It's very important, of course, that while we use robots to do our menial housework and administration and eventually our jobs, they should also have our fun and creation and physical endeavour. We should be left with nothing. Very important.

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Ah that sounds amazing! I'm in the UK otherwise I'd try to find a way...

He is!

Milo the sausage dog stands up on a bench seat with his front paws on a wooden table. He has a glass of water in front of him and he's staring into middle distance.

He's having a contemplative day.

His name is Milo, but he mostly answers to Sausage.

A sausage dog looks up at the camera.

Companion for the weekend.

Val Kilmer doesn't do anything in the upcoming movie As Deep As The Grave, a digital ghoul made by cunts is being used as a fucking corpse puppet show

This sucked when it was Ian Holm, it sucked when it was Peter Cushing, and it sucks now

He deserves better and so do we

I'm imagining you chanting "POL POT" over and over while staring intently at tissue.

"Says Your Party is not a "serious attempt to unite the left""

The rest of us worked that out quite some time ago.

I use it for work a lot, not the AI functions but I just need basic images for event promotion, so it's nice to have a solid library of graphics and photos and colours that I can mix and match without thinking too much. Might be good on a more sophisticated level too, might not.

A golden sun is rising above a calm blue sea

Oil rig equipment sits on ships on the horizon, with a flat blue sea underneath and hazy yellowy sky

Morning gang

Bet it tasted good though!

Thank you! I'm pretty pleased for a first try.

😎

I rolled them manually around a wooden spoon handle.

🫡

I must.

I am very much enjoying it, but it definitely needs a bit of patience.

Big ol' lasagne

Pasta helps me sleep

I haven't, but I will!

I wouldn't. This was to avoid doing other work.

It was for a lamb ragu. Needs something hearty!

Tbh that's fewer steps than making the pasta if you break it down

I'm in Scotland!

Such a simple mechanism to get the ridges (press against a ridged board) but almost magical when you see something emerge that normally comes from a machine. I felt the same way the first time I made immersion blender mayonnaise.

A couple of handfuls of very homemade looking rigatoni pasta sits on a kitchen surface, dusted with flour.

I made rigatoni last night. It was an absolute pain and I want to do it again immediately.

In the past couple of weeks I've been to the theatre, the cinema, and a gig, and I can confirm they're still all brilliant things to do, despite what overpaid columnists tell you

As a fun experiment The guardian could hire culture critics who like culture