The BT Tower, photographed from its foot
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The BT Tower, photographed from its foot
Needs moar kitten
Spam from PayPal today shows that PayPal clearly thinks that not many people in Australia have heard of PayID.
I can already send money instantly to many with no fees should I so choose.
The Australian government’s obligations
overlooking a series of circular water filled tanks of a sewage treatment plant at night. lights line a long brick building on the horizon as a blue-black sky is stark behind a veil of thin puffy clouds in the distance.
good night, sewers.
good night, streams.
good night, operations and maintenance teams.
good night, settling tanks.
good night, stream banks.
good night, engineers, scientists, crews, managers, inspectors, analysts too.
a good night for us means serving with care.
good night, sewers, everywhere.
Very proud moment for Australia as a whole type of stock market pattern is now named after the national animal
🦘📈📉📈📉📈📉📈📉
Photo of the tarmac surface of Royal Parade in Narrm Melbourne. Painted in big white letters across the vehicle lane is the admonition: STOP FOR RAMS. Tram rails are visible in the next lane. Photo by me.
Stop for rams 🐏
#Naarm Melbourne
#Wurundjeri country
I want every word of this in massive letters of fire in the sky. Thank you, @moryan.bsky.social.
Picard programming tip: A computer is like a mischievous genie. It will give you exactly what you ask for, but not always what you want.
Secondly, if Mr Morrison had suspected the NPP was misleading, I think it probable that the last thing he would have done was refrain from speaking up in the hope of OCI being adopted without further delay or investigation. For, as a member of parliament and minister of many years standing, he would almost certainly have foreseen that, were he to do so, there would be a high chance of the deception soon being discovered and of his and his government’s subjection to the inevitably adverse political consequences that would follow. Rather than being a reason to suspect a dishonest failure to inquire, the fact that Mr Morrison did not make further inquiries appears more probably consistent with him not having perceived there was a need to do so.
"We don't believe Morrison would act dishonestly, because he was a member of parliament for many years" is a very funny argument. I'll give them that
me in ~2006: "I'm a computer science major, why do I have to take a class on ethics?"
me in 2026: "ah"
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Alleged sighting
Guardian headline: “Bob Carr, ‘a masterpiece’ and a hornet queer fantasy”
And this, kids, is why we need Oxford commas…
Angus Taylor holds cost-of-living press conference in Canberra’s wealthiest suburb.
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
In May '25, a beloved Australian games website was sold off. It went dark then, a month later, rose from the dead but stuffed full of gambling links and AI authors.
It wasn't the first time, or the last time, this exact thing had happened. And it's still happening.
My months-long investigation 👇
Wasn’t it banned by the BBC because it was about the Falklands War? Old memory.
Aussies claim many NZ bands as their own.
THIS.
Cthulhu in foamed milk floating on a coffee cup
Having a writers coffee sesh and our coffee artist is knocking it out of the ball park (this was a request for Cthulhu):
A contentious review into the Liberal Party’s disastrous election will be suppressed after Opposition Leader Angus Taylor met with top party figures and agreed to shelve the document, sparing the party from further humiliation
Bot Outing. A new game for all the family 😆
That sound you hear is every other intelligence service in the democratic world backing away
I was quite impressed by the camera work that managed to show nothing.
Today’s Sunday Age cartoon.
Title: A Valentine’s Day experiment In an effort to test the efficacy of cupids arrows of desire. A placebo group is shot with regular arrows. Their injuries range from moderate to sever. Unexpectedly, romances struck up in hospital and lawyers’ waiting rooms create a "romance ratio" similar to that of magic arrows. However, once the cost of compensation claims is factored in, it is decided to discontinue.
A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist.com
If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees.
This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.
You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.
When the Liberals finally settle upon a new leader, they can get back to doing what they do best. Selecting the next one.
Jennifer Quigley, Balwyn
The Age, letters
Triggering a spill.
