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Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl a cracked and broken path. @alex@mastodon.pintofsimilar.com

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Up in London today. Nobbled by German TV to give my view on the election and the state of the country. I'll have no idea if it's ever shown 😜

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Jim Waterson's avatar Jim Waterson @jimwaterson.bsky.social
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Sky News has sent a promo pack for its election night coverage and now my child is running around the house in a Rishi Sunak mask.

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I enjoyed the TV show as well but in hindsight it's remarkable how little action there actually is in the TV show.

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Molly, trash queen's avatar Molly, trash queen @chainchompist.bsky.social
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The Pope, who lives in an art museum with a bunch of dudes who've sworn off pussy: does it seem kind of gay in here to you?

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have had to literally break the fluff filter with a hammer to remove it from the washing machine. The water is so hard here, its welded in. Only way to remove the keys, hairpins, and other rubbish the kids have blocked it up with. Spare is now on order :(

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SKY TV was also a class thing, much like having parents that refused to let ITV (nasty cheap commercial television) on in the house.

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Might just have soppily rewritten the first verse of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band as an ode to the missus on the occasion of our 20th wedding anniversary tomorrow. She'll be underwhelmed as she's not a Beatles fan :D

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First came “spam.” Now, with AI-assisted search, we’ve got “slop.” nyti.ms/3x3aQPv

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Made the mistake of criticising Sunak and the Tories on Twitter and suddenly my account was locked. When I unlocked it, I was faced with this:

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Dan Lavoie's avatar Dan Lavoie @djlavoie.bsky.social
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It's a real choice which part of the story is the headline and which is the subhed.

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when my kids were little, I used to do it with the car's electric windows too. They just roll their eyes at me now.

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True. My dad can have entire discussions and conversations with me, and get cross with my response, without me actually being there or being involved in it whatsoever.

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the format will do the best to ruin it. I don't know what the format is but that's my assumption :P

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Rachel Flood Heaton's avatar Rachel Flood Heaton @rachelfloodheaton.bsky.social
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These folks did a great job of breaking, well, *all* the leading LLMs by asking the models an incredibly simple question. These models should not be relied upon to assist anyone with reasoning. Check out the appendix with examples of truly wild confabulations and errors

arxiv.org/html/2406.02...

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I'm more astonished that flickr is still kicking about to be honest!

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As his eyesight failed, he built up a huge collection of printers due to attempting to plug the USB into the ethernet port. I've still got one in the loft.

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Well into his 80s, you'd find him strolling to local Indian takeaways in Tottenham and woe betide any Spurs fan who'd park on his driveway, Harry had a habit of cutting handbrake cables and pushing the cars back into the road.

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After the war, he won a cafe in a game of cards, built a shed out of asbestos twice (the first time you couldn't actually get a car into it due to the angle of approach) and lost his medals when he left them on a bus. He wasn't overly bothered.

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He was shipwrecked in the Med, the only one who kept his ciggies dry after their craft was sunk, he scavenged a Mercedes motorbike in North Africa and during the aftermath of D Day had to beat a hasty retreat when he turned a corner on a rural French road and caught up with a column of German tanks.

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It wasn't reticence or respect, it was just something that had happened a long long time ago and wasn't relevant to him. When I did get some stories out of him though, oh boy... Harry was a motorcycle messenger and got literally everywhere - North Africa, Sicily and the D Day landings

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As D Day celebrations ratchet up, I'm reminded of my wife's granddad, who lived a full and exciting life, the war being only part of an extraordinary tale. He's gone these 10 years now but even when I first met him 25 years ago, he wasn't one for telling war stories.

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Alan Ferrier's avatar Alan Ferrier @alanferrier.bsky.social
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I'm starting to think that the Conservative Party's decision to hold the #Brexit referendum in order to resolve their internal civil war and neutralise the threat of Farage's far-right may not be working out as they'd hoped.

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🇵🇸🏞️ King Kitt 🌊🇵🇸's avatar 🇵🇸🏞️ King Kitt 🌊🇵🇸 @industrialpet.bsky.social
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The photographer at Popworld Plymouth has provided me with my new favourite "guy in a club" photo, this is art.

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🇺🇸 Señor Beto 🇲🇽 's avatar 🇺🇸 Señor Beto 🇲🇽 @albthere.bsky.social
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Britannica for the shade!

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Richard Massara's avatar Richard Massara @richmassara.bsky.social
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Happy 34th anniversary of Jon Arbuckle drinking a cup of dog semen in #Garfield to all who celebrate

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15 years after it first tempted/tormented people at a live event, Janey Thomson's Marathon is going to be at this year's #EMFCamp (apparently in a mini arcade cabinet)

Only a select few have completed it with an audience, so it's a rare chance to achieve sporting glory

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Feel your pain. Glad I've got my daughter, who listed some promotional sackboys from little big planet on something called vinted the other day and got £25 for the first one. Mystery to me!

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Wait until people post the photos of the golliwogs their nan knitted for them, that's when it'll get exciting.

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Mark Chadbourn's avatar Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social
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Time to pull this out again.

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Here's a freebie for the Tory party. Stick Sunak in an armchair and get him to do press like Ronny Corbet used to. It'll definitely make him seem more human, and the range of jumpers is great.

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He really looks like a posable (action) figure doesn't he?

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Pocketcast? Not a huge user of podcasts but its the one I was using before most of the ones I listen to appeared on Spotify.

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It's Thursday morning, 7:06am. Am already fed up with the wall to wall election coverage on every form of media in the UK.

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I see the media is frothing at the mouth over the general election already.It's understandable; only the third time the incumbent party will have changed in 50 years. Unless the hard left wreck the Labour vote in a quest for ideological purity. They're convinced Starmer is to the right of the Tories

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Ed Zitron's avatar Ed Zitron @zitron.bsky.social
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Was a pleasure to help @coffeezilla.bsky.social out with this video, which is incredible and really shows exactly how deeply untrustworthy Jesse Lyu and Rabbit are. This video is worth every minute, and every single person who covered the Rabbit R1 should watch it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPOH...

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Hats off to whomever decided to make anusol light brown. Ideal colour for something you rub round your bum hole.

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Ordered a new phone. Turns out my SIM only deal has expired, and an extra four quid a month means I can get a Pixel 8. First Google phone since the Nexus 4.

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Everything is branded as AI now too. Predictive text? AI. Magic lasso? AI.

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His whole thing is Tory but more efficient, as if it's not the policies that are wrong but the implementation

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Think I've still got pocketcast set up. Mostly dip via Spotify though as I can sync to my Garmin

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film it in Wales and see if anyone notices the difference. Probably cheaper than NZ now anyway.

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Comfortably Numb's avatar Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly
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It sure is fond of quince

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