@tayfonay

I dreamed about you last night. We were good friends and worked in a sort of fun office (think beanbags) and were responsible for delivering some kind of training. I wish I could remember more but it's already fading. I like to imagine we were the sort of awful people that would say 'right let's go around the room and I want you all to tell me a fun fact about yourselves'. Striking fear into the hearts of our captive trainees. I always wanted to be asked that question so I could respond with something super weird and uncomfortable for everybody else.

Y a des gens, iels sont capables de rentrer dans des systèmes ultra sécurisés du gouvernement ou de grosses entreprises, et plutôt que de piquer tous les mails des PDG ou des responsables pour les rendre publics, iels syphonnent les données utilisateurices et les vendent au plus offrant.

Ça manque d'activistes de gauche dans ce milieu 😤

@farah Yeah, they just want to mindfuck you.

“People are only going back to Twitter because Bluesky and Mastodon are so anti-AI” is a truly epic failure of reason-washing.

@drahardja @souverain À bas les liens flip.it ;)

@decryption But is that not a small price to pay for something that'll confidently tell you there are 6 r's in 'strawberry'?

Was the spell cast so that the carriage would turn into a pumpkin after it had experienced some number of seconds that happened to coincide with "midnight" by some definition? What if she took the carriage at relativistic velocity?

i remember when these shitty stick PCs were like $150 and nobody wanted them, now I actually want to use one for something and they're $500+ fuck you sam altman

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005012748522713.html

Any frank assessment of your achievements starts with an equally frank assessment of the world-historic forces attending those achievements. For example, I often tell young people who want to get into tech, "If you don't have the foresight and work ethic to be born in 1971, I can't really help you."

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What if she took the carriage to the north pole during the summer? When would the carriage turn into a pumpkin?

@viticci

@thejapantimes
…for insisting on ethics.

Endless. #grickledoodle #sloth #scrolling #phones #cartoon #rage #art #drawing #funny #humor #sad

Sir John Fenwick was beheaded in 1697 for plotting the overthrow and assassination of William III. The Crown seized his estate after the execution, including a horse. William died in 1702 after being thrown from that same horse, an amazing trick if you can pull it off.

The horse is said to have stumbled over a molehill, leading William's Jacobite enemies to begin toasting "To the little gentleman in black velvet." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_John_Fenwick,_3rd_Baronet

Hello

I am looking for a place to live in East London. Ideally an empty one with three bedrooms, as I have two other people in similar situations nearby, who'd all like to move together (we're acquainted, not friends, it's not a drama bomb waiting to go off).

I need to move before September. I've lived nearby for 5 years, but the landlord is selling. We all need to save money so the budget is low, but we're all good for it and excited to make a wee home.

I've been self-employed since 2020, and intend to add a part time day job for backup income (moving has delayed this). The others are in work and retraining nearby. We're all covid conscious and it won't be a party house. I need to be as close as possible to my doctors.

Despite (or possibly because of) my whingeing on here, I am very easy to deal with and would like to just live somewhere and keep working and getting better.

@fetchezlavache I use Beeper to not have to install Messenger (or any other Meta app) on my phone. You still need an active Facebook account, but it doesn't have to be on your phone.

Beeper itself belongs to Automattic.

I could get what is essentially a metal frame version of what I currently have (and fixed-frame as well - it doesn't look like I'd be able to adjust the shelf heights or anything) for about 4x the price. Not sure I feel like paying that to get the same thing but in metal though.