La Lynne
@lalynne.bsky.social
Scottish, Green, Hamburg. She / her.
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[Watching Lord Of The Rings with my new girlfriend]
ME: In Spain, Elrond is called The Rond
HER: Get out.
ME: In Spain, Elrond is called The Rond
HER: Get out.
October 18, 2025 at 5:42 PM
[Watching Lord Of The Rings with my new girlfriend]
ME: In Spain, Elrond is called The Rond
HER: Get out.
ME: In Spain, Elrond is called The Rond
HER: Get out.
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Well I guess it's time to finally christen this new account
November 30, 2024 at 6:28 PM
Well I guess it's time to finally christen this new account
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As the person who accidentally began this Yuletide event, it falls to me to give it some kind of shape. Clearly anyone can use hashtags whenever and wherever they like, but given that we've got presents to panic buy and wrap, I usually say "let's get going at 7.30pm?" 3/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
As the person who accidentally began this Yuletide event, it falls to me to give it some kind of shape. Clearly anyone can use hashtags whenever and wherever they like, but given that we've got presents to panic buy and wrap, I usually say "let's get going at 7.30pm?" 3/
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So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
December 24, 2024 at 9:14 AM
So, let's try doing #duvetknowitschristmas here this evening? People are literally Driving Home For Christmas right now, which MIGHT JUST mean that they'll be sleeping somewhere unusual. 1/
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TinTin's dog's name in different languages...
December 17, 2024 at 4:22 AM
TinTin's dog's name in different languages...
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Reposting this after the last repost I did. It sucks that we have to do this but this may help for those of you who need to look up reference material that isn’t part of Google’s horrendous AI bloat
How to filter out AI Images in Google Image Search.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
Sharing this with my students so I figured I'd also share it with everyone here.
Hopefully this image is still relevant given Google's changes. Save this on your computer or phone and refer to it as needed.
December 16, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Reposting this after the last repost I did. It sucks that we have to do this but this may help for those of you who need to look up reference material that isn’t part of Google’s horrendous AI bloat
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MURDER, SHE WROTE SHOWRUNNER: Our new show needs a theme song, it's about a widow who constantly stumbles onto corpses whose murders she has to solve
COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death?
MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard
COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death?
MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard
October 29, 2024 at 2:01 AM
MURDER, SHE WROTE SHOWRUNNER: Our new show needs a theme song, it's about a widow who constantly stumbles onto corpses whose murders she has to solve
COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death?
MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard
COMPOSER: So you want something heavy & somber to reflect all the death?
MSWS: I want—look at me—I want the jauntiest little ditty anyone's ever heard
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Andy's superpower is conversation. If you let him draw you into a conversation, you are spat out at the other end full of entertainment, information, and joie de vivre. If you're a bookshop, you've also signed up to take 200 copies, and if you're a mugger, you gave him back the Rolex.
January 31, 2024 at 12:04 PM
Andy's superpower is conversation. If you let him draw you into a conversation, you are spat out at the other end full of entertainment, information, and joie de vivre. If you're a bookshop, you've also signed up to take 200 copies, and if you're a mugger, you gave him back the Rolex.
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Amazingly, this isn't his best performance: he has *twice* talked muggers who actually took his wallet into giving him a refund.
January 31, 2024 at 11:50 AM
Amazingly, this isn't his best performance: he has *twice* talked muggers who actually took his wallet into giving him a refund.
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Mugger: Yeah, sure. You're a funny one, aren't you?
Andy: Ah, well, you have to be yourself. If there's one thing I hope you remember from this meeting, it's that. Never follow the crowd!
At which the muggers agree, thank him for the advice, and everyone goes on their way.
/fin
Andy: Ah, well, you have to be yourself. If there's one thing I hope you remember from this meeting, it's that. Never follow the crowd!
At which the muggers agree, thank him for the advice, and everyone goes on their way.
/fin
January 31, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Mugger: Yeah, sure. You're a funny one, aren't you?
