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i was just looking at the victoria department of health's website. their logo is a white inverted triangle on a pink background. their favicon is a pink inverted triangle. which is certainly a choice. (i was looking at a page on LGBTIQA+ people. lol jumpscared)

next up: clothing company patagonia to sue geographical region of patagonia for trademark infringement

buring the lede (well, the screencap shows it, but the article doesn't): the "aborted twins" they are using to agitate against abortion rights weren't just not human embryos, they were also not aborted and not even dead www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Anyway, I have amended this graph to add what I call "zone of youtube tutorial"

If you’re a writer, write “I waited” without saying it. "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line." "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line." "Your call is very important to us. Please stay on the line." "Your call is very important to us...

hot take: if i'm wearing an N95 and am standing a reasonable distance from you and your perfume is strong enough to bother me, then you are wearing too much perfume

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it: I knew one day I'd be ready to start. I learned. I worked on foundational skills. Social skills. Study skills. Work-readiness skills. I knew one day I'd catch up. I worked on my trauma, my age-related health problems. I knew one day I'd start.

Autocorrect, I don’t have a horse. Please stop correcting “good” to “hoof.” (Although if anyone out there wants to start a site for furries to catalog their reading, autocorrect suggests “hoofreads” as a name.)

oh great, four weeks for the committee hearing on complex legislation that will change the lives of thousands of disabled people www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Important statement from all the national disability organisations - two weeks for submissions, only two hearings is wildly inadequate for such enormous changes in the lives of disabled people

Can we pare this back even further and just replace AI with improv comedy

Not that anyone needs yet another reason to steer clear of Microsoft, but VSCode now adds Copilot as a co-author of all your commits, regardless if you used Copilot. This was added silently as a default. This is some next level insanity.

My daughter called me earlier today, having a hard time, & I reminded her that when she's upset, one of the most helpful things to do is *literally anything*. Clean something, make something. If you don't feel better when it's done, at least you'll have DONE something. Time to take my own advice.

my bit of discourse for the day: if you're opposed to ableism, maybe reconsider the public gloating about how you think that someone who you think deserves it is becoming psychotic. even if it's someone *really* shitty, do it for all the other disabled people who aren't him

Someone on my RPG server just said the truest thing I've heard in a while: "Gen AI’s best feature is that it immediately identifies what a user values spending their own time and effort on Unfortunately this is depressing news for the rest of us"

gender is a performance, and i am resting[*] [* euphemism some actors use, or used to?, for "can't find a gig"]

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

there is a universe somewhere in which rinehart called on those giving anzac memorial speeches to pass the mic to immigrants on social media, as a gesture of solidarity. but in that universe she's not a billionaire, and this is not that universe

This is a very nice video.

Oh shit! www.reddit.com/r/solar/comm...

Bitwarden command line integration compromised -- this DOES NOT affect individual users, but if you've hooked Bitwarden up to anything via the CLI tool, read this blog post

Aha! A mystery solved! Paper: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41671482/

I just realized that next year the Ray Wars will have gone on as long as the Thirty Years’ War I’m going to lie down now

Write about how much you don’t want to write it. Really go into detail about it. Once there are words on the page it’ll be easier.

17776 is americentric

On press today www.etsy.com/listing/9524...

Hey, I wrote a thing about AI in astrophysics ergosphere.blog/posts/the-ma...

Jonathan clicked on a link in an email that he thought had been sent by Charles Darwin, but was actually a phishing attempt

"None of this is impossible. None of this is even difficult for big tech who are innovative billion dollar companies." communications minister wells said. "they're just saying it's impossible because nobody else has ever succeeded at it before," she might have added

Hooray for Melbourne's inner west! Wait Not hooray (sad Bluey voice)

timeline of openly queer male AFL players: 1897: VFL founded 1997: m/m sex legal in all states and territories 2017: marriage equality 2025: bi man comes out, 9 years after retiring. cites team culture as factor in ending career 2026: gay man comes out, 21 years after his one and only game

The difference between cucumbers and pickles is jarring.

PinkNews says it is moving "away from having a reporter-led newsroom" and there "isn’t a need for the reporter role.” Not sure what that could possibly look like, but ok

Quote this with your ao3 fic with the most kudos: (Also one of the ones I'm proudest of.) archiveofourown.org/works/35777101

This is a really good explanation of a problem that has been entirely missing from the "online child safety" conversation entirely. (I have seen some *truly* terrible exploitation, and that was back in the 00s.)

the three genders

Pocket-sized thermal sticker printers are, hands down, the best thing to have come out of this poxy timeline in years. The rest of it can go kick rocks. These things are great.

Please soothe your soul with this footage of an enraged muppet being treated at the wild muppet center.

[to ally couple] so, which one of you is brave, and which one is inspirational?

Re-upping this to add that I'd welcome any and all Australian disability history recommendations covering 1970s-90s!

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

If you work with ppl who are sensitive to noise or in situations where a scare might be dangerous: the National Emergency Management Agency will be testing the Commonwealth AusAlert emergency warning system on July 27th at 2pm. Put it in your calendar now with a warning reminder ten minutes prior

I am going to link to organizations that I know for sure are helping trans Kansans. This thread will develop slowly as I either know people or will vet them. At this point we have not heard from anyone being helped via relocation resources. These exist, but I assume they are overwhelmed.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “As the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not man’s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.”