If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

It's going to rock in 500 years when the historians' consensus is that the US Empire declined due to structural factors and not insane racists

Bit rich for the guy worrying about cognitive capability to cite "overpopulation and moral drift" as major problems of our time

Iain M. Banks, 'Use of Weapons'

Found one of these in the wild the other day

an AR-15 costs less than two sticks of RAM. this is a market economy establishing an incentive structure

found this image i made in 2021 for unclear reasons

i have no idea what his sexual proclivities are, Guardian sub-editor

folks i'm following trends for money again

Elmer Fudd playing Scrabble:

Shout-out to the guy living his best life, passed out in a singlet in the passenger seat of a red RX-8 with the sunroof open listening to Crazy by Icehouse

when i realised across the spiderverse wasn't going to wrap things up, and that i was also starting to show covid symptoms

THEY HAD THE “NO TAKE ONLY THROW” DOG MEME SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO

Burnout 3 is underrated as one of the very, very best games of all time because you can show Burnout 3 footage to people two decades later and their reaction will still be "hell yeah, this rules. I wanna play this right now."

the one on the left is from the latest @boontavista.com bonus

I am still fuming about the article and post that this is in response to. What do they want from us! We're supposed to use the billionaires' anti-thinking plagiarism machine wokely? We ARE engaging seriously with AI: we're doing everything in our power to push back against its harms!

they fixed it but the Wayback Machine sees all, knows all web.archive.org/web/20260217...

imagine if they did this for the families of australians who committed genocide in gaza

it's cheating to have formerly worked at a TV station (grab bag: waited quietly for Paul Fenech from Fat Pizza to finish chatting with someone so I could get them to sign a piece of paper; holding the door for George Negus; and the one I always tell about Margaret Pomeranz nearly running me over)

I think Baz Luhrmann did more than anyone to teach me that respecting an artist's craft and liking their output are two different things

we get reminders to restart our work computers every day, after which they are crippled for half an hour while the syncing and spyware programs run

don't forget any middle aged person's biggest fantasy: incredible speed of recovery from bodily injuries without any leftover dysfunction or pain

Roses are red, Roses are red, Roses are red, Charlie Kirk's dead

Cousin went to a cocktail bar in Krakow that inadvertently made itself look like a fetish joint

Tracey Moffat's series "Fourth" features those who just missed out on a medal www.roslynoxley9.com.au/exhibition/f...

Putting together a beards tier list

The new cinema's owner is also a pinball machine collector, so instead of a movie ticket you can buy two hours of free play pinball on such classic machines as The Addams Family, The Twilight Zone and Creature From the Black Lagoon.

Presenting my 2025 paper criticizing AI archaeological illustrations after my 2023 paper praising them

you can really tie yourself in some rhetorical knots if you're not careful

This is a boardwalk in northern NSW near Woolgoolga. The lighting is a bit flatter than I want, but it was a great chance to try out my new paints and rigger brushes.

Here is the video my child's school is using to teach them about friction

There is an up-and-coming local historian named Jacob Ure whose videos have been taking off over the past six months. Next week he's releasing a video on a little-known Australian military disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ts...

Foliage/sky on the right is a bit murky but nearly there. I left a huge margin for testing colours and so grass brush strokes could start or finish outside and not look cramped.

i have the bing wallpaper setting that changes daily and today was a jumpscare

Well I guess this is what's next after AI

let's put it this way he's in a New Zealand jail doing 52 consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole, plus 480 years

folks i tried to build a thing where we could all label the American accounts together. unfortunately software development has marched onwards and i am no longer up to the task

No kidding, it might even be worth starting at 40 instead of 50. Doc described my bowels as 'immaculate' btw

and that's legal

There is an up-and-coming local historian named Jacob Ure whose videos have been taking off over the past six months. Next week he's releasing a video on a little-known Australian military disaster: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ts...

every before-and-after post on /r/bald is lit like these two photos

The 'witnesses' went in through her side window to force a resolution and didn't take any video. They didn't want anybody to see what they did and their testimony is hardly going to condemn their actions.

so what happens now is the politicians buy the shares that just tanked and then changed their mind on approval

Someone's never seen Baker Boy at the AFL final

it's true, we used to be haters because we were jealous but now it's because america is actually shit

every time Chris Minns complains, the Newcastle Writers Festival adds one additional Randa Abdel-Fattah event

@inthesedeserts.bsky.social I went back and listened to Architecture in Helsinki and yeah your comments about 2nd vs subsequent albums are spot on. Escapee is like they took the bass line from Do The Whirlwind and fixed it?

a piece of Sydney history showing up in a very funny old Rose Byrne Tropfest film www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukax...

told ya bsky.app/profile/elec...