LEGO posted this cute video for the launch of their first official #StarTrek set today #LEGO

Not going to happen, unless AusGov legislates to take back the entire electricity generation industry. Compared to China's solar power output, Australia's feels like a 9-volt battery. electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Irish Wisdom 🥃 #fuckICE

Seems the space-junk which hit Tiangong's return capsule was some China themselves created a few years ago when they tested an orbital weapons system by blowing up one of their own old satellites. www.livescience.com/space/space-...

When you combine AI with robotics, magic happens.

A determined developer undertook a challenge to create the smallest-possible, bootable installation of Windows 7 & has got it down to 69.0 MiB on-disk. It can't actually *run* anything, but it does boot to the desktop (yet still complains it isn't Genuine): www.tech2geek.net/windows-7-sl...

Stop brothering me, Quark.

LinkedIn users, you have ONE DAY LEFT to OPT OUT of their AI training. Otherwise EVERYTHING you have posted (inc. personal info) will go into its hungry maw. www.techradar.com/pro/linkedin...

They take trick-or-treating very seriously in the Ukraine.

"Izz dat a twibble in your pocket or are you chust enchoying zee show?"

Tired of people interrupting you while you're trying to explain something or just trying to do your job with "But ChatGPT said..." Things to say to get them out of your hair: stopcitingai.com

Hey, don't touch that! It's my box of emotional support cables!

Source: 9to5google.com/2025/10/29/y... *End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you could put an exact cost on this decision in terms of kWh/atmospheric CO2, what the total would come to.

Saying "I don't know" Is a Sign of Seniority For Me newsletter.eng-leadership.com/p/saying-i-d...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

Buying a wankpanzer is a sure sign of erectile dysfunction. Buying a custom plate for your Dodge RAM that reads "BONER-1" just makes it much, much worse.

Select all squares containing muffins, then click Verify to continue.

Pro tip for AirPod Pro 3 owners: Don't use them for noise-cancelling on airline flights, it appears that as the jet flies higher the air pressure drops causing the tips to change shape, breaking the 'fit' and creating a feedback whistle. basicappleguy.com/basicapplebl...

Pftop laughing, you're nexpth.

My mother and grandmother were part of the letter writing campaign that saved Star Trek TOS. This photo was a thank you from the Star Trek folks and is an heirloom of my house.

Correct.

BYD's K-Car, due to debut shortly in Japan, is smaller than a Mini Cooper, gets about 180km on a single charge, and will sell for around US$18,000 (AU$27,000). I want one.

There's a LOT of fun to be had on this site. XD (takes me back to to the old Phoenix Wright "OBJECTION" site I used to mess around on.

The ghost of Vulcans past. We will always miss you, always remember you, Leonard. He lived long, and prospered. #Spocktober

How not to ride pillion on a motorbike:

Got a Gmail account? Might want to check it wasn't in the 180-million-odd accounts recently dumped on the dark web ... but change your passwords anyway. www.forbes.com/sites/daveyw... archive.is/kz9r9 Check with the excellent free & safe Have I Been Pwned site: haveibeenpwned.com

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

If one person can donate enough money ($130 Million) to ensure the nations military get paid, that should tell you something about the obscene level of wealth inequality and greed in the country.

Minimalist display of Australian craftsmanship at the Parliament House gift shop, Canberra

Doing a permissions repair was a regular fix for Mac OS X (basically, before 10.11) but should you try to do it with modern macOS? Absolutely not. eclecticlight.co/2025/10/27/s...

The fascinating doodle-art of Mattias Adolfsson - this piece is called "Lines and Cables, thoughts on Flight". The detail is incredible!

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, 48.5 minutes of exposure across 97 images taken from Bear Divide in Los Angeles. This is the first time I’ve processed a comet observation like this so I had to do some quick learning and experimentation. Hopefully I’ll improve on this in the future. flic.kr/p/2rBGQZv

Brace for another wave of x refuges

wtf this article in @thr.com that reads like an advertisement for travel agencies, without even mentioning the environmental impact of the boom in tourism in Antarctica (starting with the richest, of course). 🗑️ Not up to par, guys.

Share a cartoon from the past of which kids today probably have never heard. (Bonus points if you can tell me which show this was a segment of.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWRg...

Share a cartoon from the past of which kids today probably have never heard. "Ho-ho-HO, little masters!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AkH...

Me: I need you to clean all the data off this hard drive. Intern:

Me, but replace all instances of "Nevada" with "kitchen".

If I opened a dispensary, I would call it Starbase 420. The house strain would be Wesley Kusher.

The only thing left after Armageddon will be Twinkies and cockroaches.

The Spotlight bug that stops it from indexing files starting with "LG" or "HPA" or "Draw" is actually a lot worse than initially suspected, and the bug goes all the way back to macOS Mojave. eclecticlight.co/2025/10/26/l...

When you rent an AirBnB castle for the weekend, expect silliness to ensue. imgur.com/gallery/bril...

You know the corporate world collectively hates Windows 11 when companies doing fleet replacements ahead of the Windows 10 EOL date switch platform entirely & buy Macs. www.macrumors.com/2025/10/25/w...

Meanwhile in Portland:

Quick, someone tow Deep Space Nine to the entrance of this wormhole of doom! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCfA...

For reasons too complex to explain here, I wrote an Apple II program designed for Early Modern Age Catholics to determine if they're allowed to have sex with their wife, or if it'd be a sin. Here's the video of it running.

lessons at 41 from 40: deleting instagram is the best thing i did for my mental health in years. the second best was tossing all my makeup bc now i don’t have to go to war with myself over whether to wear it (i never really want to anyway).