@davej@dice.camp2026-04-02 13:37:22
This week's #ThursdayFiveList, courtesy of @…, is all about #music with an #AlliterativeTitle
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-02 13:37:22
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-03 22:04:19
Stolen to add #AltText. https://mstdn.social/@GeriAQuin/116342964615241291
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-03 23:17:30
Stolen to add #AltText. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116342759976325691
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 02:18:05
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 03:17:41
Content warning: CW: auspol, Hanson censure.
“We don’t agree with Pauline, but equally, we can’t tell HER that! Oh, what a pickle!”
The #LNP saddles up for a long quest into the wilderness, in search of a spine.
https://www.abc…
@davej@dice.camp2026-05-02 07:44:39
The other day, I noticed a media interview with an old high school friend I’ve not seen in over 30 years. She’s on a disability pension and struggles to pay her rent, but at least she’s not been murdered or sent to prison—not like a handful of other people I’ve run with over the years. 🤷🏻♂️ https://mastodon.social/@fessho…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-03 05:09:10
TBF, I’d wear it proudly myself, waiting for someone to call me out. https://mastodon.social/@NoveltyBot/116338778227151465
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-03 22:12:03
I suppose giant, espresso-scented fatbergs are a thing now? 😬 https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/116342953100686517
@seedling@dice.camp2026-04-21 15:48:22
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-02 06:19:13
Content warning: CW: auspol.
He forcibly shook hands with people in a disaster area? He went on holiday during a national crisis? Somebody had to explain to him why rape is bad? He surreptitiously appointed himself to every office in the land? He nearly blinded himself by flipping his helmet up whilst arc-welding for the cameras?
I know! I know! Did he fondle coal at the Opposition during Question Time?
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-02 05:12:52
TBH, if someone’s willing to compromise their integrity and change their work habits for a measly grand, then they’re a security risk. https://eigenmagic.net/@NewtonMark/116333390854304713
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 06:53:43
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io2026-04-24 13:07:09
RE: https://dice.camp/@realms/116459545804565917
I'd argue that "AI"-based development creates a bigger attack surface on closed source/proprietary software than open source software:
1. It's more likely that internal software development uses LLMs as they're most affordable to companies; leaving them more vulnerable to prompt injection and other types of attacks targeting LLM use.
2. It's more likely that internal commits aren't vetted as much (or even purely vibe-coded) as ones in open source projects.
3. It's more likely that attacks on open source projects are discovered quicker.
Also a reminder that the "Mythos" thing—like all the other doomerist things coming out of "AI" companies—is a marketing stunt to get Anthropic free press coverage.
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 04:39:16
NGL, though, an ochre-red sun named Orkaria sounds as metal af. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116163265485177012
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 02:09:28
Just caught the end of a trailer for The Artful Dodger. I just know I’m going to be disappointed, but goddamn, all those mid-height top hats are alluring.
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-03 01:25:22
My wife’s binging Private Practice. Six seasons of the most tedious and self-involved people on the planet fucking and whinging about fucking.
Were Dante alive today, this would be the circle where they send pearl-clutching wine aunts and helicopter cat fosterers.
@seedling@dice.camp2026-04-22 16:11:59
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-01 22:01:31
The most significant thing to come from today's #Shadowdark game may be the debate as to whether zombies have use for latrines. All those brains have to go somewhere, right?
#ttrpg
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-01 21:34:27
I hope he left his iPhone at home. Because, you know, Nazis.
#IronSky https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116331494329173157
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 11:36:10
In case anyone’s curious about #Coles’ #Doritos-inspired cheesy jalapeño #HotCrossBuns, I ate one. For science.
They taste like… I’m the first actual person ever to try them. They taste like something that could…
@davej@dice.camp2026-05-01 22:45:21
I’m not even American, and I knew that Galveston and Corpus Christi had major flooding disasters in the early 20th century. By all means, sound the alarms on climate change, but for fuck's sake, crack a book once in a while. Posting easily refuted rhetoric does nothing to help the cause. https://mastodon.cc/@dtm/1165016885218…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-02 01:28:12
We need to recalibrate this thing. It can’t possibly be that low. https://mastodon.social/@levelbot/116332509839419943
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-01 23:58:06
A ballsy move, post-DOGE, I must say. https://flipboard.com/@livescience/space-5ipi8o62z/-/a-TOJf62F_R-ePBD39WWeufQ:a:1692617722-/0
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-01 12:47:47
“Lamb to the Slaughter,” by Roald Dahl. Yes, that Roald Dahl. https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116153549193997197
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 14:06:10
On the off chance you’re hoping for good news today, after a 31-year effort costing €1.2 billion, #Croatia is free of #landmines:
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-30 03:52:29
Already on it.
