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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 2h

I wonder how long it'll take them to get bored of this current paroxysm – and what it'll take.

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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 4h

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 · 5h

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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Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 4h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 4h

Matt is one of my favourite people on here, witty, smart & kind.
If you could repost this I’d appreciate it.

Matt Owen @mjowen174.bsky.social · 4h

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

Home | Matt Owen | Freelance Writer

I offer a broad and diverse range of writing services. Get in touch!

www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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chiller @thechiller.bsky.social · 4h

Absolutely fuck this racist vandalism, and the racist vandals who are doing it.

Residents say they feel 'threatened and abused' as flags line seafront road

Residents have reported feeling "intimidated" by those putting up St George's flags on a major seafront road

www.theargus.co.uk

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 3h

I'll take a look.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 2d

ChatGPT's guide to Winning At Work
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Climbing the corporate greasy pole, ChatGPT style: the Stephen Collins cartoon

If I tell you what you want to hear then you’ll think I’m a god!

www.theguardian.com

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 4h

So excited!!

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 4h

No matter how severe the symptoms, everything up to and including death is to be expected so nothing to worry about as long as you wash your hands.

a cartoon cat wearing a hat and vest is holding dumbbells in front of a potted plant

Alt: Top Cat dances and plays maracas beside a plant in a pot. He's wearing his usual snazzy purple hat and waistcoat.

media.tenor.com

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 5h

For god's sake let Facebook die already. Just take it out back and shoot it. Or a lethal injection and soothing music if you prefer. But it's overstayed its allotted years, time to pop off.

Meta AI adviser spreads disinformation about shootings, vaccines and trans people

Critics condemn Robby Starbuck, appointed in lawsuit settlement, for ‘peddling lies and pushing extremism’

www.theguardian.com

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 6h

Conkergeddon!

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 6h

You should buy one more, that way everyone gets eight each.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 8h

Interesting the inflection points on those graphs - first the rise in pro independence and/or devolution in 2010 across all identities - the start of austerity and the end of UK Labour government? Then a peak pro independence in 2019, when Boris Johnston is at his peak of "get Brexit done".

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 8h

Analysis in @thetimes.com by @leaskyd.bsky.social & Anna Dowell of the sharp decline in British identity uncovered by the Scottish Social Attitudes survey.

With comment from Sir John Curtice on the polarising of Scottish politics and from myself on the decoupling of Scottish and British identities:

Why Scots are losing their British identity

With only a quarter of respondents to the Scottish Social Attitudes survey identifying with Britishness, Scotland faces a generational political split

www.thetimes.com

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 13h

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 10h

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

A comic strip in six panels. The panels inerlock like a jigsaw with knobs and sockets. Two stick figures walk right to left through all the panels.

Panel 1: Person 1 says "I hear you're working on a new theory."
Panel 2 & 3: Person 2 says: "Yes, I'm calling it the jigsaw model. I think it could change our whole View of reality."
Panel 4: Person 1 says "When Will you publish?:
Panel 5: Person 2 says "But a couple of things are still bothering me." (this piece/panel is a bit squint)
Panel 6: This piece is rotated ninety degees and fits to the others very badly. Person 2 is saying "Soon. I feel like I'm really close"
A second look at the whole comic shows that the last two panels read in the wrong order because the jigsaw has been put together incorrectly.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 1d

"A future president, even dumber than you, will allow Qatar, the country that harbored Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the architect of the plane attacks in NY, PA, and DC today, and whose royal family will help him escape capture by the US, to build a military base on US soil to train Qataris to fly jets."

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Matthew Sweet @drmatthewsweet.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. Sometimes the obituaries just seem to come in like waves. Generations pass, I suppose. The water gets closer.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

oh god yes

a woman with red hair is smiling and wearing a yellow ruffled top

Alt: Ginger woman nodding and grimacing as though she's just discovered there's a boneyard of human remains leaching into her drinking water.

media.tenor.com

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

If you squinted over the edge of the hill in that photo you would see our house. If you looked back over your shoulder you'd see our reservoir at the base of the hill... 🤮

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

We live underneath Dumyat, the hill in the article. Our reservoir is just the other side, and definitely not a full kilometre from the top of the hill. 🤮

commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

It's more of a Shelbyville idea...

Monorail! (The Simpsons)

YouTube video by ThingsICantFindOtherwise

www.youtube.com

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

I plan to stay so drunk it'll barely matter.

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commamonger 😷 (analogue writing assistant) @commamonger.bsky.social · 1d

It has been a veeeeeerrrry long year, no shame necessary.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 1d

My cartoon for the books page in this week’s @theguardian.com

Title: Where writers really get their ideas.

A writer, holding a note in his outstretched hand approaches a cart in the park. The front of the cart reads 'Fresh ideas' and a colourful umbrella shades the server who is reaching deep into the body of the cart (much as an ice-cream vendor might) and saying:
"I'm all out of mind-blowing concepts and heart-rending narratives, but I've got an acerbic observation, an unexpected outcome and a couple of amusing notions."

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