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staringatclouds
@staringatclouds@mstdn.social
Partner of Mrs SaC
I'm an old trans biddy, retired, interested in science, sci fi, humour, cute animal videos, real ale, good food all the usual stuff
Sadly I've become rather political as my Gov't seems intent on destroying my country & I hate politics
LGBTQ+ ally, atheist/humanist if you're religious that's OK
Religion is like a penis, it's OK to have one & be proud of it
But don't thrust it anywhere without an invite by someone old enough to understand what it is
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Joined January 29, 2025
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Posts last 6 months, unless I bookmark them, so screenshot or copy if you really want to hang on to my drivel
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A false colour image of Zeta Ophiuchi ploughing through dust. Or it could be my beady eye watching you
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I think they may be speaking from experience
Just a feeling
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@SuneAuken@mastodon.world You're preaching to the choir
The number of people I screamed at who just wanted to give Cameron a bloody nose saying "It's only advisory, they'll never do it"
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Open door
- The door is locked
Alice chuckles, cracks her knuckles & removes a bobby pin from her hair
- The door is unlocked ...
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@yama@kinkycats.org @kaisla@eliitin-some.fi Rowling's plan is to pay others to sue, forcing AI to spend money & time defending itself
Multiply that by the number of organisations named
And if they lose, they appeal & do it again, Rowling has an effectively infinite money pit & a whole lot of vindictiveness
AI will get their costs back eventually but not before they're sued a bunch more times & possibly bankrupted
Being right won't save AI
And that's if AI win every court case, which could take years
That's why AI caved
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social oops I put "absmartphone" instead of "a smartphone" sorry
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@hashjenni
We impeached a president for having consensual sex with a woman
But won't impeach the president for having non-consensual sex with children
Multiple children
What the hell is wrong with this country?!
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social If anyone can't find it here's a few spares
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Pick any one you like
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Wendy Chartrand
The Don of Dung
A171
watercolour & charcoal on canvas
Portrait of the current president of the United States. The medium used is one I have concocted from water and horse manure, which seemed appropriate considering the subject.
Sooke
$1,800
FINEARTSSHOW
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Jaws theme tune
Sometimes I'm the shark, sometimes I'm the swimmer
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(Picture is an x-ray image of a person wearing earrings, a necklace & a ring, all the jewellery is glowing green)
"Jewelry sold as silver on Amazon was actually 92% cadmium - a highly toxic metal and known human carcinogen"
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Seeking linux advice
@Aleums@timeloop.cafe sudo elaborate_escape --burn all --kill all --salt earth --prejudice extreme --send flowers
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Pedo pedo pedo pedo
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Epstein Epstein
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Epstein Epstein
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Epstein Epstein Epstein
OOOOOOOH
it's a truuuuump !
IT'S A TRUUUUMP !
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social That should be no LLM AI
There are other forms of AI, machine learning, heuristics, genetic algorithms etc.. that are fine
Glorified token prediction, auto complete engines that require the burning of a forest & the power & water of a medium sized town to draw a picture of a cow with six legs are not
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @BylinesScotland@mastodon.social What happens next is usually a screaming match, videos on YouTube, lots & lots of publicity, while people misapply the bits of law they like & ignore the bits they dont
Things most trans people are desperate to avoid, especially those in the early days of ttansition
The plan doesn't seem to be to have us arrested
It seems to be to make life intolerable so we stop trying
It's persecution, it would be illegal if it were any other group but ours
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @BylinesScotland@mastodon.social Proving the code is unworkable relies on trans people taking up court cases when they're discriminated against
Which will out them immediately
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Is that official ?
Because Rowling uses every penny she gets from the Harry Potter franchise to find legal challenges to trans peoples rights
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@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot @tompearce49@mastodon.scot Their bunkers have entrances & exits that can be bricked over
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social It's called planned obsolescence & I believe it was started by Henry Ford, he supposedly looked at which components on a model T wore out the least & re engineered them to wear out faster
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@alice@lgbtqia.space I met my OH on a BBS style message board
Been together 25 years noe
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Trans level-up to secret 61st level! Sex is mentioned, but not described graphically
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@alexadeswift@lgbtqia.space @FediThing@social.chinwag.org @BylinesScotland@mastodon.social Then the 5th August thing
An entire demographic is being punished that day, by having rights & protections they've relied on for decades removed
Possibly for the actions of a few, possibly because of some imagined crime
I still don't know why this is happening & I have asked
I can't think of a single time when an entire group of people were treated this way without referring to WWII
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social I like how they think birds can read English
What if the birds are from France ?
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@lowqualityfacts@mstdn.social When life gives you lemons
Make lemonade, sell it & buy chocolate
Fuck those lemons, you got chocolate
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@stux@mstdn.social That's a lot smaller than I expected, thanks I'll have a look 👍
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social My life right there
EG I buy a telescope, Musk launches thousands of fucking satellites
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@saxifraga@lgbtqia.space Get rid of the Director General
He's ex google & hardly unbiased
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@stux@mstdn.social I would suggest getting a Linux machine from Tuxedo Computers
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social The red bit worries me, what is it supposed to be ?
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Wine does not do that because wine gets drunk before it has a chance to
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Fifty Shades of Grey is only romantic because the guy is a billionaire.
If he was living in a trailer, it would be a Criminal Minds episode
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@MaryAustinBooks@mstdn.social It's missing the word "or"
It's "Go Woke OR Go Broke"
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... If booking a medical appointment or paying a bill requires the help of a son or granddaughter - assuming there is one - then the system has failed.
This is not innovation. It is exclusion.
Technology should serve people, not determine who is still entitled to dignity.
When we leave behind those who came before us, we are not evolving. We are merely becoming more comfortable - and more selfish."
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social Cue Trump offering to buy Ireland
The book was a nice touch, but if it's not written in sharpie on a 2" x 4" post-it he'll lose interest before the end of the first paragraph
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