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Murderbot's TV adaption will feature major changes. I talked to the creators about how those decisions were made - The Escapist Murderbot Season 1 will feature some major changes to the novella, but the creators are doing so for good reason.

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It's been called by Antony.....

of *course* on his very last election Antony Green would have all his technology fail him and have only his little notebook to guide him, this is the hero's journey but for psephologists #AusVotes

Antony Green showing a swing of 9.2% against Peter Dutton in Dickson

chef's kiss, perfect, no notes #AusVotes

The relief is palpable!

The relief....the huge relief.

What a beautiful graph 😂😂 #auspol #ausvotes25 #ausvotes2025

Completely 🙄

If it weren't so very very unsettling it'd be popcorn observation level entertainment.

Ours usually only has 4ish, had 7 this time ....inc Pauline's, trumpets and even nuttier.

The ABC Election Day Bingo Card! ✅ Antony's gigantic touchscreen fails The result isn't called by midnight Bob Katter's hat 'Too close to call’ Someone misses their live cross cue Candidate dodges a question The role of content creators is mentioned Discussion about ABC Vote Compass Donald Trump referenced Leader declares early victory A politician eats a democracy sausage the wrong way again 'Where do I vote’ trends on social media Obligatory long polling queue photo on the ABC News live blog ‘We expected this' The ABC soft launches the new Antony Candidate surrounded by furiously nodding supporters

And we’re off #AusPol

ABC NEWS Live Stream ABC NEWS delivers live results and analysis of the 2025 Australian Federal Election.

Anyone outside Aus wanting to follow the federal election TV coverage, the ABC (national broadcaster) is not geoblocking its streaming channel #auspol #ausvotes

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I was curious for possible reasons....maybe a silent elector aka address removed/hidden from the roll? Still a bad look either way.

Imagine thinking that any use of a LLM in the hosting of worldcon would go down well with the those who generally attend worldcon 😬

I thought the discussion around seattle would be that dominated by the risk of travelling to the US but apparently the organisers went "hold my beer" & did this 😒

Voted. Check.
Democracy sausage. Check.
Bonus democracy cupcake. Check.
Must be #ausvotes day #auspolitics #democracysausage

Authors Jeannette Ng and Lauren Beukes establish The Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction

ICYMI: Authors Jeannette Ng and Lauren Beukes have established The Genre Creators for Trans Rights auction with all proceeds going to The Good Law Project and The Triangle Project 👇 #BookSky

High up in a tree, head shot of a sulphur crested cockatoo unfurling its wings

Angel!

A large airy atrium with lots of glass and concrete and slate with an inflatable Moon hanging in the middle of it at the second floor level. The Moon is probably four meters in diameter. On the ground floor there are two people writing equations on a chalkboard.

Back in February @perimeterinstitute.ca installed a giant Moon in the atrium for an event commemorating Galileo and we’ve just kept it there and I love that for us

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Ovarian cancer is insidious. Working in a gig economy makes it harder. #fuckcancer
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Saturn's outer moon system viewed from the north pole of Saturn. Moons orbiting in clockwise (retrograde) orbits have red-colored orbits while moons orbiting counterclockwise (prograde; in the direction of Saturn's spin) are colored blue. With so many irregular moons occupying the same region and intersecting each other, the irregular moon system looks like a donut-shaped vortex surrounding Saturn. Each of the 128 new moons is highlighted in the diagram with a white point representing their location, and a brighter-colored orbit. Previously-known moons of Saturn are included in the diagram, but are colored darker. The regular moons of Saturn are colored turquoise and the outermost regular moons (Titan, Hyperion, and Iapetus) labeled with their name. At the lower left corner are scale indicators to help visualize the scale of Saturn's irregular moon system. A small gray circle at the left left corner is shown to represent the diameter of the Earth-Moon orbital distance. A linear scale bar is labeled "10 million km" (6.2 million mi) to give a standard distance.

View of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Each moon is labeled with their names in turquioise. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons.

Side view of Saturn's irregular moon system, tilted at an angle to show the toroidal belt-like shape of the system. Red orbits = retrograde direction, and blue orbits = prograde direction. Turquoise curves closer to the center are orbits of Saturn's regular moons. The irregular moons of Neptune (dark green) are also visible in the background to the right of Saturn. The horizontal red line protruding right of Saturn is the orbit path of Saturn.

I spent almost 2 hours painstakingly copying the orbits of all 128 Saturnian moons from the announcement MPEC and reformatting them for visualization...

Behold, here are the orbits of ALL 128 MOONS OF SATURN. This isn't just a moon system—it's a literal asteroid belt around Saturn! 🧪🔭☄️

The sunset the night before Brisbane meets #tropicalcyclonealfred beauty and quiet, the usual animal noises are quieter. #climatechange

Kindling: Stories Kathleen Jennings [matchbox]

My short story collection!

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Small fires start in the hearts of Kathleen Jennings’s characters & irresistibly spread to those around them. Journeys are taken, debts repaid, disguises put on, & lessons offered — although not often learned — in these fantastic tales.

March 2025 calendar: Unicorns part 2 Unicorns! And foxes.

The March calendar is now up:
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Agree. Watching this after seeing the correction exchange with Macaron. Waiting for this to fall under "no longer broadcast".

Totally fits with the times.....

Always the small things.

Thank you and hope it can help others. 💖🧜🏼‍♀️

The Best Worst Start To The Year So, picture this: It’s a new year and—for once—you’re ready to go out and kick ass. You’re ticking off daily task checklists and things are humming along. Your ambitious plans are achievable, and y…

I didn't get to promote my first big release of the year because a) spousal illness, b) flooded bedrooms, c) mould plague, and d) vomiting up blood.

So I wrote a blog post about why it's been a pretty good January despite being out of commission 23 days of the month: petermball.com/the-best-wor...