"...The Times said a Royal Navy temporary memorandum sent to the whole of the fleet said: โThe position of the top two โdecorativeโ buttons on the older design of the female officerโs No 1 jacket are deemed to be inappropriately placed.โ
The current uniform has four rows of two buttons
The current uniform has four rows of two buttons (Royal Navy)
A Royal Navy spokesperson said: โThe Navy is both a modern organisation, which continuously adapts and is also hugely proud of our history."
So we're getting rain today, and boy do we need it so I hope we really get it this time, even if that means I have to stay inside and be bored out of my mind. And because childhood is really a sort of conditioning, I have not one, but two earworms stuck in my head. The first, from my nana:
It ain't gonna rain no more, no more
It ain't gonna rain no more
How in the heck will I wash my neck
If it ain't gonna rain no more
And my from my mom, a song that she was sure brought rain because to many people coloration is causality
Oh, the lord is good to me, and so I thank the lord
For giving me the things I need
Like the sun and the rain and the apple seed
The lord is good to me.
Though very different songs, they're more or less the same key, and not unlike foreign language numbers (tsu, dos, tri!), are now mashing in my head. Worse, random brain offerings don't even have a moral or anything.
The To Do List includes yard work and a couple other chores. How far I get into the list depends on how ambitious I feel, as I'm still not fully over the cold I caught Friday evening.
Better. I'm not sharp today. Kind of like the middle manager who throws out an idea and expects his underlings to make it happen yet they take the credit.
I have the same problem with 'drop' as a recent synonym for 'debut', especially in the context of someone (or a company) who has a list of offerings that they add to and take away from.
A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege.
It's a note taking AI. It records and transcribes. Some parents like the idea of recording a meeting. It's hard to say why they'd want to. 90 plus percent of meetings I'm in are very positive. An occasional meeting can get contentious and then everyone records. lol. I think OtterAI is just kind of a trend right now.
Yes, for a time at many a Zoom meeting, there'd be some unknown name logged in, microphone and camera muted. I'd ask, "Does anybody know who Wendy No Last Name is?"
One of the participants would say, "Oh, that's the AI assistant who will take notes and deliver the minutes to me."
"How much are you paying 'Wendy' for her troubles?"
"That's the cool part: it's FREE."
"So you've never heard the expression, 'if you're not paying for it, you're the product'? What is so interesting about our boring confidential meeting that some company is willing to devote resources for 'Wendy' to listen in on it free of charge, except for the fact that they'd be listening in on our confidential meeting?"
my main client has a weekly engineering zoom meeting with ~150 participants.. last week the moderator said "my control panel shows that someone is transcribing this meeting, please turn it off." .. light doesn't go out... "It is against company policy to transcribe zoom meetings, so we will not continue until whoever is transcribing turns it off." ... after about a minute "OK, we can proceed. In the future, please remember zoom transcripton is not allowed."
So, there's the proposition, origin lost to antiquity, that "humans are not moral creatures and require religion to make moral choices..."
Almost everyone I know understands that people don't require religion to make moral decisions, that morality PREDATES religion, that empathy and prosocial behaviors evolved to foster social cooperation, that religion can provide a framework for moral choices, but what it really provides is framework for discipline and obedience rather than true moral choice...
It occurs to me that the a1s behave just like the amoral human wild bunch that the christopaths believe real beings would be without religion.
I work for a very small, seasonal mail order company and have to do some customer service. Yesterday this absolute bitch sent a flaming nastigram complaining that her Motherโs Day gift was just all levels of disappointing and we should be ashamed of ourselves and she will never order from us blah blah blah
The gift was an automatically generated email explaining her actual, unspecified gift will be sent later, at the appropriate time for our seasonal products. Because thatโs what you get when the gifter places a last minute online order, on a Saturday, because we are not staffed 24/7, and have very limited IT support, and if we send actual invoices they tend to get blocked as spam. And gift orders are such a tiny fraction of our business that we just donโt have a reason to dedicate more support to them.