Andy: Ah, well, you have to be yourself. If there's one thing I hope you remember from this meeting, it's that. Never follow the crowd!
At which the muggers agree, thank him for the advice, and everyone goes on their way.
/fin
Andy: Ah, well, you have to be yourself. If there's one thing I hope you remember from this meeting, it's that. Never follow the crowd!
At which the muggers agree, thank him for the advice, and everyone goes on their way.
/fin
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Andy agrees to look into it and thanks them for the advice, at which the would-be muggers realise they have pretty much lost the whole 'threatening people for money' ground.
/4
/4
January 31, 2024 at 11:47 AM
Andy agrees to look into it and thanks them for the advice, at which the would-be muggers realise they have pretty much lost the whole 'threatening people for money' ground.
/4
/4
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Hoody: You can use texts, so--
Andy: Oh, can't stand them. There's nothing like talking to someone directly, is there? No, mobiles are no use to me.
Hoody: You can get adapted ones. My nan has one.
A conversation ensues in which the mugger starts recommending adaptive technology.
/3
Andy: Oh, can't stand them. There's nothing like talking to someone directly, is there? No, mobiles are no use to me.
Hoody: You can get adapted ones. My nan has one.
A conversation ensues in which the mugger starts recommending adaptive technology.
/3
January 31, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Hoody: You can use texts, so--
Andy: Oh, can't stand them. There's nothing like talking to someone directly, is there? No, mobiles are no use to me.
Hoody: You can get adapted ones. My nan has one.
A conversation ensues in which the mugger starts recommending adaptive technology.
/3
Andy: Oh, can't stand them. There's nothing like talking to someone directly, is there? No, mobiles are no use to me.
Hoody: You can get adapted ones. My nan has one.
A conversation ensues in which the mugger starts recommending adaptive technology.
/3
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So Andy is wandering the mean streets of Clapham as you do when two teen hoodies come up and demand his phone.
Andy: Sorry, don't have it on me.
Hoody: Course you do.
Andy: No, I don't No use to me. I'm mostly deaf, can't use the thing. Got a specially adapted landline at home.
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Andy: Sorry, don't have it on me.
Hoody: Course you do.
Andy: No, I don't No use to me. I'm mostly deaf, can't use the thing. Got a specially adapted landline at home.
/2
January 31, 2024 at 11:42 AM
So Andy is wandering the mean streets of Clapham as you do when two teen hoodies come up and demand his phone.
Andy: Sorry, don't have it on me.
Hoody: Course you do.
Andy: No, I don't No use to me. I'm mostly deaf, can't use the thing. Got a specially adapted landline at home.
/2
Andy: Sorry, don't have it on me.
Hoody: Course you do.
Andy: No, I don't No use to me. I'm mostly deaf, can't use the thing. Got a specially adapted landline at home.
/2
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Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this.
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
January 31, 2024 at 11:40 AM
Oh my GOD. Went for coffee with an old publishing mate and he told me the tale of his latest mugging. Brace for this.
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
(To note, my mate is a 75yo man, short, obviously quite posh, and deaf in one ear. He gets mugged a lot. It rarely works out for the muggers, for reasons that will become obvious.)
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Then what happened
January 31, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Then what happened
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My washing machine: Okay that's it, I've finished spinning your clothes.
Me: Great, I can have them now then?
My washing machine: Absolutely not, I need to hold on to them for a bit.
Me: What does this achieve? You've spun them dry!
My washing machine: Shut up, I'm busy fondling them.
Me: Great, I can have them now then?
My washing machine: Absolutely not, I need to hold on to them for a bit.
Me: What does this achieve? You've spun them dry!
My washing machine: Shut up, I'm busy fondling them.
December 22, 2023 at 12:41 PM
My washing machine: Okay that's it, I've finished spinning your clothes.
Me: Great, I can have them now then?
My washing machine: Absolutely not, I need to hold on to them for a bit.
Me: What does this achieve? You've spun them dry!
My washing machine: Shut up, I'm busy fondling them.
Me: Great, I can have them now then?
