The @pyconau #student showcase (in Brisbane this year)is a great way for students to be part of a real developer conference. It doesn't have to be a year 12 project, just a good story. Encourage your students (or those you know) to apply! #python Ask me anything! 2026.pycon.org.au/cfp/student-...

We’ve had mourning doves nesting in our window box for 20 years now. These past several days, all day, all night, Mama has been parked in the nasturtiums. This morning she took a break and revealed this. Looks like I won’t be watering for awhile.

Linking absences to future failures as though it's the absences that caused the failures rather than an external factor causing both, is not a logical thing to do. This is a good example of why relying on statistics alone will never give you a full picture. www.thejournal.ie/absences-of-...

Why is it so hard for streaming services to keep artist’s profiles from being populated by slop? Elder (a sick prog band from Boston/Berlin) announced a new record today, and what pops up in my Tidal notifications? Some slop that is absolutely not Elder. Happens often and it sucks.

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

more train riding

alert CERN

I went to buy Amy’s book but it didn’t fit on the boat so I cleared some space and threw my children overboard.

Me putting hot sauce on food: “Sometimes it’s good to eat food that hurts!”

April first is the date of the first Bluesky group ride . Anytime , anywhere . Your invited. Any speed , any distance . Just for fun. 🚲♥️

The groove continues because of this.

This should make your blood boil. But coming from a small country town, it is not at all surprising.

Oh, the grand old duke of york He ██████████████████ He ██████████████████ And he ██████████████████

I've been nominated for a Women Leading Tech award for my work with Girls Programming Network and St Andrew's Cathedral School if you know me and want to endorse me you can add your vote to the People's Choice survey www.surveymonkey.com/r/GTH3P8D I'd really appreciate it. Fingers crossed

Veni Vidi Roti #sydney

We had a visitor last night, she did not take a hint about it being time to leave.

Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park

“Want to learn some indigenous astronomy tomorrow night in Melbourne? Head to the Herbarium at the Botanic Gardens for a free pubic lecture or watch online via YT, Twitch or FB.” calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0...

v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.

getting tech recruiting emails is a uniquely horrific psychic experience wanna build completely unregulated digital casinos? plagiarism machines that give children asthma / detailed suicide instructions? the panopticon?? double enron??? a new kind of cancer that only kills orphans?????

My almost 105 year old abuelita-in-law is VERY excited for Bad Bunny. She came from the island, and for her entire life, she’s been an American citizen! Voted for FDR! 🇵🇷🇺🇸

The magpies outside my door are happily warbling in the morning drizzle. It makes it easy to forget they are the sworn enemy of the Australian cyclist. #sydney

Me: "Clear water, pretty fish, otters, penguins, seals! This is the best swimming spot ever!" Aquarium Employee: "Ma'am, please get out."

If you want something sweet, sugary, fresh, scrumptious and delicious, I can recommend a synonym roll

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Asked a question on a work chat. Got patronised by someone telling me what prompt I should write to obtain the information I wanted to know from Gemini. It was a good prompt. It obtained accurate information. However, my original query was based on the fact that I know more than Gemini. Which I do.

Sometimes, only sometimes. The stress of life is worth enduring to feel it melt away during an after work bike ride that’s just aimless. Directionless. Not a-b - like my bikes an uber or an Audi. Of course it’s always temporary. Tomorrow will have its stresses. But there’s always another bike ride🚲♥️

Trying to set up lessons in Jupyter notebooks for year 10 and the graphing was all screwy. Checked it in excel and it was fine. <Spinning wheels while brain tells itself it's very dumb for too long> Fix date time conversion with the day first flag. Who thought month first was good idea? #mylife

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

Well this is just great

Can someone check if I've got this right about the transformative power of LLMs? Three bullet points ➕ Tonnes of water ⬇️ Wall of text ➕ Heaps of power ⬇️ Three bullet points

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I love this! If you're willing to accept from people who can't comment. I would love a gang gang cockatoo! It would support me in my quest to see one in the wild.

I live and work on the land of the Darkinjung people, and study on the land of the Awabakal. Today I honour their deep connection to country and thank them for their care of the land for millennia. My hope is we can grow together as a people and learn more from each other. #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe

I don’t trust people who put ketchup on eggs 🤷‍♂️ Just…..why??

The Rice Truck Saga finally has (sadly real) competition

Seeing this live on tv as a suburban teen was... Woah. RIP Rob Hirst. youtu.be/QBHNKud8BRI?...

🎶 It’s a long way to the top if you want to mop up coal. #KnittingNannas #ClimateAction #auspol #punknannas

#BREAKING Lionel Richie has given me one of his Grammys. Mr. Richie told reporters he had made the presentation “as a recognition for Patrick’s unique commitment to dancing on the ceiling.” I in turn called it a “a wonderful gesture”

Never in my entire life have I pasted text, seen that it pasted it with formatting and been happy with the result.

If someone tells you to cut a slice of bread in half how do you do it. I ask because An Event occurred and it's the sort of thing no one will believe

Sorting through some old stuff and found this incomplete Egyptian Plover painting. Really need to get back to painting! #BirdArt

In case anyone didn’t believe in the literacy crisis among the kids, my eighth graders loudly complained about being given a six page story and it took many of them about an hour and a half to read it. And then lots of them said they didn’t get very basic things in the story. And I’m so tired.

I do not want to hear 'perfect storm' - nothing perfect about this shit fight in Victoria. Emergency crews are the best of us

The Squidling's fact-a-day calendar states: "When they are born, octopuses are the size of fleas." To this I say, first, source needed. Second, octopuses are hatched. Third, what kind of octopus? Surely they are not all the same size at hatching, given adult sizes vary a lot. Fourth? Adorable. 🐙

This is what, in Australia, we call a "baddie". (From where the Christmas tree once stood)

I guess a frozen Corona is one way of finding out your children had a party while you were away... Mostly relieved it hadn't exploded tbh.

Spellchecking is its own reword