Deakin the Owl

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

Yep, been there. Mortified.

Kudelka cartoon of the disciples pulling back the stone from the tomb and revealing a chocolate Easter bunny.

As great as Jon was a political cartoons, his calender ones were fabulous as well

Absolute loss

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Book cover of “Health and Disease: Experimental Philosophy of Medicine” by Somogy Varga, Andrew James Latham, and Edouard Machery, in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

New Element in the #PhilBio series by Varga, Latham & @edouardmachery.bsky.social—free to download until Jan 26! If you are looking for a nice introduction to experimental #philmedicine, with an overview of debates & challenges, this book is for you! www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsky #HPS

Tassie is awful! Never come here.

Loved Marie Bashir

Wiener Kunstakademie bietet Donald Trump Studienplatz an Wien (dpo) - Die renommierte Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien hat Donald Trump heute überraschend einen Studienplatz für Malerei angeboten. Obwohl e

Wie sagst du "LOL" auf Deutsch: Wiener Kunstakademie bietet Donald Trump Studienplatz an

www.der-postillon.com/2026/01/wien...

it's always so strange that Ben Affleck is a well-spoken, erudite person because every other aspect of his personality seems like the only words out of his mouth should be slurs muttered through broken teeth

OK, reading Kevin Rudd's PhD thesis has proven to be somewhat... relaxing?

Is it because, despite everything, someone can actually *understand* Xi's worldview?

Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

I think maybe a lot of bad things could be avoided if the worlds most obvious crooks faced some sort of punishment other than “accumulating great sums of money and power”

Constant insomnia

The worst thing about Gamergate and all the spinoff dumbass culture war nonsense is that theres actually lots of good reasons not to like lots of stuff and we can't even talk about it because of the muttonheads

I think most of us have 'tapped-out' with regards to News Corp at least. They're mostly screaming into the void

eat this pancake for it is my body, the syrup my blood. the butter is uhhh cerebrospinal fluid

So, am seriously considering learning mandarin

Hahaha, an age check? Lovely.

(and no)

shiiit, missed opportunity for a cooker jab
I am not on my best game today

Well, he's probably a bit baked now.

Let's patch a call to Katter perhaps—that could be fun

‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction

Yeesh. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

I hope Rudd is off doing something relaxing this week; probably earnt it.

Ouch

People say Australians don't have a culture but I just heard a mum call her toddler a dickhead, so

I did not realise that South Korea still had the death penalty on the books

After 3 very long days on the Fogarty's Gap/ Harcourt fire, we are being given a 2 day break, with strike teams from elsewhere covering for us.

Back to work tomorrow. Feel like there is a lot to process. Thankful for the many thousands of people out on the fireground & behind the scenes across VIC.

All of this. In this day and age, once someone decides to stop being part of the problem and be a part of the solution, I'm gonna give them at least a partial pass. Doesn't mean I have to become best friends with them, but I can at least focus on our (now) common goal instead of past differences.