Virgo: Your emotional unavailability really does you in this time and they mistake you for dead. At least your crypt is opulent yet tasteful.

Has anyone asked if he received a commemorative pager? thehill.com/policy/inter...

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

Absolute bollocks. If this were an NDP budget it would've been $9.45B in the hole because they wouldn't have shamefully clawed back the CDB from AISH recipients.

The Good Place "Jason figured it out?" meme.

I know I shouldn't be looking for competence in their actions but this feels like Tree Spiking to me.

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test"

when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter

it's diagnostic

So you're saying it's poiliover?

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

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The followup question to Mark von Schellwitz needed to be what percentage of hours worked are by the part time employees he thinks don't need to be trained.

This feels like the kind of thing @paulisci.bsky.social could search up.

MF coming right for me.