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Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that

There shouldn't be a zen mode. Zen mode should be the default. Content moderation and hiding pictures with no alt text shouldn't be an optional extra.

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When Enron collapsed, taking Arthur Andersen (then one of The Big Five accounting firms) with them the two big issues were:
1. Enron’s corporate culture which was dependent on the value of their shares always going up.
And
2. Their Mark-to-Market bookkeeping system

Real trans allies refuse to answer when NHS 111 asks what genitals you were born with when you call up with an ear infection

White text on a red field. Text reads: Translators are NOT traitors, with letters in bolder white offering the message "Translators NOT AI."

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay!

Keep AI out of translation!

Magnificent big pointy ears on Big Bobcat and little nubby ears on Little Bobkitten as they rest their paws side-by-side on a gnarly fallen log and do serious faces as they look into the distance, surrounded on all sides by hundreds of red and purple flowers in the long green grass of a meadow.

For anyone who needs it, Big Bobcat and Little Bobcat doing a bit of fieldwork.

tweet that reads: Lady behind me at The Thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? You watch it and information is revealed"

i think about this post every time i watch a movie

Came back into the living room, saw the timing tower and asked the cat what happened to Alex Dunne. Not sure she was watching. #F2

Spare a thought for all the Chelsea fans awkwardly getting the train back down to London with the United fans

There's a reason the Catholic church are so keen on forgiveness- it's because they're guilty as fuck.

This is incredibly accurate and I cannot begin to tell you how big of a deal this kind of thing would be.

Stop. Going. To. Disneyland.

Glad I'm not the only person who has noticed this. Web search in general is completely devalued because unknown websites are, increasingly, word salad.

With integrated Lichess API so you can play real people not bots.

They should make a chess game with a 2K styled MyCareer mode

Tetraoxygen?

That's why I offered arc as a second option. But I do feel like "adventure" should be the longer of the two.
Epic?

Adventure? Arc?

Please use alt text so I don't have to see Charlie Kirk's dumb face and my muted words can work

The tram again. Some dickhead with literally a pint glass of Stella Artois.

I'm just going mad, aren't I? It's not even midday. #Manchester

I need to say no to gigs until I can shake this chest infection. It feels like I've been ill forever.
Freelance is supposed to be freeing but I always feel so guilty saying no.

To be clear, I didn't report it out of a desire to see someone else in trouble, I reported it because I don't like breathing in crack fumes on my way to work.

The floor of a tram, littered with bits of tinfoil covered in burnt residue

Reported the fact someone was smoking not-tobacco on the tram at 3:30pm today and four hours later there's still tinfoil on the floor. TfGM, everybody. #Manchester

Why are rents so high and will they keep going up? In the face of record rents in the UK, will renters face more surges as the cost of living crisis continues to hit households?

We must bring about justice and security for the millions people ripped off by greedy private landlords — and kickstart the biggest council house building programme in generations to end the housing crisis.

Mattie Lubchansky comic Panel 1: A woman wipes away a tear while looking at her phone. A man comes in to check on her Man: Hey, is everything ok? Woman: It's just. The Bone Farmer... he died Panel 2 Man: He was that thing that would break into people's homes at night and steal their skeletons as they slept, right? Woman: So sad Panel 3: The woman is looking at a framed photo of a purple monster with lots of teeth, wearing a bow tie. Woman: I mean obviously, ideologically, I didn't agree with him, with regards to skeleton ownership. But his sweet li'l bow tie. Man: You have to admire his tenacity for a cause he believed in! Panel 4: zoom out to show Geoff, a pile of boneless flesh in a glass tube in the middle of the room. Geoff: Gonna have to disagree with you folks here... Man: Too soon, Geoff!

Tetris and Word games lead to fewer intrusive memories when applied several days after analogue trauma - PubMed <span><b>Background</b>: Intrusive trauma memories are a key symptom of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), so disrupting their recurrence is highly important. Intrusion development was hindered by ...

Anyone who accidentally saw the footage (and isn't a ghoul like me who is used to things like that) - play some Tetris or a word game. I'm not kidding.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29152159/

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life.

The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

for sale: baby. stupid and ugly.

For general #education discussion, here are the AI/LLM policies my students will be subject to for the semester beginning today. I expect to revise the document in subsequent terms as needed.

profberk.blogspot.com/2025/09/my-a...