- Is there a special number I can call to complain about a faulty hot cross bun?
- Hotline?
- Exactly!

A screenshot from Aunty Donna's Big Old House of Fun. Broden on the TV dressed as Ellen and the text overlaid reads "Car City Ringwood"

Melbourne is now the best city in the world. You all should visit Car City Ringwood to celebrate.

Tributes paid at emotional commemoration ceremony to Melbourne vice-chancellor Emma Johnston, who ‘lived at triple speed’
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Brooches right? Put me down for 2

Learn a new skill, receive support or get fit at Ocean Grove Neighbourhood House
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City of Greater Geelong
#LGNewsRoundup #VLGA #MAV #VicCouncils #CityOfGreaterGeelong

I'm bringing back saying Happy New Year! No one has said it for a year.

A beautiful person and an extraordinary intellect. She was the best of us.

delicious apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1905

delicious apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1905

chart of child mortality in history, roughly 48% for all societies across the globe…until the 20th century, where it plummets to 4%

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Congratulations Stella!

Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.

A row of postbox painted bollards in front of a post office.

Postbox bollards outside the Post Office. Absolutely delightful.
#WorldBollardAssociation 📮

WeRateDogs turns 10 years old today! A very silly idea to numerically objectify dogs has become one of the kindest and most powerful online communities ever. Thank you for joining us over the last decade. I never knew what this could be until you all showed me. Here's to many more good dogs ❤️

A six-panel comic. In panel 1, text says "People often wonder, why don't I see baby pigeons? Here's where they're hiding:" and there's an egg with an arrow pointing to a question mark, then an arrow pointing to an adult pigeon. Panel 2 says "Pigeons don't nest in trees. They nest in sheltered spaces on or in buildings. This keeps their babies safe from weather and predators." There's a pigeon nesting in a sheltered cavity in the side of a building. Panel 3 says "The hidden babies look like this: like moldy potatoes, but cute" and there are two baby pigeons looking, well, like moldy pink and gray potatoes with yellow fuzz. Panel 4 says "Older baby pigeons hide in plain sight. When they leave the nest, they're adult-sized, but they're still young and learning" and a fledgling pigeon is flying out of a building saying "aaaaaa". Panel 5 says "Here's how to identify these young pigeons" and shows a fledgling pigeon with arrows pointing to these features: eyes may be gray-brown, pale-edged feathers, smaller "nose" (cere), subdued hues, and looks worried. Panel 6 says "Scientifically speaking, though, all pigeons are sweet babies" and there are three very cute round pigeons, a gray, white, and red one, with arrows pointing to them to make things look scientific.

Baby pigeon mystery.
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Billy in front of the Ross bridge

Sandstone for a bridge? Madness.

Practically falling down

Last photo of this awful old bridge. I promise.

Very old bridge. Ridiculous. Tasmania: wouldn’t recommend.

ladies and gentlemen...we got him

The hardest working font in Manhattan A story of a 150-year-old font you have never heard of – and one you probably saw earlier today.

"So why do I love Gorton so much?

The Occam’s Razor seems sharp on this one. Perhaps I like it because I’m a boy and Gorton is often attached to heavy machinery."

#font #gorton #leroy #pantograph

184 titles in total. I must have read a fair chunk of them. The Digital Antiquarian’s childhood almost exactly mirrors my experience with books, computers and roleplaying games.

Dami Im - Bubble (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by Dami Im

Dami Im releases her new song, Bubble, this morning.
#ARIA #Australia #XFactorAustralia #Eurovision

Bellingcat Council Meeting Transcript Search Find verbatim quotes from council meetings in the UK and Ireland using this free open source research tool by Bellingcat.

My latest Bellingcat tool is out!

It lets you search what was said in council meetings across the UK and Ireland, and takes you directly to the right part of the video session to verify.

Check it out and let me know what you think! 👇

council-search.bellingcat.com

Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.

Redemption: A Game of Tactics and Consequences. A sci-fi tactical rpg and the best effort yet to wrap a soft narrative layer around a crunchy tactical core. Setting leans toward military focused stories a la Battlestar Galactica, but allows for other styles. Needs high player skill to run well.

Screenshot of the first page of the contract between van Diemen and Sultan Hamza. Dutch and Ternate text arranged in two columns with Dutch being on the left and Ternate on the right. Ternate is written in Arabic script.

In 1638, van Diemen made a contract with Hamza, Sultan of Ternate. This contract is the oldest extant text in a Papuan language. I briefly talked about it in the episode on Ternate of the A Language I Love Is... podcast with @dannybate.bsky.social 4/4

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As of this week, there is nobody left on Earth who witnessed this moment live.

Extinct birds, in order of left to right
1. Kauaʻi ʻōʻō 2. Cuban Macaw 3. Whēkau
4. Carolina Parakeet 5. Great Auk 6. Passenger Pigeon
7. Labrador Duck

'Ur mom' but it's a demographic in ancient Mesopotamia

Unlocking maps of Aboriginal ‘sky country’ The emerging field of Cultural Astronomy is unravelling how Indigenous understandings of the night sky is linked to navigating "songlines".

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We've hit 750 CoPower Gas customer members! ✊🎉 This milestone means that we now have a $15,000 democratic budget to allocate to initiatives to help our CoPower Gas customer members reduce their energy use and where possible, get off gas. 1/3

Yes, you can store data on a bird — enthusiast converts PNG to bird-shaped waveform, teaches young starling to recall file at up to 2MB/s Who needs Starlink when you've got an actual starling

Ok but does it run DOOM

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Helsinki goes a full year without a traffic death A city traffic engineer credits the success to lower speed limits and smarter design.

“Helsinki has not recorded a single traffic fatality in the past 12 months, city and police officials confirmed this week.”

City engineer credits lower speed limits and smart design.

I agree. #Helsinki #VisionZero