A Brief History of Men are Becoming Less Manly 🧵

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

A 79-foot pygmy blue whale surfaced near Busselton Jetty, Australia, a breathtaking encounter with one of the ocean’s rarest giants. [📹 Megan Wood]

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

There is no democracy without transparency

Do they not understand that the Sydney Metro being like that is GOOD? What is going on in Melbourne that they need to do this? Perpetuating the same kinds of network critical failure points (eg. track shared between lines) that the Sydney Metro is fixing? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Ha ha!

A weekly-ish kitchen scene wherein I have some tuna; but never the whole can. Willie and Smoke were both adopted from a shelter. They clearly were, however, keenly attuned to the significance of the small yellow cylinders. They knew what was up well before the magical crack! of the ring pull #cats

This is a truly excoriating and well-deserved take-down of the National Press Club @PressClubAust by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges. You really, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 should read it. His words cut like a hot knife into butter. #auspol #GazaGenocide johnmenadue.com/post/2025/10...

Imgur cake day email #11. Feeling my age (not the account’s age!)

MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity. msf.org/msf-denounce...

NSW government agency that actively worked to suppress reports of the effects of lead mining on communities now tries to wave away research about pesticides used on blueberries. Totes legit and believable www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

What if cyberpunk but none of the technologies actually worked Expensive gene editing that doesn't actually do anything. "AI" that simply vomits randomly generated text. Fulldive VR brain implants that only make you hallucinate vividly, thought-reader scan machines that are just more random text AI

Of course they did. @albomp.bsky.social do you actually have *any strongly-held values at all*, values that you unreservedly stand behind? Don’t defer to Watt here. This happened on your watch. You are responsible for trashing unique, irreplaceable artifacts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Christmas always reminds me of Gordy. RIP you amazing legend

Clearly it’s been washed in the intervening years!

Sounds exactly like ALP in Australia. All optics, no substance

A+

"Killing/eating other contestants not seen as a drawback to success"

Looks red to me

Hey @nswpolice.bsky.social this is a dumbass place to park. Right at the exit of a roundabout on a road that’s reasonably busy in pretty much all daylight hours, 7 days a week? Really? Especially when the driver had legit parking spaces nearby (A) ahead (B) behind (C) on *both* side streets

I lost it at “FUCKING KYLE!” #caturday

from the latest print edition of ‘The Onion’

The guy who replaced my airconditioner, said that many diesel generator mine accommodation sites in the Pilbara are blowing up new airconditioner control circuits (of numerous brands), so they are smoothing the power output through battery systems now. So many uses for battery technology.

Cite this next time some dinosaur gives you the old “EV batteries don’t last long and/or can’t be recycled” Replacing stinky/noisy diesel generators at festivals is fantastic www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If @albomp.bsky.social’s record on humanity so far is “strong” I shudder to think what “weak” might be. You don’t get to call yourself strong just because the insult to orangutans is way worse

Anyway, he deleted. For posterity:

@nanoraptor.danamania.com XE, I think? Owner says it has original paint and allegedly only 145kkm. It’s a time capsule

Super telling that the US government wants to "cure" my autism but doesnt have any interest in paying for my cancer treatment.

"I voted for the guy that pisses everyone in my social circle off. He said he was going to put taxes on everything. And now everyone's pissed off and things cost more. How could this have happened?"

Ruin a book with a car: The Once and Future Corolla

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

You stop a thing You give that money to landlords You wait 2 years You start the thing Claim credit - refuse to elaborate #nzpol

Man, sambas really did get EVERYWHERE.

Dudes are pathetic af. Going to assume until proven otherwise that these toxic assholes (who claim not having women in their little boys club is good for their wives? U wot?) also try to stop their wives having male friends Engage in some goddamned therapy FFS www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

We switched off YT Premium Family because we felt the ads might add some incentive to watch less YT for our teens. Ms16 flagged some really gross ads are starting to appear regularly so we're switching it back on. But bad luck if your kid is under 16 come December. You can't opt out of the ads.

Remembering John Coltrane today on what would have been his 99th birthday (born September 23, 1926) album.ink/JColtraneHBD

Big popular accounts add alt text to you screenshots challenge (impossible).

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wouldn’t it be a shame if this went all Streisandy www.theguardian.com/world/2023/a...

Technologically advance a band: Robots of Bodom

WE COME FROM THE LAND OF THE ICE AND SNOW FROM THE MIDNIGHT SUN WHERE THE HOT SPRINGS BLOW

I’m spending this week with my godmother, who is a 94 year old Holocaust refugee. She says “I didn’t escape Nazi Germany to deal with a country like this. The Nazis were scary, but at least you knew what to expect. This government is worse.”