Irl cake day somehow sucked worse than the one I literally spent in ER with a 10% chance of survival. seriously thinking of moving the date and blocking what pathetic scraps of family i have left
I’m so sorry you had a crap time. Sending birthday wishes and all the happiness for you. Can you do something special to treat yourself and help cancel it out?
E: cancel the family experience I mean, not your birthday
Kind of AI. I think it's Adobe generative fill. There was probably something in the way, and someone has used the generative fill tool to make the cow have legs, but didn't check or edit it after too make sure it looked correct haha
Could be AI, but I think all their legs are a bit off, but the tops of the cows seem okay, so I reckon something was blocking the cows legs in the photo, and and editor has used that tool to 'fix' it
I’m so frustrated about my health and living situation. I was never hugely sporty but did like to be somewhat active like walking and tai chi and would love the energy/chance to garden. I’d love to be exercising and prepping good meals.
Even just getting away from the toxic elements of where I live would be amazing.
I counted 7 frying pans. 2 cast iron (1 flat, 1 griddle) 1 steel/aluminium (Idfk), 1 small for toasting nuts, 2 that go in the oven with a lids (1 large, 1 small) and one I use all the time. Plus a wok. I need to make decisions but maybe not today.
My daughter one day "Daddy, why have we slowed down?". And here's my poor husband sweating bullets and pedalling as hard as he could while crossing the western highway on an overpass.
Is this cheese train carved like the cover of the WW kids birthday cake book? Have seen wedding ‘cakes’ that were a huge cheese stack. Yes, the bride was Dutch.
I went to Love Lombard in Preston today for Christmas crackers in the colour that I require. They have an absolute fuckload of Halloween stuff if you’re interested. Floating heads in crystal balls, all manner of skulls, vampire rats like WTF, living dead girls and so on.
Decos up on Xmas eve, then down by 6th January. This encompasses the canonical 12 days of Xmas that my true love sent to me. Also by then one is completely sick of the whole thing. Starting in November with the xmas carols on loop in every shop is enough to turn one atheist - a violent bomb-throwing atheist.
TIL about AI generated books, some of which are dangerous. These mushroom hunting books are wrong and could kill. So what other fake books are out there?
It’s absolutely being used to avoid employing or paying people. Or giving them ‘editing’ jobs for a fraction of the pay.
Internet Archive also lost its copyright case. So generative AI/LLMs get to access and to take everything but humans aren’t allowed to have an archive of resources that would otherwise be lost.
So many apparently. If it’s something important it’s probably best to get a copy from a known author with a date prior to the AI boom, or proper citations.
This is doing so much damage to information literacy and being able to verify claims
Edit: It’s screwing up translations and instruction booklets too
Huh. Old school friend (who I lost touch with and have tried to find in and off) friended me on FB and asked me to a mumble year school reunion.
Would love to catch up with her, but as for the other? I'd rather remove my own epidermis with a potato peeler.
I’m feeling depressed as hell. Internet Archive lost a copyright lawsuit and rare books or resources that could be unavailable in any other way might be lost.
I have to go to eBay or Amazon for even a hope of finding some classic art books secondhand and even then a used copy could be $50, $70, $100 plus. If I can even find it.
The US Open Men's Doubles final is on now on Nine Go (ch99) if you want some entertainment with your breakie- Aussies Purcell and Thompson are a pretty good chance.
Yep. Like Goonsey said it is normal but that doesn't mean it's nice. My brain dredges up all sorts of stuff when I sleep. Over the years I have kinda learned to deal with it and even appreciate it a bit - It's my brain processing all the stuff and filing it where it needs to go.
One thing I find really helpful is to just lay there for a bit when I wake up, with my eyes closed think about what I am feeling inside (is there somewhere hurting? Stressed?) and to think back on what I dreamt. Kinda say thanks brain for processing and remind myself it was a dream and I am safe now. And to then think about where I am in details - what do the sheets feel like, what can I hear, that sort of thing. Just breathe in that in between space and basically put down the night stuff so I can go into the day clean. Or at worst, cut myself some slack because it was a rough night.
Everyone has their own thing - just sharing my little process in case it helps.
