Dog stack (existential crisis feed relief)

I wish killing the planet wasn't a political issue

💥New: Are we ready for a multipolar world of research? ✍️Carlos Henrique de Brito Cruz #AcademicSky #HigherEducation #GlobalResearch

Japanese paper artist Chie Hitotsuyama creates sculptures of animals using a technique involving rolled strips of wet newspaper #womensart

It's alternating between sun and hail at mine. The dogs are feeling most put out 🌦️

Yay, the sun Is out 🌞

Both our employment services system and our labour market norms are pretty broken www.theguardian.com/business/202...

There is beetroot, lentil and feta salad in my future 😊🫜

What makes even your strangest dreams feel familiar, explained by a neuroscientist www.sciencefocus.com... Because it's weird, right? You're dreaming of being upside down in a flaming boat made of fingernails, talking to a bat who's also your mother, and be all like "Yup, this is fine" Here's why

Four feet higher and rising: Barcelona’s Sagrada Familia becomes world’s tallest church

Unemployed Australians are the most at risk of identity fraud – here’s what the data reveals propertyupdate.com.au/unemployed-a...

Due to travel & work commitments last week, we’ve been living on tinned soup & cheese on toast. Partner thankfully found time to replenish our stores, so tonight it’s pan fried flathead with lemon risotto and salsa. Can feel the nutrients flowing 😊

#A_NewHope ✊

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage. This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country. #CommitToALivingWage

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/10/australias-worst-oppositions-how-many.html Australia's Worst Oppositions: How Many Will Win? Not-A-Poll in the sidebar to predict how many of Australia's nine current Oppositions will win their next elections.

No Kings protest aerial view in Boston. 🚫👑🇺🇸🐸

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

😍 Boston, you are beautiful. #NoKings

Assistant prof position in sociology, University of Limerick, Ireland: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOX816/a...

Knit/in at the PDX ice detention facility in Portland today.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

According to urban myth, in the 2020’s there were what were known as “Party Swapping Parties” where swingers would put their keys in a bowl at the door, get drunk on the sense of their own importance and go home with someone new

🎃 October 16 🎃 Unimpressed Prince of Darkness

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

🚨 BREAKING: Brand new @ACOSS report finds 1 in 7 Australians are living in poverty, including 757,000 children. Millions of families are struggling while our leaders sit on their hands and let it happen.

Ching-Ching-ching motherfuckers! The official link for checking how much Anthropic owes you for stealing your books.

Two or more Open-rank Professorships in Sociology at the University of Copenhagen: jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...

and I feel fine

Trying to keep a low profile, Queensland Australia #butterflies #wildoz

Portland isn't burning, it's lit

Read our 1977 cover story with Diane Keaton, where she revealed that her iconic ‘Annie Hall’ outfit came from her own closet. “I don’t have a lot of gowns,” she told us. “And I don’t have any tiaras!” www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Disinformation comes in many forms—memes, headlines, manipulated images. The game *Cat Park* uses play to show how easily narratives can be shaped. A reminder of why media literacy matters. #Disinformation #MediaLiteracy #CatPark #CriticalThinking www.netopia.eu/busting-fake...

We're holding brief/extremely informal 15 minute meetings with anyone who is interested in either of these positions, scheduled for 19.11.2025 and 17.11.2025, respectively. Email or DM for more information! Please do share details within your network; I think these projects are pretty cool!

Emergency services respond to reports of an aircraft crash at Shellharbour Airport.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Saw this show last night. Fabulous, as expected. Here's where it's headed next...

“Labor senator Tony Sheldon hammered the former foreign minister [Chancellor Julie Bishop] for racking up $150,000 in travel expenses as well as her performance overseeing the university for more than five years.” citynews.com.au/2025/absolut...

curious 'statement of expectations' from the minister about the NDIS quality and safeguards commission www.health.gov.au/resources/pu...

Mr. Secretary, the president is on the phone. He sounds very angry and he keeps calling you Lil Marco.

PLEASE DO NOT SHARE! 🙏

Trump: "Drug prices are going to be going down 100%, 400%, 600%, 1,000% in some cases."

Sigh…

"Shocking," said no women researcher, ever.

Happy weekend from Zoe and Stormy

Why we must stay vigilant on Australia’s gun laws www.croakey.org/why-we-must-... By Stephen Bendle, Senior Advocacy Advisor at the Alannah & Madeline Foundation and Convenor, Australian Gun Safety Alliance. #AusPol #PublicHealth

this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!! www.bbc.com/travel/artic...