Bony empath

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I'm interested in economics, politics, nature, democracy and literature. On a scale from one to reply guy, I'm definitely not a zero, but I try not to. I will not be offended if you mute me. Toots deleted after two weeks.
@evcricket For $100K I will provide the "Iced Coffee Only" signs.

@camilla_hoel My approach for questions like this is to look up the topic on Wikipedia, go to the Further Reading section and see if there's anything by a reputable non-academic publisher. In this case there's nothing that exactly fits the bill. There's one from OUP: Kenoyer, Jonathan Mark; Heuston, Kimberly (2005). The Ancient South Asian World. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-517422-9.

And another from a publisher I've never heard of: McIntosh, Jane (2001). A Peaceful Realm: The Rise And Fall of the Indus Civilization. Boulder: Westview Press. ISBN 978-0-8133-3532-2.

My other approach is to see if fivebooks.com has any recommendations. They suggest a travelogue/history: Empires of the Indus: The Story of A River
by Alice Albinia

@stuartyeates I do whistle and click and chat to it. It watches me with interest, but then I run out of things to say and it loses interest.
@jbond I admire your optimism. I'm sure no one involved in the Hundred Years' War intended it to go on that long.

The polls have closed! We're getting early numbers from a hospital booth in North Adelaide. There's been a 45% swing toward One Nation, although local sources tell me this might be because a bad bout of gastro swept through the local RSL on Thursday night. While this is based on just 9 votes, here's a graphic where we have projected across the remainder of the state.

Hmm, maybe I won't tune in just yet.

#auspol

@donni There's a cockatoo which uses the bird bath on my balcony, and we've got to the point where we are on nodding terms, so I spend a lot of time trying to figure out how we can become friends (without me feeding it).

Reading Thomas Nagel's classic 1974 paper, "What Is It Like to Be a Billionaire?"

Nagel argues that these bizarre, cursed entities *are* able to experience introspection, but choose to pretend otherwise, lest they be haunted to the end of their days by the memories of their innumerable, unspeakable crimes

I'm looking forward to how Labor somehow ends up making this a subsidy on LNG exports for the first five years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03-20/government-explores-new-tax-for-gas-coal-to-buffer-fuel-costs/106475100 #auspol
Labor explores new gas tax to shield from Iran war shock

The prime minister's department has requested options to impose a new tax on gas giants to help shield Australians from the economic shock of the Middle East war.

@MarkAsser They cut their own hair? In my experience, some of the best hairdressers have terrible hair because they cheerfully allow their colleagues to practice on them.
The ABC has overestimated my interest in Banksy's identity by about 27 minutes and 30 seconds.