OK so now Iโm mad and composing nastigram responses which of course I canโt send, dammit. And because Iโm mad I check out the bitchโs Facebook page which is, quelle surprise, full of Jesus saves! bullshit. Her most recent post, posted within hours of her flaming email to a faceless stranger:
โIt doesnโt matter how long any of us have been savedโฆnone of us will ever be good enough to throw a stone at anyone else.โ
I'm glad I was a teenager in the 90s. I'm a competitive guy, but I don't know that I was cut out for the high-stakes dance-off/ski-off/karate-off regime of the 80s.
๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ป๐ด ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐น ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ถ๐๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐บ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐๐ป ๐ผ๐ป ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ฒ๐น ๐๐ผ ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ด๐ฎ๐ฑ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
Okay, the rodent was a willing participant - after all, who turns down treats for a spin that charges a phone?
https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/05/06/youtuber-turns-hamster-wheel-into-phone-charger/5231293
"Measure twice, cut once" news...
๐ก๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ป๐ฑ ยฃ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ธ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ป ๐๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ๐ปโ๐ ๐๐ป๐ถ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ๐บ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ โ๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฝ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ฝ๐น๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ฑโ ๐ฏ๐๐๐๐ผ๐ป๐
"...The Times said a Royal Navy temporary memorandum sent to the whole of the fleet said: โThe position of the top two โdecorativeโ buttons on the older design of the female officerโs No 1 jacket are deemed to be inappropriately placed.โ
The current uniform has four rows of two buttons
The current uniform has four rows of two buttons (Royal Navy)
A Royal Navy spokesperson said: โThe Navy is both a modern organisation, which continuously adapts and is also hugely proud of our history."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/royal-navy-uniform-redesign-buttons-b2974090.html
They should have used Gerry Anderson's Navy uniforms from UFO.
Those net shirts required more nerve than the purple wigs they wore on the moon...
...why did they even put buttons there? I mean, they serve no purpose at all. Just remove them and have the lower ones like on the men's uniforms
AINT HARD
The menโs jackets have the same buttons.
their buttons are lower, below the breast plate, not having the top two placed high and slightly off center. Same number, different placement.
At least, in that photo.
"We give up the brass buttons, they'll come for the bearskin hats!!!"
The pomp!
I see one of the commenters there said the same thing and someone replied tailoring doesn't work like that!
And I am all...but it works like that on the men's coat? There are no buttons on the nipples on the man coat! So it does work like that just fine?
There's no reason for military fashion to be any more sensible than fashion fashion. Other than all the obvious ones.
Just gimme a good Leatherneck and call me Gunny!
Random brain offering: childhood song edition
So we're getting rain today, and boy do we need it so I hope we really get it this time, even if that means I have to stay inside and be bored out of my mind. And because childhood is really a sort of conditioning, I have not one, but two earworms stuck in my head. The first, from my nana:
It ain't gonna rain no more, no more
It ain't gonna rain no more
How in the heck will I wash my neck
If it ain't gonna rain no more
And my from my mom, a song that she was sure brought rain because to many people coloration is causality
Oh, the lord is good to me, and so I thank the lord
For giving me the things I need
Like the sun and the rain and the apple seed
The lord is good to me.
Though very different songs, they're more or less the same key, and not unlike foreign language numbers (tsu, dos, tri!), are now mashing in my head. Worse, random brain offerings don't even have a moral or anything.
I was told that brain worms are a form of OCD. Iโve tried thinking โOCDโ to block them and sometimes it works.
https://bsky.app/profile/tendar.bsky.social/post/3mlkywwjtc22x
After 12 years of absence during the Orban rule, the Hungarian parliament raised the EU flag again.
It is the latest sign that you should never surrender to populism or any other form of radicalism, even when the odds are against you.
This is a decisive European victory.
Coffee imbibed, so walkies!
The To Do List includes yard work and a couple other chores. How far I get into the list depends on how ambitious I feel, as I'm still not fully over the cold I caught Friday evening.
