Ice cream cures hay-fever, and you can’t change my mind.

Three-panel image. First image is the front cover of Pamela Allen's childrens picture book, "Who Sank the Boat?", featuring illustrated donkey and cow each holding an oar in a very small row boat in an anthropomorphised fashion. The boat floats on an abstract body of water. The second panel is a selected clip featuring President Donald Trump sitting next to his Department of War Secretary, Pete Hegseth, who is responding to questions about the recent actions of department members who sank a boat with questionable ethical timing and decisions in the actions taken (this is an attempted apolitical comment respecting due process of investigation). The captions of the video read "[He sunk the boat, and] eliminated the threat. He sunk the boat, sunk the boat, and eliminated [the threat]." The final panel involves a spoiler, and features the illustration found near the end of the story. The picture features a dock on a body of water to the edge of the frame. The boat is barely visible, just the rim is left afloat as the boat is overloaded. Inside the boat feature the cow and donkey as per the cover of the book, now joined with a pig and a sheep. They all look above them, fixated on the tiny mouse that is airborne after having lept of the pier, destined to land on the boat with the others.

Controversial abbreviated (per)version of Pamela Allen's classic tale from my childhood. #spoilers

Sadly, this probably wouldn't be considered satire if it was posted on other platforms.

The moral of the story is to get a bigger boat... right?

#trump #hegseth #drugs #departmentofwar

“To be, or not to be ‘how to I get blood off my hands and bury a body’; that is the question”

The best outcome of Black Friday is getting a list of retailer emails and SMS’s in a row and clicking “unsubscribe”, covering 99% of spam sorting in just one day.

Announcing surveydown v1.0.0! – surveydown.org We are thrilled to announce the v1.0.0 release of surveydown, a stable release with improvements to YAML settings, page navigation, question creation, and a smoother overall developer experience.

🎉 Announcing surveydown v1.0.0!

surveydown is an #opensource #rstats package for building surveys with #Quarto & #Shiny. This release improves the survey design experience, including:

- Simplified YAML settings
- Auto page navigation
- Previous buttons!

More at surveydown.org/blog/2025-11...

I can't do long late night coding sessions at the moment without a #chappellroan concert playing in the background, and I'm ok with that.

Did the food arrive before the image?

(Company) Directors/Leaders:

What’s your best advice for a new director of an open source development company, fresh with a company registration certificate, a significant and potential client, and a suitcase full of dreams?

@albomp.bsky.social can you cut the CSP lifetime cap too?

In today’s competitive industry, Australia needs a multi-disciplinary workforce whose education system allows them to up-skill and adapt to change. 7yrs is not enough over a 50 year career!

Wow, this is a niche reference yet hilarious!

I feel like you’ve answered your own question here… the answer is under your nose! 😝

Microsoft: “We’re going to add a setting to Teams to allow users to prevent screenshots being taken during meetings”

Also Microsoft: “We’re deploying Recall to intermittently record your organization screens without notifying users”

@pyconau.bsky.social hey team, what’s your organizer/director team email pls? Can’t see any on the website after a quick skip through.

Pretty proud to be an Australian tonight.

Do you have reference/source for the whole “not actually Defender as we know it” differentiation? Would love to learn more about that!

Chris Krebs is America’s next profile in courage. The entire nation should support this honorable and courageous fellow citizen.

Terrifying.

Good call to stay safe.

A large desktop insect cage, overflowing with eucalyptus branches with fresh leaves sitting in two volumetric flasks filled with water. Inside the cage also feature 17 Spiny-Leaf Stick insects, native to Australia, of various sizes and ages. Two large insects are prominently hanging from the mesh screen on the top panel of the cage. The foliage is flush and the stick insects can be heard munching on leaves as the water falls off the leaves (sounds are not pictured).

I refreshed the leaves for my Spiny-Leaf Stick insects today - tedious but so cathartic!

Great way to procrastinate!

But can it run Doom?

Just do the little brother thing.

“Yeah! You’re doing so good!”

*Player 2: Controller not connected*

If this ain’t love I don’t wanna know what love is

*mature age student watching a classmate get up from their desk with their laptop and nearly ripping the LAN cable out of its socket*

“These WiFi kids should have licenses for using cables…”

#oldmanyellsatcloud

*yells into void*
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Did you hear me?
Or too far away?

Love watching Reece Walsh spill his lollies #nrl #rugbyleague #roosters

Wishing you, your family, and the community, all the best over the next few days @patrick.risky.biz

…
3:50pm
M: "Oh damnit, I think my machine just froze"
L: "Wait a minute - give it a second, see if it recovers"
M: "…"
*bluescreen appears*
L: "Oh dear. Sorry for foreshadowing that..."
M: “looks like I’ll be looking into Linux this weekend…”
L: “It might take a bit longer, but we’re here to help!”

11:45am
V: "Damnit - my machine just bluescreened".
L: "Oh, you're using Windows? I'm sorry."
M: *on his new Lenovo* "Wait, what's wrong with Windows?"
L: "What isn't? Sooner or later, yours will bluescreen, too."
M: "Well, its new, and it hasn't yet..."
L: "Give it time."
…

_For the Year of the Linux Desktop friends_ 🧵

Started a Group WebDev Project in class today. 50% of members running macOS, 50% running Win11.

No OS animosity given or intended, just empiracal evidence and a fun exchange I had today.

#teamunix

It’s less about macOS vs Linux than it is Win vs *nix that I find the saving grace among folk