Just yesterday Labor bet everything in defence on binding us to the US. Trump didn’t even notice, let alone care, and has come out and attacked Australia anyhow. This is not a relationship of friends or allies, we are being held hostage and need to escape.
His protagonist’s ‘logical’ plan for the future of the blind puts some of the worst Trek writers’ ideas of what constitutes logic to shame.
Also, it’s shortsighted and heartless
A cropped frame from the 1984 film Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, depicting a very young Jonathan Ke Quan wearing a backwards baseball cap and pointing viciously at someone off screen. He has a pack of playing cards in his other hand
HEY LADY! YOU CALL HIM DR JESUS!
Navy personnel outside the Integrity capsule stand on the orange inflatable platform called 'the front porch', attached to the stability platform around the circumference of the capsule. The hatch is open but the crew are not yet visible. The capsule looks like a giant cupcake with its red bouyancy balloons mimicking strawberries, no doubt to appeal to the elderly Millennial demographic
NASA's bouncy castle has deployed. Repeat, bouncy castle is in play.
As the #Artemis II mission finishes after bringing the world together in a way not seen in decades, can I just say, there's only one way to top it all off.
DO A FLIP!
The temptation for the boat crew outside to knock and then zoom off before the hatch opens must be insane.
Perhaps that’s just me
Part of the #Artemis recovery seems to involve NASA inflating a bouncey castle for the astronauts first, which I 100% support.
They’ve earned it.
Internet speeds have been getting worse over the last month or so and today, when a technician is coming out in the afternoon to check things out, it's almost unusable.
Can barely access the document I'm supposed to be editing, and am worried that changes or saves are going to be lost.
Yay.
Good to see you're on the mend
“Six! Six! Six!”
{Lucifer appears in a puff of brimstone}
“Oh yeah, that’s why I stopped doing that.”
{Sadly troops off to Hell, offering a thumbs up to Six as he goes}
Go lie down. Draw when you’re better.
Kurt Russell as Snake Plisken dropping the line "Get a new president."
Once again, Snake Plisken is on point.
Using AI to speed up Australia’s environmental approvals risks ‘robodebt-style’ failures, scientists say
Conservationists say move could push species closer to extinction and clearer environmental rules are needed instead
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
A young brush-tailed possum hangs upside down from chains that suspend a birdfeeder. She is magnificent and balletic
If Tim Chalamet can’t appreciate this as an art form, maybe he really is entering his villain era
This is not the time to talk about time. We don't have time.
You're not drunk if Zephraim Cochrane made you drink before he'd even talk to you.
It is very dad-coded
I nominated Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy as last month's book, assuming I had a copy. Didn't. Borrowed the single-volume of the whole series off a friend, five days out, and just finished the final book this week.
Interesting evolution around Book 4 and 5 ended with a stake through the heart.
The reason time speeds up as you age is book clubs.
Before, months had 4 to 4 1/2 weeks.
Once you've joined a book club, there are only 2.
The first week when a glorious month stretches ahead and the last when you panic and try to beg, borrow, kidnap or exfiltrate the book and speedread it
#booksky
He is absolutely glowing. It's no consolation to him, but it does help me get through the Dark Times of the actual bath.
Anyway, he's passed out on my bed now. Still glowing.
I heard Don Cheadle was trying to make a movie about him a few years ago. Hope it goes ahead.
The same ginger and white terrier, Billy, now beaming as he stands on a rock by a picnic table, artfully dappled by different sunlight about 1 kilometre away from the last picture. His coat has dried and he’s sparkling
I knew he couldn’t keep up the sulking long
A small, scruffy white and ginger terrier with spikily fluffed out hair is staring reproachfully back at the photographer from a wooden deck, dappled by sunlight
´Why, father?’
Billy is trying to parlay the emotional aftermath of his bath into a walk. Which he was going to get anyway, but you don’t stay at the top of the global guilt leagues without dedication and constant honing of your skills
A boatload of cocaine was allowed into Australia all because Border Force was scared crew on the boat might claim asylum - it shows how seeking to brutalise refugees leads to perverse and often less safe outcomes
WaPo Editorial: US cut aid to Africa. The continent proved resilient.
The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"
That’s precisely how a terraforming mission goes astray
Last time I played there weren’t even fishies.
I am looking forward to unlocking them this time
I’ve started the Toxic DLC where you’re trying to restore a damaged ecosystem someone else tried to establish before it went off the rails.
I have a buggy now
The guy from Voyager?
I lost my job, my kids have measles, and gas is $6 a gallon. But at least now the president doesn't have to stand next to any Black generals.
I miss having time to rewatch the things I liked. Now I can barely keep up with it all.
No, wait, I definitely still can’t keep up with it all.
But I miss being able to luxuriate in good things without feeling like I’m falling behind.
What a problem to have.
But Ellison and P+ are working on that.
Even *if* they were (they weren't), surprise muffins are always welcome and a cause for celebration.
And to forestall your next protest - shush.
Just let us like your stuff. Let it happen.