I return from my holiday to discover that artificial intelligence has been installed on my television. The first question I asked it was how do I get rid of it. It seems it is not intended for you to get rid of it.

The Telstra outage. I'm putting my money on vibe coding.

Google Maps bus tracking actually works in Sydney and it makes me jealous as a Melburnian.

#BREAKING 🚨 GetUp has claimed responsibility for the protest banner that interrupted Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address, saying "it was us" The banner read: "I opposed a pay rise for workers...while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself"

Melbourne: Australia’s biggest destination for migrants. Also Melbourne: Cheaper housing and higher rental vacancy rates than Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide. 🤷‍♂️ #AUSPOL

I always consoled myself that Australia’s saving grace was that here the rabid nativist right was run by utterly clueless idiots. We were therefore safe from the global populist trend. Hahahabahahahaba. Turns out the trend was to elect idiots. Coz obviously that will fix things. More fool me.

Raf Epstein calls out blatant favouritism media gives Pauline Hanson “She could never say ‘show me the good Jews” “She says that about Muslims” “If she said that about Jews there’d be a discussion on this couch whether or not she should be prosecuted under hate laws”💥🎯 #auspol

Woman on the train watching an AI rage bait video claiming airlines are getting ready to introduce 'standing' seats.

In Sydney, a zigzag line marking goes around the corner. Fun fact. Zigzag line marking shall not be used according to the most recent Pedestrian Control and Protection standard.

Melbourne Metro Trains just had a manual announcement suggesting we follow them on 'Twitter'.

I admit to going a little overboard at the purchases factory, but that's what happens when you set fire to your internal combustion engine for the first time in a month.

I haven't set fire to the internal combustion engine for near a month, so I'm off on the free bus to where I've stored it on public property.

People on Reddit posting pictures of their physical currency and asking, "How much is this $2 coin worth?"

Reddit - You tap on one picture of a worm and now your whole feed is worms. And your only option is to banish all worms for eternity. There's no option for "just not every day, please".

Stay tuned to our rolling coverage to see which right wing candidate wins the safe right wing seat in which the main left wing party is not sanding at an unimportant by-election. #auspol

Attention men and some women and some non-binary people. You're stinking the house down! Please use deodorant.

If you enjoy my microblogs on this social media platform, you're missing out on the full experience available at the aus.social website. Fire up your modem today.

I understand the youths are buying train tickets through the free public transport period as a means to rebel.

Men at work on the dark side

huh, the one with the bike lane is moving just fine but the highway is all backed up

ACTIVE NOW

Support the ABC's worker strike. Don't interact with trackable ABC services from 11 am AEDT this Wednesday to 11 am Thursday. Don't use ABC websites. Don't use iview. Don't use ABC apps. Don't interact with anything trackable.

Support the ABC's worker strike. Don't interact with trackable ABC services from 11 am AEDT this Wednesday to 11 am Thursday. Don't use ABC websites. Don't use iview. Don't use ABC apps. Don't interact with anything trackable.

You may think POS means piece of shit. But to me it means pedestrian operated signal. And to the people upstairs it means public open space.

ABCs SA election coverage needs a criminology specialist to help Casey run through all the charges the various candidates and previous candidates are currently facing. Never change SA! 🤣

This will be one of the all time most important documentaries into the current ecological collapse.

James Newbury promising to rip up Melbourne's bayside.

I'm in a slow mood today. I shall set my ebike to eco mode and stop to smell the roses. Probably not literally.

I need the parts of a single timber clothes peg for honest purposes.

The spike in fuel prices reminds us that Victoria once had electric regional trains, Melbourne to Traralgon 1956-1987. Planning and funding electrification for V/Line, starting with the busiest lines, would help protect against future cost spikes, help cut emissions, and improve air quality.🚆⚡

No one will sell me a single timber clothes peg.

if there tiktok videos sending up your software, and they go uber-viral because *everyone has experienced your software doing what they're making fun of*, maybe it's, like, bad software?

I still think it's odd that governments are driving people to VPNs over an issue governments don't actually care about, but they risk losing surveillance capacity in the process for issues they care deeply about.

Elderly people love to keep a shallow pool of stagnant water in the kitchen.

Yestereve, the announcer on ABC 774 invited listeners to telephone the broadcast to reveal the contents of their internet search histories. It was for a discussion about the Google search engine.

I have secured a sufficient supply of petroleum for an automobile journey to Mildura this Friday. $1.74 per litre for an ethanol mixture. Heightened price, but not unreasonable, due to the misadventure of an autocrat.

Haven't ridden my bicycle for two work days and I can already feel myself becoming a sedentarist. (It's at the shop for repairs).

Good Morning Australia

On a dancefloor at 2am, I heard Jacinda Ardern’s husband say they were moving to Australia. I don’t blame them | Johanna Cosgrove

You can now block AI integration in the latest version of Firefox. Go to the AI section in Settings.

FUN FAKT. As a 20-something, I would wear swimming goggles whilst chopping onions. I don't do that anymore! I no longer eat onions deliberately due to poor digestive outcomes.

Facebook closing down messenger.com. Why? Presumably not enough people are logging onto facebook.com, so Messenger users will be diverted there to improve metrics.

I've just been reminded about Microslop Recall. That was actually when I made the decision to install Linux! #IDontUseArch

Happy Valentine's Day sickos.

The British government’s decision to ban the pro-Palestinian protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was ruled unlawful on Friday by senior judges.

Ol' Gussy Taylor hey? Met the guy at a pub in Nar Nar Goon. All night he got louder and louder 'til he was nearly screaming at us how many pigs he could lift in a crate.

QUT will take over famous literary magazine Meanjin, after the journal was closed by Melbourne Uni Publishing last year. This is a win for all who campaigned to save the masthead, but hardly makes up for the damage done last year www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Programmatic specificity.