If you think the Pope is a radical leftist, wait till you meet his boss.

"From 1961 to 1970, an average Sydney summer started on January 5 and ended on March 9. From 1991 to 2000, it was December 2 to March 12. And from 2014 to 2023, it was November 2 to March 28." This is both insane and obvious, just based off memory and experience. www.theage.com.au/environment/...

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

i found this thread really interesting and insightful

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

What made the Metaverse so funny is that VR was always destined for Furries and anime avatar weirdos hanging out in an accurate recreation of a Waffle House and any attempt to extend that to normies was destined to fail.

Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff

I don't know if I'm just out of the loop, but it really saddens me how quiet Aussie press & politicians have been on this attack. There is such a massive Lebanese diaspora in Australia, I can't imagine how they feel watching this, and no support from our leaders. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Bug I saw in a dream once #art

Windosill made it onto this, and it's in very good company

fromsoft game narrative discourse often misses how the words are very good. item descriptions blah blah yeah sure. but "all things flourish, whether graceful or malign" is very good words

I love the first episode where you can tell Sisko hates the absolute fuck out of Picard for killing his wife while Borgified and I think it struck such a clear note about what DS9 would be: it would embrace the open mindedness and dream of utopia while also showing the damage of actual life

From 10 years of doing chain blocking, including protecting an abortion doctor who subscribed to my private list on Twitter: You find the indefensible and block everyone who follows them. The toxic are a remarkably small, memetic collection of virulent losers.

Nice lil debunker of the "half of Americans read at a sixth grade level" stat x.com/ehaspel/stat...

Reach adulthood and find that I don't want a fairy godmother b/c I want free ballgowns, I'd just like to be able to get ready without it involving shopping, laundry, ironing, doing my hair/makeup etc etc. Instant outfit and styling is the dream

the fundamental problem here is assuming that your experience with a service is the common experience people have with a service. it's usually not true!

I want to write about the aesthetics of plenty, muchness and excess in games but I'm having trouble figuring out my angle

I think where my friends and I are at is that we’re going to play this til the wheels fall off and get as much as we can in whatever time we have with it

My painting SOUTHERN UTAH

The worst thing about this story is just how little the country has done to prepare for fossil fuel cost shocks. We have dragged our feet for decades, slowed getting off fossil fuels, and now ordinary people suffer www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Sceptical about this. And about the "most teachers are using it" stuff that actually seems like a bigger deal than the headline, which comes in halfway through the article.

basically none of the solar existed before 2020 and none of the batteries existed before 2024. biggest technological revolution of our lifetime:

decorative buildings good

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I think reactivity to a roleplay choice or immersive sim choice is actually mostly the only thing players care about.

Tall buildings good

"you're doing important work here"

A recent issue of Natural History magazine has a feature on tropical katydids Incredible creatures! Hard to decide which were the most amazing, but these lichen katydids are *next level*

There’s an increasingly rare type of longform journalism I appreciate, which is a methodical unpacking of the catastrophic systemic failures behind a particular tragedy. Langewiesche was particularly great at this; the below is one such piece.

one thing that always amuses me is when someone posting on reddit writes “it would be cool if this upcoming game did X” and then I immediately flash to a postmortem from half a decade ago that’s like “doing X ended up not being very effective”

The authentic sound of ancient musical instruments. Hear what the ancients hear. #music #ancientinstruments

Did someone finally tell her how many Lebanese Australians there are, and which electorates they live in?

Or maybe it has? getting conflicting info. www.afr.com/politics/pet...

I feel like a lot of people think "X is a fascist brainwashing engine but it's still more useful than Bluesky because more people use it" is an argument for staying on X rather than an urgent moral argument for leaving it.

Sad fact I just learned: Sydney hasn't had any recorded increase in Public Transit use or decrease in traffic since petrol prices increased.

What is so baffling is not only do games with massive budgets like Legend of Zelda demonstrate how you can have dialogue with no VO at all, but it’s weird that they think the game is enhanced by a form of generative sounds that are *not expressed by a human for human ears*, that’s the point of VO.

This is soooo stupid and soooo funny, I love it

This is a great article about how shit the cycling infrastructure is in the Inner West. The mayor: "We have some of the oldest roads in Sydney, they weren't designed for active transport" What bollocks, the roads are older than cars, they were designed only for active transport and we want them back

This came up in my recommendations (again) and it's entirely unreasonable how well it works slowed down like this. youtu.be/doz1QJ7LwjA?...

Car accidents are still the leading cause of death for Australian children. Why aren't we saying more should be done to stop those preventable deaths and injuries?

Just the story of his name is one of the coolest things of all time

Many people struggle to understand why billionaires want more money But it's not about money, if they wanted money they would have stopped at $100-200m It's about control and power, they want to control everything and have power over everyone So they will never be rich enough

Behind the headlines ("Please use PT!"; "Free PT!") the VFF correctly identified that more PT services are needed to help people to switch. It's not just about capacity, it's also about boosting frequency (especially outside peak) to make it time-competitive with driving.

Metacritic's stated goal is to provide a universal scoring system on which all games can be compared with an easy-to-read number. But to actually read a Meta-score, you need a comical understanding of games media/PR. Ex: 81 for AAA game with targeted outlets < 72 for AA game with minimal PR

I've been saying this for a while: Bullying CORPORATIONS is good and works. Bullying a regular person who bought in - even for a moment - to the LARGEST, MOST AGGRESSIVE MARKETING PUSH IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND is probably going overboard. It sucks. It is likely to suck for some time yet to come.

I don't think I was meant to see hemmingway's 6 word story quite so often

FOI reveals Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan & Kevin Hogan have all accessed the government's small-scale renewable energy scheme which provides funding for rooftop solar, solar batteries, solar water heaters & air-sourced heat pumps. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...