Going on another ride with the bicycle users group today. My plan is to get to the meeting place early so the boys can have a bit of out of pram time before we head off
Found out recently Windows can control backlight brightness on most external monitors, it's just not a feature it wants to implement natively. Twinkle Tray does the trick nicely though!
I'm feeling in the mood for nice 90s movies... Just watching Grosse Pointe Blank (TEN YEARS!!! TEN YEARS, MAN!!) and it's great fun. Any other recommendations for something similarly silly and nostalgic?
Irl cake day somehow sucked worse than the one I literally spent in ER with a 10% chance of survival. seriously thinking of moving the date and blocking what pathetic scraps of family i have left
Lemmit is your family now 🎂
I’m so sorry you had a crap time. Sending birthday wishes and all the happiness for you. Can you do something special to treat yourself and help cancel it out?
E: cancel the family experience I mean, not your birthday
Eh at this point i could go either/or.
Do it! You don't need toxic in your life. Happy birthday anyway. I hope next year's is better for you. ♥
An internet sugar offering not-hug thing
That's rough. Also sending you bday wishes.
Buy yourself a cake and b'day present. That's what I used to do.
Made you a little something
Thanks
Happy birthday Taleya -hugs-
Uh, it's not today
Now begins the BEE SUPERHIGHWAY! Like clockwork blossom -><- echium.
Cat, bed, audiobook and iPad game.
Perfect end to a Sunday.
Goodnight everyone ❤️
Night
P's dropped in from their travels to Noosa and gave me 3 t-shirts.
They all say "I LOVE Noosa"
I've never been (or intend to go) to noosa.
Was it LOVE with a ❤️ for maximum boomer points?
Could at least have said, "My parents went to Noosa and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
It’s fairly touristy. Even RACV has a resort there. I was there a few weeks ago but it was just to visit and stayed on the Sunshine Coast.
If you hire a 4wd you can beach drive from Noosa to Rainbow Beach which is pretty cool.
This cow in a Geelong show ad seems to have 4 front legs👀
I've seen worse in geelong (sorry geelong people).
the third cow from the left has two pairs of back legs
AI art?
Has to be. Things in the background look blobby and weird too
Oh my god I zoomed in and yeah that's just like cow soup back there
Kind of AI. I think it's Adobe generative fill. There was probably something in the way, and someone has used the generative fill tool to make the cow have legs, but didn't check or edit it after too make sure it looked correct haha
Could be AI, but I think all their legs are a bit off, but the tops of the cows seem okay, so I reckon something was blocking the cows legs in the photo, and and editor has used that tool to 'fix' it
lol
Thanks I hate it
Bwahaha!! Do supermarkets still do the 6 legged chicken deal?
Adobe generative fill is really calling out the editors who don't pick up these mistakes 😂
It's Okay
We love you anyway
Love you too 😘
I think I may have lost some weight. 🙂
Yay! 🙂
Well done!
I’m so frustrated about my health and living situation. I was never hugely sporty but did like to be somewhat active like walking and tai chi and would love the energy/chance to garden. I’d love to be exercising and prepping good meals.
Even just getting away from the toxic elements of where I live would be amazing.
I have far too many baking trays. I will not be culling just merely organising them in a better tetrisy way.
I dreamt that I was filling in for Nine Inch Nails guitarist. Also we fought crime lol
Um, which crime? This has me fascinated.
Mostly assaults and home invasions.
Fucking weird dream.
Onions on top today. North Eastern Melbourne Chinese Association are cowboys living on the edge of society
If you’re wondering why it’s raining, I’ve fired up the BBQ.
I took the other chair down to the terrace to be sanded and painted . Sorry.
I watered my garden, so also bear some responsibility
Free birthday cake donut with (?any) purchase at Shortstop Melbourne today. Really tasty vanilla cinnamon cake donut with rainbow sprinkles.
Oooooh
Check their Insta I think the donuts are limited but free coffee with purchase is not ☕
I counted 7 frying pans. 2 cast iron (1 flat, 1 griddle) 1 steel/aluminium (Idfk), 1 small for toasting nuts, 2 that go in the oven with a lids (1 large, 1 small) and one I use all the time. Plus a wok. I need to make decisions but maybe not today.
I’M UP
Up to no good
🤫
🍭
🤤
☕️
Here you go!
Thank you!
