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At the other end of the spectrum

For a long time I only knew The Trooper as "that song from Carmageddon 2"

It's the opposite of the hard masculine virtue of a violet crumble

Our car's sat nav voice is set to Australian English but pronounces Kosciuszko correctly

Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown? Early Chinese communities might seem to have left little tangible trace. But such an absence does not necessarily mean the absence of a Chinese history.

'Why doesn’t Hobart have a Chinatown?' by @imoweg.bsky.social, Annaliese Claydon, and me! theconversation.com/why-doesnt-h...

There was a period in Chinese television where every single show was about WW2 and it was less to do with public demand or even concerted efforts by government than it was a low risk way of getting past gatekeepers and actually producing anything at all

Just thinking about how, in the talk back radio era, staffers would always joke about the caller who would call in again before every election to declare they had always voted Labor until this particular election

Gamma function - Wikipedia

this wikipedia article has the incredible feature that each graph is more horrific than the last en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_f...

In the 1998 video game Carmageddon 2 there was a random powerup that would give pinball physics to all assets and on the map on an aircraft carrier with all the jets below deck it verged on crashing my computer. Good times and rather irrelevant to current affairs

Every time this comes up I wish the bloke's shirt and pants were baggier

This is my criterion for priority

Just put it on the blockchain

Very tangential but I'm reminded of how the British were so contemptuous of the indifference of the burghers of Canton to the Opium War, and the tension in the Chinese nationalist project about whether that was because the Qing were Manchu, or that said burghers did not know they were "Chinese"

I once watched a pretty silly film about a 400 year conspiracy to protect the scion of Toyotomi's line for a future sovereign Osaka, but the main plot revolved around said scion and the head of the conspiracy's desire to protect a genderqueer kid, which sorta scrambles certain assumed semiotics

that's a trilemma champ

Heat Map of Alex Johnston's NRL tries. A pain to make but learnt some cool R packages in the process.

Not sure on the colour scheme so any constructive criticism is welcome.

#nrl #dataviz #dataart

PEOPLE/PRES.GIF

Note his predecessor got a lot of coverage for introducing rubbish bins.

MLK: Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds."
Me, smirking in the crowd, very wise: Yeah, but are you really surprised though?

Whilst faffing around on google maps I found a KMT building in Winnipeg that had a surf shop as a tenant

I'd appreciate more constructive comments, Pat

Brent Crude was a short lived attempt to franchise Rodney Rude's acy

I didn't feel it at all but, ya know *polishing nails on shirt*, I've been in bigger earthquakes

*taps nose* I'm on my desktop, the true vehicle for change

I think I have identified a deep, systematic issue with my society. I don't have plans to do anything about it exactly and I might deride anyone who suggests change is possible but it's very important that you recognise this flaw doesn't apply to me personally

They use the name "Chinese Peking" at the olympics to avoid upsetting the Republic of China

One upside of low Indonesia literacy in Australia is you get really rude swears on the tv

Brent should do what makes him happy