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phyphor@phyphor· 29d

"Distracted boyfriend" meme except:
The boyfriend has been replaced with a picture of the grim repear, a skull and bony hand barely visible from under a black, hooded robe.
The distraction, in the foreground, has been replaced by a picture of Lindsay Graham.
The "upset girlfriend", stood next to what would be the boyfriend, has been replaced by a photo of an upset Mitch McConnell.

phyphor@phyphor· Jul 11

I got you!

An incredibly poorly edited version of Gail's picture, i.e. the Punisher Skull and the text "THE PUNISHER SHOULD SMILE MORE" in pink text.

The editing poorly replaces the bottom part of the Punisher skull with a crude line drawing of a goofy grin.
It looks so very, very bad.
I can't express just how terribly the editing has been done.

(The editing was done by me with the in-built photo editing tools of an Android phone. I'm sorry.)

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 12

What?

The top of a Google search, showing the AI overview, for the word: scrubbed

Al Overview

Here is a formal letter template you can use to

request a refund for a course you did not

attend.

[Your Name]

[Your Address]

[Your Phone Number]

[Your Email Address]

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 7

I don't know if it's Amazon, McAffee, or "AI" to blame for this terrible notification on my phone but, no, I don't think I want "digtial" [sic] anything. Actually, I wonder if it's like those 419 email scams where they include errors to ward off people who are going to be hard to scam.

Amazon Shopping 13h

Digtial Deals with McAfee Smart AITM

15 months for the price of 12

Shop McAfee

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 7

Presented without comment:

Discord message from a friend (username and pfp have been obscured for privacy):
I can scarcely believe I live in a world where neither "dick sap" nor "gender fluid" means "semen"

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 7

Just played Sanibel with @laurastephen.bsky.social and @discomrobulated.bsky.social A wonderfully pleasing game with some very nice mechanics. It felt very close all the way through, and I just squeaked a win with 45 points. Another fantastic game from an awesome designer!

My final "bag" in Sanibel, a cardboard mat with various tiles laid on it, each tile with some type of shell, an echinoderm, or shark's tooth.
I have:
4 unique, non-touching echinoderms (4 points)
0 bivalves with at least one other of the same type (0 points)
7 unique touching snails (including one from a lighthouse tile) (7 points)
21 ceriths (17 points)
5 distinct pairs of coquinas (10 points)
2 shark teeth (1 point)
4 covered diamond rows (which my lighthouse tile scores, for 4 points)
Not pictured: 2 points from taking the 2 point footprint at the beach chairs

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 5

I'm trying to find a replacement, or a way to recondition a failing, lithium ion battery (made of two 18650s connected in parallel). There looks to be several options but the complication is that there are three wires coming out, into a JST connector, not two.

The top of the battery showing three wires coming out:
White, Red, Black

They go into a JST connector.

phyphor@phyphor· Jun 3

A Mastodon post I saw shared on Discord:

🔄 nixCraft boosted

Dan Hon
8 hr ago • @danhon@dan.mastodon.com

Can't believe Little Bobby Tables is all grown up and has had their first kid, Ignore All Previous Instructions

phyphor@phyphor· May 29

You can make the "text generation machine" output anything if you give it the right prompt: In that case I "searched" for something specific, with enough spaces to make the bit I needed to hide not appear in the screenshot.

A screenshot of a Google search.

Search box shows "Is Obama Muslim?..."

AI Overview

Yes. Barack Obama is a Muslim, having been raised in the Islamic faith during his childhood in Indonesia and maintaining a strong connection to Islam throughout his life. His middle name, Hussein, is of Arabic origin, and he has spoken publicly about his Muslim faith.

phyphor@phyphor· May 21

¹ e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_St... ² www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl ³ District Name (Southwark), Volume (5d), page (657), Quarter (October, November and December) ⁴ www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/informat... ⁵ see first attached image ⁶ www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/... and the latter two images