Here I am StudSpud the Starchy
The poetic potato aficionado
But in real life I'm actually partly
Just your average f5 tornado
I don't look like an actual potato
I'm not a hot-as-fuck stud
I'm just a long dormant volcano
And now I'm certainly not a chud
Just bought Christmas crackers lol. I’m a freak.
I'm waiting for hot cross buns to come back - I'm an absolute goblin fiend about the chocolate ones 🤤
c'est chic
Sun out. Open window. Sun goes. Temp drops and wind starts. Close window. Repeat. One of THOSE days hey Melbourne?
yup, I have a jumper on but technically it's still winter so it's to be expected
Yeah, I’m doing the ‘do I paint the fence/not paint the fence?’
Well over out west it's definitely settled on overcast and rainy so I'm gonna say no
I’m very happy to bump it to another day, lol
My legs are shot. 25kms isn't a super long ride, but you feel it when you're towing 2 kids and the last stretch is up hill
My daughter one day "Daddy, why have we slowed down?". And here's my poor husband sweating bullets and pedalling as hard as he could while crossing the western highway on an overpass.
I’m about to make a toastie, but don’t know what I want in it.
Cheese and salami, or peanut butter and banana?
Bananas ought be illegal. Satay salami sounds curious…
banana and nutella
All of them together
Cheese, salami and onion.
I think I've just decided my lunch plans. Maybe I should go all in and add tomato too?
I love banana in a toastie but I go with cinnamon rather than peanut butter (not a big fan).
Peanut butter and salami.
I vote for cheese and banana.
quiz
25/50 - not my best work
35/50. Not bad.
Same!
Great minds and all that!
40/50 today. I is smort.
30/50 which surprised me greatly, I got all the first ones wrong
Same here
30/50. Eh
30/50
25/50 for me.
Better than average when it comes to me.
25/50. Tough one
Oh, cheese train soundin' louder
Nomming on the cheese train
Nom, yum, yum, ah, nom, ah
Come on, now cheese train
Yes, cheese train swiss holy slices
Everyone jump on the cheese train
Nom, yum, yum, ah, nom, ah
Come on, now cheese train ......
Is this cheese train carved like the cover of the WW kids birthday cake book? Have seen wedding ‘cakes’ that were a huge cheese stack. Yes, the bride was Dutch.
Yes.
😍🧀🤤
Genius!
Brilliant! Especially your ooh-ah ee-ah ooh-ah part 😆
CHRISTMAS DECO ALREADY?!
Fuck off, Halloween first!
I went to Love Lombard in Preston today for Christmas crackers in the colour that I require. They have an absolute fuckload of Halloween stuff if you’re interested. Floating heads in crystal balls, all manner of skulls, vampire rats like WTF, living dead girls and so on.
Vampire rats you say? There is shopping to be done.
Ha. Mine go up the final week before Christmas if that and the tree Christmas Eve, and down around the 6th January.
Decos up on Xmas eve, then down by 6th January. This encompasses the canonical 12 days of Xmas that my true love sent to me. Also by then one is completely sick of the whole thing. Starting in November with the xmas carols on loop in every shop is enough to turn one atheist - a violent bomb-throwing atheist.
Clearly just big fans of the Nightmare Before Christmas. That way it's still Halloween themed.
You can do it! You are doing it! You are smart! You are articulate! You are awesome! 💜💜💜
One step at a time.
I've found that there are few tasks or things in life that can't be broken down into small easier steps. Just get good at each step.
You have so got this. 👍
If you cut your steps in half, then halve them again, then it doesn't matter what size feet you have - because you're still steppin'.
TIL about AI generated books, some of which are dangerous. These mushroom hunting books are wrong and could kill. So what other fake books are out there?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwp_WEdJaEk
I always thought the machines would do the labour, and the people would make the art. Yet here we are.
It’s absolutely being used to avoid employing or paying people. Or giving them ‘editing’ jobs for a fraction of the pay.
Internet Archive also lost its copyright case. So generative AI/LLMs get to access and to take everything but humans aren’t allowed to have an archive of resources that would otherwise be lost.
Seriously fuck this corporate netscape
That fucking sucks. I've relied on internet archive a lot in the past. Wish I had enough storage to grab parts of it before they got taken down.
They haven’t been taken down but they did lose access to 500,000 books.
