Writing a book describing various likely undiagnosed mental health issues isn’t particularly sensible of me.

Back to the usual degree of difficulty. Unzoomed #677 4/6 🔴🔴🟡🟢⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

If the ICC Theatre is being renamed after Tiktok does that mean from next month no one under 16 years of age will be allowed in? www.mediaweek.com.au/icc-sydney-t...

Bazball.

"...in 1991 there were approximately 1,150 short-stay beds available in Sydney's four main shelters for those experiencing homelessness. Now, she said, there were less than 300 temporary beds available, with walk-up psychiatric care also limited." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

"We got a bunch of middle-aged politicians who have no experience in this choosing to have a say over young people.” Teen activists say they've used social media to share their stories and politically organise. They fear the ban will silence their voice www.crikey.com.au/20...

Amazing how this new social media/mobile phone attention span effect is now spreading backwards in time

Dear Americans, European & American colonialism in Africa and Asia was broken with the assistance of the _USSR_, _PRC_, & _India_. The communists/socialists backed the independence movements, traded with them when they overthrew the French/English/etc overlords, and recognised free states in the UN

The 2018 strawberry needle saga

Writing progress: I’m back home, spending the weekend shaking off the Bornhoffen flu, and when I get back to school on Monday, for some reason I’m going to make a scornful remark to my best mate about his team losing the FA Cup final. (I don’t think I’ll include that though)

That was damn easy. Unzoomed #676 1/6 🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

Gender is a spectrum from just wanting have fun to being back in town, and to varying degrees, each of us contains attributes of both, which is a beautiful thing

Interesting, now we can see where the accounts are based.

Waiting for messages before I can move on to the next step.

Can confirm it is a great day for the English cricket team: they have not lost a single wicket!

If you think Cyclone Fina was intense, just wait for Cyclone Fifa and Cyclone Ioc.

I’m keen to get back to my writing when I get home. Left off at the point where everyone had contracted the Bornhoffen flu, and we’re about to take the bus home.

Made a few mistakes here. Unzoomed #675 5/6 🔴🔴🟡🔴🟢⚪️ unzoomed.com

“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”

I admit to not having a political science degree, but I never realised Australia’s two party system was meant to efficiently organise the population???

the (rail replacement) vengabus is coming and everybody's grumbling some routes have been amended journey times are extended

That’s not an ideal preparation for a game.

Y’know how Sydney Ferries have the announcement welcoming you on board an ‘iconic Sydney ferry’. Other cities should have that. ‘Welcome aboard an iconic Melbourne tram.’ ‘Welcome on board an iconic Adelaide O-bahn bus.’ ‘Welcome on board the iconic Brisbane Metro.’

If you mean politics: The Australian government joined in an illegal and immoral war. If you mean shitposting: It’s what the people I met in politics were doing.

My favoured conspiracy theory is that they actually stopped making chiko rolls in 1991 and we’ve just been working through a massive strategic stockpile ever since

Trading places www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

if there’s one lesson for progressives from the MAGA decade, it’s that they shouldn’t be tricked into being the defenders of institutions by virtue of polarisation. Public trust is not earned by telling people they should trust things, it’s by making something or someone worth trusting

When pregnant woman boarded a subway car, 38% of the time someone offered her a seat. If someone dressed as Batman was also in the car it rose to 68%. phys.org/news/2025-11...

Definitely plan for a fair bit of additional travel time if heading to events in western Sydney today.

Stupid city, can’t even run the trains on the weekend I’m here.

After listening to @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social & @scottmitchell.bsky.social's latest podcast I just wanted to point out I have a number of great suggestions for the ABC's next slate of programming.

Maps like that really give me an itch for learning some smaller language... If only I had the time, gosh. So many fun alternative realities here!!.

Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.

Isn't this basically the United Kingdom?

Unzoomed #673 4/6 🔴🟡🟡🟢⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

I’m old enough to remember when test cricketers wore white, rather than numbers and sponsors logos.

Flight took off 10 mins early and landed 30 mins early. Almost got here early enough to have been able to make it to the lunch appointment I had to skip!

Today’s flight started boarding 5 mins before check-in closed. Never seen that before.

In other words, Putin isn’t ready to end the war yet.

Surely trial by jury *is* the system

It’s funny and also a textbook reminder that the system prompts always mean a corporate agenda decides to push a language model toward specific kinds of outputs. Never objective. Always framing. Always serving an industrial purpose beyond the typical user’s control.

Ok so if my book gets published it’ll need to include content warnings and disclaimers advising people to seek support if it raises any issues for them.

Just realised the items I wish I’d kept for the current stage of my writing I actually only threw away in 2009. I even posted on Facebook about throwing them out!

It’s about time I change my hairstyle. It’s been pointed out to me that I’m the only person in my high school graduation photos still with the same hairstyle.

Look it’s an improvement on tasering I guess.

Back in 2017 I was sitting next to Nestle's and Unilever's sustainability officers at a lunch and they said their businesses were racing to prepare for climate change as they expected significant supply problems to drive the price of tea, coffee, and chocolate through the roof.

Athletics stadium was confusing, but a different sports field solved it. Unzoomed #672 3/6 🔴🔴🟢⚪️⚪️⚪️ unzoomed.com

I wonder why people don’t like landlords

We really need to ensure every Australian has a readily accessible form of government-issued ID. It’s now unavoidable.

Dredged up a very useful memory on the bit I wrote about tonight. Hadn’t thought about how hard to write this section was going to be though.