Vaughan McAlley

There is a legal case for me to be gifted unlimited free donuts for life--but it is strewn with obstacles

The top line of four words in today's NYT Connections puzzle. The words are ONLY, CONNECT, OLIVE, BRANCH.

I can only guess at the story behind this but it looks like they are holding it out hard.

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

Separating syllables in Latin anxiety
Beaming dotted quavers/8ths in 9/16 anxiety
Parenthesizing cautionary accidentals anxiety

Well that convinced me.

Imagine if Jimmy Kimmel had said that we should get together and bail Tyler Robinson out because he's a true patriot. But that's what Kirk said about Pelosi's attacker! Vance Boelter got interviews on Blaze! Trump pardons J6ers! You cannot in good faith compare this.

IT'S NOT ENFORCEMENT IF THEY'RE NOT EVEN CHECKING WHETHER THE PERSON IS AN IMMIGRANT LET ALONE IN VIOLATION OF ANY LAWS OR PROCEDURES

Danish humanitarian workers being targeted by Russia

Trump holding a picture of himself and Putin

Russia released video of themselves targeting and murdering Danish humanitarian volunteers working to remove unexploded ordnances from Ukraine.

A few hours later Trump invited Putin to the FIFA world cup because “he’s been very respectful of me and of our country…”

Sydney marathon runners cross harbour bridge in brazen display of antisemitism

"Clearly they support terrorism" chaser.com.au/general-news...

The easier it is to carry around, the harder it is to do actual work with.

After me telling her many times that this would be the case, 9yo prefers doing Tinkercad on the desktop.

Sewell going full-on Nazi in the presence of the Premier might get the government to take him seriously.

A screenshot of a Ninefax headline: PM says some good people marched on Sunday, blames exploitation by neo-Nazis

We couldn’t have designed a worse government to meet this moment. Absolutely extraordinary.

Congrats 👏

On the other hand, at Ringwood East, the half-hourly buses and trains arrive at exactly the same time, making it impossible to reliably connect either way.

This is what I think. Will fascism have enough momentum without him to overcome resistance?

This is one of the first ones I saw when I opened Bluesky, so was the first puzzle piece I had in the time-honoured tradition of piecing together what was going on from cryptic posts.

black tie reads as formal today, but they are actually party suits, things you wear when you want to celebrate something.

Obama, Biden, Hillary Clinton, and some other government officials in the Situation Room.

Live your life such that everyone doesn’t spend ten solid years planning the rager they’re going to throw when you die.

Trying to figure out a way to impress upon my students that using AI to skip course work in order to get a music degree is like ordering food at a restaurant and immediately throwing it out the window in order to get to pay the check

YouTube video by PrimaPratica The lilies of the field, a cantata

I wrote a cantata, The lilies of the field, which is an Australian take on the Easter story with words by @katherinefirth.bsky.social. I’m pretty proud of it and hope that you enjoy it!

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Dumb joke: What did Bill Gates name Microsoft after?

The replies and quotes to this are really informative. I’m naive, so wouldn’t have thought of using fake candles.

Yes, that really popped out at me.

We should put them out of their misery.

It does too… I suspect Shostakovich was flattered by the music, and Lloyd Webber would have been flattered by Shostakovich going twice.

Yep, my website sucks.

NYT Connections has led me deep into the fascinating world of US homophones, which is utterly different from Australian ones.

Deleting a post about Israel “accidentally” killing international journalists because I missed that they had declared them terrorists.

Everyone involved in this genocide needs to be sent to The Hague

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