@grassonmydesk.bsky.social
Reader, artist-lover, and avid dog. Mostly reposts. Interested in politics but not political lines, pithy social commentary, fandom, and whatever the menswear guy is. Queer, Jewish, autistic.
Over 70% of US active PS5/XBS players played at least 1 of the top 10 live service games of the month during January.
More than 40% of all time spent playing on PS5/XBS in the US during January went to those same top 10 live service games.
Source: Circana Player Engagement Tracker
The Daily Express has some kind of deal with Nationwide where they keep putting out articles on Nationwide's free moneys for customers that is 100% always "the interest you earn on a savings accounts with them", they publish these at least once a week and I do not understand why.
17.02.2025 08:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ridiculous. *Listens* ...yeah, fair.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCAh...
I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less.
Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.
As we do digital battle with antisemites, just want to recommend Talmudic Insults and Curses by Arthur Helft. Full of excellent sayings applicable to trolls who say they know whatβs in the Talmud, but in reality wouldnβt know a karmelit if they fell dick-first off a roof into one.
27.01.2025 20:53 β π 104 π 15 π¬ 8 π 3There's a story of a delegation of foreign dignitaries who called on Spartan King Leonidas but when they were shown in, they found him playing horsey with his daughter. He got up and said, "gentlemen, this is embarrassing, but if you are fathers I am sure you will understand."
25.01.2025 18:34 β π 33 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0one thing that I love about parenthood is that there is a universal bond around ridiculous shit you do to entertain your children
we are at swim class for the five year old and my wife is going around like a kangaroo while the seven year old chases her gleefully and no other parents even bat an eye
At OT physical health training. The adjustable bed with the ominous and threatening VAT exemption cannot hurt you.
23.01.2025 14:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I happen to be at a physical health OT training today and got some pics for you - I always say to people that canes used to be part of every respectable gentleman's outdoor costume like hats and capes and that's because you look really cool wandering around with a good-looking one.
23.01.2025 11:03 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0if you've noticed a lot of chocolate on the main page of wikipedia it's because 6 mo ago one random person started cranking out a tooooon of amazing overhauls to chocolate articles and now the quality of chocolate content has literally never been better. thank you chocolate hero whoever you are
22.01.2025 03:26 β π 6123 π 791 π¬ 49 π 36Theoretically, I know how to make fabric out of a pile of wool or other fibers, and I've done each of the steps individually, but I could work for a week and end up with a somewhat lumpy misshapen piece of fabric the size of a handkerchief. And I'd need some wood and something sharp as tools.
13.01.2025 21:31 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Floral design cane with ergonomic design for a left handed person.
Get an absolutely sick looking cane with an ergonomic design to support your palm so you can use it all the time and you want to because it looks cool. Hiddur mitzvah.
21.01.2025 19:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0So much for charging businesses to use the API to reduce bot accounts.
21.01.2025 14:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Had to send a support request to OpenAI via Twitter bc their support options are garbage and because I used the word "hack" in it, I got 25 replies in under 2 minutes for account recovery services, including 22(!) for the same business.
21.01.2025 14:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0How we supposed to decide whether any of these people are fast without a baseline
21.01.2025 11:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And an ordinary person in every 100m!
21.01.2025 11:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Rigid! Autistic woman stubbornly changes opinions when she receives new information
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(elon unveiling his new martian flag design) well as you uh can, you know, see. there's red which of course uh is the mars color. duh ha ha. and then here a white circle, and this is um representing the bright future for the ahh, human race. and then uh you have so, this is a hindu symbol,
21.01.2025 01:26 β π 5839 π 1076 π¬ 43 π 14Reading a book on the development of obscenity in English and TIL that "loo" and "lavatory are etymologically totally unrelated. Had always thought one was a diminutive of the other.
20.01.2025 23:05 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Team rituals" are regular activities/practices, eg huddles, team lunches, check-ins, celebrations. New research shows teams with more rituals have more engagement, psychological safety, knowledge & job satisfaction, leading to higher productivity/performance: lnkd.in/eXNNvP-G Art: lnkd.in/e_XmBeg9
19.01.2025 14:10 β π 65 π 28 π¬ 1 π 4instead of invite codes this site should require a personal reference from someone stating that you understand what a joke is
19.01.2025 20:32 β π 12981 π 1111 π¬ 218 π 57Working out a scenario where Pornhub has to launch a prestigious monthly print magazine in order to stay online in Tennessee. This is how we bring the business back: ransoming access to stepsister-stuck-in-washing-machine content with long-form literary criticism and Malcolm Harris book excerpts.
15.01.2025 16:57 β π 5512 π 774 π¬ 206 π 59Was at a meeting with a guest speaker called Cliff for which I was the minute taker, so I just wrote "type up Cliff notes" on my tasklist and found that funnier than it was worth.
12.01.2025 11:57 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wife: did you know male seahorses give birth?
Me: Yea, they get a Sea-section.
Wife: I hate you.
I like it when people complain that Satine singing her lungs out moments before dying of consumption in Moulin Rouge is unrealistic because of course everything else in that film is so very grounded and down to Earth.
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