No one is doing the work Royce does in this space. We are so lucky to have him.

I mostly knew ABARE as the agency one of the nation's most persistent, bizarre and combative antivaxxers worked at for years. The antvax stuff was unrelated to his job, but it turns out denialism wasn't necessarily a bad personal quality to have there:

It's really hard not to buy a pack of cigarettes at the moment. I would pay a lot of money for a pack of Gauloises

My new shirt design is so powerful that part of it had to be redacted for the preview image roryblank.bigcartel.com

Laura Revell, me & @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy: "a million satellites could mean that a teragram of alumina accumulates in the upper atmosphere – enough, alongside launch emissions, to significantly alter atmospheric chemistry and heating in dramatic ways we do not yet understand."

"Rocket launches already contribute to climate change and ozone depletion. Scaling them up to deploy a million aircraft-sized satellites would push upper-atmosphere heating and ozone loss far beyond previous estimates, with the steady burn-up of dead satellites compounding the impacts." 🧪🛰️🚀

New paper alert! 🦜 We gave wild cockatoos puzzle boxes across Canberra’s urban gradient. The finding? Urban birds approach faster, but are not better solvers. Our results suggest that urbanization shapes neophobia independently from cognitive performance. Read it here: doi.org/10.1093/behe...

Natural or clamped, I can do both.

Besides the show being wildly funny, clever, and incredibly well put together, it also appears that the people making Strip Law are also absolutely COOL AS HELL.

Spoiler: It will be much worse than feared. Message to Australia, & the City of Gold Coast specifically (who I advised for a while years ago). Allowing a “Trump Tower” on your skyline was a big mistake even before he went into politics. Just google my name and Trump Tower Vancouver for an example.

I think I'm going to start rereading Transmetropolitan. Feels fitting.

When you read this whole thread, you might want a cold glass of water at the end. Because you will probably will end up staring into the middle distance and making The Face.

I started watching Strip Law (it's excellent) and it took me a long time to get through the first couple episodes because I was hitting the pause constantly to catch all of the gags stuffed into every corner. It really shines through that everyone involved was really going for it. I love it.

( @mattseybold.bsky.social voice ) Print is a rent strike.

This doesn't seem worth having a Discord account

Exactly, and painfully correct take. I'm the one cooking here, give me stock that I don't have to fraction off like my first year of chemistry.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...

A very interesting article about radioactivity levels in Sydney (mainly due to the different rock types underneath the city). Mapped in detail for the first time by Laura Manenti @sydney.edu.au and undergraduate students Tengiz Ibrayev and Matilda Lawton. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw... ⚛️

Doing things the "right" way, burning out and then realizing there is another option, coming back and winning it all with no fucks given? Yes please tell me that story forever.

youtu.be/382TNxuBxBg This, my personal score for what we’re living through now, seems to me to be more applicable by the day.

Following the #kakapo breeding season and want more detail? Don't forget to check out the "Kākāpō Files" #podcast from Radio NZ with the wonderful Alison Ballance. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots #birds www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/kaka...

I wonder if someone more clever and prepared than I were to scrape the firehose how many accounts would be popping this message out across how many target demographic groups.. And what they would have been posting prior..

Oops, someone forgot to feed their robot

You are here. We've breached 430 ppm CO2. #climatechange

If you're not familiar with this flavor of bureaucrat-ese, "incompatible with human spaceflight" is brutal. What a read.

Google is spending $185 billion on AI this year alone

Portland is not flat, but over the years lots of cycling infrastructure has gone in. Bikes are an integral part of the public transportation network. Meanwhile in Adelaide it's doom and gloom and kicking and screaming if we want a protected bike lane. And it has to have it's own train ticket.

Hey, how about we listen to the people who's field this actually is? Prof Dr Alice is sharing some wisdom here, we could all stand to listen and learn.

Laser ship has a rocking party on it.

The new Aesop Rock album is great. Dude is hotter than fresh enchiladas.

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

Print is a rent strike.

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

A prominent Bluesky elder already hosts Jeopardy

When this finally pops, I hope no person who was speaking down to people bringing up the holes in this plot eats peacefully in public for at least 20 years.

These decisions ultimately structure your writing voice: how you decide what to do with the initial fragments of your work matters in the final outcome that is your work. When you distance yourself from that process, as difficult and time consuming as it is, you also distance yourself from the work.

This is something we should think about across all writing intensive fields. Even if you're using the AI to turn notes into drafts, you are offloading the kinds of creative and epistemic decisions that drive the organization of your writing to a machine.

The funeral for Jon Kudelka was both beautiful and deeply sad - he loved our difficult birds and was a staunch protector of Tasmanian nature - he will be missed and is a tragically gone too soon 💙

Jon Kudelka on cartooning: “We’re not careful. That’s what editors are for – they make us careful." Cartooning is the “rickety shed at the back of the fourth estate”. Lindsay Foyle johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...

This reminded me that I always thought it would be cool to work at Sandbenders. The description of them in @greatdismal.bsky.social books was brilliant.

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon

Some good news for anyone depressed about the world right now: the kakapo are getting it onnnnn thespinoff.co.nz/science/13-0...

Absolutely agree that this chicken and juice take about "kids these days" is cooked. A chicken and bottle of low sodium V8 (along with rice, lentils, other cheap bulk stuff) got me through some really hard, like 50$ a week to live on times. Housing is going up 6.5% a year here.

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

OK but some of us want Lego Port of Long Beach with Lego Container Cranes and Lego ILWU workers so we can try our hand at loading and unloading it.

Due to news out of the US, I got an opportunity to teach a friend about Extended NOHD. Great big laser closes a lot of airspace.

And I want to paint up a B1-B in progress pride colors and do low level supersonic flight over the homes of notorious bigots. We can all dream stupid little dreams. For some reason people still this treat this dickhead with some kind of seriousness when he says his.

"In 1999, I interviewed Prince for TIME and he told me to leave my tape recorder off because he didn’t trust what future technology might do with unauthorized recordings of his voice. At the time, I thought Prince was being paranoid..." time.com/7338205/rage...