I'm actually okay with reasonable amounts of government fraud. Because government programs that serve all the people must operate from a default accept, not a default deny if they're to cover all people with benefits. Sure, do audits and penalties if fraud is found, but even still. I would FAR […]

“Penny for the Luther?” I gave them a threepence for fuel. “Make it a big one”. “It’ll burn the gates of heaven, mister” the youngsters promised. It can’t possibly be November next week, where has the year gone? Well, yes, sixty four feast days, forty two Sundays, a fortnight coding a webpage […]

We used a card catalogue to take the census, just to be safe. The results were hand tabulated three times for error checking, the cutoff frequency is four point three MegaHertz, plus or minus two percent. Any clock signal faster than this will eventually attract an infowasp swarm. They primarily […]

We used a card catalogue to take the census, just to be safe. The results were hand tabulated three times for error checking, the cutoff frequency is four point three MegaHertz, plus or minus two percent. Any clock signal faster than this will eventually attract an infowasp swarm. They primarily […]

psychology literature on autism is all so cringe. "90% of autistic people are men" 100% of us can't believe you've fallen for this self-fulfilling diagnostic issue. ... and 90% of us wear striped knee socks. "a few autistic people are so high-functioning that they even manage to hold down a […]

The pyrotechnicians began by erecting a small dais, about knee high, square, the length of one of those old petroleum groundcars. The monster they craned atop it was a thing of horror, six barrels with holes as big as a baby’s fist. Boxes and boxes of bottle-sized shells. This was on Elizabeth […]

The pyrotechnicians began by erecting a small dais, about knee high, square, the length of one of those old petroleum groundcars. The monster they craned atop it was a thing of horror, six barrels with holes as big as a baby’s fist. Boxes and boxes of bottle-sized shells. This was on Elizabeth […]

Is it dead?

I didn’t have “time travel” anywhere near the top of my “next grift after AI” list. The chronomigration bubble came out of a confluence of developments; gamma ray telescopes sensitive to the 500 keV electron-positron annihilation energy allowed us to spot the inbound antimatter comet 67i/Fermi […]

Booked my flights for @everythingopen conference in Canberra, next month.

Cob loaf. 500g flour, 2tsp ea {yeast, salt, sugar}, 1tbsp olive oil, 1/2 cup powdered milk. 1.25 cups warm water. Mix warm water, yeast, salt sugar and 1/4 cup flour in a jug. Leave at least 15min. Overnight if you like for a pre-ferment (sort of sourdough-lite) […] [Original post on aus.social]

I didn’t have “time travel” anywhere near the top of my “next grift after AI” list. The chronomigration bubble came out of a confluence of developments; gamma ray telescopes sensitive to the 500 keV electron-positron annihilation energy allowed us to spot the inbound antimatter comet 67i/Fermi […]

We’re not really sure if the Others overestimated our intelligence, or whether it’s a test. The message is unmissable, smack on the H𝛂 absorption-line frequency; it comes with a supplemental channel at 𝛌×𝛑. We worked out that the supplemental channel encodes a virtual machine which is clearly […]

We’re not really sure if the Others overestimated our intelligence, or whether it’s a test. The message is unmissable, smack on the H𝛂 absorption-line frequency; it comes with a supplemental channel at 𝛌×𝛑. We worked out that the supplemental channel encodes a virtual machine which is clearly […]

When I was a kid I saw a one-person speedboat at a boat show, it was so tiny and sleek. I dreamed of someday living on a riverbank and being able to speedboat to work. Years later I recalled this and looked them up, wondering how much they cost; I was saddened to learn the maker had long since […]

When I was a kid I saw a one-person speedboat at a boat show, it was so tiny and sleek. I dreamed of someday living on a riverbank and being able to speedboat to work. Years later I recalled this and looked them up, wondering how much they cost; I was saddened to learn the maker had long since […]

“That guy in the corner, is he always here?” “Yep!” “Doesn’t he have a home to go to? A Job? Should I bounce him?” “Don’t you dare!” “He hasn’t bought a drink all night, but” “He tells stories; others buy drinks. Been like that for six hundred years.” “Impossible.” “Shows what you know […]

“That guy in the corner, is he always here?” “Yep!” “Doesn’t he have a home to go to? A Job? Should I bounce him?” “Don’t you dare!” “He hasn’t bought a drink all night, but” “He tells stories; others buy drinks. Been like that for six hundred years.” “Impossible.” “Shows what you know […]

Tragedy has struck the 2025 Sydney to Hobart yacht race fleet with four vessels crossing Bass Strait taken by Kraken. Monash University Professor of Cryptidology Alison Price has suggested that the adoption this year of black carbon-fiber spinnakers has been interpreted as a territorial display […]

Tragedy has struck the 2025 Sydney to Hobart yacht race fleet with four vessels crossing Bass Strait taken by Kraken. Monash University Professor of Cryptidology Alison Price has suggested that the adoption this year of black carbon-fiber spinnakers has been interpreted as a territorial display […]

Hand drawn birthday card from Mx 24 <3

Trap sprung.

