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@itisindeedme.bsky.social

Play my WORD game! https://word-thing.net Play my BIRD game! https://mindtheseagulls.net If you liked them, I'm looking for a dev job :>

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TV Writer: You've gotta be so so unbelievably talented to make it in this game. I'm talking next-level, unimaginable creative genius. Seriously, most of you will NEVER have what it takes omg you have no idea. Example Of Same TV Writer's Actual Work: "OK, if I were a missing hat, where would I be?"

If you get one of those AI-generated scam calls that's doing the rounds, be sure to ask as many off-topic questions as you can. Not only might you learn something (aside from when the AI gives wrong answers, which happened twice here), but it burns the scammer's tokens and wastes their money!

I wish I could get in touch with the (only) daily player of my word game (*cough* word-thing.net) in Council Bluffs, Iowa, to tell him or her how to trick the game into thinking it's yesterday, since they accidentally missed yesterday's game!

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen. McFly Roxy Music James Simple Minds Florence & The Machine

Alistair Coleman@alistaircoleman.bsky.social

Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen Ultravox BB King Jethro Tull Whitesnake OMD

Just had a call from that 'car finance redress scheme' scam that's called me and everyone I know many times this week. I found the AI-generated voice will answer off-topic questions before steering the conv back. It told me what the economy is and what the tallest waterfall is before they hung up!

My mum found this deliberately-meaningless political cartoon I drew in journo college in 2010! The plan was to send it to my local paper under a fake name, then use my internship to lobby for them to print it. They didn't. Peppered with dated references and local names, it is certainly a drawing.

I spotted this really weird wording in support of Reform UK during last year's election campaign, and wondered where on earth that sort of bad translation could have come from. Thanks to Twitter's recent Glasnost, I now know it's... Nigeria! The question is, who paid for this bot?

Despite this nice message in their email signature, I have been ghosted by a company I interviewed with 2 Mondays ago (that's 11 days so far)! I have chased for an answer, and will probably name and shame once I do hear from them - I'm assuming it's a no at this point!

Oh no! RIP Mani. I was a bit late to the party, but I got The Stone Roses for my 17th birthday and never stopped playing it. Even my dad (then in his mid-60s) loved it, and we'd play it all the way through in the car on the long drives to uni. That music certainly soundtracked that part of my life.

Thank you to the person in Council Bluffs, Iowa, who has started playing my fabulous browser-based game word-thing.net every day! If you see this, tell you friends, your family, your Congressman, whatever it takes to spread the word 😉

Just bought a large chai latte at Starbucks (£5.60) and immediately left it un-sipped at the self-checkouts in Tesco Express, if you're wondering how my evening's going.

Had a rare job interview earlier. Not heard back yet but will probably fail, it didn't go all that well. I can say thought that my biggest weakness is talking about code. Like, naming facts about PHP. I build; I don't dance about architecture.

Also there were two jobs going: Intermediate and Senior Dev. I applied to both, the second one just chancing it. And it is the Senior role that I interviewed for! Me, the guy who applies to every job dev going and gets roundly told to go f*ck himself, not experienced enough or whatever. Senior! Hmm.

Explain a film plot badly: Some little hairly people try to find a missing piece of jewellery and it takes ages.

Julie Irwin@jdirwinbooks.bsky.social

Explain a film plot badly:- Big gorilla takes unexpected city break.

I don't know if the BBC is deliberately fanboying Elon Musk to try and restore his image as a cool inventory, or if they're just scared of him, but these exciteable brown-nose pieces are starting to get a bit much.

Remembering back in 2009 when Ikon nightclub, Southampton advertised a personal appearance from The Inbetweeners, and the flyers showed all 4, like the DVD covers. So imagine our surprise when instead we got... Neil and Donovan. Not sure if anyone asked for refunds, but talk about false advertising!

A sequel called 'Mr Bates Vs The Post Office 2: Back To Work', where everyone becomes aware that they're in a TV show and starts rewriting the script to give themselves more favourable payouts. Mr Bates even gets to meet the real-life Toby Jones during his lunch break. It is shit.

Just had the opportunity to have a random tabby cat that appeared out of nowhere meow into my phone while I had an insurance spammer on the line. Unfortunately, the fluffy animal stayed totally silent :( But it was very soft :)

Just bought a country mansion! Where did I get the money? You see, I invented those TV adverts where the camera keeps rolling over, like when you get very drunk. The patent royalties have just been pouring in lately :D

I love how ads for corporate AI always frame the people who don't rely on AI as helpless little idiots! "Tired of spelling stuff wrong?" "Tired of forgetting how to read?" "Tired of falling down the stairs while trying to strike the right tone in an email?"

After seeing that very young man on Location Location Location looking for a house in Surrey for £1.2million ("because you get more for your money outside of London"), I would also like to become a freelance brand consultant.

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*getting killed by a chatgpt-powered crossing guard robot with meta ai vision & gun hands that thinks i’m pablo escobar for some reason*: haha… lmao

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🚨 POLICE TOOK OUR TRUMP & EPSTEIN VAN They're obviously terrified of THIS photo of Donald with the world’s most notorious paedophile making headlines while Trump visits the King. So whatever you do - DO NOT SHARE THIS VIDEO Location: Windsor High Street, UK #trump #epstein

Some lady in Starbucks is unself-consciously workshopping a play with her mum/ agent/ co-star, standing up and rehearsing movements and songs. Absolutely no acknowledgement from anyone else here that this is happening. At first I was irritated but now I'm a little in awe of her confidence!

Really cool how I can't verify my age on Bluesky cos this Yoti thing quite literally doesn't work 🙃 And then the Stripe card verification option said my card wasn't real, despite me using it every day irl without a hitch, which is neat!!