Eric Ireland

LOL. So apparently, the Komeito didn't leave its alliance with the LDP directly because of Takaichi, but because of Taro Aso who's been an idiotic jerk again.

You gotta give it to him, this Century, every time the LDP lost power, it was because of him […]

YouTube video by Ninja Tune Blockhead - 'The Music Scene' (Official Video)

The animation work for The Music Scene by Blockhead remains one of my absolute favorite animation work of all time. If you've never rabbit holed on the work of Anthony F. Schepperd, do yourself a favor and track down everything he's ever done

Cartoon of 2 gorillas sitting in a tree; one is pulling blonde hairs out of the back of the other. The caption says “Well, well - another blonde hair .. Conducting a little more ‘research’ with that Jane Goodall tramp?”

Mural of Asian girl on a restaurant wall

My dad saw this picture in a restaurant and asked me if it was Taylor Swift 😂 seriously! Saffron in Mordialloc #Melbourne by the way is a very nice Indian/Nepalese.

A New mRNA Vaccine Has the Potential to Cure Seasonal and Food Allergies

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(29 Sep) A New mRNA Vaccine Has the Potential to Cure Seasonal and Food Allergies

More than 80 million Americans are diagnosed with some type of allergy. Allergies can be caused by t...

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Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 Bonfire’s latest release puts data portability (moving and taking your data with you) and anti-enshittification (avoiding manipulative platform tricks) front and center.

📣 Bonfire Social 1.0rc3 just dropped!
This latest release puts data portability and anti-enshittification front and center.
Read what's new: https://bonfirenetworks.org/posts/bonfire-social-1-0rc3/

I'm currently working on my next "What the Internet Was Like in..." post for Cybercultural, this time for the year 2000. Wondering if anyone has specific memories about Flash websites that year? Or blogging, or social news sites like MetaFilter and Kuro5hin. Do let me know what comes to mind for […]

@ricmac I remember my favourite websites were tangents.co.uk and ubuweb.com

I spent so long browsing around there and finding random cool stuff.

Two of three Collins St Falcon eggs have hatched. #Melbourne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oibsohQ14cY

A new, independent source of news launches tomorrow.

“We are a group of former Guardian and Observer journalists who think our turbulent times call for a different kind of media title: courageous, independent, diverse and built around a community of readers and journalists.

“Our beat will be […]

Camera: SONYILCE-7C
Lens: 45mm F2.8 DG DN | Contemporary 019
Date: 2025:08:30 07:42:46
45mm f/5.6 1/250s ISO125 #misskey写真部

How many non-fiction female authors have you listened to? I was in the queue for the excellent Taiga ride at Linnanmäki while at the Mydata conference. While in the long queue, as there was no single rider queue (but I did get called a head a couple of time as single rider). I heard a podcast called the deep dive on the subject of the male crisis. Something I have been interested in for ages and fits within some work I’d like to do more of under cubicgarden.ltd. There is a lot of great things in the conversation but this got me really thinking (about 36:50, I couldn’t get the link to timestamp working). Sorya Chemaly uses a personal experience of talking with 2 men with teenage children at a party who also have a book club book group. They find out she is a writer/author, then ask her if she likes writing non-fiction? Soraya mentions she likes writing it but is frustrated because men generally only read non-fiction by men not women. So as a woman, she loses half the audience straight away. The men have a discussion between themselves in the open asking if they ever had a female written book in their book club. Turns out no they had not ever, and start to openly wonder why. Soraya, puts it clear what the problem in the podcast. This got me thinking how many non-fiction books have I read which are written by a woman? As I read a lot of non-fiction, I looked though my bookwrym to see. So far in 2025 I have read 20 books. The ones which are written by a female are. Unprocssed, Supremacy, Empire of AI, Careless people, Data a love story, Mood Machine, Refusing compulsory sexuality and Limitarianism. 8/20 is better than I thought it would be, I am currently reading a few book including Emergent Strategy by Adrienne Maree Brown for example, which is very thoughtful. In 2024 I read 24 books and the ones which were written by a female were the Shock doctorine, Extremely online, Doppelganger, Extremely hardcore, Radical intimacy, Lets talk about loneliness, The tech coup, Automating Inequality and Together. 9/24, less good but happy I am improving in 2025. For companion, 2023 was pretty bad with only 3 women, Silicon Values, The big con and The will to change. However the discussion doesn’t stop there, because how many of the women I read are women of colour? From a brief look. Karen Hao, and Sherronda J.Brown from this year and Simone Heng and Sophie K. Rosa from 2024. Although Bell Hooks from 2023 which is a important writer on this exact subject. Soraya makes the important point that if you are not aware of this all, nothing will change. My eyes are wide open now. Thanks!

