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Well, it’s the day after Wallace and Gromit rode again – and it’s the 31st anniversary of the first appearance of the greatest sound effect in the history of the motion picture, so here’s the story of how (I found out how) they made it...

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Merry Christmas, folks. Or season's greetings. Or just happy Thursday. Hope you have a good one, whatever you're doing.

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The 4-day trial has been a success almost every single time it's been tried, anywhere in the World. Worker happiness goes up, illness and loss of time due to sick leave (particularly mental health issues) decreases, and productivity usually stays the same or increases.

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they didn't need AI to make Silksong, it just needed some deeply insane guys to have a blank check for living expenses until their next thing was done, I think we should try doing more of that instead

If he can't get off on a "personal use" excuse then I don't know what Europe's coming to.

Door 22 of #Shedvent: Your second gift; in a wooden cup. A cheering draught of winters past; of summertime; of absent friends, and friends as yet unknown; all scented with nutmeg and cinnamon, and brandied apple, cherry, and cloves...

We hope the BlueSky moderators don't flag today's offering for #MosaicMonday as being, ahem... prawnographic. 😳

funny. your name isn't listed here joe.

In these challenging times someone might need one of them: Childline: 0800 1111 Samaritans: 116 123 Domestic Violence Hotline: 0808 2000 247 Mind: 0300 123 3393 Age UK: 0800 169 6565 Alcoholics Anonymous : 0800 9177 650 Cruse Bereavement Care: 0808 808 1677 MH text support: 85258

Couldn't happen to a more deserving sex trafficker

Add your name to the petition to stop the tax cuts for tech billionaires: act.38degrees.org.uk/act/no-tax-c...

Trump is reportedly pressuring the UK to scrap the Digital Services Tax: a 2% levy on the biggest tech giants. It raises billions for public services and stops tax dodging. Giving in would mean handing tax breaks to trillion-dollar firms while people struggle. The Government must hold the line.

anyway, synthetic AI research is like that except all the effort goes into making it hard to tell when you've tipped into bullshit

*small boats stuck klaxon*

Eradication of the Palestinian people is Israeli Government policy

I don't think I needed this reminder of my rapidly advancing years

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Another one to add to your Xmas playlists - the classic 1981 Woolworths Christmas advert performed by Lancashire's best band the @lancashirehotpots.bsky.social and Lancashire's 8th best band @spraypopmusic.com open.spotify.com/album/69Uhu3...

There’s an Arabic version of “every cloud has a silver lining” that translates to “no cows, no feeding them at dawn.” A Scots version is “today’s rain is tomorrow’s whisky.” And a Romanian phrase for looking on the bright side is un șut în fund, un pas înainte, or “a kick in the ass, a step forward”

Surprisingly, it turns out that Nazi Germany-style daily reports on The Crimes Of The Untermenschen Against The Herrenvolk are not making Britain less hateful or deranged

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Newcastle burned down in 1216 and was rebuilt. The rebuild suffers from subsidence and whilst it hasn’t collapsed yet, the font cover was designed to be hung from the tower above the font and uh. It is now several inches not centred above the font itself.

Absolutely nobody asked for this BUT English Anglican cathedrals that have burned down, fallen over, and sank into the swamp: a thread.

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I'm obsessed with the way this is just Metropolis - Coppelia - Pygmalion all the way down. Every new technology is turned to the service of "what if woman, but without the pesky autonomy".

As plenty of women have always known, it’s easy to sucker a man with a big ego into pretty much anything you want if you just let him bang on about his obsessions, flatter him, and don’t let your own personality intrude.

Techbros seem to love Tolkien, so here's an analogy to help you understand what genAI is. GenAI is The One Ring. You think your use is justified, b/c you don't have evil in your heart. But it came from evil, it is intended for evil purpose, & anything you do with it will be twisted to that end.

What do I want for Christmas? A mysterious manor in the Scottish countryside, a library of vintage novels, a collection of the world’s rarest wines, an owl to deliver and retrieve my post, a butler with a mysterious backstory, and my own personal pastry chef. I'm really not that hard to shop for.

"The huge yellow somethings went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them – which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years."

Really enjoying this sort of combo just repeatedly popping up

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The Vanity Fair spread from the White House is brutal. The photographer chose to make them look small and powerless in the wides, and brutishly unflattering in the absurdly tight portrait shots. It's a masterclass of shade and manipulation via a camera.

This is the sort of contract that if you were entertaining signing it, your friends should smash through a window, do roll on the floor, leap up in a feral pounce and slap it out of your hands

Get in loser, we’re going to the place where they knock losers on the head with a big hammer and grind them into a slurry, wait, dunno why I said that we’re definitely not going there, we’re going to get doughnuts. JUST GET IN THE FUCKING CAR

It's not going well

I am BEGGING you all to stop sharing that bullshit Compact Mag piece on the white dude who didn’t get hired by Brown because he was too RETVRN about the Roman military. The writer is a full time ticket scalper who has one beat: white-man grievance. $20 says the whole article is a work of fiction.

Again and again, the optimal position when legally threatened by Trump is to be resolute in defence and prepare for court. You will likely not then have to go to court, as he will fold or settle. But if you seek to settle from the off, he has got you and he will crush you.

There’s a great expression from Argentinian Spanish about someone who’s sticking their oar in that goes vos no te peinés que no salís en esta foto. It means “don’t comb your hair because you don’t appear in this photograph.”

There’s an antiques emporium in Norwich of such unfathomable strangeness every visit produces fresh gasps of bewilderment and terror. Recent finds: 1. Mounted photo print of depressed steam train driver (£1)

Discharged from the Marines for violence to his superior officer; biting off the ear of a sailor.. the perfect family man? He drove his car deliberately into the crowd, injuring over 100 people. northwestbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/sp...

It's time! #buyastrangerabook

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So: Trump has finally filed a law suit against the BBC. New reports say he filed the suit in Florida yesterday. Am going to have a look at this and will post more later.