‘Capsicum paradox’ Unless a customer did complex maths on the spot, they wouldn’t know if they were being “ripped off” by the “per each” price, the analysis found. In the most striking example, which the analyst called the “capsicum paradox”, Woolworths charged 51% more for green capsicums when […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/115946898997296874 *Me, opening the fediverse ap on my phone, every damn time*

This output of creative film making /remixing from public domain media is refreshingly "ungenerated" https://blog.archive.org/2026/01/21/2026-public-domain-film-remix-contest/

I tried to show up to the protest against time zones, but most of the people were hours early or hours late.

i saw an orange looking robot waddling around before, but now it seems to have buried itself back in the ground? odd

I HAVE A QUESTION BUT FIRST A COMMENT OKAY NOW MY QUESTION IS *PSYCH* MORE COMMENT. #everythingopen #eo2026

Once again on invasion day the esteemed establishment I work for has boldly decided to ... say nothing. Brave, so brave. #invasionday #auspol

you catastrophize EVERYTHING all the time and if you don’t stop you are going to DIE

IMPORTANT: The Dutch invest €595 million annually on urban biking, resulting in €19 BILLION saved in public health care costs alone. That’s how smart governments do the math on investing in better mobility. Let’s be clear— it WASTES public money to NOT do it. #CityMakingMath HT @modacitylife.com

Sorry, I can't. I have p(aw)lans this weekend. 🥰 #dogsofmastodon #dogs

keeping up my oneshot streak with Minute Cryptic, I dare say I shall now become unsufferable. Minute Cryptic - 22 January, 2026 "Add a dash of honey, cut one pea, then spread liberally" (9) 🏆 0 hints – 4 under the community par (56,935 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/

@stib Which in itself is hilarious, given the mutiny happened in 1789. You know you're a prick when the descendants of the people who stood up to you are still celebrating the fact more than 200 years later!

@stib @skribe There's been many arseholes throughout history. But very few could honestly say that a whole ethnic group exists solely because their ancestors found one man to be an arsehole: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_Islanders There's more than one Pacific Island where more than […]

trying this new thing where I make my release notes austere and grim

I'm taking Monday off not for Invasion Day, but to celebrate that time there was a military coup d'état because the new head of state was threatening their monopoly on selling drugs. Happy Yoiking Governor Bligh Out From Under the Bed Day to those that celebrate […] [Original post on aus.social]

Giving University Exams in the Age of Chatbots How I managed to give an exam while giving the students the choice to use a chatbot or not. And what I learned in the process. https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html

so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands. maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back

We're also #hiring a coupled climate and ice sheet modeller for a 3 year position @dmidk.bsky.social Come and work with me + colleagues on the @icelink-project.bsky.social developing #ecearth + #PISM in both Greenland + Antarctica Job based @dmidk in Copenhagen 🇩🇰🇬🇱🇦🇶🇪🇺🌍 #academicjobs #FediHire […]

New Hen Ogled track just dropped! "A flicker of degraded celluloid spooling between spoil-heaps and smouldering seams, Clara trots through the deadly-quiet village. The earth collapses - “a hole in the soil in Alltwalis”: Wells laced with glowing embers give way to underground chambers […]

i mean at least you got 20 crowbars. i wouldnt wanna mess with someone that has 20 crowbars

Does no-one in the channel 9 tennis OB crew have a roll of gaffer tape to cover up the lights? #ausopen #tennis

Well now there's an email you don't get every day... SUBJ: ASWFC AURORA ALERT EQUATORIAL LATITUDES ISSUED AT 2223 UT ON 19 Jan 2026 FROM THE AUSTRALIAN SPACE WEATHER FORECASTING CENTRE SEVERE GEOMAGNETIC STORM IN PROGRESS. AURORA MAY BE OBSERVED DURING LOCAL NIGHT TIME HOURS IN GOOD OBSERVING […]

