GUYS My delivery of coathangers is arriving TODAY I am going to become a new kind of person. A better kind of person. A person with MATCHING COAT HANGERS

Well I for one have had my trust in the NACC fully restored. No questions left for me, not a one. Seriously though - for real - do the folk at the NACC not understand how public trust works? It's not an unknown area, we have a pretty solid idea of how building trust is done and this isn't it

You should try listening to some ELO it's actually way weirder than you remember. This song has mariachi trumpets? And a synth? I guess? music.youtube.com/watch?v=0zuR...

(Today I am mostly trying to put a couple moments of relief into the feed this is not a 'rest easy everything is going to be fine' kind of a day in my feed, don't know about yours)

TIL! You know baby's breath? That flower that was in all the 1980s era/style bridal bouquets? You can grow it! In the garden! It's big and pretty!

Every single time I see this poster I burst out laughing. polishposter.com/5889-brutal-... I bought it. You should buy it too! EXCEPT FOR YOU @dholmesnoise.bsky.social you know what you did

YESSSSSS Hats off to @gregjenner.bsky.social for looking at the indescribable Francis Galton, the worst fascinating guy you’ve never heard of. You live with the legacy of this guy! Every day! Still! For real! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The correct take.

Agree. I was lucky enough to see Kilgour's talk, and I found her explanation - and her analysis of Robodebt - compelling. I understand the NACC's restrictions much better now: they can't 'get' people for professional or ethical failure, only corruption. Frustrating. But comprehensible.

Andy Burnham content nourishes me.

@jamesscheibner.bsky.social really?!?! I’ve always wanted to learn! Slide guitar is my favourite instrument!

The cognitive dissonance between watching a man with late stage dementia be talked about by journalists as if he is making strategic decisions can only be addressed by looking back to history. This has happened before, it will happen again, journalism has never developed a coping mechanism.

Wait the what - The Tory got 2.2% of the vote? You guys might not be following UK politics (I am - I'm a returned immigrant) and God knows the North doesn't 'do' Tory but - 2.2%? Less than 1k people? Madness, madness

Perfect

Bout to do some good in this world I think

Wrote an article recently about how Australia stupid definitely build tonnes of data centres *if* we regulate them. Like, a lot. Well I was absolutely right but looks like we are not actually going to regulate them in any meaningful way. Which I kind of guessed (which is why I advocated for it). 🙃

Correct See also: His role as Mister Gently Benevolent in Bleak Expectations (also radio four)

Real talk, yesterday I saw a woman on LinkedIn complain about getting gendered responses to the completely new word she’d invented: ‘Artificing’. Yes like the dnd class. And also just the… word. Which is hundreds of years old (TIL). Yes, she 100% went for tone policing when I pointed this out.

…how did i accidentally post typos, followed by: why was it a reply?

This Backrooms thing from McDonald's is actually not bad??

Honestly nice to to see I'm not the only one contending with this

Alimentum, Cambridge.

They’re not wearing uniforms. There’s something weird happening here. The ICE agents (are they?) aren’t wearing standard/matching police vests or basic PPE. Note the tshirts, sneakers. Vigilantes? State approved volunteer vigilantes? That’s a big step, a downwards step.

This is a great explainer, and if you have a professional job in Australia, it's something you need some awareness of. Learn the structure: Brahmin - priests Kshatriyas - warriors Vaisyas - merchants, skilled workers Sudra - Farm workers, servants Dalit (formerly 'untouchables') - beneath caste

It's better to let kids see inappropriate shit on the internet at too young an age than to raise them believing in their deepest souls that they exist under permanent, constant, and inescapable surveillance. Fight me

BOOOOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NICHE JOKE INCOMING the Allahakbarries walked so the Rock Bottom Remainders could run

Brilliant - everyone should watch this! vt.tiktok.com/ZSxLRuaRu/

Vindication This was one of the big reasons I didn’t buy a BYD. FYI, we bought a Skoda Enyaq. Awaiting handover. AMA www.bbc.com/news/article...

If you remember when this song was absolutely everywhere, time to get your shingles vaccine, player

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why I don't have a wood stove

Hey guys! One seat in a by election in *28 literal years* does not a panic attack make! Have you noticed how many *more* seats the Greens got in that time? Bloody loads! THEY ARE RADICALLY MORE POPULAR Anyhow, do your box breathing, calm down, we aren't the USA. (We might be the UK tho) (srsly)

Professor of religion here: can confirm.

BEHOLD A $1 box of chalk from the discount store and the legal graffiti wall + family bike ride = Mother’s Day success Hijinks are surprisingly inexpensive! As are low-to-medium jinks such as doing very legal things Not pictured, rightfully internet shy child but he is real I promise

Thanks I hate it

Excellent cultural commentary, A+. vt.tiktok.com/ZS9gfXvkR/

The Dawkins thing is giving strong Arthur Conan Doyle vibes.

Recession tornado siren.

Satire! Why is it ossified? Serious question, but specifically inspired by the TV show 'the Audacity', which is bad *but* is bad in such a specific way that it might point to a bigger economy-meets-culture moment than just sucking normally would. Thread...

Thank you, random album generator that I built in Claude not-code, for re-reminding me how much I god damn love Smokey Robinson. Have a treat, jump in, listen to a perfect three minutes. Go on. Enjoy yourself. music.youtube.com/watch?v=HnJN...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Literally the same people.

Weird that it took me this long to get into metal properly tbh (Fun fact: after my nth actual watching of Highlander I realised it was a metaphor for the AIDS crisis. It 100% is. Try listening to Freddy Mercury sing ‘Who wants to live forever’ from the soundtrack now without crying, you cannot)

Me with my funny joke that is also true by the way: (Guys do you guys know anything about the history of suffragette terrorism by the way) (apropos of everything)

A career advisor looked at my expected ATAR (the score out of 100 we get at the end of school) and said ‘you’ll do law’. I thought ‘no I won’t.’ Purely because she told me to and for no other reason. I did not do law THANK GOD (Married a bloody lawyer though)

Incorrect! This is the replacement of that tree! Also he killed most of the royal family before killing himself, full ‘red wedding’ situation, the catalyst was realising that the rebellion existed and would win on the same day. One daughter survived so the her arm chopped off!

I do not feed this magpie. This is a wild magpie. The magpie disagrees on both counts.

If you see this, quote with a picture of you in glasses

Have to hand it to the Australian government, the personal responsibility/nudge approach is the only one that is guaranteed to make social cohesion worse. Well done for literally telling people that turning on their neighbours is absolutely the way to go.

In my house we are cackling loudly, masterful work @soozuk.bsky.social