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Wittercism and crittercism.
Received 35 seconds after my post. AI speed, AI sycophancy, AI typography, AI phrasing. Makes me want to puke.
Cory Doctorow laying out a crucial roadmap on the economic harms of the AI bubble and how we workers can argue against it: pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p.... As a side note, he sure does nail how hard artists get screwed.
This is the designed weak link in a glider winch launch cable. It lets go if the launch forces are becoming unsafe. This one has a breaking strain of about one tonne. That was an interesting couple of minutes.
THE DOG should not look so happy in such thoroughly unsatisfactory sailplane flying weather, but he is happy anyway because he is THE DOG and knows he is loved.
"Was"? I have an idle habit of checking the German supermarket glossies for Meghan. She's ALWAYS there and they're ALWAYS making some horrible innuendo about her. A constant drip of hate into the ears of millions.
Speaking as someone who has been and occasionally still is a dick, cunt, cloaca, hectocotylus, aedeagus, and pretty much every other conceivable sexual organ to other people in my tenure both online and off: I still find myself surprised by how much more fun it is to NOT be horrible to people.
Breaking news: a tsunami-level natural disaster has struck major population centres in western England. Please send thoughts and prayers. If you don't have thoughts of your own, AI generated is fine.
Der Kellner wusste ganz genau, was das heißt. Der Designer? Bin mir gar nicht so sicher... Ich hab's bestellt. Ich werde versuchen, die BBQ-Sauce von meiner Oberlippe fernzuhalten.
Without naming my previous employer or what I did there, this is the correct analysis. The problem is that GMaps 'knows' about multiple things called "Dublin Airport" (two examples here), and the UI prompted @lamhfada.bsky.social to ask for a route to one that isn't actually accessible.
THE DOG is patient and can wait as long as it takes. He can and will outwait you.
THE DOG approves of renewable energy and thinks you should too. Or else there's another dog over there.
Here's the specific amendment to the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. The petition represents it correctly. bills.parliament.uk/publications...
HOLY CRAP @coelliptic.bsky.social @nachtfuchs.bsky.social the crazy bastards signed off on me! Not easily, and with qualifications: yearly psych eval, some slightly worrying mumbling about "single seat aircraft? well that's okay then". But fuck it, I'll take it!
Alors je l'ai vu! Et t'as raison, c'était vraiment bonquers, non? But ze payoff at ze end, mon dieu. Mraouwr. Phew. All in all a sterling effort from the director and leading man, and one can only presume such a fine work must have been a career high for both of them.
Last walk with THE DOG before he went back to his One True Human (for whom I've been standing in as a tolerable substitute).
(in case anyone else has the same bright idea of scoring nerd points by explaining EXIF orientation tags: nope, turns out it ain't that, Bsky seems to handle them fine)
A crumbling hang-glider launch ramp in Mallorca. There is a faintly visible URL "www.aladelta.org" embedded on the concrete of the rim. MY POINT BEING: You are now so old that URLs have started to become archaeology.