Yes, this articulates it perfectly! I have to waste my time providing constructive feedback for slop instead of doing actual work! Whether my boss wants me to beta-test, or a text sent for quality control was done with NMT, or tactfully asking for clarifications from a client who used a LLM...

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

Awooooo! #UglyDogs (Not sure if I got my timezones right, but there's no such thing as late for an awooo. It just passes from dog to dog around the world like GNU)

Want to honor Alice Wong and her work? Wear a damn mask!

Alice was a mentor, a friend and one of the people who I credit with helping me find my voice. She gave me the strength to embrace my disabilities and use my skills as a writer to help others. My life is forever changed because of her. I will have more to say once I’ve processed 💔

The problem with November is you still have to do stuff

At the

Is anyone else having trouble getting through to Tangerine (bank) today? I've been disconnected twice, and the call back function said they'd call me back in 5 minutes over an hour ago.

IMPORTANT

Thinking today how homelessness runs through this story, through Epstein's (Virginia Guiffre had been homeless before meeting him), and even through Gaiman's (his nanny was sleeping on the beach when Palmer recruited her, and he used threats of homelessness against another victim).

OK, I am now understanding why the rich ruling class wants generative AI to write their emails for them.

Interesting overlap in the Venn diagram of "rich" and "bad at writing emails" and "writes a lot of emails"

The weird thing about this headline is it explains what a penny is but not what a Mint is. (I think they're both common knowledge, but penny is far more common)

Apart from the problem of attendance targets, why on earth would you need AI to generate it??

This is Goose. His stick didn't fit through the door at first. But Goose believed in himself, and more importantly, so did his doorman. 13/10 (TT: bigstickgoose)

I wasn't going to post this but I think everyone deserves some deer ears. #mammals #deer

I realize this is a ridiculous ask, but putting it out there in the world: Looking for running/athletic shoes that fit a women's size 11 (could be men's or women's shoes) in dark/deep colours - something like black with red accents - and no white.

Can you combine liquid and powder dishwasher detergent in the same dishwasher load? (i.e. half a dose of liquid and half a dose of powder) The only websites I can find commenting on this are trying to sell me dishwasher pods

Fuuuuck it's dark before 5!

In a significantly weirder case, "Sleeping Lady with Black Vase" is a 1928 oil painting by Róbert Berény. It was lost in WWII, and considered looted by the Nazis and likely destroyed afterwards in the chaos... until someone recognized it as set dressing in the movie "Stuart Little." Yes, really.

I complain a lot about QR codes on the internet, where the function is better served by clickable links. But today I heard in a loudspeaker announcement in the grocery store "Scan the QR code to learn more". With NO INFORMATION about where this QR code might be.

The captcha tells me to select squares with bicycles, so I select the bicycles and not the motorcycles. But it tells me I failed. The next one tells me to select squares with motorcycles, so I select motorcycles and bicycles. But it tells me I failed.

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"Newcomers experiencing their first snow" is my favourite genre of things I sometimes see when looking out the window

Responses to this keep crossing my feed, and one thing I haven't seen people talking about is ratios. My grandparents' houses cost 2x an unskilled labourer's annual pay. Now those exact same houses cost 15x-20x the annual pay of those exact same jobs

There are some kids outside having a snowball fight and making snow angels. Problem: the smooth grassy area with lots of fresh snow that they're gravitating towards is also the dog area 😬

Day 9: Orange #LyricsPrompt #LyricsPrompt2025 "Roadwork Rappin" Aesop Rock youtu.be/jRHqjDnEFiE?...

What time of year would I have the best luck of finding non-flannel long sleeve long pants pyjama sets? (Don't want modal either - looking for a t-shirt-like cotton - but currently there's a surfeit of flannel)

If you’re wondering what a “least weasel” is, they absolutely live up to the name. This is the least amount of animal you can have that can still meet the bar for “is weasel”

So apparently there's AI coke commercial drama? It occurs to me that if the Coca-Cola company doesn't want to pay artists to make a commercial, it would be faster, easier and cheaper to simply reuse an old commercial! The vast majority of their previous ads would be equally effective today!

In my capacity as a lazy anglophone, in casual use cases I often type out my French without accents and use spellchecking to put the accents in (rather than switching my keyboard language or using alt codes.)

The 30 Rock episode with “how do you do, fellow kids?” is closer to the release of Windows 98 than it is to today.

Head's up there is a Bluesky ban scam going around. This account just joined 40 mins ago and send me this DM. DO NOT CLICK THE LINK. Bluesky would NEVER send a DM like this and make you scared. This would come through email and would have a more professional email than this. Stay safe!

lol why put it this way

They must have awfully few customers for this even to be logistically possible. I've never been to a Target, but thinking about large chain stores I've been in, there are always multiple customers within range, and you'd never get any work done if you had to follow these protocols

OK, so it's 1 in the morning and I just fell down a google rabbithole from this quoted thread, and apparently people are supposed to get DOPAMINE from completing tasks???

I accidentally bought garbage bags that are all attached together with perforations between rather than the ones that are separate and pop up like a kleenex. And I didn't realize this so I was pulling and pulling and pulling a big string of garbage bags out like those magic trick handkerchiefs

Every language I speak other than English has two verbs for "know" (savoir/connaitre, saber/conocer, wissen/kennen, wiedzieć/znać)

Seen in the closing credits of the UK version of Ghosts: "Coffee and Tea PA" Like, that's their whole job, apparently?

Normalize calling your union compatriots "Bro"

Introducing Ozzy! This prehensile-tailed porcupine, Zoo Boise's newest resident, is already becoming a star. 🌠 Settling into the renovated Small Animal Kingdom's Rainforest Building, Ozzy likes to nimbly climb and flip around his habitat’s canopy. 📷: Lead zookeeper Taylor S

This is one of the best #SpreadLove posts I've seen in a while... check out the OP's next in thread

Is the US ever NOT having elections? Also, didn't this Mamdani fellow in New York win an election, like, less than a year ago? Why are they having another one so soon?

I had the book Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency on my library list, and now I don't. Did I remove it on purpose? (I realize this is a weird question to ask my feed, but maybe there's a clear reason like I recently learned it's problematic or has some kind of content I want to avoid?)

When I was about 7 years old, my father bought a CD player, and his first purchase was the complete works of the Beatles, which he played for us like they were Very, Very Important. I was most impressed that they did a Sesame Street cover youtu.be/ws_vnXup7so

That was weird. The sun started shining through my bedroom window and my bedroom air purifier promptly spun up. (It's on Auto mode so it detects particulate) I wasn't even in the room!

There’s a sort of Dunning-Kruger effect happening where people who read widely, consider various perspectives, and put in effort to understand views they disagree with worry that they don’t do that enough, while people who don’t do any of that accuse others of being in a bubble and call it a day.

The last windows update seems to have deleted my printer drivers