Toast Conger

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Yes Toast. Topics I follow: change, NZ pocket friends, KDrama, weather, permaculture, weaving, she/her🌱🇳🇿
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future. www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/

Pop Culturewww.wheresyoured.at A week and a half ago, Goldman Sachs put out a 31-page-report (titled "Gen AI: Too Much Spend, Too Little Benefit?”) that includes some of the most damning literature on generative AI I've ever seen. ...

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On this day in 1986, the Homosexual Law Reform passed in Aotearoa New Zealand, decriminalising sex between males over 16 🏳️‍🌈

Covidv4.0 Day 3: Fever broke, body aches gone, cold symptoms slowly drying up. Did have a coughing fit last night so hard my entire chest wall feels like I've been beaten... or did Ab Day repeatedly until I collapsed. OTOH, mending far more rapidly this time.

This feels like a non starter. Vote Trump to Criminalize Porn, Defund Medicare, and Strip Mine Yellowstone

Yes, I absolutely do think over half the country cares about having their basic human rights taken away by a bunch of authoritarian freaks. For Christ’s sake, Project 2025 calls for banning PORN. We can get voters mad about this.

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What is the US voting turnout in recent years 40% ? Atrocious. We don't vote for us, we vote for our families and the vulnerable, hoping they're better off than we ever were.

So voting is better than *not* voting when it comes to getting what you want? Huh.

Good job France. Bringing new mojo to the phrase 'piss off you fascist pigdogs'. Also 'your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!'

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Today most of France said “oh wait what the fuck, no” 👌

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What were your TOP 3 kdrama from the first half of the year? We are listening…

Covidv4.0 Day 2: Well, if yesterday I felt fine but tired and took a precautionary test, today I feel like I've been run over by a truck. Going to take it really easy. Body aches head to toe, postnasal drip, sore throat and my chest hurts so much. So far the pacer hasn't gone off 🤞

Covid. Again. I'm a fucking magnet. I hate this so hard. I've been trying not to get it and thought I was doing OK but no. Here we are. Again.

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There is a 7 foot tall guy behind Rishi Sunak who likely ran for office just to be able to hold a printed out L behind him during his concession speech.

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Labour has won the UK General Election #UKGE2024

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that's it, UK Labour with 326 seats, majority locked in.

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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This is your reminder to get any unusual lumps & bumps, or weird-looking moles, spots, & freckles checked. Do the tests, get the mammogram, or the screening. Cancer DGAF who it strikes, so get in early. DO NOT WAIT! ✋

Someone please explain the irrational exhuberance around Tesla shares. Their sales are down, their latest model is a running gag, they have unsold inventory visible from space, and the 'promise of AI' around the planet is clearly oversold and underbaked. WHY do people think buying Tesla makes sense?

For those still dipping into both on the regular...

for real, stop hanging out at the nazi csam bar, it does bad things to your brain

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I don’t know who wrote this, but it’s absolutely perfect

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My letter in today’s Herald about the political establishment pandering to JK Rowling and her anti trans obsession while ignoring the majority of women and women’s issues www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2442...

Oh boy. I was enjoying this until I got absolutely nailed with the second part. *sigh* Yeah. That.

It got me

For some reason this and all the responses really tickly me todaaaaaay

Gotta love how we prop up Romeo & Juliet as a love story when Romeo starts the play pining for Rosaline, Juliet's cousin, but then whines she won't put out and then he immediately love bombs the FAR YOUNGER and thus more vulnerable and fuckable 13 year old Juliet. Shakespeare did that on purpose.

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The galaxy falling back under the thrall of the Empire used to feel like the weakest aspect of the Disney sequels but now they feel like the most realistic. It wouldn’t even have taken 30 years, give it just 4 and the Star Wars news-anchors would be asking, how can Palpatine win the debate this week

There's something in me that woke up this morning and said, "You know Toast, what you need in your life is to redownload Pokémon Go." What happened in my subconscious last night is a really important question now.

@coolhand.bsky.social I continue to spread the gospel of the new portmanteau errogance. Everyone loves it. We really need to get this to be a thing.

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How fatal is H5N1 influenza? It's not as straightforward as you might think. New post: blog.kucharski.io?how-fatal-is...

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I feel for the people impacted by the power outage. But find it very funny that when the govt is looking to push privatisation this fuck up was done by a private company. Also ACT looking to remove red tape and pesky h&s regulations like 'don't undo all the nuts at once'

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Savage 😂

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The Republic Is Ours To Save

Some of us were angry *because* our peers were bigoted, brutes

Am I wrong or is it a bit weird for our PM to be offering to host the King and his wife when technically the King actually 'owns' us? #nzpol Isn't he technically our sovereign? I mean if we changed this without anyone telling me, fair enough.

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hell yeah north side