Timber
@timbeon.bsky.social
Civil engineer and certified Great Lakes trash. 34, she/they/he, aroace and genderfluid. 日本語を少し話します、でも勉強するよ！
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Timber
@timbeon.bsky.social
· Jan 2
たくさんの犬が撫でたい
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Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Doubling down on effectively excluding trans and non-binary individuals from public spaces.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Equality boss expects people to 'follow rules' over single-sex spaces
Dr Mary-Ann Stephenson said "things could be sorted out if there is goodwill and recognition that everybody has rights".
www.bbc.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Just let people go for a piss, for Christ’s sake. Do you have any idea how insane it looks to have a cadre of mean-as-fuck official toilet monitors as your national equalities regulator.
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I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
December 13, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I hate how much I enjoyed this
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
BIG NERD DESIGN ENERGY 🫦
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Hear me out: what if we just hired people — humans —to have subject-area expertise, discretion and empathy and we paid them for those skills.
The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.
The CRA spent $18M on 'Charlie,' a new tax information chatbot that is wrong most of the time
The Canada Revenue Agency paid $18 million for a chatbot the auditor general says give her team the wrong answer 66 per cent of the time.
nationalpost.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Hear me out: what if we just hired people — humans —to have subject-area expertise, discretion and empathy and we paid them for those skills.
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We often say “Touch Grass” but for real, everyone is well-served by touching grass. It’s easy to see how many of our worst and most toxic personalities online and in culture and in politics were terminally online people poisoned by the septic pools they filled for themselves.
If you're wondering what happened to Nate Silver, he was into the COVID lab leak theory and got negative feedback online, including from epidemiologists and virologists and (GASP!) posters, which added to his belief that The Woke are victimizing Nate Silver. It spiraled from there.
I'm not kidding.
I'm not kidding.
what the fuck are you talking about man
December 14, 2025 at 1:40 PM
We often say “Touch Grass” but for real, everyone is well-served by touching grass. It’s easy to see how many of our worst and most toxic personalities online and in culture and in politics were terminally online people poisoned by the septic pools they filled for themselves.
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AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
December 14, 2025 at 4:19 AM
AI has actively made life worse for literally everyone
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
- tech is now more expensive
- you cannot trust most media of reality anymore
- programs barely function
- energy prices
- literal psychosis
- your voice can be literally stolen for evil
- more spyware
but hey, you can avoid paying an artist.
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Hero. ❤️
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
December 14, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Hero. ❤️
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
'43-year-old father of two, Ahmed el Ahmed, wrestled a rifle off one of the Bondi Beach gunmen. Ahmed is from Sydney’s Sutherland Shire and owns a fruit business. He has no known experience with guns and was visiting Bondi when he saw the shooting unfolding.
archive.today/2025.12.14-1...
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What the fuck
(Reuters) - Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat apps into ChatGPT, it said on Wednesday, allowing users to edit images, design graphics and manage PDFs within the OpenAI-owned chatbot.
@reuters.com $ADBE
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
@reuters.com $ADBE
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
Adobe plugs Photoshop, Acrobat tools into ChatGPT
Adobe is integrating Photoshop, Adobe Express and Acrobat apps into ChatGPT, it said on Wednesday, allowing users to edit images, design graphics and manage PDFs within the OpenAI-owned chatbot.
www.reuters.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:13 AM
What the fuck
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Today is Chiitan's birthday🎂
Everyone please send me your congratulations♡
I love you all so much.
今日はちぃたん☆のお誕生日ですっ☆いつも一緒にいてくれてありがとうございますっ大好きですっ☆
Everyone please send me your congratulations♡
I love you all so much.
今日はちぃたん☆のお誕生日ですっ☆いつも一緒にいてくれてありがとうございますっ大好きですっ☆
December 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Today is Chiitan's birthday🎂
Everyone please send me your congratulations♡
I love you all so much.
今日はちぃたん☆のお誕生日ですっ☆いつも一緒にいてくれてありがとうございますっ大好きですっ☆
Everyone please send me your congratulations♡
I love you all so much.
