Daniel Kilby

Daniel Kilby

@eurotrashed.bsky.social

Word nerd, faggot

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Instead of the “would you like to round up and donate…” screen on the self serve checkouts, there should be a button you can push to drop the CEO into a tank of water.

@lingthusiasm.com Listening to your latest episode, I was fascinated by the cognates \wh\ and \qu\ in cases like ‘when’ or ‘who’ vs ‘quand’ or ‘qui’, but I’m intrigued by how the \w\s fit in, like ‘wo’ or ‘wer’ in German?

I’m listening to an audio book, and I keep worrying that my concerns about the performances are a me thing, but surely the implied comma in ‘He looked up with his hand on Theo’s chest’ is after the first the words, not before the last three

I always find it kinda creepy when people with rhotic accents pronounce ‘Melbourne’ non-rhotically Like, it was cute the first time, but it fell into the uncanny valley REAL quick

Today was a day of ironies (in variously loose senses) It started with arriving at my therapist’s office while the radio pipED out Christine McVie’s exhortation, ‘tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies’ Then the podcast I just listened to, on chatbot psychosis, ended with an ad for Amazon AWS AI

#nowreading the Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series edition of TITUS ANDRONICUS, by William Shakespeare, edited by Curtis Perry and Ayanna Thompson #malewriter #femalewriter #play #classics #shakespeare

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: Hello, I’m Diet Coke. You know, the one that has aspartame (which has been known to trigger asthma attacks) in it

Kaz Cooke@kazcooke.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with what almost killed you: How do you do, I'm the Mitta Mitta River absorbing a hard-running release from the Dartmouth Dam.

Holy shit, this is huge But I’m still only cautiously optimistic until it can be reproduced, especially in at least a couple of other environments

Sammy Roth@sammyroth.bsky.social

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

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GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

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Meta now lets anyone use your Instagram photos in AI images without your consent. SAG-AFTRA recommends that #SagAftraMembers (and all Instagram users) opt-OUT of Meta’s new AI image generation tool, Muse Image. Take action to protect your likeness.

She really has a way with words. Case in point: “Mrs Olivera, still clacking, moved majestically after her bust towards the door.” A whole character in twelve words