@elana @Alcharalambous Unless you know a smuggler. Hint. Wink. Jazz hands.
British but running Canadian Firmware since 2010, software is my business but sitting down is my passion. Immune compromised and being very careful about the plague that shall not be named. Father of autistic boy.
Been on mastodon since 2022 but moved to this instance in 2025.
@elana @Alcharalambous Unless you know a smuggler. Hint. Wink. Jazz hands.
@shoq Yeah that’ll fix the whole international respect thing. Nailed it.
ME: I submit that deep-fried tortilla chips MAY be bad and YET they provide a delivery system for fresh tomatoes, onions and peppers with a dash of cumin so HOW, I ask, can that actual outcome not be considered GOOD?
JUDGE: [bangs gavel, weeping] Case dismissed.
FOOD SCIENTIST: What even the fuck?
For all of you who are still believing in "AI', you need to read that.
(and for all the others, read it too, it is worth its weight of 🍿 )
Diabolus Ex Machina
This Is Not An Essay
https://amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-ex-machina
Presented to you in the form of unedited screenshots, the following is a ‘conversation’ I had with Chat GPT upon asking whether it could help me choose several of my own essays to link in a query letter I intended to send to an agent.
“Cops”. Sure. Anyone here able to ID Mullet Man and Hog Cranker? Minneapolis area.
@mike Greek-British-Canadian here. Moved to warmest part of the UK followed by the warmest part of Canada. That’s about as cold as I want to go. Is there a level 0?
I think I'm a level 2 Canadian. Ok maybe a level 1... #Canada 🇨🇦
@mike Definitely level 1 here.
@Sheep_Overboard @DenisCOVIDinfoguy @auscovid19 Came here to say this.
One fish
One fish
Two fish
Three fish
By,
Dr. Fibonacci
There should be an option to make your Roomba swear when it bumps into things.
There should be a Special Victims Unit for x509 crimes.
mood: scully done with everyone's shit
Today is about drinking coffee and strategizing how to go around the slow as molasses infrastructure team so I can meet a deadline.
When a client’s engineering team lays out an architecture but then proceeds to change it over and over again because it’s too hard and they won’t be able to do it after all, but you’ve already done a bunch of work on it.
Kittens: tribbles with switchblades. Discuss.
No. Just fucking no.
The kid tried to say hexagon apparently. Wife got it on video. I haven’t seen it yet and I’m hoping his first attempt came out as “hexamaphone”