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@cameronwilson.bsky.social now in the wild.

25.02.2026 07:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
OS level age check screen.

OS level age check screen.

OS level age check screen showing success.

OS level age check screen showing success.

Better than the alternative I guess…

25.02.2026 07:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

We are, but just because Billy jumped off a bridge…

15.01.2026 09:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Inspector General has a good record of looking into these things. Enough RC’s right now.

15.01.2026 08:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Three parties all grandstanding and making hypocritical and hyperbolic claims about each other.

We can come together to protect people from hate and guns, or we can all shout at each other some more.

🤷‍♂️

15.01.2026 03:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can you do “buoy” next?

04.01.2026 22:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mogwai

Mogwai

Fuck it I don’t care anymore

01.01.2026 07:00 👍 8028 🔁 1703 💬 106 📌 90

You did it again… 🤦‍♂️

10.12.2025 08:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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a woman with orange hair is wearing a white sweater ALT: a woman with orange hair is wearing a white sweater
10.12.2025 01:08 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Any recommendations for a .com.au domain registrar?

We're being screwed over by the auDA and our current provider and need to transfer elsewhere. 🤬

01.12.2025 00:56 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Liberals aren't alone as net zero sceptics — but the data doesn't lie The strange macho appeal of fossilised vegetation means that 30 years of annual United Nations meetings to stop the planet heating any more have been a bust.

Today's column for ABC news: the strange macho appeal of fossil fuels.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

16.11.2025 21:11 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0
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crazy

IG em_clarkson

14.11.2025 02:54 👍 11057 🔁 2504 💬 157 📌 226

Melbournian’s enjoying Melbourne weather is the only existing proof of Stockholm syndrome.

13.11.2025 22:00 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Authenticate 2025 Keynote | Ricky Mondello, Apple | Get the Most Out of Passkeys
Authenticate 2025 Keynote | Ricky Mondello, Apple | Get the Most Out of Passkeys YouTube video by FIDO Alliance

I’m really proud of this talk and I hope you’ll watch it. I put care in to making it approachable while still delivering my perspective and insights to security professionals. If you don't get the "why" behind passkeys, this talk will help fill that gap. [2/2] www.youtube.com/watch?v=otOb...

07.11.2025 13:51 👍 24 🔁 5 💬 6 📌 0
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WebKit Features for Safari 26.1 Today, Safari 26.1 is available with iOS 26.1, iPadOS 26.1, macOS Sequoia 26.1 and visionOS 26.1, as well as for macOS Sequoia and macOS Sonoma.

Safari 26.1 arrives today. What does this bring developers? Many improvements to Anchor Positioning. A refactor of how WebKit handles CSS Units, bringing relative units (rlh, ic, cap, cqw, cqi, cqmin, cqmax) to SVG for the first time. And many other fixes.

webkit.org/blog/17541/w...

03.11.2025 22:03 👍 70 🔁 11 💬 8 📌 2

I feel stupid for asking. Is the olive oil also in a cage?

02.11.2025 22:18 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Detergent cages? To prevent… ???

02.11.2025 22:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m sure the rollout could’ve been done better, but the level of change was always going to generate a massive level of complaint.

31.10.2025 01:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It’s disappointing to see the experts in the media talking about the BOM site upgrade.

It’s not good for the design industry when it’s geography and agricultural experts talking about website design.

31.10.2025 01:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Presenter on stage delivers a talk titled "Design immersive and interactive experiences" to an audience. The slide shows the speaker's name, identified as a Design Evangelist.

Presenter on stage delivers a talk titled "Design immersive and interactive experiences" to an audience. The slide shows the speaker's name, identified as a Design Evangelist.

If you're a UX researcher or designer and interested in interactive immersive content for spatial computing (the next era of entertainment). You should watch this session by Serenity Caldwell (Design Evangelist, Apple). youtube.com/live/leGqoF8... #spatialcomputing #userexperience

28.10.2025 04:18 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back
Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back YouTube video by HoodooGurusVEVO

It takes shockingly little provocation to get me listening to Australian music for an hour.

A thread for myself as much as anyone else.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZWX...

16.10.2025 05:22 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 7 📌 0

Bank the miles and avoid the backlash. 🤷‍♂️

18.09.2025 04:04 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just put it on the credit card….

