The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Verify your age I stood on our balcony one night to watch Halley's comet through my dad's binoculars.

🕯️Manifesting 🕯️

In honor of her death anniversary today (July 8th, Flossie Wong-Staal, a Chinese-American woman, was a part of the team who discovered HIV and she was the first to clone HIV, fully genetically mapping it, enabling HIV tests to exist & large-scale screening of donated blood. She saved countless lives

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

I may (almost?) have been scammed today. If you receive what appears to be an Evite from me for a “celebration”, trash it without touching it and report it as a scam.

oh no sorry to hear that you’re not legally a person anymore. so anyway, we still on track to get this PR landed by thursday?

The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

If your energy supplier has been obstructive or your case not handled well or fairly, then report it, (where is tricky: nationally try Australian Energy Regulator, or look for state agencies like Energy and Water Ombudsman Vic, etc). www.aer.gov.au/consumers/ha... www.ewov.com.au/start-a-comp...

And then theres there medical cooling scheme and the winter gas concession on top of the URG scheme. If you’re chronically ill, apply services.dffh.vic.gov.au/winter-gas-c...

So I volunteer at an organisation where I do some referral work and basically none of the people I speak to realise they’re eligible for the Victorian Utilities Relief Scheme. If you have a concession card, please apply services.dffh.vic.gov.au/utility-reli...

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

IF YOU SEE THIS CLOSE THE TAB IMMEDIATELY this is a trick to install malware on your machine. it is not a real captcha system.

All the eBooks of my work that I self-publish are DRM-free, including the ones from Amazon, but Amazon have only recently added an option to allow their customers to download these books as ePubs or PDFs, as well as the special format used by Klndle readers.

"US presidents are morons who get constantly taken to hospital for cognitive testing" factoid actualy just statistical error. average president gets 0 cognitive tests per year. Dornld Trmup, who lives in cave & gets over 10,000 cognitive tests each year is an outlier adn should not have been counted

RFK says I’ll never write a poem but check this out There once was an old man named Kennedy Who had the most unsettling energy He worked out in jeans While he ate raccoon spleens And had a brainworm as a frenemy

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

The Punisher sticker we've needed all along

One Mastodon feature I'd love to see here, is being able to cancel people's follows of you. 99% of the follows I get here are just people trying to promote themselves. Currently I'll block them, but some I'd prefer to just have them unfollow me.

Following up on that last repost: OH MY GOD DO NOT USE AN "AI" LEGAL PLATFORM IF YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL POTENTIAL CRIMINAL ISSUE it is so not covered by attorney-client privilege and this particular "legal platform" (Nyayam) won't tell you that unless you directly ask it, I mean holy crap

I was truly not prepared for a future in which the phrase "stolen compute from Chipotle's AI chat bot" makes any kind of sense.

'Egyptian/Phoenician Glass Dog Head Bead, 6th-4th Century BC' www.lotsearch.net/lot/egyptian...

Ah @atlassian.bsky.social; even when you try to do the right things, you bollocks it up. Try to create a new ticket? Modal pops up quickly and focuses the initial field. Excellent! Lazy loading other data to overlap with the user typing? Smart move.

Kyoto University Hospital is running the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug that grew brand-new teeth in mice. Humans grow two sets and stop. The drug aims to give us a third.

for anyone putting NDIS Bill submissions in today, keep trying if you hit glitches with the website, and email it in to [email protected] if you can't get through it's a public holiday today in Canberra, so committee staff won't be there till tomorrow www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

sigh, this is too real

DON HERTZFELDT, in this the year of our oversized spoon 2026, has uploaded a HD version of Rejected to his YT channel?!?!?! OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS I'M SO HAPPY HIIIIII

Happy Towel Day and Glorious 25th of May to those who celebrate! #HitchhikersGuide #Discworld #GNUTerryPratchett

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social pour one out for our fallen comrade!

I mean Amazon/MGM have the option to do the funniest thing in the history of everything and cast @theabigailthorn.bsky.social as Bond: www.darkhorizons.com/gold-new-jam...

I recently learned where “grandfathered in” comes from, and you know, it’d be nice if every other English term didn’t stem from a racist practice, wouldn’t it? (The original was a rule exempting you from a literacy test to vote in the US if your grandfather could vote. Guess who that excluded.)

Petition to make "Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again?" by The Angels our national anthem purely because it would be _fucking_ funny at the Olympics.

It's crazy how easy it would be to build a fair, decent society. Every day wouldn't be perfect, but it wouldn't be desperate, it wouldn't be terrifying. We could make it good so easily. It's just a few evil, slime-brained, greedy freaks who force horrors on us. We could remove their power. We could.

Today my age is the product of two primes...

May the 4th be with you - make Space Mum proud. 🖕

Bring back the ancient knowledge

Does anyone know the history of this Foodland building in Brunswick West? Did The Mighty South Aussies™︎ attempt to expand into Victoria at one point? It even has the faint outline of the boomerang logo that the SA chain uses, surely that can’t be a coincidence? #Melbourne #Adelaide

I really feel for you, @theonion.com , having to compete with this reality.

Be sure to read the whole thing.

BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, ​a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. Unusual.

I've basically stopped pitching stories on when people are caught using AI in Australian courts now but a site that is tracking them says there are at least 73. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

I'm old-fashioned. I want your business to have a website. Don't gimme an Instagram page and a phone number. I wanna see what services you offer and then make an appointment on a regular degular website!

A picture is worth 99.9 words. How's that @github.com migration from bare metal to Azure going? via Alex on Mastodon techhub.social/@ironicbadge...

If you haven't taken a genetic test, you don't know what your chromosomes are, either. They might be XX or XY. They might be XO, XXY, or a mix of XX/XY. Science is more complex than many people feel comfortable believing.

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.