今日はちぃたん☆のお誕生日ですっ☆いつも一緒にいてくれてありがとうございますっ大好きですっ☆
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Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
“AI”: A Dedicated Fact-Failing Machine, or, Yet Another Reason Not to Trust It For Anything
I search my name on a regular basis, not only because I am an ego monster (although I try not to pretend that I’m not) but because it’s a good way for me to find reviews, end-of-the-yea…
whatever.scalzi.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Today in "Don't Trust AI to Tell You Facts": How several different "AI" programs messed up the simple fact of to whom I dedicated a book, and what that means for how much you should trust "AI" to tell you the truth about things (spoiler: not much at all):
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
whatever.scalzi.com/2025/12/13/a...
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Milwaukee policemen literally gave Jeffrey Dahmer’s escaped underaged victim back to him.
Police procedurals: 'This serial killer is super sophisticated, highly intelligent and his murders follow an occult pattern of ritualized murder... He's one sick son of a bitch.'
Actual serial killers: 'Yea so he hated women and killed sex workers which is why the cops didn't care.'
Actual serial killers: 'Yea so he hated women and killed sex workers which is why the cops didn't care.'
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Milwaukee policemen literally gave Jeffrey Dahmer’s escaped underaged victim back to him.
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online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 PM
online gambling is essentially legal and open money fixing and laundering at this point
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I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.
December 13, 2025 at 6:00 PM
I am so proud of them. the kids did it. they made a new stupid number to say. they may now take their place in history.
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epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
Hogwarts Legacy is now at the right price: $0
Epic Games partnered with The Game Awards to give away this week's free game on the Epic Games Store.
www.polygon.com
December 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
epic will pay for every game that gets claimed this way so yes, you are still giving money to rowling (and by extension an international campaign against trans people) by claiming this
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
there are other, better franchises - let this one go
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December 13, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
BREAKING: Seattle Children's Hospital successfully fought this summer to get DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena quashed.
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
The Seattle court partially unsealed the case this week.
This was the fourth, previously sealed case mentioned in this recent Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/judges-doj...
December 13, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Huh. It's almost like when institutions stand up to that spineless coward fascist, he loses and folds. I sure wish more institutions would take note of that.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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If we are going to be inundated with ads for megacorporations, and I would prefer we not be at all, can they at least be okay to look at. Do better dystopian oligarchs
December 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
If we are going to be inundated with ads for megacorporations, and I would prefer we not be at all, can they at least be okay to look at. Do better dystopian oligarchs
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I've seen the coke ad like four times now in movie theatres and the texture on the fur of the squirrel(?) gets worse every time I look at it
December 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I've seen the coke ad like four times now in movie theatres and the texture on the fur of the squirrel(?) gets worse every time I look at it
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I think the thing about these AI coke/mcdonalds ads is that I don't think they are inherently more soulless than any other ad for mcdonalds or coke, in the sense that "an advertisement for the Coca-Cola Company™" is already at maximum soullessness. But dear god they just look like absolute shit
December 12, 2025 at 8:27 PM
I think the thing about these AI coke/mcdonalds ads is that I don't think they are inherently more soulless than any other ad for mcdonalds or coke, in the sense that "an advertisement for the Coca-Cola Company™" is already at maximum soullessness. But dear god they just look like absolute shit
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Here is a look at what high temperatures will look like across the nation on Saturday and Sunday. Most locations will either see well above average temperatures or well below average temperatures this weekend. There's not a whole lot of in between. Check your forecast at weather.gov.
December 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here is a look at what high temperatures will look like across the nation on Saturday and Sunday. Most locations will either see well above average temperatures or well below average temperatures this weekend. There's not a whole lot of in between. Check your forecast at weather.gov.
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The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway
December 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The Democratic Party's formula for the last 50 years has been "Let's be friendly with extreme wealth and maybe we can also get modest policy wins sometimes." The last 10 years and this year in particular should be conclusive proof of how badly this has failed. But we're stuck with it anyway
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note to everyone else they're trying to intimidate: telling the administration to fuck off remains the single most effective response
Lol the US just abandoned their effort to get mad at the guy that threw Bolsonaro in prison. Big "my toddler tantrum didn't get me nothing so we're done here" energy.
*US REMOVES BRAZIL'S MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US ALSO DELETES VIVIANE BARCI DE MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US REMOVES BRAZIL'S MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
*US ALSO DELETES VIVIANE BARCI DE MORAES FROM SANCTIONS LIST
December 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
note to everyone else they're trying to intimidate: telling the administration to fuck off remains the single most effective response