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I asked an AI (ChatGPT) to write an ode in iambic pentameter to Silas. Why, I think this robot has known my cat for all his life!

You can try out the toy here: https://chat.openai.com/chat

Silas, oh Silas, you feline so fair With fur so soft and eyes so aware In your bed of blankets, you do lay The picture of relaxation, in every way

Though others may chase and play the day through You simply stretch and purr, as if to say "I do What I want, when I want, and how I please" A true master of leisure, if ever there was one of these

You may not be the most active, Silas, my dear But you bring a sense of calm, that's hard to compare So here's to you, oh lazy feline king May your days be filled with love, and everything

That brings you joy and happiness, without end Our dear Silas, the laziest of all feline friends.

Update on my lost luggage, I have good news and bad news.

Good news: they found my bag.

Bad news: they can't send it over until frigging Saturday.

Also suspect how the f-up happened: only just realised that when I got in the flight they didn’t scan my boarding pass at the gate, so they must have assumed I had missed my flight.

Good morning to everyone, except to Ryanair who lost my sodding hold luggage.

And a heartfelt Bollocks to Brexit as well, since I now have to pay up to £2 for data roaming.

The Sweetie and I went to Lightopia in Manchester

Good morning from the windowsill!

My two cats, Mabel-a tabbico- and Silas - a tuxie - sitting in their boxes lined with baby blankets on the windowsill

This is Ty Lee, I'm staying with her humans in London. She's a smart and adventurous little cookie.

#CatsOfMast

Silas thinks he's a prawn

My tuxedo cat Silas curled up like a prawn

@christineburns the real question is : how much do they add to the house value? The guy who gave us the quote said 15%, but from what I could verify independently it sounds more like 5%.

@christineburns
Our energy bills are low-ish atm, so the one guy who gave us a quote reckoned that we'd be able to sell back to the grid enough to cover the standing charge.

Only problem is : our house is a small-ish two up two down, so after we get married, when we're ready for kids, we'd want to move slightly bigger. So right around the time we'd be done paying for the panels we'd have to leave them for the next person to reap the benefits.

@daz_speck
Find nearby York's shortest and most amusingly named street

Mastodon isn’t complicated, but if you need help, here’s a quick explainer for navigating the site:

Via @Lukeisamazing

19th Century map of all the little Kingdoms and Principalities and city states in Europe circa 18th Century. The joke is that it looks very messy and fragmented.

@christineburns
Would a drive for more solar panels on houses help in this direction too? We've been low key considering it for our home.

@Fascinatorfun
In Romanian slang, when someone does incredibly stupid 💩 and hurts their own interests in anger or just to be an asshole /troll, we say they "hit their own balls with a claw hammer"

The Romanian word for claw hammer is "tesla".

Raluca Enescu 🇬🇧🇷🇴🇪🇺🐝🐈🐈 boosted:

they put a christmas sweater on the t-rex at the national history museum in london and it's ridiculous and adorable

Picture of the animatronic t-rex model at the National History Muesume in London wearing a dark blue Christmas sweater that has stripes with different designs that go all the way around the sweater: one is of white snow against the dark blue, white snowflakes against a red stripe, green dinosaurs, a red stripe with white snow, green christmas trees against a white stripe, then the pattern repeats again.

@CJTerry That's dissapointing to my deeply sophomoric sense of humour

@pontulo he is @CJTerry but rarely uses it for now

@contrapoints and a great reminder generally that money doesn't equal sense.

Raluca Enescu 🇬🇧🇷🇴🇪🇺🐝🐈🐈 boosted:

Hello newcomers! Don't worry, you can have fun wasting time here just like at the old place. My #mastodonAdvice: 1) use preferences to stop autoscrolling 2) search hashtags you like and follow people who post to them 3) add a photo and brief bio to your profile so people will follow you back 4) don't worry about the slowness, it's server overload from new sign-ups 5) hashtag your posts so people can find and follow you 6) there are lots of spreadsheets of scholars by discipline to find people

Oh by the way, a #birdsite employee wrote to Ask a Manager (one of my favourite blogs as a #workersrights #advocate / #career #advisor /#manager. It's BAAAAD.

https://www.askamanager.org/2022/11/i-work-at-twitter-what-do-i-do.html

@kawshik201 @ishaq not sure about a need for a proper psychiatric diagnosis. He is a rich privileged toff with a lot of money and power who thinks he is much smarter than he actually is - and that in itself is dangerous enough.

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