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Ineffable Jeff @ineffablejeff.bsky.social · 3h

Shot + chaser

And are you married?

I was married, but I’m not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle.

In July, Tesla rolled out a software update to integrate Grok into many of its vehicles. Do you use it?

Her name is Aura, and I use her as a therapist. When I'm driving, I'll ask questions, and it actually gives really good therapy advice.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 2h

If they can do a reissue of the non-rusty Ectotron, I’d be sorted for crossover TFs.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 2h

I got the Gigawatt (TF BttF crossover) reissue!
Fiddly little sucker in places. And I do not have confidence in that gloss black paint not scratching or chipping off. Fun design though.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 2h

I don’t think there’s any harm in them. That said, if you’re able, advance notices (eg “I’ll be streaming in two hours from this skeet”) might be more useful.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 18h

I’ve got MTV 90s on (because I am cool) and they’ve - very inelegantly - censored Smells Like Teen Spirit. They’ve looped a guitar riff in where it says “a mulatto”.
An odd choice for a (post watershed) show “Most Streamed Songs of the 90s”. You know, the songs people would notice sounding wrong.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 22h

Now see, this containing dangerous levels of lead can be sold as brand authenticity.

TFW2005 @tfw2005.bsky.social · 1d

Officially Licensed Transformers Protein Powder By Core Nutriotionals #tfw2005 #transformers

Officially Licensed Transformers Protein Powder By Core Nutriotionals

We have images of some new officially licensed Transformers protein powder made by Core Nutritionals company. In 2024, they had previously released a similar product features Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Megatron Evergreen artwork and a collectible die-cast figurine. Now they have announced new flavors and presentations adding Starscream in the packaging. Read on for details: The most dangerous flavor in the galaxy has landed. The newest flavor collab from CORE Nutritionals® × TRANSFORMERS® is here: STARSCREAM, bringing Decepticon-level power to every mission and workout. PROTRON® Whey Protein – Milk Chocolate Cookies & Cream. ENERGON® Pre-Workout – Grape Lemonade. » Continue Reading. The post Officially Licensed Transformers Protein Powder By Core Nutriotionals appeared first on Transformer World 2005 - TFW2005.COM.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t even need to involve those. The glow didn’t resolve. You could just have Rose and some others step out of it for some kind of externally manifested crisis that the Doctor works through. Like Romana trying out bodies crossed with 5’s pre-death visions.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 1d

WHEN THERE’S TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Oh wow. Yes, very clever! Waterfall treasure! No one’s ever done that before. Lazy jackass

WHEN THERE’S NO TREASURE BEHIND THE WATERFALL: Wow. Too stuck-up to put treasure there huh? Too much of a fucking ICONOCLAST for that? Piece of shit. FUCK you

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Nick Pettigrew @nick-pettigrew.bsky.social · 1d

'Nowhere will be safe for teenagers while I'm around.' is an odd boast, Bill.

William Hague still being a thundering tool after all these years.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Coming up with a solution for Billie Piper appearing at the end of the last season, that doesn’t involve her being the new Doctor, isn’t as hard as everyone keeps saying it will be.

Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged Doctor Who opinion. I mean, if you’re a fan, they’re likely all unhinged anyway.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Startling lack of self-awareness on BBC Morning Live just now, as they transitioned from a piece about the crass sensationalism of true crime programming to a plug for Crimewatch Live, including cctv footage of a guy attacking people with a sledgehammer.

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Forget policing what’s by the tills and on BOGOF deals, supermarkets shouldn’t be allowed to do this:

A carton of Morrisons Savers orange juice

A near identical picture of a carton of Morrisons Savers orange juice *drink*. What is orange juice “drink”, you ask? Well it’s where you take actual orange juice and then water it down by 40-60% and throw in some sweeteners to try and mask that. Because that’s what we all need: less real fruit stuff and more sweeteners.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

Drank the creator owned tea so hard he opened an Image imprint that isn’t creator owned. 😒

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 1d

If I have to hear that #OnlyConnect child contestant call the Nestene a “deep cut” again I will scream. Grendal of Gracht would be a deep cut. The Nestene are solidly B list.

Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 2d

These the Lightning Collection ones? Hasbro have got really good at human faces in their 6" lines lately. I got Classified Retro Cover Girl the other day and it's stunning (appropriately).

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 3d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Amanda Mull @amandamull.bsky.social · 3d

There is a local hospital system here that does a gun safety PSA with the tag line “kids are safe when a gun is locked in one” and I just want to say that it’s important to hire good copywriters

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

Is magic bad for dog?
I'm working on slight of hand magic tricks and practice in my house a lot. Sometimes in front of dogs. Am I hurting their brains when I'm blowing their minds?
Answer
Save

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 3d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Ray Selby #FBPE #XR #antifascist #NAFO #WeDidWarn #WeStillWarn @tarotray.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant - from Private Eye Magazine.

Article "Modern News Cycle" from Private Eye.

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Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 4d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 4d

In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”

Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs".

There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."

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C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 4d

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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Martin Smith @transmithim.bsky.social · 5d

I suspect they may have it specifically be his non-rapey predecessor brother.

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Phil McAndrew @philmcandrew.bsky.social · 6d

I'm glad these slimy comedians are getting ripped to shreds, but can we hold ALL of the actors who have said "yes" to new harry potter trash to the same standards please

Vulture @vulture.com · 6d

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

Human Rights Watch Doesn’t Want Any Riyadh Comedy Festival Money

Comedians like Aziz Ansari and Jessica Kirson need to look elsewhere for organizations to donate their Riyadh Comedy Festival money. Human Rights Watch said they ‘cannot accept’ donations from them.

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