OMG, they modified 2Pac's voice to sing "I'm a street fighter" instead of "straight rider".

oh no no no no no no, no no no I was just trying to buy some bamboo fibre. Now I have to rethink my life choices. When did Amazon even add this feature?

👻 + 📖 = 🦉(🇦🇺) ↗️ + 🐖 = 🦉(🇳🇿) iykyk

Yes, Adidas, we can tell that it is.

I like to imagine that the person with the Betsy Ross flag grabbed it simply because it was the most recent flag of the US they had lying around the house.

Saw a guy at my gym winking and biting his lip at his own reflection in the mirror. So I looked in the mirror and tried doing the same. He's onto something. This is definitely a skill that requires practice to develop; I seem to be terrible at it.

Stevia ...with erythritol This product is labelled "stevia WITH erythritol" I understand the relative sweetness of sugar alcohols vs sweeteners and the notion of a bulking agent, but I feel like we're past the ratio where it should be called "erythritol with stevia"

I'm about to time myself eating 35 grams of a specific brand of sunflower seeds, because that is a normal thing that normal people do.

You know you're aging when you find yourself weighing food portions and supplements using the scales you originally bought to weigh illegal drugs.

According to me, these apricots are very medium in size. According to the AFCD, a "medium" apricot weighs 40g.

This is how hot it is.

Before 2025, my podcast listening was limited to This American Life on road trips. But in 2025, I started doing some car detailing work, some home reno, going to the gym/running, so I needed stuff to listen to, and now look what happened.

Now I can't help but wonder how many displays are fed by a single computer at stations that have a whole wall of these. Also, knowing that it's just showing a fullscreen browser window from previous glitches, I'm appreciating how responsive web design makes that the best choice for this purpose.

I'm sure this flower tribute in front of Bondi Pavilion will be absolutely massive by the end of the day. Many flowers, many people, many press, many police. But also children doing somersaults on the sand nearby, and surfers on the waves behind them. This is Sydney.

This is just chicken salt on the wound. The "Foodie Max" place that took over the iconic Dean's Diner location on King St is using LLM-generated imagery for their food offerings (including on the screens above the counter).

— Hi, I'd like a bowl of beef phở, please. — You want phở? — Yes, a bowl of beef phở, please. — Chicken or beef? — A bowl of beef phở, please. — In a cup, or in a bowl? — A bowl of beef phở, please. Why does this happen every time at every sort of establishment? Do I have a speech impediment?

The reason we have school zones isn't because children are precious and must be protected; it's because they are stupid and unpredictable and will run into the road.

Types of cheese are masculine, because fromage is masculine, obviously. However, if a cheese comes from a gendered language country, and is feminine in that language, it's feminine in French, e.g. mozzarella, ricotta, feta. So if Dutch hadn't abandoned feminine gender, we'd probably have La Gouda.

This is why I have trust issues.

If you're ever caught pleasing yourself with a chorizo, and wish to avoid embarrassment, simply claim that you're preparing to perform a magic trick where you swallow a chorizo whole and pull it out unharmed out the other end.

Take some 🇺🇿 plov (پلو‎‎), Layer some 🇬🇪 lobio (ლობიო) over it, Add a bit of 🇷🇺 smetana (сметана) on top, Wrap it in 🇦🇲 lavash (լավաշ), What do you get? That's right, a 🇲🇽 burrito.

"A visual representation of what eugenicists considered the degeneration of the white race", made by averaging body measurements of soldiers in 1921 Implying it's unacceptable for white men to look this bad It's wild that you can't tell if I'm mocking eugenics, or lamenting a drop in our standards

It gives me weird satisfaction to be observed by strangers while I'm using a key to enter a building. Yeah, that's right, I BELONG HERE. And you thought.

When boomers post memes like "let's give kids rotary phones or manual transmissions, and watch them struggle", it's a reflection of their own frustration at the world thrusting new and unfamiliar ways of doing things on them.

Circa 50 CE, saint Paul decided to tell Corinthians about tops and bottoms, and English has struggled to express what he meant ever since.

Of course the instructions for caring for wombat joeys include a goon bag. This is `Straya; who even owns a hot water bottle?

I enjoy coming up with jokes that require as much unrelated knowledge as possible to understand. In-jokes for a group of one known member, but admission is open.

As many people have killed themselves after touching a gympie gympie plant as have killed a grown grizzly bear without weapons. There's a story of it happening once, but we've no idea if it's true.

If we ever have a true global meteorological bureau, it should totally be called "BoM de terre"

What if I asked: how did the notion of daily recommended intake on nutrition labels come about? Now what if I phrased it as: who might have first wanted to know the minimum effort they can expend to keep a person alive nutrition-wise?

Putricia's smell is best described as "decay", the kind you'd imagine coming across in a forest. There's a hint of cadaverine, but no elements of generic household waste, decomposing food waste, nor sewage. Not reminiscent of durian either. Also, she had a hole cut out, presumably for pollination.

Blessed be the bloom #bbtb #wwtf #wdnrp

I was about to make a post with a pun on the word "leavening", but I decided to check if I was pronouncing that word correctly first. Good thing I didn't post. Would've ruined my whole leavening.

A random goal I have is to visit every lighthouse in Australia (109 done so far). Favourite by far is Gabo Island, made of local pink granite. At sunset, when only the tower is still being hit by golden sunrays, it's a sight to behold. My photo doesn't begin to do justice of the magic on display.

As the saying goes: intelligence is knowing that tomato is a fruit; wisdom is a term for a group of wombats.

Kangaroos have the adorable ability to combine breakfast in bed and family dinner into a singular event.

Dear cemeteries; signs like these are not how you get new customers.

You know, if I was holding a numismatic exhibition, I'd be very careful with using the phrase "gold coin donation"

While I learnt much at PyCon AU in Adelaide, I most enjoyed learning at the zoo that bilbies sleep like this:

Here's a fun thing to do. Listen to California Dreamin', and when the second verse ends around 01:15, continue to sing after "on such a winter's day" with "memory, all alone in the moonlight..."

Hunter the tiger at Australia Zoo was born with cataracts, and is completely blind, with prosthetic eyes. The silver lining is that he can't see all the delicious children snacks he is teased with from behind the glass.

Looking at this photo makes me happy. I might frame it to hang by my desk. In the meantime, I figure it would also make a good first post.