There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

I read that it seems like the right time for King Arthur to return and save Britain. It got me thinking, who would King Arthur support, seeing as he opposed the Anglo Saxon invasion? Wouldn't King Arthur, the Lich Wizard Merlin and their undead armies just push the currrent leadership into the sea?

Watching LifeForce on Prime which I haven’t seen since it was broadcast on telly when I was much too young. It’s actually amazing. Excellent special effects and creature work and the bits set in space are quite effective. A little amused that the international spacecraft had a single life pod though

Je ne sais pas? #🏳️‍⚧️ #🏳️‍🌈 #🇫🇷

the time has come to send elon to the strait of hormuz

we had this already it was called “the entirety of fantasy, SF, and horror” (also I will reiterate for the thousandth time that MORE DUDES SHOULD READ ROMANCE, you are missing out)

One of the very best from Clickhole

"The only way to escape US jurisdiction is to use software developed by non-American companies running on non-American cloud infrastructure under non-American legal frameworks. Denmark, France, and Germany have all chosen that path." I don't see Australia being that clever. youtu.be/GT6PaWgfW8Y

Gillian Anderson

the Allies won the western front in WWII because the Germans thought they would need to invade and capture a deep water port in order to supply a viable front but the Allies figured out how to supply themselves without a deep water port.

Looks like the Masters Of The Universe murals on a car park off Hindley Street have been completed and added to. Very impressive work! #he-man #skeletor #Orko #Battlecat #MastersOfTheUniverse #wallArt #Murals

Fabulous photograph of one of the Cromer Peregrine Project falcons captured by a fisherman at the end of Cromer pier. It is assumed the crab was pirated from a gull. #ukwildlife

"Don't worry mate I'll have you back home in a pinch."

"For Israel, it seems, there is no political problem that can’t be solved, at least in part, by the elimination of individuals."

Wrecking Australian unis is hard work hence >300 uni execs are "paid more than their state premier" Vice-chancellors & council members have v demanding roles, hence INTERVIEW DECLINED: Andrew Parfitt, UTS Julie Bishop, ANU John Dewar, UOW/KordaMentha Michael Still, UOW Warwick Shanks, UOW/KPMG

Looks like the Masters Of The Universe murals on a car park off Hindley Street have been completed and added to. Very impressive work! #he-man #skeletor #Orko #Battlecat #MastersOfTheUniverse #wallArt #Murals

NEW: Israel becomes the first state in history to write INTO LAW the death sentence for one, specific ethnic group. This is Cabinet member Ben Gvir celebrating with champagne after the vote. This is not a government, it is a death cult. They won’t serve champagne in The Hague. (🎥 Cradle Media)

Good news! OpenAI is canceling so many large purchase orders and datacenter expansions that the global price of RAM is dropping.

The Handbasket will never feature a story even partially produced by AI and that's a promise.

Do you know what I would like to see in a Star Trek episode? A sequence where command staff have to give their security passphrase/password to activate self destruct or lock out command functions or whatever and they realise they have forgotten it and have to get the computer to reset it for them.

Researchers have created the first living synthetic bacterium made from non-living parts by killing a bacterial cell and then transplanting the genome of another species into it, blurring the boundary between life and death

Before the Pandemic, I regularly attended the First Unitarian Society of Denver. It's a grand old stone building, which had one stained glass window that has been moved to the lobby and backlit to preserve it. Interestingly for a non-Christian space, it depicts a biblical scene: the Good Samaritan.

That list, in a nutshell, is why "next year is the year of Linux on the desktop" has been true for nearly three decades now: the *ability* to run that checklist (and the time to do it) is a privilege of IT literacy. Most people simply can't do step 1: no spare PC, don't know how to install software.

Wait, what? Windows has a *built-in keylogger*? (Windows 11, to turn off: Search for "Turn off typing history" and disable "Customised inking and typing dictionary") #windows #privacy

There are news articles in Australia about councils complaining about the lack of diesel available for rubbish collection and I'm surprised that they haven't started replacing the fleet with electric vehicles yet. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05...

I feel both enlightened and horrified. So this is how people felt when they witnessed Cthulhu.

Just had to do a captcha on a government site that asked me to select pictures of bicycles. There were two images with bicycles but it wouldn't let me proceed after clicking them. They also wanted me to select the image with a motorised tricycle before continuing. Dumbing us all down.

WELL NOW, would you look at that? A massive, 24-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 1.2 MILLION people in Denmark found NO LINK between aluminum in childhood vaccines and autism, asthma, OR chronic disorders. Aluminum is an ADJUVANT. It ENHANCES your immune response to a vaccine. That’s it.

Most of this week I’ve spent trying to find data center campuses of over 100mw that are actually anywhere near being built and the answer is that most are not, and several large projects effectively don’t exist. I’m not sure people understand how few of them are actually indeed construction.

Finally using my new work laptop's 128GB of RAM to its limits. Trying to unnest and extract all the contents of a large JSON file in a way that makes sense for a colleague. Currently at 80% of memory usage.

There are some amazing new he-man murals in a nearby car park off Heinley Street. Incredible works - I assume they were commissioned.

There are some amazing new he-man murals in a nearby car park off Heinley Street. Incredible works - I assume they were commissioned.

William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things": en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William... 1/

Each book is a mosaic novel made up of 5 novellas. The Gulp and The Fall are also a mosaic novel of 10 novellas. And all three books make a mosaic novel across 15 novellas. But each novella stands alone as a complete story. Possibly my greatest writing achievement to date. #WelcomeToTheGulp #Booksky

My favourite bit of the Adelaide Fringe is watching the bats fly overhead at dusk.

My wife is thinking of curry and pasta tonight. I’m fairly sure this is against the law though

The pro-Israel lobby congratulates itself for wrecking the livelihood of Australia’s most prominent campaigner against child sexual abuse.

Pauline Hanson has falsely claimed that non-citizens can stand as candidates and vote in local government elections in South Australia. #savotes www.aap.com.au/factcheck/ha...

Some of the concept art for the series…. If someone picks it up.

The FBI is now just a Make-A-Wish Foundation for Kash Patel

This little fellow was in our side passage, seemingly unable to work out how to escape and flying around like they were on a bender. Kitty was fascinated with the behaviour from the bedroom window. I assisted by moving it to the back garden.

Welcome to Queensland - the Censor State - where you can face up to two years’ imprisonment for a simple phrase.

FUCKING HELL GET IN www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wallace and Gromit, meet Naughty Prince Andy. The line of toys can only be sold at adult bookstores.

Yet another cunt avoids jail. Our 'justice system' is fucked.

There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends. It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.