Australian slur technology is the most advanced in the world

Gang-gang Cockatoo, adult male. #birds

Halfway through my queer needle books embroidery project. First, a non-binary counted work sampler featuring eyelets, pulled thread work, crossed stitches and blackwork. Second, a queer blackwork gradient. #embroidery #handembroidery #blackworkembroidery #whiteworkembroidery #crossstitch

I love Art.

Really like this project by Ari Versluis and Ellie Uyttenbroek. Titled Exactitudes, it's a series of portraits stretching back 20 years that shows how people style themselves to signal they're part of a group and unique individuals within that group. exactitudes.com

Australian journalists have never met a transphobe they didn't like

So just for the record here, I've read more today, and we're now down to 10% for the last two days. It's genuinely kind of gruelling to read a sub pile for an aromantic anthology focused on platonic relationships and get more pieces with an romance storyline than an aro MC

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Witness 🌙

Sounds like we need to bring in a straight wealth tax then. Articles like this just confirm that the wealthy just use super as a tax rort.

Also opening a document by marking the first fleet as the start of Australian society is as telling as it gets.

oh?? it's a crime now?? to be a bad cook??? a forgetful bad cook??? a forgetful bad cook who wanted to destroy the evidence of being a bad cook????

Every Junji Ito anime adaptation showcases how comics aren't some throwaway stepping stone to animation and cinema, and that we should stop treating them as such. Comics, like prose novels, are their own medium that can convey things animation and video cannot.

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

love when i haven't requested or approved any actions by my computer and when i turn it on it's like, Almost done setting up your computer! bitch if you changed one thing i'll kill you

Can't believe it's been a whole year since I made this. Thank you to everyone who's shared what it means to them seeing Pride represented with images from near and far, all across the universe. The original page was taken down, but can still be found on archive.org: web.archive.org/web/20250129...

Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈 Please consider this your friendly reminder that queer books aren't only queer when they include a central romance. Queer people are queer all the time, whether they're in a romantic relationship or not, and arguing otherwise excludes folks on the aromantic spectrum.

Cycling is the most weird and wonderful sport, honestly in what other competitive endeavour can you almost get knocked over by a goat, pet a taxidermy fox, and meet the pontiff, within the same race 🤯🙏

Further evidence that you’ll find gagged scientists and corrupt politicians behind every approval for more fossil fuels in Australia. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

Took me a bit to process how big a deal this report actually is--its thus far the only review to look at the entire body of currently available research. It took two years to conduct, stands at 1,000 pages, and completely contradicts the Cass Review and the common arguments for bans on this care.

Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig

Someone put a mirror out with the trash near Grange Park, and this one Canada goose is VERY MAD at this FUCKING GUY who will not STEP OFF

"They're not devils; they're Martians!" is one of the best lines ever written and it makes me incredibly happy every time I hear it.

WOUT CAN STILL WIN WHAT A STAGE

Oof. (The Libs have 1 woman under 50 in the House of Representatives. Labor has more than 20.)

The latest version of "What's wrong with the Cass Review" now includes the peer-reviewed version of the Noone et al. article on critically appraising the Cass Review. I have also made some minor edits to the introduction, e.g. adding the fact that the Cass Review cost £3 million to undertake.

Ed Husic on #insiders “you can’t support diversity and then leave it to sit quietly in the corner.”

i've been waiting all election for this

The face of slowly realising you are living in a delusion and it's over #auspol

Oh lordy, Jacinta Price. What a fiasco. Just a melange of slogans. Literally saying Aboriginal people should be heard after helping to defeat The Voice.

Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?” 😂

One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.

Greens result deeply underwhelming. The national media narrative will say it’s because they were too “extreme”. They had their most cautious parliamentary and electoral strategy in years (perhaps ever). Being too scared to actually attack Labor doesn’t help you win votes off Labor.

"i cant see how the coalition wins from here"

I didn't realise we'd brought back public executions

We cross now to the Liberal HQ in Kooyong

The original Kooyong independent. Tim Ferguson from the Doug Anthony All Stars ran against Andrew Peacock in 1990. His key policy was to make Vegemite jars easier to open #ausvotes #auspol

Unquestionable evolutionary progress.

there is this constant lurid fantasy that cis men will pretend to be trans women to gain covert access to girls and women because in this scenario we're imagining predators are not the fathers or grandfathers or teachers or priests or cops who are already granted that access. come the fuck on.

Why don’t TERFs care about women being hurt and murdered by men every single day of our lives? “We can care about two things at once” okay but you never do. Obsessing over and working to take away trans rights under the guise of caring about women, but don’t actually care about real violence. Scum

“We didn’t backflip Brian. We just gently and calmly walked back the policy to a point time where it didn’t exist”

There are so many sweet little birds in my garden right now that it's hard to concentrate on anything else. #birds (IDs in alt-text)

Trying to fall asleep. My brain: The Flash could race against TASBot at Games Done Quick because multiple frame-perfect inputs would be really easy

I would rather y'all learn to draw or just draw stick figures than you using insane amounts of our planet's resources to generate shitty "studio ghibli" Al images.

flash drives are so big for so cheap nowadays that it actually fucks me up. i don't want to put a single text file on a 128gb stick. it's too big. the file is going to get all rattled around and dinged up if i leave it in there by itself

The second chapter of Soul of Sovereignty, my fantasy visual novel, is out now! If you owned #soulsov Prelude already, you can read the new episode at no additional cost. And if you didn't...a free demo is now available! gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov