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There are different fonts within a single sentence.

What’s that old sentence? The trivial design flaws almost entirely mask the fundamental design flaws?

I mean, those of us in other countries only have the haziest ideas of what a super PAC is, if at all, and even that only if we’re terminally online in English and thus exposed to US politics constantly.

I really do want to believe you. That would be a wonderful thing.

Narratively having Ever Given getting stuck in 2021 to set up Hormuz in 2026 is great foreshadowing. You want your audience to understand the basics of international shipping in a lower stakes context so you drop the real plot without a lot of saggy exposition about the minutiae of cargo logistics.

A sunset, with a couple of silhouetted trees in the foreground. Pinks and oranges and yellows and purples. If it was a painting you’d say it was garish.

Pretty.

Peninsula proudly proclaimed possumless place Possums have had their final termination on the Otago Peninsula. After more than 15 years of hard graft of crawling through bush and dirt and...

• Total of 9200ha covered

• More than 500 volunteers involved

• More than 26,000 possums captured

Bloody epic stuff, this.

Does he also categorise the middle class high earner landlord white guys who vote for lower taxes and payoffs for landlords as voting for their own interests? Gosh I wonder why not....

Beautifully timed shot. You only get like two seconds of that view, when the bus is in the right spot. It's lovely.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

RETVRN to being 4 years old.

I would like the lack of responsibilities that comes with being a kindy kid! but not the lack of autonomy ....

Oooh, I know that one! It’s when you go one one of those wee round trampolines and bounce gently up and down for a bit. Boring af. It was huge in the 80s. My mum had one.

Oh, mine too. In particular they like to stand on me and then knead my lap when I have a full bladder. Such lovely creatures.

Screenshot of an excerpt of a Bulwark article by Lt. Gen. (retired) Mark Hertling: *** This is why responsible national leadership requires two qualities at the same time: expertise and, in my view, a level of discomfort and anxiety. Expertise ensures decisions are grounded in strategy—clear thinking about ends, ways, and means. What is the political objective? What military action advances it? How do those individual tactical actions contribute to an operational plan? What risks follow? What happens the day after the strikes end? Discomfort serves as a moral and strategic guardrail. Leaders who feel the weight of ordering teenagers toward hardship, injury, and death are more likely to ask the necessary hard questions. They consult widely, think about escalation, and remember that war is not simply a tool of policy but a human undertaking with irreversible consequences. The paradox is that those who understand force best are rarely eager to use it. They prepare for it. They plan for it. They master it. But they never become comfortable with it. If a president is becoming more knowledgeable about military power, that is a good thing. If he is becoming “comfortable” ordering it, that should give all of us pause—because too much comfort with the desire to use force is rarely a sign of wisdom.

"The paradox is that those who understand force best are rarely eager to use it. They prepare for it. They plan for it. They master it. But they never become comfortable with it."

Really wise piece here from @markhertling.bsky.social.

www.thebulwark.com/i/190103369/...

I got that one too. I do have Spotify Premium (I know, I know) but it's through my phone bill so they don't have my cc details. It's a fairly convincing phish, though.

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!

We turned away from the light when we invented a way to go online without the computer screaming in warning.

It’s my birthday month too. We can share.

Discworld QOTD, from Making Money

Alt text, please, mate. Or just paste the text as threaded posts. I can't read that image.

Yeah, my kids used Headspace meditations for years. Not any more; I ended our subscription when they put in AI.

In the past two days I've had to explain PERT charts and Planning Poker (two massively useful planning techniques) to people who've worked in IT for decades. I'm staggered. How much knowledge has been lost?

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

I have a valid frock too, it's burgundy and it's very pretty, but I don't think any medical professional would care about it in a professional setting, and this whole AI transcription thing scares the baby cheeses out of me.

Night sky. Grainy. A few stars. In the foreground, two palm trees are underlit by streetlights. High in the sky, a tiny rust red moon.

Same. iPhone can’t deal. I got the kids up but they weren’t impressed (they’re a tough audience). I took a potato photo to prove we saw it.

People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.

What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.

Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.

In the style of an industrial warning sign — WARNING Cognitohazard: Do not think about it

I kept needing this, so I finally made it.

Yes. Well, I've started already.