2026-04-26 21:19:18
I miss Web 1.0, and despair that as #DeadInternetTheory takes hold, we humans find ourselves unable to salvage much worthwhile from the #Web of old.
We’ll have to kitbash something frail and new as (drawing vague analogy from @…
I’m actually less enthused that it’s labelled “#Mandalorian Galactic #Lemonade Mystery Flavour” than had they just gone with either “Galactic Lemonade" or “Mystery Flavour" alone. It makes me wonder just how badly not-lemonade it is—some exec decided to shrug off appealing to customers' curio…
#Archbald, PA, has 7000 residents. Developers plan 51 data warehouses for the town, each the size of a Walmart Supercenter. Most of the Borough Council has resigned. Shots have literally been fired.
Copio del bluesky y añado mi opinión:
Según esa noticia, se podría reducir la jornada semanal de 40 a 30 horas sin reducir salarios y aún así las empresas tendrían los beneficios que tienen ahora.
#trabajarMenos #trabajarTodas
Same deal as last week for #MondayRandom10. Details in the next post.
1. The Stalin, “Romantist”
2. Black Moth, “The Undead King of Rock ‘n’ Roll”
3. The New Pornographers, “Moves”
4. Bal-Sagoth, “To Dethrone the Witch Queen of Mytos Kunn”
5. Childish Gambino, “Retro”
6. The Vines, “Get Free”
7. Manowar, “Die for Metal”
8. Chuck Brown, “Run Joe”
9. …
Stolen to add #AltText.
NB: the article shown in the last panel is at https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/24/millionaire-hunter-dies-elephants-gabon
from my link log —
Darts, dice, and coins: sampling from a discrete distribution.
https://www.keithschwarz.com/darts-dice-coins/
saved 2026-06-15 https…
Via the r/BabylonBerlin subreddit, season 5 of #BabylonBerlin has finally been teased, at least in Germany, to begin this September.
Per @…'s suggestion—following on from @…’s theme last week, and much more in keeping with my own wintry location—today’s #ThursdayFiveList
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PacificNotions
Cole Pulice:
🎵 Thirteen Sided Dice
#ColePulice
https://colepulice.bandcamp.com/track/thirteen-sided-dice
My wife’s binging Water Rats (an Australian cop show that ran from 1996 to 2001).
There’s a scene where one of the regulars—a police diver—who found the long-dead body of a little girl has to break it to her mother… and the saddest-looking Labrador EVER.
I really hope the casting director was a dog person. I imagine taking a couple of weeks to cast a sad Labrador would’ve been the highlight of their career.
"Many of 1988’s droughts and floods, heat waves and hurricanes were random events, the roll of the dice. But the dice are being weighted. In coming years they will fall hot and stormy-side uppermost more often"
Hopefully, authorities learn from the experience of Florence, Oregon, before disposing of the carcass (qv https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34). https://
An #asteroid hit deep in the #Australian #outback. What it left may have broken a record.
Australian researchers say they have found evidence of Earth’s oldest known asteroid
Reclaim Your City 014 | Freddy K
01. Frankie Bones - We Call It Tekkno (Akkappella Mix) - Bash Again!
02. Sawf - Skotos (Original Mix) - M_Rec Ltd 16
03. Conrad Van Orton - Autumn (Original Mix) - KEY Vinyl 003
04. Nihad Tule - Shatter - Sloboda 8413001
05. Adam Jay - Inward - Chroma Recordings…
https://
Roll The Dice Podcast
If you're tired of podcasts that feel like job interviews, roll with us. It's unpredictable by design — and that's the fun...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/roll-the-dice/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Big Youth:
🎵 Pair of Dice
#BigYouth
https://ericblowtorch.bandcamp.com/track/pair-of-dice-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/14QCev62PSNDS5HCgCtPpf
I've finally done it! It took me over five years, but I've *finally* finished a game of #Stellaris!
And now, I need sleep.
RE: #AltText.
I’m not saying I live in neighbourhood with a lot of Indian residents, but #7plus (the #streaming service for one of our #FreeToAirTV stations) keeps serving me ads for atta flour—with Hindi dialogue.
I’m not s…
This #ThursdayFiveList, we #EmbraceTheWild, revelling in those primal places and emotions that begin just beyond where civilisation ends:
1. The Cure—"A Forest (Tree Mix)"
2. Kool & the Gang—"Jungle Boogie (Extended Jungle Jazz Edit)"
3. Motörhead—"In…
Interesante la regla 3-30-300 y especialmente lo mal parada que estš España.
Esta regla dice que debes ver 3 šrboles desde tu ventana, que el 30% de tu barrio tiene que estar cubierto con šrboles y que debes tener un parque a menos de 300 metros de donde estés.
https://www.not-ship.com/can-you-see-three
So, this would be some subset of the 800 or so general-level officers who rubber-stamped #Trump’s #ForeignPolicy objectives, now complaining that #military concerns take a backseat to commercial interests—as if this…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Yeah NO:
🎵 He Has a Pair of Dice
#YeahNO
https://chrisspeed.bandcamp.com/track/he-has-a-pair-of-dice
RE: #OneNation
Cops Warn #CEO #Bodyguards That #LuigiMangione Fever Could Spark #ClassWar:
#CIA ran #MKUltra #experiments on #PrisonersOfWar in US custody, declassified docs confirm. For the first time, documents…
No lo he contado pero al final me apunté a uno de esos gimnasios de fit con boxeo enlatado en el que todo el mundo hace lo que dice un vídeo y te puntúa y esas mierdas.
Bueno, pues la parte positiva es que no tiene esa parte del boxeo que no me gusta, que es la de guantear contra gente motivada de mšs que se creen que son Mike Tyson y que a los demšs nos hacen gracia sus estupideces mentales.
La parte negativa es lo de que es un producto mšs pensado para oficinistas con vida sed…
I won’t touch #DnD5e anymore, but I do feel for the upcoming #Encyclopedia’s #authors.
#WotC’s parent company,
Sigh. This is just “rich people will flee the country if taxpayers stop subsidising them,” but for infrastructure investment. If it’s profitable then they’ll invest—they’ll simply find new loopholes to offset their obligations, and fabricate whole new axes of victimhood to whinge about.
#auspol #renewables
It’s #MondayRandom10 time again! MOAR RANDOM!
1. Ramones—“You Should Never Have Opened That Door”
2. Johnny Cash—“(Ghost) Riders in the Sky”
3. Lustmord—“Er Eb Es”
4. Suidakra—“Otherworlds Collide”
5. Cosmic Psychos—“Bum for Grubs”
6. Balkan Beat Box—“Pachima (UBK Remix)”
7. Hank Williams III—“Moonshiner’s Life”
8. Skip James—“Hard Time Killing Floor Blu…
This week, @… nominated #FourLeggedLandCritters for #ThursdayFiveList’s theme. I was tempted to go with all comedy songs, but I love Big Mama Thornton’s…
Were I rich enough to understand—and afford—lettuce futures, I’d be very excited about this #AndyBurnham chap.
#ukpol
“Random? Monday? #MondayRandom10. Yeah? Here.”
(Wraps pillow around face. Passes out.)
1. Emily Barker—“Return Me”
2. The Heavy Eyes—“These Men Are Wolves”
3. The Fray—“Ice Cold Lakes"
4. Balkan Beat Box (ft Boom Pam)—“Gross”
5. Joji—“Yeah Right”
6. Ghoultown—“Drink with the Living Dead”
7. Blue Öyster Cult—“I'm on the Lamb but I Ain't No S…
RE: https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/116611263669101847
Ah, Australia. Security theatre at its finest.
Stolen to add #AltText.
#auspol #AI https://theb…
This does put me in mind of the time that #JuliaChild (she of “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” fame) was publicly outed as an agent of #DeltaGreen (qv,
It’s the dead of winter where I am; nonetheless, where @… blazes a trail, I can but follow. #BurningHeat is this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme:
1. Goat—“Let…
In what fucking reality has Trump had military victories in Iran?
Re: #uspol
Something different for #MondayRandom10: stuff that MIGHT make my regular playlist.
1—The Decemberists—“The Queen’s Rebuke”
2—Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever—“Cameo”
3—Social Distortion—“Reach for the Sky”
4—The Walker Brothers—“The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore”
5—Hugo Kant—“Black Moon”
6—Jaguar Jonze—“Rising Sun”
7—Angie McMahon—“If You Call”
8—Wizzard…
Courtesy (once more) of @…, #ThursdayFiveList takes us this week to a #FantasyWorld. So gird your loins, strap on your sword, and rock out against the darkness li…
Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #HalfMiddleOfTheCenter: songs about being in the middle of things.
1. Yuri Gagarin, “At the …
RE: #WellDoneAngus issues a suspiciously-timed attack on
“Finding a ‘#whale #necropolis’ where there are nearly 800 #skeletons per square kilometre is a surprise, and the mix of whale types is a puzzle.”
Deepest and most extensive whale
Time for #MondayRandom10 once more—ten random tracks to brighten your Monday:
1. 1000 Homo DJs—“Supernaut”
2. Fisher & Tones and I—“Favour”
3. The Gymslips, “Drink Problem”
4. Morcheeba—“Enjoy the Ride (Jason Bentley Mix)”
5. Roy Wood—“Red Cars Are After Me”
6. Can—“Mushroom (Remastered)”
7. Blaak Heat Shujaa—“The Storm / We Are the Fucking Storm”
8.…
RE: #AltText.
My street’s a concrete canyon. Every few days for over a year, there’s been a man screaming somewhere nearby, sometimes for over an hour.
I finally caught sight of him last week: a heavyset young man with Down syndrome, over-ear headphones, shouting into a (thankfully disconnected) hand mic. Whatever he’s listening to, he belts it out with gusto as he literally dances along the street.
I used to worry he was in pain, but now take heart in one of the purest expressions of joy I’ve…
You mean this guy? What are the chances?
#auspol #ElonMusk #antisemitism
Big day. Almost forgot #BastilleDay.
Death to the Aristos!
Say what you will about the British, but they treated the #WhiteHouse with more respect in 1812.
Re: https://flipboard.com/@associatedpress
RE: #AltText.
Bah! I’m going back to Mona 6, at least for a while.
Ideally, I’d like a full-featured Masto client that’s interoperable across OSX/iOS/iPadOS, and that doesn’t charge a subscription.
Mona 6 sorta gave me that, but has quirks I didn’t like—quirks I’d hoped would be fixed in the next version. But version 7 went subscription-model, and I’ll be damned if I pay to rent features I’ve already bought outright in version 6. Fuck that. (1/2)
Thursday rolls around once more, and there’s something in the air: @… whispers that the week’s #ThursdayFiveList is #BlowingInTheWind.
1. Loreena McKenn…
Looks as if Apple Music’s skewing kinda punk this #MondayRandom10. Not complaining or anything, though: it’s a good day for it.
1. Weezer—“In the Garage”
2. Hawkwind—“Motorhead”
3. Static-X—“Love Dump”
4. Spermbirds—“Another Dead Friendship”
5. Storm Weather Shanty Choir—“Leave Her, Johnny”
6. The Jim Carroll Band—“People Who Died”
7. Argatu’—“La Cosit”
…
How #science finally solved #hallucigenia’s weirdness after 84 years: https://youtu.be/WY3GqbjjrdY
There he is! Up there!
All the way up there!
The richest man in history!
I bet we could raise him higher yet—
At least the length of a pikestaff.
#poetry
Per @…, this week's #ThursdayFiveList theme is #SciFITunes:
1. Human Aftertaste—“Lazer Gun”
2. The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets—“Slave Ship”
An early night for me, and I nearly forgot #MondayRandom10!
1. My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult—“Glamour is a Rocky Road”
2. Angine de Poitrine—“Sahardnieh”
3. Red Fang—“Blood Like Cream”
4. Faith No More—“Easy”
5. Tom Odell—“Heal”
6. The Stranglers—“Golden Brown”
7. Dan Warren—“Clockwork Family”
8. Single Gun Theory—“From a Million Miles”
9. Alaba…
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116573675142290696
“If prosecutors dropped the charges, Mr. Adani would be willing to invest $10 billion in the American economy and create 15,000 jobs, echoing a pledge he made in the wake of Mr. Trump’s election.”…
RE: #AltText.
#Ozempic’s partially subsided by the #PharmaceuticalBenefitsScheme for blood glucose management and pre-surgery weight loss. #Wegovy—the same drug,
This week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #WideOpen.
1. The Waikiki Beach Boys—“Buka Pintu” (Indonesian for “Open the Door,” in case you’re wondering.)
2. USURA—“Open Your Mind”
3. Thorn Haze—“Open Vein”
4. Leftfield—“Open Up”
5. C4$PA—“Open the Gate/Dead Meat”
Playlis…
Courtesy of @…, this week's #ThursdayFiveList theme, #LGBTQPlusMusicians, celebrates
Granted, my roots in Australia go back over 230 years, but is it too late for me to board a boat and nope the fuck back to the mother country?
Re: https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/116894167473794814
RE: #OneNation’s been around for 30 years, but rarely able to gain a fo…
Happy #MondayRandom10 to those of you who celebrate early-week, stochastic #music selections! 😉
1. Wolfmother—“Colossal”
2. Kyuss—“One Inch Man”
3. Zero Kama—“Liber Al I.13.”
4. C C Music Factory—“Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)”
5. Die Antwoord—“Fatty Boom Boom”
6…
Ice-cold take: a tenant who can afford Bulimba’s median $1225/week house rent isn’t in #housing distress, let alone one who can afford the median $2.3 million purchase price.
How about building dwellings for people genuinely priced out of adequate housing? Why not actually address #WealthInequality
RE: #AltText.
