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Old leftie getting leftier as I get older. Husband, father, friend, cat servant. Music, words, travel, non-lycra cycling, good cheap restaurants, quality TV and movies etc. Vaper (saved my life). Essendon member, despite everything.

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every ai art deployment should be legally mandated to include the prompt used, so that we can all see how bland and lifeless the imaginations of the people deploying are
My latest cartoon for @newscientist.bsky.social
Bluesky

Bluesky Social

On the Joe Rogan podcast the other day, Mark Zuckerberg lamented the rise of “culturally neutered” companies that have sought to distance themselves from “masculine energy,” adding that it’s good if a culture “celebrates the aggression a bit more.”

Looking at the last hundred years I'd say we could do with a bit more feminine energy in positions of commerce and power,just a thought.

This article is very uncomfortable to read. https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/
Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might promise. More

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Busy Busy Busy
Buff-Tailed Bumblebees on a Globe Thistle

#Bumblebee #GlobeThistle #Photography #KugelDistel #Hummel

@VeroniqueB99 I remember years ago a Sydney radio station started using the catchphrase 'No Weird Music' and I instantly decided never to listen to it. Good weird is great!

I'm weird and I approve this message.

Remember people: "Normal" is a setting on the dryer.

There is no such thing.

We are all "weird" to someone. No biggie.

Want UblockOrigin for life

Some kinda augmented reality that replaces all display advertising with classical art or gifs from /r/aww

Quote attributed to Banksy put it best:

The Chairman's Lounge view of the airline industry https://substack.com/home/post/p-147221981?source=queue
The Chairman's Lounge view of the airline industry

An edited version of this ran in The Guardian under the headline “Why aren’t the likes of Rex and Bonza flying high in Australian skies?

John Quiggin's Blogstack

‘Deadly failure’: Australia demands Israel take ‘appropriate action’ against those responsible for killing aid workers
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/06/deadly-failure-australia-demands-israel-take-appropriate-action-against-those-responsible-for-killing-aid-workers?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Sick of slapping Israel with a wet lettuce leaf, Wong is upping the rhetoric and is threatening to use 2 wet lettuce leaves.

Instead, how about referring Netanyahu and the entire Israel war cabinet to the ICJ? Ending all arms sales to Israel? Meaningful sanctions? War reparations to be paid to Palestine? Etc

‘Deadly failure’: Australia demands Israel take ‘appropriate action’ against those responsible for killing aid workers

Foreign minister Penny Wong says IDF’s killing of the seven aid workers, including Australian Zomi Frankcom, ‘cannot be swept aside’

The Guardian