*fires glitter cannon southwards*

Happy birthday @mike !!

I hope the day is full of fun and frivolity (and good surprises)

This is the most joyful bro chaos I've seen in a while

we should follow the #atlassian project and build more with #wood and #timber

"Wind turbine blades usually end their lives buried in landfills, but a German manufacturer says its 63-foot wooden blades milled from laminated veneer lumber resist fatigue better and cost about 20 percent less to make."

https://www.ecoportal.net/en/wind-turbine-blades-usually-end-lives/31840

#windkraft #renewales #turbines

Today, O'Neill sings #Wagner's 'Tannhäuser' and 'Parsifal' excerpts in #Wellington https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/oneill_sings_wagners_tannhauser_and_parsifal_excerpts_in_wellington/93519/ #wch

😭
We don't deserve cats.

#Caturday

@dpk related

I just don't get why anyone in the UK would vote for an absolute joke and political clown like Nigel Farage when Count Binface is right there

Eric Abetz is sitting in the car parked next to mine 🤷‍♂️

Design for use cases, not abuse cases.

Medical AI is dangerous. First because it's biased and intrinsically inimicable to privacy, but secondly because humans are humans, and humans are lazy as fuck.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-14/ai-medical-scribe-error-leaves-patient-devastated/107031672

The use case of "I think AI is cool and I'm very important and busy and old fashioned notes are too slow' is either not reading the notes at all or skimming them so quickly you miss the hallucinations.

#whipbird just entered the chat 🎶🪈 (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

And so the polls have closed in Clacton & tomorrow morning we'll find out exactly how difficult the Fascist Frog found it to out-run a comedy bin.... if he has!

While I think the Frog will have won on a (very) low turnout, I so hope Count Binface has got a significant (protest) vote...

see you in the morning for news on Bib vs. Frog

#Clacton #politics

Doing my hobbies more efficiently is insulting. That’s not what my hobbies are about.

Otherwise it’s just work you aren’t paid for.

I am very inefficient. That’s the point. I go down random rabbit holes. I have numerous side quests. That’s part of the joy.

More attempts to kill people difficult to Putin's regime outside Russia... This one failed...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/13/russian-plot-kill-ukrainian-american-thwarted-poland-says-polish-pm

Meet A’Tuiny.

#crochet #amigurumi

Critical infrastructure sectors worldwide running unpatched edge devices are being hit by a ransomware group potentially tied to North Korea, warns a joint U.S. and South Korean cybersecurity alert.
Full report: https://www.databreachtoday.com/alert-unpatched-fortinet-devices-fall-to-gunra-ransomware-a-32518

Me, watching a movie shot in Sydney during the 1990s:

If you are wondering what Russia is like and how Putin remains in charge, this might help..

https://youtu.be/IngAT7qYxrI?si=6DFOLNBvphOBzGjJ

Does anyone have links to a good explainer of how internet access in the Gaza strip works? There's this idea going round that any information coming out of Gaza must be fake because all internet infrastructure has been destroyed, but I follow a number of people from Gaza who I at least am confident are where they say are. Can anyone recommend any reliable articles on how people are getting the internet working over there?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116929855572546253

I am sure this will be fine.