#StandWithPike

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An arm rests along an armchair, hand lowered over the end and holding a set of rosary beads which hang underneath. The back of the hand is uppermost and has some light bruises from IV feeds and a small round plaster. Around the wrist is a bracelet of spherical wooden beads, then a medical bracelet. Further in the background is the side of a medical bed. The picture is in black and white with no sense of movement. It’s just a moment on a final journey.

Hindsight is never clear, but it’s how we live sometimes while there’s a million nuanced things that happened and we’ve forgotten since. Our loved ones leave a hole in us that we have to live with, and fill with “what ifs” or “shoulds”. Try to take it easy on yourself, e hoa, and give it time ❤️

Love it. Always have, always will

Fricking brilliant 😆

TAFKNAP - The Andrew Formerly Known As Prince.

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A while back I wrote about Auror for @davidfarrier.com's Webworm. They didn't like the story (lol) and said they didn't do facial recognition (which I didn't technically say the did at the time)... guess what they're rolling out now.

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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Donating to support Wikipedia gets more important every day that these fuckers have power. This reminds me to send them some more money.

Please, do

Oh man, that’s rough
Been to see my mam w/ dementia in her care home on last trip home and even with facilities n staff it can be a lot. In a standard ward? Man.
There just must be nowhere else to go, because of the hosp’ care needed? (which is a system failing in itself, imho) Watch out, boomers

“If”

Lawd.

Great closeups too, btw 👍

Oh they are, and those poor plants are going to get hammered, lols.

I’ve none this year but recall last year I took to trimming some eggs early on to avoid a crowd as they always cleaned out my plants, never seemed to be enough swan plant. I’m sure they’ll crawl off to find food

Jesus this first post of the thread is enough. It hits. It brings just a taste, not enough and casts off with just the right inquiry to bloom in the mind

Queen

Is it at all possible,
like, AT ALL,
(almost as a spell)
to write in words the rhythm of the melody from Toto’s Africa intro?
And thus, by having others read them
possibly launch a couple or a dozen or nay, hundreds of worthy earworms ?
Oh, to let it fly would be something, wouldn’t it?

Doo do-do, di-do do doo…

Next minute, saluting frogs are nigh!

🥇

Dear Cadbury Milk Tray

Your hazelnut options suck. Always have, always will. They do nothing but pad the tray out and take up space a better option could occupy.

It’s been years of this. Time to cop on.

Yours, etc.
El Consumero

Lollls, thank you. It’s the glorious Greek version of Old MacDonald I didn’t know existed

This thread you started is wildly cool! Gods I’m gonna have to find those experiments mentioned and figure some things out

Shocked am I, etc

ReliefAid is delivering aid to families in Gaza ReliefAid is distributing life-saving aid to families in Gaza now.

It’s a good sort.

Money goes to facilitating water within Gaza by Gaza’s ppl

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BUT WHAT A WAY TO GO MAN! SWIFTED!!!

Oh Jesus we are so fucked #nzpol

Very true.
Imposter syndrome kicking in, maybe, fear of being “found out in public” for something imaginary.
This does not refute your point one little bit!

The fact that he exists