parents freed a hummingbird from a skylight with a coleus flower attached to a pole

study after study after study shows that literally just handing people money and telling them "do what you want with this" reduces homelessness, increases food security for children, makes it more likely people will find and retain jobs.1

My. Garmin watch keeps telling me every morning that I’ve had a terrible night of sleep and I need to rest today, but also don’t nap too much, but also get some light exercise, but also try to stretch and relax. I think Garmin needs a ‘baby waking through the night’ setting.

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

Australia’s ‘antihero’??

Absolute cultural vandalism

Wild Soundscape I—acrylic spray paint and markers on a vinyl record. #art #seal #music #soundscape #seascape #poscas

Good morning it’s 7am I have already had two coffees can it please be 7pm now thank you.

my new ai device will sit in a beer garden that backs onto a small river and drink three to five pints on a sunny late summer afternoon for you, leaving you free for more meetings and business calls

Every day I look down at my happy, chubby four-month-old and think of babies just like him starving in Gaza. How can this be allowed, how can it continue.

I’m witnessing the deliberate starvation of Gaza’s children – why is the world letting it happen? | Nick Maynard

Look! A planet! It is a land without sadness -- but with curiosity. 3 moons wander worriedly beneath the blood-red star. Maybe you could explore there.

Since when has Centrelink tried to force people to record a voice imprint they can store so you can ‘access your account securely’?

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface. See more images of solar eruptions on the sun: wapo.st/3Irm3P3

Me: I would like to listen to this specific song. Spotify: sure, here’s 30 minutes of ads then every possible song except that one song. How exactly did we get to the point where wanting to listen to music is so impossible?

Everything in the world is more than a bit insane right now so I’m just going to hang out with my three-month-old who loves giggling and chewing everything, and colour in an elephant. That’ll do for now.

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

How is it legal for insurance companies to charge you substantially more if you want to pay your premiums fortnightly or monthly? Hundreds of dollars more for the same product because people might not have thousands of dollars to pay upfront?

Lmao

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

The nicest thing about having a baby around is rediscovering all my favourite childhood books and movies I haven’t read or watched in decades. And so many are now available for cheap online or second hand.

Look! A planet! It is poor and confused. It is just out of reach. If there are judges there, they could smile.

Has anyone written anything about the increasing state-funded privatisation of Australia’s national parks? So many new walks that are promoted now, but all requiring payment. National parks should be national, not user pays to such a degree.

I have paid precisely zero notice to this federal election. I have no regrets.

Small selfish thing but it makes me sad I won’t be able to go back to the US for the near future. I’ve wanted to go back and see friends for years and it was looking more possible, but now there’s not a chance I’d risk it.

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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

US: late imperial psychosis, hegemonic drift, decadent technocracy, elite panic, managed decline, post-legitimacy politics australia:

I’m sorry, what? Since when has a chocolate bunny cost $18??

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

#ausvotes #auspol Do women have a spidey sense? www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Bit hard to sleep tonight, watching the Cyclone Alfred tracking maps and listening to the wind and rain outside.

Volodymyr Zelensky's Oval Office visit ended early when Donald Trump and JD Vance began angrily yelling at him. Here's why women like Kamala Harris and Hillary Clinton are too emotional to be president.

I’ve never watched #mafsau but I’ve read plenty about it. Every time it’s on air, I watch all these reactions about at least one of the men on the show exhibiting abusive, controlling or otherwise concerning behaviour toward one of the women. I really want to know how people can watch it every week.

don’t meet your heros. i finally saw the critters from redwall irl and they don’t even talk. they’re just pissing and shitting everywhere.

Of the Chiefs of Staff, vice chiefs of staff, and judge advocates general of the three branches, Trump fired all the women and Black people.

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lol I knew that dodgy ABC story in the Australian was using the ad-supported Netflix tier in its calculations. www.abc.net.au/about/media-...

Netflix monitor.

It’s so good listening to Sally Sara on RN Breakfast. The breadth and depth of interviews and analysis on international issues is invaluable in this time of … everything.

This is a sewing pattern. It is also a page from a late 14th century manuscript that is one of two primary sources for an important Icelandic saga (Sturlunga saga), but that was probably not important to the 17th century person who really needed a sewing pattern. #upcycling

I bought a couple of items in one purchase from this company in December. Since then they’ve sent me 24 emails. Please make it stop. Why do I have to manually unsubscribe from these constant bombardments of pointless marketing emails?

Oh, to sleep with the total absence of care like these cats.

I’m not recommending people read this. But I am glad it has been written.

Not once have I received a ‘we’d love to know what you think’ email from a company I’ve bought something from and thought ‘yeah, I’ll go onto their website and write a review’. Why do we get bombarded with these emails for the most inane purchases?

incredible -- the NYT ran fluff "what i hope to see in 2025" blurbs from CEOs and economists, and then this guy www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.