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Geekeries en tout genre et catsitting, en français and in English.

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Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS.

Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Dementia Patient’s Family Keeps Ripping Her Away From Idyllic World Of 1950s https://theonion.com/dementia-patient-s-family-keeps-ripping-her-away-from-i-1819578494/
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨‍🍳 😘

The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Shot, chaser, another chaser
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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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
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pacifiquement
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Christopher Lee with his cat, Renfield.
October 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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Sleep is a biological necessity, and sleep deprivation has real physical, psychological, and social consequences that need to be taken seriously. The way our society treats it as slothful to sleep according to natural rhythms (including midday naps and variant chronotypes like night owls) is evil.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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Guys I've figured it out. We need to harness Jared Leto's franchise killing powers for good by getting him cast in a Harry Potter thing
October 15, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Today is Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
October 13, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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The possibility immediately occurs (and not just to me) that the origin of O.K. - often explained as an abbreviation for Oll Korrekt - is from this same journalese.
October 9, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.
October 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
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One of my favorite fun facts is why the TMNT are named after artists (it’s because the type of turtle they are is a “painted turtle”). I told my nephew about this and he immediately replied that there should be a Bob Ross turtle. So rather than explain the renaissance movement to him, I-
September 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
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" Les pesticides dérivent dans l’atmosphère et retombent sous forme de pluie ou de neige à des centaines, voire des milliers, de kilomètres de l’endroit où ils ont été utilisés. Notre planète est baignée dans un cocktail de poisons."
www.lemonde.fr/planete/arti...
Des dizaines de tonnes de pesticides présentes dans les nuages au-dessus de la France
Jusqu’à 140 tonnes de substances actives, dont certaines sont interdites, sont dissoutes dans les nuages au-dessus du territoire métropolitain, selon une étude franco-italienne. Les écosystèmes éloign...
www.lemonde.fr
September 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Accidental renaissance feat. the world's most photogenic man
September 17, 2025 at 12:10 AM
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"Where's my Breakfast?" by Daniel Arthur
September 15, 2025 at 3:55 AM
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reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle
September 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies"

Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."
September 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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Tapping the sign
September 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Il y avait bien les crocodiles, à l'époque, qui entouraient la statue de la place. Mais ils ont malheureusement été déplacés en 1941 dans un entrepôt avant d'être fondus par les Allemands pour faire des canons.
September 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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September 6, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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its genuinely wild how this administration is all just cargo cult authoritarianism, no understand of how authoritarian systems function, pure fake it till you make it behavior
I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.
Just Trump declaring war on a US city, a normal Saturday
September 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Macron, Bayrou, mais aussi Bardella, répètent qu'il n'est pas possible de taxer les riches car ça les ferait fuir.

Mais, c'est faux !
Et c'est le très officiel Conseil d'analyse économique qui le montre dans une étude publiée aujourd'hui.

#TaxTheRich
September 2, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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August 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Eh why not at this point
August 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM