Seeing the sights in Kyoto.

Titan II ICBM, Launch Complex 571-7, Sahuarita, AZ, 2009. Over a megaton of pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/4185185541 #photography

Local invertebrate life of the showy sort. Clockwise from top left: Beautiful Demoiselle, Black Hawker, Small Copper and Ginger Miner.

Three dollar bottle of whiskey from the chemist on the corner? This is a civilised country. #japan

Kick!

Sitting near the regional art gallery in Nara, Japan and my phone just connected to the eduroam network like I'm at work. I didn't realise that it was a global thing. Museums FTW!

RE: https://mastodon.online/@BrentToderian/116841799092682308 Quoted with #alttext4you A cartoon showing 3 people crammed into a bus stop, a cyclist in a narrow bike path, a bus jammed full of people, and a car with a single occupant that takes up as much space as the bus, or the bus stop plus […]

God god god burger anyone? #osakafood

Me putting dog jumper on my whippet being careful not to get her claws stuck in the sleeves: it's a good thing that we had kids to practice on, so we know how to take care of dogs.

Well that's one fewer Windows11 machine on the planet. Good deed: done ✓

Hey about to install CachyOS on a spare laptop, just checking to make sure they're not nazis or anything, because you know, *waves hands at all of it, just all of it* #linux #cachyos #askfedi

I put it to you that no reasonable person should be forced to "get up" or "do the things" when it's freezing cold, pouring with rain, and there's a small dog who snuck under the covers patiently licking my knee for reasons only she knows. #whippet

True tho

The building where my partner's studio is has this next to all the fire Alan panels. It looks like in the event of a fire all the first responders get presents. #whatisthisthing

We are now up to 19 organisations around the world who are a part of https://www.stopkillingtheinternet.net/ it’s been a huge amount of work helping to found this organisation. Also so exciting as it seems to be resonating with people that there is a need for a global movement to push for […]

(LONG POST) Fell down a fascinating rabbit hole today about a few little boys and a little girl in ancient China about 2100 years ago. Emperor Wu went mad with paranoia in his old age, accusing everyone of using witchcraft against him. This led to him needlessly launching attacks on his own […]

RE: https://aus.social/@RustyFreewheel/116831254900623479 Quoted with #alttextforyou Westside Social Rides Rides ranging from 70K to 200K starting from Werribee railway station. Mixture of back roads, bike paths and gravel; exploring Werribee South, Werribee River, Little River, the You Yangs […]

Hmmm, feels like it's been going down quicker than that. Plot from the Australian Academy of Science's "Restore Science" campaign, asking people to write to the MPs and Senators saying they want to see the decades long decline in Australian science funding to be […] [Original post on aus.social]

🔋 Finland's 'sand battery' survived its first brutal winter. But the viral story gets one big thing wrong. What's real: - Polar Night Energy built a commercial thermal battery in Pornainen, Finland (5,000 people) - 2,000 tons of crushed soapstone heated to 500-600C - 1 MW power, 100 MWh […]

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I feel like the way some folks are expressing annoyance with the goose discourse, that they're not viscerally connecting with the symbolism the way most of us are. 🤔 Like, I *feel* this meme. It's representative of my whole life, of having my lifeforce sucked out of me by parasites until I'm […]

There two wolves inside you. Did you never learn only to use wolves with flared bases. I’m sorry but this is going on r/erpics

Foggy doggy. On the usual midnight run. #dogsofmastodon

A few months ago, I ran out of caraway seeds and struggled to find some in the shops. The local supermarkets didn't have them, could not find in Indian grocers, but did find them in Korean grocers. Yay. Then I found a recipe for mutton tehari that listed an ingredient called shahi jeera […]

Hey, looking for a Windows consultant in Vancouver, got a friend, a successful psychologist, whose install and hosting are all messed up and needs the kind of help I can't give. Will pay, obviously but it's a small job. DMs open. #fedihire

You can't make this shit up. 🤦‍♂️ #AI #watercrisis #waterbankruptcy

I mean who're you gonna trust more, the bloke in the pub whose jeans keep falling down 'cause his pockets are too heavy with coins, or whoever came up with (internal mechanism)

One more “Peoples of the North, hear my plea” for the Netherlands and friends today: If you leave your child or dog in the car today while you run into the grocery store, they will seriously actually literally be dead by the time you get back. When I lived in Virginia, they put signs up in […]

Dear #lazygalaxy our planet has developed a concerning climate instability. Our axial tilt of around 0.261 has the sunward hemisphere experiencing life threatening heat spikes at the moment. Things we have tried: * ignoring the problem * combusting fossil hydrocarbons * pretending decentralized […]

This is good news - property prices are dropping in inner Melbourne. "Not all home sellers made a profit last quarter and the losses were concentrated in neighbourhoods where large-scale high-rise unit developments have been delivered. "In the Melbourne City Council area, 45.1 per cent of all […]

Puppy has tucked her front paws into her back legs, and is sleeping HARD

Fucking awesome outcome, irrespective of the excuses #OurMateDave gave for supporting the vote !! #AusPol 😆😂🥂 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Also, these are some stills from the most recent #AnimationArray episode on https://tv.theindiebeat.fm. Each still represents an incredible piece of animation sent in by folks from the #Fediverse and beyond (probably Bluesky). Maybe you should send in your […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

This is going to be an excellent year to go vegan, and I say this as someone who is not and doesn't intend to be a vegan. But right now, with the temps that various growing areas around the world are experiencing, your meat may come at the expense of other people having any protein at all. This […]

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Fedify is a TypeScript/JavaScript library for building fediverse software with ActivityPub. It takes care of the annoying protocol parts: WebFinger, HTTP Signatures, inboxes, outboxes, and NodeInfo. Ghost uses it for their fediverse integration, and the work is backed by the @sovtechfund […]

Relatable.

At this point, I am completely weirded out by anyone choosing to buy a new non-electric car in Europe. I can understand second-hand petrol cars. But new? It's a bad choice on so many levels: - it's more expensive to run; - it needs a lot more maintenance; - the range is no longer a true benefit […]

The useless Labor road safety campaign poster plus parking the urban assault vehicle over the footpath is peak Labor voter, no notes. #auspol

yelling at nobody in particular here, but taxing a billionaire is not the same as the cops seizing your personal property. if you are a person who makes and spends money, or even someone who has a bunch of investments and cares about things like dividends and capital gains, you do not interface […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@axios/116794511203956244 Am I the only one who reads the Stripe logo as a shell or PHP variable named 'tripe'? I'm not, I'm sure I'm not. Somehow I must find my people.

“How about this one? The ad says job includes air allowance and unlimited paid time off” “Thats a trap” “Yeah—I suppose there’s actually a limit” “No, the air allowance. The private air fees on that hab will be astronomical; they give workers ‘free’ air to keep you trapped in the shitty job […]

RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116782120309304954 Oh no, the business model of selling art to really rich people seems to be in trouble, send help.

⚓ 26-27.06.2026 blocage #port d'#Amsterdam Alors que dans le monde, la violence s'intensifie et que des vies sont détruites, des entreprises comme celles du port gagnent beaucoup d'argent grâce à cette destruction. En bloquant le port, nous pouvons arrêter […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

We need more places to openly take stands like Thomas House.

Has anyone in east Brunswick or Coburg lost a budgie? My son got adopted by one today (it was fleeing a magpie and flew onto his hand). #birdsofmastodon #lostandfound #brunswick #coburg

Hoverfly. Just got a new (to-me) phone that can do macro shots and not look like garbage.

I'm feeling crook so I didn't go with everyone to the annual winter solstice party our friends throw. Sat on the couch with the dogs and a blankie. Watched "Aftersun" on Mubi. Ooh boy. A perfect film about coming of age, memory and fatherhood. On the surface it's so sweet but it has an […]

Interesting timeline of the quarter-century that Melbourne served as Australia's capital, before Federal Parliament moved to Canberra in 1927. Lots of significant developments in that time: #melbourne #history […]