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My eldest (8) recently got a Monopoly game set and has been enjoying learning how to play, and then ruthlessly beat me the first two times we played!
Finally today I managed to turn the tables and beat him, after a game that looked like it was going his way for the first half. Muahaaha.3
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Leave mothers alone. She literally has more time to spend with her children because shes being helped with the mental load. There are zillion reasons to criticize AI. This is not one of them.Possum Acquainter
possumacquainter.bsky.socialthis person's defense of AI boils down to "i want to think about my children less, and this robot allows me to do so"13
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I recently rebuilt my spreadsheet that tracks our monthly outgoings. It calculates your emergency savings, and checks if your spending fits the 50/30/20 rule. Categories mirror Monzo's, so you can cross-reference against your actual spending.
Sounds useful? Clone it here:
ajames.dev/budget-templ...Template: Financial Monthly Breakdown
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I'm on Day 3 of my doing-nothing-but-copy-edit-review writing-cave work period to finalize my second book and I'm fixing up little bits of tone and wording and the absolute best I can do to describe how I know if a sentence needs to get fixed is when it makes my brain itchy.
Language is weird, man.18
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One of the easiest ways to stand out when writing or creating videos or posting:
DONT. USE. AI.
Suddenly you sound distinctively different from 80%+ ppl who do and output the same verbose + nicely formatted stuff that feels all the same (+ most ppl stop paying attention midway)3
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