My washing machine: Absolutely not, I need to hold on to them for a bit.
Me: What does this achieve? You've spun them dry!
My washing machine: Shut up, I'm busy fondling them.
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@lalynne.bsky.social
Early Christmas gift to you
Early Christmas gift to you
December 19, 2023 at 8:47 PM
@lalynne.bsky.social
Early Christmas gift to you
Early Christmas gift to you
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This is a good piece. But… it’s *really* surprising that this is the only long article I’ve read about the effect of the cyberattack at the British Library.
No national newspaper has commissioned a proper long read about it. i.e. What happened? Why? Who has been affected? What happens next?
No national newspaper has commissioned a proper long read about it. i.e. What happened? Why? Who has been affected? What happens next?
The British Library has been crushed by a brutal cyberattack. I went to find out more: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...
How to Lose a Library
Six weeks ago—on October 31, 2023—the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. What has been lost?
www.publicbooks.org
December 15, 2023 at 9:10 PM
This is a good piece. But… it’s *really* surprising that this is the only long article I’ve read about the effect of the cyberattack at the British Library.
No national newspaper has commissioned a proper long read about it. i.e. What happened? Why? Who has been affected? What happens next?
No national newspaper has commissioned a proper long read about it. i.e. What happened? Why? Who has been affected? What happens next?
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They...cured lupus??? www.nature.com/articles/d41... I mean. It's a hella intense, sci-fi treatment, and we're talking only a dozen or two patients, but they have actually knocked down four different autoimmune diseases here and it...works??
‘It’s all gone’: CAR-T therapy forces autoimmune diseases into remission
Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power against lupus and other immune disorders. Engineered immune cells, most commonly used to treat cancers, show their power ...
www.nature.com
December 14, 2023 at 4:40 PM
They...cured lupus??? www.nature.com/articles/d41... I mean. It's a hella intense, sci-fi treatment, and we're talking only a dozen or two patients, but they have actually knocked down four different autoimmune diseases here and it...works??
John Byrne, too? Dear God, but the 30th of November was taking no prisoners.
December 1, 2023 at 1:15 PM
John Byrne, too? Dear God, but the 30th of November was taking no prisoners.
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Discovered recently that while my elderly neighbour won't accept charity, she's happy to take "unwanted two-for-the-price-of-one" items off my hands. So now we do a nice dance with that where no pride is hurt.
Sharing as a tip for anyone worried about a neighbour's food security in cold weather.
Sharing as a tip for anyone worried about a neighbour's food security in cold weather.
December 1, 2023 at 9:10 AM
Discovered recently that while my elderly neighbour won't accept charity, she's happy to take "unwanted two-for-the-price-of-one" items off my hands. So now we do a nice dance with that where no pride is hurt.
Sharing as a tip for anyone worried about a neighbour's food security in cold weather.
Sharing as a tip for anyone worried about a neighbour's food security in cold weather.
Haven't seen this very important research reported for a while, so will just remind you all of it www.bmj.com/content/331/...
The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons i...
Objectives To determine the overall rate of loss of workplace teaspoons and whether attrition and displacement are correlated with the relative value of the teaspoons or type of tearoom.
Design Longi...
www.bmj.com
December 1, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Haven't seen this very important research reported for a while, so will just remind you all of it www.bmj.com/content/331/...
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Cannot stop thinking about this question I saw a tiktok podcast dude ask: How many owls would you have to see in one day before you started legit panicking?
Not like, wow that’s a lot of owls, but like, something is absolutely going down and I need to call my loved ones immediately.
Not like, wow that’s a lot of owls, but like, something is absolutely going down and I need to call my loved ones immediately.
November 30, 2023 at 10:36 PM
Cannot stop thinking about this question I saw a tiktok podcast dude ask: How many owls would you have to see in one day before you started legit panicking?
Not like, wow that’s a lot of owls, but like, something is absolutely going down and I need to call my loved ones immediately.
Not like, wow that’s a lot of owls, but like, something is absolutely going down and I need to call my loved ones immediately.