The Matchbox Posters Archive is mirroring their incredible collection at the Internet Archive. I've got their thousands of uploads filling up into a dedicated collection - bookmark it for later. archive.org/details/matc...

Kids gonna join FB for the first time

Overcrowded, infrequent buses that people can't use means more traffic on the roads. Many #Melbourne suburbs are crying out for better public transport services. Read the story here: archive.md/recHW

I fed a picture of Andreessen into 3D modelling software, and it refused to believe that his head is really shaped like that so I am making some quick adjustments so it's true to life..

How many Aukus submarines? 8 How many crew on Aukus submarines? 130 Population of Australia in 2040? 30 million How many minutes in 2040? 527,040 Amount of time we'd be able to spend on an Aukus submarine each year if we all took it in turns? 527,040/30m *8*130 = 18 minutes.

Blog: All the way from the pre-web internet, here's my 30+ year old ASCII map of the #Melbourne rail network (with a modern update!) danielbowen.com/2026...

if you didn't see it in today's sizzle - heads up that I am returning to writing it full time next week as @cameronwilson.bsky.social gets on the tools as a dedicated AI reporter for the ABC! good time to sign up for a free trial of the sizzle btw thesizzle.com.au

Taxpayers could fund up to $300 million in damages payments to three NSW wind farms if a major new electricity cable project is not completed on time. www.afr.com/policy/energ...

Banger story here on Apple by @jeremynadel8.bsky.social, after @404media.co revealed last week that the FBI extracted deleted Signal messages from an iPhone because they were saved in the device's push notifications database.

if you're good at writing documentation, please for the love of god come work with me so I don't have to do it - 4 days a week, full remote (Australians and I think NZ only) $100k/yr and a very chill team assemblyfour.com/careers/docu...

100 pages in and it is very boring. Nothing about Musk so far, up to when Agrawal became CEO. Maybe because I was writing about it in the sizzle so often it isn’t new or engaging to me.

very weird time to be a catholic right now and there have been some weird moments in catholicism over the years

Sydney is so much better at public transport than Melbourne, it’s not even close now

Okay this isn’t really happening anymore so I can tell you how l had “internal ICE sources”: the 3000 very stir-crazy ICE agents were all going wild on Minneapolis Tinder. Local girls would match with them and string them along for intel. They loved to brag about what they were doing all day

Tomb Raider with the 3dfx Glide API patch was pretty sweet though.

Bendigo Bank has signalled a new round of job cuts under two new technology partnerships that will grant the bank increased access to “AI talent”. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...

wrote a blog post trying to understand how local LLMs work so I can (in part 2) run a couple and squeeze as much performance out of them as possible on meager hardware it's 1800 words, no pictures, very boring, i won't blame you if you dont read it blog.decryption.net.au/posts/local_...

Whether you like or hate AI, it’s probably a good idea to do this survey so at least we get a feel for where people are at, people in general, especially Gen Z hate AI, but it seems like devs are the opposite, would love to see how true that is.

cheeky lunchtime library visit

New laptop stickered up! (thanks @othatsraspberry.com, @ismh86.net, @decryption.bsky.social and @jamzy.bsky.social for contributing to my sticker pile over the years)

Forget the pumpkin, check the kei truck

please enjoy this playlist i made instead of going to bed flowerpil.io/playlists/642

And as for (the already unfortunate) Robert Faggetter...

Also a scoop. The health department had to divert ads targeting teens vaping from social media to less effective gaming and audio platforms due to the ban that is currently not working.

this is called chicken/man but Ron Mueck could also have called it “arguing on the internet”

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

the qantas lounge has the smallest bananas I’ve ever seen

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

i dont know if anyone on bluesky is nerdy enough to be taking part in #marchintosh - but if you are and would like some stickers to celebrate, i got you covered stickers.decryption.net.au

Construction workers shouldn’t earn less because teachers are paid shit. The question should be how construction workers have managed to win higher wages from their shitty bosses and why doesn’t Labor pay education workers more (Labor sets public school wages). The answer is industrial action.

Beautiful stamps thanks @decryption.bsky.social

Did... the Victorian government not know if it owned the source code for Myki? lol www.audit.vic.gov.au/report/moder...

this little vintage Mac style NAS case is cool! kinda want one even though I already have a perfectly good home server https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/_mMocrTf

vline fucked up not running any extra footy trains this Sunday and only running a 3-carriage train on the Ballarat line - everyone after melton couldn’t board and if they wait for the next train they’ll probably miss the game (and no guarantee the next train won’t be full either)

we are so back

there’s a home assistant add-on for tracking your sourdough starter lol https://github.com/Matts-Baps/ha-sourdough

tastes like wahoo

totally forgot to mention in today’s issue of the sizzle that I wrote it instead of @cameronwilson.bsky.social - I hope people don’t assume cam had a stroke and wrote the level of crap I did

if you don’t follow me on mastodon, I have been starting up a new business hosting peoples HDDs in my server posted an update to the forum if you’d like to follow along forum.byohdd.net.au/t/10th-march...

dude at the post office had like a dozen missed parcel cards - my brother in Christ use the parcel locker that’s literally in the same car park as the post office

👇👇👇 So yes, this is finally out. We explored how AI chatbots respond to queries that indicate an interest in conspiracy theories – and the results are very mixed. Also, in news that will surprise no-one, Grok is exceptionally terrible, and its “Fun Mode” is spectacularly unfunny. 😫

hard boiled is way too good of a movie to be relegated to Tubi

very convenient for eSafety - less porn on the internet is the aim, you could even say an intended consequence

$50-ish of stickers and stamps, almost $600 of donations to Western Health - thanks everyone!

printing off a batch of these SLOP stickers tonight and posting tomorrow morning - if you'd like some visit slop.decryption.net.au - those of you who ordered last week, yours will be dropped in the mail tomorrow too now that I have stocked up on stamps :)

eBay stamps arrived! Now the people who order stickers from me will get a delightful assortment of old stamps on their delivery (psst https://laptopstickers.store)

none of the cans in this box were dented! (also I love the SPC factory outlets in Geelong & Ballarat - the one in Shepparton is the best but it’s pretty far for me)

Anthropic's Claude became the third most popular app on Apple's Australian App Store today, but is still one spot behind OpenAI's ChatGPT - and two spots behind the El Jannah app lol On Android, Claude is now the fourth most popular app on Google Play in Australia - where ChatGPT remains number one