"A little bit of Queensland goes a long way" is such dreck as a slogan

The stupid thing about social media arguments about social media is that everyone who has them is a 40 year old arguing about which site frequented by 7% of the population is more relevant, meanwhile everyone under 25 is on something called Blooble inventing new words to scare us with

I think the question of "which place has better politics" is a non-starter. Trying to parse the politics of a mass platform is a fraught enterprise. Fundamentally, the question really is "which place am I less cringingly embarrassed to be associated with" and clearly that's Bluesky.

(thinking on my feet after realizing my posts are bad) bluesky is dying

When Michael Jackson's HIStory came out, I had never heard of Mussorgsky's Pictures At An Exhibition. I had assumed that the opening bars were original to Jackson. I am still embarrassed about this. Sorry, Mussorgsky.

Weird new genre of engagement bait FB pages: "I don't get this about my kid's homework"

It's official: 2026 is the year of Linux on the desktop

Huge scoop courtesy of the Telegraph: Charles was the guy inside the royal family who thought his brother was bad. I wonder how they managed to get this news www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/europe...

Seven Muppets

A lot of threads coming together in this story to make it funny www.brisbanetimes.com.au/technology/v...

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

This reminded me of a tidbit that always has stuck with me: passports were hardly ever used before World War I.

What is going on in Redlands www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

What is going on in Redlands www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

Post that works in both Brisbane and Denver

I was born in 1601, I’m a vampire

Storm update: No storm yet

I too will not be playing for the Broncos in the 2027 season. Sorry to disappoint the fans

I'm really sad that Kudelka has gone. He was a top human being. I hope his loved ones got the chance to say goodbye. I will miss him a lot.

FUN FACT: Everything smells like smoke this morning

Imagine having to do a little doodle like this when writing the word "elementary" or whatever. "I can't read that E, the right arm is no good, do it again"

Aw man! Shitty day. RIP to a guy who played guitar in a band that did not sound like a single other band

THE Windows jazz standard: CANYON.MID By George Stone from L.A., who was 24 at the time. The song came with several versions of Windows, beginning with 3.0. Interview with the composer: pixelatedaudio.com/canyon-mid/

Rugby League should be an event at the Winter Olympics

we came here in search of refuge

"The author argues that the Maronite Chronicle of 713 provides an alternative chronology of events for this year and thus represents an independent source for the early stages of the Arab conquests" whoah

If I was a truck carrying a large excavator I would simply not strike a Bruce Highway bridge while travelling at high speed

You'll definitely want sound on for the first one youtu.be/wtPmGLoS7Q0?...

Every so often I pause in my life to think about LOST IN SPACE (1998). Still don't know what they were going for with that one.

I wonder if this is because of the difference between cognition on a personal level and societal capabilities? Capability and performance are probably more closely linked at the level of the individual person. But even there there's still a gap (e.g. "riding a bike")

Harry Brook apologises for letting the fans down again: "there was never an English cricketer named Harry Brook. It was a prank involving three kids in a trenchcoat that got out of hand. We are all reflecting on our behaviour and what we can learn from our mistakes"

Most people take up religion for self flagellation, but I admire your entrepreneurialism

I've committed myself to reading the whole Malazan Book of the Fallen series, which I am regretting because I found the first book annoying. Oh well, only 9 more to go.

Old Chinese onomatopoeia: 鴨 (modern Mandarin yā) reconstructed Old Chinese: *qraːb 'duck'. 蟋蟀 (modern Mandarin xīshuài) reconstructed Old Chinese: *srit srut 'cricket'.

Americans' insistence on dating things by season instead of month or day always feels weird to me. Like I am reading something from the Warring States period or something.

Don't be proud of your knowledge, consult the ignorant and the wise; the limits of art are not reached, no artist's skills are perfect; good speech is more hidden than greenstone, yet may be found among maids at the grindstones. (Instruction of Ptahhotep) (ALL)

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"If Picasso had a wallet it would be this one" I'm not an expert on Picasso but I reckon he had a wallet

Was reminded recently of the existence of these photos (that I’d posted about previously) taken at the inaugural Kingaroy Peanut Festival in 1959. Revisiting these pics, I was surprised to learn that the first Peanut Festival Queen pictured here is Moya Hayden, mother of former test cricketer Matt 🥜

It genuinely is good and important. And it still represents one of the best things about the Web.

Really sad and a bit shocked to discover that there is one example of bad administration in the arts in Australia

Thinking back to a simpler time* *Australia’s second innings in Perth, when Travis Head hit Stokes for 17 off his second over and he didn’t bowl for the rest of the day.

All you doubters talking about an inevitable draw. It's on! #ashes

They should just have a curtain that comes down in front of the whole crowd when Smith is batting #ashes

Stokes out for a duck and Root gets a century seems fitting somehow #Ashes

Sometimes you can find remnants of what the Internet used to be like: mini-essays, albeit often quite idiosyncratic and quirky, on random topics by well-informed amateurs. This page is from 1996 and talks about the PRC's character simplification. zhongwen.com