Notices by Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party)

Oh shit! The scientists at Colossal Biosciences are using Ai to 'fill in' the gaps in available data to engineer / de-extinct the woolly mammoth.

Have we learned nothing? With them bringing about the corporeal existence of the Great Lord Cthulhu, transcender of morality, priest to the dormant Dark Gods, and the boffins at CERN attempting to create wormholes into the Underverse, we've got no chance.

I suppose at least those are more interesting ways to go than the current atttempts to destroy us all by our own elected officials. Genuinely think if a monstrous creature arose from the depths and campaigned for votes to bring about the end of mankind, I reckon we'd still be looking at somewhere close to a 50/50 vote.

My friend just sent me this and I don't know why, but I love it

WANT

Always a bit conflicted about people who put stuff in their bios like 'non-racist', 'don't like nazis', 'no to genocide' etc. Like who is that for? I realise I'm probably the problem here and that a bit of ally visibility is a good thing, but I just assume that all people should be these things already. But I suppose equally we're taught repeatedly that is of course not the case. Are there any racist nazi genocide enjoyers on Fedi? I suppose there must be instances we're defederated from with people who love that stuff? Should I have this sort of thing in my bio? Seems silly and unnecessary for me to say it, but maybe I'm wrong? Welcome to Ben'sThoughts™ now live-streaming. The point is..... what is your opinion on this?

Edit - inevitably some lovely Fedi people have pointed out that there can be good reasons for people doing this (read replies). Wasn't really judging others choices - was just a bit curious. In conclusion - people on Fedi are the best and I forgot there are often terrible awful people on other social medias (and some instances that have been banished to the Phantom Zone so I fortunately never have to encounter them). 😊

Lol. Daughter gave me a load of old notebooks she's not going to use (I like to make notes and scribble etc). And I am LOVING this one. Also very sweetly it's never been used and is totally empty. I'm going to fill this book up so fast it'll make your heads spin.

Why are there no new nursery rhymes? Who decided that? A moratorium and we're just stuck with ring a ring a roses and oranges and lemons said the bells of Saint Clements. I could make up new nursery rhymes. Perhaps this is where I make my fortune. Kids rhymes about really really awful things. Literally every thought I've just had is way too bad to post here. I am very very sorry for my brain. What is a newish lighthearted terribly tragedy? Perhaps there being too many potholes in the UK? What rhymes with potholes (apart from plot holes)? Profiteroles?

🎵 Hundreds of hairy moles like to jump out of potholes. When will they fix 'em, asked the people of Brixham. 🎵

I think I'm really onto something here.

Love that all televisions are set to archeology news in #Highlander3. Bars, street, home. We're all watching archeology news 24/7. I know I do.

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Was just looking for a tshirt I saw someone wearing that I liked and came across this quite unbelievable piece of clothing which made me laugh so much I have actual tears in my eyes....

Let's unleash this kid on Bezos

Netley boy saves thousands of sweet tubs from landfill
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gwykzqed5o

I'm sort of fascinated by mutual aid - partly I suppose because I'm terribly English about money generally, but primarily because I've seen people in years past on Twitter sort of jeer and boo at peoples requests and even doing a deep dive through that persons history to see if they've ever done something nice for themselves as a sort of 'gotcha' (which is an unbelievably shitty thing to do). One person in particular I won't mention because they've been a bit divisive, but I saw people comparing dates in a forensic way in a bid to try and 'catch them out', which is unhinged. Anyway my point is that on Fedi, I regularly see people request mutual aid in quite a reasonable way (sometimes we're up, sometimes we're down - I've been extremely well off, and I've been homeless without income so I totally get it), but what absolutely blows my mind is that people then show up and support them and so far I've not seen one person be a dick about it. It's sort of miraculous. However the point I'm making is that it's only really possible because of the communities that Fedi attracts..... and traps here forever unable to escape! - only joking - I just mean with the ebb and flow of this place, there is a particular kind of person who seems to end up staying - and those people are by and large supportive and non-judgemental. I don't really have any point to this. Just yet another example about how fundamentally cool the people are here.

TLDR - if I see you do a mutual aid request I will happily boost and support if I am flush. But just suppose wanted to say big love to those who continue to make Fedi a supportive and safe environment. YOU FUCKING ROCK. X

The natural conclusion of advances in Ai technology and gaming is for a game where people just control me and make me go about my little life like a Sim. Just me walking backwards and forwards and doing little tasks. And I welcome it. Someone please just tell me what to do. Give me achievable goals and some purpose.

I'm going to say that 102 poisonous snakes is too many to have in your garden. 1 would be a problem for me. 102 would be time to move country and require substantial therapy.

More than 100 venomous snakes removed from Sydney back garden
https://news.sky.com/story/more-than-100-venomous-snakes-removed-from-sydney-back-garden-13304615

Imagine a sausage casserole so powerful it could save the world

Just ate a breakfast so unhealthy a government emergency alert just went off on my phone

Amazon Alexa (I KNOW) thinks the lead singer of The Cure is Buddy Holly. Fuckn idiot.

Getting ready to do some Mastodonin'

100% totally understand how Fedi felt in Nov '22 to existing Fedizens

Sorry for making jokes on the Internet

Ha-HA! Not really. Suckeeeeeerz.