RE: #Trump got one and what he did with it if so remains unclear.”
One can but h…
RE: #uspol
Another Monday, another #MondayRandom10: ten very random tracks from my feeder playlist.
1. Billy Gibbons & Co—“Oh Well”
2. Popol Vuh—“In den Gärten Pharaos”
3. X—“Los Angeles”
4. Cut Copy—“Love is All We Share”
5. Soul Coughing—“So Far I Have Not Found the Science”
6. Didirri—“The Critic”
7. Yuri Gagarin—“At the Center of All Infinity”
8. Smashing P…
I grew up on buses in #Canberra, and though I was away for ~30 years, even with all its changes, I took to #PublicTransport again like a duck to water.
My wife, OTOH, grew up in Sydney and went straight from foot to car as soon as she was old enough. She’s in a wheelchair now, but despite all ass…
And yet Siri gives me grief when I tell it to shut the fuck up.
Re: https://mastodon.social/@cultofmac/116728757762238195
Say what you will about #Canberra, but how many other cities of ~½ million poll their residents to determine where to buy the best hot chips?
https://www.act.gov.au/our-canberra/…
#HereComesTheRain! This week’s #ThursdayFiveList, once more courtesy of @…, is all about the wet stuff that falls from the sky and brings life again to the pa…
RE: https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116894387508700070
Hinch may’ve been a tireless crusader for victims of child abuse, but in so many other respects, he had a remorseless disregard for truth, or for the victims of his relentless, opportunistic pursuit of …
And if you think that’s cool, kiddies, wait till you find out what they call jellyfish. 😈
Re: https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/116720197953492709
RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116547833070885370
Since February 2022.
To put this into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the number of US servicemen killed AND wounded during the entirety of the Vietnam War.
RE: #AltText.
RE: #AltText (assuming my Masto app hasn’t eaten it again).
“National data shows that almost half of Australians already fall short of minimum physical activity guidelines, and rising prices are making even basic care unaffordable for many.”
I’m not saying this stupid war on #Iran is wholly responsible for #inflation, but it’s certainly not helping—and even its dis…
“The Labor minister Tanya Plibersek, appearing alongside Joyce on the TV panel, replied: ‘They were being knocked out by investors, Barnaby. That’s why we’re changing the tax system.’”
Why is this woman not in the Lodge?
Re: https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/116717874943097061…
So THAT’S what they look like. Oddly, I’ve read about books receiving Nebulas and Hugos and PKD Awards, but it never occurred to me that they were physical artefacts AND accolades. Huh. 🤔
Re: https://wandering.shop/@effies/116717392735380026
@… You missed the pearl-clutching in paragraphs 4-6?
“It’s become so normalised that nobody blinks an eye at the sight of people clinking glasses of prosecco at 7am, but Ryanair boss Michael O’Leary has called to ban the practice.
“He claims that almost one flight a day […] is being diverted due to unruly behaviour, which mostly stems from said …
My rules of thumb:
• Interesting, you can make up on the fly, but memorable takes work.
• NPCs only need the stats that PCs interact with; often, they don't even need names. Save your effort for significant characters with a standout, unique ability or two, and a paragraph or two of history. Everyone else gets generic stat blocks—but only if the PCs fight them. (Or whatever your #TTRPG&…
RE: https://dice.camp/@kyonshi/116838805144359805
Interesting. I figured it was of Russian origin for some reason. 🤷🏻♂️
It’s one of my wife’s favourite expressions, and it displaced “You can’t hug every cat” in our house—which usually resulted in a nearby…
This week’s #MondayRandom10 comes with a tinge of darkness… and magick. 🤔
1. Lead Belly—“Where Did You Sleep Last Night?”
2. S’Express—“Theme from S’Express”
3. David Bowie—“Blackstar”
4. Weedeater—“Wizard Fight”
5. Black Lips—“Modern Art”
6. Castle Rat—“Wizard”
7. Sonicanimation—“Theophilus Thistler (An Exercise in Vowels)”
8. Manu Pilas—“Bella Ciao”
I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet. He was in the stall of a Shinjuku men’s room, and he tried to eat my face.
Onryō are fucked up, y’all.
RE: https://mastodon.scot/@kim_harding/116540714321252250
One of my favourite managers could be found, most days, down the pub at 6:30am. Why? His shift finished at 6am, and he enjoyed a couple of beers on his way home.
It rustles my jimmies that s…
RE: #AltText.
Courtesy of @…, this week’s #ThursdayFiveList theme is #AcousticGuitarsWave: a collection of acoustic tracks.
1. Smoke City—“What It Was (Acoustic)”