What could go wrong? My @smh @theage cartoon.

I heard there was a secret tool That you could use if you were a fool But you don't care for PDF files, do ya? It goes like this: you click "log in" A chatbot bubble blocks the screen Investors thought this feature was a shoo-in

If wealth was steps, everyone you have ever met is on the first or second step. Your wealthy aunt, that unhoused person, you - the same two steps. King of England? About the 8th step. The likes of Bezos? Their step is at the International Space Station.

Well.. shit.

The Doctor is right and correct

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

Hey, #FiberArts, #KnitSky, #CraftSky, #crochet, and/or #reenactment people. Can anyone help a friend of a friend with this? They are looking to make a ‘sprang hairnet’. But they haven’t been able to find much info.

THREAD. 3 years ago, with no warning, a brilliant orange farm cat wandered over from the draughty barn where he had been living, in rural Cornwall, and decided he wanted to live with us instead. We decided to call him Jim. This is the first photo I took of him, on that night: December 1st, 2022.

That's a great way to describe the demise of the once best browser ever, to just plain googlemush.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

lol love how they send one guy out to negotiate

If you are, for work, at a French owned hotel in Australia, you don’t speak French and you are greeted in French by the staff at each interaction, is the etiquette to respond in French or English? Either way feels oddly wrong to me.

you do have to do it in a couple of places but this tutorial makes it easy to go uncheck the boxes that otherwise lets Google's AI read all your shit. or move everything over to protonmail but moving everything over is a giant thing I know.

In a move that will send transphobes spinning Victoria has announced it is making it Free for Trans & gender diverse people to change their gender on a birth certificate. Labor’s Natalie Hutchin says money should not be an obstacle to having documents reflect someone’s gender.✅

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

i have forgotten my dad's birth date because "vacuum snackie all done" is there now

This is well worth reading! 👇 #Auspol

This has always been true and never has it been more starkly clear than with gen-AI.

An American warning after WWII.

The sky put on quite a show at sunset tonight. Near Lismore NSW Australia.

Literally every time I've needed customer service help and it's a company that starts you off with a chatbot, I end up needing a human being. Every time. Like, if it was a simple enough problem your water-guzzling, mass-polluting, trash wannabe tamagotchi could fix, I would've just done it myself 🤷‍♀️

When we tie the education of children to grading their learning, we destroy their love of learning for its own sake. We create adults who are afraid of maths or sports because they were shamed by poor grades in school. And we create bullies who think they are superior because of a natural talent.

This is so good. I was not expecting the direction it took.

Remember, you're under no obligation to justify yourself to anyone if you choose to spend the entire weekend reading books, drinking multiple kettles of tea, and indulging in a scandalous amount of croissants.

Once you've seen the sub-literate gibberish passed along among billionaires, the story of how elites came to exalt Bari Weiss, Thomas Chatterton Williams, and other stylists of 4th-grade book report prose snaps into place.

Ugh. The shingles shot I had earlier in the day is kicking my ass now. Time for bed.

"What if one of YOUR favorite politicians/celebrities/etc is on the list?" Did you all not notice how quickly we dropped Neil Gaiman when we found out about the things he did? Do you know how beloved that guy used to be and how loathed he is now? I think that right there should answer your question.

Nobody: Not a single normie: Out of touch billionaire:

A clarifying note: when you hear friends and family and coworkers and strangers, saying that it’s getting dark, they may be speaking about the season, or they may be speaking about the state of things, but either way they are speaking the truth.

I get to the interplanetary brunch, and my friends all look at me, the sole Earthling at the table. One asks, "How are you holding up there, buddy?" “We've all been thinking about you…,” says another.

As I say in the opening to every episode of @youaregood.bsky.social, "We stave off the dread by showing up."

If a man calls a woman “crazy” please know that it’s actually code for “she is reasonably upset by the compounded experiences of injustice that her mere existence has subjected her to and I don’t want to acknowledge it or I fear I will realize I’ve benefited from the culture of it.” Hope that helps!

"Worst comes to worst, we can protect them from social media by locking them up." chaser.com.au/national/gov...

Maturity is when your brain screams "fuck you" but your fingers type "have a great day".

Gender is a performance and mine is amateur improv.

OMG THANK YOU youtu.be/hksVvXONrIo?...

Here is your semi-annual reminder that I do draw stuff sometimes & have an online store: shop.roxiqt.com 👻

You know you want to see a polar bear having a birthday cake today. I certainly did.

When does the news stop? Like, I'm getting pretty tired of finding out about things.

American friend, her husband active US military based in Australia now. Getting no pay, expected to work & if he takes ANY time its a mark on his record, grounds for dismissal. They had an email telling them to ask Aust. landlords for delay paying rent, Aussie’s flabbergasted at the treatment.

Due to inflation, Dire Straits is re-recording “Money for Nothing” as “Nothing for Money.”

The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

turns out that x: the everything app is an echo chamber. tonight’s results wouldn’t have shocked anyone who hung out on intellectually and politically diverse social media apps like bluesky

That 1 in 3 Australians are suffering from food insecurity - in one of the most affluent countries on the planet - is a sign of political failure at all levels of Govt - and that media is not recognising this is also a failure of their responsibility in our democracy #auspol

It looks like Meatloaf, specifically as Eddie from Rocky Horror, riding a motorcycle that somehow flies.

Another year where I think, “must be mum’s birthday soon - they are taking about that horse race again”.

every star trek episode is titled Ere Fire Down From Olympus Came and every plot is "what if a comet had a milf on it"

Occasional reminder that the main goal of AI use in its current form is epistemicide: the suppression of the means of acquiring and verifying knowledge so the AI’s owners can feed you whatever information will give them the most power.

just vacuumed up a gummy worm which got caught on the brush thingy & had to watch in horror as it was stretched round & round and longer & longer like it was on a medieval torture rack until the poor thing finally snapped - I stg I heard a scream - & I'm 100% going to need some kind of therapy now