make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

This is pretty amazing, since as far as I know, there's only ever been one wild population, which can't reproduce, only clone itself (for thousands of years).

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

It seems like a Prime Minister who continues to get his corruption trial delayed for years because his government is engaged in wars has a personal incentive to keep wars going as long as possible.

so basically we’re right back where we were a week ago, except a bunch of trump officials and their friends are now a couple billion dollars richer from betting market crime

Usborne's SUPERNATURAL GUIDES (1979): Following up on their seminal World of the Unknown trilogy, these fantastic pockets books gave kids a whole new set of nightmares (1/2)

All of his businesses and property should be nationalized and dissolved and he should be stripped of literally every single asset and dollar. Put him in public housing and let him live off of whatever UBI the next Congress passes.

Today marks the 44th anniversary of the single most sanity-warping print error ever committed to print.

The gnawing, eldritch, Lovecraftian horror of this Peterborough Standard society page from April 18, 1980.

Theremony at tremony at the liremony indeed.

As a child of the late 70s, with a birthday today, I feel personally attacked. But yes, my husband and I are constantly agog we are younger than most of the classic era "Neighbours" and "Coronation Street" patriarchs (and dirty old men in the "Carry On" movies)...

#OnThisDay 18 April 1990 - FAST FORWARD
Matthew takes Tegs back to his "home" in #GrangeHill.
In #EastEnders the cartoon, Dot discovers that rather than blue blood in her family, she's descended from a hanged highway robber!
#KylieMinogue in TV Centre.
Plus, The Proggy Pages.

#OnThisDay 17 April 1991 - FAST FORWARD
There's a fire to put out in #GrangeHill.
In #EastEnders: "You mean you swapped engines, crazy paving, manure and 'ens for nothin' but a bit of paper?"
Some unlikely contenders for Eurovision in TV Centre.
Plus, The Proggy Pages.

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert showing an assembly of renewable energy solutions - solar panels, battery storage, high speed rail, electrified truck freight, EVs and charging infrastructure, wind turbines, and bicycles - put together in a shape that resembles a military tank. A different approach to a massive increase in military spending that would increase Australia's security and sovereignty in times of global unrest.

Best defence.
My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

I was in what I think/hope must have been the last professional UK production of "A Bedfull of Foreigners" in the early 2000s. I remember little about it other than that I played Claude Philby, biscuit salesman, who had a German wife called Helga (natch), and that it was probably funnier in 1974.

I think this is either Boletus tasmanicus or B. barragensis, either way, check out those sexy red pores of a kind we only get in the UK on the legendary B. satanas.

I think this is the gilled bolete, Phylloporus rhodoxanthus.

The first coral I have found this year, a beautifully colored Ramaria anziana.

And a handful of other odds and ends, including a bold Russula persanguinea pushing up right in the middle of the bike track.

We're far behind the southwest in the north of #Tasmania, but #fungi season proper is definitely on its way! A handful of beautiful finds from the Warrawee bike trails for #FungiFriday. #FungiFriends

I really hope it helps; I'm.only trying to get down for a work opportunity but there must be people absolutely desperate to get there.

Four panel comic from Nathan Pyle. Panel 1: A kid wearing a backward ball cap and a backpack looks at a dinosaur fossil, and says "So ... you had feathers?" Panel 2: The kid now says "Not so scary now!" Panel 3: We scan above the kid, seeing two small shapes at the bottom of a high window. Panel 4: We zoom in on the window, and see two pigeons. One says "The ancestors.". The other says "He mocks them"

Good. I called the local MP to ask them if they could draw attention to it. It's too late for me and my job interview but hopefully it might help others if enough noise is made about it.

It's de facto public transport if its bankrolled/subsidized by the government, which it certainly is being currently, at least according to the bus company itself. I agree that public transport rarely works in the service of the actual public it's supposed to serve, thanks to late-stage capitalism.

i see quolls quite often when i drive home after dark which always blows my mind but i have never had to stop and wait for a quoll to finish pooping in the middle of the road before 😳

Another absolutely wild #politas story 😭

Evidence of massive unmet demand that was previously suppressed by excessively high ticket prices.

The state of public transport in Tasmania is an absolute farce.

Absolutely. As a lifelong non-driver, public transport is pretty crap in most places, outside of a handful of European cities, but it seems especially shocking here, particularly given the importance of tourism.

@tasinquirer.bsky.social @pulsetasmania.bsky.social In fact, worse than that, I think it's actively discriminatory against those who can't/don't drive. I really don't know how stupidity like this happens, but I really do wonder if politicians bother to think things through. 5/5

@tasinquirer.bsky.social @pulsetasmania.bsky.social the bus company says it has extra buses and drivers it is willing to put on, BUT the government refuses to allow this: it doesn't want to pay for any more fares. Even if you're willing to pay the fare, you can't get a bus. It's frankly insane... 4/

@tasinquirer.bsky.social @pulsetasmania.bsky.social can't get to them, even if they're lifelong public transport users and can't or don't drive (for medical or any other reason). There is literally no other option: we don't have passenger trains or other bus operators. HOWEVER... 3/

@tasinquirer.bsky.social @pulsetasmania.bsky.social However, the buses from Launceston to Hobart are now so oversubscribed, there is no capacity left, for weeks. This means (in the words of the bus company), that those needing to travel for hospital appointments, job interviews, funerals... 2/

@tasinquirer.bsky.social @pulsetasmania.bsky.social Not sure if you're aware of this? I've encountered some staggeringly stupid governmental decisions in my time, but this one really makes me want to weep. The #Tasmanian #government have made #buses free to use because of the #oil crisis... 1/

Thanks, but I actually live in Tasmania! (There's not many of us) I imagine the toyshop will order them for me, if I decide to do a dead dino diorama :)