The notion that it's normal and even beneficial that media culture should flow through the gates of spotify, youtube, netflix et al feels really bad. Several pivotal cultural touchstones in my life were banned or otherwise unavailable through commercially sanctioned means.

The rising moon about to be usurped by the sun in western Japan

It's one of those late spring days when it's warming up and there's thunderstorms in the mountains nearby but only humidity here. And I just turned on the aircon for the first time this year… and praise be to the blessed merciful god of aircon 🌬️🙏🙌🙏

Kami sama's wheels getting ready

So @albomp.bsky.social is a massive class traitor. What a shocking surprise.

There really are a lot of well meaning folk with damp hay filling their cranium.

Amazing man-in-the-moon style crescent right now. Smartphone camera can't do it justice. Also had a buzzy bug try to fly in my ear twice.

There's something about some American bluesky users with a few thousand followers that seems to just make them act like steaming assholes.

Wow, fresh Arms Control Wonk pod lets Aaron's mask slip quite a bit

Looking at old pictures of DJ booths and the plethora of different gear that gave rise to hip hop and dance music. It seems sad that it's now a monoculture of only pioneer equipment everywhere.

Honey trapping is common knowledge for anyone with a passing familiarity with espionage. It's not a secret method. Some guy with a profile unilaterally explaining clandestine tactics being actively used to the masses is bad. And excluding them is sensible and deserved. It's not rocket surgery.

@edzitron.com Hey man, love your work. Thank you. Your strong snark is viscerally comforting to my Australian soul. I just listened to your monologue regarding demand not being real. My honest question is; how has the chatty-G app et al been in the top ten DLs in Aus, JP & US app stores for months?

Southland Tales is quite something!

this seems... bad. copy.fail

Give lengthy and incomprehensible explanations when questioned.

So many important people. A capsule of the before-times before the before-times. youtu.be/icpDt6aQDww

Advice to live by

Why the spots?

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

It's USian Yurekuru play.google.com/store/apps/d...

Anyone who talks about 'having an accent' as if they or their peers do not 'have accents' is really telling on themselves and their isms and phobias

Ahhumm… CDs are definitively digital. Not analogue. Has everyone lost their minds?

Just a neighbourhood Tokugawa garden ornament in the rain

Make this top the Australian charts 📈

Between this thread and bsky.app/profile/park... literacy and critical thinking seem increasingly endangered. Grim.

I don't think it's appreciated well enough that Japan has a whole genre of cuisine, including popular national restaurant chains, dedicated to rissoles. Especially by Australians. Though referred to as hamburg steak (ハンバーグステーキ).

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

This thread has a lot. Very poor conception of what a DC is. Thinking security designed for unauthorised access and data exfil would be effective against ludite mobs (it wouldn't). Failure to recognise jokes. Failure to make jokes. Outspoken revolutionaries acting as white knights, cops & scolds.

This is just, it's a lot, and it's not good… youtu.be/cx4JfHT846c

A little shocked by just how phenomenally shit Who Dares Wins (1982) is.

If you're releasing work under a CC0 licence it grants unconditional, irrevocable right to use the work. To then get snippy that someone used it is just irrational. Just idiocy.

WTaF?

Edopyon is the nature-loving mascot for the Edogawa Environmental Foundation. He’s an energetic wallaby (because Edogawa’s twin town is Gosford, in Australia).

Australia’s ampurta is making a big comeback. The tiny desert marsupial was once thought close to extinction. But between 2015 and 2021 it expanded its range by 48,000 km² to 238,441 km², thanks in part to its resilience in extreme conditions. buff.ly/Kx58Mjq #ShareGoodNewsToo

Distant wobbly earthquake rattles.

"Queer People with Paws and Claws" (1888) by Palmer Cox

Look at these teensy little ones! So terribly carnivorous! #めしテロ

Anti-AI opprobrium in the US seems to have become an reflexive, thoughtless, arbitrary dogmatic zealotry. Which as usual is spilling over to infect the rest of the english speaking world.

IT IS HAPPENING, AGAIN.

Bruce Schneier is usually worth listening to youtu.be/PsKVSHjres4

Was reminded of Head On by a post last week. So much Australian 90s realness, complete with excessive speed use and language that could cause a cancelling today. nepu.to/movie/head-o...

Watching Adam Curtis is breathtaking and horrific, a sensation of colossal historical vertigo. And the deeply emotive use of Burial in his soundtracks is something I will be forever grateful of.

youtu.be/1pn2z7zp1V0

I really want to laugh

めしテロ

Fuck this made me want a white russian! And it's only 630 am here.

Jason expresses very well this sense, which I share, of our shared homeland. 🧵 And there are too many dickheads.