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Screenshot of a job ad. A mining company that makes explosion modeling software wants to hire an engineer to add AI to their package.

What could possibly go wrong?

Aireys Inlet with a pixel art lighthouse accompanied by the text "Have you ever? Ever felt like this"

Shoutout to whoever drew this on wplace

The Polari prize first book Longlist with crosses over books by Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire to show they've withdrawn

The polar prize award Longlist with crosses over books by Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth to show they've withdrawn

UPDATE: 10 of the 24 longlisted authors have now withdrawn from the Polari Prize.

First Book:
Jason Okundaye, Sacha Coward, Sanah Ahsan, Amy Twigg, Mae Diansangu, Ciara Maguire

Main award:
Olumide Popoola, Robert Hamberger, Andrew McMillan, Rhian Elizabeth

Judging panel:
Nicola Dinan, Bob Hughes

Some more context, including the Polari prize's absolutely pathetic response, can be found here:

www.outinperth.com/polari-prize...

It's John Boyne, for anyone who's not aware. Well done, OP

Nazis marching through the streets of Melbourne at 1am! 😦
No permit or notice given to police.
They (Nazis) assaulted a homeless man and sent him to the hospital.
No one was arrested during the event.

No. Stop this shit. We do not support you or your views.

It's 1933 again.

We have more and more governments openly waging genocide and eugenics campaigns. While others quietly erase multiple groups from public life.

(Yes, Australia too.)

If you think electoral politics can or will fix this?

*Please* read a history book.

#auspol #politics

Lollll

I recall IBM said it would “never again” do inhumane shit like make the human sorting algorithm the Nazis used back in its heyday.

And here Microsoft is doing similar.

I might be hopelessly optimistic, but I still think we can turn things around.

I've had more people than ever join me to build a place for us. Part refuge, part place to build strength.

It might be too little, too late.

But if I'm going out, I'm going to go out fighting to make a better world.

The Guardian: Scientists find link between genes and ME/CFS - The ME Association “These provide the first robust evidence for genetic contributions to […]

The Guardian: Scientists find link between genes and ME/CFS

"Prof Chris Ponting... called the results “a wake-up call” that showed a person’s genetics could “tip the balance” on whether they would develop ME/CFS.

https://meassociation.org.uk/px1w

#MECFS

Screenshot of a tweet from a Twitter account named "i_amJeremy" with handle "@dr5bludgeoning". Text as follows - Guard 1:ONE OF US SPEAKS NOTHING BUT TRUTH Guard 2:THE OTHER NOTHING BUT LIES Wizard: ok, i know this, we have to ask.. Barbarian: *takes ax and kills the first guard* Wizard: WHAT THE HELL Barbarian: *to remaining guard* is he dead Guard 2:NO barbarian: this one liar #dnd

I saw a meme recently which proposes a novel solution to these kinds of problems... 🪓

When I was 15 we used to chat with our friends and crushes over AOL Instant Messenger. It served the purpose that discord or signal serves today for a lot of people. I got my first cell phone that year and didn’t learn to text until years later. AOL is where your friends were.

You can see the German legacy in academic and technical Englishes worldwide, scientific and otherwise: angst, bismuth, bremsstrahlung, eigenvector, feldspar, gestalt, gneiss, hinterland, leitmotif, loanword, LSD, Q source, quartz, rinderpest, sprachbund, urheimat, urtext, wanderwort, worldview

Lollll

I installed a camera to see what was going on with our water feature that kept being taken apart at night (I recently filled it with rocks with a central fountain so it wouldn’t be constantly muddy), figuring I’d see a raccoon. I hadn’t expected an all-night pool party! 😂
Mystery solved! ⛲️🦝🦝🦝🦝

Without downloading any new pics, describe your gender.

I think about my mother being older than Ruby Bridges *constantly*

My parents were alive when grown-ass white folks were spitting on babies for wanting to go to school--and trying so much worse than spitting that they needed guarding.

And there's some real "spitting on babies" energy in 2025.

* looks at the state of the world *

Yeah, I feel that humanity's not exactly been making a compelling case for itself lately!

I don't know if I'd go all the way myself.

But some sharp teeth and claws would be pretty handy to have right about now... !

"HRT that turns you into a [cat|deer|dog|fox|rabbit|etc]" would be *very* popular, I feel!

3 Aug 25 - New study shows vast "over-representation of trans boys" turns out to be vast _under-representation_ of trans girls bec. they: a) come out ~10 years later; b) start puberty later; & c) delay transitioning longer because of deep social animus towards AMAB femininity.
tinyurl.com/yrwvmxws

deers is just puppies

That's how you can tell human authors from AI.

AI will put in some em dashes, then apologise and take them out when told off.

Human authors will climb the filing cabinet, hissing, and defend their right to em dashes with a loaded stapler.

Access to local physical archives of queer material is going to become ever more important with the censorship and fragmentation of information online

I mean, Itchio was only meant to remove NSFW stuff but they just went and delisted most queer content in general.

Companies do what they want to do.

We've been seeing a lot of "the enemy won with 1,057 phone calls" and if we're honest that's not quite true. The enemy won with 1,057 phone calls and payment processors' long-established alliance with them. When we put in 1,057 phone calls, they just change their number

'Robo-Bunnies' Are the Newest Weapon in the Fight Against Invasive Burmese Pythons in Florida Scientists are experimenting with robotic rabbits in hopes of luring the destructive snakes out of hiding so they can be euthanized

I found some robo-bunnies they can eat, maybe trying the "you are what you eat" approach would work?

www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...

Excuse me. Who do you think processes the bloodwork? The vampires just take the blood. The LABS do the actual testing.

Dogs may not have practical applications in the world of medical technology, but catscan.

Sorry.