
Hobart reached a new highest temperature for May with 25.8 ºC at 12.58 this afternoon, exceeding the 25.7 ºC registered on the 1st in 1997.
And in the time it's taken me to type this up, it reached 26.0 ºC at 13.10
Further increases remain possible.

Yep. The interwebs are crap this morning for a lot of NZ users.
One NZ and 2degrees both report widespread outages across the entire South Island and parts of the North Island, affecting mobile & broadband services.
Evening run. A glorious moon rising (shame the phone can not do it justice, much better by the naked eye) and 12.5k mainly road with 3k of tracks on what is almost a balmy evening. Going to be hot again tomorrow (hey this is Scotland, it’s all relative)
#running #ScottishBorders #BorderCollie #DogsOfMastodon
Typo corrected. Toads were not involved!
#ZeroDay in every Linux Kernel since 2017
There’s a fair bit of patching to be done.
🌊 GitHub is sinking
「 Network effects are hard to topple but if anyone can do it, Microsoft can. GitHub’s fake star economy is worthless. GitHub is inundated with bots and drowning in slop and doing everything to encourage it. Microsoft is turning GitHub into the Moltbook of code, it ain’t for you and me anymore 」
Hey look at this
* "An Ignorant Population Is Easier to Control" https://rickperlstein.substack.com/p/an-ignorant-population-is-easier
* Walt Disney Visited a Ford Factory in 1948. What He Witnessed There Laid the Groundwork for What Would Become Disneyland https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/walt-disney-visited-a-ford-factory-in-1948-what-he-witnessed-there-laid-the-groundwork-for-what-would-become-disneyland-180988551/
* ‘Stop’: Warning over viral Scientology ‘Speedrun’ trend https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/stop-warning-over-viral-scientology-speedrun-trend/news-story/067ce0336bcf53774b4be682741dd868
* Aftermath: China Is Electrifying Freight Trucking https://prospect.org/2026/04/29/aftermath-china-electrifying-freight-trucking/
* 2026 Digital Publishing Awards Nominees https://digitalpublishingawards.ca/2026nominees/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DPA-2026-Nominees&utm_source=Envoke-Digital-Publishing-Awards&utm_term=DPA-2026-Nominees-Announced
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