It would be hilarious if it weren't so terrifying

That is, I wonder if they’ve had an effect. Tired.

G:link Authorised Officers hop on a tram, say they’re going to check for tickets and start approaching people… and don’t bother me. I wonder if my requests for them to prove they’re allowed to do what they do, and how they feel fining people over AU$4m over 7000 in fares makes them feel good. #GC

Thick thighs save lives

At least post the link to the article instead of posting just the headline so people can rant at it archive.md/JrCl9

Singapore's housing system: What can New Zealand learn? Dr Jordan King looks at what New Zealand can learn from Singapore when it comes to increasing access to affordable housing.

One for the Singapore housing nerds from a Kiwi perspective
www.asianz.org.nz/singapores-h...

I laughed so hard I started choking.

Venezuela, Cuba, Canada, Greenland, Iran and the Vatican* would like a word.

*That's just from the last three months.

No kidnapping today?

The tooling to make them make sense, as in actually create a barrier to view what’s behind the warning, wasn’t prioritised, so the people that didn’t care enough stopped using them.

I have various tags and phrases muted to reduce triggers, but barely anyone uses tags, and keyword matching is meh.

MyPoV: Israel is gonna keep going until they have started WW3

“Live updates: Iran accuses US of violating parts of deal framework, says ceasefire is 'unreasonable'”

apnews.com/live/iran-war-…

I lived in an area that managed to got renamed because the poshos didn’t want to be associated with the rabble, lived there before it was renamed and lived there again a decade after. Seeing the old fading stickers from the campaign always amused me.

It’s 0820 here, can you make it over the Pacific by dinner time?

I regret to inform that ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86 has stopped working.

Gather round good folk, for a scholarly delight,
A footnote in the margins that’s kept some up all night,
A half-height inconsistency in tales both old and true
Why Tooks live long
And stranger still
What Gandalf loves to do
🧵

It's called firehosing and it's a deliberate tactic

On a bus, in my own world, listening to Aurora, when something hits me. Teens behind me observing the coming of autumn their own way.

Riding eternal.

Shiny and Chrome.

hey it's that time again.

do you have data? that you like? is it backed up? do you have automatic backups you've checked are actually happening?

in multiple locations?

have you done a test restore to make sure the backups work?

*even an extra copy on a flash drive is better than no backups*

Top gender clinic psychologist ready to quit over trans ban The psychologist behind Queensland’s first children’s gender clinic fears she can no longer provide evidence-based healthcare or fulfil her professional duties.

Media reports are saying Queensland Children's Gender Service state co-ordinator Olivia Donaghy is resigning for reasons that boil down to "I didn't sign up to do conversion therapy, this is malpractice, fuck this noise". Good on her www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/que...

Yup, missed the word as I was crankytyping.

I have plenty of spare capacity on my various accounts from Synergy and Dream IT, I could set up a test account so you could to have a gander. No worries if you don’t end up having stuff hosted through me, but let me know.

Did either on you catch the SMH and various reporting that electricity could fall by 10–15% in NSW and Victoria due to increased renewable generation? The thing we’ve been arguing for decades has happened and none of the regressive fuckers give a shit because there’re browns to bomb.

What sort of things do you need? Ventra/Synergy have a few different email offerings, from not great to okay. Dream IT are better.

they did this with the Nadesalingam family: one loud, public act of nobility to hide the otherwise pervasive bastardy #auspol

I told teens who grew up with the prequel trilogy that their preference for it over the original trilogy indicated that their parents didn’t love them enough to teach them otherwise. Then ep.9 comes along and there’s just no hope if that somehow becomes anyone’s favourite.

*laughs* NAPLAN DDOSed itself.

My ex sent me a pic of herself covered in chocolate sauce recently. I laughed and lamented that at least it’s chocolate. Lamented, as I was the unfortunate one changing bugalugs’ nappy when she had the trots from mum’s antibiotics at three weeks old.

But yeah, big bugalugs, who’s 22, doesn’t care. Will continue using a sub-optimal buggy system rather than try to fix it.

I was really proud of bugalugs when she recently correctly diagnosed a problem with Nvidia’s drivers and rolled back the update on her own.