Keith Bolland

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Minimum viable pachydermspace manifestation. Possibly not what you were expecting. #nobot

I live at the edge of the universe, like everybody else. —Bill Manhire

Apparently Philadelphia is doing A Sports in which Gritty is somehow not involved and I feel that this is a missed opportunity
(In my less generous moments I refer to this as the “American dads in cars” model.)
I wish I could find a podcast client that conceptualised podcast episodes as a pile of library books, rather than a music playlist. All of them seem to assume that you have a unitary “queue” of podcasts that you’re interested in “clearing”, in ~chronological order.
I have wondered this before to no avail but who teaches customer support people to talk like this
Overheard: “We don’t use R at my day job… because R’s open-source, so it’s not secure.” 🤦
Grammar and usage nerds: does one wrack or rack one's brains?
progressive politics really has no scripts for dealing with people who espouse policy positions you mostly support while also being asshole bullies and this returns to bother me every time a political figure gets in the news for doing something that reads (to me) as being primarily driven by being an asshole and people of goodwill tie themselves in knots trying to discern the underlying progressive justification for it
fucksakes can politicians stop enlisting chatgpt to write their stupid speeches about how AI will revolutionise the workforce/turbocharge the capitalisms/destroy the planet
Mutiny on the Sydney commute: ‘pirate bus’ hits the road after privatisation leads to axed routes

Ken Wilson, whose crowdfunded service was created in frustration, says public transport needs to be in public hands

The Guardian
Shuttered car assembly plant reinvented as export-oriented mushroom farm. As you do. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-01-31/exotic-mushroom-farm-grows-on-former-holden-car-site/101910078
Mushrooms to be exported from new production plant at Adelaide's former Holden site

More than five years after the lights were switched off at Adelaide's Holden plant, the site is now on the verge of becoming another manufacturing and export powerhouse, becoming what the SA government describes as the "exotic mushroom capital of Australia".

ABC News