Me: “name three books by Jane Austen” Pepijn: “Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Notting Hill”. #books

RE: https://mastodon.green/@juliette/115577842368213518 Ironically, while the fedi agrees with Pepijn, since we had this conversation yesterday he changed his mind.

Yesterday, @Pepijn and I went to vote. One of the volunteers at the polling station was someone we knew. We said hello and chitchated, and then went on our merry way to put a ballot in a big box. As we walked away, I noticed the look in Pepijn’s eyes and so whispered “That’s Odin’s grandmother […]

I avoid parent-shaming as a general rule, because, hey, we're all just trying to survive utter chaos. but I am baffled by the idea that anyone gave their child the AI Teddy Bear that their children could have conversations with. Of all the dumb things to outsource to AI, meaningful connection […]

TIRED: “Like Uber, but for [whatever]” WIRED: “Like whatever], but decentralized and supported by a thoughtfully structured nonprofit with incentive structure so as to guard against future [#enshittification”

I am not completely anti-AI, as there are things I do that I would love to be able to hand over to a computer - for instance, please help me sort out my to-do list which has items assigned to me on 3 different platforms and stuff randomly coming by email, IM or meeting invites. *Every time* an […]

One of the most hilarious-to-me thing about Dutch politics is that there is a party called 50+ specifically dedicated to defend the interests of people over 50 years old. Yes, someone looks at the political landscape and thought: "you know what we need? MORE old people in politics!" They got 2 […]

Me, to Excel: "0,6" Excel: "ah, yes, 14.24" Me: "what about 0.6?" Excel: "of course, here you go: 00.06"

Quand on me dit "Voulez-vous profiter des fonctionnalités de Copilot pour Office 365 ?" #memecredi

Measure twice, cut once, rip seams five million times. #sewing

Le maire de Verdun Samuel Hazard (divers gauche) interdit une messe en "hommage" à Pétain: "Verdun est la cité de l'Universalité. Pétain est l'antithèse de l'Humanité", déclare l'édile qui a pris un arrêté contre la cérémonie religieuse qui devait se tenir samedi dans la commune. L'élu fait par […]

I've surprised myself, since becoming a parent, by how much my interest/outrage on certain issues has grown. Things that already pissed me off, but that now create an absolute fireball of rage in me. Today's issue: the tobacco industry is still up to its old dirty tricks. I already thought they […]

Working in a company, NGO, think tank or university and have expertise on political advertising? The European Commission might be looking for your advice. They're establishing an "expert group of providers of political advertising services" to advise on the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

When the AI bubble pops, it's going to hurt a lot more people than the AI maniacs. But which industries might not feel it to much? Not just the ones that haven't invested in this madness, but the ones who aren't getting artificially inflated by the demand? (I just read an article about a boom in […]

Never mind Ugly Christmas Jumpers, what is the Prettiest Christmas Jumper pattern you’ve ever seen/made? #knitting

Literal wars were fought for what I stick in a teapot to make Christmas tea, then forget about and drink cold two hours later.

Poland’s drop in road deaths is truly wild; once one of Europe’s worst offenders, they’ve seen fatalities fall 35% since 2019. Sweeping safety reforms helped drive the change, including giving pedestrians priority at crossings, seizing cars from drunk drivers, and regulating e-scooters. Notes […]

Does anyone have a quick comparisons of Qwant and DuckDuckGo? In particular stances on privacy and AI would be useful.

