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Stansaid Airport @stansaidairport.bsky.social · 18m

That’s the head of Boeing just pulled up in our valet bay.

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Mariah 🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋🇺🇸🦋 @mariahbrown.bsky.social · 19m

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 3m

I despair for our kids. The first generation ruined by the internet, with more on the way.

C. Buckthorn @cbuckthorn.bsky.social · 2h

This is amazing. I laughed out loud www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

As 32-year-old Rich points out, though, "it's not like using ChatGPT guarantees success".
When he met someone in a bar one Friday night and swapped social media handles, he asked AI what his next move should be.
ChatGPT discerned that sending an initial message on Monday midmorning would set the right pace. "Then it gave me some options for what the message could be," says Rich.
"Keep it light, warm, and low-stakes so it reads as genuine interest without urgency," the bot advised. "Something like: Hey Sarah, still laughing about [tiny shared moment/reference if you've got one] - good to meet you!" Rich went back and forth with ChatGPT until he felt they'd hit upon exactly the right message ("Hey Sarah, it was lovely to meet you") but sadly she never replied, he says. "It's been two weeks now."

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The Nerve @thenerve.news · 1h

‘Are the flags that now bedeck our suburbs and estates patriotic or racist?’

In his second weekly column, Stewart Lee looks at the changing significance of England flags over the years

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 5m

Imagine not having the intellect to hold an interesting conversation with someone. I get social anxiety, it's not easy for everyone but this is just weird. He must be such a letdown once they actually meet, I bet he only ever got the one date with each woman.

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1h

this is sociopathic behaviour and I think we need to treat it as such! just because something has become easy to do doesn't mean it has become less creepy, or more acceptable!

Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 14h

Atticus just made up* a joke.

Which dinosaur has the best vocabulary?

A thesaurus

*probably saw it on the internet

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Tony Slattery's Rambling Club @ramblingclub.bsky.social · 2d

There's a proud tradition amongst a certain subset of Dr Who fans of failing to understand, or notice, that the series has always skewed left-wing. The second ever story is Dr Who versus the Space Nazis, for Christ's sake

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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 1d

Teesside’s freeport, initiated in 2021 under Rishi Sunak, has cost £560 million far exceeding the standard £25 million allocation (22 times the standard £25m).
90% profits go to the private sector.
This clearly shows the UK model of State aid post-Brexit is utterly corrupt.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 19h

I watched the first one, is it worth persevering?

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 19h

I had also assumed that and I don't like chilli so I shan't be trying it. I like honey though.

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ghost crab @crabbydaddy.bsky.social · 20h

actually i lied and this is my first rodeo

are those cows?

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

Why use one word (constipation) when you can use loads and loads and loads? I reckon he was tedious to talk to.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

That's why he won't go to A&E now. In the end he drew fifty quid out the ATM and got a cab home without even being seen because he was so hungry.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

Frimley is a million times better than Royal Berks. He's had tea and biscuits and a sandwich and hot chocolate, in four hours. Royal Berks he was there over twelve without even a sip of water. He's diabetic, they knew that. You'd think in A&E they'd be on top of that.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

Ooh, nice. I've had to send himself off with a list so the shopping will be shit this week.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

And oddly the NHS WiFi is strong enough to download so I've been on iPlayer and put some stuff on to watch in the aeroplane, in the probably futile hope that himself will leave me alone and let me watch it.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

I bought a Karin Slaughter book and he's hooked up to the good stuff and fallen asleep. So peace for a bit of reading.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

Cronuts. Croissant/doughnut hybrid, they're lovely.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

He's shouting now because he's had to tell them his date of birth and name several times and he's got one of those little wristbands with it written on. I just want to get it done and be out of here.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 22h

She showed up just in time.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 23h

Still waiting. He's starting to get the hump. Says ten more minutes and he's leaving. So this was just a huge waste of my time. Spiffing.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 23h

He's gone to the king's farm shop again. Can't be trusted.

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Stephen McGann @stephenmcgann.uk · 1d

ChatGPT is currently answering all of my verbal queries in Welsh (a known bug, apparently).

I must say, I find the prospect of a Skynet-style hostile superintelligence a little less daunting when it comes in the form of an accidental housewife from Rhyl.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 23h

He's been waffling nonsense at her for over half hour and she's been gone two minutes and now he's complaining she's taking too long.

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Jenerally Scared (Halloween edition) @hotlegs.bsky.social · 1d

Now he's complaining to her about his local chemist. Like she has any control over that. Jesus Christ. He's a nightmare.

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