Kid is placing bets that it’s the air pressure not vitamin levels that’s making me unwell. “The first time the air pressure went down in a month you crashed”

98% humidity

Anyway, here’s an article I missed last year about Scope unlawfully detaining an intellectually disabled man for 25 years www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

84 disability group homes in Victoria have closed since the state government privatised their operation to five providers in 2019. These are highly specialised homes and staff are not easily replaced www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

A landmark study finds 95 per cent of Australian enterprise agreements fail to address workplace surveillance www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/just-...

Me too, bsky, me too

Why does the Australian Future Fund hold a $100 million stake in Palantir? www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/c...

Fun fact North Oaks is the only city in the US not on Google Street View at all. A guy has been trying to post homemade drone photos of it and they keep getting taken down.

Dystopian Data Centre Thankfully Built Alongside Already Dystopian Urban Sprawl www.betootaadvocate.com/dystopian-da...

I am so certain something is up with my vitamin levels at the moment. Exhausted and arthritic and peripheral neuropathy is driving me nuts. GP appointment Tuesday

Pretty sure they won’t get anywhere with that in the EU, binding arbitration doesn’t work at all when it’s hidden somewhere.

Goodness. The system actually works for once.

Persona’s Terms of Service cap their liability at $50 USD and mandatory binding arbitration

Remember just a few months ago Altman went on Fallon and said he couldn't imagine raising a kid without chatgpt

Indonesia is speed running Ramadan this year. First story of a foreigner losing their mind over the loudspeaker and then being deported, not even been a week yet! travel.detik.com/travel-news/...

Nasty humans, eating, breathing, living…

Woahhhh this makes it feel so real!

My arthritis symptoms have been really quite bad over the last few weeks. Not sure what triggered it but it’s really unpleasant

Gah! Genetically blessed people without metabolic issues can FRO. I’ve had a gastric bypass in my 20s to get try to stave off metabolic issues but it stopped working when oestrogen left me. MH drugs exacerbated weight gain. I can’t afford GLP1 privately in UK and can’t get on NHS as not diabetic.

🇮🇳 Awkward moment AI rivals refuse to hold hands at summit Tech bro rivalry is real, or at least it is for Sam Altman and Dario Amodei, the CEOs of two leading US artificial intelligence startups. The former colleagues awkwardly refused to hold hands at a global AI summit in New Delhi.

Details of the transactions, reported for the first time, show how the U.S. brokerage handled funds for Epstein over the course of several months.

My husband's endo was like "you need to do more exercise". He has a spinal cord injury. 🤷‍♀️

There’s a piece in The Telegraph yesterday by a skinny GP about why she’d never use GLP-1’s and is counselling patients against them. I think it is worthwhile debating if advising patients against using the *best option they have for treating metabolic syndromes atm* amounts to medical malpractice

Germany is moving to fortify its foreign intelligence agency with sweeping new powers — as European leaders grow concerned that U.S. President Donald Trump could move to halt the intelligence sharing they largely rely on. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/germ...

Heads up weather interested folks. The Sunday Thunderstorm forecast is out, and it is a doozy.

It's hot out there so keep safe. Listen to your Nannas. knittingnannas.org/2026/02/21/h...

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

Iran preparing nuclear counterproposal as Trump warns he is considering limited military strikes

Why women don’t report: Even when survivors report straight away. Even when their rapists are TWICE found guilty, people still side with the rapist.

Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Sorry: you have exceeded your token usage. Please try again later or switch to Auto"

If you ain’t Dutch, you ain’t much. Or that was how it was where I grew up anyway. (We were, uh, not Dutch)

yeah, if there isn’t a road (or other geographical landmark) named after your family, then you’re a newcomer. Also, those old families: as often as not, there is a massive split in the family - brothers who would happily kill each other.

Yes. Lived in a small town and while thankfully I never heard of anything as awful as this happening, what you say rings true. Lots of big fish in small ponds. A lot of networks built round the footy club and the local Lions/Rotarians etc.

Living in a rural city, I came to understand some people see themselves as “Old Wangaratta”, and it doesn’t matter if they’re ignorant, racist, and lacking in culture, they see themselves as “high class” because of their oversized car, their house, their links to the local footy club. Pathetic

“Earlier this month, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa was asked what he thought of Trump’s board. He said, “I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians.””

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

After the exuberance of Braydons and Keighleyshleys and such, I think the pendulum will turn toward short, brutalist names. The children of Gen Alpha will all have caveman names. Grog, Zub, Cronk, etc

Fury Over Discord's Age Checks Explodes After Shady Persona Test In UK https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/02/20/232201/fury-over-discords-age-checks-explodes-after-shady-persona-test-in-uk?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

Excuse me, but could we not make it out like it's their fault? We poisoned their ecosystem, and this is what their bodies do to survive. Crabs Are Creating Nanoplastics That Can End Up in Seafood We Eat share.google/GifOHSJePc4N...

“…OpenAI said Friday it considered last year alerting Canadian police about the activities of a person who months later committed one of the worst school shootings in the country’s history.”

Oops, someone forgot to feed their robot

*thinking about all the captchas I’ve completed on archive[dot]md*

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Robodebt architect Scott Britton remains employed in a senior governance role in the public service www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...

Powerful op-ed by incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby (@joinjeremy.org) in @truthout.org on how journalists unjustly jailed by ICE are exposing the horrors of incarceration from the inside.

Follow up to the article from this morning. In which I argue how Cory Doctorow was right in his article: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/

“Found homes”

Trump: "I can do anything I want to do to them ... I'm allowed to destroy the country."