
I was wondering, "Do slugs poop?"
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Bass & vocals in the Moody Blues. He also wrote this tune.
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 17:02, Reply)

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado wins

( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 12:29, Reply)

Not because of the bombing of Iran, murdering Colombians, or trying to foment a civil war in his own country.
The simple fact is that nominations were closed before he was even sworn in.
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 13:18, Reply)

it'll never catch on in MAGAstan.
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 13:54, Reply)

He won't bomb Norway. He'll just announce that he did win it, and his army of sycophants will congratulate him and act like he did and eventually nobody will be sure if he did or didn't.
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 17:57, Reply)

Well now.
Trump: "The person who actually got the Nobel Prize called today, called me, and said 'I'm accepting this in honor of you, because you really deserved it.' "
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Anyone can get into TikTok, Bluesky, Facebook, even b3ta, but you have to show true patience & dedication to join this club.
(Only works in Chrome-ish browsers, sorry)
The 1% Guild 🪫

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I am the last person on this planet using a desktop computer.
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1) They appear to be describing the behaviour of a typical kid of that age...
2) I'm working the Busted vs McFly gigs in Manchester in the coming weeks...maybe I'll try out that behaviour...
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 0:26, Reply)

Being able to blame my shortcomings on neurological/pathological conditions instead of actually trying to better myself is so liberating!
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 5:51, Reply)

lol I see you got rid of 1/3 of the paedos. You reminded me of the paedo hunters on YT... so keen to hunt paedos that your hard drive becomes a genuine source of concern. Like Boris Johnson vs sugar because he's a fat cunt with no self-control who can't stop eating sugar. Or Mary Whitehouse vs degeneracy because she once blew a dog*.
*My lawyer requires me to say that Mrs Whitehouse never fellated a canine*
*but she definitely did
( , Fri 10 Oct 2025, 17:25, Reply)

apparently this was to get around a chilean no-ad breaks promise, though it could all be some viral ad campaign bullshit I suppose, I don't care enough to investigate
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Duration: 5:43
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 21:58, Reply)

For some reason this clip made me laugh like a drain that's all.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:07, Reply)

How is AEW going? I am going to assume the product has not improved in Jim's eyes.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:35, Reply)

I think that was even before the TV deal... I've not regularly watched any rasslin since Impact turned into a phone streamed shitshow and NWA went behind a paywall. WWE and AEW are unbearable.
I don't bother with Jim's reviews any more, occasionally I'll listen to a ratings breakdown but hearing what these turdblossoms are up to is highly bumfuzzling. Some of the stuff AEW does would gag a maggot off a gutwag, as Aunt Lola used to say.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 17:18, Reply)

His videos often came up in my feed, and I watched quite a few of the wind turbine related ones. Feeling sad.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 18:45, Reply)

Sad.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 21:44, Reply)

Worth a read:
hackaday.com/2025/10/08/honoring-the-legacy-of-robert-murray-smith/
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Not a joke. I've lost friends to suicide, two of them my besties at the time.
I've been close myself, but never stepped over the line.
There's always hope somewhere.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 23:06, Reply)

I had a bit of a breakdown last week and have been spiralling since. I've had issues with anxiety before, never bad enough to medicate, but this time I've been really bad, anxiety, depression, panic attacks, the whole nine yards. It took me until this morning to even call my best mate - who has been through similar in the past - which is fucking ridculous.
I think we're better than we used to be about talking about this stuff, but it's still stupidly difficult to make that call, even though I expect the majority of my friends have their own issues.
Anyway, feeling a bit more human now, and have a doctor's appointment next week.
God bless internet anonymity
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 11:16, Reply)

Been there too and felt stupid and guilty for doing so but you're not alone and lots of people love you.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 13:29, Reply)

just accept you're feeling it with a detached acknowledgement, like it's your haemorroid playing up again. something that will be unpleasant but won't kill you. it's just feelings. you recognise it, and developing the self-awarenes to recognise when you're catastrophising because of it is also part of that, but you'll find ways to function despite it while you slowly wait for your equilibrium to eventually return.
I'm afraid that's all we're got time for. If you'd like to book another session, speak to frida on the way out
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 13:36, Reply)

Playing with mam’s dog always did the trick for me. Cooking something nice for myself too.
And stay away from booze; it does more harm than good.
Stay strong b3ta buddy.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 14:27, Reply)

The meds will be interesting, don't lose hope if the first ones don't cut it. It takes time to find a suitable one, same for therapists.
You will survive this, most people do.
Be kind to yourself.
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but the hardest part of getting better is asking for help, and you’ve done that bit! Yay! Go you! etc
Meds might work for you, they might not. Personally I found them useful to get me the space/capacity to find a therapist, and that talking to a professional was what really helped me.
My GP said two things that stuck with me:
“Treatments are like trying on jeans. Some of them fit, some of them don’t, but you can always try a different pair”
“Therapy is like going through your pockets, working out what’s rubbish you can throw away, what’s a credit card receipt you need to deal with, and what’s a treasured item you need to hang on to”
Good luck, I hope you get the help you need, and can come out with lighter pockets.
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High security a fact of life for UK's Jews living in fear of attack

