Packet
@machinedidact.bsky.social
Friendly but exhausted, makes a good plan, full of ADHD and books of lists (she/her)
Very serious but also do other British people see this and think the “lo” has dropped off the start?
this interview, and the subsequent reporting around it, was absolutely infuriating. any other sector's big business lobby wouldn't get this kind of uncritical, uninformed, wildly inaccurate coverage, yet disabled peoples' essential services do [little 🧵]
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
NDIS described as 'trainwreck' - ABC listen
A market failure is happening now in the National Disability Insurance Scheme, with many not-for-profit providers heading to insolvency.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Very serious but also do other British people see this and think the “lo” has dropped off the start?
RrrrrrroOxannne
You don’t have to put on the big light
You don’t have to put on the big light
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 AM
RrrrrrroOxannne
You don’t have to put on the big light
You don’t have to put on the big light
My husband is playing Kingdom come: deliverance 2 and it cracks me up. He’s always about the herb gathering. Something about it cracks me up though, he’s eating his soup in a nice hut as a wholesome looking guy in Eastern Europe.
November 22, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My husband is playing Kingdom come: deliverance 2 and it cracks me up. He’s always about the herb gathering. Something about it cracks me up though, he’s eating his soup in a nice hut as a wholesome looking guy in Eastern Europe.
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Hungry ghosts! Roaming the planet: looting, pillaging, consuming, never satisfied: never filling gaping void within.
October 27, 2025 at 6:15 AM
Hungry ghosts! Roaming the planet: looting, pillaging, consuming, never satisfied: never filling gaping void within.
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nutrition, high stress markers on every one they examine.
They finally get the one causing the chaos and he's suffering the same, high stress markers including parasites.
Competition isn't happiness.
They finally get the one causing the chaos and he's suffering the same, high stress markers including parasites.
Competition isn't happiness.
November 21, 2025 at 8:53 PM
nutrition, high stress markers on every one they examine.
They finally get the one causing the chaos and he's suffering the same, high stress markers including parasites.
Competition isn't happiness.
They finally get the one causing the chaos and he's suffering the same, high stress markers including parasites.
Competition isn't happiness.
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Reminds me of an old research study on baboons where a well balanced troop, all in good health, minimal stress, has a very large, young male from outside come in and terrorize the troop, trying to establish dominance. They sedate parts of the troop and they are all suffering, parasites, poor...
November 21, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reminds me of an old research study on baboons where a well balanced troop, all in good health, minimal stress, has a very large, young male from outside come in and terrorize the troop, trying to establish dominance. They sedate parts of the troop and they are all suffering, parasites, poor...
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Trump, being in the process of sun downing, probably hates all the miserable people around him, because they're all evil, and he's losing grip with reality. Then a real human being comes around and is warm and friendly, and grandpa is just beside himself. He needs to be in a home.
November 21, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Trump, being in the process of sun downing, probably hates all the miserable people around him, because they're all evil, and he's losing grip with reality. Then a real human being comes around and is warm and friendly, and grandpa is just beside himself. He needs to be in a home.
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Greetings from Kyiv.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
I’ve just listened to Zelenskyy’s address to the Ukrainian people.
My opinion?
This man knows what is right.
Ukraine is under enormous pressure from the current US administration.
Zelenskyy made it clear: he wants a decent peace. We all do.
Decent peace is not capitulation.
November 21, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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A year on since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we can reveal that the Conservative Party is still receiving large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia.
goodlawproject.org/revealed-the...
goodlawproject.org/revealed-the...
Revealed: The Tories are still receiving funds from Russia-linked donors | Good Law Project
A year on since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we can reveal that the Conservative Party is still receiving large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia.
goodlawproject.org
November 22, 2025 at 7:31 AM
A year on since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, we can reveal that the Conservative Party is still receiving large donations from individuals and companies with links to Russia.
goodlawproject.org/revealed-the...
goodlawproject.org/revealed-the...
So much for holidays to Copenhagen, I know it’s hard to exist ethically in a society but they’re literally currently stealing the babies in the colonialist standard pattern? I can’t imagine the grief of those parents.
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
So much for holidays to Copenhagen, I know it’s hard to exist ethically in a society but they’re literally currently stealing the babies in the colonialist standard pattern? I can’t imagine the grief of those parents.
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You see a guy who looks like a doge staffer, and you instantly know to stay the hell away from that little freak.
