Also good!
16.07.2025 09:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@witchofthetest.bsky.social
Cormorant enthusiast and software tester. You can call me Veerle (pronounced 'fearless' without the ss). Alt txt: profile pic me giving the horns on a white unicorn statue. Banner a cormorant with its wings spread in the sun.
Also good!
16.07.2025 09:52 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Aah yeah that's a thing, didn't you know? We're all cancelling Spotify, get with the times Christian ๐ด๐ป
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We can of course open a whole new can of worms by asking: might there some day be people who get turned on by robots specifically? Because then it becomes a fetish unto itself.
Who am I kidding. Of course those people already exist.
So the group chat just exploded with a question that we feel can only be answered by a deeper thinker than any of us are.
'Have sex with' seems to imply consciousness, wouldn't it be more correct to say 'use for sex'? It's not like you'd ever say you 'had sex with a vibrator' (generic you, obvs).
A great way to fight back against AI taking away work from creatives is to buy art by actual humans.
(Reply to this post with your own art/website etc. But only if youโre an organic life-form).
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thatโs just a job. nobody gets to speak freely at a job. youโre selling your time and freedom. itโs called decorum.
21.06.2025 21:54 โ ๐ 481 ๐ 65 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 3Idk man, maybe the bigots and sex pests are, but that sounds like a YP www.foxnews.com/media/white-...
21.06.2025 19:46 โ ๐ 136 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 15That's fantastic, congratulations!!
07.06.2025 06:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0If youโre thinking, what can we do? Well, Iโll tell you one thing you can do: look at the patterns of the past and then REJECT the next big disruptive technology that comes along and seems like an โemperor has no clothes situation.โ
05.06.2025 09:56 โ ๐ 548 ๐ 118 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 11Absolutely not.
Every time someone tries this, I point out how it biases against Black speech. Every. Time. ๐คท๐ฟโโ๏ธ
Also from the launch of the Perspective API and its "toxicity" score.
Police don't kill too many Black kids."
Score: Not toxic.๐คฆ๐ฟโโ๏ธ
"Police kill too many Black kids.
Score: 80.28% toxic.๐ฎ
The cure to male loneliness is NOT BEING A CUNT.
03.05.2025 18:49 โ ๐ 124 ๐ 19 ๐ฌ 4 ๐ 3Sent a donation your way earlier โค๏ธ I hope it can help you, even if just a little
02.05.2025 20:49 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Large brown duck-like bird vigorously flapping her wings sending water droplets flying.
Oh, the delight of a satisfying splash!
#DoubleCrestedCormorant #birds #wildlife #nature #photography #NewJersey
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I think Daniel makes an excellent point, so not trying to detract from that. However, I'd love to try and help make you feel more comfortable and thus more likely to support people who really need it. This thread is a good place to start
One of my favourite fruits โค๏ธ
24.03.2025 13:21 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Omg these are absolutely gorgeous
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My nights there sound kinda tame in comparison, I just got drunk and danced a lot.
21.03.2025 07:32 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0After I don't know how many years of following you I forgot why I initially decided to do so (as one does, which is fine), but I imagined it was 'something something software development' or a single really funny tweet.
Now I fucking remember. The fucking Catty. It was 'something something Glasgow'
With the stories of how more than 5,000 streets were named, we are (we think) London's biggest repository of the capital's topographical knowledge.
(That's a lot of big words...)
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Same though
19.03.2025 22:39 โ ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Love that about you
18.03.2025 12:19 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Yeah it was intended as a joke more than anything ๐
18.03.2025 11:31 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0This is the very first thing that has made me consider going back to the hell site.
17.03.2025 21:03 โ ๐ 12 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0"Moreso even than cryptocurrency, AI is entirely nihilistic, with zero redeeming qualities. It is a blight upon the world, and it will take decades to clear up the mountains of slop it has generated in the past two or three years."
#NihilismAndTechnology
Thanks for that amazing compliment, it means a lot and I'm happy to hear you found it useful. And I was also really delighted to meet in person after all those years!
14.03.2025 15:23 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Speaker Veerle on stage at Testing Peers Conference. Images of Vikings on screen, and a quote about โContinuous communication and collaborationโ
Veerle Verhagen linking battlefield tactics with improving Agile software delivery. Sheโs such a good speaker #PeersCon25
13.03.2025 13:32 โ ๐ 8 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0The news is there's no news at #peerscon25 with @witchofthetest.bsky.social
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