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Every time I drive the Hume Highway I am amazed at the volume of big trucks doing the Sydney to Melbourne run. Surely this freight would be better sent by rail?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-29/record-drop-in-australias-emissions/106074296

Australia's emissions have dropped, but we've got our work cut out to reach targets
Australia's emissions had the biggest drop ever this year outside the artificial kink in the curve during COVID-19 shutdowns, but there's still a lot of work to do.

Saw a post tagged "drone kink" and clicked expecting to find like Rule 34 of DJI x Shahed or something.
Nope, just somebody in a latex outfit. Disappointing.

I am back from a short vacation in the mountains and I'm upset at not one but two kink-themed, adult-friendly servers shutting down (kinkyelephant.com and noods.fun) and the Guppe groups as well with the two major replacements (FediGroups and Newsmast) banning adult groups. The #Fediverse was supposed to be the place for adult creators, what the hell is happening?

#Phantastikprompts 12.9.:
Gibt es etwas, das du durch das Schreiben fürs Leben gelernt hast?
Der Standardknoten (Bondage) ist extrem praktisch, um eure PC-Kabel zu sortieren. Vor allem, wenn die Kabel nur bis zu einer bestimmten Stelle als Bündel parallel laufen sollen und danach sich in zwei Gruppen teilen.
Basiswissen mit Seilen kann außerdem bei drohender Sehnensche…

I have the distinct impression that we could use most American "sci-fi" TV series (which seem to have a kink for post-apocalyptical scenographies) as a diagnostic tool for the autism spectrum.
For a moment, let's leave aside the tons of right-wing propaganda "hidden" in plain sight, and their excessive reliance on boring & worn out tropes (religious & cultish bullshit, irrational lack of communication & excess of anti-social behaviour, all vs all, ultra-low-iq characters*, psychotic & irrationally treacherous characters*, ultra-inconsistent character development used to justify "unexpected" plot twists, rampant anti-intellectualism...).
What could be used as a diagnosis tool is the incredible amount of strong inconsistencies that we can find in them**. It throws me out of the story every single time; and I suspect that it takes a certain kind of "uncommon personality" to feel that way about it, because otherwise these series wouldn't be so popular without real widespread criticism beyond cliches like "too slow", "it loses steam towards the end of the season", etc.
Many of those plots start in a gold mine of potentially powerful ideas... yet they consistently provide us with dirt & clay instead, while side-lining the "good stuff" as if it was too complicated for the populace.
Do you feel strongly about it? Do you feel like you can't verbalize it without being criticised as "too negative", or "too picky", or an "unbearable snob"? Do you wonder why it seems like nobody around shares your discomfort with these stories?
* : I feel this is a bit like the chicken & egg problem. Has the media conditioned part of American society to behave like dumb psychopaths as if it was something "natural", or is the media reflecting what was already there? Also, could we use other societies as models for these stories... just for a change? Please?
** : Just a tiny example: a "brilliant" engineer who builds a bridge out of fence parts and who doesn't bother to perform the most basic tests before trying it in a real setting and suffer the consequences: the bridge failing and her falling into the void. Bonus points for anyone who knows what I'm talking about.

I’m curious
If you’re into spicy food, are you also into BDSM?
Into bdsm, like spicy
Into bdsm, no spicy
Not into bdsm, like spicy
Not into bdsm, no spicy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SX7zjE5cuI&t=42m
From the slide:
go/types.Var.Kink
It was apparently a typo. ^^
The speaker also had to chuckle.
for reference: