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butlersj.bsky.social
@butlersj.bsky.social
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Owned by 5 cats, with an interest in science, maths, cats and technology.
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Tell me this isn't doing a good impression of a duck...
A Chinese panda toy looking like a duck
April 7, 2025 at 8:09 PM
butlersj.bsky.social
Vietnamese #capybara toy says hello...
A picture of a cuddly toy capybara from H Chi Minh City - with the obligatory blue snot bubble coming from 1 nostril. Before anyone asks, I don't know why and whenever I asked why people looked at me as if I was stupid.
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
butlersj.bsky.social
Just 1 big one should do...
AI generated image of a man in a red suit struggling to carry a comically large usb memory stick on his back
February 3, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A perfect example of a misunderstanding on bluesky, which is why we are here. Compare this to a (quite apt) chatgpt interpretation of a misunderstanding on Twitter
2 people resolve a misunderstanding on bluesky - context: this was a conversation about studying art... Summary of conversation: "When I went to school I thought copying was bullshit at the time but you are correct, copying master works has been part of artistic study for hundreds of years for a reason" "Man that sounds incredibly harmful to a whole generation of artists" "I'm not understanding why you think it was harmful" "Oh I misread your post and thought it said that you were taught that copying was bullshit" "Whew! Ok! <3" AI generated cartoon image showing plots of birds (from the twitter logo) and people, all with angry faces and shouting, some waving placards, many raising fists at someone else. In the background is a twitter conversation on a large phone and some speech bubbles, all with badly spelled or badly rendered wording (e.g. "mustercupation", which probably was meant to say misunderstanding). Prompt used: Please can you give me a cartoon image representing the fallout from a misunderstanding on Twitter
December 28, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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@georgetakei.bsky.social , @normalisland.co.uk
You are both great. Hopefully everyone can get along nicely and enjoy this Christmas holiday season...
Screenshot of 2 consecutive posts from my bluesky timeline. The top one is from George Takei saying "Happy holidays folks" and the one immediately below is from Normal Island News saying "People who say happy holidays have so much to answer for"
December 25, 2024 at 3:55 PM
butlersj.bsky.social
And this is what the earth moon system looks like side on (~240,000 miles apart) - image taken by hayabusa-2 from a point about 1.8million miles away
Earth and moon in a single photo taken by hayabusa-2 at a distance of approximately 1.8million miles
December 23, 2024 at 7:05 AM
butlersj.bsky.social
This is, without a doubt, my favourite TV moment ever...
10 panel image of Joe Wilkinson on 8 out of 10 cats does countdown reciting his poem titled "Hanging about at the train station toilet naming people's penises"
December 21, 2024 at 7:44 AM
butlersj.bsky.social
Photo taken in Scotland of a parent and child parking space. The parent and child are both depicted with round bodies, seemingly insinuating obesity
December 18, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Over 12hrs into a 24hr badminton-athon. Started with nearly 100 players and at 3am there are still 30 left giving their all, with more coming in the next few hours.

All proceeds going to the Priscilla Bacon Hospice.

Refreshments table still going strong after another restock 💪🤤
Table full of cakes, shortbread, sausage rolls, energy drinks and... McDonald's ketchup packets (only if you get really hungry I assume)
November 24, 2024 at 3:52 AM
butlersj.bsky.social
It always comes back to this

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/autom...
Xkcd cartoon with someone saying "I spend a lot of time on this task. I should write a programme automating it". Below the text are 2 charts: The first showing a graph of work v time and a spike where the theoretical automation effort goes, after which overall effort drops The second graph shows reality where the automation task takes over and effort on that grows beyond expectation with no time left to do the original task. The hover text says: Automating comes from the roof 'auto' meaning self and 'mating' meaning screwing
November 19, 2024 at 11:20 PM