research funding really is in crisis, yeah?
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research funding really is in crisis, yeah?
and this, children, is the pattern you get when you don't notice that yellow square. for instructive purposes only, of course, I totally noticed it. Wordle 1,721 6/6
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apparently solving with green squares only is special or something?
anyway very disappointed, having a Moment and needed a hard puzzle to distract me.
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For the first time ever I have a desire to listen to Kyle and Jackie O. Not the show, just the bit where he blows up a $100 million contract with a snippy, unnecessary and not even witty spray. For everyone who’s had to suck up a horrid co-worker, I hope she sticks to her decision.
They turned out to be perfectly fine. It was still several hundred dollars to be told, keep doing what you are doing independently to deal with issue, cone back in a year. I’ll take that, expected medication, happy to not.
Tim Minchin called me a genius. In front of hundreds of witnesses, mid-show.
Pro tip: don’t read the reviews while you’re in the waiting room for a first appointment with a specialist.
![[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.]
From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes:
NEWSREADER:
Extraordinary images here
of an expat in Dubai
[The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly]
…Having their first ever geopolitical thought.
[CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones].
CLIVE MYRIE:
To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent
DAVID JONES:
Clive, this is momentous
It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’.
[Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same]
You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self.
It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts.
CLIVE MYRIE:
Which are…?
DAVID JONES:
You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes,
I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa.
CLIVE MYRIE:
And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days?
DAVID JONES:
I think we can expect to see:
“I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To”
CLIVE MYRIE:
Mmm.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibu6vuc7ofetq5hla3gfcknocotbfl3yk2ajczk6qfd2hnjxrav6q)
[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]
good 5:47 am to all the other parents-who-are-somehow-the-family-admin-person who are online before dawn, cutting and pasting the relevant bits, and only the relevant bits, from the school newsletter into emails to their co-parent.
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youtu.be/Aq5WXmQQooo?...
My phone camera is rubbish
Lunar eclipse starting now Melbourne folks, if you can see it
all that money going to CSIRO and for what? So they can sit around inventing imaginary spiders? www.csiro.au/en/research/...
Since Prince went that is.
is this a legal condition of entry to a show? the babes in arms bit.
"Minors, including accompanied children and babes in arms, will not be permitted."
Imagine telling someone in 1926 that in 100 years, every person halfway educated in world affairs would keep a mental list of every country possessing bombs that could kill a million people at a time. :(
But they were good art!
David Shrigley thumb sculpture ruining the view of the NGV’s classic brutalist/modernist facade.
IMHO anyone who starts their visit to the NGV by posing thumbs up next to this horror should be banned from entering.
“Residiual” for residual.
New Yorker typos getting worse. This one isn’t even a word.
bike-minded, Central Victorian community organisers and fundraisers, here's your chance: cmrailtrail.org.au/cmrt-secures...
In your job with your impressive qualifications you must get a bit of mansplaining…
We ruled out an entire brand based on a patronizing male salesperson. Husband was fully on board with EV idea, I was the one with reasonable questions that were brushed off. Husband fully agreed: go elsewhere.
PSA. There goes my Monday nap.
Wind is shifting on these kids stuck in Syria I think. If the mums are willing to go to jail to come home, isn’t that what we have a justice system for?
Poor darling.
Ah fond memories!
Bluesky: what’s wrong with America like we didn’t know.
FB: friends’ kids and small but amazing achievements.
Instagram: puppies and magnificent horses wading through rivers and/or correspondingly tiny and cute mini horses. Plus the odd amusing movie clip. Am I doing it right?
Oh yeah. Forgot that. Bob Katter could only dream of that.
