Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Just love all of this, the gulls, the fishing boat, the ... pigs, the massive dog and him grunting, "Oh!" 10/10

I don't get the chance to talk about Arkouda—a Python library for doing exploratory data analytics interactively on supercomputers—nearly as often as I do Chapel, so this talk at the University of Washington eScience Institute (uwescience.bsky.social) that wrapped up 2025 was a fun one for me.

From Thelonious Monk’s 2nd session as a leader; October 21st 1947 for Blue Note Records. Gene Ramey on bass, Art Blakey on drums. This session is where Monk’s genius as a composer and pianist finally CLICKS youtu.be/1VhLQ0_SHM0?...

SocMed has done a load of good work for the academy, and Dr Robertson's Japanese slang explanations are the cream of the crop. Highly recommended, no Japanese language skills required.

Australian summer scene. Posted by the Aireys Inlet pub yesterday.

Went to @acmimuseum.bsky.social Game Worlds exhibition today, and it was awesome. m.youtube.com/watch?v=CxEe... FYI @gamestudies.bsky.social

When you learn about a country that is not your own, you focus on language and culture. I posit that if it is Indonesia a learner is hoping to understand, the third plank of 'minor celeb scandal and it's aftermath on the internet' is crucial.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

3/ I don't give plaudits lightly, BTW, but it's actually quite an extraordinary achievement by the Board. Has any literary festival imploded in such a short space of time on the basis of such spurious reasoning? This is such a world-class PR disaster for Adelaide, it deserves an award, surely.

Albanese has a humiliation kink and you all need to stop shaming him for it.

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

Ah, that excellent moment on stupendously hot days where the sky goes that apocalypse colour. Next up, chaos.

Some additional notes on my 2026 New York Times 52-Places to Go pick: Nagasaki craigmod.com/ridgeline/221/

I think, every so often, about how the student protesters in South Korea figured out there was a finite supply of tear gas, and then staged retreating marches that caused police to burn off most of it, before the big "bring your auntie and kids" marches that ultimately toppled the dictatorship.

The eSafety power they've not really used that I will be focusing on when I'm back next week. www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/i...

A resignation letter: "We all saw it. We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed. But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper. In shame, we put down our pens. May 20, 1980 All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"

adelaide not beating the allegations

Sapporo earlier today

I am now asking myself if #Adelaide was ever worth visiting, and whether I'd bother thinking about going there now.

Popped over to twitter briefly just to see Joyce Carol Oates eating people alive again

If there is a Royal Commission into Bondi and anti-semitism, you are all allowed to make submissions you know.

I stand with Randa and everyone standing against hate, genocide, oppression and terror. In all its forms.

I will be withdrawing from two panels I was to chair at Adelaide Writers Week 2026. I stand in solidarity with Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, and other Palestinian Australian writers. I urge all writers to do the same. Watch out for statements from SA mob. www.adelaidefestival.com.au/news/2025/ad...

Well, I was going to be on a panel at the Adelaide Writers' Festival but I'm not any more.

The piss tank on the ISS is now 33% full.

You're a scab for fascists if you don't boycott the Adelaide Festival btw

If the US attacks Greenland (a NATO ally) then Australia needs to rapidly act. Assess the threat posed by the many US military assets in Australia and design a strategy to remove them as rapidly as possible. No one can seriously pretend they make us safe anymore.

Join your local library. Spread the word. Take your children and friends along. www.independent.co.uk/life-style/l...

i miss when this guy was the only LLM

Jacob Bethell is the only cricketer to be averaging single figures in 1st knocks and triple figures in 2nd knocks in Test cricket Jacob Bethell Test averages 1st inns: 9.16 2nd inns: 100.50 #AUSvENG

one problem with learning is it will make you so angry at how stupid everything is

When we look back on heavy and glam rock from the 80s, it's really easy to say "that is very camp". When I (am forced to) look at photos of Trump, I am 100% certain we will also look back and say "that is very camp". Between the make up, the pout, the artifice and understanding of image. Camp.

a murderer pushes me from a moving train but i just happen to land on a horse being ridden by train robbers and they make me get back on the train and rob it with them but when i see the murderer, i treat him with respect and kindness while i rob him, showing him that i am the better person

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

if anyone knows where I can get daily index data (historical, don't need live/real time) for the Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index or FTSE World Government Bond Index - I would find that very interesting, thank you

I've said it before but one of the most revelatory things about reading Marxist theory is seeing just how much genAI automation is just the same old business-as-usual capitalism. Here's Ernest Mandel's Late Capitalism in 1972.

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Doing this challenge called “January” where I try to make it through the whole month of January

Here's the statement put out by Wong and Albanese within hours of Russia's attacks on Ukraine.

This is my favorite headcanon and it's a great example of how readers can offer a different reading of a text that the author never considered and did not intend, but is nonetheless validated by the text itself.

Múm's Green Grass of Tunnel is one of the most beautiful songs I know. The vocal lilt is as delicate as I've heard. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5hB...

Scientific funding is a net negative: "European taxpayers will have spent more on the funding process than on the funding itself, and the scientific ecosystem has been drained" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

finally, we're living through precedented times

"We will be monitoring this delicate situation to make sure there is no unnecessary loss of innocent oil” chaser.com.au/world/ally-l...

Write to your MP. It's not much of an action, but it's something, if you are represented by the ALP. #Venezuela

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Discworld QOTD, from Snuff "But what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?"