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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · Jun 2

evergreen comment, multiple use cases:

WELL, THAT'S NOT FUCKING OK EITHER

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Every day there is one main character on the internet. The goal is not to be the dude asking Reddit for permission to steal a Rolex watch from his Alzheimer's-afflicted uncle.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 14h

the subreddits for luxury watches are some of the darkest places on earth

Rolex subreddit post:

My uncle has Alzheimer's and is often forgetful of his possessions. One of them is a Rolex Submariner. Would I be justified in taking and caring for it as my own instead of having it left neglected and forgotten in his jewelry box? Thanks.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Wife?!

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

I really need to get my Casio battery replaced. Currently wearing a very old TomTom running watch, which is no longer officially supported but there's software supported by one dude doing it out of the goodness of his heart. Because of course there is.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

The responses are pretty much unanimously: either you're a troll, in which case fuck off, or you're asking for permission to steal from an elderly relative with a degenerative brain condition, in which case fuck off.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Yes it is!

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · Nov 19

Petsitting at a friend's house, enjoying his big TV, but wondering if the Netflix algorithm might be too smart for its own good. Last night I watched Kiki's Delivery Service and now it's recommending Booba.

(This is not a joke; I'd never even heard of Booba until it popped up two minutes ago)

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Alzheimer's is a horrible disease that so many of us have experience with. I'm not surprised that's the reception he got.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

Let's just say that my natural "let people like what they like" tendencies are being strained to breaking point.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2h

I am embarrassed about how long it took me to realise this is STOCK MARKET bears

Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 4h

this is one of the best articulations of the AI bear case I've read

most of the AI companies are also massively wealthy and profitable hypercorps, but OpenAI specifically is a bomb planted at the heart of the American stock market helpfully labeled "this is a bomb"
prospect.org/power/2025-1...

The AI Ouroboros

Nvidia and other companies are paying startups to buy their products.

prospect.org

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Matt Wallaert @mattwallaert.com · 4h

Yes, this is another fund public health/end the shutdown/etc. post. But more than that, it is a plea for a “one world” approach to problems that are truly global.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 3h

Also, please look at the category above the one you circled. Most of them DID NOT KNOW the extent to which the Four Freedoms go together, because they had 30-odd years of rabid propaganda about Big Bad Brussels from Murdoch et al.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

With all the exclamation marks and GREAT in caps, my first thought was "oh god what's he said now?"

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

I can't help thinking of Ralph and Ted, too.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

Supersaturated solutions of instant coffee are very handy if you're baking a coffee-flavoured cake, too.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

Today I learned that a fruit-garnished Mickey Mouse waffle looks like some sort of horrific mutilation murder, so every day really is a school day.

Mickey Mouse Murder Waffle, with a swirl of whipped cream in each ear.

More Mickey Mouse waffles, this time from Japan, and this time there are drizzles of cream and red sauce to make some sort of Mickey Mouse Bukkake Murder Waffle Experience.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

That's "expected" not "wanted" though. Remember that Boaty McBoatface had just happened, so it was easy for people to assume that "they" would come up with some magical compromise.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 4h

When I want real tea then I'll make it properly with leaves in a teapot. When I want my weird British comfort drink then I'll go with a teabag in a mug.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

I've found the College Republicans Never Used To Be Like That v College Republicans Always Used To Be Like That split quite instructive. Clearly it depends on the extent to which they thought you were one of them.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

I've always thought The Texas Carbons would be a nice band name. Or possibly a sports team.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

People really resent being made to feel like they've been duped. Everyone treated him as the big hero of the village after the accident, and then it turns out that wasn't entirely true, and he would have happily seen Alice go to prison for something she didn't do. #TheArchers

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 6h

I never remember which vicious stereotypes go with which classical musicians, but ALL of the latter have at least one of the former.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 7h

Why would it be bad to work from home and put the washing on during work time?

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 7h

Sorry but why is that bad?

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Vita Sackville-West @thegardenvsw.bsky.social · 7h

So that I can detach dozens of little new plants in March without disturbing the parent crown, and, in the course of time, can carpet yards of ground with gentians if I wish, and if my supply of leisure, energy and leaf-mould will run to it. #gardening

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 7h

Gentian blue is wonderful.

Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 7h

As I said, I'd dearly love to see the first draft with all the swearing kept in.

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