I never imagined that the Turing test would fall within my lifetime. Nor did I imagine that I would feel so disheartened by it.

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An orange and white cat stood on its hind legs, with front right paw pointing the opposite direction it's looking, on a concrete sidewalk with palm trees and people out of focus behind.

A ginger cat posing on the Torremolinos beachfront.

#cats #gatos

A stone arch with embossing in the shape of leaves and plants.

An archway with fan shaped grooves and blue paint with intricate curve designs

A ceiling with etchings of nut designs repeating

A shaded garden (sunny in background) with a tesselated design in the paving stones, black and white.

Moorish geometric patterns at the Alcazaba de Málaga today.

#castle #malaga #geometricart

Today's revelation: gazpacho blanco de almendras. 🤯

Now playing on the loudspeaker at Bristol Palin Tin Shed Jetport and Car Park: "The Code" by Nemo

A gray squirrel with mouth agape running through long green grass and bluebell plants.

Backyard visitor this morning. Sorry, love, but I haven't put any eggs out.

#squirrel #eichhornchen

@rob Albert Heijn bakery aisle 🤩

Novelty M&S Hot Cross Buns ratings that no one asked for:

Red Velvet: 🐣🐣 (quite artifical tasting)
Extremely Cheesy: 🐣🐣🐣 (yummy, but closer to scones than buns IMO)
Tiramisu: 🐣🐣🐣🐣 (chocolate bomb! Bit messy)
Millionaire's: 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣 (perfect ratio of add-ins, and I appreciate the mini size too)

[Brief yet sharp Grindr rant]

Sorry for all the edits and typos.

I do need to get 100 choir concert posters printed, so perhaps "looking for fun with toner" is actually *my* profile...

[Brief yet sharp Grindr rant]

"Looking for fun with toner, gym fit men"

OH FUCK OFR

Trying to work out a Cutty Sark/cutting snark pun, but it's not ready to ship.

WECA's running a consultation on their "Better Buses Plan", which involves a series of anodyne statements about how things should be better. However, the survey has lots of good questions about how to order particular priorities, and plenty of space to complain about your local route, FirstBus […]

@alex I fear I already have a German bias after some Spargelzeit and Aperol hijinks (not at the same time...)

Finally solved the issue with my Pixel Watch 4 not recording GPS data on runs. What fixed it?

Svenskeknappen
App pool bounce
RAM flush

...aka turning it off and on again.

NB. Reach plc is not included in this definition of "local journalism".

A newspaper titled "Bishopston Voice", where the main headline is "Delivery robots arrive in Glos Rd - to dismay of dogs!". The pictures below it are (1) a line of JustEat robots, and (2) a small Yorkshire terrier standing in a wood.

We must protect local journalism at all costs.

#Bristol #Journalism #Headlines

A man with shaved head and short gray-brown beard, in a cutoff black tee that says "Pro Trans Pro Trains" and green fuzzy sweatpants, sitting in an office chair.

[Selfie]

Proof of grubby mode for my favourite working day of the year - Scandinavian clients off work, UK clients quieter than usual, WFH encouraged.

Whiplash on the timeline this morning. I didn't sleep well at all.

I usually ignore the alto-driven IG feed, but the algo decided today I'd be a match for a video of a muscled PT stripping off his trousers, saying "Kann ich darüber springen?", then jumping over many things while saying "ja", "das passt", oder "natürlich".

I shouted "oh fkng hell" after realising the gambit in today's Clues by Sam. Then proceeded to eff up the last square.

I'm having mackerel for dinner, is that a poisson d'avril?

My manager's manager thinks I am successfully meeting the objectives I was moved onto her team for. 🤯

I've decided unilaterally that the choir social media will not be participating in April Fools Day. Instead, a nice picture and these words:

"No April Foolin' here. Our posts are real - we do our best to not use AI in our creative. Our music is real, sometimes sweet and sometimes sour but never […]

Last day in the office until 13 April 🎉

Torbjørn: a normal Scandinavian masculine name.

Thunderbear: presumably the stage name of a DJ with a Nasty Pig wardrobe and a regular set at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern.

reading all of the depressing news: "maybe a cup of tea will make me feel better". 😵‍💫

@af Gneiss.

I wonder if it's from the same company that made Lizzo's inflatable ass for the VMAs that one year.

A concert scene with a three piece band, including a dude in a Dragonball Durag playing six string bass, playing in front of an inflated fierce cat pyramid thing, lit in red with some haze.

Bro played bass and sang in head voice while stood in front of an inflatable cat pyramid. #Thundercat

A photograph of a grinning DJ in front of a mixing board, with a shiny and curly black mullet, wearing a pink tracksuit jacket. The picture is clearly very 1980s.

My main revelation from today's discourse is that Gary Davies (un)fortunately(?) no longer looks like this: