Peter Harrigan

That is fabulous

Australian triumphs at world porridge championship with rum invention: an oaty jaffle Melbourne food stylist Caroline Velik wins speciality dish category and places second in Golden Spurtle food fight behind Norwegian first-timer Only an Australian would bring a toastie to a porridge fight – and walk away with a trophy. As other competitors stirred oats and debated salt ratios, the Melbourne food stylist Caroline Velik took out one of the top awards at this year’s World Porridge Making Championships in Carrbridge, Scotland. Continue reading...

Australian triumphs at world porridge championship with rum invention: an oaty jaffle

@dreadships.bsky.social give us the gossip!

I did like that the giant cannon was rifled, and that the fighters use reverse thrusters to stop.

Museo Egizio Turin photo showing a small, dark-blue, core-formed, round glass jar which tapers in at the shoulders below the neck. It has yellow, white, and light blue festoon decoration trailed around the main body. There is a single yellow trail just below the neck of the jar. There is a dark-blue circular glass lid, the top of which is adorned with two dark-blue duck heads with yellow bills, a yellow trailed stripe on the top of each duck’s head, and indents for their eyes. The jar is displayed on a perspex (?) stand against a grey background. Glass jar dimensions: 7.6 cm x 9.6 cm. Core-forming is one of the earliest glassmaking techniques. Glassmakers shaped the body of the vessel around a core, wound colored trails around it. They then let the vessel cool and removed the core.

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads!

Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so this jar would have been a precious possession.

From Merit’s beauty case, found inside Theban tomb (TT8) of Merit and her husband Kha in 1906. 📷 Museo Egizio

#Archaeology

Dieses Bild von Robert DeNiro mit einem "Same shit, different hat" T-Shirt ist fake.

Kein Medium, kein Fotograf, keine Presseagentur hat das Bild je ins Internet gestellt. Es kursiert seit etwa 5 Tagen auf Social Media, ohne Quellenangabe. Das Shirt gibt es jedoch, es wird online verkauft.

Emperor Augustus and the Sybil of Tibur, by Konrad Witz, 1435, 📸 by @branndannart

Mate, that sounds like a dead heat!

I reckon number 3 will report “Big.”

That focus is so sharp!

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@deck.blue has your back

Personal Locator Beacons and GPS | NSW National Parks Find out where you can hire a PLB for free in NSW. If you're planning a walk in a remote area, bringing a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) is an added safety precaution.

If you do go hiking in Australia’s national parks, you can often borrow a Personal Locator Beacon (PLB) for free from the park authority or the local cops. Worth every penny. Here’s the list for NSW. www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/safety/bushw...

Magic!

@theeasternborder.lv We need an episode about this.

I can see hints of @wendyo.bsky.social in there

Wikimedia Signs Statement Supporting Digital Rights of Memory Institutions - Internet Archive Europe The global Our Future Memory campaign to secure digital rights for libraries, archives, and other memory institutions has gained another powerful ally. Wikimedia, one of the world’s leading champions ...

Wikimedia Foundation joins the fight for library digital rights! 🎉

@wikimediafoundation.org has signed onto the 4 Digital Rights of Memory Institutions, affirming memory institutions' rights to Collect, Preserve, Lend & Cooperate in the digital age.

➡️ www.internetarchive.eu/2025/09/26/w...

A little column A and a little column B.

Kant, I. : Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

Which is fair, ‘coz he was such an outrageous racist for a moral philosopher.

It is informed by The Ottawa Decision Making Process. decisionaid.ohri.ca/odsf.html

The Annalisa website is here www.annalisa.org.uk/index.php It explains how it works.

Jack Dowie | LSHTM

Ahh. Sorry. Jack Dowie. www.lshtm.ac.uk/aboutus/peop...

The underlying code would then produce a final rating between the two choices as a way of expressing what you had set with your preferences. It was a great way of helping people make choices informed by their own preference and in proportion to available data.

He developed a thing that let you load criteria and their probabilities for two separate choices. Then you would get a set of visual analog slider bars that would let you weight each criterion according to your own preference.

I do like a bit of decision analysis and I have enjoyed the idea you take multiple criterion decision deliberation and expressing it mathematically to get to quantified analysis. A guy called Jack Dowey now at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine was one of my profs for Clin Epi

Send them my hearty congratulations

Beatrice Blore Browne's winged wheel gravestone in St Tudno's church yard on Great Orme, Llandudno, North Wales. Inscription reads In loving memory of Beatrice Blore Browne (Bee) born September 26th 1887 died November 23rd 1921 "She feared naught but God". The birth date is wrong. Her partner (they never married but she took his name by deedpoll) commissioned it & allegedly sent the bill to her relatives who he felt had not supported her after she had his baby out of wedlock.

In 1914, Beatrice Blore Browne was 1st woman to drive a car up 1 in 3 gradient of Great Orme, Llandudno N #Wales, undertaking feat in Singer 10 car whilst 6 months pregnant. New #Wikipedia page for her on incorrect date on her amazing gravestone. Not #OTD 26 Sep 1887 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatric...

That is magnificent. Where can you find it?

I weep

The ASA does not support recent statements made linking paracetamol (acetaminophen) use during pregnancy & increased risk of autism.

Visit the ASA website to read our statement in full: asa.org.au/news-and-med...