Scott Steensma

Map of algal bloom in South Aussie showing the extent as of Aug 5 2o25. Huge swathes of ocean are toxic.

That unseen anywhere except from the beach (not in the media much at all) algal bloom in South Australia. Anything not blue is toxic to life in greater or lesser degree; the grey patches are cloud cover. #auspol

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Pagliacci goes to see Pagliacci. He's in the audience, but also on the stage. "Is this, fuck," he thinks. "Am I in a Lynch film right now. Am I in Mullholland Drive." Captured by confusion, horror, and strange, exultant sorrow, the clown must admit he is no longer depressed

Warner Bros. has said The Hunt for Gollum is in fact the first of two new Lord of the Rings feature films from Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh, and Philippa Boyens based on J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, as the company aims to make more of the franchise. With The Hunt for Gollum, we’ll get to see what Gollum was up to in the years between The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

Can't stress this enough: nobody fucking cares what he was up to

earnestness is punk rock. libraries are punk rock. cleaning up litter is punk rock. everything is punk rock except making loud fast music that annoys your neighbors

I’m Captain Ahab and I Say We Must Never Transition Away from a Whale-Based Energy Industry When I heard that the globalist oligarchs and fat cats in the Washington marshland were conspiring to invest in alternative, non-whale-based energy...

"Reducing our dependence on whales as an energy source will send us sliding down the slippery, spermaceti-lubricated slope to socialism. If we give up whaling, what will those lackwits come for next? Will I have to surrender my peg leg for a titanium prosthetic?"

Whales are the only form of energy from which the world has transitioned. 🥲

it has been said over and over but it’s worth reiterating in the face of this horrifying decision: RFK is quite literally joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer

Structural purist, Ingredient neutral. #sandwich #alignment

A screenshot of a news article from the verge. It reads “With Gemini, Williams says, you can just give the details of the message and a tone. Maybe you're running late, so you say, "Tell my spouse I'm 15 minutes late and send it in a jokey tone." Instead of having to think of what to say, the bot will write it for you.”

Grounds for divorce imo

Writing in a jokey tone to your wife is in fact one of the main benefits of having a wife. Once again, why are you outsourcing the fun part of existence to the machine.

Simpson's image with multiple 90s references and a joke about removable car stereo facings.

I was there, Gandalf. #90s #1990s #old #ancient

A serene lake reflecting majestic snow-capped mountains and lush pine forests under a clear blue sky.

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From my first trip to Glacier National Park some years ago.

Bowman Lake, captured with a telephoto lens for a bit of compression. Glacier National Park renews me every time I go.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Grateful #EastCoastKin #Montana #GNP #photography

Wow! Nice work! They really pop.

A colourful greeting card of a bird in a starscape. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

A colourful sticker of a bird in a starscape. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

A colourful art print of a bird in a starscape titled Rebels & Rainbows book cover illustration. Artist’s signature reads C.H. Pearce

From The Artist Cover art commission for REBELS & RAINBOWS anthology (Deadset Press, eds. Austin P. Sheehan and Leanbh Pearson, 2025) ebook purchase links: https://books2read.com/RebelRainbows https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0FG1Q2K8Y

New lorge birb art prints etc up in my INPRNT shop! Really pleased with how the cards and stickers turned out. This quetzal is from the REBELS & RAINBOWS antho. Unsurprisingly INPRNT are currently having a sale (it’s like every time I used to walk into EB Games)! 🌈 🎨

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Discovered today that not everyone considers this nine year old viral tweet a seminal text in the field of social media studies but I do

Book cover for ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED by Joe Haldeman, published by Avon

Cover illustration for ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED by Joe Haldeman (Avon) 3/3

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From his knees, a naked man throws out his hands and arches his head back in anguish. Dangling like puppet strings, loose cords attach to his flesh at nodes that look like electrodes. His face is blank—not expressionless but literally a flat template to cover with one of the many masks lying on the vibrant purple ground in front of him. Light reflecting from his pale skin tints his flesh an unnatural desaturated gray-blue. The background offers an angry contrast of red, clouded with smoke rising from behind, a reflection of the turbulence building inside.

ALL MY SINS REMEMBERED (1978)
Acrylic on Illustration Board - 30" x 22"

An early career illustration that might be best remembered for its later inclusion in the liner notes of Meatloaf's BAT OUT OF HELL II album. 1/3

Twitter is now 75% bot activity. The dead internet theory aint a theory anymore.

New look at Guillermo del Toro’s ‘FRANKENSTEIN’ starring Oscar Isaac, Jacob Elordi and Mia Goth.

(Source: @VanityFair | https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/story/frankenstein-monster-jacob-elordi-guillermo-del-toro-oscar-isaac)

I like my men like I like my Gouda

Oh that will not be a problem

The image shows the 17th century painting “Landscape with Windmills near Haarlem” by the Dutch painter Jacob van Ruisdael.

Disgusted to see this beautiful landscape ruined by wind turbines.

A twitter post explaining how you can “save PNGs to birds” by converting a drawing of a bird into a spectrogram then playing it to a starling who sung it back, reproducing the PNG.

Can’t wait to introduce bird-based storage into my backup system

Labor dumps tradition to knock Coalition MPs from key parliamentary posts The government says the move is designed to ensure that crossbench MPs are represented in parliamentary committees that scrutinise legislation.

Age federal political reporter still can't get used to the breakdown of the two-party system. Letting independents hold deputy chair positions on committees reported as " Labor broke from tradition and ended a bipartisan practice guaranteeing balanced leadership" #auspol

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@AdaniOnline are cheating all Australian's and it's unlikely anything will change. #auspol #opinion #cm

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Hello. I am a person in a film or television drama. I never use the toilet.

Hello. I am an officer/detective in every US police procedural film or TV series ever made and I (or one of my colleagues) is called Diaz.

Hello. I am a character in a sitcom and none of my cereal boxes have bags inside them - I just open up a new box and the corn flakes pour right out.