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Dave Jones

@popzeus.bsky.social

1K followers 990 following 1.4K posts

Journalist turned data/insights boffin. DIY indie rock practitioner as Jaded Noon Wives. Also reading through every X-Men related comic ever published like a totally normal person

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 7h

I like how this one is laid out like they're going to fight each other in a boxing ring.

Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 7h

Agree, and also stop putting always-on blue LEDs on everything

Jamie McKelvie @mckelvie.bsky.social · 7h

My opinion of modern technology is that everything needs to beep less

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Dan Marshall @danthat.bsky.social · 16h

An all-new EXCLUSIVE clip from

EARTH
MUST
DIE.

Wishlist *immediately* and share, please.

store.steampowered.com/app/3639780/...

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 16h

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness

Charlie and Mac from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

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Tom Neenan @tpneenan.bsky.social · 17h

virgin media ron, oil on board

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 16h

I think Leonard takes the crown for using the default text box style from Microsoft Paint, but at least the cut-out work on the photo is competent

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 17h

That is pretty horrible, but I think this one runs it close

The cover of Kasabian's album For Crying Out Loud, comprising the band's name, album title and year of release in a bog standard MS Paint style font, black on white, and a black and white photo of a gurning moustachioed man with blue cartoon tears erupting from the sides of his head. In the corner, inexplicably, are the words "Volume 6"

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 17h

That is pretty horrible, but I think this one runs it close

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 21h

Have they not watched their own films, the answer is "somehow"

DiscussingFilm @discussingfilm.net · 1d

Adam Driver reveals he was developing a new Star Wars movie ‘THE HUNT FOR BEN SOLO’ with Steven Soderbergh

• Was set after ‘The Rise of Skywalker’

• Lucasfilm loved the idea but Disney said no — “They didn’t see how Ben Solo was alive”

(Source: apnews.com/article/adam...)

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 21h

Everything Worse: A Brief History of the 21st Century

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 1d

Them: “no one had pronouns in my day”
A TV Character from their day:

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 1d

Today has been brought to you by these specific three panels of X-Treme X-Men (2001).

Panel 1: An alien-looking dude with blue fur, red eyes and green body armour thumps a handheld device against a wall. "How many worlds have we invaded?"
Panel 2: He glares at the device, furious. "How many times has tech support promised their hardware would work?"
Panel 3: Cut to close-up of device smashing on the floor with a KRUNCH! Voice balloon from off-panel: "Useless piece of junk!"

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sexy ludovician @beardynoise.bsky.social · 1d

Liz Truss was at least destroying the country as part of an elaborate BDSM sex game, I truly cannot fathom what is motivating Starmer to be fucking it up this badly

Edith @edithcharles.bsky.social · Sep 15

Starmer makes Liz Truss look like a genius

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2d

This person is paying OpenAI two hundred dollars a month to have a chatbot gaslight them about making an excel spreadsheet

Cannot generate simple excel files on pro version
Question
So I have used ChatGPT pro for a while now and recently I have been facing an issue while trying to collate data from pdfs and put it in an excel sheet where in my chat it keeps asking me questions when it finally gets down to generating an excel sheet it never gives me the me the link to download the file.
After multiple attempts when it does give me a lin k to download the excel file I rec an error which says file not found. Starting to grow frustrated with this now.
Look forward to any suggestions to tackle this #problem

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The Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 1d

It's very trendy for the woke left to mock the police these days, but this is the kind of thing that you and I might miss.

BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.

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oli @olil.bsky.social · 1d

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

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Rick Burin @rickburin.bsky.social · 3d

May you turn into your own Steve Bell cartoon [Iraqi curse]

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 1d

"Trust me, that logo's going to make elder millennials think of goatse. No, you don't want to google that"

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Sola Balisane @balisane.bsky.social · 3d

Every office needs to have one person whose entire job it is to be terminally online, and everyone else needs to agree to listen to that person when they say that you need to change the name of your pet project or delete a media post.

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 3d

Return of the Shack

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 3d

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted.

It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed.

The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

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acab rangoon @mid-skeets.bsky.social · 4d

sean connery in a suit with a quote bubble

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 4d

I've been talking to my Windows PCs for years, or perhaps the more accurate phrase is shouting at them.

Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 5d

This is the future of Windows. Microsoft wants to rewrite Windows to turn computers into AI PCs that you talk to. It's now bringing AI features to all Windows 11 PCs today, in a bid to convince you to talk to your PC and let AI control it. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/799768/...

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it

Copilot Voice and Vision are now rolling out.

www.theverge.com

Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 4d

"Crikey, Professor, what a smashing machine! I wonder what it does?"

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Dave Jones @popzeus.bsky.social · 5d

(now watch it be nowhere near as good as I remembered it)