Notices by Ben (thebreadmonkey@beige.party), page 2

@v1rl @SnowshadowII @DJDarren @altbot

This will be contentious because Ai is generally very unwelcome throughout Fedi. However - I am not 100% against it as a disability aid. Although obviously I'm not keen on the fact it's trained on stolen data. Whilst I advocate any advances to support those who need it, I don't think I'd be thrilled if it was my body of work that was being used without my permission and monetised for others - who are also broadly companies I fundamentally disagree with. I like the concept, not the execution. 😊

If I ever met a Predator alien, I would simply befriend it

What's got two thumbs and has just discovered archive.today?.....

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https://archive.ph/lwJMg

Whilst I applaud Danny Boyle's ingenuity, there is something about this that irks me. I don't think it's even actually that he got the girls to do it or that it worked. Just that it speaks to something underlying.

... I ask if it was hard to pull off a deserted London in 28 Days Later. “No,” he says, surprisingly. “We didn’t have the money to close the bridge, but had a plan to be there at 4am. The police can’t ask the traffic to stop, but they will allow you to ask drivers. So we hired a lot of girls, including my own daughter, who was 18. Anybody driving at that time is a bloke, so we had the girls lean in, saying, ‘Do you mind?’ And it worked fine.”

"The chimps in 28 Days Later are infected by the rage virus after being bombarded with images of war and brutality on screen. Fast-forward 23 years to today, I say, and are we not all monkeys scrolling distressing images on our phones?"

Scrolling the federated timeline is the closest you can come to being an all-seeing being

A million disparate voices crying out, sharing their various thoughts - fear, pain, joy..... quite a lot of horniness

New job ad just dropped

Archbishop of Canterbury job advert goes live – and for the first time they could be a woman
https://news.sky.com/story/archbishop-of-canterbury-job-advert-goes-live-and-for-the-first-time-they-could-be-a-woman-13380161

Amusingly, I've been with the running club for about a year and a half, but have never actually flexed my membership (ooer) before. But I've got a 5-mile 'race' on Saturday and Trish has talked me into doing a 10-kilometre 'race' (Bromley Midsummer Evening) aswell in 2 weeks time. I'm therefore signing up to these events using my England Athletics membership, where I am registered as a 'Competitive Athlete'. This tickles me so much and if you met me irl I am NOT an athlete. A neighbours kid offered to help me with my shopping on the way home from the supermarket recently. If I'm honest I am absolutely bricking it about both of these events because they're a bit at the top end of what I'm currently capable of. I've done an 8k a couple of times so hoping I'll be alright on the first one (which is also a beer run, so I'm assuming the point is to have a laugh). But it will be the first time I've ever done a proper 10k (and I don't want to let Trish down). So I'm going into health lockdown for the next two weeks. Good choices only!

#running

I didn't believe my wife when she told me Micky Dolenz from The Monkees had taught her a magic spell that turns people into dogs with a single stare. Then I saw her face, now I'm a retriever.

Surely we must be getting close to the Internet being full up.

Like said in Dawn of the Dead (1978).... "When there's no room left in hell, the dead will walk the earth"

Except it's all of our thoughts and opinions that will roam free across the land instead of being confined to their electronic prison. Hordes of hot-takes destroying all life in their path. A planet ravaged by well-ackshuallys.

Lol TIL Truth Social is built on Mastodon’s open-source code

@ATLeagle

I don't think you get to choose the style of engagement - shouting to a load of combat troops in dirigibles making land on your island 'WE CHALLENGE YOU TO A GAME OF WHAT'S THE TIME, MR WOLF'

Disappointed to learn that if you buy a private island it's still governed by the laws of the nation that claims it. Might have to rethink a few details of The Plan.

Hate it when that happens

Smoking is cool. Smoke rings are cool.

Mount Etna puffs 'smoke rings' in rare display
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-68752290

Imagine if we ever find out Ryan Reynolds is a piece of shit. That'll be it then. All over. We might aswell give up.

You know what day it is? That's right! It is of course the Marquis de Sades birthday!

For some reason my friends parents took me to visit his castle in Lacoste when I was a child. Which seems a bit weird now I say it. Although weirder still is that in the cafe opposite, I saw a person I recognised who saw me looking, smiled and raised his small coffee at me, and it wasn't until quite a long time afterwards I realised it was Jeroen Krabbé who had played the villain General Georgi Koskov in the 1987 James Bond film The Living Daylights.

But back to Sade - A libertine who despite owning a castle in one of the most beautiful places I've ever visited, spent most of his adult life in prison or asylums because he just absolutely refused to stop kidnapping women, having violent orgies or writing violent sex books. Initially imprisoned after forcing a prostitute at gunpoint to blaspheme whilst he masturbated using a chalice and crucifix.

“Either kill me or take me like this, for I will not change,” wrote the imprisoned Marquis de Sade to his wife in 1783.

So...... that's something, isn't it.

@tinydoctor

Never thought about the etymology of onanism before and assume it's from Onan who is apparently famed for pulling out at the point of climax whilst fucking his sister in law and jizzing on the floor so god murdered him. Sometimes I wonder if I should read the Bible as it sounds like it might be a laugh.

I am 100% sure Bryan Adams' Doctor is a man

I'm being a bit of a bitch today. Sorry, everyone.