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Ste Jormur

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Beats me why most dudes suck. Sure as hell ain't my scene.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Jul 4

Rebooting this thread, because I just got an MP3 player for swimming, and my MP3 collection biases heavily towards pre-streaming music. Let's see how well my teenage music taste holds up!

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · Nov 13

You know what? I'm going to do a thread of music. Any time a song pops into my head, I'll post it here. Any genre, any era, any language, if I like it, I'll skeet it.

Let's start with something positive and uplifting. Vienna Teng feels like the most Bluesky musician out there. youtu.be/U4n_8R5lKnw

Vienna Teng - Level Up (Official Music Video) feat. Tommy Guns Ly

YouTube video by Vienna Teng

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 8m

Well have you considered that I just invented Giga-Titano-Maximo-Infinitus-Kirkman who writes even better comic books so good that they make Ultra-Kirkman explode and his blood and eyeballs splatter everywhere and it's very awesome and mature actually

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 15m

I'm now imagining Hobgoblins as a metaphor for generative AI. A bunch of nasty looking monsters that want to take over the world, destroying people by fulfilling their fantasies (which are mostly movie knock offs and weird sex stuff). Oh, and they bankrupted a movie studio

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 24m

"Another great question! Let's break down the issue of whether I'm a naughty boy and really delve into the intricacies of whether I deserve a spanking."

The Verge @theverge.com · 1h

Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon sext with verified adults

ChatGPT is about to get flirty.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 3h

Live your life in such a way that your death warrants the cancellation of Titty Tuesday.

🕸️🕷️ 🥀 Nani🥀🕷️🕸️ @sinmachine.is.severed.fyi · 3h

D’Angelo’s dead.

Titty Tuesday is canceled; gender wars are canceled; everything canceled today!!!

Wrap it up!!! For today we mourn.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3h

1 year of working in Germany and taking two lessons a week at a night school got me to B2 standard faster than 5 years of secondary school Spanish got me to B1 (and frankly I doubt my GCSE Spanish was really B1 level). Asking for B2 level *before* starting work is putting the cart before the horse

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 3h

So, I have a B2 level certificate - which is what they actually mean - in German. It's not as high a level as you'd expect from "A-level standard" but it's still a fluency that's pretty hard to reach from outside the country. You need a lot of everyday conversations and exposure to the language!

The Independent @the-independent.com · 7h

Migrants will need A-level standard English to work in UK

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 6h

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 10h

www.worldofmoose.com/collections/...

Cartoon of a plesiosaur. Seen from the side, the top line of its shape is echoed in ripples up the page, reminiscent of the artwork for the Joy Division album Unknown Pleasure. Caption: Unknown Plesiosaurs

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 4h

Having read the article, it's flat wrong. They're mapping to CEFR levels, but A-level English is equivalent to C2 not B2. What I think they *mean* is a level of English *as a foreign language* equivalent to foreign language A-level like French or Spanish support.cambridgeenglish.org/hc/en-gb/art...

Comparing Cambridge English Qualifications to other exams

If you have taken a Cambridge English Qualification and would like to know how it compares to other examinations, you should start by seeing where the exam that you have taken is on the Common Euro...

support.cambridgeenglish.org

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 5h

mtg in 1997: this card is selenia, a guardian angel from the heavenly realm of serra. twisted by the phyrexians, she drove crovax of urborg insane with unrequited love

mtg in 2025: this card is spongebob. from spongebob squarepants

mtg in 2035: we ran out of ideas. this card is your coworker jeff

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 5h

On top of everything else here, even if AI does cut hours, it's still a leap to actually increasing leisure time! Past productivity gains have basically been eaten by things like increased childcare and longer commutes. Maybe don't invest in EA Games - invest in Starbucks drive thru and Bluey merch

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

Dieser Absatz ist einfach rassistisch. Oder kann jemand wirklich einen Personenzug in Afrika, Indien oder Osteuropa nennen, in dem solche Szenen "zum Alltag gehören"?

Für Eisenbahner und ihre Fahrgäste in Indien, auf dem afrikanischen Kontinent oder auch in gewissen Ländern Osteuropas gehören Hühner in Zügen zum Alltag. Einen S-Bahn-Lokführer in Köln dürften sie bei seiner Frühschicht überrascht haben.

