Fuel tanker traffic through Strait of Hormuz increased last week news.oilandgaswatch.org/template/bri... @reuters.com @apnews.com @ajenglish.bsky.social @lloydslistdaily.bsky.social @dropsitenews.com

Found the guy with the most makefunofable name ever and it’s ok to make fun of it because he was a Nazi en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_...

Great news. DigiD is the identity management program used by residents to access Dutch government agencies (tax, health, etc.). Solvinity, the company behind the software, was being acquired by a US company Kyndryl. Sale now blocked on national security grounds. 👍 www.volkskrant.nl/politiek/ove...

Very strange…3 devices are carking it at once. The desktop* is baulking at ALL the browsers (”No longer supported”), the blu-ray player wouldn’t even turn on, & the cd player has been in for repairs 3 times. I doubt a 4th attempt will make a difference. * OK, at 15 years of age maybe it’s time. 😕

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

Pick a Bond villain from the pictures you have already on your phone

Just now, on the train to the city, came one of those “Thank you for travelling with us“ announcements. It also gave the suggestion that we follow the rail network on platforms such as Twitter. Twitter. #Melbourne

🚢 Strait of Hormuz tracker status No new transits detected in the last 10 minutes. Queued transit alerts: 0 Monitoring remains active. #StraitOfHormuz #Shipping #MaritimeTraffic

On this day in 1914, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 8 Jul 1943 she was deported to the Theresienstadt Ghetto with her parents and on the 6 Sep 1943 to Auschwitz where they perished. Her name was Gertruda Singerová Support @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

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And the federal government spends more each year on handouts to these schools than it does on the JobSeeker payment.

Pope Leo XIV took direct aim at the power of Big Tech in his first encyclical on Monday (May 25), warning that artificial intelligence risks widening inequality, weakening democracy and undermining what it means to be human. religionnews.com/2026/05/25/i...

Officially registered in Queensland. Well done comrades! ❤️🙌

It’s not just the money. Lower income countries also need workers, and exploitative schemes like PALM reduce the number of people available to do vital labour in their own communities. Neocolonial extraction is not limited to commodities and cheap consumer goods.

Very sad to hear of the passing of Neale Daniher.

Interesting Animal Fact: - Sea Otters are monotheistic. They hold hands when they sleep in order to summon The Great Otter who rewards their faith with limitless urchins and mollusks.¹ ¹ ⁿᵉᵉᵈˢ ᶜ¹ᵗᵃᵗ¹ᵒⁿ

music trivia: the john coltrane album blue train is about thomas the tank engine

From FB! Vic Labor

Solvitur ambulando is my favourite Latin phrase. It means "it is solved by walking". (Info in alt text.)

Me: I can't, or you don't want me to? Store owner: I don't want you to take a shower in the vegetable mist

#whale #bluewhale #finwhale Blue and fin whale sightings on the rise in the Southeast Atlantic share.google/9xuOkQoq1f8X...

Ruin a band by replacing a word with a bodily fluid. Tears for Tears

*strategically removes Far Side collections and replaces them with classic works of literature before taking selfie in front of bookcase*

Don’t you just LOVE a sunlit foreground with a dark, gloomy sky above? #SundayPixContrast #SundayPix

“The people voting for ON are not our enemies. They are our neighbours with real grievances, fed a deliberate diet of misinformation & manufactured division, frustrated that their calls for action go unheard. They are asking the right question.” Includes suggestions re how to talk to them. #AusPol

Introducing Cursor Camp, a website to hang out with other cursors. Out now :) > neal.fun/cursor-camp/

From my dad’s #ASIO file, here’s a photo of him, my brother (holding dad’s hand) & me with a bow in my hair. We were attending the 1963 May Day March in Melbourne. Other photos show people w signs like “No Australian troops for Vietnam” & “Schools not bombs”. #AusPol #communist

Miniature moss forest within the forest, in beautiful Scotland.

