I used to host Science On Top, a science news podcast. But then 2020 happened, and after 9 years it has ended.
I’m a #skeptic, a geek, and a sci-fi buff. Big #Pratchett fan. I’m both intrigued and frustrated by #politics & #journalism.
But mostly I just toot random things that come to mind, or silly jokes, or memes. You're not always going to get intellectual profundity, but hey anything's possible.
He/him. Bi. Wurundjeri land / Melbourne / Australia.
Profile picture is a cartoon pic of me.
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This is obscene. Are we taking bets on when he's going to spend half his fortune on ending world poverty? Or a third on funding the planet's switch to renewables? Maybe both?
Any day now, right?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-13/visualising-elon-musk-trillion-dollar-wealth/106780212
@aby Exactly the same as before. Same texture, colour, smell and taste.
Just without the pregnancy risk.
RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116602642733924844
Thanks, I hate it.
RE: https://aus.social/@joannaholman/116597906046562613
What happens when someone returns home to the remotest inhabited island in the world, and gets sick with Hantavirus?
An insanely complicated military operation to parachute medical personnel and supplies onto the golf course, that's what!
Behold a seven-segment clock display ...
... that runs pneumatically
it alternately sucks in and then releases the segments, so they appear as divots in a rubbery surface
very organic!
item #6 in my latest Linkfest newsletter, free to read/subscribe to here: https://buttondown.com/clivethompson/archive/linkfest-44-microchimerism-sonic-boom-duct-tape/
Charlotte
Clive Thompson