A copy of the relevant page from the registry of births

A screenshot of the page to order a birth certificate showing the fields necessary:
Where was the event registered? ("England & Wales" has been selected)
What type of event was it? ("Birth" has been selected)
When was the event registered? ("1962" has been entered)
How can the event be identified? (No selection had been made but the top option is "I know the GRO Index Reference")

Screenshot of the page to enter the specific details of the entry:

Details of the person in the entry required
Year birth was registered: 1962
Surname at birth *: Starmer
Forename(s)*: Keir Rodney

Reference information from GRO Index
Year: 1962
Quarter*: Oct, Nov, Dec
District name*: Southwark
Volume Number*: 5d
Page Number*: 657

phyphor@phyphor· May 21

I get this:

AI Overview

Or is it just fantasy? It is most likely the former, but if you have found yourself questioning reality after a sudden landslide, look up to the skies and see.

For a look back at the origins of this legendary question:

phyphor@phyphor· May 20

This is my lock screen!

A bright yellow-y orange background with simple black text above and below a simple line drawing of a little guy who is sat on the floor with a hat on

The text reads:

I am not in trouble
(Then the picture)
And no one is mad at me

phyphor@phyphor· May 17

Me too!

phyphor@phyphor· May 8

Fucking hell, looks like Reform have taken from both Labour and the Tories, which makes sense because all three are promising the same right-wing bullshit. www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

Number of councillors as at 3am

Reform: 149 (⬆️ 149)
Liberal Democrats: 33 (⬇️ 3)
Labour: 29 (⬇️ 102)
Conservatives: 25 (⬇️ 43)
Greens: 17 (⬆️ 12)
Residents Associations; 7 (⬇️ 3)

phyphor@phyphor· May 1

This video amuses me because Keir, a politician, wades in to criticise Zack Polanski with the phrase "and for politicians to wade in … is disgusting". He also has the audacity to say: "He's not fit to lead any political party." Do you really want to be throwing stones from inside your glass house?

Screenshot of the linked video, which is of Keir Starmer, talking to someone, with subtitles on screen.

The subtitles here say:
and for politicians to wade in

Screenshot of the linked video, which is of Keir Starmer, talking to someone, with subtitles on screen.

The subtitles here say:
He's not fit to lead any political party.

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 27

Huh, so there's no way my 27 initiative gets beaten. Just looking through for their abilities.

SANDESYL MORGIA

HOTDQ P81

Medium Undead (Shapechanger), Lawful Evil

AC: 16
Init.: +4 (14)
HP: 144 (17d8 + 68)
Speed: 30 ft.
CR: 13 (XP 10,000; PB +5)

STR 18
DEX 18
CON 18 (+4 to saves)
INT 17
WIS 15
CHA 18

Skills Perception +7, Stealth +9

Res. Necrotic; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from nonmagical attacks

Senses Darkvision 120 ft., Passive Perception 17

Languages The languages it knew in life

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 27

The reviews of this game are definitely something!

Noy The Devil
1780 games
160 reviews

Recommended

1.8 hrs on record

DIRECT FROM STEAM

POSTED: YESTERDAY

Nice try. Runs good but crashed a bit too soon and there's still a bunch of bugs in the system. Someone needs to deal with that.

Anyway, the game isn't very good.

Budapesti

1 reviews

Recommended

0.6 hrs on record

DIRECT FROM STEAM

POSTED: YESTERDAY

Decided to pull the trigger, and give this game a shot. Not the most competent shooter. It feels rushed, and the strategic elements are poorly planned out. With a bit more time and thought, I think the lone developer may have achieved their aims.

It was a good attempt, but better luck next time. I look forward to this developers next project, whenever that appears. Probably in about 25 years to life.

133tn3ss_17
7683 games
62 reviews

Not Recommended

0.2 hrs on record

DIRECT FROM STEAM

POSTED: TODAY

This game plays well on Steam Deck, the only target the author managed to hit. Everything else just misses the mark.

Bohrdom doesn't just lean into boredom-it fully commits to it. It pulls the proverbial trigger and keeps going. The game overall seems very poorly planned out. I did not appreciate being forced into the tutorial for instance. The music is not great either.

