@danbarrett.au Every time I order the salt and pepper squid I think of that one episode I watched on a Vault of Horror VHS. I think I rented out a few volumes, but that's the only one I remember.

OpenAI right now

Whittled down my favourite pop #music of the year. www.mathewinkson.com/2025/01/favo...

It's looking like we won't need the sixth test in Bellerive next week. #AUSvIND

We saw you from across the pool and we really dig your vibe #auspol #bobhawke #goughwhitlam #ericwalsh #mickyoung

Can't believe that this is tonight.

Folks are calling Konstas "The Royal Hobart Hospital" because his ramping is out of control. #AUSvIND

getting two video games at christmas used to be the highlight of the year. i couldn’t sleep for days leading up to getting roughly $100 of video games. but today i can use AI to generate an image of me receiving three video games, whenever i want

If you open one door and it has Hitler behind it you should switch your door.

incensed that time magazine awarded insect of the year to "the mosquito" for the 97th time in a row

*Abbott and Costello in 1600s Japan* C: can you tell me what the murder weapon was? A: shuriken C: great what was it? A: shuriken C: If you can then why don’t you? A: do what? C: tell me what the murder weapon was A: I just did C: then tell me A: shuriken *Costello decapitates Abbott with a katana*

goldilocks is about how prestige drama resolutions went from 4:3 to 16:9 to an event horizon of video in the middle of my tv

Old but new to me: following the first link from ~97% of Wikipedia pages eventually leads to the Philosophy article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Multiple versions of this song are in my top 5. Thanks, insistent toddler.

The 11yo is having coco pops for the first time. I wondered if my draconian crackdown on ads in the house may have been too successful after he quickly scanned the box and said, "apparently you can make a milkshake with this?"

Good man yourself Oedipus, how’re ye keeping these days, tell me now, do y’still have the

For those going home to visit family this weekend: • Samsung calls it Auto Motion Plus • LG calls it TruMotion • Sony calls it Motionflow • Roku calls it Action Smoothing • Google TV calls it Motion Enhancement • Vizio calls it Smooth Motion Effect.

Dear Hollywood, you don't have to include the country when naming the most famous example of a city eg. "London, England" or "Berlin, Germany" or "Paris, Texas".

Rainy day currawong

OK, new idea. The social media platforms should implement age assurance by following the 80s/90s video game model... #auspol #socialmedia

25 years later, the people yearn for the effectiveness and utility of Word 97

INTERVIEWER: What is most important to you when considering a new position? ME: (recently transformed back into a human after ten years of living as a sentient toilet in a French castle because my boss finally found true love) Work-life balance

We finished the first season of Kaos this evening. I do not understand why it didn't get picked up for a second season, who is making these decisions and why isn't it me?

peter capaldi jafar: get in that cave you waste of fuckin oxygen jason statham aladdin: you go in the fuckin cave peter capaldi jafar: ah i can't son. only one who can come out of that cave alive is someone who hasn't fucked your mum so i've had quite a fuckin search

say nothing is very enjoyable but they should’ve jacked up the wig and beard budget by about 35%, some of this facial hair is breaking my immersion. especially gerry adams, looks like he’s got a handful of champion ruby dregs stuck to his face with clag stick

i would fuck this room up with one plate of spaghetti

"Gerry Adams has always denied being a member of the IRA", reminds Say Nothing, ostensibly for legal reasons. I have no knowledge or opinion on that but I do know that he's had a full, well-groomed beard for decades and can be aggrieved by the chin scraggle portrayed on the show.

(December, 1963 - the nation continues to painfully mourn the death of a president struck down in his prime) Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons: you are not going to fucking believe what just happened

Say Nothing is a really well done adaptation of a very dense (and excellent) book. It also has a pretty good soundtrack

Some proof that I'm not as jaded and cynical about Australian politics as I thought is that I genuinely believed this open letter from last month signed by 140 relevant experts and orgs would be the end of the social media blanket ban for children. au.reset.tech/news/open-le...

the servers:

@themartianlife.bsky.social just did a double take at the coffee shop and then read a great profile in The Hobart! Best wishes for you and @hey.paris with the West Coast Space Centre, and congrats on what you've achieved so far.

Just finished re-reading Animal Farm and find this photo to be particularly horrifying.

Nice feature if you've set up a domain specifically for your bluesky handle and don't intend to link it to a website. Mine is an alias rather than a CNAME but still works.

Is there a list of tech companies that haven’t chugged the generative AI koolaid?

Trying to collect all #Tasmanians. Reply to be included? bsky.app/profile/did:... #Tasmania #lutruwita

@jerrykan.bsky.social beep boop

in the early 2000s a web forum created a brand new income stream: letting users pay to change someone else’s avatar. sharks, i’m asking you for $10,000,000 to start Namely, the website where you can rename a stranger’s dog

lot of negativity towards AI lately, but consider : are these tools ethical or environmentally sustainable? No. *but* do they enable great things that people want? Also no. *but* are they being made by well meaning people for good reasons? Once again, no. maybe you're not being negative *enough*

computer scientists: we have invented a virtual dumbass who is constantly wrong tech CEOs: let's add it to every product

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I will pledge my loyalty to whichever AI product removes the laugh track from Sports Night (1998-2000).