Pete Jordan

Say it after me: Chat GPT is not a search engine. It does not scan the web for information, it just generates statistically likely sentences. You cannot use it a search engine, or as a substitute for searching.

Now. Please never use an LLM for information searches ever again.

occult endometriosis or ectopic mullerian epithelial tissue growth may occur in transgender women taking feminising gender-affirming hormone therapy

sex isnt a spectrum, its a godless nightmare

For anyone saying that nobody saw this coming. That's quite apart from both #45 and #47 clearly (ok, *incoherently*) stating their intentions. #Constitution #RuleOfLaw #USA

Every time I use Paypal, I feel like I'm slithering on some vile and toxic underslime of Thiel and Musk. I imagine that's what driving a Tesla feels like…

Somebody needs to sit down with the EC and patiently and slowly explain how encryption works and that there is no way to access encrypted data without breaking encryption for all users, not just the baddies.

I'm thinking about you, my love.

I'm thinking about
open.substack.com/pub/hannahhu...

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

The day many feared would soon come is already here, with the White House openly defying direct orders from federal judges on deportation. I take us through what happened and why the stakes have been upped considerably once again in my piece: open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Sometimes oldskool still comes in handy… trying to run libre office from a waypipe ssh session failed miserably, and yes, it took a blind typed “stty sane” to get the disconnected terminal back 🙂

Close up photo of Hodge, a black cat, sat on my lap.

#Hodge on my lap, from a fortnight ago, for no better reason than that I love this pic of him 🙂🐈‍⬛ #Cat #BlackCatsOfHull

Absolute best editing tool? That'd be reading the damned thing aloud 🙂 #Poetry #Editing

We are trying to bring Morris Teams together into a lovely Starter Pack for everyone.
Let me know if your team needs adding.
Come & Enjoy the Dance.

go.bsky.app/Bzq1Qin

Black cat, Hodge, lying on my lap.

Tabby cat, Polleh, perched on my shoulder.

Dishes done, bed innabit. Photos of #Polleh in my shoulder this morning, and #Hodge on my lap tonight (with incidental side order of @ass.golf; I'm in sight of catching up in my re-read of all of #QC 🙂)

Patrick Bateman: "Oh, you added a new AI feature? Impressive. Very nice. Patrick Bateman, continued: "Now, show me how I disable it."

And this is why the world needs librarians...

GWS compendium, finally arrived and unwrapped 🙂

Worth waiting for 🥰

Vintage image of six British soldiers at a defensive outpost. They're dressed in drag–some of the men are wearing helmets with their frocks and they're moving a large gun into position.

"Home defense troops are left in drag as their Christmas charity performance was interrupted by a coastal alert near Gravesend" 1940 ©John Topham / TopFoto
Location: Gravesend, Kent, Great Britain

This is a colorized version of the original black and white. More information in the comments.

Just as well I lost my phone phobia (along with much else that ailed my head) during lockdown 😄

It is! Seems UPS here don't know how to deliver to normal street addresses, and their web interface is spectacularly bad (and I've seen plenty of bad sites in my 30 years as a web dev 🙂). However, if all is well, it'll be at a drop point at a store half a mile up the road Monday…

OK, UPS win the prize for the (hotly contested) accolade of most appallingly bad delivery service. And worst web site for attempting (failing) to fix things so my package from @dcorsetto.bsky.social be delivered to my door. A phone call to a human being has (hopefully) redirected to a pickup point…

Cooplands don't run a delivery service for triple chocolate muffins 😢

Dance; dance from the heart of you, with radical honesty. It's good for what ails you, and also dancing helps delay that moment (that will come) when your limbs no longer.

Ooook! [trans: read the thread!]

#librarians #resist

A while back, Mish asked for suggestions of songs to cover on their Patreon; this was mine 🙂

(Only a taster snippet here, but enough to convey the idea. You can give yourself a free sub at www.patreon.com/mishkinfitzg... if you want to hear the whole thing 🪗)

“borderline”?

Hyphenated as an adjective; “frontline” is just wrong, and so can safely be reserved for it being verbed.

It's a disgrace that @sainsburys.bsky.social is happy to jettison its dedicated workers while paying telephone number salaries to top bosses. Its sheer greed is there for all to see – handing out bonanza bonuses for rampant profiteering while workers and customers suffer the consequences.

Photograph of Whitby Harbour overlaid with words, “still”: the silence gathers hidden clouds gather weight great weights swing wide arcs slicing close pulling gravity dark light curving perception cold winds in the void the wind carries voices whispers voice secret fears freed past shutters an answer to loss reconnection casting for hope in a vacuum recreating worlds' love the world moves the Universe moves around around a single still point deep within me a dancing point that itself moves in its stillness like a silent storm

“still”, from last October; the stanzas form a cycle, I've changed their printed (and probably read) order this morning, but overlaid on Whitby Harbour, you can pick your starting point and direction 🙂

skydancer.org.uk/worms/still....
#poem #recovery #emergence #perception #healing #love #stillness

@caragee.bsky.social still your Senator? Albeit at a relatively safe distance…

Image handling isn't its strongest suit…