Outland was released on this day forty five years ago. It is a decent "High Noon" in space, that is perhaps the best follow up to Alien's use of science fiction to get people to watch films about the exploitation of workers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYc2...

my favorite data centers are libraries

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

Ramos Horta quoting the ACTU in the Oz, a brave new day!

Ugh we're LEAVING Australia and we're TAKING OUR MONEY WITH US so you won't get all the TAX we WEREN'T PAYING

@firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social well done, big dog

bad news, your uncle has been radicalised by an AI generated picture of a small business owner crying

Basically every single historic urban neighbourhood that people look at as popular, desirable, heritage, and nostalgic is illegal to build now. those places that people love ARE the missing middle that we can't build anymore of.

I don’t know what to tell you, man. I’m a medieval historian, and, in my field, if you don’t check your sources (and your sources’ sources) you are just asking to be taken for a ride by some bored 19th C. aristocratic English antiquarian with a penchant for inventing history.

I'm emotional just watching the trailer! A trailer for Kore-eda's new film Sheep In The Box 箱の中の羊. youtu.be/g9B_DOrir-s?...

lads it’s that time of year again (suddenly really hard to get an appointment with a GP). book in advance + get your cold and flu shots

that's what's missing from this conversation: an acknowledgement that even if we did not need a single tax dollar from the rich to fund public policy, taxing them into oblivion would still be the right thing to do in and of itself

Excellent news: Ward Sutton of "Sickos" fame has come aboard the good ship That One Matt Bors Comics. We're over 60% to our goal to make this book about memes and whether or not we can change society (somewhat) happen! www.kickstarter.com/projects/...

you can just drink a nonalcoholic beer anytime you want. i had one at 11 am today while i was writing. this shit goes crazy

Cracking tune. Soft/loud/soft www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyjY...

This makes me weep with laughter every time I see it

“I want the result of millions of people getting involved in class struggle, joining organizations, all of that,” he says, “because that is the only thing that can actually change the situation.” www.kqed.org/arts/1398969...

NINE Indonesians have been nabbed by Israel www.cna.id/dunia/israel...

He reads the silly post He reads the scoldy post He reads the jokey post And the pedantic post He reads the posts that remind him of the bad site He reads the posts that remind him of the worst site Don’t screenshot that, troll behavior

Still time to register for this, starting in a couple of hours 👇

Publication in a Japanese manga source is a huge rite of passage for any foreign artist. Tony Luke, Woodrow Phoenix and Ilya were Britain's first to make it in print; massive congratulations to India's masterlynx on their Japanese web debut.

Top 10 flavors of water: 1. Silver 2. Nothing 3. Cold 4. Deep 5. Television Hum 6. Mouth 7. Hot 8. Orb 9. Hello Kitty Pencil Case Interior 10. Horizontal

YOU MUST MAINTAIN YOUR STRENGTH AND POWER! DO YOUR STRETCHES.

I’m an entry level siren.

China switched on the world’s largest open-sea offshore solar farm in late 2025. 2.3M panels. 2,934 steel platforms. Built offshore to survive force-11 gales & sea ice. Powers ~2.67M people. And yes… they’re farming fish underneath it too. Solar above. Food below. Fossils below both.

Been laughing at this on and off for two days, from Cassie Landerkin on TikTok

めん哲水, a new trendy ramen place, has opened in Marugame, reinforcing that the city is now the 'hot-spot' centre of Shikoku. The restaurant has a mad level of attention to detail, the ramen is great and costs only ¥1000. Of course there are queues! #Sanuki #Kagawa #Setouchi #Japanesefood

They sell these, but it’s the same kind of store that also sells sex swings and bondage gear

Coming up today. www.youtube.com/live/nNI0Cmi...

The Avalanches - Together Can't see any reason The Avalanches shouldn't be Australia's 2027 Eurovision contestant

TIL that, of course, the street finds its own uses. You can read David Foster Wallace's Big Red Son (slightly NSFW) on the lyrics website Genius: genius.com/David-foster...

The original source of this appears to have deleted both his twitter and bsky accounts, so here's the recipe for 6 thighs (I tend to make a pile of the spice mix, then just deploy liberally over however many thighs I have, with a lot of olive oil, until I run out of spice and make another batch).

It’s implicit lyrics that are irresponsible and in many cases negligent, and as a parent, I would prefer the sticker advised me when the information conveyed by the music was not explicit enough.

As a parent, you want kids music to have explicit lyrics. Imagine they’re listening to a song about workplace safety and it goes “Maybe have something on your eyes when using an angle grinder.” What!? The artist should explicitly sing “You must wear safety goggles when operating rotating equipment.”

the crew behind VLC are legit heroes. they've been offered millions (tens of millions?) to sell VLC or incorporate advertising and every time they've said, nah, we like that our video player is free software for everyone on the planet

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

This is what happens when there's historically low trust in the Presidents of the United States of America

DO HARM TO YOUR ENEMIES; TREAT YOURSELF WITH KINDNESS!

The big story, I'm sorry to say, is that China is now completely convinced that the US is a power in terminal decline. And there is little that can come from this visit that will change that view, in any meaningful way.

Stone cold classic

Damn, the upcoming Princess Mononoke kabuki show released its first preview video ahead of tickets going on sale later this month, and it looks INCREDIBLE Genuine chills watching this

This really is tremendous leadership from Freeplay, and the kind of thing that has been glaringly missing from the games sector. This stuff is really important, so games people, do not let this moment go to waste.

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Looks like the ABS is #hiring for the census. If you are looking for part time or short term work, apply here. info.census.abs.gov.au/careers

YAY for graphic novels! Really enjoyed this book. Congrats to Lee Lai! www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Yaaaaaaaay Lee Lai! Utterly thrilled: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

I was today old before I ran across this article from April and learned the Japanese for fecal geographer. www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

RIP Yuji Ohno, a jazz maestro whose work still gets my toes tapping and my whole inner beatnik relaxing. #LupinIII