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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 1h

I've met Ken Barlow, my friend was in the Priory the same time as Curly, and Morrissey once flicked the Vs at me at a gig in Manchester. I feel like some kind of prophecy might have just been fulfilled.

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 3d

I'd say no earlier than 11am. Off peak usually starts at 9.30am (although might be different at weekends, tbf). But that gives people an hour and a half.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

I lived in London until earlier this year, but now am further away. I'd suggest perhaps even a little later start time, to attract non-Londoners who'd prefer off-peak train times and prices! Would definitely be interested though- I find it a fascinating subject, personally and therapeutically.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

Aah, right - thank you. I wouldn't be able to get there at that time, unfortunately.

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Michael A. Gonzales @magonzales.bsky.social · 4d

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 4d

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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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

Hi there. Whereabouts is this held please? Can't see that info.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 4d

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea

Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 4d

bitch what

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

I haven't ever really done online dating, and certainly not for about 15 years. Every time I think about giving it a try, up pops something/someone giving me myriad reasons why not to...

‘I realised I’d been ChatGPT-ed into bed’: how ‘Chatfishing’ made finding love on dating apps even weirder

Where once people were duped by soft-focus photos and borrowed chat-up lines, now they have to watch out for computer-generated charm. But it’s one thing to use a witty phrase – another thing entirely...

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

My new hero

"How" @myoneandonlykat.bsky.social · 5d

Timeline cleanse!

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

Disappointing, but good to know. Thanks for pioneering.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

I think probably 18 years, rather than nigh-on 30, but absolutely same.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

Psyched myself up for a while to buy the ridiculously-pricey-but-bet-they're-WELL-fit crisps from M&S. Just tried them, and they're thoroughly disappointing. Smell and taste like some weird artificial cheese. Gutted. If anyone wants 7/8th of a pack, they're yours.

A bag of the posh M&S olive oil serrano ham crisps which cost nearly four quid and have just ruined my Sunday afternoon.

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Ed Morrish @edmorrish.bsky.social · 4d

you know that critique of ai that says it’s like taking a forklift to the gym and expecting to get stronger? well this bit of that guardian article about people using chatgpt in dating apps kinda proves it correct

Which is why the man who greeted her inside the pub – polite, pleasant but oddly flat – felt like a stranger. Gone was the quickfire wit and playful rhythm she’d come to expect from their exchanges. Over pints he stumbled through small talk, checked his phone a little too often, and seemed to wilt under the pressure of her questions. “I felt like I was sitting opposite someone I’d never even spoken to,” she says. “I tried to have the same sort of conversation as we’d been having online, but it was like, ‘Knock, knock, is anyone home?’ – like he knew basically nothing about me. That’s when I suspected he’d been using AI.”

Rachel gave her date the benefit of the doubt. “I thought maybe he was nervous,” she says. But she’d been “Chatfished” before, so when the gap between his real and digital selves failed to close on their second date, she called it off. “I’d already been ChatGPT-ed into bed at least once. I didn’t want it to happen again.”

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 4d

Also, maybe a bit...?

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 8d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 8d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 9d

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 8d

Oh, man. She's one of the absolute greatest humans. Loving prayers from a Northern atheist being sent your way, darling Dolly.

Amanda Weaver @amandaweavernovels.com · 8d

If you're the praying sort, throw one up for Dolly Parton. Word is she's not doing well, and fuck, this world needs her goodness in it for a while longer.

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 9d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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legalclaret @legalclaret.bsky.social · 13d

A rather fine article that goes a long way to explaining the government’s current unpopularity.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13d

What a £5 coffee (or a £100 Pizza Express) tells us about a changing Britain | Gaby Hinsliff

For many Gen Xers, it feels like we’re sliding back towards the land of our childhoods: where eating out was for special occasions, and Thermoses were king, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

www.theguardian.com

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 14d

Ooh, I love that little nugget of info.
(And - fun - am now imagining who I'd choose)

Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 14d

It's a gem, isn't it. They have such believable and great "we've been friends forever and deeply love and also annoy the shit out of each other" chemistry.

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Anne Richardson @annierich.bsky.social · 15d

If I could get that on Uber Eats, I'd deffo order it.

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