18.09.2025 03:51 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
John: It's not just the apps. It’s everything America has done to spread its influence, because America dominates the media. We all consume it. In some way, shape, or form, things trickle down.
And it’s pervasive when you speak to Americans that they are unaware of their position in the world and this cultural hegemony––that their conversations very quickly dominate the public space because everybody is affected by these influences. You grew up watching American TV. You grew up listening to American music. And often you might have to remind people that maybe we want to step back from America being the center of this conversation.
For example, say I want to talk about slavery in northern Nigeria. One of the books I'm writing now is set in a time when the so-called caliphate in what is now northern Nigeria was at its peak. At that time, at least one in four persons was an enslaved person or in indentured servitude. At one point, we had probably the highest number of slaves in the world. I’d like to talk about this without talking about slaves in the U.S. or white people. You know, why do I have to talk about white supremacy when writing about this period in Nigeria? But the conversation always goes there.
This U.S. hegemony is true regardless of race. Even if you are oppressed in America, you still have this outsize influence globally, and the rest of us are choking on it. And we would like to have conversations in our local spaces that do not always devolve to American tribal wars.

John: It's not just the apps. It’s everything America has done to spread its influence, because America dominates the media. We all consume it. In some way, shape, or form, things trickle down. And it’s pervasive when you speak to Americans that they are unaware of their position in the world and this cultural hegemony––that their conversations very quickly dominate the public space because everybody is affected by these influences. You grew up watching American TV. You grew up listening to American music. And often you might have to remind people that maybe we want to step back from America being the center of this conversation. For example, say I want to talk about slavery in northern Nigeria. One of the books I'm writing now is set in a time when the so-called caliphate in what is now northern Nigeria was at its peak. At that time, at least one in four persons was an enslaved person or in indentured servitude. At one point, we had probably the highest number of slaves in the world. I’d like to talk about this without talking about slaves in the U.S. or white people. You know, why do I have to talk about white supremacy when writing about this period in Nigeria? But the conversation always goes there. This U.S. hegemony is true regardless of race. Even if you are oppressed in America, you still have this outsize influence globally, and the rest of us are choking on it. And we would like to have conversations in our local spaces that do not always devolve to American tribal wars.

Elnathan John gets it.

17.09.2025 01:37 👍 11 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0
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Wanna share something nice:

After the News Corp & neo-Nazis misquoted me on Charlie Kirk, I got an email from someone calling me reprehensible.

I emailed back to explain what happened, gave them the context I gave to the journo, and the emailer changed their mind.

It's not all bad out there!

14.09.2025 02:49 👍 119 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 0

Alternatively, I did notice a few of the journalists covering ANU, studied at Canberra University. I didn’t think the rivalry was that bad, but any chance to bring down the tall poppy?

13.09.2025 00:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It seems much more personal with ANU.

From what I’ve seen, Bell inherited the problems, but could have handled them better. I don’t think sacking the VC (or Chancellor) changes anything significantly for the ANU.

Perhaps the staff and students feel more attached to the ANU, than UTS? Or maybe 🤔

13.09.2025 00:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The Armpit Belt Two women once appeared for trial on on of my traffic court dates. Both were disputing a ticket for failing to wear a seat belt under section 220(4) of the Motor Vehicle Act. They each testified that ...

www.drivesmartbc.ca/safety-equip....

”…what happens when you wear the shoulder belt under your armpit and are involved in a collision. Torn aorta, lacerated liver, ruptured spleen, broken ribs…”

13.09.2025 00:34 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing Meanjin, a mainstay of Australia's cultural landscape and the nation's second-oldest literary publication, is shuttering after Melbourne University Publishing decided to cease financial support.

Sad day.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

04.09.2025 01:47 👍 84 🔁 22 💬 5 📌 1
A picture of a promo style pic of a can of Fanta Licorice flavour. It’s in a mostly black can with some dull green highlights. It’s Fanta but black. Fantablack.

A picture of a promo style pic of a can of Fanta Licorice flavour. It’s in a mostly black can with some dull green highlights. It’s Fanta but black. Fantablack.

Fantablack.

28.08.2025 09:08 👍 555 🔁 86 💬 58 📌 50