school bus sized squid

Fortunately I plan to live forever and become a shrieking eldritch horror (well more than already) so you’re probably safe

It’s almost too crazy to be real and yet somehow I don’t doubt that at least one landlord out there thinks it’s a great idea. 🤯
I suppose I need to teach my fur sons to be creative so I can leech off their ideas

That is cool as shit tho I’m definitely hiring you when I cark it

From the shitrentals community on Reddit: Update on weird rental agreement term Explore this post and more from the shitrentals community

Omg but did you see the post www.reddit.com/r/shitrental...
This is truly the darkest timeline

Living a 200km round trip from a Bunnings or Spotlight is so good for my wallet but so bad for my Art Needs 😓 how I suffer etc

Awake early through no fault of my own, but now I have the rest of the day free and I’m gonna make a long overdue trip to the nearest Spotlight for important art supplies

oh nooo safe places are always the undoing of me!

Middle part is Wrong and will always be Wrong and if that ages me then good because I AM old and people should respect that 💪

Ooh wait is it magnetic? I bet it’s like stuck to the bottom of the fridge or some other inconveniently placed metal furnishing

I sort of got quite involved in emergency management/response and recovery since moving rural and I mean, i really get a lot out of it as far as “feeling like you’re doing worthwhile things with your time on the planet” goes, but the last two summers here have been Something All Right.

AFAIC Seasonal Bushfire Outlook graphic for spring 2025, demonstrating that most of western Victoria is at increased risk of fire … as usual.

Burned trees standing by the side of a road, with a years worth of new growth.

The weather was very nice today and a couple of days recently, and they’ve started refreshing the grader lines around any paddock that borders bushland and planning “Using The VicEmergency app” info sessions for the community. Feels a bit like staring into the mouth of a dragon … yet again. 😬

I had no idea dial-up still existed.

Fellow elder millennials, this is for you. 🫶🏽

Who killed Meanjin? And why won’t Melbourne University Publishing engage with efforts to save it?

New:
A deep dive with some alarming new revelations on the silencing of one of the few remaining independent progressive voices in Australian media. Who killed Meanjin?

A black and white cat staring adoringly at a potato chip.

Get you a partner who looks at you the way this filthy freeloader looks at this potato chip
(He’s not allowed to have it no matter how much he pines)

I think about this way too much working with the public, so many people so furious that anyone else should have anything they didn’t, and can’t appreciate what they do have, and can’t even consider changing their view because they’re calcified inside their own heads
I want to never be like that, pls

A canola field of bright yellow flowers in the foreground with two wheel ruts curving through it, a bright green hill behind it, and in the far distance, a blue grey mountain shrouded in fog and soft rain

Bright yellow fields of Flowers scattered with trees and interrupted by a brownish gold wheat field. There are gumtree’s scattered throughout. The sky is endlessly blue, dusted with sugary white clouds. The colours are so vivid they seem unreal.

It is actually so hard to get photos of just how lovely this time of year is out here, because no sensible camera would believe for a second how violently yellow the fields can be and my phone gets all confused. It never looks real in a photo, but it also never looks real in person.

Is this Australia’s climate wake-up call? Official report reveals a hotter, harder future if we don’t act now The sobering assessment is a national call to action. The sooner Australia mitigates and adapts, the safer we will be.

Our article on the things that keep climate risk folks awake at night from Australia’s first National Climate Risk Assessment. May explain my insomnia.
….with @tasvo.bsky.social & Prof. Lucas Walsh @theconversation.com

theconversation.com/is-this-aust...

The National Climate Risk Report - my life for two years - has just been released.
www.acs.gov.au/pages/nation...
Minister Bowen press conference at: www.youtube.com/live/GLvd_fu...
My specific report on the weather and climate hazards: climateservice.maps.arcgis.com/sharing/rest...

** this doesn’t apply to your opinion on pineapple on pizza, everyone gets a pass on that one

I think this is correct but also: you need to be willing to be wrong about things!! I feel like the moment you stop being willing to review and assess the things you think are true, big or small things, you’ve written off the rest of the human race and you’re on the downward spiral*

A very fluffy black and white cat lying in the sun on his back, eyes shut, on a very fluff covered picnic blanket spread on decking boards

Filthy shag rug or my eight year old inky-pawed son: how will we ever know??
(do not touch the tummy to investigate unless all the stars are positioned correctly and the wind is blowing your way)

I feel like this was the closest thing I’d find in this town (and also it was discounted to $39 so obviously it was Meant To Be ™️)

I replaced my old rice cooker a couple of weeks ago with a digital one (from aldi) and I feel like I’ve levelled up to a whole new world of well cooked rice 🤯 I don’t even like cooking, but this thing is a beast

Photo of square orange tiles, set into the ground, across one of which several cats footprints are clearly visible.

One day, nearly 2000 years ago, a cat dashed across some drying tiles, somewhere near Hadrian's Wall.

It's immortality of a kind, isn't it?

Eye bleach: Percy loving scritches so much his back paws are almost floating. Elevator butt to the max. Nothing like a happy cat ❤️

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

There’s been actual rain, and it’s yellow harvesting season, so it’s all green and yellow instead of brown and on fire, A+ would move to here again
I suppose they grow other colours somewhere fancy, we just specialise in yellow

I mean feel free to send me your card details anyway, I could order delivery o̶f̶ ̶g̶l̶a̶s̶s̶ ̶s̶u̶p̶p̶l̶i̶e̶s̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶m̶e̶ ̶a̶n̶d̶ groceries for you!

Apparently, this year is one of the years the vaccine didn’t aim for quite the right strain 😬 still better than nothing, but flu has really done the rounds of this town this winter too. I hope yours is over soon!

when you are next out this way i will introduce you to the beef bacon and cheese pie from that one bakery! it is an Education