The Hawkline Monster 🇺🇦✊

Love this song. I don’t know of any other song that describes a relationship so clearly and in so much detail in so few words. Brilliant.

#nrl

And names only a third grader would be proud of.

Yep. Just like a magicians use of misdirection. He gets you to look at his right hand while the real action is occuring in his left hand.

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan is an incredible documentary. An amazing artist and performer.

Shane McGowan

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."

Arthur C. Clarke

According to Asimov's first law of robotics, "a robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm." It seems like robots are being held to a higher standard than Catholic clergy.

And the winner is ... apathy!

They were both great races. The Ironman 70.3 world championship is in Taupo, New Zealand on 14-15 December. They should be great races to watch.

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I could be wrong. I'm in Australia, so more focused on local events at the moment (Western Australia and Taupo, New Zealand)

I thought Kona was all finished for this year?

Amazing triathlete. Watching him race was a real highlight of the T100 series this year.

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

I love this.

Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense Unintelligible as it is, new book is part of a ‘manifesting’ trend offering the young and spiritually lost an illusion of control What links these two news stories? The first: “manifesting” has been declared Cambridge Dictionary’s word of the year. The…

Not quite religion, not quite self-help: welcome to the Jordan Peterson age of nonsense

John Cleese for the win

A confederacy of dunces!

It’s happening

Terms used to discuss the climate crisis can be daunting.

We launched an easy-to-understand guide for people seeking to build their knowledge & take #ClimateAction.

Meet the Climate Dictionary: go.undp.org/opd

The thief and his gang in the movie "The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover," released 35 years ago, is the perfect metaphor for Trump in power. Ignorant, brutal, and hopefully self-destructive.