Leigh Magee

Going to head out to an all you can eat thai bbq place for dinner later, looks amazing, and actually ridiculously cheap, under A$15 pp. And even if it's not great, should be an experience!

Lovely first night in Thailand, power went out some time before 4am, so we've all come downstairs to chill out where its cooler.

Ya mate Andrew Leigh giving another gold handled cheese board this year or what?

I did it, I can finally say I've been outside Australia.

Through airport security, boarding starts soonish. I think I nearly got a stripsearch, something kept showing up on my crotch on the scanners. But we got caught in some rain on the way from parking to the terminal, they think it was damp clothing.

Packing day, better finish colouring in my luggage asap

Love when random TNG discourse pops up on my feed.

Got my holiday cash.

lol

Playing Obenseuer. My cat is giving Smudge vibes.

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

Okay, halfway done!

There are lots of social media posts about how awful France is because of the protests & how 'France has fallen'. Reminder: you are safer in a French riot than in an American elementary school. Maybe you should be less offended by destruction of property & more by destruction of people.

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And this is why I adblock the fucking shit out of fucking everything.

Where, uh, where can I buy one of these rainbow cars?

Better get a move on finishing this, trip is coming up fast!

omg I get back from my trip just in time for the new season of dexter to start

To his credit, he did not hide in his office with the lights off. Video of our speeches coming later.

"The violence against people in poverty is everywhere; it is constant, it is systemic and crafting a pitiful image of destitution to mark Anti-Poverty Week is not going to save anyone’s life." – our co-coordinator Jay Coonan on @thepointau.bsky.social for Anti-Poverty Week READ:

"When one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable like... like old leather. And finally, it becomes so familiar that one cannot remember feeling any other way." -- Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, Stardate 44429.6

Every time I get a message from a company saying "We've updated our Terms and Privacy Policies" now, I just assume it says "Yeah we're feeding all your data into AI now."

Man in a gilet stood on platform 12 gives up on reading the display and asks ChatGPT out loud if he is on the right platform for his train. I don’t want to be dramatic about it but Eratosthenes figured out the circumference of the Earth using a stick and knowledge of a distant well.

Ah yes, horoscopes for chuds.

From Rednote. Jar of skincream was dropped and smashed open revealing this. I love capitalism, don't you?

Chilling to some Soul Cafe Radio from NYC today. You can definitely find something that is for you. radio.garden

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

Energy debt is increasing, so are profits for Origin. Join us next week outside Origin's AGM in Sydney to call on a debt amnesty and to bring down prices for good. Sign up to attend here 👇 volunteer.swelteringcities.org/originagmact...

@bouphe.co.uk this might be up your alley?

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

The council is in session, first order of business, getting dinner served at 2pm, 6pm and again at 10pm.

Live on twitch for the next 2 hours! www.twitch.tv/purplepingers

3 sickening years of incontrovertible evidence that resistance is justified, necessary and urgent while Palestine is occupied. Albanese is not alone but is a standout among the “leaders” who have rivers of Palestinian and Lebanese blood on their hands for enabling Israel’s escalating genocide.

Last week we were invited to speak on a panel alongside @artistaffame.bsky.social Single Mother Families Australia and Inclusion Australia hosted by Elise Klein. Social policy should be lead by direct experience and working with people on the ground. You can watch here 👇 youtu.be/K-aqu_aJPQQ?...