I confessed to friends recently that I got #TTRPG writer Chance Dudinack and actress Anne Dudek mixed up; my friends didn’t seem surprised. https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabota
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-30 13:22:31
This week, @… gives us an opportunity to score the #EndingCredits: a collection of songs at the end of things to mark the end of April.
1. Eric Kinny & Danica Dora, “Last Goodbye”—
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-03 06:53:20
A friend working in the #Philippines introduced me to #PhilippineAirlines’ current in-flight #safety #video. It’s no…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-01 02:08:28
*adds “Nethermouth” to list of halfling surnames* https://timeloop.cafe/@Taweret/116151415764995810
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-01 00:57:40
This. All of this. https://beige.party/@TwoClownsEating/116151153786143992
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 23:00:14
Domestic violence. It’s domestic violence. No need to bury the lede. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116150265982998221
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 22:38:43
Stolen to add ALT text. https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116150265901275767
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 11:44:44
Again, stolen to add ALT text. https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jgvcogxgfeplj7g3tfov7iro/post/3mfw3daumz22r
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-28 11:26:57
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-28 17:46:33
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-27 20:19:44
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-25 19:43:04
Content warning: CW: nswpol, murder, anti-LGBT hate crime.
Oh, FFS. More than 80 gay men were murdered by youth gangs in #Sydney—that we know about—between 1970 and 2010. The actual number is probably far higher.
This isn’t a new phenomenon by any stretch. Only the perpetrators’ faces have changed.
Isn’t it about time #NSW took anti-
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-31 00:57:14
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-31 00:52:09
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-27 02:09:11
Content warning: CW: auspol, Grace Tame, “difficult” women. 😬
Of course #GraceTame’s difficult.
She’s a tireless campaigner for women and other overlooked and marginalised people. Were she meek and pliant, she’d be ignored; being difficult’s the only way to get her point across.
Our political class—Albo included—is too intransigent and dismissive and self-absorbed. We need more difficult women like Tame to puncture the Bubble and prod them to gover…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-26 21:19:18
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-26 20:32:46
Personally, I’d recommend Option 3.
#scifi #dune https://dice.camp/@strangequark/116297125825562318…
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-24 14:58:32
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-26 19:58:40
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…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-27 02:44:57
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-28 22:52:59
Stolen to add #AltText.
https://mstdn.social/@maskedscheduler/116307742757163764
![A black and white image of the late, great drag queen Divine peering over her shoulder at young, smiling Donald and Ivana Trump. Divine wears an expression of utter contempt and disgust.
[Edit: per @Ralph@hear-me.social, the image is actually a digital composite, created by artist Sugar Deluxe, from a 1989 image of the Trumps; Divine passed away in 1987.]](https://cdn.masto.host/dicecamp/media_attachments/files/116/309/329/561/294/194/original/029fab42e33c7eee.jpeg)
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-22 23:21:46
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-25 17:41:01
Beyond #RingsOfPower, I’d totally missed further developments in the #LotR franchise. Andy Serkis, apparently, is heading “The Hunt for Gollum,” due out at the end of next year, set between the two trilogy #movies and f…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-26 02:41:18
Detail on voting for the #UnitedNations #Resolution UN A/80/L.48: “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement,” recognising the Transatlantic #slave trade as amongst our…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-27 00:20:59
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-26 03:08:08
I like to think that a Prefect of the Dicastery is responsible for crafting all of the Pope’s #miniatures.
(It’s not—it’s like a Departmental Secretary, in this case for making legal interpretations—but headcanon trumps #church canon… at least according to my headcanon. 😇)
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-26 21:34:05
#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.
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-27 00:23:02
I hope this #MondayRandom10 finds you well, and if not, that it leaves you feeling better, steeled to face your Monday.
1. Seinabo Sey—“Pistols At Dawn”
2. Scott Bradlee’s Postmodern Jukebox (ft Kenton)—“Closer [NIN]”
3. Lard—"Can God Fill Teeth?”
4. Basement Jaxx—“Get Me Off”
5. Einstürzende Neubauten—“12305(te Nacht)”
6. Blur—“Parklife”
7. Korn—“Beat I…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-26 01:49:55
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
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-23 19:04:12
Content warning: CW: auspol, high-speed rail.
First, they need to decouple the route from the existing network, or risk it daily becoming a *glacially slow* high-speed train. Then, set rolling stock design parameters that don’t, say, require paring back multiple existing station platforms. And then, somehow manage not to fuck up the rolling stock tender process.