A good day is any day you don't have to spend hours hand rotoscoping old hand-cranked camera footage where every frame jumps all over the gate and which was grainy to begin with, and is probably a print of the original transparency stock, but has since been h264 […] [Original post on aus.social]

a very good surface, a little tricky but got it without any hints. :bunnesmug: Minute Cryptic - 20 January, 2026 "Torpedo! Boat wreckage swallowed by rough sea around midnight" (8) 🏆 0 hints – 2 under the community par (25,165 solvers so far). https://www.minutecryptic.com/?utm_source=share […]

Veganism, a thread 🧵: Having gone vegan, I genuinely struggle now to square vegetarians' love of animals with the realities of the dairy and egg industries. For context, I grew up vegetarian and went vegan about 5 years ago now, but I realized the inherent moral tension back in college (I just […]

Melbourne has a sound system scene? Because of course it does. https://youtu.be/7jSWKRBWpAo

Taranaki Maunga on New Zealand’s North Island was granted legal personhood in January after a unanimous parliamentary vote, following years of advocacy by Māori iwi who regard the volcano as an ancestor. By treating the mountain as a living legal entity, it now holds rights to protection […]

If you have strong opinions about #mesh networking, please let me know. I keep seeing things about #meshcore and #meshtastic and I am now thoroughly confused. If I want to set up #lora messagingfor emergency / fun usage, which should I be looking at? (Looking for people who use them - not […]

we all need a little less raging against the dying of the light and a little more coordinated tactical assault on the darkness factory

A view through the base of a vintage stemmed glass. #magicinthemundane #mobilephotography

why is there allowed to be so much email

Hey y'all, wanna know what a disgruntled baby owl looks like? Well, someone opened the refrigerator near Beans. This is his disgruntled face. Ruffled is a good word here. #bakedbeansowl #owl #owls #zoo #screechowl

Many of you might have already seen the ultra cute "sea sheep" (Costasiella kuroshimae), but yesterday I learned 2 mind-blowing facts about the family of sea slugs they belong to: 1. They incorporate chloroplasts (the organelles in plant cells that do the […] [Original post on berlin.social]

i can't believe i have to write this PSA but holy shit don't talk about the crimes you're committing on social media, even if that social media is the fediverse. that should be common sense

Ooooh. New sticker just appeared in my hood No notes, looking great 🤩 #nyc #streetart

The weirdest excavator I’ve ever seen! I think they’re referred to as spiders and they can lift each leg independently and widen or narrow their track whilst the cabin does a full 360. There must be a temptation for the driver to play all day. One was inaction this week, clambering down into the […]

aaand… :tgif:

Not me lurking the bushes wearing a black robe and horse-head mask made from bones and seaweed, waiting for fediverse newbs so I can jump out and shout BOO! at 'em.

For #FensterFreitag, here's one of the windows of the new State Library station entrance, as seen from within. The artwork, Forever, by Danie Mellor features historical photographic portraits of Wurundjeri women. More here […] [Original post on aus.social]

I finally made a website for my #music. Built on #faircamp, great static site generator for audio! https://music.sdsk.cz

Is the internet choking on a hairball at the moment? Trying to book a flight to see me mum and dad for their 60th wedding anniversary. First airbnb is chucking 503 errors, and now Jetstar keeps giving me "secure connection failed" messages.

i am sharing this purely educational video for no distinct purpose

I am begging, begging, begging cool people making cool things to please have any presence on the web other than Instagram.

Walked up the path and this absolute unit scared the crap out of me by scronking at me #TawnyFrogmouth

Any Blender addon devs who can help? I'm still getting to grips with the API. If I'm trying to write a modal operator for blender that first imports a collection of files, how do I import the files? #blender #bpy #scripting #askfedi

Status: floating, gently https://apollorecords.bandcamp.com/track/morning-light-mix #music

At the gym just now, one of the TVs had an ad for toothpaste. “The U.S. FDA is banning fluoride in toothpaste! Get your fluoride-free toothpaste now!” Well done, USians. Thanks a lot 😠 The stupid is contagious.