All of the companies that make the software I use are increasing their prices, to account for an "investment" in AI. I'm sat here imagining how my clients would feel if I added 30% to each invoice, because I "really got into gambling".

Did my Spotify Wrapped and got an artist thanking me for my listens directly to camera and er I think they should put the name of the artist on screen when they do that because I have no idea who this woman is

@pjoreilly.bsky.social I can only assume given that you've deleted it that you've just been beaten at Virtua Tennis

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

@profanity.accountant go on then

Your (not you, sit back down) Party

love to live in a world where all my personal data is relentlessly harvested so that megacorps can feed it into their all-knowing algorithms and yet somehow the end result is that algorithm going “we think you’d like Clarkson’s Farm”

Was just absolutely gutshot by the idea that were Sir Terry Pratchett alive and at full capacity today he would have already published the most scathing takedown of AI proliferation.

This is an absolutely fantastic feature of Monzo Bank, I'm so impressed. Only appears when it can tell that you're on a call (in this case, Discord, so it's not app-specific). This is intelligent, customer-centric design that's based on the right outcomes instead of just compliance.

I've had to go shopping with one handed cooking and eating in mind, and I tell you what, Cornish pasties are good aren't they.

Fell over yesterday and broke the end of my clavicle, right near the shoulder. I think I'll start to see the funny side soon, though - it's pretty close to humerus already

Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

ICYMI! If Steam's not your thing, It Takes a War is also now available - in a very bespoke form - via @itch.io

Every year about this time people go "TIME TO GET YOUR TURKEYS OUT OF THE FREEZER OR THEY WON'T DEFROST IN TIME" and I question everything I know about how meat thaws and then I realise that they're Americans and they're talking about a few days, not a whole month

If your podcast is only on YouTube then I can't listen to it while working, walking to the shops or cleaning the bathroom and so I'm simply not going to listen to it. Amazing how many people don't consider this.

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

I do wince at the left deploying "make x y again" slogan formulations. It is an invention of the enemy, and we should not use it.

I find it irrationally irritating when people are like "2 is the only even prime!!" Oh really, 2 is the only prime number divisible by 2? Did you also know that 3 is the only prime number divisible by 3? And 47 is the only prime number divisible by 47?? DID YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT PRIMES ARE

Setting up a PSN account for my son. Everything seems to be in order, just need to choose an OnlineID and WHAT

This was a big high-concept swing and I absolutely loved it. Really well-realised. You should be listening to this show!

i've asked an llm one question, about something i know about, and it made up a bunch of incorrect bullshit that i knew to be false. what am i supposed to do with that

That Google Pixel "add me" AI photo feature they're advertising now really makes me question making fun of those cultures who thought a photo was stealing part of your soul

Go give Shoe money

I had a lovely phone call with my mum this morning, where she told me that 39 years ago she thought she needed to do a big poo, but actually it was just me about to be born.

#3157 A helpful tutorial

I got the shipping notice for this, got very excited, and then realised I haven't got a bloody thing in the house that'll play it so I'll have to sit in the driveway blasting it in my 2008 Seat Ibiza

Getting mixed messages here.

Love this so much. 💜

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

I’ve seen a few folks go for the “if you simply must watch that new Harry Potter show just pirate it” and sorry. No. Just no. Just don’t watch it. At all. Ever. Break free of it. It’s time. You’ll be ok. I promise. I know it mattered to you as a kid. Find new things, it’s healthier. Just move on.

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

@nershly.bsky.social damn, just saw you in the PMG vid, you are awesome and I'm sorry this is happening to you all

What a delicious piece of writing. I can just taste the mischievous satisfaction he had writing that second and third sentence.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

It's occurred to me that some people might be annoyed I haven't replied to DMs in the last six months. It's not you, it's just that the UK has forced me to give all my DNA to Epic Games if I want to reply

It's good that they've delayed GTA VI another six months, because that gives them extra time to ruin their reputation as much as possible.

First episode, second season… third wheel? Meet Herman! Our season 2 premiere OUT NOW! #audiodrama

*whispers* None of the royals deserve their titles. 🤫🫢

One day all the LLMs simultaneously start to hallucinate a major news event which never occurred

a personal GOAT, one of the best to ever do it, my GOTY in 2020. get it.

Boycott anything Harry Potter. It's incredibly easy to do

God I can not wait for this. Season 1 was fantastic. I'm going to have to relisten again over the next week.

People are talking about this as an AWS or centralization issue, but really it's a symptom of a different problem of software resilience much bigger than Amazon: Almost no software of any kind accounts for the possibility that it wouldn't be successfully connected to the internet all the time.

My mum once had a lovely conversation with a stranger and came away telling me about the hockey team she'd learned about, the Toronto Make-Believes

Cannae mind the last time I was in a supermarket and didnae hear like ten different folk going "Oh fuck sake" at the price of something.

On Wed, I leave for my final competition of the year (and maybe ever as there is a chance they revoke my Therapeutic Use Exemption next year; they are changing the rules). Today, I start the hours-long process of packing. Anyway! Care to support this trans athlete? julesnotes.com/help-this-tr...

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

A jury of my peers? TWELVE murderers?!

This is one of the things I am so angry at the media about, the way that ordinary journalists went along with their absolutely frothing at the mouth colleagues and never thought to go "Uhhh, your friends are trying to change the law, does that not make YOU the activists?"