Off to IKEA. And as Ian Malcolm might say of IKEA visits: Oh 'ooh aah', that's how it all starts. Then there's running, and then screaming...

It is (coz joke is clever and layered )

I have assumed this for some time, but we are seeing it play out in real time.

Yeah, my daughter is not a fan for these reason, esp the audience participation lines

It’s a fact. Data from three decades of political violence reveals that right-wing terror attacks outnumber attacks from the left. And it’s not even close!

Friday, I am indeed fried. How prescient of you.

Looks like a Trump impersonator

I’m going to successfully unlock the 8th gate of death like Guy Sensei in Naruto and destroy my body through Taijutsu. Write it up because that’s way more plausible than this dogshit

May today be the sort of day where you really get your weds and your neses in a row.

Oxford has been around since 1096. Imagine tossing almost a thousand years of academic reputation into the garbage, setting it on fire, and then pissing it out over a useless fucking plagiarism machine what loses billions of dollars a year telling people to kill themselves.

It’s time to check the USAID cut death toll. It’s over half a million now.

Today is the anniversary of my mum's death from ovarian cancer. Using this as an excuse to tell you to go get checked. Tell your friends, your sisters, your wives, your mums, anyone in your life with ovaries. It's the most deadly cancer, you only start showing symptoms when it's too late.

“Nuthatch trio”. Coloured pencil on cotton paper. In honour of the red-breasted nuthatches who are filling our local ravine this month with their insistent little voices. #Birds #SciArt #WildlifeArt

The Hollywood Reporter just published a nice oral history of Ron Howard's Apollo 13 (1995) by @aaroncouch.bsky.social I recommend that all fans of this film read this article, but in the meantime, here are some good quotes. 🖖 1/18

21 September 1916 | Czech Jewish woman, Hilda Bergmannová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from Theresienstadt ghetto on 18 December 1943. She did not survive.

Me every school week night

Today I had two people say lovely things about what I do here and my heart is full ☺️😊 It's a great way to bring a little joy to the world. Maybe give it a try #birds 🌿

Mini marsupial bounces back from the brink! Once listed as Endangered, the crest-tailed mulgara expanded its range by more than 48,000 km² between 2015 and 2021, lifting its status to Least Concern. Biocontrol contributed to the heartwarming bounce-back. https://f.mtr.cool/afllseseeb

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

I collected some materials on critical AI from my perspective; hope it's useful: olivia.science/ai "CAIL is as an umbrella for all the prerequisite knowledge required to have an expert-level critical perspective, such as to tell apart nonsense hype from true theoretical computer scientific claims"

I scream, you scream, we all scream cuz it’s all fucked. So very, very fucked.

Good metric

When you're checking the Hummingbird feeders and you make best friends with hummers you could reach out and touch you sneak a cell phone up carefully. The first two photos were after she landed inches from my nose and we watched each other before pics were attempted. 🪶

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Only fascists designate anti-fascists as terrorists.

Where the “insensitive comments” were a reasonable summation of the behaviour or republicans

this is quite genuinely insane, and I want to believe the backlash to this will be severe

Sometimes 2025 just feels like a lot, and you need an excuse to celebrate your fabulous team (and the whole exoplanet community!) reaching a new milestone… Happy 6,000 Confirmed Exoplanets Day, everybody!!!! (You may recognize the narrator of the video at the link! 🫣) www.nasa.gov/universe/exo...

Why does he look like spoilt child annoyed that his Xmas day Optimus Prime isn’t gold plated?

Dress for the job you want, not the job you have

Small worlds https://botfrens.com/collections/74/contents/22560

These pasty fascist motherfuckers really have like, three goddam ideas, total, don't they? bsky.app/profile/prop...

I've always loved court artists. This interview with the woman who drew Erin Patterson is a fascinating insight into the trade. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

EVERYONE STOP cheese wheel of cheeses

Maybe infinite content was a bad idea.

tuna

whoah

Only just realised this evening that the rear brake lights on Hyundai Santa Fe 2013 look like pterosaur heads. Particularly with the “lower jaw” taillight lit up at night. (This is an you tube image found after but trust me that the IRL look is quite striking).

Meanjin only cost UniMelb $220k a year?! This is CHUMP CHANGE in such an institution. The whole thing is infuriating. I haven’t accepted its end. Won’t somebody please tell me it’ll exist again somehow www.theguardian.com/books/commen...

Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.

Lmao at this open letter to the Unimelb VC proposing she pay for Meanjin with a 10% salary sacrifice that would still leave her better paid than the VC of the University of Cambridge It was my joy to sign, & I recommend doing so to all in the world of arts & letters

I’m not being condescending I’m just trying to be nice while also thinking you suck

This is great news Sesame Street is the last remnant of the idea that television could educate and uplift kids and instruct them on how to be decent citizens and make them feel understood rather than persecuted It needs to be where everyone can see it

Heartbreaking: The fifth worst company in the world may destroy the third worst.

There is something unspeakably terrible but also hilarious that in the future historians are going to have to teach people about the time the government used a kid named Big Balls as an excuse to invade an American city with feds and national guardsmen

Au govt: over half billion dollar payout for letting algorithms make (bad) decisions that adversely and unfairly affect people’s welfare. Also the Au govt apparently if current rhetoric is to be believed: let’s go all in on “AI”.

The Guardian has today printed the names, and where possible, images, of all the media workers killed in Gaza, as part of an international day of action involving more than 150 media organisations. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

they’ll just move him to a different parish and he’ll do it again

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

Good thread