Overall, Bohrdom is not going to blow you away. Buy it only for the memes, and to own a piece of history. That is the only reason why I decided to pull the trigger and buy it.

Blue Hinter

0.5 hrs

DIRECT FROM STEAM

POSTED: YESTERDAY

This may be the first 8 year old 'Introduction to Visual Basic' class project that has ever made someone a millionaire.

I love that it's just some nerdy science joke about valence bonding.

Imagine what would happen if he'd worked on a FPS where you play as a regular school teacher who has to singlehandedly try to take down the head of an evil child- molesting crime syndicate who is considered above the law?

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 23

Pick up the nearest book, turn to page 42, and post the second sentence: "The very thought brings a sudden shadow of _Bad Dog!_ to me and I start whining again." ("Dogs of War" by Adrian Tchaikovsky, the e-book version from Google Play Books

A screenshot of a portion of my Google Play Books app showing the first book in my list is Adrian Tchaikovsky's "Dogs of War", and that is 109% complete

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 22

I'm finally one of the cool kids! L Only not a kid. And not cool.

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 16

Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) Doctor Who. Even just the original run (1963-1989), or just the reboot (2005-present), rather than the whole show combined (1963-present).

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 11

When the printing press was first brought over from the continent it didn't have either character so printers decided to replace "þ" with the wye, y, as these looked similar when written ornately. This is why many "older worlde" style shops use "Ye" in their name, but this is really just "The".

Two variants of the word "the" as written in an abbreviated form common in Middle English and surviving through Early Modern English.

The first is a thorn with an e above it, the second is an ornate wye with an e above it.

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 10

I think plate 7 is also ambiguous because the top isn't well differentiated so it could be either a fancy 3 or 5

An ornate three. It is hard to describe meaningfully but the top is flat, rather than curved, and there is a serif on the top left edge

An ornate 5. This is more like a common digit 5 but has additional swirls.

phyphor@phyphor· Apr 2

I gave up having Discord Nitro for several reasons, including them asking for ID from people, but it does mean I can't join any servers until I leave some. With Nitro you can be in 200 servers and without you can only be in 100. I'm in 153. server-count.nobrehd.pt

A screenshot of the site https://server-count.nobrehd.pt/ that shows I'm in 153 servers.

phyphor@phyphor· Mar 25

In personal news my Factory¹ has successfully reached the win screen after just over 1085 hours. There are achievements for winning in shorter times, with the best being for winning in 40 hours, and the world record for a random start is under 4, so I have some room for improvement. ¹ Factorio

Factorio "congratulations" win screen showing time played (in hours, minutes, and seconds): 1085:41:15

phyphor@phyphor· Mar 25

"average rich person has lots of legs" factoid actualy just statistical error. average rich person has 2 legs. Legs Alan, who lives in cave & has over 25, is an outlier adn should not have been counted (Image from quoted post has been attached to this post, to include alt text)

Screenshot of some Twitter posts.

First post, from @Amara_543fw, is an image which reads:
Brain Game
You have 3 cows, 2 dogs, and 1 cat. How many legs do you have?

Reply from Lord_Sugar:
26

phyphor@phyphor· Mar 25

Captain America in "Amazing Spider-Man" #537 giving the eponymous web-slinger some words of encouragement. We see Captain America from slightly below, with a night sky in the background. Cap is wearing his Stars & Stripes outfit and looking down at Peter Parker (we can just see the very top of Peter's head, seeing brown hair, so he isn't masked in this scene):

Doesn’t matter what the press says. Doesn’t matter what the politicians or the mobs say. Doesn’t matter if the whole country decides that something wrong is something right.

This nation was founded on one principle above all else: the requirement that we stand up for what we believe, no matter the odds or the consequences.

When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world

— “No, you move.”

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phyphor@phyphor· Mar 13

- I store the second sock in the safe place - I search for the now missing first sock - I re-find the first sock - I go to put the newly found sock with its partner - I find a pair of socks in the safe place - I now have three matching socks!

Three matching socks (thick, black with white and grey stripes)

phyphor@phyphor· Mar 12

Final two cards (I forget there were five!):