You see a woman with blue hair, and you know she is not only cool but her mere presence drives those freakish dudes away into their podcast studios to whine for 3 solid hours about woke
You see a woman with blue hair, and you know she is not only cool but her mere presence drives those freakish dudes away into their podcast studios to whine for 3 solid hours about woke
February 27, 2025 at 5:06 AM
You see a guy who looks like a doge staffer, and you instantly know to stay the hell away from that little freak.
You see a woman with blue hair, and you know she is not only cool but her mere presence drives those freakish dudes away into their podcast studios to whine for 3 solid hours about woke
You see a woman with blue hair, and you know she is not only cool but her mere presence drives those freakish dudes away into their podcast studios to whine for 3 solid hours about woke
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Staffing a government full of guys who sell weird internet dick pills, turns out to mean they have a vested interest in destroying food and drug safety regulations. Who woulda thought
April 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Staffing a government full of guys who sell weird internet dick pills, turns out to mean they have a vested interest in destroying food and drug safety regulations. Who woulda thought
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I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
November 16, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so
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When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
If we had to hear “Baby Shark” everywhere we went for two whole months out of the year we’d throw a fit, right?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
And rightfully so.
So tell me, why do we put up with it when the song is “Frosty the Snowman”?
November 22, 2025 at 3:52 AM
When I worked at a bookstore, I quickly learned that people cannot tell the difference between Xmas music and any Baroque or Elizabethan music album that doesn't get too organ-ish. I used this to my advantage.
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
One customer caught on... AND THANKED ME
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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
November 22, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…
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Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
November 20, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Not sure who made this, but probably the most accurate representation of the current state of tech to date
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FYI: turning off "Smart features" also turns off spell check and the promotions and social tabs. And more.
In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.
In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 10:05 PM
FYI: turning off "Smart features" also turns off spell check and the promotions and social tabs. And more.
In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.
In effect, a lot of traditional tools in gmail are switched off if you don't let them upload your contracts, love notes, and sad messages to your friends into their plagiarism machine.
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Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
Just realised this is referring to a church in North Carolina and not the Welsh singer
November 20, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Ok but this is totally something Charlotte Church would do
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What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
November 20, 2025 at 10:07 PM
What's happened to X has been a disaster for public discourse in the United Kingdom BUT it is also just very funny to see just how much some people will not really *notice* how degraded their media environment has become.
Part of the issue is so many people REFUSE outright to comprehend dynamic disability
You saw me work in the garden all afternoon yesterday? So i must be lying today about not being able to get up? No friend, I just experience post exertional malaise and yesterday I fucked myself up for six weeks
You saw me work in the garden all afternoon yesterday? So i must be lying today about not being able to get up? No friend, I just experience post exertional malaise and yesterday I fucked myself up for six weeks
And then it's also hard to explain to people, because I HAVE VISION, that I am also someone who deals with being blind.
I'm centrally blind in one eye, and have only partial vision in the other. But most of the time I can read. I can MOSTLY navigate the world.
Yesterday on my blind side,
I'm centrally blind in one eye, and have only partial vision in the other. But most of the time I can read. I can MOSTLY navigate the world.
Yesterday on my blind side,
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Part of the issue is so many people REFUSE outright to comprehend dynamic disability
You saw me work in the garden all afternoon yesterday? So i must be lying today about not being able to get up? No friend, I just experience post exertional malaise and yesterday I fucked myself up for six weeks
You saw me work in the garden all afternoon yesterday? So i must be lying today about not being able to get up? No friend, I just experience post exertional malaise and yesterday I fucked myself up for six weeks
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Wait Gmail made it so you can't use labels and folders unless you turn on their AI that reads your emails? Man, fuck you.
November 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Wait Gmail made it so you can't use labels and folders unless you turn on their AI that reads your emails? Man, fuck you.
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Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku?
Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.
Altman: Goku will power our data centers.
Interviewer: yeah
Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.
Altman: Goku will power our data centers.
Interviewer: yeah
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Sam Altman: yeah so data centers, well you know they take a lot of power to run. And I figure, what is more powerful than Goku?
Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.
Altman: Goku will power our data centers.
Interviewer: yeah
Interviewer: Goku is pretty powerful.
Altman: Goku will power our data centers.
Interviewer: yeah
Jfc. I feel sorry for the person whose job title is “AI trainer responsible for sucking the universe’s biggest loser’s balls”
November 20, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Jfc. I feel sorry for the person whose job title is “AI trainer responsible for sucking the universe’s biggest loser’s balls”
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a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer:
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
a piece of advice I didn't put in here but I really wish to offer:
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'
if you see a friend 'posting through' some kind of horrible online pile-on event, reach out privately and say the words 'I love you and please stop posting. let's have a phonecall & see each other in person, shall I pop over?'