How many non-fiction female authors have you listened to?

Asks the deep dive while looking beyond the male crisis.

https://cubicgarden.com/2025/09/28/how-many-non-fiction-female-authors-have-you-listened-to/

Saw “Bad Guys 2” which was OK for a kids movie. On the way home I picked up a massive haul of 7 cans and a 50 cent coin 💰🤑 Beautiful spring weather here.

Photo by Chris Messina on September 26, 2025. May be an image of ‎car, poster, magazine, screen, roadster and ‎text that says '‎Promoted ل u/VoteTesla Tesla has ambitious plans to drive transformational growth, but to realize this, we must retain and incentivize Elon. The Future of Tesla Is in Your Hands Vote in line with the Board's recommendations on ALL proposals TESLA votetesla.com Vote 0 Share Learn LearnMore More‎'‎‎.

Someone has taken out ads on Reddit to sway Tesla's upcoming shareholder vote. 🤔

Just in case you didn't know already that our tech overlords are stark raving mad, a reminder from 2016 that the billionaire Peter Theil injects himself with the blood of younger men in the hope of achieving immortality […]

Saw Eddie Current at Fed Square. It was great but I’m too old and tired 😪 the gig being free was a lucky thing because I went to a bar and bought a can of Carlton for $13.45 which I think is the most I’ve ever paid for a normal beer. I felt like asking “what’s in it, heroin”?

PSA for people outside the UK who want access to BBC iPlayer or BBC Sounds without a VPN, this little program works fantastically:

https://github.com/get-iplayer/get_iplayer

He also reflects on memes, the extended phenotype, and the surprising ways evolution shapes both biology and culture.

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The Poetry of Reality with Richard Dawkins
Why Ideas Spread Like Viruses
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New strip found: Bizarro by Wayno & Piraro for Fri, 19 Sep 2025 https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/bizarro/s-3850777

#comic #comicstrip #bizarro #bizarrostrip

**Hi, I'm micr0, the creator of Altbot.**

Almost a year ago, your incredible generosity helped us raise the funds to buy the server that Altbot runs on today (locally and privately) It's been operating from my home ever since, and I'm so grateful for the support that made that possible.

But […]

A SUV in a shopping centre.

If you win it you get to take it for a joyride through Northland and knock over a few bollards. #Melbourne

Deliberately putting up walls to access... They are gambling parents are too busy to get multiple shots instead of just getting MMR and won't get them at all. I guess it's time to invest in an iron long company.

The Guardian: CDC panel recommends multiple shots for measles, mumps, rubella and […]

Reasoning LLMs from Google DeepMind and OpenAI both just achieved gold medal
performances in the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) - they got gold in the International Math Olympiad (IMO) back in July https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/17/icpc/

What is the ideology behind Tyler Robinson's alleged shooting of Charlie Kirk? His online conversations and friends reveal nothing at all. A long-term friend describes him as amiable and apolitical, a little quiet, but not a recluse. The people he interacted with on Discord had a range of […]

Do people think a stock Android phone is really any better from a free software perspective than an iPhone? I need to use an app that will only run on iOS or Android. It won't run on Lineage or Graphene.

N.B. Please don't advise me to run two phones because I couldn't be stuffed.

The old man smiles. "He has to pass through Russia six times." (3/3)

"No sooner said than done!" thunders the genie. "Your second wish?"
"Hmmm. I want Genghis Khan resurrected. I want him to re-unite the
Mongol hordes, march to the Polish border, decide he doesn't want to invade,
and march back home."
"But... well, all right. Your third wish?"
"I want Genghis […]