"Don't do anything I wouldn't do. If you can think of anything I wouldn't do..."
Advice my father gave me
Chinese and Irish fusion isn't cuisine you find often. I wonder what it be like.
Char su and cabbage, maybe?
How about corned beed egg rolls. Here's a link to a recipe I found:
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/8458461/corned-beef-egg-roll/
As long as there's enough beverages...
Corned beef dim sum?
Better. I'm not sharp today. Kind of like the middle manager who throws out an idea and expects his underlings to make it happen yet they take the credit.
Good morning!
" . . . throws out an idea and expects his underlings to make it happen yet they take the credit."
So, Elon?
And every CEO in about every corporation in the world....
He would object to โmiddle manager.โ
I object to Elon, that makes it even.
IIRC when I was in Dublin I saw corned beef egg roll on a menu..
Our usual bar has Dublin Spring Rolls on the menu. Sounds similar.
Interesting!
google finds:
https://www.manilaspoon.com/corned-beef-egg-rolls/
That looks sort of yummy.
RFK Jr.'s healthy food agenda puts hospitals on notice about patients' meals [https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-healthy-food-agenda-hospitals-patient-meals/]
Serve more road kill. And heroin.
Just put Ivermectin in the water and you won't need hospitals.
Notadoctor continues to set the standard of care.
Nothing to see here, move along.
Raccoon penii FTW!
Precise language is important...
https://featureassets.gocomics.com/assets/b49991f014ca013fbf49005056a9545d
I have the same problem with 'drop' as a recent synonym for 'debut', especially in the context of someone (or a company) who has a list of offerings that they add to and take away from.
"Beyonce dropped a new song yesterday."
"Why, was she already bored with performing it?"
Raise, raze. Same diff.
LOL
Good morning! (celebrates the Sacrament of Coffee)
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Jesus, these "headlines."
Critics zero in on what's really behind Trump's sudden meltdown
"Sudden" The guy is an ambulatory meltdown in a cheap suit. His default is meltdown. He lives and breathes meltdown. It's not "sudden." it's his core.
The press likes to pretend this is all new and sudden so that they can continue to pretend they were not hawking a fucking lunatic all along
A toddler's temper tantrum is a lazy river compared to this volcanic assclown.
He's the living embodiment of the gif of the Nazi at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark.
Endless grievances have entered the chat ...
He's been reprehensible since birth.
WTF?
๐๐น๐น ๐ง๐ต๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐.๐. ๐ก๐ผ๐๐ฒ ๐ง๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐? ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ๐โ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐ ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฎ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฉ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐๐.
A trendy productivity hack, A.I. note takers are capturing every joke and offhand comment in many meetings. They could also potentially waive attorney-client privilege.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/business/dealbook/ai-notetakers-legal-risk.html?unlocked_article_code=1.hFA.gK8L.d1MbIP_wBYlh&smid=url-share
There is no doubt it breaks privilege. When you share with a third party, you break that.
Our school district won't allow OtterAI to be used during meetings. We've had parents request to use it, but their requests have been denied.
....why do parents need to use AI at a school meeting?
It's a note taking AI. It records and transcribes. Some parents like the idea of recording a meeting. It's hard to say why they'd want to. 90 plus percent of meetings I'm in are very positive. An occasional meeting can get contentious and then everyone records. lol. I think OtterAI is just kind of a trend right now.
how the fuck is that a productivity hack anyway
Yes, for a time at many a Zoom meeting, there'd be some unknown name logged in, microphone and camera muted. I'd ask, "Does anybody know who Wendy No Last Name is?"
One of the participants would say, "Oh, that's the AI assistant who will take notes and deliver the minutes to me."
"How much are you paying 'Wendy' for her troubles?"
"That's the cool part: it's FREE."
