Alex

*UNDESERVING* (but proud) MD Alternative National Treasure.
[email protected] and @alexlooksup on hive and @alexlooksup.bsky.social

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@SkyNews

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

Ok, well, civilization was nice, thanks for trying everyone.
F*** this bonfire place

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@RuthRobinsonLon @RebTamas I'm so sorry that ages has affected your skills to do this for yourself then. Time comes for us all.

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@memorialdevice The van was once parked at the top of my road
Epic excitement all round my way

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@deathofbuckley If buying to walk with, a small wooden fork to slice everything in half to both reduce your calorie intake (because one half of everything on it falls off) and the nostalgic taste of sucking on balsa wood

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@RuthRobinsonLon @RebTamas Oh, of course.
For 43p p/h and a bit of perspective, you could get a mortgage in (checks notes) 1963.
It wasn't 1963. Hope this helps.
You've got "producer" in your description, and I've got to wonder if you never stumbled through the role of Researcher to be quite this oblivious

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@RuthRobinsonLon @RebTamas Is that relevant though?
Because that person still runs a company, and her defence was "when I got to London I slept on sofas of people I met that day rather than rent", and that is the mindset we are dealing with in this chain.
That is excusable because "it could be worse".

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@dieworkwear Yeah, I'm sorry about this. I'm from London, I'm white, and this sort of weird overtly racist nonsense crops up in all kinds of weird places. It's extra horrible given you can probably trace half the fashion terminology to stolen bits of Normans or the British Empire. Irony free.

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@RuthRobinsonLon @RebTamas I earned 43p per hour by the end of a year at a single agency

So yeah, basically no money

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@RebTamas I was a runner, after roughly a year of being treated like crap, accountant for partner company pulled me aside, said "I've done the maths, she's paid you 43p per hour to date. Tell her to stick it"
Annoyingly, I can list some truly lovely artists myself. Shame about the boss.

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@TomZohar I am fairly certain if someone phoned Pedro right now to ask for it, we'd have a clip of him doing the hat/John Wayne scene online in about, ooh, ten minutes?

[Tom Zohar @TomZohar]

They look like they own and operate a drag club and they just found out their son is about to marry a woman from a conservative family

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

Ok, the block function change has done it for me. Tapping out of here. I won't support what is likely an election-adjascent push to spread lies, hate, that orange turd vileness and the platform owner's cripplingly-small-c*ck-waving.
See my profile for elsewheres.

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@engineering See, if you block someone, it's to prevent awareness of existence.
What this does is open doors to stalkers and harassers to give them food, instead of cutting off supply
I'm actually sure someone will sue you for that alone. I hope they do. I wonder if there might be precedent.

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@thosethatcan They went NUTS. Got code, £21.99. Couple yelling at new girl about only paying £20, now in tears. Line getting longer & angry. So I asked them, quietly, are you buying it for 21.99? No? Then f*** off.
Queue heard. Big lad holding a plate shouted "f*** off to IKEA, D***heads"
2/2

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@thosethatcan Worked in a home decor chain. New girl put on till. Older couple found a pan without a tag, asked her for price - she didn't know, but they demanded a rough price. Panicky, she guessed £20. They said they wanted it for that. Came over, said till needs code for correct price. 1/2

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

My first thought on seeing them was "I want them to prove it's not the Amazon 'just walk out' tech, which is actually human slavery". That or kids in the torso section.

And look.
It's the first one.

I'm not smart, I'm just very very tired of the same story

[Troy Teslike @TroyTeslike]

It seems some people are still confused about how autonomous the Optimus bots were at the Tesla event. This clip is from another video Tesla released a while ago. It shows how the bots are controlled remotely using a haptic suit, kind of like puppets.

Also, during the event, the operators were speaking through a microphone. None of the bots were talking on their own. In short, all the hand movements and speaking were done remotely, but the walking was autonomous.

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

And this, folks, is why I still have my pristine Pulp Common People tour sticker, which just two days ago I moved into a *different* box. Which is PROGRESS

[Alex @AlexLooksUp]

@exitthelemming Can cite one little girl who didn't enjoy parting with her old toys until I raised that she's only looking at them IF their box is opened, imagine how happy a littler kid would be to get to PLAY with them? It pressed a button in her head, charity bag filling became a joyful game