Just saw someone on LinkedIn using their own unsuccessful attempt at suicide for content. The attempt was yesterday. Not sure what feeling I'm having right now.

Yep.

Hey who remembers that time I got my desk completely clear Hahaha cool me neither

Ngl, installing a holiday home for my sons pet lizard in my office is one of the best ideas I’ve ever a) had and b) actually executed

In which I talk about autism, because why the hell not? (God, so many reasons) (Also I cannot tell you how much I did not choose that visual, dang) www.themandarin.com.au/298611-autis...

This is interesting. The best way they could come up with to soften & socialise the social media ban is to try and call the ban a ‘delay’. It won’t work (unless journos roll over, and even then unlikely) but it’s worth noting this is the best they could come up with. @cameronwilson.bsky.social

Right so I am online enough that I am *certain* this was ‘morning glory milking farm’, which is about Minotaurs Certain. I haven’t even read it but I will bet $100, right now. Open to all comers. Yes I know how puns work.

Literally cannot listen to ‘the minefield’ when they have a female guest. Scott Stephens can’t go 5 seconds without an interjecting ‘MM’ and Waleed Ali has never let a woman complete answering a question before asking the next question, ever. I actually love the show but if the guest is female? 💀

Oh look a flashback - When I was 16 I was an exchange student in Argentina, where we had a show about models called ‘90, 60, 90’. When I was in my late 20s I assumed the show was wrong because I measured 90, 60, 100 but did not look like a model. In conclusion, I did not know how to dress myself.

Ahem If multiculturalism had as much impact on fashion as it did on food, Australia world be ten times cooler. I look great in a sari and I love a Fiji dress. Men should be out there in mandarin collars, they are very stylish.

Sure, why not. With San Diego Comic Con on deck, it's a slow Monday.

I truly cannot express enough gratitude to Tyler the Creator for dropping a new, fully streamable album at about 9pm Australian Eastern Standard Time on a Sunday night before the start of term 3. As the parent of a twelve year old, you have my eternal thanks. *not actually thanks

Bookmarking… I’m pretty sure there’s a very specific, very literal connection to my *screwed up nose face* aversion to the sneering conceptual salad served up by Victor Papanek in the early 1970s, with all it’s posturing that if you didn’t understand what he was getting at, you were stupid

Yeah that’s… not wrong.

Jesus this sounds like terrible process at ANU. ‘Psychosocial risk’ is a term that was basically coined to describe situations like this - opacity, isolation, careless communication channels. Terrible.

I personally cannot wait for my kid and all his friends to get booted off their nice secure discord server where they share their brainrot memes to God knows where. Wherever it is I sure hope there are random adults around.

Wonderful! My 12 year old was learning far too much from 'Oversimplified' (cartoon history), 'Kurzgesagt' (Animated science), and that scoundrel Mark Rober (engineering). Terrific thinking, a fantastic policy with no downsides. A+.

Holy shit Youngs, this song is about a Vietnam vet who rightly feels betrayed by his country Also this is terrible marching they are supposed to be in step

Abby Chatfield’s boyfriend.

I'm quoted in this ABC explainer on Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza, and why I think it is illegal for violating the prohibition on starvation as a weapon of war: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

10000% My nadir was Cory Booker’s filibuster. That’s when I knew the democrats truly believe organisational rules define reality, not doing things.

Yeah no she smashed that. Do read. Paging @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social

My elderly neighbour fell when the bannister at the doctors was one step short and she broke her hip, started a cascade of health effects, she died two years later. Indirect relationship but a relationship nonetheless.

As both a Christian and a user of ChatGPT - which for the record probably solved a minor medical mystery in our family literally tonight and was gracious about it, a better doctor than the doctor - yes 100% this is an immediate necessity, all on board, time to roll.

Oh Christ no I’ve referred to *myself* as a remigrant for years, literally thought I made it up. I have bemoaned not having a name for being a double migrant and my previous little term is already being used? For this? By these people? UGH

I found out I was good at Maths age 27. That was, entirely on accident, my first 'coding' job - which I thought was in 'publishing'. 9 months of Regex for bibliographic metadata (it was MARC, library nerds, and you're right to wince) later, it turned out I was Good At Maths. Before that: hated it.

News from LinkedIn: one of the best technologists I know is going to barber college due to the government layoffs in America. He might try dog grooming. Its not the worst story that's come out of that blighted nation, but its close to the bone. There but for the grace of God go all of us.

Say what you will about Andor, but it’s easily the most successful Boolean show ever made

$10 to anyone who can find my computer glasses

In Australia the cost of the Shingrix vaccine (a couple of years ago) was around $140 per dose (you need two). Many private health funds will also rebate part of this cost (from memory we got $60 back on each one). So it may cost less than you think!

Yes - the shingrix shingles vaccine *should* last you the rest of your life, and if you’re willing to pay (it’s about $500) you can get it at any age. A solid investment.

I award myself 10 points for recognising the name 'Nepenthes' and having a little giggle. I own no nepenthes but plan to add one soon to my existing, and pretty extensive, collection of sarracenia, drossera, and one cute little VFT.

A question for the hive mind: allAll three people in my family have the same virus. Main symptom is tiredness & brain fog, 😶‍🌫️, sore throat a distant third. We have passed our rat tests. Did viruses always do this? I have no memory of a brain-effect-first viruses before the pandemic. Mandela affect?

Update: I now realise my head was so foggy yesterday I didn't even post this right. It was chinese cooking wine I meant to use, not rice wine vinegar. Both valid choices, just saying this virus really got me. Related, @djag2.bsky.social is asleep rn. Same bug

Every now and then a panel really knocks me out, structurally speaking. From Vei vol 1

Today in ‘Not thinking straight with a (mild?) virus’: I used red wine vinegar instead of rice wine vinegar to season my lunch. It’s… not too bad?

Well I don't not agree.

Dang

FYI my dog is very cute

Guys but seriously though Does anyone have a lead on where James McGrath got his glasses from They are truly excellent glasses #binnight #auspol

youtu.be/GvHgU5k47ig?... #binnight

‘A win of some sort’ 8:26 he’s called it!

You have your comfort food, I have mine. #binnight #stressEating

Today in ‘hard agree’:

Movie you’ve seen more than six times using GIFs. I probably saw this movie ten times before I realised it was a metaphor for the AIDS epidemic. Now you know too.

@ibogost.bsky.social Ian. I respect you, and you respect games. Two days ago I beat 'snake'. I found the boundary of the game, and hit it. Not one single person I know in real life is sufficiently impressed by this achievement. Please clap.

OH NO It's a LOGICAL FLAW in the thesis chunk that is ALL ABOUT WATER-TIGHT EPISTEMOLOGY *cries*

What a page. The old masters, eh?

@ntinatzouvala.bsky.social vt.tiktok.com/ZSrpBrCQB/