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Phil The Sheep

@asheepie.bsky.social

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Linux, computer and boardgame geek. Likes cheese. Martial Artist. Very Metal. B-movie zombie film lover. Cats. Evil leader of the Woolly Legions Of Doom (tm). World's first official* Cripple Mr Onion champion *probably (He/him)

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · Oct 12

"It’s not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren’t doing it" - Terry Pratchett

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Veruca's Alt @verucas-alt.bsky.social · 17h

*does basic life task*

*Rocky theme plays in my head*

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 3h

Celebrate every win, no matter how big or small.
Whether it be tying your shoelace, or using said shoelace to garrote someone talking loudly on their mobile in the quiet carriage

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 3h

And in all seriousness, I would bet money there was a link between those little creative "luxuries" and morale and fighting effectiveness. Esp with cooking and food creativity. Although I bet it's very sparsely documented and is probably consigned to anecdotal evidence

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reni 🦌🫜 @reniadeb.com · 5h

a pumpkin man sits inside a pumpkin house, is the house made of flesh, or is he made of house? he smiles for he does not know

a small pumpkin with a smiley face drawn on in sharpie pen sits within a larger pumpkin carved to look like its home

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PAM! @pamtoo.bsky.social · 7h

Maybe you didn't come here to be seduced, but a hunk of last night's 11 p.m. pizza crust just fell out of my nightgown.

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 4h

Yay, congratulations on your system upgrade (I noticed your display name, haha), hope the recovery goes well

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Thomas N. Perkins IV @tnperkins4.bsky.social · 20h

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 4h

Alas, the rice is a myth. Best thing is make sure they're off ASAP, and then put them somewhere that's gently warm, like the airing cupboard. For quite a while.

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, thinking about it, this would _very_ much be me.

"We're not quite sure what happened, sir. We were under heavy mortar fire, then he suddenly charged the enemy trench shouting 'that was my bloody smoker, you bastards' slaughtered the lot of them and pushed their front line back about a mile"

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Haunted Owen Meany @notowenmeany.bsky.social · Feb 6

*artillery rains down around our trench*
"Smoke 'em if you got 'em," Sarge growls.
"Finally," I exclaim, arranging my cedar chips under a perforated tray of mussels.

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 5h

Just because you're at war, it doesn't mean you can't be civilised about it

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 5h

I don't really keep up with the details of her foof-grenades, but wasn't one of them pretty much as bad - some sort of porous stone egg?

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, always like a bit of Skid Row. Saw them at Donny with Maiden, Slayer, WASP, and a couple of others, and they were great. Three rows from the front for Slayer was a great pit, and WASP were also bloody good

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 6h

is the last pic her latest range of "specialist devices"

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 6h

Trouble is, that logic requires the possession of a vaguely moral compass, which is why they will never get it

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PowerBottom 5000 (original) @chaff.bsky.social · 7h

trying to pick a yellow but I've inadvertently created a piss chart wall

a white wall with four squares of paint in different yellow shades

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 11h

Ohhh, a while ago I was ranting about the Windows shutdown command not requiring privilege escalation by default and several of these "gurus" chirped in saying it wasn't a problem.
Even after pointing out it could dropped into a start-up script, they still couldn't see it.
Cue the block-hammer, LOL

Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 11h

Bloody hell, but unsurprisingly, the Reddit Windows Bros are as big a bunch of idiots as some of the PowerShell "gurus" on here who don't understand the need for privilege escalation for certain commands.
"WhY dO yOu NeEd To ShUt DoWn WiThOuT uPdAtInG, jUsT uPdAtE"
A very low battery level....genius

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Paul @spookshow71.bsky.social · 9d

refuelling station

#digitalart #scifi #rpg

A small spacecraft hovers near a huge refinery tower. Flame rages below

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Jon Baker, future Spirit Halloween @thejonbaker.bsky.social · 14h

BREAKING: Sam Altman arrested on street corner selling 5 second clips of your dad saying he’s proud of you for $10

Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · 1d

Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year

We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.

Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases.

In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing).

In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.

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hakman70.bsky.social @hakman70.bsky.social · 1d

FB food memories: dinner. Might do this again tomorrow and add some of the gravlax.

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Phil The Sheep @asheepie.bsky.social · 12h

"Hidden".....?
I mean....regularly ingesting a compound stimulant is bad for your cardio-vascular health....who could have foreseen that?

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Cam Walker @walks30.bsky.social · 13h

These are the hidden risks in energy drinks, according to one expert

A 2024 study published in Heart Rhythm found that energy drink consumption had been linked to sudden cardiac arrest in individuals with underlying heart conditions

These are the hidden risks in energy drinks, according to one expert

Energy drinks have become a go-to choice for students, shift workers and gym-goers looking for a quick boost — and registered dietitian Nishta Saxena says the appeal lies in the promise of instant per...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 13h

…and mustard for all

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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 13h

enter sandwichman

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