Any chance there is someone on here planning on traveling between approximately UC Irvine and University of Arizona in the next little while? Might be looking for transportation for a sewing machine between those approximate locations. Nothing unusually large, though a little heavy because it's […]

"Dear all, I am writing this to inform you that the Institute for Geometry and its Applications (IGA) is coming to an end. As the IGA does not meet the requirements to be a University Research Centre it can no longer continue, even in name. Consequently the IGA webpage will disappear along with […]

The subtlest Christmas jumper.

"Dear all, I am writing this to inform you that the Institute for Geometry and its Applications (IGA) is coming to an end. As the IGA does not meet the requirements to be a University Research Centre it can no longer continue, even in name. Consequently the IGA webpage will disappear along with […]

Steampunk GPS.

@MelissaBearTrix they cancelled new year’s eve? We’re TRAPPED in 2025?!

Hold on, friends!

‷This must be the place, Captain; it’s the only planet within range of the chronometric polarizer drive in the kind of lifeboat that was missing from the wreck.‴ ❝Any sign of the survivors?❞ ‷The planet is borderline habitable, if they dug in under the ice caps they could possibly have evaded […]

The genus /Magicicada/ is gloriously named; in addition to these well known 17- and 13-year periodical Cicadas—whose prime numbered cycles feature minimal overlap—there are also distantly related but less mathematically astute species, such as the Indian four year /C.ribhoi/ and Fijian 8-year /R […]

Kylie Zahner, of Kenmore (Brisbane, Qld) is the best optometrist i’ve ever encountered (been seeing her for 15 years). Just had a checkup that took an hour (for a 15min appointment), going deep into what I do l, how i work, what’s not working with my current old […] [Original post on aus.social]

@Unixbigot The Chixculub crater turns out to have erupted from below.

Your deadname must contain letters, numbers, punctuation, a sense of the intense trans joy, at least three colours of hair dye, and a knee to the crotch for anyone who asks.

The genus /Magicicada/ is gloriously named; in addition to these well known 17- and 13-year periodical Cicadas—whose prime numbered cycles feature minimal overlap—there are also distantly related but less mathematically astute species, such as the Indian four year /C.ribhoi/ and Fijian 8-year /R […]

Some months ago this wall calendar was ripped off its hook, and was hung back upside-down on the un-torn eyelets of future months. Fortunately…

[auspol, firearms] Well done NSW parliament by legislating quickly to prevent further gun massacres by *checks notes* increasing police power to ban protests.

@MelissaBearTrix I hear the Epstein file redactors did the well known (in the infosec biz) noob move of drawing black rectangles as PDF annotations over the redacted text. Original content was still there in the file. Gotta wonder if it was malicious compliance.

What if scrapheap challenge and woodturning fell in love.

My spouse has earwormed me by telling me that there are no native vampires south of the Sahara due to the local practice of blessing the rains.

I have one huge reservation about this: CO2 is a heavier than air gas, and if there's a catastrophic leak it can asphyxiate people—as in the Lake Nyos disaster of 1986, where nearly 2000 people died due to a limnic eruption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Nyos_disaster

Oh hey; I thought today was christmas eve but I’ve got a whole ‘nother day before christmas shopping. Good thing my spouse set me straight—I nearly went to a medical appointment on the wrong day. Yes the medical appointment is about difficulty reading.

Calculating a flight path to visit almost a billion homes in one night without any major causality violations is hard enough without administrations that treat atomic clock references as something that can get by with “good enough” service levels. Just be patient, we are running a fix-up pass […]

During the peak of the Diaspora, BnL starliners were departing daily on cruises intended to last five years. We calculate over eleven thousand vessels set out. One came back. Legend tells that the _Axiom_ was sent order A115 (remain on cruise, do not return to earth). Dark whispers say that […]

Summer lunch: corn chips with homemade salsa and guacamole.

During the peak of the Diaspora, BnL starliners were departing daily on cruises intended to last five years. We calculate over eleven thousand vessels set out. One came back. Legend tells that the _Axiom_ was sent order A115 (remain on cruise, do not return to earth). Dark whispers say that […]

First time setting up a christmas tree since getting the voidkittehs

“Ow my head!” “Big night?” “You might say that. Met a girl, went back to her ship…” “Got lucky?” “Blew my fuses; skipped a line in the checklist— turned out she was center negative” #tootfic #microfiction #poweronstorytoot