I don't think people realise how large Iran is; if you dropped it on the Midwest it would be a significant seismic event as well as logistically improbable
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I don't think people realise how large Iran is; if you dropped it on the Midwest it would be a significant seismic event as well as logistically improbable
"How do you know you're sticking to the freeway speed limit without looking at the Speedo?
There's a tradie in a Ford Ranger tailgating wanting to overtake."
(Source Jimmy Giggle I think)
I pile up the boxes in the back of my car so the rear view mirror doesn’t show me the tailgaters.
@clairegcoleman.bsky.social has a book called Terra Nullius that you may really enjoy in this framing.
Every speeding driver that passes me tells me no.
If I once lived in Plympton in my youth does this mean I could be the next Dalai Lama?
Gentle reminder that ‘I had to eat shit so so do you’ is a terrible argument for anything.
"my soul is dead and this empty husk I occupy is a prison. I await the inevitable heat death of the universe and until then nothing really matters"
The internet in me asks why not both? lol
On my 50th I was fixing people’s computers lol
Oh.
“We have agreed” — how nice of them! Surely they’re doing this work pro bono right?
@juancarlotomas.bsky.social the cup is named Yusuf.
A cup of milky coffee, the cup is white with Mr Fixit in black lettering
Sometimes the right instant coffee can be a reminder of motel rooms or dive boats.
Scientists discovered a caterpillar that murders insects and stitches their dismembered body parts onto its back as armor
You’re welcome. Happy day! 😆
Welcome to Bluesky at last, Cory Doctorow! @doctorow.pluralistic.net
I just heard the following exchange, which was between a Australian-Vietnamese woman and an anglo bloke:
Her: I was actually born on a boat between Vietnam and Malaysia
Him: Nice, were your parents on holiday or something?
A speeding driver will be the death of me.
J. Rolf Haltza O @RolfHaltza It's wild how we absolve the 9-to-5 of all guilt. The damage is systematically rebranded as your personal failing. Got fat? It's not that jobs require 10 hours at a desk, it's your "sedentary lifestyle". Ruined eyes? It's not the workflow, it's your "screen time". Feel empty? It's not the grind, it's just "adulthood". The job causes the problem, but you take the blame. The 9-to-5 is treated as some unchangeable default of nature we all must bow to.
This is why you should never say the words self care to me. The rage I feel lol.
📣 Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.
If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:
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Shush with your ‘facts’ and ‘knowledge’! lol
Please repost ...
A friend just asked me why the G string of his guitar always sounds out of tune on his guitar, and this is a public service announcement for anyone else who's bothered by this: the guitar can't be in tune with itself.
It’s ok, those in the think tanks got paid.
It’s so much better doing the housework with a frog’s clacker in your face.
Left my stressful, shit IT job to pursue my passion of writing for a couple of months before I got a new job. Unfortunately, it turns out I was only passionate about writing when I was doing it to procrastinate at my shit IT job.
"If you're locked out of your ipad just erase it and restore the backup from icloud..."
Okay. Erase. 3hrs and 3000 passwords later.
"Sorry, you need iOS 18 or later to restore from icloud"
Mum, sitting on iOS 12...
Graphics of a logo with text reading "Blue Sky Nine" overlaid on a circle that is bottom half mercator projection lines and top half a shooting star against a black background
Vision board labelled "mining crew" showing orange hi vis overalls, a blue singlet, a bubble helmet, a lighter and gatorade bong, a can of premix Bundaberg rum and coke, steelcap work boots, and an Australian flag patch with the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag. To the right of these items is an illustrated figure wearing the above and throwing an airlock switch
Photo of a loungeroom partially converted into a spaceship cabin set with equipment for a shoot, featuring three figures, two male, one in orange pants and a blue top holding a sign saying "universal basic income studios", the other in orange pants and a white singlet, grinning, and a female figure in reflective goggles and a dark jumpsuit gesturing at the other two
Screenshot of a text document reading "Computer (voice): The ship’s computer can communicate verbally. That doesn’t mean it’s intelligent. Despite ostensibly running the systems of an advanced interstellar spaceship it can and does encounter the same frequency of errors as an early 2000’s desktop PC,due to an in-universe ban on advanced AI systems. Can be text to speech but the ideal casting would be Robbie McGregor, the SBS guy himself. Through cosmic accident or deliberate upgrade (or both in one incident) the ship gains true machine sentience, a fact it initially tries to hide from the crew due to the AI ban but eventually has to come clean on after acting against flight inputs to save crew lives. From that point forward we learn that the ship, still with the deep authoritative masculine voice Australian crew implicitly trust, self-identifies as female, as all ships are historically considered to be and for the exact reasoning that she sustains life (the crew) within her womb (hull) which nobody is exactly comfortably hearing about. This is important as it allows for exploration of gender identity designation as a cultural or anthropological trait, as well as the inverse, eg: “objects” being able to correct their own misgendering, and gender identity as a non-biological construct when applied to a sentient being that possesses a self-referential understanding of humanity, but none of the biology thereof. Many science fiction and even fantasy properties have explored the question of what it means to be a human even if one is not a member of homo sapiens, for example an android like Data from Star Trek, or a demon like Hellboy f rom Hellboy. Blue Sky Nine is the first work of media to explore the question of what it means to be a woman, even if you are a spaceship."
Hey bluesky nerds! If you like sci fi written by trans women you'll love Blue Sky Nine (title unrelated to platform), a comedy about a future where Australia looks to the stars for new sources of coal and work for the dole placements. Follow for development news & please boost to find our audience!
Reminder that Republicans literally cut Medicaid and SNAP to pay for a boost in military spending ahead of this.
