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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 8h

Also today: a former boss i clashed badly with was _right_.

Unfortunately she was Right in a “orthogonal to neurotypical” way which was also orthogonal to Me, and it’s only a year later that I have figured out the gap.

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 9h

Hope

#proofOfCat

Tortie doing big eyes while perched on top of a feeder

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 14h

Every decade, university administrators excite themselves over the prospects of firing all the faculty and 95% of the staff.

Early 2020s: LLMs
Early 2010s: MOOCs
Early 2000s: Wikis

ktb ⧉ @kevinbaker.bsky.social · 14h

In ways that we haven't fully internalized, LLM discourse is reanimating key features of 2004ish Wikipedia discourse.

Vlad 🐸 Țepeș @porcupunk.bsky.social · 18h

Wow. Just wow.

"Students pay premium prices for information that AI now delivers instantly and for free. A business student can ask ChatGPT to explain supply chain optimization or generate market analysis in seconds. The traditional lecture-and-test model faces its Blockbuster moment."

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Steffen Hope @hopesteffen.bsky.social · 1d

And because I am a Very Serious Scholar, this statue of Saint George fighting the dragon now housed in the National Museum in Copenhagen is a great opportunity to mention that the polite Danish word for butthole is 'numsehull'.

View of a wooden statue of Saint George killing the dragon seen from behind. Among the prominent features visible are the dragon's coiling tail, the bollocks of the horse, and the butthole of the dragon, all of which are carved very realistically.

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 12h

Today I gave up and went around to the mail clerks and said “I want to spend 1-2 hours processing incoming mail”.

Frankly, I learned a lot, as I do every time I convince someone to let me “shadow” the people who rank lower than me.

Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 17h

An injustice.

Calico cat sits outside a closed window. The fly screen has a cat flap in it, but her ingress is barred! She looks mad about it.

A small fluffy white cat, hind paws on a table, front paws on the windowsil, with her tongue out. Behind her, on the other side of the window, the calico cat remains mad.

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amy brown @amybrown.xyz · 19h

this is just to say

I have restocked
the plums
that were in
the icebox

Sign in Chinese and English, the English part says

Delicious plums have arrived
Restock quickly

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 19h

Hmm. Could I establish a bursary fund for useless research? People should pitch ME their ridiculous and not at all useful “it just seems cool” projects, I will fund so much useless shit!

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 21h

Australiana new to me!

youtu.be/WIc0PEAyAOo?...

Wreck of the Dandenong (Live from the Van) | The Longest Johns

YouTube video by The Longest Johns

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 21h

Discovered that The Longest Johns had put out the remaining “pieces” of Pieces of Eight while i wasn’t paying attention.

Enjoying some new to me shanties and sea ballads, eg:

youtu.be/Dof74QU6338?...

Bully in the Alley

YouTube video by The Longest Johns - Topic

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Romenzo Mallas @rommallet.bsky.social · 1d

EXPLOSION DE LA CRIMINOULITÉ EN FRANCE

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Ray E. Boomhower @rboomhower.bsky.social · 1d

“Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ”
Edward Gibbon, who had the idea to write "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" on this day in 1764

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Dave Bulmer @demontomatodave.bsky.social · 23h

The novelisation is a missed opportunity and a lost art form, poached from us by capitalists.

We still know the stories of Robin Hood and King Arthur because of novelisations. Peter Pan & Hitchhiker were novelisations. They should be a thing all writers can enjoy doing, knowing it's a real art form

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 3d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

These days even cheap rashies have UV protection, and every time I try to navigate Gender, UV index, and swimming my inner Teen throws a tantrum because I don’t own one _and_ my board shorts are mid thigh? Unthinkable to teen!me!

Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow we still Knew that some girls were Socially Allowed to wear bikinis and some were not. I recall it being a distinct Thing for me when I found a triangle bikini I was comfortable wearing, and wore it in the presence of schoolmates (after 4pm, not in direct sun).

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

Oh boy. One side effect of being Australian is that while we had evangelical lvl rules about out-of-uniform days at school, the “wear coverage when swimming” thing was MAINSTREAM. T-shirts discouraged: rash vests/shirts widely available, and the _coolest_ ones were also UV protection added.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 2d

Them: need help doing things?

Me: yes

Them: we have a doing things medication

Me: ooh

Them: hahahahaha guess what you have to do to get it?

Me: oh no

Them: things.

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

I saw this at the time and meant to come back and 👏 Applaud your Paperworkening.

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

Oh and they don’t up-charge you? Sainsbury’s in the UK would definitely bill me again (or refund me, tbf) for more expensive items. I think there was a setting or a range of “only x amount more expensive”, but still!

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d

Text: A computer can never be horny, therefore a computer can never make art

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

The word prolapse wasn’t used, mind, it’s only in better informed hindsight that I realise the teachers in question were at the end of a misinformation chain which jumbled together misc bowel conditions secondary to AIDS (from diarrhoea to prolapse) and attributed them to Using The Anus Wrong.

Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

… struck off? In MY schooling it was considered correct and appropriate for teachers to respond to any question about homosexuality- no matter how off-topic- with a moralising lecture about rectal prolapse.

Jack Tindale @jacktindale.bsky.social · 1d

Can’t remember this being in either the book nor in the Muppet version.

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LukeBMTB @lukebmtb.bsky.social · 1d

"You boy! Could you summon medical assistance?"

Scrooge leaning out of a window meme image

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Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 1d

Today I tried TWICE to get a cis bloke who has by a fluke of workflow Too Much Work to give me some of his, and he wouldn’t!

But I found a cache of minor admin I could do for someone on leave and thus accrue ~1hr.

Az @amisamileandme.bsky.social · 2d

A small annoyance is that I have a Flex Time debt, and a day off this week, but I am sufficiently On Top of things that I do not have an extra 30-90 minutes of tasks to do to earn back the time!

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1d

Fangs!

A very handsome tuxedo, cat, leaning back, preparing to pounce with two little fans, appearing in his slightly opened mouth

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