Proper Dave

the wuthering icebox?

Every time I hear about election shenanigans, I'm thankful that I live in Australia.

There's one at the local shopping centre carpark. They've tidied it up now, but a few years ago it was all peely like this. And the streetlight next to it had gone dim & yellowish. Whenever I went there after dark, I felt like I was walking into a horror film... 👀

A snackrifice

It wasn't "during" a training mission, it was "right before" a training mission

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Feb 15th 2026 (Evil) 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 Solved in less than 14 minutes You're faster than 50% of all solvers! Only 24% others had a perfect solve.

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 15th 2026 (Evil), in less than 14 minutes
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When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt Krampus—the Christmas “half goat, half demon” of Germanic folklore—has become a figure of some fascination in popular culture recently. We might call the appetite for this “anti-St.

When People Gave Anti-Valentine’s Day Cards: Revisit the “Vinegar Valentines” That Spread Ridicule and Contempt

Jason Statham To Play Jason Statham in Jason Statham Stole My

It's the role he was born to play.

Jason Statham will star as himself in the action comedy film Jason Statham Stole My Bike from Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train director David Leitch.

Clues by Sam A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 11th 2026 (Medium), in less than 8 minutes
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Phone screenshot of D&D Beyond, with caption added. Added caption: What does a Crusader wear under his armor? Screenshot of magic item list: Crusader's Shorts...

I saw this in the magic items list on DnDBeyond.com, and couldn't help it...

#DnD #DnDBeyond

In a discussion with @aaronparnas.bsky.social, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker likens the first year in Trump's America to the "early days of Nazi Germany."

"That is where we are right now."

Hey, just a small note to all the queer & trans folks who might see this: thanks for being here on the planet. I’m glad you’re here. I wish you happiness and good health and strong community and peace.

Love,
Your MB

(Mom hugs if you want them.)

Space Farce

We don't have big penalties, but we 🇦🇺 do have:
✅ Compulsory voting
✅ Elections on Saturdays
✅ Postal/absentee/early voting
✅ Independent nonpartisan electoral commission
✅ Electorates sized by population

Some folk still submit a blank form (or draw 🍆🍒)...

On the NYT right now:
Iranian government killing protesters = bad.
US government killing protesters = good

23 seems an odd number?

(I mean, figuratively as well as literally...)

A smiling cartoon dragon, with the caption: No "New Year, New Me" I plan on just getting weirder

A card from Clues by Sam: "Thor painter This year I won't mix up rows and columns!"

I feel so called out, Thor! 😅

I solved the daily Clues by Sam, Jan 1st 2026 (Tricky), in less than 12 minutes
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🇺🇦 Slava Ukraini!

I'm a white people, and I agree with you

Trump Isn’t Building a Ballroom When Trump announced a $300 million ballroom at the White House, something went off in my brain.

This makes sense. It's also scary and not very reassuring of future agendas that this regime is aiming for. If it is true, and all signs and receipts point in that direction, then plan on electricity and water issues in the area.

thedreydossier.substack.com/p/trump-isnt...

Source: The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien; Image: Tolkien in 1955, via; Thanks to William Vodrey.) 25 July 1938 20 Northmoor Road, Oxford Dear Sirs, Thank you for your letter. I regret that I am not clear as to what you intend by arisch. I am not of Aryan extraction: that is Indo-Iranian; as far as I am aware none of my ancestors spoke Hindustani, Persian, Gypsy, or any related dialects. FOLLOWING SENTENCE IS HIGHLIGHTED: But if I am to understand that you are enquiring whether I am of Jewish origin, I can only reply that I regret that I appear to have no ancestors of that gifted people. My great-great-grandfather came to England in the eighteenth century from Germany: the main part of my descent is therefore purely English, and I am an English subject - which should be sufficient. I have been accustomed, nonetheless, to regard my German name with pride, and continued to do so throughout the period of the late regrettable war, in which I served in the English army. I cannot, however, forbear to comment that if impertinent and irrelevant inquiries of this sort are to become the rule in matters of literature, then the time is not far distant when a German name will no longer be a source of pride. Your enquiry is doubtless made in order to comply with the laws of your own country, but that this should be held to apply to the subjects of another state would be improper, even if it had (as it has not) any bearing whatsoever on the merits of my work or its sustainability for publication, of which you appear to have satisfied yourselves without reference to my Abstammung. I trust you will find this reply satisfactory, and remain yours faithfully, J. R. R. Tolkien

In a similar way that Tolkien responded to the Nazis asking if he was Jewish?

While he's not as good as I'd hoped, he's still infinitely better than Scomo was.

"Recreational" shooting can get fucked. If a gun isn't a tool of your trade then you have no excuse to own one.

It's an agricultural implement. It has no place at all in cities. You can't do the school run in a combine harvester. Leave it where it belongs.

screenshot of a post on facebook from Alex Lamoreaux, depicting two versions of the "same" photograph of a bobcat in front of a pine plantation, one labeled original game cam photo, one labeling AI processed the markings have been altered on the AI photo, and the head changed and resized text says: Oh! A neat goose hybrid posted to ‘What’s this Bird?’ but when you zoom in on the photos the bill details have been too manipulated by AI photo editing to be accurately assessed for which species may be involved. Scroll on… A cool-looking Red-tailed Hawk that someone is wondering which subspecies it might be - right up my alley! But when you zoom in on the photos literally every feather group has been so heavily manipulated and altered by AI editing that it’s impossible to determine subspecies because the photo is essentially fake now; just a mashup of whatever AI thinks parts of a Red-tail should look like. Scroll on… WOW! That’s a remarkable trail cam photo of a Bobcat! It almost looks like a painting!… but the head looks oddly small…. hmmmm. After some prodding the original photo is produced and sure enough it had been so heavily altered by AI ‘post processing’ that the photo posted was essentially a digital mock-up with totally different proportions and fur markings. No longer the photo off the trail cam; it may as well have just been ‘created’ by AI from scratch. This stuff is killing me. My days on social media are becoming very limited. We can’t even trust simple, everyday photos of animals to be real. The wildlife community needs to quit editing with AI, and we need to start calling out photographers that are using it. Our reality is being destroyed all around us.

this field biologist does a great job highlighting the insidiousness of AI editing

these one-click AI edit buttons are incredibly appealing to many photographers, amateurs and professionals alike, and are framed as innocuous

this is worth sharing and educating people about

Australian gun control: 29 years after Port Arthur Almost 30 years after Port Arthur, there are more guns in Australia than ever before, and the Howard Government’s landmark National Firearms Agreement is falling short of its stated aims. There is no ...

Not backed off, just not fully implemented.
Still.
Almost 30 years later.
australiainstitute.org.au/report/austr...

Which one - Bondi beach or Rob Reiner?

I've only seen that version on socials (with no citation).

The word via news media, from interview with relatives, is that he's a Syrian Muslim.

Screenshot of seeks.quest website. "This is an expired domain at Porkbun. If this is your domain you can renew it by logging into your account."

"Well there's your problem..."
@handles.club