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Gorgeous!

I love a good Melbourne v Sydney comparison and this one is onto something fundamental. Sydney is mean, Melbourne is funny. If there’s something you should do to stay safe, the Sydney sign will be menacing. In Melb it will include a cartoon of a rhinoceros on a skateboard.

somehow this is the exact guy you would figure to have lost old doctor who eps

You know the best way to kill AI? Don't use it. Don't buy it. Don't share it. Don't give the people who use it your labour or your money.

A cartoony style illustration from the 1980s ladybird Children’s Classics version of the tale, showing Mole and Ratty rowing on the river

On this day 8th March 1859 Kenneth Grahame, author of Wind in the Willows, was born in Edinburgh

Artist: Martin Aitchison (1983)

Toad stands at Frog's door, showing him his list. From "A List" In *Frog and Toad Together*

Toad knocked at the door. “Hello,” said Frog. “Look at my list of things to do,” said Toad. “Oh,” said Frog, “that is very nice.”

An image from the TV series Utopia with an image of a high speed train called the Silver Emu being held up by a staff member and another member looking at it.

Does Utopia have an episode for everything?

rice is life, and I got a thread to share about rice: Park Chung-hee's obsession to make South Korea rice self-sufficient in the 1970s changed everything about the country, including your favorite Korean foods and the urban environment 🧵

A snap from To the Wonder, with riders on horses in a country mountainous landscape.

Just finished 'To the Wonder', a c drama of 8 episodes. About an aspiring writer who returns home to the countryside. Really quite different to the CEO/rich lead trope, beautiful at times. Recommend. On Viki.

If any tech people do happen to have the ears of billionaires, I am here with my wallet open saying I would pay EXTRA for devices and software that don't have AI in them. Please take my money.

I love the soft golden light in this one.

A large, old-fashioned television with protruding buttons and four 1950s style legs

Beautiful everyday Ladybird things.
The television set
Artist: Harry Wingfield (1970)

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.” 9:12 AM Feb 12, 2026 604.8K Views

In terms of what cures are being lost:

- Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis
- herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis
- shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

What's so amazing about Jim Henson as a puppeteer is that he could literally be explaining that Kermit is made out of felt and ping pong balls and yet Kermit still feels alive the whole time he's doing it

Split-image: On the left, a black-and-white historical portrait of Mary Winston Jackson (1921–2005), the pioneering Black aerospace engineer and mathematician at NASA who became the agency's first Black female engineer in 1958. She is shown in her later years wearing large round glasses, short curly hair styled in soft waves, large hoop earrings, a polka-dot blouse pr scarf with a brooch, and a warm, confident smile. On the right, a color scene from the 2016 film Hidden Figures, depicting actress Janelle Monáe portraying Mary Winston Jackson as a young mathematician and engineer at NASA. She sits at a desk in a classroom-like setting, wearing a bright yellow cardigan over a cream blouse, bold pink lipstick, gold earrings, with her hair in a sleek 1960s bob, gazing thoughtfully ahead amid colleagues in the background.#MaryWinstonJackson #HiddenFigures #NASA #BlackHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #JanelleMonáe #HumanComputers

Aerospace engineer & "human computer" Mary Winston Jackson became NASA's first Black female engineer in 1958.

Her story features in 𝘏𝘪𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴 (book/film). She died #OTD in 2005. www.nasa.gov/people/mary-...

#WomenInSTEM #BHM #WomenInScienceDay #IDWGS

Rain! Actual rain!

More than 50 heat records were broken across Australia in the last week of January, according to the Bureau of Meteorology.

This is climate change, and it can be lethal.

Was frantically tapping the sound button on this and realized the audio was playing in my fiancé’s AirPods downstairs. He heard the music and came upstairs because he thought I “was watching Lord of the Rings,” and I had to grimly turn my phone toward him as an animatronic pig jawed silently

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Cartoon by Jon Kudelka. Man and dog bored in the park decide to head to the pub instead.

Man’s Best Friend.

Vale Jon Kudelka.

I cannot stress this enough: court case after court case has ruled that AI does not count as an author when it comes to copyright. Any minute now an AI bot is gonna start reskinning and reselling AI slop and the "authors" will have zero legal recourse because they didn't actually author shit.

You might 'win the race' of getting a book out if you write with Ai (or use a ghostwriter, for that matter), but you're damaging your credibility and potentially damaging the market you want to sell in. You'll lose in the end.

Because someone writing their own book...

there should be a high fantasy author who hates writing about food. "and then king aelfrid joined the dwarven feast and quickly wolfed down some ham and a corn or whatever. back to magic"

A massive stuffed bear laying fae up draped over a picnic table beside a covered public swimming pool.

Mate, I know exactly how you feel.

Deviating from usual railway YouTube's, yesterday I watched a video of a Super Constellation plane called Connie. I decided to look it up, and found out it had a restoration period of nearly 18 years, done by volunteers travelling from Australia to Arizona. Dedication! hars.org.au/display/lock...

He was great in Start Up, good in Hometown Cha-cha-cha, I'm jury out on Can This Love Be Translated because I didn't finish it...but part of the appeal of watching it was because he was in it and was good in the other two.

Oh gosh yes, it really does make rewatching it challenging!

We know AI/LLM often encodes gender bias arising from its training dataset- in this case, academic presentations. So when it comes up with counter-bias results like this, you KNOW the effect must have been very strong indeed. Highly recommend reading the whole thread for further detail. #equity ✊️

Browser war in the 90s

A little memory from the first browser war in the ’90s.

Is your website best viewed using:

Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer?

#WebDesignHistory