Straya, where everything tries to kill you. #Australia #AussieWildlife

Source: andymasley.substack.com/p/data-cente...

this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Our “radical” is their Tuesday. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Americans already do this. I saw something quoted as “31.4 ounces” the other day. Using decimals with your ridiculous non-metric measurement system is cheating.

It’s goon, but I’ll accept this if you wanna be fancy.

"Everything not a sheep is dangerous" works pretty well for Australia too, tbf

“It’s the constitution. It’s Mabo. It’s justice. It’s law. It’s the vibe-coding, Your Honour.”

Can confirm. I was just past my 53rd birthday. And then going from knowing the biology of sex determination being a bit fuzzy (bimodal distribution, shared traits, no one single definition etc) to *living* with the fallout from it and forced to be conscious of it every day IS A COMPLETE HEADFUCK.

Ryanair: when every passenger has “priority boarding” no passenger has priority boarding.

Wonder why this scene looks so familiar... #WildlifeWednesday 🐦🐕

Repair Video xkcd.com/3163/

Burying the lede here, Flea is Australian? Dafuq?!

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

It’s not just a baggage claim. It’s a baggage FACT.

Pfft, Barcelona. Stop throwing a hissy fit, that’s not even real rain.

Better than the muppets we have running the show here now.

I have half-joked with friends that the key to building an unstoppable political machine is to just encourage hot people to run. the left would absolutely dominate for generations

Trump Imposes 25% Tariff On Chinese-Made Trump Products

My most Australianist political take is that compulsory voting is Good, Actually and everywhere (especially places where people reflexively say, “you couldn’t do that here!”), should adopt it.

Harold D. Craft Jr.'s 1970 PhD thesis, "Radio Observations of the Pulse Profiles and Dispersion Measures of Twelve Pulsars". Page 215 I am getting some Unknown Pleasure from this....

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Yes, but crucially, you have to find someone better to run against him first.

"The day NYC elects a Muslim Mayor will be the day I die." --Dick Cheney probably

i can’t believe a good thing happened we should do this more often

“Whatever could be causing a loneliness epidemic?” you ask the internet, sitting in a driverless car wearing headphones that you never take off in public, as an anonymous shopper makes contactless delivery of your meal kits using the keypad entry of your condo atop empty ground floor retail space

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

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29 years ago today, Jamiroquai released the music video for 'Virtual Insanity'

Oh he is good

[Dick Cheney's final breath] Tell my family I loved...war crimes

I have been informed by the front desk that it is impossible to turn the light in my hotel bathroom off. It’s on a sensor. So when I get up to take a piss in the middle of the night, I get blinded. Designers should be sentenced to use their designs.

i hope this is how you find out about dick cheney

I note many Americans here are reacting to news of Dick Cheney's death about the way Brits reacted when Thatcher died.

Him and his mates were something worse than malicious, calculating schemers: they were blundering clueless fuckheads in charge of the world’s mightiest military machine, and it went more or less exactly as you’d expect. Watch obits to see how few people are willing to admit they themselves fucked it

I will support any New York mayoral candidate who admits bodegas are just convenience stores and everywhere in the world has them

Someone replied that it‘s always been this way but media consolidation into a tiny number of corporations mostly controlled by people with truly boggling wealth (not “rich” so much as “basically aliens“) is, yes, a real thing with effects.

“What size is a 12" frying pan?” seems like a stupid question but it is apparently impossible to answer: https://gsioutdoors.com/products/guidecast-frying-pan (What’s the rim diameter? What’s the diameter of the contact patch? What’s its mass? Handle length? At most one of those is specified.)

Most importantly, the Chinese names are homophonous with "Zohran Kwame" when pronounced in both Cantonese (the spoken language used by first-wave Chinese immigrants from the South) and Mandarin (the spoken language used by new-wave Chinese immigrants from the North). What an absolute masterstroke.

Thousands of freshly spray-tanned punters have descended on Flemington with an unspoken yet universally understood goal of getting absolutely, unapologetically Barnaby-ed.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

Offering me a €250 Bahn Card 50 for €50 might even be a good way to get me on the train, Deutsche Bahn. Or at least make me think that it would be. Well played.

Bumped into the sister of my arch enemy yesterday. My nemesister.

Word of the Day: ANTIMETABOLE - a rhetorical device when words are repeated in successive clauses, but swapped. For instance JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", or Snoop Dogg's "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind."

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

I wonder if Malcolm Turnbull feels a jab of pain everytime the NBN goes down here and the Teen slides another pin into his Voodoo Doll.