Notices by botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)

As its a Bank Hol, rather than go out and do Something Nice, I cleaned the fridge.

Found 4 great big mangos.

@inpc

There's no obvious tells, but it just seems "off". Maybe its real but been processed through an ai to "enhance" it? all the surfaces - skin, fabric - are weird to my eye.

I do think there is an "aisthetic" developing where people are creating stuff from scratch but the end product looks genai-ey.

@inpc
genai presumably

Now I'm hearing "uptime robot" in Billy Joel's cadences.

A certain website is having problems.

Said website has a lot of coding de vibe.

Presumably an llm generated this illiterate error report.
ffs

Enjoying this modern orchestral Prom but distracted by the conductor's badly fitting jacket.

#WildFlowerHour

Another nice Devil's-bit Scabious

SDF runs like a dog.
Bluesky is constantly breaking.
If i go outside to try and touch grass i find the grass is/has been on fire.

This is all very unsatisfactory.

@MLE_online
The thought prompted by ukgov suggestions that people keep stocked up because of possible Russian aggression, while not saying a word about what's going to happen when there are mass crop failures of staples.

I can't help thinking that however many cans of chickpeas I stockpile, it won't really help when the entire food supply chain starts collapsing.

@anon_opin
lol, I can imagine how happy the clubs of £50M football players would be to release them to play one of the most brutal contact sports.
Though,, it would be funny to see them take a proper hit instead of writhing around clutching their faces after having their heel tapped.

Bat

"Hello! How are you getting on?"

[me] Oh, I'm completely fine

[also me]:

A few months ago next door spent a lot of money on having their chimneys repointed & all the gulleys and valleys relined with lead; scaffolding was up for months.
Pleased to see that somehow the gutters have been fucked up (probably by the scaffolders when they broke it down) & the slightest hint of drizzle means water cascades down their walls.
For us neighbours' benefit, the builders left a huge tarp roughly folded beneath where its cascading, producing continuous loud random drumming thumps.

is this anything?

@hannah
Rightly

@hannah
Rightly

@Tusky
When my home instance is running slow, and i post something, i sometimes get an error from tusky that the post failed to send & a copy gets saved in drafts.
But, quite often the post *has* been sent & appears in the timeline ok.
So i wonder if the server is not sending responses promptly & tusky times out & assumes there's been a failure to send.

There is "y'all" discourse going on elsewhere.

I always wondered whether Mr. Morden closed his eyes against the blinding lights, or against the horror.