#SundayPixContrast #landscape #SundayPix

The Murtoa Stick Shed, the largest remaining wheat storage building in Australia. See how small the people are? The shape of the roof matches the angle that wheat naturally finds when it’s poured into the large, open area. #SundayPixContrast #SundayPix

thanks @adamlisberg.bsky.social for sending this to me! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

“…some of the largest single weapons consignments recorded during the war arrived during this period [temporary ceasefire], suggesting that the pause in fighting may also have created space for resupply and replenishment.” #FreeFreePalestine

Happy Saturday, Sunday Pixers For those of you who like to be prepared, tomorrow's theme will be 'contrast' #SundayPixContrast Photos, videos, sketches all welcome as long as they are your own work. Please include alt text so all can join in. We look forward to see what you make of it🐾🌿

Peacock Spider (genus Maratus), a group of tiny Australian jumping spiders famous for their vibrant colours and elaborate courtship dances to attract its mate. They are very tiny in size only between 2-5 millimetres ( the size of a pea)

My 23rd May resolution* is to look out for and tell more stories from my day. Not only is it excellent practice for my memory, but also, it’s more fun when talking to friends. * I don't make NY resolutions.

Animation of cryovolcanism of Triton, the largest moon of Neptune. These icy geysers were observed by the Voyager 2 spacecraft. It is thought that solar heating vaporises nitrogen below a translucent surface, until the pressure builds up enough to force an eruption. #scicomm #spaceart

“This is the bit that makes the policy not just bad but historically self-defeating. The voters the Coalition needs are inside the pool it has just threatened…the strategic stupidity of mistaking cannot currently vote for will never vote.” #WellDoneAngus #AusPol

My dream daughter-in-law (or outlaw) has broken up with her long time boyfriend.

Just had a strange encounter in a toilet. An Irishman came up to me & said he really liked my fragrance. It confused me because I wasn’t wearing any. Then I remembered - ”Oh that’s the shoulder of slow cooked lamb I ate at lunch,” I said. “Oh Jayzus, that’s it to be sure,” he said. Then I ran away.

Looks like I have to buy a new CD player (w radio options). My old, small system refuses to spit out the CDs, and I’ve taken it into a repair joint three times. I really like my slender, little thang. 😕

The Danish gov’t has installed floating platforms planted with wildflowers and native vegetation in the harbors and canals of Copenhagen, to create urban habitat sanctuaries for birds, bees, pollinators, insects, and even some aquatic life. #FlowersOfBluesky #InnovativeSolutions💡

#BookSky 📚💙

My cup of coffee has increased in price. It had to happen. And the truth is it’s the one thing I’ll pay through the nose for.

#OTD in 1977, Janet Guthrie became the first woman to qualify for the #Indy500 Guthrie, an aerospace-engineer-turned-racer, qualified for the Indy 500 with a four-lap average of 188.403 mph in the No. 27 Lightning-Offenhauser. #WomenInSTEM #Motorsport

This is a cat checkpoint! relinquish your most recent cat picture on your phone. 🐾🐈 (This is Egg. He is Very Smart.)

Gwen Alston (née Hannah Gwendolen Shone) #aerodynamicist & #educationalist worked on spinning tunnels & aircraft flight-testing in #WWII & later in flight education & as HM Inspector. Her test pilot called her "a truly remarkable lady boffin". b. 22 May 1907 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Al...

3/ Political disengagement is frequently a rational response to structural overwhelm and severe cognitive bandwidth depletion. When people are navigating real-world financial, temporal, or personal stress, the brain tunnels. It violently shuts out distant noise to survive

Perhaps this is why it always takes me much longer to prepare a dish than the recipe says. 😒

A NEW TWIST in Africa's soaring solar story: It's now manufacturing its own panels. The factories use imported Chinese cells, which are 40% of the value of panels, keeping much of the value domestically. 9 GW of cells+wafers in Mar/Apr alone🧵