extremely cool. i feel like i'd accidentally sign my name

it is indeed a him, though i think our staff is female-leaning as an institution and that isn't slowing down the ai-adoptism.

get thee behind me satan 😂

my boss's boss is asking what ai can help us do. the email is two sentences. at the top there is a 'summarise with ai' button.

Pushed huge upgrade to goblin.tools
Should help with stability, and it adds a few things people have asked for since... forever.
Multiple todo lists! Deadlines! A prioritisation button!

And a new tool! Go give it a shot, it might help make todos less overwhelming.

Hi I can’t stop laughing

frog: "yeah that's what i thought"

ahhh i'm so jealous, she's fabulous!

beat sabre ass visuals, that's so exciting!

i think it's cool and interesting and skilfully done!

*swaying with my eyes closed*

it's such a delightful one, really tickled me

Is Bluesky the correct platform upon which to share a very long (or any) poem?
No!

Am I going to do it anyway?
Yeah. Fuck it.

Would it be more sensible to find a platform that allows me to hide text (e.g. spoilers), and post this poem there instead? Probably.

Am I going to do that?
Fuck, no!
🧵

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

@brainmage.bsky.social important news

oo, can i see them?

fanfic shall be our salvation once again. i found out the other day that i bookmarked a few of my faves, at least one of which has since been scrubbed from ao3 and punished with the serial numbers filed off!

oh that's such a great example. i'm still discovering little differences, i find it fascinating! 'hover' is a particularly strange one - it rhymes with bother in the uk and cover in the us, is that right? maybe not for all accents?

Excerpt - "As the astronauts deliver the SitReps - i.e. are not engaged actively in the gathering of scientific data - it is stark how rapidly they move away from technical description and fall back onto the language of poetics: colours, superlatives, adjectives, emotions. After all, in its purest terms, what they are doing is just describing a view - something landscape painters and romantic poets have been trying to do throughout history. And perhaps when it comes to describing a view, no matter how much you might try to be there in the name of science, you end up in the realms of art."

Excerpt "If to be a poet is to be a metaphor-maker, then certainly we can call them poets. Astronaut Christina Koch describes one of the moon's craters from a new angle as 'looking like a large healing wound', and new craters pockmarking the lunar surface as resembling 'a lampshade with tiny pinprick holes'. In this sense, the team's descriptions are a sort of exercise in free association, new extraterrestrial shapes seeking correlates in the more familiar - furniture, our own bodies, domestic detritus."

"Perhaps poetry is what happens when cognition encounters something outside of its existing framework; something beyond the edge, which cannot be made sense of."

"Perhaps poetry is what happens when cognition encounters something outside of its existing framework"

if you watched all 15 you were probably furious already 😂 that show's done irreversible things to me

localised versions is a great idea though

it was written in an english accent if that helps

i was enormously cross but what can you do! they didn't want my blood! they wrote to me asking for it, none of this was MY idea, what nonsense 😅

i got turned away last time i tried to donate because i hadn't had breakfast and they wouldn't take my word for it that i'd be fine x

A fajita’s great, but if you add beans;
And rice so that it bursts its seams;
It’s tasty but it’s much more hard to eat though;
Let’s add some sauce and make it big;
And top it off with shredded pig;
The delicious and explosive
Pork burrito.

iiiii LOVED the amateur transplants and somehow never heard this one!

like the lesson plans never shocked or offended me, but learning that the kindest, most interesting people i'd ever met did drugs and had tattoos and were into paganism? that freed me from so much

the real university experience is having your horizons broadened by meeting people with different upbringings to yourself. your lecturers could never, imo

oh no WONDER you were stressing, what a horrible time - so thrilled she's home safe with her best people 💕

oh my GOD