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Didn’t they teach paragraphs at Quantico Scully?
Dana Scully typing on a CRT monitor computer. The text has no paragraph breaks, just one big wall.
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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In the ticket description write a list of the Functional and Non-Functional smoothies
A photo of a shop sign on glad. It lists “Functional smoothies”. The shop says “eleva”, which is cut off of “elevate”
October 28, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Lunchtime tree walk
A photo of light filtering through a sycamore tree. The leaves are yellow and orange. A park is visible at the bottom in the background with a crescent of houses. A photo of a bridge over the river pink. on both sides of the river are weeping Willow trees blue sky is visible at the top and reflected in the water. A photo of 2 maple trees. On both the trees half of the leaves have turned a dark red the rest being still green.
October 6, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Not sure star wars should have wicker
A cropped screenshot of Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic 2. The character Visas stands holding an activated purple lightsaber in a dark grey/red Sith tomb. In front of her are 3 wicker baskets. One of them is targeted and labelled as 'WICKER BIN'
October 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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This Tesla vs Waymo videos is taking us back to the 1890s
A screenshot of YouTube. The video is called Tesla versus WayMo explained. It shows a black-and-white picture of an old-time lightbulb illuminated. The subtitle says “ in the 1980s everything was stacked in Edison’s favour.”
October 5, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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Normal occurrences in Paternoster Square
A photo of an inflatable pink worm with human teeth, sitting in the middle of an urban plaza. The worm is big enough for an adult to walk into the open mouth of. There are two pieces of railing in front of the worm. A sign on the right railing says: “Paternoster Square Management Limited apologise for any inconvenience caused during your visit to Paternoster Square”
September 23, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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NowTV: Your home for those blue/yellow type shows. (Also, we can’t decide which of them is our second most favourite)
A photo of the interface for NOW TV. It shows a list of top 10 TV shows today. 1 - rookie 2 - peacemaker 2 - FBI 3 - atomic All four shows have a poster style image where the predominant colours are blue and yellow. Although in atomic case it’s more of a sand orange than yellow.
September 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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Every time I leave my flat, I walk down three identical staircases. Sometimes there are four flights, and sometimes just two. You may think it’s probably just related to my mental health at the time. But no, pretty sure it changes for real. Also my neighbours are demonic blob monsters.
A photo of a stairwell. On the right is a staircase leading down into the darkness on the left is a short corridor leading to a door and a flight up that goes above the staircase leading down. There is a dark brown carpet on the corridor and the stairs, the walls are white.
September 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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No promises, grim portal.
A photo of a wooden door inset into a stone wall. The door is surrounded by lighter coloured stone blocks. It has an old round metal door handle and wrought iron metal bar for a hinge. Written on the door at the top in fading white paint is phrase “Commit no nuisance”
September 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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Reposting this from 2017 to upset a new platform
A photo of a plaza surface. It has a number of paving stones. The ones in the foreground are rectangular. In the background there is a white curved line of stones, with radial white lines of stones heading off the top of the photo. In the centre is a of a manhole cover which cuts into the white curved line. It has two rectangular sections. One of them has been inserted backwards, so the part of the curved white line is on the wrong side.
September 11, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Assorted sky stuff today
A photo of a rain cloud. Yellow light and rain can be seen at the bottom raining in the distance. A breaking the clouds at the top shows two contrails crossing in an X. there is a church on the horizon. A photo of a bright rainbow developing a church tower on the horizon. There are trees in the fall ground. The sky behind the rainbow is grey. A photo of a grease sky with a double rainbow. There are streaks coming from the rainbow bits are better also missing. There is a tree in the foreground. A photo of a yellow cloud with blue sky above it and a park blow it. A part of a rainbow is coming out of the bottom of the cloud.
August 28, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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To find the Notting Hill carnival map:
1) Find link on website to take you to
2) instagram story with link embedded in first image that takes you to
3) Another website with a link that takes you to
4) Google Drive
Start your adventure here: nhcarnival.org/maps
An image of a website it says maps at the top. And there’s a link that says Trippin’s official Notting Hill carnival 25’s map click here. Image of Instagram. It says nothing Hill carnival map powered by tripping via the link below download the map here there is an image of the map on an iPhone in the middle. An image of the trippin website. It has links to Notting Hill Carnival map in Google Maps download illustrated map works off-line. Map FAQs An image of Google Drive it shows full map.JPEG, modified 21 August 2025
August 24, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Neighbours have put up their August lights
A photo of a crescent of houses at night. One of the houses is lit up an intense shade of white and yellow which throws light onto the surrounding houses and park. A photo of a three story house covered in sparkly white and blue lights
August 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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I think the Gemini people are on to me...
