Davinia Evans (Dee)

I was playing Pharaoh again just last week 😆

I full-on Audrey-Two'd out after that test. "FEED ME, SEYMOUR." (Then again, I also fainted in the chair after they gave me the sugar stuff. I have weird blood-sugar shenanigans but fortunately not the sort they worry about.)

(The answers are: Rammstein - Links 2 3 4, or Battles - Atlas. Though possibly the synthesis of both states and therefore the ur-answer is: Muse - Hyper Music.)

I was going to say that sounds highly suspicious but honestly every communist, or at least socialist, I've ever met wouldn't shut up about it so maybe not

hmm, am I getting angry, or joyous? Is this combatative/competitive energy, or doing-my-best energy?

I can't keep up - the reds are under the bed again?

HECK YES. I have seen Pirates at allllll levels of production and competence and honestly some of the church-hall-community-group productions had the BEST energy.

Oh man, I have so many? 😂 I've become such a picky, disgruntled reader in the last five years, and my reading list is scattered with DNFs where my notes contain some variant of "I can tell this is doing its thing really well, but I do not want to read that thing."

I got to see Carolina Eyck perform with a chamber orchestra last year, and she was FANTASTIC. Musically interesting, and just a delightful performer. She is so very enthusiastic about her instrument and her journey with it.

Logo for Meanjin In 2028 Brisbane, each letter showing a picture of a speculative fiction-related image. The letter M contains an image of an Indigenous adventurer with a snake and a wooden walking stick, viewing a futuristic city with flying transport vehicles. The letters EAN contain an image of an Indigenous woman with long, curly hair, viewing the planets, stars, and constellations. The letters JIN contain an image of an Indigenous Elder in a canvas jacket wearing an Outback hat accompanied by three stylistic dingoes in a lush green Australian bush / forest. The snake's multi-coloured body weaves through the images from the M to the last N. The letter B is a dark purple swirl with many orange beast eyes, the letter R is a hovering UFO sending a beam of light down to the ground below, the letter I is a rocket blasting off, the letter S is an android, the letter B is an astronaut with a moon in the background sky, the letters A and N are of a spaceship flying over a red planet with another large orange planet in the sky behind it, and the letter E is a green Australian frog.

The Brisbane in 28 Worldcon Bid is now Officially on the LAcon V Site Selection Ballot!

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Such fangs! So fierce! 😍

I love your pathetic messes. I do not accept that this is a me problem--no, I embrace it whole-heartedly!

Fast bowlers tend to knee injury because of the slamming run-up. Spin bowlers tend to wrist and finger injury due to twisting. Both get shoulder injuries. Almost like doing anything that repetitively isn't good!

In T20 cricket, a single bowler is only allowed to bowl a few overs - I think 4 or 5 - in the whole game. And bowlers alternate, so he gets a rest between overs.

Nope. 20 overs, 6 balls* per over

* legal deliveries, so sometimes if a bowler is having an off day he might have to bowl 7 or more times to get his 6 balls

My kid is doing such a great job of packing up her room! Except two of the books she's packed into boxes are library books that need to go back today... 😅

Basically, yes. But in T20 cricket, an innings is 20 overs. So this is more like 10 minutes of extra time in a soccer match.

I had to look this one up because I am not that into short-form cricket, but apparently it's what they do in the event of a tie - one over (six balls bowled) of extra time each way, basically

Devouring the Queen's Thief series is always a solid reading choice, though. Am tempted to jettison my March reading plans and do the same. 😂

Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.

"If I was to use ChatGPT for my designs rather than our designer Sean, that's taking money out of the local area into the hands of a multibillionaire ... removing value from the local community and local artists [and] into the hands of some of the richest people in the world."

#AIslop #refuseresist

I genuinely do not understand what there is to have opinions about in this topic but ok whatever, I hope it stays fine for them, I will just refill my drink and allow them to carry on 😂

oh my GOD those look AMAZING

This is Correct.

Hail, Pterry, full of rage, the muse is with thee. Blessed art thou among authors, and blessed is the fruit of thy brain, Discworld.

Hail Pterry, Father of Great A'Tuin, who channeled rage into compassion blessed are thy words.

Gosh, this. We had to get a sedan with more family-and-stuff room, but I miss driving a small car. Especially in the Land of Toorak Tractors in which I dwell. The carparks are crowded!

LOVE IT! 😍

I feel this deeply. I say, "You can't do x in a story" and my brain immediately starts whirring up like an old CD-ROM drive 😂

It was YOU and your FAILURE TO COMMIT INTERNATIONAL VOTER FRAUD, Liz.