Hackers (1995) is currently streaming for free on YouTube BOOT UP OR SHUT UP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFCWkvlzsj0

It's a pleasure to be able to finally start sharing with everyone something our team has been working on for a while now. It's called Deep Time and it's a 65,000 year look at the deep history of this land now known as Australia. Keep a look out on ABC online and TV as we roll out stories over […]

The top feature on the ABC website today is Deep Time. This has been an epic project our team has been working on for years (literally) which tells an even more epic story about the vast history of our land and the people who have called it home for millennia. We've had hundreds of stories […]

"There's more to the story — it didn't start in 1788," she said. "It started a long, long time ago, right back to the Dreaming, and that story has to be told, and it has to be told by us, in the way that we want to tell it. "It doesn't have to meet scientific expectations. It's our story. And […]

Looks like a #bnestorm might be coming

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Betoota again making more sense than mainstream media outlets pretending to be baffled by why Gen Z is drinking less

Started "If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" this morning on audiobook and it's pretty good so far. https://www.penguin.com.au/books/if-anyone-builds-it-everyone-dies-9781847928931

Just found one of my Micro Machines cars from when I was a kid. So cute and cool. Do they still sell them? Or did some kid try to eat one and choke or something? I never see them anymore. Just Hot Wheels.

One of my top skills is acquiring books at a faster rate than I can finish reading the books I already own

Sleep is good I hear

According to @aftermath.site's Nathan Grayson, the hoo-ha over whether Hasan Piker abuses his dog is a textbook example of how online conspiracy theories proliferate: amateur detectives looking for clues, outlandish conclusions, and other creators with political agendas wading in to amplify […]

Dammit I've gone a full 16 days into the spooky month without using the spooky VS Code theme. Fixing that now 👻 https://draculatheme.com/visual-studio-code

The first beta release of Mastodon 4.5.0 is ready for testing! Quote posts are finally here, as well as automated fetching of remote replies and a lot of other improvements. For server moderators, there is also a way to block registrations based on keywords appearing in usernames. Please test […]

Switching back to AntennaPod for my main podcast client on my phone because I wanna support open source apps mainly. I also saw that you can sync between devices now which was the main feature I was missing last time I tried (maybe I just missed it). Anyway, it's a great little app. Give it a […]

@phocks Backported to the 4.4.5 release https://gist.github.com/sjlongland/57a5b7f0c969551f1ce5c04a8ca33f7d

Well, it seems like this Guardian og:image not loading issue has stalled again and dropped off the radar of the #mastodon devs. I've put a fix in, but now it seems to have been pushed down to page 2 on the Issues and Pull Request lists. If anyone wants their links to The Guardian to load preview […]

Don't forget to stay hydrated

Dangit my box of random old cables doesn't have a single random old ethernet cable in it

It's that time of year where I'm reminded that if I'd just been a sparky instead of pursuing a research career I'd have probably made it to Antarctica by now! AAD is advertising a few cool roles - beyond the normal trades roles, they're also looking for some ecologists and an environmental […]

‘Vibrant New Identity’ 😆 https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/apple-tv-plus-rebrands-streaming-service-1236551345/

Dang I ate too much popcorn 🥲

Excited to go see ‘One Battle After Another’ at South Bank tonight with the one and only @colingourlay ✨ I hear it's pretty good. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/movies/one-battle-after-another-review-paul-thomas-anderson.html?unlocked_article_code=1.tE8.v8Yq.chCkXYq0mA6J&smid=url-share

IT'S RAINING!!! 🌧️ #brisbane #weather

Vegan Thai takeaway night tonight 😋💜

I may or may not have purchased a Celcius energy drink because they were featured in a joke on the season 2 finale of Platonic on Apple TV plus and I just found out today they were a real life product haha 😆 […] [Original post on bne.social]

This is just so sad. She deserved so much better. 😢 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-12/queensland-tiffany-wilkes-suspected-murder-suicide-clementine/105874684

Surely we're due for rain soon. Forecast earlier in the week said rain on the weekend, but nary a drop in sight!

My library hold came in already on the Kobo. That was quick!

Feels like running under the sprinkler in the backyard weather to me

The 1st season of the Pokemon original series has 80 episodes! 👀

We skipped A Time to Kill (1996) — bit too intense — back on our Sandra Bullock movie run a while ago (guess it's not really a Sandra Bullock movie anyway, she's just in it) but Amy's out tonight and I haven't seen it since VHS days so I thought I'd put it on. Dang it's really got everyone from […]

Goodnight World!

Sharif don't like it

Click link. Find Tawny Frogmouth. Click vote. Repeat each day. Let's get this done! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now

Just about shorts weather I think

“The only thing we need from animals is their forgiveness.”

Pretty warm

ffs news media they're not "deporting activists" they're reluctantly releasing hostages captured and abused in open defiance of international law

Keen for this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-05/one-battle-after-another-paul-thomas-anderson-film/105838240

Happy mad morning rush for the first day back at school after holidays to all the parents and guardians that celebrate

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Currently listening to Brat by Charli XCX and it's not bad actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_(album)

"Those objecting to the densification of Australia's cities needn't worry because there aren't enough tradies to build the apartments anyway." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-06/house-affordability-density-accord-first-home-buyer-cgt-student/105853500

“It’s hard to overstate just how transgressive, even heretical, these ideas are within the mainstream scientific community. Like any in-group, researchers have taboos against aligning with those they perceive as threats to their autonomy — and animal rights advocates who question scientists’ […]

Shout out to https://nopecha.com for their awesome automatic CAPTCHA solving browser add-on so you don't have to sit there wasting time trying prove to your computer that you're a real life actual human. You can get a robot to do it for you! No idea how they got it to work, but it works well […]

Ah, the craziness of Australia in summer time. (Diagram taken from: https://www.theage.com.au/national/daylight-saving-is-here-again-for-some-what-s-it-all-about-20250926-p5my5p.html)

It's our dog Misty's 10 year adoption day today and we are taking her to the Kedron Brook dog run, one of the very first places we took her after adopting her from the rescue shelter 10 years ago. It's been a great decade. ❤️

ok i do enjoy some of tswift's earlier stuff but this take is pretty darn funny