Every one of those “name your top 15 tv shows” lists I’ve seen today has included The X-Files. Maybe everything *is* about Mulder :-)

Scary how much this resembles the paint job on the HO-scale model from the 1980s (it didn’t at the time); XPT retro revival as train returns to tracks after major refurbishment www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... via @ABCnews

Spirit of Tasmania V arrives in Geelong as preparation for Bass Strait voyages continues www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... via @abcnews

Dog no. 1 loves The Beatles, and will quite happily stand still and be brushed, and washed, if they are playing. Dog no. 2 is deaf, but enjoys the brushing and puts up with the washing anyway. I’m trying to determine newly-arrived no. 3’s musical tastes. /2

Looking up from the small screen to the TV, and I would have sworn that the video clip for “Beat It” saw Michael Jackson dancing on coloured squares in a street. I must be confusing it with another of his clips

Doctor Who Batman: The Animated Series Blake’s 7 The Goodies Rumple of the Bailey Allo Allo Dad’s Army Babylon 5 Farscape The X Files D-Gen: The Late Show Animaniacs The Prisoner Callan and Pluribus (the show I’ve thought the most deeply about in the last couple of decades)

Exposing the new dog to 80s music via a YouTube video playlist, and seeing many video clips I never saw back in the day (music was, and always will be, an audio-only phenomenon for me). So now, nearly 40 years later, I can see why the video clip for Madonna’s “Like a Prayer” caused controversy.

At last report, the beavers had successfully established a market garden

There is AI slop, and AI garbage, and then there is... this m.youtube.com/watch?v=VxcK...

Happy #WorldPenguinDay

@dangolding.com I heard echoes of some of the incidental music from ST:TOS in the first “Sweet Smell of Success” track you played, although given their relative ages I guess it was the other way around! Oh, hearing more in a later track…

Meet the eco-venture turning European carp into popular dog treats www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Critically endangered night parrots detected in south-west Queensland www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

@dangolding.com we have a new four-legged family member, who's having their first exposure to screen sounds tonight. So far the biggest response has been to the human voices in the Morricone, but I also got a dirty look as I "sang" along with the Williams. The Hermann made them slightly anxious.

Also seeing lots of CORS policy activity when the site I'm logged in on, bsky.app, tries to load data from panthercap.us-east.host.bsky.network. Maybe load-balancing is broken, and the real names of individual servers is leaking through?

Looking at the console in Firefox to see why Bluesky loads so slow - turns out the Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) policy is blocking requests to load "ageassurance" code from public.api.bsky.app - and oddly enough it's the api servers that Bluesky reports are having trouble...

Endangered southern brown bandicoots bounce back at Brown Hill Creek www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Stronger environmental protection granted for alpine ash forests but concerns remain www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... via @abcnews

Analysis of 1,300 new dinosaur bones overhauls understanding of Qld fossil emblem www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Race to save Brisbane River's Australian lungfish from its own appetite www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2... via @abcnews

Scientists confirm skull found in Gippsland cave a century ago belongs to giant echidna www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Investigated getting a second battery for my whipper snipper, so that I can have one charging up whilst I deplete the other cutting grass. Turns out the cheapest, and fastest, way to do this is to buy a second complete whipper snipper from my local Bunnings :-(

Scientists fear the end of a European space partnership may harm Australian innovation www.abc.net.au/news/science... via @abcnews

Tasmanian tourist attraction West Coast Wilderness Railway facing uncertain future www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Why yes, I am taking shots at a book written nearly 1000 years ago, but I will point out that puts the author 1000 years *closer* to the events he is supposedly describing

I find myself wondering if a small LLM, trained only on the source material available to Geoffrey of Monmouth, would actually be able to produce a "history" of the Kings of Britain even more bizarre...

Geoffrey of Monmouth would have made a great writer for Pertwee-era #DoctorWho. He's got the whole "episodes 4 and 5 recapitulate episodes 2 and 3" process down pat.

Study finds Tasmanian native forest logging increases potential for more severe bushfires www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

From Lewis Thorpe's translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's "The History of the Kings of Britain". Imagining Ryan George doing a pitch meeting for this: Writer: And then the Huns invade Scotland. Executive: Huns? Around 1100 BC? Writer: Hey, shut up! And the Huns drive all the Scots into England!

No 'proper timetable’ for reopening Great Western Highway, NSW roads minister says www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

Emperor penguins, Antarctic fur seals now endangered due to climate change www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

A really well presented debunking of the claims that the Artemis night side photo was faked youtu.be/-UJtA__XTQQ

The One Step. Stranger on a Train. The Bird. Single Grave.

Conservationists successfully teach young regent honeyeaters how to sing their unique song www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

From slightly further down in the article. I wonder what happened to Harry Cox; the only other mention of him is a reprint of this article in the following day's Launceston Examiner.

Arnhem Land rock art raises questions about Tasmanian tigers living on mainland www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

@dangolding.com hey Dan, Gustav Holst got proper recognition in the end credits for “Sleeptime”; surely he deserves similar respect from ABC Classic FM? www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

“…she suffered from a chronic inability to independently run away from approaching danger.” Some people have way too much free time on their hands… for which we should be thankful. This is brilliant :-) youtu.be/uc1rssHgC5Q

Australian grey-headed flying fox economic and ecological value of poo revealed www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews

No Easter opening for WA's landmark Gloucester Tree climb with rebuild delayed www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04... via @abcnews One long-term resident, a Mr Newton, decried the fact that he has been unable to return to his residence near the top of the tree since 2023...

I'll be giving a press conference just after midday.

Bell frogs vaccinated against chytrid fungus released in Sydney Olympic Park www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews

Hand-raised baby corals bring hope of restoring Great Barrier Reef www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews

King penguin appears on remote WA beach, 4,000km from home www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews

The word "moving" should *not* be anywhere near the word "bridge" in a Canberra context. #CBR #Belconnen #MolongloValley

Scientists 'crack the code' as endangered palm cockatoo chick hatches in artificial nest www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews

@dangolding.com Turned the radio on just after 7:30pm, only to experience 30 seconds of cognitive dissonance before "ah, looney tunes" kicked in. Separated from the words and pictures... Wow, that music is *clever*

New Spirit of Tasmania ferry to be Dark Mofo 2026 floating art gallery www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews

$50 million to upgrade detour roads during Great Western Highway's closure www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03... via @abcnews