Susan Murray

GODDAMN, that man could make a good picture.

Such heroism! Fingers crossed that Mimi enjoys being an indoor, only cat.

My two rescue cats were to be kept indoors-only, and I’m a convert. Although cats will find a way - Jonesy managed to break her tail falling from the top shelf of a wardrobe.

Oh, no. Sorry to hear that. Poor Moomoo, and poor you.

With the door shut we’ll never know. Unless the plumbing’s especially noisy.

Ogodz, the uncertainty…

Wouldn’t it be good if this particular problem could be self-levelling…

It is to the shame of all the male reporters in the room that they do not immediately leave

That many pages of chats between a dozen of them over 7 or so months? Will they have time to take over anything?

Chatting about how wild it must feel to set fire to a big pile of _someone else’s money_ and realisation dawned.

…

That must be how Sam Altman feels EVERY SINGLE DAY.

“Closes the door before he pees. Reason to hire him, right there.”
(William Gibson, ‘Agency’)

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So sorry for your loss, Ben.

Today’s audiobook: Agency. Reached the faux-cave former nightclub and wondering if William Gibson ever went to the Twisted Wheel in Carlisle…

Beginning to think we may have lucked out the day the guy came to swap our economy 7 meter for a smart one but couldn’t because there was no signal for it to do all its clever things.

Wouldn’t they! This process seems neverending.

This is also possible! It does seem to be harder and harder for people to get time off work these days, so it may be they just have a chaotic boss and are super-organised themselves…

I’m trying not to read between the lines, but also guessing it means they’re not that bothered about it and prefer others…

A viewer for former parental abode who set up an appointment on Saturday for next Tuesday, then changed it to next Thursday, has now changed it to this afternoon. 🤷‍♂️

This set of contradictions, though:

“experts have said that _some towns may need to be abandoned_ as homes and businesses struggle to get insurance [...] Experts also say _London’s flood defences need to be updated urgently_ to protect the capital…”

RIP logic.

Catching up with another round of newsletters discussing OpenAI’s latest breathless announcements. Can we all agree the theftbros are sounding increasingly desperate and just ignore them?

Give us some insightful analysis of their environmental impact instead?

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

:)

Yup. Although we've gone over to kW now for some reason.

I thanked it for its contribution, obv.

Apologies for the slight squee.

Well, quite. (It's inside the stove now. No more free dusting for me.)

Blood, more likely! It's got bored and is trolling me by pooping on the wall next to the stove now, but it doesn't realise I'll be repainting that next week.

while the draft files just sit there in a normal directory with recognisable filenames.

> to achieve what you're after. Tobias kindly talked me through adding a CSS snippet for indented paragraphs (for which MANY THANKS again!) so it looks like a draft instead of an internet article. After switching to Linux I've been able to replicate the features of Scrivener that I used most,

I've been using it happily since last year with no coding skills whatsoever! First time I looked at it I couldn't see why anyone would use it for creative work, but the second time it just clicked. My setup is more basic, but Obsidian is incredibly flexible - there's usually a plugin >