Az
@amisamileandme.bsky.social
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Erstwhile medievalist, over-explainer, cat paparazzi. Name-squatter on many platforms.
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amybrown.xyz
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
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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!
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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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rommallet.bsky.social
EXPLOSION DE LA CRIMINOULITÉ EN FRANCE
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rboomhower.bsky.social
“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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demontomatodave.bsky.social
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
rachelfeder.bsky.social
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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!
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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).
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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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courtneymilan.com
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.
amisamileandme.bsky.social
I saw this at the time and meant to come back and 👏 Applaud your Paperworkening.
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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!
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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.
amisamileandme.bsky.social
… 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.
jacktindale.bsky.social
Can’t remember this being in either the book nor in the Muppet version.
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lukebmtb.bsky.social
"You boy! Could you summon medical assistance?"
Scrooge leaning out of a window meme image
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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.
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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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themoonis.gay
good fucking luck getting any LLM to be as horny as one (1) asexual writer
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willwiles.bsky.social
Performatively reading in the cafe, but wearing white gloves so I'm still venerating the Book As Object, with a t-shirt saying "I know archivists don't wear gloves" so people know the gloves are performative.
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adactivity.bsky.social
This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa
mattburgess1.bsky.social
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.
amisamileandme.bsky.social
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!