We’ve been dancing this dance for decades. I can guess what’s on that shovel.
#auspol
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-26 04:16:20
Hopefully, authorities learn from the experience of Florence, Oregon, before disposing of the carcass (qv https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34). https://
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-27 09:02:35
And at the top bit of it was the dado rail, a protrusion intended to stop chair backs damaging walls. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116300222658624819
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-27 03:51:16
Ah, well. That’ll teach me for using all those em-dashes. https://mas.to/@alternativeto/116298767793880642
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-24 04:32:24
Meanwhile, #Facebook just suggested I attend a TTRPG con… from 2016. 🤷🏻♂️ https://one.darnell.one/@darnell/116457054713219561
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-25 05:55:41
Honestly, one of the best #history podcasts I've listened to in a while. https://boitam.eu/@joachim/116189608719733172
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-20 20:56:28
A #gongfarmer in the wild!
#DCCRPG https://piefed.soci…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-01 03:10:16
I love this: a brief peek at the story behind #Happys, #Canberra’s oldest #Chinese #restaurant, founded 1962:
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-23 23:46:55
My enduring memory of #JamesValentine will always be when he ate a cornflake and tomato sauce sandwich on air in the break between after-school programming, and struggled to not throw up. For all his professionalism—and he was the consummate professional—this was touchingly human and imperfect. His disgust was real.
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-26 21:52:34
Nice of Trump to take time out from raping children to bring this to our attention. https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/116297487660996290
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-23 04:54:38
It’s Monday? *IS* it Monday? Here, take these 10 random tracks:
1. Weezer—“Say It Ain't So”
2. Single Gun Theory—“Fall”
3. Bong-Ra—“666MPH”
4. System of a Down—"Shimmy”
5. Digable Planets—“Rebirth of Slick (Cool Like Dat)”
6. Bloodywood—“Punjabi Metal”
7. Big Brother & the Holding Company—“Piece of My Heart”
8. Metallica—“Enter Sandman”
9. Paul Oakenfold—“Ready Steady Go”
10. The Chaser—"Coal Makes Me Cum”
We’ll tag t…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-23 14:07:45
Courtesy of @… and @…, we #CelebrateBooksDay this week:
1. Screeching Weasel, “I, Robot”—
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-24 17:20:26
I’m curious how this works across species. I’d go to the trouble of setting this sort of thing up to get my wife to #sleep, but not if it also put my cat on edge. https://noc.social/@todayilearned/116285…
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-19 12:08:57
This week’s #ThursdayFiveList—courtesy of @…—is #ForeignAffairs: songs in a tongue that isn’t my own.
1. Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol”—
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-20 04:18:45
Are they in the #Epstein files, too, Mr President? https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116100990382833807
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-21 06:18:24
Are democracy pie floaters a thing? They should definitely be a thing. #auspol #sapol https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-23 04:33:11
Being on this side of the world does give me a head start on #MondayRandom10, so if you’re not in the Antipodes, consider this SundayEveningRandom10, instead, as appropriate. 😉
1. Garbage—“Milk”
2. Argatu’—“Hutulca”
3. Dead Kennedys—“Holiday in Cambodia”
4. Rage Against the Machine—“People of the Sun”
5. 10cc—“I’m Not In Love”
6. No Doubt—“Hella Good”
7. Simo…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-17 05:08:18
They're talking about government-mandated #RentControl. The article doesn't mention it, because #jermalisms, but we have it in #Canberra. My
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-20 04:06:35
This explains something.
My father's side of the family are notably understated in their spoken opinions, a trait I inherited. It's not just English stoicism—my grandfather on that side was born in England, and my grandmother came from the South Downs, then a very English part of QLD—but even more so. A couple of generations farther back, though, the male line crossed the sea from #Germany
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-23 01:39:09
Stolen to add #AltText. https://mstdn.social/@Nigel_Purchase/116275347865911662
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-19 10:03:58
Content warning: CW: auspol, freedom of speech, Dissent Bar & Cafe, Canberra.
The poster, FWIW, is shown here: #auspol
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-24 00:07:23
“Some things that they were able to have funded in the past — such as sex workers or equine therapy — have not passed the pub test.”
Sex workers were never covered, though *transport* to visit sex workers—who clients paid for at their own expense—was, the same as if they required transport to shop for groceries.
But don't let mere facts get in the way of sticking the boot into our society's most vulnerable, will ya?
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-24 17:29:39
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-20 22:18:16
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-15 14:27:23
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-20 03:20:12
10 random tracks—though it’s odd that Talking Heads came up twice—for a Monday. This is #MondayRandom10.
