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The longer you allow this, the longer you look like a weak leader, @albomp.bsky.social. “A One Nation colouring book handed out to children at the Mount Gambier show appears to depict characters being robbed and unflattering caricatures of various politicians.” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Appropriately for Halloween, we now have Ghost Fungus (Omphalotus nidiformis) growing at the base of a dead acacia.

To cease being Google's revenue. The Complete Guide to Ditching Google Break free from Google's surveillance ecosystem with our step-by-step guide to replacing every Google service with privacy-focused alternatives. zerogproject.org/guides/ditch...

Pat Conroy appoints former Rio Tinto CEO as National Armaments Manager. Highlights her ability to “change culture”.😳 Union busting, individual contracts, destroying communities, fly in/fly out, opposing collective bargaining, targeting union delegates. This culture? WTF?

Sometimes it just dawns on me how deeply weird and wild this situation is. A company making a crappy, unchecked and badly designed product, but thanks to pre-existing science fiction narratives they can aggressively tout their own failures and inadequacies as reasons for self-regulation

Why not? Seems like a reasonable question to me, unless you're one of them commie librals?

Now there are dozens of them, spreading everywhere. It's the Fungopalypse

Just think of the media explosion if this was Iran, Russia, China, or any country other than Israel.

Always something interesting in the compost (it's a rich, full life). Slimy ink caps. Not fatal (allegedly) but mixing with alcohol has horrible results.

"If the projections are anything to go by, Australia will export a total that will cause about 11 gigatonnes of emissions by 2031" writes @ketanjoshi.co Read the full piece on The Point: https://sbrew.link/WXZu9BvZ

Told the grandkids I'd made them something for Halloween and they looked at me with narrowed eyes and deep suspicion. Until I explained it was a ceiling fan costume...

Mrs GB picked up two very hot kids and took them for icecreams. And brought me a tub of pistachio. Against all reason she seems to like me.

My task, should I choose to accept it, is to design a cheap cosplay Star Trek TOS tricorder.

And I really shouldn't but I'm old and the world is burning.

I have a lot of respect for a lot of journalists trying to make sense of this week’s events. But what I’ve mainly taken away from the bulk of the analysis is how out of touch most of our media and political class are with the lives of ordinary people

Bit of a shitty day but I made salami, meatball, mushroom and olive pizzas and drank quite a bit of red and the day's improved.

Remember the story we at #4Corners did about Channel 7, 2 years ago? About soul-crushing culture of sexism & exploitation, particularly of young women? Their internal review has vindicated our reporting, despite legal threats at the time (which went nowhere). Report: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

Team CD.

It seems true that global south countries are under-represented in IPCC science, but absolutely bad-faith concern trolling using a cynical and callously faked social justice rationalisation from Saudi, Russia and China to justify delaying the next IPCC report www.theguardian.com/environment/...

@albomp.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social

Seemed the health costs of installing gas (and the cost of gas!) not taken into account

Aelfric's cat half would have just knocked the jug off the shelf but his human half hated it so much more.

What... there are people who have not read this... If you are one of them... fix this ASAP

DUCT TAPE! (I have three kinds) phys.org/news/2026-10...

I wouldn't tell anyone if I won the big Lotto, but they might guess.

Look, I wouldn't mind so much but his choice of programs is terrible.

Feeling less dizzy today but you know *those* headaches?

Just for a second I felt like @2fbs.bsky.social . I used a water-pick on my teeth, reached over and put it down, pressing the button and squirting high pressure water into my ear.

Some archaeological finds may appear unremarkable and ordinary, yet they often are more interesting than any treasure, such as this Roman glass square bottle remarkably containing a rare find – preserved ointment. The waxy mass of fatty acids and glycerine contains plant fibres from...🧵1/2 📷 me

I always start tearing my hair at this time of year, trying to find Xmas presents. BUT, this year I've found something for the many lapsed people in my life. I've just bought some indulgences from a (former) priest turned comedian. The list of sins looks pretty apt too.

One of my wee nieces is starting a perfume line. Feeling somewhat old.

I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are

LOVELY NEWS: a planned data centre running exclusively on fossil fuels at the site of gas field has been cancelled. Plan B for the fossil fuel industry is starting to show cracks. What's Plan C? www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/orca...

We are being killed by the world's dumbest people.

New series which I probably won't watch but at least I've got the mug. Must be no-helmet and leave your spears at home day.

I'm reduced to making my own cat videos, and frankly, apart from climbing a ladder to chase his tail, Jenkins hasn't got that spark.

And after two months we're a catless household again. The kids carried him off home in triumph but he didn't look impressed.

Spectacles were invented in northern Italy in the late 13th century AD. Beyond correcting sight, they were also seen to provide moral vision, as visual perception and the cognition of God’s light were linked in late medieval philosophy #WorldSightDay 🆓 doi.org/10.15184/aqy... 🏺 #Archaeology

We've electrified everything so I suppose now we advertise. One for us, three for friends. Happy to discuss our low running costs for house and car.

The other day upon the stair I saw a cat that's always there He must think I'm unaware He wants to trip me down that stair?

Let's just fire all the sub-editors. We'll save heaps.

I was given a laptop to fix. Not uncommon but all that was wrong was a broken screen. In the past I'd remove the lid, add a cheap KB and monitor and someone gets a free functional computer. Owner, panicked about privacy, "cut all the wires". SSD is still intact. Sigh.

“Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

"Over time, these spiders evolved to lack abdomens; instead, they breathe, reproduce and digest food with organs in their legs." Evolution getting silly again. www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s...

Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...