty-minute fix if you get to the longer stage and go "oh. no thank you"

Screenshot from Windows Settings>Privacy and Security>Text and image Generation. "Text and image generation uses on-device AI technologies to quickly respond to requests. Turning this settings off will not affect apps and features using cloud AI technologies. Text and image generation Windows and anyone using this device can use Text and image generation.

BY THE WAY

If you've updated to Windows 11 recently, you're probably on version 25H2.

There's a new setting in Settings: Privacy & Security.

Scroll aaaaaaaalll the way to the bottom and you'll see "Text and Image Generation."

TURN IT OFF.

How to Turn Off AI Tools Like Gemini, Apple Intelligence, Copilot, and More via @ConsumerReports AI features are crowding into Google search, Gmail, iPhones, Windows laptops, and other products. If you're suffering from AI overload, these settings can help.

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

a witch holding a candle saying if you can't summon the flames directly from hell, store-bought is fine.

annual PSA

i can't tell if i'm a freak or not now because i had never considered this but now the only thing stopping me from doing it immediately is my broken oven

oy, oy, we BEEN here lol 💜💜

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

wh. w w w wHAT-

"no good fic" - for the X-FILES???? mate just say you're too lazy to read anything at all and save us all the wordcount

that's so YOU. fantastic 💜

🎉

if they want supporters of That Woman on there enough to pull content for them, then they'll cave to anyone, so that pretty much did it for me since i was unhappy about the ai stuff anyway

the duolingo account deletion confirmation screen, with a cartoon of a sad owl

anyway i'll finish the last friends quest so i don't let anyone down and then i guess that's it

re duolingo: i'm really just. i had a FIVE YEAR streak! i am never ever going to be able to do that again! but now i have to because people suck! i'm so angry! in multiple languages!

One day Duolingo will be a case study in taking a market-leading brand and utterly destroying it through greed, incompetence and cowardice

slightly diminish a band: Duchess of Cornwall

seriouslyyyyyyy tho. you are right in every particular

If any aliens are reading this, I love you. Please come get me

Ozzy Osbourne Farewell Show Was The Highest-Grossing Charity Concert Of All Time On July 5, Ozzy Osbourne put on a farewell concert, performing as a solo artist and with Black Sabbath for the last time in the band’s hometown of Birmingham, UK. Billed as the “Back To The Beginning”...

Ozzy going out after raising $190 million for sick kids and a Parkinson’s cure is metal AF.

In a stunning moment of carnal desire, my calculator said “BOOBIE5”

bsky.app/profile/raha...

i think this might be the one!

queen elaserbeth

at least you have the comfort of having been a total badass!

howl at it

then nobody else will be able to sleep either, and you'll have company!

bodies! they're just such marvels of engineering aren't they