Gemini’s latest ads say something to the effect of: “If a friend texts to ask for the phone number of someone in your contacts list, shouldn’t your phone be able to find before you do?” Absolutely not.

Every example of ai being useful begins with "okay imagine you're in a situation, and you are very dumb"

This is a bit of a reach but maybe someone can help? My mom's house caught fire last month and she lost pretty much everything. While most things aren't important and easy to replace, her favorite painting is really hard to find. It was a reproduction of Helen Frankenthaler's Sunset Corner

Attn @magpie.tips

hey dude, I noticed you attempting to carve a small space for joy in the face of overwhelming sadness. kind of problematic considering all the horrors

I asked my Dr about having my levels checked bc I don’t have my childhood records. She suggested I just get the full course again - it was free for me and she said there’s no negative effects even if I still had immunity. They gave me my TDAP while I was there!

Hey y’all: if you use Libby and you hate them allowing generative AI content and incorporating it in other ways you can go to your profile, scroll down to “help and support”, and take a survey to tell them that you hate it

‘Dueling Banjos’ A silly thing I painted 11 years ago and apparently haven’t posted here before

Ethan Hawke’s character in The Lowdown could very easily be Ethan Hawke’s character in Reality Bites, 30 years and some major life events later, and I’m really digging it.

Wildlife tracking tips. A wintry comic from last year.

It's almost like Long Covid effects virtually everyone that gets Covid... Which is virtually everyone at this point...

It was an anonymous survey from a reputable, well-known provider (Qualtrics).

Live a little, Carolyn

Since I muted the phrase "wrong answers only," my constitution has never been better, my crops are thriving, and, look, I can ride a bike again!

🔥 happy year of the horse 🔥

I’ve been waiting months for my library to get this in. Be like me - buy a copy at a great price if you can! (And still request it from your library because libraries are awesome)

to turn off autoplaying video on the bluesky mobile app select the icon in the top left corner go to settings go to content and media make sure "autoplay videos and gifs" is toggled off

Goals

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

Leave it up to the peak performative-social-justice, post-the-trending-rallying-cry-du-jour white women to still be using Twitter as their primary social media

From Twelfth Night, if memory serves.

One of the things I find most demoralizing about masking is that I can do everything to the best of my ability and more, but there’s still a solid chance that someone else is going to get me sick because THEY don’t believe in masking and THEY don’t see any reason to isolate when they’re sick.

I stopped using Twitter ages ago, but left my account locked, thinking that someday it might get better. I was mourning the community and interactions I had there. Bsky is great, but I think we can all agree it’s still not what Twitter was at its height. Anyways today i deactivated my account.

No one I’ve admitted this year for influenza has been vaccinated.

You're saying that asshole posted something stupid in support of that other asshole? A post designed basically only to enrage us? WE KNOW. That's why we left.

There's been a lot of doom posting in recent days about the decline of this platform. I'm pretty sure the way out is not serially posting about the stupid bullshit still going on at our old school.

everything is Bad, repost mac doodles

With RFK Jr again further reducing access to vaccines, your regular reminder that now would be a good time to restart wearing a high quality mask regularly again for an added layer of protection from airborne diseases.

Attn BC Ferries

A friend just had her checking account wiped out by her family's new health insurance premium (which went from $890 a month to $2800). The thing is, she'd cancelled the policy in early December, assuming it would also cancel the autopay. Nope.

vaccines basically do nothing for me, because the medication i take to keep MS from killing me eradicates all my antibody producing B-cells. mild COVID just sidelined me for three weeks. get your flu shot so you don’t kill people like me just trying to buy groceries

@jvipondmd.bsky.social Have you seen any reports re: viral vulnerability when using an O2 concentrator? My dad wears an N95, but he’s also breathing air which is coming from an outside source which wouldn’t pass through an N95 - I don’t even know where to begin to look for accurate research

I told a colleague that one of our airline reps was not responding to my emails, so I was going to get my manager to send the next request. Colleague told me I needed to “get ChatGPT to write a forceful email” to get him to respond. 1) I’m not doing that, ever 2) that’s it. I’m not doing that.

@luckytran.com Have you seen any reports regarding viral vulnerability when using an O2 concentrator? My dad wears an N95, but I realized he’s also breathing air which is coming from an outside source which wouldn’t pass through an N95 - I don’t even know where to begin to look for accurate research

The Venn diagram of “don’t expect anything from me until the new year!” people and the “sorry it took so long to reply it took me a week to get through my inbox!” people is a perfect circle so I guess three weeks is an acceptable turnaround time

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Oh, just get vaccinated (part 5,000) "Many shots seem to have “off-target” benefits, such as lowering the risk of dementia, studies have found." (gift article)

I’m just a girl, standing in front of her hockey team, asking them to do something with this goddamn OT power play

Philippine Airlines killing it in the safety video game

Phone just tried to autocorrect “Katelyn” to “K’Tlyn” so either I’ve been writing Star Trek fanfic in my sleep or iOS knows more about my Netflix habits than it should

Taking care of my dad’s medical scheduling and prescription handling isn’t a full-time job but it would definitely rank as a side hustle if I was getting paid to do it

How many folks google Canadian words & products when they’re watching Shoresy

If you needed another reason to avoid getting sick and infecting others! Mask up, friends!

If you’re looking for something lovely to listen to, I highly recommend the audiobook of Cary Elwes’ As You Wish, in which he writes about the making of The Princess Bride. The audio is narrated by him, and is filled with snippets from the other actors as well. A delightful seven hours.

Nothing makes me appreciate my husband more than when his grown nephews come to stay It’s like living with a polite but clueless teenage boy, except he’s 42 and has a wife and kids back home

Family photo 💖

As we experience a huge surge of flu cases, a reminder that the widespread usage of masks at the start of the COVID pandemic wiped out a strain of the flu. If you haven’t been masking up lately, now would be a great time to restart.

If we lived in a just media landscape, this would now be a trilogy.

Phil Lamarr spent 10 minutes chatting me up before my friend asked if Phil was hitting on me and told him to knock it off

I was ignored by Karl Urban in the ECCC green room harder than anyone has ever been ignored