Sometimes I just want to bee

Who is sailor "V" french people speak of? Seems like he must be pretty famous.

Got another mastoscold yelling at me for "using the platform to promote" my photos. For the record, I don't generally sell my photos, here or anywhere else. But even if I did, I fail to see why that would be a problem. Preventing artists from making a living is a strange hill to want to die on.

Why is there no wetware failure?

A couple of these guys were creeping like an old door on my walk.

What you may not know is that this was drawn 6 years go today by Marc Murphy. It was rejected and called unfair and alarmist.

France will cut its reliance on extra-EU proprietary tech, favoring open-source and digital sovereignty. DINUM orders ministries to map dependencies and plan exit from extra-European tech by fall. France plans to replace Windows with Linux; EU open-source options include openSUSE […]

"According to the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO), wholesale costs last quarter were almost half what they were a year earlier, driven by a record amount of renewable energy flowing into the grid. Renewables now supply over half of Australia's electricity for the first time."

https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct "Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him […]

Want to save on petrol? Jack up the back of your car so you're always driving down hill.

France 🇫🇷 Has Moved All Its Gold Out of the United States The Banque de France has completed a full withdrawal of its gold reserves from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York ... Source : https://x.com/microinteracti1/status/2041126982222586302?s=46

With characteristic disregard for science and technology the Australian government has decided that Australia will not become a full member of the European Southern Observatory (@esoastronomy) when the current interim Strategic Partnership arrangement expires at the end of 2027. This leaves the […]

"For me, the most ironic token of that moment in history [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional […]

I think we should start a Human Union to represent our rights and interests in the age of monopolistic companies and AI take over. Small individual unions won't be up to it, we need humanity scale organisation.

interesting.... https://theklaxon.com.au/ben-roberts-smith-arrested-over-alleged-war-crimes/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_source_platform=mailpoet&utm_campaign=the-klaxon-weekly-newsletter-26

Strange, I can't find any reference to yesterday 4/04 #404day

"A woman this country once celebrated, then moved to silence the moment she stopped being convenient." https://michaelwest.com.au/grace-tame-a-difficult-woman-who-scares-men-of-power/ #auspol #gracetame

Sickle cell disease has just been cured for the first time in New York https://techfixated.com/sickle-cell-disease-has-just-been-cured-for-the-first-time-in-new-york/

"Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked […]

Apparently the Tesla chargers at Holbrook don't work for other brands. I thought they did. 10 cars waiting in line for 2 charging ports.

Quick PSA to people in UK/London: Community Fibre is acrap organisation that doesn't check email addresses of it's customers and doesn't have ANY way to contact them and let them know they have made a mistake. This is especially true when the fuck up and use an email that belongs to someone in […]

A nice dashboard of the amount of money we're losing to Big Fart. https://gas.australiainstitute.org.au/

OK, so all the people stuck because flights are stuffed and oil is stuffed should sue Trump for BILLIONS OF $$$$$$$

Also, what are we going to do with all these meat based LLMs wandering around?

<rant>How do you turn off autocorrect on all this shit!!?</rant>

"A fair and meaningful compromise on band progression would cost less than the ABC spent fighting Antoinette Lattouf." 👀

Forbidden Planet, one of cinema's first sci-fi classics, and the spiritual ancestor to Star Trek, premiered SEVENTY years ago today 🤯

I love this bit in today's First Dog https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2026/mar/23/nuclear-armageddon-is-this-it-for-real-really

This seems like permission when That Day comes...when there will be a lot of tone policing. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

EXCLUSIVE: Meta and Murdoch make AI pact and push Pauline's polls https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/meta-and-murdoch-deceive-public-pushing-pauline-hanson,20766?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=IA_Feed #auspol

Preparing to be awake when we're not. #catsofmastodon #caturday

Someone please FFS create a decent online form for medical people to use that patients can control the information and pass it to a doctor/practice so we only have to fill it in once and then update as needed - owned and controlled by the patient. I created a thing called Good Forms quite a […]

[Music: may be depressing or bad] First bash at a song idea, and seeing if you can just upload mp3s 🙂 . Let me know what you think.

Tidal is a nice music streaming service that I prefer over Spotify but they really need to pick up their game re bugs. I'm trying to change the subscription and it just doesn't work - AI agent no use and as usual you can't send them feedback. #everythingenshitified #enshitification

#hottest100ofaustralia Australians have made some pretty bloody good music, just sayin'

Sit on sick.

Last night was pretty too.

Good morning Canberra

Look up.

Durr as in the morning

So, you like geometry....

The banksia men are talking.

Cat on a cool tin roof #catsofmastodon #caturday

Balloons over the arboretum #canberra #ballooning #balloons