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I don't mean to kvetch, but as if that granny in the middle could kick the crap out of an attacker.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 15:26, Reply)

Woman spots Diet Coke in clearance section at Morrisons and is floored by price

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that you're having more success copypasting unexpurgated LLM-generated slop into your articles than you possibly would using what's left of your own brain.
Fuck me.
Edit:After taking a look at her other articles, I'm questioning whether she's a real person at all...
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used to know quite a few, print and tv. None of the them are still working as journos.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 1:02, Reply)

Slop videos are regularly snuck into my feed. Robot voice, aimless repetitive script saying odd things and mispronouncing words and names than no expert or enthusiast ever would... Filler text consisting of cliches and dead end tangents... It's not always super easy to spot the stuff instantly, which is annoying.
Occasionally a friend will try to talk to me about something astronomical and increasingly the stuff they tell me is complete bollocks from a slop video.
YT is fully on board and is actively encouraging content creators to make this crap, according to Universe Today. We need a human-only alternative.
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See what you can see. The landscape has changed.
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Ironically, Kurzgesagt's tiresome voice over and mismatched synthetic music always sounded artificial
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I learned two things from this video:
1) How to pronounce Kurzgesagt.
2) You can persuade 4.5m people to voluntarily watch a twelve minute advert for a calendar.
( , Wed 8 Oct 2025, 17:55, Reply)

also a lot of righteous anger about stealing the work of creative people in a video which does not have a single original defining element. Everything in this is drawn from the work and ideas of others who came before. I don't think it's any better than the thing it criticizes.
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Yes, almost everything builds on what has gone before, with humans making attempts to verify, the current iteration of 'AI' doesn't seem to differentiate much between established fact and opinion/propaganda/conspiracy bollocks.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:28, Reply)

At first I thought the whole 'I asked ChatGPT and...' was a joke, but it turns out that they're genuinely fact checking everything via LLM's instead of researching and verifying things independently. A huge number of these kids have completely lost the inability/incentive to think for themselves because ChatGPT is giving them that instant hit in much the same way as their short-form infinite-scrolling social media platforms do.
I suppose you could argue that it's no worse than our generation relying on Wikipedia as a reliable source of information, but something about this seems far more portentous.
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Stock Aitken and Waterman flooded the music world with slop. It's just the amount of slop.
AI can generate slop in sufficient quantities to drown out genuinely creative humans. It's already pretty much there in science papers.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 1:11, Reply)

It was derived from Motown and acid house and is actually rather well written in some cases. Not being to your taste doesn't make it slop.
You are also trying to equate truth with art. Art slop is not the same problem as fake news/science/history.
( , Thu 9 Oct 2025, 16:15, Reply)

I think I have trained my algorithm to give me old clips I can't believe are not GC
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 15:26, Reply)

but I'll give it a click anyways...
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 13:44, Reply)

Pretty sure this must have appeared on here at some point in the past...it used to regularly be shown on the screens in the main room at Jilly's Rockworld rock club in Manchester.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 8:28, Reply)

But based on the previous comments, I ain't risking that......Go well, young Paduan thingummyjig.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 12:35, Reply)

That channel has a really good collection of stolen cult movies. Just needs Alex Cox to introduce each one.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 14:41, Reply)

don't recall them ever doing 'Man bites Dog' or ' Black Emmanuelle II' though
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 20:52, Reply)

Besides, a man discussing his feelings with his talking penis is probably woke. Somehow.
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Might have been me that linked it, I forget.
Anyway, enjoy the candles and keep your dick out of holes in the wall, no matter how inviting they may seem.
Oh, and avoid camel priests; they’re all duplicitous, conniving bastards.
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We all knew it, here is a thorough take down of why it is
Why do LLMs freak out over the seahorse emoji?
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And I'd love to be able to put in enough time to understand it, but alas the list of things I want to to is only getting shorter because I'm starting to realise I'm unlikely to be physically capable of ever doing them!
I even suspect a pull-up might be out of the question...
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And will all blow over soon enough.
Do what makes you happy
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But at some age it's going to be physically impossible to train enough to do a pull-up. Would that count as a disability? I guess you could argue it does but I doubt I'd get a blue badge!
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 17:42, Reply)

It was trained to people stuff so it makes people fuckups
It should have been trained on dogs or a nice cup of tea.
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earthspecies.org
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Many of them seem genuinely surprised when reality-based people take the piss out of them for it.
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1973 documentary about Britains most remote lighthouse
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Much respect to them for doing that.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 23:59, Reply)

Now I want a life size, badly cut-out car, to appear 'shopped on streetview.
( , Mon 6 Oct 2025, 22:21, Reply)

blocks RightMove, but allows me to come and visit B3ta. WTF?
I'm not going to complain about it though...
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 10:31, Reply)

They seem to have deleted the good one. It looked a lot like that one up there ^
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 20:29, Reply)

But not that much worse than some of the interior photo staging.
( , Tue 7 Oct 2025, 21:30, Reply)

Too many of these listings using images with low-distortion super-wide angle lenses that make pokey one-bed studio flats look like sweeping penthouses.
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