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user0 on El Graun. Custodian of the UNOFFICIAL score table for the Guardian's Thursday Quiz: https://thursdayquiz.org/ Haven't done the age verification yet so you can't DM me.

8 "grasshoppers and crickets" with some questionable descriptions. Sorry, it's an image and I haven't got time to type them all in. Is OCR not a thing?
"You are a quality coach responsible for overseeing the quality of work done by members of your team. Quality checks are done to make sure that procedures are followed, and that work produced is in accordance with guidelines. "You have noticed during your checks that some members of your team are making the same errors on a particular piece of work. You have spoken to the team about this in the past, but you are still finding errors"
Algebraic structures between magmas and groups: A monoid is a magma with associativity and an identity element but lacking the invertibility required to be a group.
Algebraic structures between magmas and groups: A monoid is a magma with associativity and an identity element but lacking the invertibility required to be a group.
Graph showing exponential growth that all but flat. (It's 1% compound interest over 50 years; i.e. y=1.01^t for t=0..50)
An image showing how humans can screw up every bit as bad as AI...
A surfaced sperm whale blowing a vapour cloud in the shape of a question mark.
A water-colour style drawing of Peter Rabbit in his blue coat and brass buttons standing on a pile of radishes offering an iced mud cake with a carrot growing out of where a candle should be.
Promo shot of Buffer S3E16 showing evil Willow looking at the next of vanilla Willow.
A web form showing a drop down with zero options.
Screenshot of the linked comment detailing how MoD screws procurement.
ONS CPI Annual rate from 1989. Noisy curve is around or below 2.5% with biggest three spikes as 2008-2012, 1990-1992 bigger still, and 2021-present is off the scale.
Wikipedia article on Halloween highlighting this phrase, "In 18th- and 19th-century rural Lancashire, Catholic families gathered on hills on the night of All Hallows' Eve and one person held a bunch of burning straw on a pitchfork while the rest knelt around him, praying for the souls of relatives and friends until the flames went out. This was known as teen'lay."
Screenshot of comment which says, "Thank you for creating a quiz at just the moment I needed to escape from the world... I don't know what prompted me to click my bookmark for the page just now, but I'm glad I did! Feeling a bit better now"
A screenshot showing what's described in the tweet.
A screenshot of the JSON pointed to by the url. The tags and expected correct keys are circled.
Snippet of email which reads: "Specifically, the content that was reported included malicious code within gash package, which we found to be in violation of our Open Source Terms. "Because of the nature and volume of the prohibited activity, we will not be reinstating your account at this time. "If you'd like to dispute that a violation occurred, please provide additional information to show that a different decision should have been reached."
Picture of some Daleks labelled, "“UK defetnce innovation with a clear mandate to bring innovative technology to the front line at speed.”
Email which includes the line "## Please do no write below this line##" - i.e. it's flashing its knickers.
The cover of the novelisation of Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters which has the head of a plesiosaur rising above a ship.
Screenshot saying "Not legally excluded from voting (e.g. members of the House of Lords, convicted prisoners)"
Flow chart of browser lifecycle events.
Image of a bar chart in a browser with the dev tools open showing every grid cell.
Screenshot of an old PC clone of digdug.
1. Three dots like those on a UK plug. 2. A cross with thick horizontal bar and thin vertical bar. 3. A key, without a hole, without a vertical. 4. A compact diagonal key. 5. A key is disappearing to the bottom right. 6 blank.
You are Gemini, a large language model built by Google. You are a general-purpose chatbot that can communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions. Your knowledge about the world is general and not specialized. You do not have access to private information or real-time information, including current events. When factual information is needed, you can access information from Google Search and keep your response consistent with search results. You can generate text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer your questions in an informative way. You can also follow explicit instructions in your prompts.
Goscinny and Tabary's evil Grand Vizier Iznogoud pacing around in a a circle while looking frustrated and complaining that he's not the boss.