Thinking of streamlining my social media. BlueSky seems to have a super low rate of engagement - even for people with loads of followers. So I'm not sure it's worth the effort. I don't need to be here to talk to myself! Thoughts? Or do I just need to use #lists better?
#nonfiction book review
And yet we know the legal system is so unlikely to investigate/prosecute cases like this, I tend to assume they only do so when the evidence is overwhelming.
Electric trucks, buses, cars, trains. C'mon what more encouragement do you need? Diversified renewable energy supply makes sense environmentally and economically.
The future is electric - by train, truck, bus or car. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/economy... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Echidna of the day (6) - Echidnas are surprisingly long lived for their size and adults tend to remain in the same fairly large area so this could well be the same one. They have really good memories too - maybe this one remembers seeing @katara27 before too?
Day 4 book countdown: Let's make this a book plus echidna post then. Because echidnas are great for any occasion! (Except maybe landscaping your garden). #TheEngmaticEchidnq out May 5.
Book countdown Day 3: Echidnas have an amazing capacity to survive fires, both by burying themselves underground and undergoing torpor for several days afterwards. They are often seen with burnt spines afterwards but these soon grow back. Resilient animals! #TheEnigmaticEchidna May 5
Book countdown Day 2- #Echidnas have such incredibly long and quick tongues but they are usually quite hard to see. Have to be quick - takes a lot of ants or termites to fill up an echidna! #thenigmaticechidna out May5 Thanks to @kk-maker.bsky.social for this post from Perth Zoo.
To be fair, no-one has actually given echidnas an eye test that I'm aware but they have remarkably flat lenses and highly overlapping binocular field of view which are both traits of distance vision (like ours - usually!).
Book countdown day 1: Reposting #echidnas everyday the next month in the lead up to publication day on May 5. This one from the Dandenongs in Victoria under the towering Mountain Ash forests. Thanks for sharing @yungenchee.bsky.social #TheEnigmaticEchidna
Echidnas seem to have pretty good eyesight actually and surprisingly long focal range - but they mostly just follow their nose! #TheEnigmaticEchidna out May 5.
Danielle Clode reviews ‘The Man Who Planted Canberra: Charles Weston and his three million trees’ by Robert Macklin with John Gray www.australianbookreview.com.au/abr-online/c...
Oh my goodness - is that a thing? I was excited to see that an officeworks is opening up in the "man's world" section of Mt Barker (which is cloer to us than the homemaker centre). Desegregation in action at last.
Quokkas make everything better...
Plump little possum. Nothing like a rat!
On the hunt for the super-poopers.
Fascinating discovery about the origins of the #pineal gland or "third eye" which all vertebrates have except hagfish. Central for regulating #sleep and circadian rhythms (jetlag anyone?) this fossil suggests it was once a pair of fully functioning #eyes, not just light sensitive tissue.
I hate them doing that. Stop it!
Missed US cultural references are probably more common than we think. I can't shake my image of a "sloppy joe" as a very daggy unwashed sweatshirt. #language #idioms
Think the potential for coal was discussed in esrly exploration accounts because of geological similarities to the Welsh coast. Also a way of increasing the perceived value of your discovery?
Not sure if the source is going to come to hand readily but I'll let you know if/when it does.
Something quite distressing about a new resident flying a huge Australian flag off their gatepost. Feels deeply divisive and disprespectful. But the big Q is - are they English or bogans?
That's an interesting idea. Our reasons for celebrating Jan 26 seem grounded in 1990s politics rather than older history. But I thought the reason for "New South Wales" was because of the coal? Which is a pretty good insight into their real interests. Not so much Enlightment as $$$.
I once had an editor describe an essay as being a bit "shrill". What is this shit? I was writing about our failure to address the environmental crisis. Impassioned, vehement, passionate, sure, but "shrill"? Funny how people who claim to deal in words have so little insight into the words they use.
That's crazy! We do usually have 5 repeats on most ongoing scripts but it still means more GP visits than you need.
Ouch. We're meant to have free healthcare in Aust but there's been a $70-100 co-payment for 15min for years. And you're forced to go back just for repeat prescriptions for ongoing conditions (like being female).
Regulation is definitely the best option (we're working on that in Australia but it's tough to counter the AI cult marketing - the lure of easy $$$ is powerful). But I'm not conviced by the "too hard" argument. Looks more like hands in the air.
Would love to read this but it's member only. Thanks for the Qobuz tip!
Another #AI email this morning full of effusive praise for one of my books. What kind of sick criminal industry steals my work and income and uses it to try and scam me out of the money I don't earn using fake praise? #writingcommunity
Can comment boxes be structured for some kind of manual entry that doesn't allow copy and paste? What about human verification systems for emails with unknown addresses? Where's the AI that detects AI slop (length, repetition, circularity, sycophancy, plagiarism..)? It should be ideal for that.