I never realised that these had been blessed by the Royal Bottom. They are indeed very comfortable and supportive bollards, which I have sat on many a time.

It's fitting that Napoleon's cavalry commander was called Ney

That came up a bit faster than I'd expected!

It’s bin day.

Some fearsome creatures from my RPG universe

It’s widely known (and, I think, pretty uncontroversial) that learning requires effort — specifically, if you don’t have to work at getting the knowledge, it won’t stick. Even if an LLM could be trusted to give you correct information 100% of the time, it would be an inferior method of learning it.

Dave has been dressing in black and is constantly accompanied by a large flock of crows. This is clearly his Villain Aark.

This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood

LOVE AMY! “As the new prime minister of Australia, I’d like to say: all immigrants welcome,” quipped frontwoman Amy Taylor, accepting album of the year. “I’d like to say: land back, the dole’s going up, and every pub gets a million dollars.” www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...

A sign of how bad are relations between academics and their universities. When I joined Twitter in 2016 it was widespread practice to include one's university in your biog to promote your institution/dept. Now it's non existent on here (& Twitter). For good reason.

Please accept this borb I drew

What idiot called them Horny Vampires and not 'neckromancers'

Timeline Cleanse: Please watch this video for a demonstration on the correct method for weighing your baby King Penguins

It's a Presbyterian church. They don't do flamboyant ministers.

Amyl & The Sniffers Should’ve Labelled Gig a Nazi Rally if They Wanted It To Go Ahead, Police Say

The Piper at the Gates of No

Barnaby's gone all "Violet! You're turning violet!" except beetroot.

IT'S '6-7', COOPER. A GENERATION ALPHA TREND. WHAT THEY CALL A 'MAY-MAY'. IT'S AN ORPHANED SIGNIFIER, NO SIGNS ATTACHED. ONE COULD CALL IT DADAIST, BUT SOMME SAY IT'S TOO STUPID TO BE DADA. IT'S ANTI-MEANING, ANTI-HUMOUR, BUT DAMN IF THOSE KIDS DON'T FIND IT A CRACK-UP.

This is because Joyce Carol Oates suggested that he doesn't read books, isn't it.

Oh wow. Yes, genuine legend.

Remembering. 11:00 / 11 / 11 youtu.be/OzNubP9QAZQ?...

Did they only pay Elle Fanning half as much for Predator: Badlands?

Me: "Mate, I'm just having a wee. Alone." Dog: "Of course you are - AND I'M COMING WITH YOU!"

When Carl accepted the role of the sand worm in the local production of Dune, he had no idea how low "low budget" could go. The regret was flowing.

The fact that the NYT even bothers asking this question is indicative of the problem.

"It's not the hope that kills you, it's knowing it's the hope that kills you, that kills you." - Jackson Lamb, on COP30*.

Here's my earworm for the next day or two. Well oh well I feel I'm in decay Johnny Laws is on the air again It's heavy traffic, jacarandas, eye in the sky and foot on ground I see a million sand speck'd ants in mortal combat hand to hand..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0E...

Fuck me, that's half Australia's GDP. Monstrous.

Wake up call for the Central Coast this morning!

The supreme grift of our times.

Man, Critical Role Campaign 4 is really going there in terms mirroring current issues. Very, very good.

Quote with a 10/10 album

He literally has no idea what an actual human person would do in this situation

I forgot! I Forgot! My brain, it doth rot!

I've always found "Wilberforce" to be a really funny because Wilbur isn't really a very forceful name.

Funny coincidence that Venezuela and Nigera are both big oil producers, hey.

Imagine a novel where the narrator is so unreliable that it ends up as a play.

The sheer WORK involved in trying to get across the basic message that LLMs don't UNDERSTAND anything, and can only pump out statistical variations on word-order, over & over again.

The Covfefe of our times

Move over, Hieronymus Bosch

Late Capitalism

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Physicist Lise Meitner died on this day in 1968 just before her 90th birthday, having discovered fission, having been excluded from the Nobel Prize for her own discovery, and having paved the way for women in science anyway. This is her remarkable story: www.themarginalian.org/2016/10/27/l...

Niche Photoshop Meme I Made When We Didn't Know Quite How Bad It Would Eventually Get

#OtD 27 Oct 1962 during the Cuban missile crisis, 2nd-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the Soviet submarine B-59 refused his captain's order to launch nuclear torpedos against US warships. This avoided setting off a likely superpower nuclear war stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9958...

Behold - the Sword that was Borken

I'm just mildly disappointed he wasn't wearing his Radio Birdman shirt.

This pic looks a bit arty, but it’s just a point, zoom and shoot snap with a bloody great big lump of foliage in the way. 😂 #tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #birds