Kate Orman

The first thing I watched that had been recorded off TV was the Star Trek episode The Doomsday Machine, in 1982, taped by a friend. You?

Forced me to take a break from the short story I was writing, which allowed some useful perspective to develop.

Spent the last week in a life-or-death struggle with a TAFE assessment. I feel like how the bedraggled loser of the competition with Messalina in I Clavdivs looks like she feels.

Got it! "We ought therefore to recall that God transcends the human distinction between the sexes. He is neither man nor woman: he is God. He also transcends human fatherhood and motherhood, although he is their origin and standard: no one is father as God is Father." www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0...

cricket ball

Vindagoo

I hope those giant mirrors in space to reflect sunlight people aren't planning to use a magnifying glass to fry us like snails

That @#$% college assessment is finished and I'm not!

"In a moment", as in you're watching the news and "We'll be back momentarily" (cue hilarious mental picture of their returning only for two seconds)

As an irritable teen I would see the Christian kid's TV ads with the song "What colour is God's skin?" and mutter "How long is God's penis?"

(More seriously, where would someone look to find this bit of dogma?)

! I've read a bunch of stuff on alternative genders in ancient Mesopotamia, but this is a new one on me -- can you point me to something that will tell me more?

A shift in meaning is normal and common in language. "Momentarily" once meant "for a moment". "Unique" once meant "singular". However,

==> "COURTESY" means "THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME PERMISSION TO USE THIS" <==

It does not mean "By:" or "From:".

I thank you.

Gotta give him credit, he's working hard on the problem

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I'm doing a library course and this morning for a horrible moment I thought they were going to make me search a database with an AI. Like unexpectedly finding porn in the street euw

I'm still getting over The Thing and everything reminds me of the Thing

Took me a minute

Thumbnail for Dr Becky's latest Youtube video, with the astrophysicist herself (a white woman with long brown hair) looking puzzled, the periodic table square for Lithium, and a large heading which says "Where is all the Lithium?". The title of the video is "The Big Bang has a Big Problem".

I can answer this question

This is my thought about submitting AI-written stories. Even if the publisher doesn't realise you've cheated, or isn't sure, your story will still be rejected, because it will be awful. You won't know that it's awful because you haven't done the work of learning how to write. But the publisher will.

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Never doubt I love it 😁

I love(d) all that creativity! All those flags!

My Dad drove us out into the countryside to see Halley's comet, and made a point of bringing my very small little sister, as she had the best chance of all of us of seeing it twice. The comet was an enormous white smear against the black. I wonder what the view will be like the next time.

It's WORLD BOOK DAY, so here's a 10% off voucher for any book on the Obverse website.

WBD2026

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(and now I'm off to send @nickmcampbell.bsky.social a nice, neatly copy-edited version of his BEYOND THE ANNUAL YEARS book!)

such a power move to start the hymn Jerusalem with "and". All these other hymns are like "ooh hallelujah" and "ahh almighty" but Jerusalem's just like "WE'RE MIDWAY THROUGH A CONVERSATION ABOUT ANCIENT FEET. GET ON BOARD"

Snort!

Perhaps somewhere in S2? That overlapped with B7 S2.

With my own eyes I saw Kenny Everett say (words to the effect of) "Why are you watching this rubbish! You could be watching Blakes 7!" I am determined to find this moment of the Video Show again. It's probably in a bit that got snipped out for music rights reasons.

My favourite episode, Countrycide, works equally well as a horror story and as a comedy

And we should trust *this* aluminium liar, exactly why? 😂

An Embarrassing Scandal for AI Research AI scientists' trust in their own inventions is naïve

LLMs make a lot of mistakes. Luckily there's a way to detect those mistakes! ... another LLM.