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'All text produced in despair is ultimately subtext. It shouts “All is lost!” but it whispers “Please find me.”' – Adam Mastroianni

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· 22d

I don't mind Christopher Nolan making an Odyssey movie, I just wish he'd stuck closer to the original text.

Cover of the novel of '2001 - A Space Odyssey' by Arthur C Clarke.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· 27d

Oh yes!

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· 28d

How is that possible @bsky.app? Did ALL my follows just delete ALL their posts from before a few hours ago?

Message from Bluesky: We ran out of posts from your follows. Here's the latest from Discover.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 9

Ned Flanders saying: "If it's clear an yella, you got juice there fellah; if it's tangy and brown you're in cider town!"

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 8

BoingBoing needs to fuck right OFF with this promotion of an AI Slop-text Generator.

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gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 3

Do NOT use Google AI to check if a number is prime. 10,051,963 IS a prime number, and 3 x 13 x 257743 = 10,051,977.

Google AI Overview of the query "Is 10051963 prime":
No, 10,051,963 is not a prime number; it is a composite number.
You can break it down into the following prime factorization:
3 x 13 x 257,743 = 10,051,963
Since it can be divided evenly by numbers other than 1 and itself, it is not prime.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 1

It works, too! Thank you!

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 1

I have a particular fondness for him in Grosse Pointe Blank

Dan Ackroyd and John Cusack in the cafe in the movie Grosse Point Blank.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jul 1

Caught this moment...

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 30

No, it doesn't.

The new 2026 U.S. 250 dime does not have 11 stars above the eagle. There are NO stars on the eagle face.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 28

'The Environment' does not specifically address the issue of global warming. From further down that same survey...

Generally speaking, do you think the government is doing
and spending too much to try and reduce carbon
emissions, not doing or spending enough to reduce
carbon emissions, or are they getting the balance about
right?

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 25

Source: feministgenderequality.network/not-a-ban/

Secondly it reveals what many people have suspected for a long time and which Hilary Cass confirmed a few days ago; namely that the NHS “services” for young trans and non-binary people are deploying state-mandated conversion therapy for trans children in the new clinics set up by Wes Streeting. This deeply transphobic government would not make something it is doing illegal.

This is what Cass said in an interview with BBC News;

“It may be that if they were prescribed puberty blockers instead, that would give more time for the therapist to work with them and perhaps come to a different solution than a long-term life on medication.”

The government is carrying out state-mandated conversion therapy on trans children, this bill formalises and legitimises that practice. This is horrific enough and has echoes of state psychiatric ‘normalisation’ processes carried out in the Soviet Union and in Putin’s Russia today as well as in the UK’s own past. The fact that, in essence it effectively legalises private conversion therapy for trans people means that this is not a ban, but rather a manual for conversion therapists.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 22

Sarah Gailey may have suggestions...

Cover of American Hippo by Sarah Gailey.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 19

Burnham wins Makerfield. All else aside, I can't see how this deposit-losing result is anything but utterly humiliating for the Conservatives.

Full results of Makerfield byelection - with Labour on 55%, and Reform UK on 35%
Here are the Makerfield results in full from the Press Association.
Lab hold
Andy Burnham (Lab) 24,937 (54.82%, +9.62%)
Rob Kenyon (Reform) 15,696 (34.51%, +2.71%)
Rebecca Shepherd (Restore) 3,111 (6.84%)
Michael Winstanley (C) 997 (2.19%, -8.68%)

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 8

No interest in football (especially this world cup), but I gotta love the Viking-themed Norway team photo.

Norway football team magnificently arrayed in Viking gear, set against a background of fjord and longboats. Photo by David Yarrow.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 5

My particular obsession shifts regularly, but currently has landed (again) on the X-15.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 4

SpaceX too...

"Of the total, SpaceX says $26.5 trillion is in AI, compared with $1.6 trillion in Connectivity and $370 billion in Space." (N.B. 'Connectivity' is the only part of the business currently showing an operating profit.)

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 2

AND had an affair with Diego Rivera!

Portrait of Paulette Goddard, by Diego Rivera.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· Jun 1

It's NOT 'just autocorrect' because 'typing insights' is under a different setting than 'autocorrect'.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· May 28

Yeah, right. Quite simply, the first test of this statement would be that *any* British Buddhist during the last 80 years would have used a left-facing swastika, rather than the right-facing Nazi symbol. Which does he have?

In response to the accusations, Theresa Arnold told the Sheffield Star that the tattoo had been “misunderstood” and was connected to her husband’s brief interest in Buddhism when he was younger.

“In his late teens, my husband briefly explored Buddhism and had a symbol tattooed on his arm during that period,” she said.

gummitch (aka gummitch_uk)@gummitch· May 20

OMG! When you get the results of a Google search, click on 'More' under the search box, and select 'Web'. This will give you a list of web links *without* AI. FURTHERMORE, *every* subsequent search in that same window will be a 'Web' search, without AI.