So many apparently. If it’s something important it’s probably best to get a copy from a known author with a date prior to the AI boom, or proper citations.
This is doing so much damage to information literacy and being able to verify claims
Edit: It’s screwing up translations and instruction booklets too
Get a stainless steel one, i've had one of those fuckers for 15 years and i have not been kind to it
Huh. Old school friend (who I lost touch with and have tried to find in and off) friended me on FB and asked me to a mumble year school reunion.
Would love to catch up with her, but as for the other? I'd rather remove my own epidermis with a potato peeler.
School reunions - yeah, removing skin with a rusty lid of a tin can would be preferable.
I’m feeling depressed as hell. Internet Archive lost a copyright lawsuit and rare books or resources that could be unavailable in any other way might be lost.
I have to go to eBay or Amazon for even a hope of finding some classic art books secondhand and even then a used copy could be $50, $70, $100 plus. If I can even find it.
Libgen.is
If you change your mind. Been using it over a decade. No issues.
Thanks, I just genuinely don’t know what I’m doing and don’t want to stress over it
the high seas might be the place to go
I avoid it due to the legal and virus risks.
The US Open Men's Doubles final is on now on Nine Go (ch99) if you want some entertainment with your breakie- Aussies Purcell and Thompson are a pretty good chance.
Oh ok. I’ve just put it on. Thanks!
I just had some cinnamon sugar toast. Nostalgia snack 💯
No snack here.
Cup of Coffee here
Yummm!
Peanut butter and cheese on toast here.
So how long is a warranty on something like headphones? I need to go to jb hifi to return some but it's been almost a year or a bit longer.
Can't seem to find the info anywhere. I'm probably googling the wrong thing.
You’re probably good within a year as long as they didn’t cost like 10 bucks or something.
Warranty length is usually on a slip of paper with the headphones.
Also you have the Australian consumer law to rely on as a backup that can not be overruled.
I found this but idk if it's applicable
https://support.jbhifi.com.au/hc/en-au/articles/360053783453-What-is-JB-Hi-Fi-s-returns-policy-on-earphones-and-headphones
The warranty usually comes down to the manufacturer, so you might be able to check on their website.
I had some sennheiser headphones die just within the warranty period, swapped them out for Momentums, and they're still going strong today
Portuguese-style sardines don't taste any different to any other sardines in oil. There, bang, I said it.
Goodness me. Fell asleep early and only woke up once. Been awhile since I’ve been able to sleep so soundly.
Yep. Like Goonsey said it is normal but that doesn't mean it's nice. My brain dredges up all sorts of stuff when I sleep. Over the years I have kinda learned to deal with it and even appreciate it a bit - It's my brain processing all the stuff and filing it where it needs to go.
One thing I find really helpful is to just lay there for a bit when I wake up, with my eyes closed think about what I am feeling inside (is there somewhere hurting? Stressed?) and to think back on what I dreamt. Kinda say thanks brain for processing and remind myself it was a dream and I am safe now. And to then think about where I am in details - what do the sheets feel like, what can I hear, that sort of thing. Just breathe in that in between space and basically put down the night stuff so I can go into the day clean. Or at worst, cut myself some slack because it was a rough night.
Everyone has their own thing - just sharing my little process in case it helps.
sounds a bit like some stress from all the recent events you've endured
all perfectly normal, you'll be fine, just talk to your counsellor
so many hugs 🫂🫂🫂
Beep Beep 🚚
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Yummy bacon butty please. And coffee (decaf cos late).
🥓🥪☕️
Everything Mexican please.
🌎
Calorie free shortbread biscuits and a cup of black tea please.
🍪🍪☕️
Going on another ride with the bicycle users group today. My plan is to get to the meeting place early so the boys can have a bit of out of pram time before we head off
Found out recently Windows can control backlight brightness on most external monitors, it's just not a feature it wants to implement natively. Twinkle Tray does the trick nicely though!
I'm feeling in the mood for nice 90s movies... Just watching Grosse Pointe Blank (TEN YEARS!!! TEN YEARS, MAN!!) and it's great fun. Any other recommendations for something similarly silly and nostalgic?
Lebowski
Hook. Hackers.
Happy Gilmore
10 things I Hate About You
Just watched the new series of "Only Murders in the Building". It's such a terrific show, very entertaining.