Exactly one minute in the movie I am already supremely annoyed. They even got me doubting myself and googling when Yugoslavia stopped existing; it was definitely absolutely several years before that. Should I continue watching, because the point of Christmas […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

DING DONG

To make office work more friendly to some neurodivergent people, it can be best to have clear agendas for all meeting sent out in advance, along with roles and responsibilities spelled out; but this also means some other neurodivergent people are completely unable to do their own work in the way […]

Colleague A can't believe the report I'm working on isn't 98% done already, aren't I worried we're super behind? Colleague B can't believe I'm already working on the report, in many other companies the work would be done in January, aren't I worried I'm front-loading too much? Answer […]

#silentsunday #autumn

parents, grandparents snd other caregivers: tell me your war stories of puking kids. i need to know there is light at the end of this tunnel. #parenting

Baby’s first gastro: ✔️ Actually, it may be a miracle that it took us two years to get there. #parenting

I usually bring The Hobbit to daycare by cargo bike, and on rare occasions use the car. You'd think it would be much faster, as a 30 minutes bike ride turns into a 6 minutes car trip. However, the car park is located about 70 meters further away from the building than the bike parking. The path […]

An idea after tonight’s Great Doll Surgery Adventure: I would 100% watch a TV show in which contestants have to fix every week some random, increasingly obscure object, until a Final Three face off having to fix an entire attic’s worth of crap. The Great British Repair-Off. You could have some […]

This is my childhood doll. She is more than 30 years old and has had a rough life, feeling the overwhelming love of multiple children in my family. As the Hobbit is getting into dolls, she came out of storage. I detangled the hair and re-attached multiple […] [Original post on mastodon.green]

#silentsunday: red

We have reached the “splashing in puddles” stage of toddlerhood and it’s an utter delight. 10/10, would like to listen to that scream of absolute joy every day for the rest of my life. #parenting

Moi président je posterais un agent de la DGCCRF par entreprise.

Coucou @OxfamFrance , les actions en ligne pour interpeller son député qui se servent du code postal pour trouver son député, ça laisse sur le carreau tous les français de l'étranger.

lol no you don't #privacy #cookies

Passive aggressive message to my colleagues who will never read this toot: You can’t constantly complain that too many meetings should be emails and then *not read your emails* I’ve had 3 meetings this week only that originally *were* emails that clearly weren’t read so I had to summon people […]

How @Pepijn and I used to visit cities: - is there a cool museum? - what's the best pastry we can eat? - how do we cycle around for fun? How we visit cities now: - does this café have a clean changing table and a high chair and a microwave? - where are the good playgrounds? - does the public […]

Vous devriez aller jeter un œil au live de Mediapart (en accès libre) pour voir comment de nombreux médias français traitent en ce moment l'incarcération de Nicolas Sarkozy www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...

A coworker wears a hearing aid, but has never actively mentioned it. I have noticed that sometimes they don't quite follow a conversation, as they ask a question that has just been explicitly answered, or mistake a word for a close-sounding one. Is there a respectful way to ask them if they have […]

Struggling with vibe coding? You just need to get better at prompting. Here is a six video series "course" to teach you how to write the most effective AI prompts and get the most out of vibe coding! (Do you ever wonder what it would be like if there were some special language for giving […]

The Cloud is just Somebody Else's Computers and sometimes, they're all on fire

Screw “disruption”: which industry is ripe for a consumer or worker-owned co-op? I feel like pharma could use one.

#silentsunday #kiel

Best view from a train station I’ve seen for a while!

One thing I note in discussions of screen time for children is how little attention is paid to the parents' screen time. For very young children, the interest in smartphones and tablets doesn't come from peer pressure, it comes from wondering why their own parents are fascinated by the shiny […]

2006: "Data is the new oil" 2025: "AI is the new microplastics"

It is so ridiculously hard to find nice second clothes for toddlers who are neither “💋💝sparkly pink minnie mouse” nor “💥BOYS LOVE MONSTERTRUCKS AND ROARING T-REX🦖” nor takes you into sad beige children territory. My kingdom for a sweater that just has some balloons or a frog or a giraffe drawn […]

It really can't be said enough: the goal of the "anti-woke" movement was always to destroy social norms against bigotry. And it worked. And there's a whole lot of purportedly "left" thinkers & commentators who helped it -- indeed, it couldn't have been done without them. They should feel bad.

ht @MMantscheffAu