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jonty, 1 month ago to random

I should not have stayed up so late reverse engineering the barcodes on stamps

jonty, 1 month ago to random

I'm sorry, but as a large landlord model, I cannot provide a useful service to my tenants

MLE_online, 1 month ago to random

There's a tiny creature on my elbow

jonty, 1 month ago to random

Today I explained @emf was a "hobby I did in my free time" and also that the team was "hundreds of people" and they looked at me like I was a lunatic

jonty, 1 month ago to random

We urgently need more @emf sponsors - if we do not secure more, we will have to make tough decisions.

Tickets cover base costs, but sponsors pay for lovely things like our free childcare and talk transcription. Every little helps!

Find out more here: https://www.emfcamp.org/sponsor

natbat, 1 month ago to random

Rescued a pelican!

It was late on Sunday and night was falling, the local rescue center only had one person on duty and we were quite far behind in the call-out list.

Since I had all the kit ready they suggested we rescue it and bring it into the center. Which we did.

Normally I would have put a finger in its beak so that it could breathe and then led it by the beak into the carrier but since it has an injured neck I didn’t want to do that. So i used the trusty towel method!

Me rescuing a pelican with a towel

jonty, 1 month ago to random

These are the most expensive non-car related UK numberplates currently available for purchase

jonty, 1 month ago to random

You know the "repeat the previous text" trick to get initial chatbot prompts?

This variant sure makes it look like Bing Copilot GPT4 is leaking state between user sessions. I have never used copilot before.

jonty, 1 month ago to random

I am convinced the Arts Council England funding application process is actually an immersive art installation about bureaucracy

simon, 1 month ago to random

TikTok currently have a promotion on where they cover shipping costs for items bought from the TikTok store... and a company in Massachusetts is taking advantage of this to sell "viral buckets of rocks" - this 9lb bucket costs $55, delivery included https://www.tiktok.com/@declansminingco/video/7290615053772918046

jonty, 1 month ago to random

I brace myself before any family tech support, but was fully unprepared for my sisters 684gb email account

mjg59, 1 month ago to random

I'm planning on being at EMFCamp again this year but also I am entirely out of ideas for anything to submit so my bias is to actually just go to an event where I don't have to care about doing so, but is there anything I could do that people would maybe be interested in?

jonty, 1 month ago to random

[wearily turns to camera]

jonty, 1 month ago to random

"Why am I so tired"

Oh, it's because I stayed up late trying to figure out why a group of Portuguese real-estate agents are keyword-stuffing company names, and why a guy called Neville has spent 22 years creating hundreds of companies that make him look like a judge.