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SWANSEA: Child sent home for being drunk after coming to school as Dylan Thomas for World Book Day A Swansea primary school has confirmed an eight-year-old was sent home this morning after appearing to be drunk while attending World Book Day dressed as Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. The child, who arr…

'the pupil announced he was “working on something important about Swansea” before lying on the playground tarmac to “feel the rhythm of the town”.

...explained to a confused Year 3 class that the sea was “restless and unforgiving”.

#WorldBookDay

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What was Iraq?

A platypus lower jaw and upper jaw, showing one remaining horny pad and three empty sockets where the pads have fallen out. From the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge

The #platypus has solved the key flaw of mammal teeth - that they can't be replaced*: #platypuses got rid of teeth. Instead they have horny pads to smash the crayfish & larvae they eat. As they wear down, they just regrow like fingernails.
*Unless you're a nabarlek, a rock-wallaby with endless teeth

Australia is a signatory to the treaties that establish the ICC, the ICJ and the International Law of the Sea. The US is not. The US sub committed piracy and/or the war crime of unrestricted submarine warfare. US sailors are fine, but those 3 AUS sailors can be prosecuted.
How’s that for starters?

Where things stand with the Department of War A statement from Dario Amodei

I think one of the most staggering industry shifts in my 16 years as a tech reporter is that it’s not become a question of “should our product help the government kill and/or surveil people?” but “to what extent?”

www.anthropic.com/news/where-s...

THE SHINING is a horror movie because it depicts a writer having to get a part-time job.

For anyone who would like the clip (including George).

He's the nephew of the AG in the NT. He got home detention for killing a man with his car on purpose then bragging about it and seriously injuring another man. They were both Aboriginal and it was a hate crime.

Israel launches huge strikes against south Beirut after mass evacuation order Residents fled Lebanese capital in panic before assaults on claimed Hezbollah targets while Tehran continues to launch retaliatory attacks

Forcing half a million people to leave their homes and then destroying their homes is ethnic cleansing.

Why are you just sat here watching?
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

DAvid Pope in Canberra Times

I need a community, and I think the Quakers are just the kind I need
, and you don’t even need to be religious

If you're going after the Quakers, you probably need to take a good, long, hard look at yourself in the mirror.

Because it's almost guaranteed that you are the problem here.

Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal Dario Amodei holding discussions with deputy to Pete Hegseth to reach a compromise on military use of the technology Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic © Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on x (opens in a new window) Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on facebook (opens in a new window) Anthropic chief back in talks with Pentagon about AI deal on linkedin (opens in a new window) Share Save Pro Features Configuration George Hammond and Cristina Criddle in San Francisco Published18 hours ago 105 Print this page Anthropic chief executive Dario Amodei is making a last-

Looks like Anthropic is back at the table with the bloodthirsty military of a war-mongering, school-bombing dictatorship.

Hope you're all enjoying your shiny new paid subscriptions and your vibe-coded websites no one asked for :) Hashtag quitgpt etc etc

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If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

It’s been commodified, which is why so many kids are wearing Disney etc stuff. Sure there are Disney books, but this stuff feeds into the licensing machine. And it annoys me because (homemade, home sourced charity shop) dress ups are super fun

Or did she wake up and go, but oh the money?

So what do we think this theatre is? a publicity stunt?

Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”

And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…

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The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data

At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff ->

ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci

The people that run our media have dedicated CBD carparks. PT is something you do for fun in Japan.

“Some issues have really clear policy answers, but if you try to implement them you just end up Gough Whitlam’d” ~ Kid

I wonder if on one of the Indian channels some middle-aged comedian is being sent around Britain, getting the Thameslink to St Albans, sampling pey wet in Wigan, poignantly observing that there are homeless folk on the streets even in Knightsbridge, and so forth bsky.app/profile/jack...

Grifters gonna grift grift grift grift

Oh hello Joh Bjelke Peterson’s QLD

And it gets better on re-reading. Every time I do a different character or theme emerges as I get older

Programmers who rely on chatgpt are explicitly saying they are *not thinking about the code*

They're not making mental models of it, understanding how the parts work, where the problems might be.

All this also applies to literally all creative activity, from art to writing.

Called the cats to dinner by singing “dinner” to the theme music from A Room With A View

Beloved is one of my favourite books. An extraordinary feat of storytelling by Toni Morrison