Hel in a hand basket

Fuck this place.

You can do this with your brain too. It's called having an imagination.

Custard is what I need . Baked, runny. Custard

We have a literal neo-nazi jamboree in Ballan and Bacchus Marsh this weekend unremarked but tell me more about those pesky extremists asking for a little less genocide

PBS accounts for nearly half of first graders’ most frequently watched educational TV and video programs PBS KIDS produces popular age-appropriate programs. It also has a website and multiple apps with games and activities.

Where first graders watch educational media, before the impact of eliminating federal funds:
* PBS - 45%
* Nickelodeon - 14%
* YouTube - 9%
(from a 2025 study by child development researchers)
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It has been a very worlds collide day

Meanwhile, here in Maine, AI crawlers have rendered the server that manages our statewide interlibrary loan unreachable by legitimate attempts to pass through requests/information

Again, but louder: the server can’t be reached by libraries and the folks trying to use them BECAUSE OF AI CRAWLERS.

Went to a 60th birthday, and lordy, aged care homes have no idea what’s coming. We danced to punk and alternative classics, woe betide any home I eventually wind up in playing Gold FM

"The Jewish community and general community see Mr Trump as a president who ultimately wants to bring peace to the Middle East … How he gets there won't be a straight road and we all await developments with interest," Ms Segal said. "I think it's important that he is committed to a two-state solution, which is the policy of the Australian government, and that whether it's the State of Israel, as it is, and a 'Riviera' where Gaza is or whether it's just a Palestinian state, there's a lot to happen to see how that gets resolved

I know we are grumpy at Segal over the mega-donation to the far-right and her preposterous cribbed extremist 'report', but tbh I never quite got past her enthusiastically running with Trump's 'Riviera where Gaza is' ethnic cleanse

Waves back from Brunswick! Great venue!

GIG! Not GIF!

Middle aged woman cuddling a cardboard cutout of Bowie

Highly recommend The Odeon in Richmond, fab bar and gif space, lovely owners, and you get to cuddle Bowie

Librarian here, and Ebook Central (formerly ebrary, longtime ProQuest platform) is moving away from a model where libraries can directly license individual books, alongside full AI integration. It’s led their top competition EBSCO to double down on… NOT doing that. Very happy to use EBSCO.

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Cool cool cool, I’m glad you’re so philosophical about it x

Trust your gut x

If it quacks like a genocide, waddles like a genocide, then yes it is an effing genocide, and yes everything about what the Israeli government is doing to the state of Palestine is an effing war crime. This Australian government gets worse and worse

A very long time ago, but something I’m very proud to have initiated and managed

Everything is a bit too bleak. Back I go to The Omen 3

Hmm, what do ‘central camps’ and ‘final plan’ remind you of?
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I remember seeing this several times with my mum when it finally made it to the Stawell Drive-in, and still remains with me today

Publishing sees ‘largest drop’ in career optimism of all creative sectors, research suggests A report by Creative Access – An Industry in Flux: Creative Access Thrive Report – has found a “sharp” drop in career optimism within the creative industries.

The Bookseller, keeping spirits up on a Friday... www.thebookseller.com/news/publish...

It happened again

In a previous life, Keir Starmer was in some '70s sitcom playing the role of a dithering, indecisive vicar faffing about on a bicycle.

Ha ha ha!

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I am thinking that people just don’t care what the hell happens anymore

I remember the whole shocking thing, tabloid tv going heavily after it. Always made me slightly terrified every time I used a tampon