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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 2h

Wednesday mood:

Mostly Harmless @whalepetunias.bsky.social · 3h

There was the ground rushing up to meet him at 30 feet per second per second, but he would, he thought, deal with that problem when he got to it.

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 10h

Must-watch piece from @karenhao.bsky.social about the mental health risks of chatbots --- especially as Altman is going around having claimed to have "mitigated" them.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkGk...

He Lost His Mind Using ChatGPT. Then It Told Him to Contact Me

YouTube video by More Perfect Union

www.youtube.com

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 10h

Van Til: "It will readily be inferred what the Christian means by antinomies"

Me: Cornelius, at this point, I couldn't readily infer what you mean by saying grass is green

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 10h

Who is raising Caine?

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

My kids have now read two (2) speculative fiction novels, and they are hilariously judgmental of tech bros. "Did they READ Fahrenheit 451?! They obviously didn't UNDERSTAND it!"

a raccoon is praying with its hands folded and the words `` good , good '' written on the bottom .

Alt: A scheming raccoon taps its fingers together and says, "good, good"

media.tenor.com

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

No, no, no. You're overthinking this.

Ya take da white bread. Ya butter it both sides. Kraft slice in the middle, sizzle sizzle til brown. Ya use da spatula to cut it inta sailboats. Then ya dip it in Campbell's condensed tomato soup made with 2% milk.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

(The book is also great, obvs, just longer)

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

Oh! Another way to get your toes wet would be to watch the Going Postal mini movie series thing, which is reliably on YouTube and stands alone well imo
youtu.be/T15O2WGzRp0?...

DiscWorld - 'GOING POSTAL' (Part 1 of 2)

YouTube video by iDiedOfLaughter Inc.

youtu.be

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

It's only one letter and two keys away from "bow", which would make sense

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

If you put it in the pan, how do you get the butter on the inside sides of the bread? 🤔

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 13h

I have long believed that we should be WAY more vocal about how police and ICE constantly murder dogs, and I think this is great messaging actually.

The reality is that you can mobilize a whole lot of usually tuned-out Americans around a “someone is being mean to hecking doggos” cause.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

The Truth is a nice semi-standalone introduction to the officially adult books. Half journalism satire, half mystery story, set nicely in the middle of the series where the world is all fleshed out.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

Discworld.

The Tiffany Aching books (starting with The Wee Free Men) are set in Discworld but stand alone easily. They're allegedly for young people but they don't read that way. Great on audiobook if ye dinnae want tae read dialect.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

This just proves octogenarians are liars because don't pretend you were wearing real pants in 2020-2021.

(I do HAVE to brush my teeth before a Zoom, though. Doesn't matter that it makes no sense.)

Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 12h

Me when I'm 80: We used to dress up for Zoom. Now people just wear anything

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

B2 might be the A-level standard for a UK student studying a language *other* than English, perhaps? Do you do A levels in French and so on? That would make far more sense to me.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 11h

But CEFR is primarily tracking language acquisition, whereas I would assume that A level English is doing a lot more?

It sounds like saying that being able to do 100 math facts a minute is the same as calculus-level math. Yes, a calculus student can do sums fast, but there's more to it than that.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

Lead poisoning is bad, right?

Alex Knapp @thealexknapp.bsky.social · 14h

Consumer Reports finds that some protein shakes and powders contain extremely high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports

CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

www.consumerreports.org

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

I mean the article says "B2" but how that equals "A level" is a mystery to me, a non-Briton

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

The BBC reporting says that what they actually mean is B2, as opposed to the current B1 requirement.

How B2 is equivalent to A level is left as an exercise for the reader. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

Somehow, despite doing it all day every day for years, he's not good at lying.

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

When I was six
and on the farm

they handed me
a chicken to hold

a soft warm ball
against my belly

my arms full
of its wings

I could hardly breathe
for its breathing

I dared not move
for its small moving

We were fragile
together alive

on the farm
and I was six

#mpy #poetry

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

The nightmare we already got was with the guardrails *on*???

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 14h

i don't have the words to emphasise how seriously bad things are gonna get

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

If I lie down three hours early, will I wake up at bedtime or at 3 am? Or just sleep through to the regular alarm? Might be only one way to find out

Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 12h

*long stare*

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 13h

Trump just now, speaking at the Charlie Kirk memorial event:

“I heard (Kirk) loved his enemies, and I thought, ‘Is that the same Charlie I know?’ I’m not sure. But I didn’t want to get into it.”

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Rebecca @wordyanchorite.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know if it's ghosts exactly, but the abandoned sanitarium (TB hospital) turned sanitarium (mental hospital) was the local Spooky Spot

Emily "Babe" St. James @emilystjams.bsky.social · 17h

What’s the best ghost story from your hometown?

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