FFS. Bloody AI, I hate it!! This video came across my feed and I started watching it, because I enjoy what John Oliver has to say. As soon as I started watching it, it seemed a bit off. Not quite right. His face, body language, and the way he talks was just a bit different. Some tips follow: 🧵1/2

I wonder if dogs use their wet noses to their advantage to make you pat them after they shive their noses into your hand? Or are wet nosed smoodges on their person just a bonus? LOL! 🤣

A really good thread. Read it all!

Ugh. No!

#TimelineCleanse So much joy. 🥰

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

Exactly!

I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like a gigantic bug destroying the town.

Heraskevych’s choice to forfeit the medal chance instead of give up the memorial helmet is the biggest story in Ukraine today. Everyone is heartbroken but there is a unanimous consensus that this was what had to happen rather than to give up.

"On no account allow a Vogon to read poetry at you."

I believe this is true of most subjects. PE, history, art, you name it. Instead of inspiring students to explore a subject and expand their abilities, we immediately grade them, putting students into categories of ‘good’, ‘mediocre’ and ‘crap’. That sticks. And it stifles. Often for life.

Age verification: People born after the year 2000 are surely still in nappies, right??

I’ve been playing around with colouring. I thought I was unskilled at art stuff, but I guess I hadn’t found the right medium for me. I got some cheap second-hand Copics, loved them, and then decided more colours was a good idea, so I bought a 48 set of Ohuh alcohol markers. This is all of them.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Read this whole thread. A whole lot of detail about the entire set-up, the songs, and the reasons behind all of it fo the Superb Owl half-time show. So good!

So, as an Aussie, do I have this straight? There was an ‘alternative’ half time show because Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican? I love that every single other person I saw in his show was black or brown. Does he always have that kind of line up, or was it a particular ‘fuck you’ to Trump and other bigots?

OMG, that cocoa butter one smells soooooooo good!!!

Back to the house sit where I have to tell these two half-brother dogs, ‘We don’t do head jobs in the kitchen!!’ and chase them out.

GENOCIDAL STATES ARE NOT MATES #HerzogNotWelcome

A simple thing I can afford now that I don’t pay rent. There’s no way I could previously have afforded to buy four different types of moisturiser at one time to compare side-by-side which works best for my very dry, perimenopausal skin.

Why isn’t there a better way to eliminate the body of its waste products?? I’m doing stuff! And things!! I don’t want to have to stop and go to the toilet. Ugh!!

Massively busy week (for us) has definitely caught up with me. My lie-in this morning was wonderful and much-needed, and now I’m already so tired! There will be more blobbing on today’s schedule as soon as lunch is ready.

#TimelineCleanse Sparkly Antennae Edition

The little kid on the right looks like he wants to melt into the ground from embarrassment. LOLOLOL! 🤣

Also sharing this!

My weekend has started with waking around 9am, then dozing for another 45 minutes. Perfect, so far. ❤️

Also, I would not class that as ‘semi-regularly’ for something that cools as long as that. I’d say ‘semi-regularly’ would be maybe five times across the length of the entire time they’re won the oven. Which is five times more than I _actually_ toss and turn them.

Gosh, we’ve had a busy week! I’m so glad that we have zero plans for the weekend. There will be much flopping and blobbing.

Plus, you’d lose so much heat that those things will never cook!!

*vomits* 🤮

Okay. ‘Biopic’. In my (Aussie) mind, it was always pronounced ‘bye-op-ick’. But I’ve heard it pronounced (USA) as ‘bio-pick’. Is it a regional thing or am I just wrong?

100% joy. 🥰

Yeah, wow. WTAF?!

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Read this thread. Be inspired to be like that band teacher. 🔥❤️

Today has been the 6th time packing to go between house sits with my teen since we started house sitting full time. We’ve been refining the moving process each time we do it, and tomorrow’s departure feels on track to be quite smooth. I’m very pleased. 😊

I see a lot of #KnitSky people are still following him. Block that bastard.

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

Tonight’s iconic viewing: The Good Fight, season 3, episode 5: youtu.be/hQzPa1V8_EA?...

Today I’ve been packing my van for us to move to the next house sit (a place we’ve been to three times previously), and I hung my head in all kinds of directions. I felt slight dizziness as I did, but it hasn’t become worse. Keeping my fingers crossed this bout of vertigo will continue to improve.

Thistle is pretty adorable, yes, but the alt text on this is 🔥.

Today I’ve woken up and I can roll my head towards the bedside table without getting dizzy. This is a good sign! Perhaps this particular bout of vertigo is fading away! Don’t tell the vertigo I said that. It might jinx it.

This is the sashiko pattern I was working on at the crafternoon with my friend. Finally finished it today. Just the grid for preparing to draw the stars is quite a bit of work. Now considering what I might stitch this on. (Not my own design. It’s Sakura Wari.) #sashiko #CraftSky #australian 🧶

I just washed the two dogs here (both small) and I only got _half_ wet. Winning! 🤣

LLMs (ChatGPT, etc) are not your friend. They’re not safe to trust. youtube.com/shorts/7sRZN...

they really dropped the ball when they used the name "goblet" on a cup and not a small goblin.

Cooking, I muttered to myself, ‘Maybe I put too much butter in.’ Then replied to myself with, ‘Is there such a thing, though?’

I just explained ‘tuck shop lady arms’ to my 13-yo home educated kid. I wonder what the equivalent is in the USA?

A friend and I had a crafternoon today. She made colourful, free, and flowing art with multiple types of paints. I drew straight lines in lead pencil. I erased many of those lines because they’re weren’t quite perfect, redrew a bunch of them and by the end of the day, ended up exactly where…🧵 1/3

Good advice for if you get pepper-sprayed. youtube.com/shorts/z4dy0...