Krittika

Wang Shishen 汪士慎 (1686-1759), October 1728:

每餐先备买鱼钱，曾记携归小似拳，
一自爪牙动黠鼠，傍人安稳卧青氊。

I set money aside for fish before each meal.
She used to be no bigger than my hand --
Now with claw and tooth she routs the crafty rat,
And drowses by her humans on her mat.

an example: it's probably possible right now/soon, to create an AI tool that searches the web for people whose online presence betrays feelings of loneliness/latent mental health issues, finds them, then creates multiple virtual friends or even entire communities, & pushes them to violence

“Gentle Elephant Damage” sounds like a very esoteric band

A good thing about being Bengali is that it is highly likely that no one in the last 14 generations has been in the military.

this is excellent

as a 5’ 2” person myself this mini-thread has cheered me up immensely

- chemist in a fertilizer factory
- foreman in a steel factory (very strange job knowing his personality)

What was the deleted post?

You need the sound up for this one.

(You are not prepared for the sound they make).

C H O N K

A cuddly brown cat outside a gate

End of level boss

I believe it was international waters but it’s probably one of those “grey” areas :/ from what the report says it looks like they didn’t pick up survivors as well and left the Sri Lankan navy to rescue them.

I’m obviously no geopolitical expert but is it normal and expected to attack a ship that was not part of the conflict and was doing its own thing an ocean away?

they want kafala but without calling it kafala because that’s icky

lol

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha

This will automatically deter:

- people who want to have families
- people who don’t want to rent all their lives
- people who care to get involved in the community
- generally people in senior-ish work who are more likely to fall into one of the above categories
- women, usually

Sounds good?

And if there are roles for which short term contracts don’t work, well, sucks to be an employer in that situation I guess! You can’t hire immigrants

I genuinely don’t see why transparently taking people on short term contracts and being very clear they will never settle is exploitation

Just say out on paper that you want temporary migrant workers without any political or labour rights or the right to start a family.

This. The hypocrisy is irritating.

A fence with the scratched in words “Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

“Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”

Quite bold for a yard fence in Lancashire

Asking this on Bluesky out of laziness, but would any south London/south London adjacent folks who work in tech be interested in taking part in a "work in progress" night to try out new talks? (quick 🧵)

oh my GOD

Or the Green and Blue chariot racing teams in Constantinople

🫂

I didn’t know individual penguins had names and surnames these days. My apologies to various penguins

It’s worse. Their assumption is that shy Asian women don’t have political opinions of their own and/or wouldn’t have voted at all in the first place.

Deploy local combination jenga-enthusiast-weightlifter?

This lol.

Me getting melon seeds at the Turkish supermarket: man Waitrose has barely an useful spices or herbs