Just went and caught up on the highlights! OMG! What an excellent, gripping match. What a finish. Exhilarating. So many stories and moments, not least the injured Woakes heroically going out with his arm in a sling. Proper Test. This is what it's about! #TestIsBest #ENGvIND #INDvENGπ
04.08.2025 11:52 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I loved the extreme silliness of the 'machine' for making tea that doesn't work at all. It's like every time I tried to invent a Lego 'machine' for turning off the bedroom light from the other side of the room as a kid. Joyous failure.
04.08.2025 11:36 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I haven't laughed this hard in a loooong time π
04.08.2025 08:34 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
It looks very sophisticated
04.08.2025 08:30 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Fun! Even though I got no weregild. Boo!
04.08.2025 05:26 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Ooo love the new frames
04.08.2025 05:18 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
All the renovation accounts I follow are suddenly full of discussion about the 'benefits' of AI for designing your home update. I am now saving this to drop silently into the next relevant convo...
04.08.2025 03:19 β π 45 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Dr Eel has a bunch of vet bills coming up, so now would be a great time to pick up your very own custom-drawn tube map of Narnia.
04.08.2025 03:17 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Repeal Job-Ready Graduates Policy Now: Restoring Equity in Higher Education - Online petition
We sign this petition in solidarity with those who signed the Open Letter to the Prime Minister on 28 July 2025β¦
We are so close to reaching our target of 2500 signatures on this petition calling for the repeal of Job-Ready Graduates! If you care about equity in higher education and want the BA to be affordable and accessible for *all* students, please sign! www.openpetition.org/au/petition/...
04.08.2025 00:57 β π 25 π 31 π¬ 0 π 2
Oh poor pup! And poor Dr Eel! β€οΈβπ©Ή
03.08.2025 21:58 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
π§΅Spotted While Roaming in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A tiny human (2?) has noticed that Granddad is frowning. This won't do. With a concerned expression, she motions for him to bend down and gently pushes his eyebrows up. The reward is a huge Grandad belly chuckle and a very big hug. It worked! (1)
03.08.2025 20:21 β π 404 π 35 π¬ 9 π 4
The entire AI discourse boils down to one thing:
Which matters more, the process or the result?
And without the former, the latter gives you nothing.
It's the process that matters. However easy, or not, it may be, that's where the magic is.
03.08.2025 08:46 β π 59 π 18 π¬ 4 π 3
I love this description. This is exactly the thing. And actually quite explicitly the way a lot of AI is currently advertised:
Don't know how to write an email even though that is your actual job? You don't even need to download the Email module, Matrix style! Just outsource it & take the credit!
03.08.2025 09:28 β π 14 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
For instance:
Use a tool
Use a 3/8 Whitworth spanner
Both statements are true. Only one of them is going to help your mechanic know how to do the job properly on your classic car. And literally every kind of expertise has these kinds of words that it needs to function fully!
03.08.2025 09:23 β π 8 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Yes! And another beef with such tips is not about simplicity (which I love in context), but the misrepresentation of 'clarity'. Sometimes big/complex words *are* for clarity! If you are writing for specialists a technical term is usually clearer & more precise than a 'simple' alternative!
03.08.2025 09:23 β π 12 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
An AI generated cover of a dark romantasy book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. Sam has added the text AI FAKE across the cover with explosive emojis
A screenshot of the title and blurb of an AI generated book passing itself off as written by Sam Blake. There are no reviews which is something of a relief
For anyone who got a notification that I've written a dark romantasy trilogy (this is book 1) - I haven't. Please don't buy any of them.
These books are AI generated &
Amazon should be removing them today.
For anyone who may have bought one, I hope you can get a refund from Amazon.
01.08.2025 08:00 β π 281 π 146 π¬ 16 π 29
Warning: the song is pretty catchy!
03.08.2025 07:27 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
YouTube video by Fringe Wives Club
Feminist F*ckboi by Fringe Wives Club
My sister was in an amazing cabaret group who satirized this in song a few years ago... (Nb. Language probably not for small persons or workplaces!) youtu.be/CcSA6L7PbtI?...
03.08.2025 07:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
and homophobia... and and and...
03.08.2025 02:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Not to get all 'discourse' on a Sunday, but I see that "90s were a feminist time" is doing the rounds, and to debunk this in one story, I vividly recall a convo with friends in the late 90s about how I would struggle to find a life partner if I did a PhD because "guys aren't into smart chicks". Fin.
03.08.2025 00:36 β π 19 π 2 π¬ 1 π 0
You struck gold!
02.08.2025 22:01 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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02.08.2025 21:52 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Extremely important.
Also, excellent upholstery choice!
02.08.2025 21:26 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0
You beat me to it! π
01.08.2025 21:52 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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01.08.2025 21:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
This meme is violence
01.08.2025 11:42 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Right? She's living her best life
01.08.2025 08:48 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A multistorey wall, onto which is projected the recognisable shadow of a triceratops skeleton
My sister got a new job, and one of her tasks is leading tours of dinosaur skeletons by torchlight!
01.08.2025 08:30 β π 58 π 2 π¬ 3 π 0
It finally happened. I was in a meeting where a colleague I respect uttered the words "I ran it through ChatGPT". And moreover, nobody else seemed to bat an eyelid. π±
01.08.2025 03:49 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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