1. Smashing Pumpkins—“Siva”
2. Kwan—“Padam”
3. Aretha Franklin—“Respect”
4. Deep Forest—“Sweet Lullaby (Version 1992)”
5. Metallica—“Wherever I May Roam”
6. Dave Graney & the Coral Snakes—“You’re Just Too Hip”
7. Talking Heads—“Psycho Killer (LP Versio…
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-14 00:24:21
#Spam in my inbox is bad enough, but *wrong* spam boils my blood.
The Auteurs launched in the UK in 2007, then rebranded as #MUBI in 2010.
Of course, #TheMonthly may’ve meant MUBI became available in Australia i…
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-19 15:15:28
What? No Daria?
(Okay, maybe I’m old.)
https://youtube.com/shorts/rGManNdSxPo
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-20 01:31:57
Alt Text:
"Andy Borowitz
"Trump Says Andrew's Arrest Sets Dangerous Precedent of Pedophiles Facing Consequences”
Beneath, a photo of Donald Trump speaking, looking somewhat upset, maybe? (I don't know. Do sociopaths' externalised emotions mean anything anyway?) https://social.vival…
@davej@dice.camp2026-03-16 05:22:47
Monday. Ewww.
Good thing I can use #MondayRandom10 as an excuse to listen to #music. 😉
1. The Black Keys, “Lonely Boy”
2. Cypress Hill, “Hits from the Bong”
3. Ada Official, "Dead Canaries”
4. Weezer, "Say It Ain't So”
5. The Clash, “London Calling (Remastered)…
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-13 20:47:25
Content warning:
This is the face of the dog who inherited the postie bike. #auspol #libspill https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-13 20:47:25
Content warning: CW: auspol, libspill, Angus Taylor.
This is the face of the dog who inherited the postie bike. #auspol #libspill https://social.chinwag.org/@abc_bot/11
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-12 22:47:52
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-14 04:32:00
Content warning: CW: uspol, Trump.
There it is. The Homelander-jerking-off-in-public moment.
#TheBoys #uspol https://mastodon.online/@RejoinEU/1163
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-16 02:33:52
A lovely, overcast Monday, and 10 random songs from a playlist of 2146—what better time for #MondayRandom10?
1. Queens of the Stone Age, “Burn the Witch”
2. Angine de Poitrine, "Sahardnieh”
3. Donovan, “Jennifer Juniper”
4. Marilyn Manson, “Man That You Fear”
5. No Doubt, “Don’t Speak”
6. Otyken, “Genesis (Radio Edit)”
7. Musicalbasics, “Four Seasons Nig…
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-12 22:47:52
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-12 12:56:48
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-21 03:36:39
You don’t need to tell *me* twice.
Okay, maybe you do. https://mastodon.social/@simple_sabotage/116440597967711027
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-18 16:21:42
It feels weird to me that they can estimate uncertainty to that degree of accuracy. https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116091704024541005
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-18 07:52:08
If you thought *your* high school experience was rough, please spare a thought for poor Anus the Diviner. Celestial Lowland High was not kind to them. https://mastodon.art/@wizard_roll_call/116090243725215507
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-18 04:30:18
Alt text:
“THEObr🌞mic
@theobromic_
“a 2005 study found an autistic reindeer herder in siberia that didnt like being around people but memorized the entire genealogical and medical history of all his 2600 reindeer, which made him a respected elder in his community”
Quoted post:
“Jack @JMB4wasHere
“What did autistic people in ancient times
hyperfixate on”
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-18 03:53:46
Alt Text:
“Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
“Someone has sure already made this
observation but the fact they can
convert all those empty warehouses into
prison camps means they could have
converted them into housing,
community centers, job training centers
or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It's
always a matter of will not resources.”
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-15 20:58:43
“A week ago, someone sent me a link to an online article describing a flaming confrontation between me and the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank, Matt Comyn, on the set of 7.30.
“The story was 2,000 words long, very detailed, and had pictures of Comyn and me arguing in front of 7.30 host Sarah Ferguson, before Matt throws away his microphone and storms off.
“Not a word nor a photo of it was true. It was an #AI
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-13 04:21:57
Just spotted on Reddit: an interactive online map of every public #DrinkingFountain in #Australia: https://freebubbler.com.au/
@davej@dice.camp2026-04-11 01:30:49
@davej@dice.camp2026-02-05 19:01:52
“[Plaintiff, disability #pensioner Kathy] Pope said she had contacted more than 45 legal firms in the hope of enlisting legal representation [against #mining #billionaire