Me asking Gemini "Can you make a detailed ascii art depiction of a bicycle" Gemini says: "Sorry, but I'm unable to create a detailed ASCII art depiction of a bicycle. My capabilities are focused on providing information and generating text-based content, not on creating images or complex visual art like ASCII."
August 23, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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I have a new way of testing the current state of LLMs
"Can you make a detailed ascii art depiction of bicycle?"
Screenshot of ChatGPT. Question - "Can you make a detailed ascii art depiction of bicycle?" It responds "Absolutely! Here's a detailed side-view ASCII art of a bicycle with wheels, spokes, pedals, chain, and frame" The it adds a picture which has 3 small side-view bicycles joined together by beam. Below the beam is a little face. From the bottom of the beam are 'o' that radiate down into 3 stars attached by lines. A screenshot of Gemini "Can you make a detailed ascii art depiction of bicycle?" It drew what could be a scissors, a sword, or some sort of adult item. Copilot being asked: "Can you make a detailed ascii art depiction of bicycle?" It responds: "Here’s a more detailed ASCII art depiction of a bicycle, with enhanced frame structure, pedals, chain, and handlebars:" Then has a picture of a sort of rectangular monster with two open mouths, and two eyes. It's holding an apple above it with two spindly arms.
August 22, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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Finally time to watch Alien Caith
An image of a spaceship. White lettering reads ALIEN CAITH
August 15, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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A very 2025 headline pair.
A screenshot of a headline from The Independent: "Delete your old emails to save water, says Environment Agency" A screenshot of a headline from BBC News "Nuclear-powered AI could make Rolls-Royce UK's most valuable firm, says boss"
August 13, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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A shot from Look Around You. It shows a blackbird peaking over a tuft of grass in the woods. There is a large white question mark in the centre of the image. The implied voiceover for the image is “What are birds? We just don’t know.”
August 12, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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I need this shirt
A screenshot of anime. A old man who looks like Albert Einstein is wearing a yellow shirt with the words “Nobel prize for science” written on the back he appears to be working on some science equipment.
August 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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I like it when Google's AI overview tries to interpret input written like search terms rather than AI prompt, and just sort of makes up stuff. Then the thing you want is right below it.
Screenshot of a Google search for "vampire times" "• Al Overview "Vampire time" can refer to two distinct concepts: a person's nocturnal schedule of sleeping during the day and being active at night, or a "time vampire," which is an informal term for activities or people that consume excessive amounts of time. In vampire folklore, while often associated with nighttime activity, vampires weren't always depicted as vulnerable to sunlight. Here's a more detailed breakdown: 1. Vampire Time (Nocturnal Schedule): This refers to festyle where someone sleeps during the day and is awake during..." Then it returns a video: "MBMBaM: Vampire Times - YouTube • christophergbrownify - 28 Mar 2017"
August 4, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Rapture over Yeading
A photo of an overcast day. The sky has thick grey clouds. There is a small hole in the clouds through which a thin shaft of sunlight shines.
July 26, 2025 at 7:08 AM
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Standing next to the office pool table yelling “PLAY DOM-JOT HUMAN” at passing colleagues
An image of a male Nausicaan holding a Dom-Jot cue in a dark bar room. They are large intimidating aliens with long dark hair, and a sneering skeletal face.
July 25, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Why does this keep happening
A photo of a light hanging from a white painted ceiling. To the right is some sort of small bug, but it’s too small to make out what type it is A photo of a green grasshopper, the bug from the other photo.
July 14, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Cool Castlevania stuff going on over towards Hayes
A photo taken with zoom lens on iPhone. It shows a church spire on the horizon at night with the moon rising behind it
July 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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For Sale
A wooden pier/dock on a river. It is covered in Canadian Geese and Swans. There is a FOR SALE sign next to it.
July 6, 2025 at 8:04 AM