evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

On Hold, listening to tinny music.

Robot Operator: We apologize for your wait, but we refuse to pay our Operators a fair wage, so never enough people are working here. Instead of accepting the blame, and fixing this, we tell the few people who work for us, they are simply not trying hard enough. Your wait will be 30 minutes to talk to an Operator who is about to cry, because everyone has yelled at them for having to wait so long. REMEMBER YOUR CALL IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US, but not in any demonstrable way.

I'm at that age

Another week I'm aiming to “get through”. I worry I'm going to “get through” one week after another until I'm on my deathbed. Would be good to pause and actually enjoy one or two weeks on the way.

Rishi Sunak helping the young

@SwiftOnSecurity on my new hire onboarding training deck I present I have a slide that just says:

“Dance like nobody is watching, Slack like one day it’ll be read aloud at a deposition.”

This is a huge benefit of working from home and it needs to be trumpeted from the rooftops. Any company that forces workers back with one side of their face and claims to be caring about the environment out of another should be called out.

Never do something so terrible you get Elon Musk to defend you.

keming: (n) what happens to words when your font has poor kerning

@bartek @tryst @SwiftOnSecurity
VINCENT: You know what they call a foot massage in Paris?
JULES: They don't call it a foot massage?
VINCENT: No, man, they got the metric system there. They wouldn't know what a foot is.

The existence of a Barbie Mount Rushmore implies the existence of a Barbie genocide and a Barbie settler colonialism. I have no idea what to do with this knowledge.

#Barbie

Went for a nice coffee with a friend this morning. Walked home and the weather was pleasant, and people I passed were friendly, and I followed a really cute curly-haired waddling dog for a while, and I was reminded of Kurt Vonnegut's urge to notice when things are good.

So, aye, hope you're all as well as can be this Friday.

#nature #photography #flowers #drawing #sillyScribbles

Once you open WireShark you realize all these machines are fucking eachother all the time.

🎶 I got my first ugly monkey pic
Bought it from the yacht ape club
Talked about it 'til my throat bled
Was the summer of NFT

Me and some guys from discord
Had a DAO we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I should've known we'd fucked it real hard

Oh, when I look back now
That hype seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Yeah, I'd always wanna buy in
Those were the best days of my life 🎶

It would be nice if we could stop showing MPs on TV saying shit like illegal migrant, and dub them like they used to do with Gerry Adams, in the 80's, replacing the racism with someone saying "racist epithet"

Finally managed to be set up with a tripod at the right time to catch a monarch butterfly emerging from its chrysalis.

(This is at normal speed, btw)

I keep seeing people saying they are happy to use AI text generators as sources of factual information, because they're confident that when the thing generates an inaccurate answer they'll easily spot it.

Speaking from my experience of 20+ years of professional fact-checking: the errors you can spot easily are not the ones you need to worry about.

I have a cartoon in the current Private Eye

BUUUUUUUUG HUUUUUUUUG!

#nature #photography #bug #silly #drawing #sillyScribbles