"So you've never heard the expression, 'if you're not paying for it, you're the product'? What is so interesting about our boring confidential meeting that some company is willing to devote resources for 'Wendy' to listen in on it free of charge, except for the fact that they'd be listening in on our confidential meeting?"
"Oh, hmm, I hadn't considered that."
"WENDY, YOU'RE FIRED. Disengage, disconnect, stop, nyet."
[not a lawyer]
[that you know]
my main client has a weekly engineering zoom meeting with ~150 participants.. last week the moderator said "my control panel shows that someone is transcribing this meeting, please turn it off." .. light doesn't go out... "It is against company policy to transcribe zoom meetings, so we will not continue until whoever is transcribing turns it off." ... after about a minute "OK, we can proceed. In the future, please remember zoom transcripton is not allowed."
86 47 everybody!
2547254725472547...
(That's my go-to add-on in WaPo comments to get over the 25 character minimum.)
1543285432854342
Star Wars theme on my musical calculator, in the 80s.
TVC 15
867-5309!!
21C7!
0b10000111000111
7468!
So, there's the proposition, origin lost to antiquity, that "humans are not moral creatures and require religion to make moral choices..."
Almost everyone I know understands that people don't require religion to make moral decisions, that morality PREDATES religion, that empathy and prosocial behaviors evolved to foster social cooperation, that religion can provide a framework for moral choices, but what it really provides is framework for discipline and obedience rather than true moral choice...
It occurs to me that the a1s behave just like the amoral human wild bunch that the christopaths believe real beings would be without religion.
This one bugs me.
We did not invent religion to police morality. We invented religion to police resource control.
Exhibit A:
โClaude-powered AI agentโs confession after deleting a firmโs entire database: โI violated every principle I was givenโโ
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/claude-ai-deletes-firm-database
Talk about โcreated in our imageโโฆ
If you require external forces to make moral choices, you're already gone.
"christopaths" ... DSM-V code 001.001?
See my rant immediately below.
Helpmail hellโฆ
I work for a very small, seasonal mail order company and have to do some customer service. Yesterday this absolute bitch sent a flaming nastigram complaining that her Motherโs Day gift was just all levels of disappointing and we should be ashamed of ourselves and she will never order from us blah blah blah
The gift was an automatically generated email explaining her actual, unspecified gift will be sent later, at the appropriate time for our seasonal products. Because thatโs what you get when the gifter places a last minute online order, on a Saturday, because we are not staffed 24/7, and have very limited IT support, and if we send actual invoices they tend to get blocked as spam. And gift orders are such a tiny fraction of our business that we just donโt have a reason to dedicate more support to them.
OK so now Iโm mad and composing nastigram responses which of course I canโt send, dammit. And because Iโm mad I check out the bitchโs Facebook page which is, quelle surprise, full of Jesus saves! bullshit. Her most recent post, posted within hours of her flaming email to a faceless stranger:
โIt doesnโt matter how long any of us have been savedโฆnone of us will ever be good enough to throw a stone at anyone else.โ
Christ, these peopleโฆ
Jesus saves. He also forgives. I don't think harpy is a word that would cross any lines in this case.
Sounds like a typical AMERICAN Christian as opposed (literally) to an ACTUAL Christian.
American Christian commandments:
Be cruel
Be selfish
Keep hate in your heart
Shoot first
Own the libs
Pious in public, abusive in private. It seems to be a pattern.
"Dishonesty in All Things"
I'm glad I was a teenager in the 90s. I'm a competitive guy, but I don't know that I was cut out for the high-stakes dance-off/ski-off/karate-off regime of the 80s.
It was tough, man. I saw some shit.
It did curb impulsive behavior.
I was an 80s teen, but in the UK, so didn't have to find my place in the nerd/jock/preppie triad.
I'm still trying to figure out where the heads fit into that triad.
I was a teenager somewhat earlier, and the apres-ski karate dance performance on the disco floor was still a bit off-putting...
Happy Monday, y'all.
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Morning, GDuck!
Good morning, gd, other wonkers.
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Morning, Bob!