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

The train crew coming across the scene:

"Warum liegt hier Stroh?" ("Why is straw lying here?"), a popular German meme from a porn video depicting a masked electrician in front of a circuit box with a woman in a negligee. Bales of straw fill the tiled room for no clear reason

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 7h

Police in Cologne are investigating after someone filled the first class compartment of a train with straw and released several chickens inside.

DER SPIEGEL @spiegel.de · 8h

Deutsche Bahn: Wer hat die S-Bahn Köln zu einem Hühnerstall gemacht?: Hühneralarm in der S6: Unbekannte haben im Erste-Klasse-Abteil der S-Bahn von Essen nach Köln Stroh verstreut und drei Hühner transportiert. Bundespolizei und Tierrettung kümmern sich nun um die Tiere.

Deutsche Bahn: Wer hat die S-Bahn Köln zu einem Hühnerstall gemacht?

Hühneralarm in der S6: Unbekannte haben im Erste-Klasse-Abteil der S-Bahn von Essen nach Köln Stroh verstreut und drei Hühner transportiert. Bundespolizei und Tierrettung kümmern sich nun um die Tiere.

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 8h

Yeah, that would be the big complication. It would skew older (very few under 18s for a start), but on the other hand, maybe not super old either (less likely to find articles for random 1950s actors). A few years ago, most articles were for 30-60 year olds www.nefariousplots.com/figures/3

The Era of Notability

This plot depicts the birth years of people with Wikipedia articles and thus gives a sense of the distribution of notable people throughout history. Even when adjusted for live births per year (yield...

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 9h

The answer: 3,462. That's around 0.3% of all living people on Wikipedia. Suggests that the higher end estimates of COVID deaths (0.3%-0.4% of the world population) were probably accurate. petscan.wmcloud.org?depth=4&cate...

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# Title Page ID Namespace Size (bytes) Last change
1 Ben Bova 4982 (Article) 13828 20250718044928
2 Colin Powell 6984 (Article) 168806 20251011055755
3 John Horton Conway 15807 (Article) 34808 20251005161502
4 Meat Loaf 21026 (Article) 123340 20251002044550
5 Vangelis 32472 (Article) 104792 20250909070150
6 Khalil el-Moumni 48272 (Article) 4272 20250607074952
7 Tim Brooke-Taylor 55214 (Article) 30292 20250603161311
8 Valéry Giscard d'Estaing 79474 (Article) 89340 20251008182847
9 Bert Fields 87839 (Article)

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 16h

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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jawanaka.bsky.social @jawanaka.bsky.social · 1d

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Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society @gwsfhs.org.uk · 4d

"Analysis by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) found a higher proportion of individuals born in Italy identifying as Roma than expected. Officials concluded that some census respondents born in Rome, which is called Roma in Italian, may have ticked the Roma ethnicity category in error."

Italians mistakenly identify as Roma in Scotland's census

Italians born in Rome may have accidently selected the Roma ethnicity category in the country's last census, officials say.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 13h

If suddenly the strip became about Moy's favourite genre of music (death metal) and Mary gradually became a side character commenting on the adventures of Corpselord, Lady Maggot, Putrefier Jr etc on the thrash scene, it would feel a lot less continuous even if technically there was no break

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 13h

I think it makes a big difference that Moy doesn't seem to put herself in the story. I mean, she clearly likes pets, psychic powers and occasional ship disasters, but they aren't the theme of Mary Worth. Her new characters are just ones that she thinks have good meddlee potential

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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 14h

They didn't call him Screwtape for nothing

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

Literally every story ever told would be improved if the last scene was someone travelling back in time to the first scene to kick off the plot

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

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

Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 22h

I sometimes struggle to remember my own number, but I can always immediately reel off 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3

Paul F. Tompkins @pftompkins.bsky.social · 23h

The only phone numbers I know by heart anymore:

- mine
- my wife’s
- my landline number from when I first moved to LA
- my childhood home
- a Philadelphia community helpline that advertised on local TV with the jingle “CALL for ACT-ION! GREENwood SEVen five THREE one TWO!”

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 1d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 23h

*Two* free cabin bags? Because as anyone who has travelled by plane recently knows, what we really need is more people prowling the aisle trying to find somewhere to stuff their daft little suitcase while the pilot pleads ineffectually about missing the take-off slot.

Euractiv @euractiv.com · 1d

MEPs on collision course with governments over air passenger rights

Two free cabin bags, compensation for delays, family seating rights, and no penalty for booking errors

dlvr.it

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