"Back to work today, forgot my pass so locked bike outside Cannon Street station. Left work at 6pm to find just the cut lock and no bike, resigned to never seeing my trusty stead again asked the station if they have cameras. A guy appeared waving at me, asked me to put the code into my cut lock. He replied ‘I have your bike’ with a smile I will never forget!! His name is Abdul Muneeb and he works for South Eastern Railways, he was on a break and saw a guy bolt cut the lock and challenged him to give it back, he then took it inside and waited 4 hours after his shift finished to personally make sure I got my bike back. The world needs more Abdul’s, he is a legend of a man and a credit to his employer."
Story Credit: Steve Farmer

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The picture is of a middle Eastern looking man smiling and holding a bike. In the foreground is a cut bike lock.

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI

Unicorns just leveled up.

HelloWorld salad:

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Photo of a food package branded Amazon Kitchen LOREM IPSUM DOLOR & CHEDDAR With lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, sed diam ek 3 nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt. PERISHABLE, KEEP REFRIGERATED

This has got to be one of the best. In Wales, UK, there is a legal requirement for road signs to be in both English and Welsh. So, in this case, the official of the Highways department emailed the English wording to the translator and, after receiving a reply, proceeded to have the sign made and installed.

Unfortunately, a few weeks later, Welsh-speaking drivers began to call up to point out that the Welsh reads..... "I am currently out of the office. Please submit any work to the translation team."

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The picture is of a road sign. The top part is in English and the bottom part in Welsh. The English part says, "No entry for heavy goods vehicles. Residential site only."

BTW could point out that English-speaking Afroboricuas fought side-by-side with African Americans in their regiments during World War 2. or i could default to lauding the Air Force’s all-Black Tuskeegee Air Men.

why do so when i can talk about an AIR WOMAN who became one of the most successful spies for France, UK & USA whilst still working as, for all intents and purposes of burlesque and cabaret, the most famous stripper in the world?

this post is about the #antifa AF, Josephine Baker

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1920s burlesque goddess and fashion icon, Josephine Baker, posing in a silk strapless dress with a gold chain & pearls necklace, 5-string pearl wrist cuff and chandelier earrings. her hair is in the Eaton haircut style and she has deep kohl eyeliner and dark lips makeup typical of the vamp style (some call it the flapper style these days)

Meta has used back-to-school pictures of schoolgirls
to advertise one of its social media platforms to a 37-year-old man,
in a move parents described as “outrageous” and “upsetting”.

The man noticed that posts encouraging him to “get Threads”,
Mark Zuckerberg’s rival to Elon Musk’s X,
were being dropped into his Instagram feed
❌ featuring embedded posts of uniformed girls as young as 13 with their faces visible and, in most cases, their names.

The children’s images were used by Meta after their parents had posted them on Instagram to mark their return to school.
⚠️The parents were unaware that Meta’s settings permitted it to do this.
🔥One mother said her account was set to private -- but the posts were automatically cross-posting to Threads where they were visible.
Another said she posted the picture to a public Instagram account.
💥The posts of their children were highlighted to the stranger as “suggested threads"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

vi FTW

However, if the accessibility option to "Reduce Transparency" is not enabled, the text remains white when scrolling.

#Guns #Choice #Women #alt #Opinions #2ndammendment

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“If you don’t own a gun, you can’t have an opinion on the Second Amendment.” Cool take! Now do uteruses.

Something BDSM also taught me is that religious experiences aren’t about Sky Daddies, they’re about ritual and people unified in the ritual. So like the whole singing hymns and shit is just How Concerts Be When You’re Into Them and not the Divine Breeze cupping your balls or whatever.

Little known fact, but all phones have a little speaker at the top that you can hold to your ear. It means you can have a private conversation without the whole world listening to it

@miffyhelen @TheBreadmonkey

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English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks thew over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar,

(But if you want lightweight, Sumatra on Windows, and Zathura/MuPDF for *nix, and I think the latter can do Mac, too.)

(Looking for Zathura on macOS brought out Skim, which I had completely forgotten about: https://sourceforge.net/projects/skim-app/ )

#3138 - Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure

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Single-panel comic titled “Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure.” Top left text: “Dimensional lumber sizes are tricky. A ‘2x4’ is actually 1½" by 3½", and a ‘1x8’ is ¾" by 7⅞".” To the right, a lumber labeled “2x4” with dimension arrows: vertical '1½"' and horizontal '3½"'. Below left, two yellow tape measures: the first labeled “12'”; the second labeled “12'*”. To the right of them, text: “If you know someone into carpentry or woodworking, get them our dimensional lumber tape measure.” Middle: a long yellow tape labeled “Normal tape measure” showing inches 1 through 9 with tick marks. Below it, another long yellow tape labeled “Dimensional lumber tape measure” showing inches 1 through 10 with tick marks that are slight more narrow than those of the “normal tape measure”. Bottom caption: “Don’t tell them you got it — just leave it in their toolbox. They’ll appreciate the surprise when all their measurements work out!” Hidden text: "A person with two watches is never sure what time it is, especially if I got them one of the watches."

“VA hospitals are clamoring for some way of preventing any gun violence, which is a very real concern,” and to “just throw technology at it is a shame” that has little to do with actual science, EFF’s Matthew Guariglia told Military Times.
https://www.militarytimes.com/veterans/2025/09/04/va-hospitals-pay-for-ai-weapons-scanners-testers-say-are-error-prone/

In short: the sicker/worse you feel after a booster/vaccine, the better for you.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent charged with terroristic threatening in Kapolei

"HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - Honolulu police responded to a report of a woman allegedly being threatened by a man on Monday morning in Kapolei.

At around 10 a.m., officers responded to the residence where the 33-year-old woman reported being threatened.

According to the Honolulu Police Department, the 42-year-old suspect allegedly brandished the butt of a firearm during the incident.

When officers arrived on scene, he reportedly identified himself and presented his credentials as a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent...."

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/09/02/us-customs-border-protection-agent-arrested-terroristic-threatening-kapolei/

#fascism #ice #cbp #crime

Found the orange cat that's been hoarding all the collective brain cells.

My undergraduate degree in Sociology has prepared me better for AI than any of my technical certifications and degrees, including my time researching for my PhD in cybersecurity.

Humanities are the key.

Don't forget that.

Oh my god 🤣

Also found on SpaceNook! The hostages are getting restless!

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Simpsons styled meme that shows Lisa Simpson before a white board. The text over it reads, "People who want to refuse care to patients due to personal or religious beliefs don't belong in the medical field or in mental health services."

This misfeature rolled out in Office365 last year and was the final straw for me that led to me cancelling my MS subscription and ditching Word.

You should aim to do likewise: if you don't, you're one EULA change away from losing control of everything you say/write using their tools.
https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/115132426182084126