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Text message: OMG, it's Heidi. Are you sure you don't have the wrong person? Message from me: Sometimes people who send messages like this aren’t doing it by choice, and are being forced or trafficked into it. If that’s what’s happening, you don’t have to tell me details but please know you can get help confidentially and for free. You can message @BeFree (233733) in the U.S. or visit humantraffickinghotline.org for local numbers in other countries. They can connect you with safety, shelter, and legal help without involving the police unless you want that.

My favorite thing to do to sha zhu pan scammers these days, just in case:

@Bluedonkey My experience is similar.

Large language models are _amazing_ at finding possible problems. Really. Their pattern-matching is shockingly good.

So far, they are terrible at proposing solutions. Really, really awful.

I discovered just how similar the world has become.

One coworker is right now in Delhi. He was working after midnight, local time.

I searched Google for photos of nice bedrooms in Delhi. It, of course, gave me hundreds of photos of bed and breakfasts in Delhi, India.

I scrolled, then scrolled […]

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STREAMING THIS WEEK!

TONIGHT: More #FFXIV adventures with Inspector Hildebrand, and the mysterious Detective Hardiboiled!

WEDNESDAY: #FurryArt stream, featuring Queen Langley! ( https://www.patreon.com/posts/143200638 )

Both starting at 7 pm Eastern @ […]

[Original post on meow.social]

[USPol, something that doesn't suck]

And now for something that doesn't suck! SCOTUS rejects bid to overturn same-sex marriage https://bsky.app/profile/apnews.com/post/3m5bu5uriwg2j

The longer I live, the more weird I'm convinced that I am.

I finally met up with an old friend who lives in Los Angeles, but we haven't had a chance to meet.

I discovered that he works about four blocks from where I live.

Now, I live in a wildly diverse neighborhood with restaurants, taco […]

[US Politics]

In three years, I'm going to bet two things:

1. No American will admit that they voted for Donald.
2. No Californian will admit that they voted for Proposition 50.



It took away House representatives from Republicans in California. It made California less (small-d) […]

Dick Cheney is dead. Let's play some appropriate music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXpmunmG5ss

Are there servers on the Fediverse that are particularly good for a joke account along the lines of "Riker Googling"?

I have an idea...

@skinnylatte Though I've never been to Malaysia, that sounds DELICIOUS.

@crenquis Laika was the GOODEST of doggies.

I introduced Eli to Qamaria coffee: a Yemeni-run coffee chain with light desserts.

It is _extremely_ popular with the laptop crowd. Their mezzanine was completely full, with people typing rapidly and guzzling good coffee.

Their coffee really is good. It has Middle-Eastern and Indian flavors […]

This is the last weekend that Citizen Public Market, a food hall in Culver City, will be open. And... to my complete shock, it's only about half full.

Yes, there's a big screen TV playing the game. There's a half dozen restaurants open. And there are lots of empty seats.

This. Is. Weird.

[US Politics, joke]

On Epstein's private island, where there is no police around and anything could be done, inside the sanctuary where even things not whispered on the rest of the island could be done, Epstein had a hidden camera.

He had the greatest possible blackmail on the future U.S […]

I make popcorn as a snack in the afternoon. I tend to mix spices to make it more interesting.

I added onion, paprika, a little salt, and butter today. Only when I made that mix did I realize...

I had created popcorn paprikash.

@the_gneech @MulticlassGeek

Happy anniversary to both of you!

"When Delay Becomes Death" As he parked the morgue truck at the all-night burger joint, the driver was unaware that in the jacket pocket of the body in the back, was a cellphone doing its duty, sending out all the messages that had been queued while it was out of tower range. "Hey guys, you won't believe it. I think that chick from the bar last night is also on the hiking trail. I don't think she recognized me. This should be fun! ;)" "It's definitely her! I'm going to follow her!" "This chick is nuts! She is seriously off the beaten track here" "I lost her! Oh well, heading back to the main path. I knew she was weird." "Getting dark, and I haven't found the main trail yet. No point in going further until light. Weather is fine, and I have a bivvy blanket and snacks." "It's two in the morning. Cold as heck. I thought I heard a noise." "Two-thirty. It's that weird chick. She is chanting out in the dark someplace. WTF?" "I went down to the creek to top up my water and get more firewood. While I was down there, she stole all my stuff! Fucking weird bitch." "Guys if you get this please send a rescue chopper she cut me I cant walk trying to crawl into the bushes to hide please send help please " "Hey guys, so nice meeting you yesterday. I am totally fine with you groping me. I LOVE that stuff. Billy seems tired. Bye! XXX"

The weeks writing group prompt was "delayed messages"

It’s crazy, I keep finding confirmation bias everywhere

[re: USPol, ruminations]

@the_gneech There is a huge gap between "nice" and "good".

It's time to start emphasizing the good.

And now, please enjoy this dumb #Halloween joke:

I'm going to start an online service where you can see videos from werewolves for a low monthly fee.

I'm going to call it Lycan Subscribe.

[Large neural networks]

People have been using large neural networks to... fake receipts.

Wait. What?

I didn't know that faking receipts was even... mildly difficult.

When I worked for a large company, at least twice, I created receipts for restaurant meals so that every I could be dotted […]

@Moosader (I just submitted Muzaiko to Radio Garden.)

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

@Moosader I visited the one Esperanto radio station that https://radio.garden knew about -- https://esperanteradio.blogspot.com/

It was a TTS of https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27915 No emotion. No human interest.

I stopped listening immediately.

[re: US Politics]

@the_gneech Yeah. I do not LIKE Proposition 50. But I voted for it as the best of a not-so-good world.

[US Politics]

I just voted in California's special election for proposition 50.

I voted YES.

In a perfect system, California would send to the US House of Representatives roughly the same percent of Republicans as the percent that voted in the general election. But the US is not a closed-list […]

In August, the #Trump admin sent #UCLA a 27-page list of demands and settlement proposal, which UCLA wanted to keep confidential during its deliberations and negotiations. The UCLA Faculty Association sued to compel its disclosure, and the California Supreme Court just decided in favor of the […]

A skillet with Entirely Too Many Ingredients on top. You can easily see scallions, some brown sauce, and layer of egg. Under the egg, noodles and cabbage peek out. A spatula is under the dish, to help slice it.

[Food with meat]

Hello from Chinchikurin Sawtelle!

A nasty story has a tasty ending.

Hiroshima, 1946. Destroyed after the war, Japan was not even able to feed itself. The United States sent many shiploads of wheat flour to Japan.

The Japanese had very little […]

[Original post on im-in.space]

"Dude" doesn't pass the giggle test.

What's the giggle test? Compare "dude" against a really non-gendered word like "redhead".

"Before he was married, Mel Gibson liked to fuck redheads."

No giggle.

"Before he was married, Mel Gibson liked to fuck dudes."

HUGE giggle.

STRIKKEFASTHET 22 m x 29 omg glattstrikk, 27 omg mønster = 10 x 10 cm

The author of this norwegian knitting pattern was sadly attacked by a werewolf in the middle of writing the gauge instructions

@the_gneech See you next stream!