Great to see ABC news doing this - that's Rebel News panicking because if everyone does it they no longer have a business model @news.abc.net.au

Now watching.

Visiting family in Northern Ireland and got restricted out of a couple of apps as I had to prove my age / identity. So now I’m in Japan, as far as my phone is concerned.

The extremely rare catcopus.

whoever leaked that he’s panicking about leaks is the funniest person in the government

My colleague Aaron Parsley just won a Pulitzer for this story, written days after he survived the July 4 floods that killed his nephew. It's one of the most gutwrenching and memorable things you'll ever read. Please do.

But the Met Gala receives undue criticism for reasons that I don't think have anything to do with these issues. The event, which started in 1948, has a long history, which means you can go back and look at how attendees dressed for previous galas. Here's a sample:

I should first clarify some basic facts: — The Met Gala is a fundraising event that supports the Metropolitan Museum’s Costume Institute. — The Costume Institute preserves historical garments, curates public exhibitions, and educates people on how clothing reflects and shapes culture.

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

This. We could be doing this to at least give them somewhere safe to be in the medium term whilst hopefully more housing supply is sorted.

The pedant in me wants to show the kind of graphics the PS1 had, the jokester in me wants to say "Folks acting as if the PS1 couldn't produce mind-boggling effects."

"So did you sort that new Maxibon cookie ad campaign?" "Yes, boss! Real horrorcore just like you asked." "...what?"

I had a weird but friendly encounter with checkout person at a pharmacy. Out of nowhere he asked me questions about the Half-life game, and whilst confused I chatted back. When I got back to the car I told my wife who pointed out to me I was wearing a massive Half Life logo on my T-shirt.

Enjoyed the opening to Sting (2024 horror) where it slowly reveals that an old lady with dementia is basically feeding pest exterminators to a monster in her apartment.

Anyone born after 2008 will be banned from buying cigarettes or vapes for life in the UK when a new bill becomes law.

The toilet in the new office has a sign outside saying that only natural products are used to clean it and there are no *unnatural* products used. Now I’m trying to think of unnatural products used for cleaning. Is ectoplasm any good?

I DM'd my first game of Dungeons and Dragons on Sunday. I completely forgot everything due to nervousness but two of my players know the game inside out and asked pointed questions about the rules that kept things flowing.

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."

I got banned from twitter in 2023 for this drawing. They called it "violent speech". It had over 40K likes and too many comments for me to read before my ban, but I still see it floating around here and there. Save a copy, and use it freely. No attribution needed. Love u #transdayofvisibility #tdov

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.

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.