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Oh, I see the mistake, but I’m afraid the AI optimization *I* was referring to when I invited you here stands for “Amontillado Interment Optimization”. Now if you will kindly pass me that spade…

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

The windsors are living in a very fancy Omelas Palace of dysfunction and misery and in return we get to exist without elected presidents.

… hard to walk away from, tbqh

Traumatised’ Chatime franchisees flee bubble tea chain Several former bubble tea store operators claim the global beverage giant has left them tens of thousands of dollars in debt.

Shocked, shocked to discover that yet another hospitality franchise is a scam preying on small investors www.smh.com.au/business/wor...

Our little orange kitten, Wubz, doing a mlem.

Guys! GUYS!

WUBZ JUST DID HIS FIRST MLEM! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

#caturday #catsky

Australian outback ❤️

Me, confusing Halloween with Book Week: ugh, Big Naturals Gandalf isn’t even a book character!

Don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight and reclaim what they’ve taken from you

Reality: Bald Man is her father, I somehow hadn’t calculated for possible Father Appearance.

Hence both looked at me while I was trying to scurry past, as one might for Misc Sharehouse Social!

Me to my housemate: … I cannot get my headphones to talk to my computer but my phone is somewhat charged up as of now

… you seem comfortable with Bald Man but let me know if I should lurk intentionally

Take it easy. Take a train.

My partner, infodumping about Warhammer 40K: “And so, the Emperor made a deal with the tech priesthood, that they would get exclusive control over technology…”
Me: “Okay but that’s basically just American politics right now”

may we all smite the ass today

Does it stay sparkling with the simplest of care?

in st. Louis the “trick or treat” concept is that children get candy in exchange for JOKES. and I post them

🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃
Why don’t ghosts bother telling lies?
You can see right through them!
👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻👻

A small slime with a large grin saying “Hey, kids! Harlow the Happy Slime says “just say no to bio-mechanical enhancement cyberware!”

Well, at least until it’s out of beta.

“There’s little enough that can’t be done with hard work, dedication, and the secret name of God.”

In deference to the occasion I did not wear a t-shirt to work on Casual Friday today.

The last time I was in the Joan Sutherland Theatre it was still called the Opera Theatre and I’m pretty sure I wore a cocktail dress. And heels.

There were a lot of costumed Yoof about in Circular Quay around 6.30-7pm.

Low-effort stand out was a young couple. He: cat ears, minimal other features. She: Hawaiian shirt, camera, map in hand.

Catboy and Tourist.

I know which I find more scary, certainly.

Sydney Harbour Bridge seen from the opposite side of Circular Quay. The sky is grey and gloaming but a faint hint of sunset can be seen low on the horizon. A large ferry is coming in to Circular Quay and a smaller one going out. A garish pink blob is Luna Park.

That’ll do, city, that’ll do.

Happy #Halloween from the Arch-Druid of Menez-Hom on the simple dolmen of Menez-Lié in St-Nic (Finistère). One of my favourites.

I know they weren’t Broadway fans surprised that Australian production was okay, because they weren’t comparing past productions or reciting facts like the Broadway fans behind us.

American couple next to me, at interval, apparently surprised: “The energy! Those VOICES!”

I bristled, but on reflection I have no reason to think they were opera fans who were surprised to find musical theatre Good. Could be tourists who just wanted to see something At The Opera House.

I also note that the dress code for the Opera House has by social consensus slid more casual over my adult life, but I’m pretty sure this is the first time I’ve seen women in fishnets, tiny shorts and halter tops in those august halls. (They had smokey eyes, they’d dressed up more than I had!)

I knew Opera Australia were doing something deliberate this year, staging both Hadestown and RENT - the latter actually in the Opera House, following straight on the heels of La Bohème.

I had somehow not calculated on that involving all three tiers of the Joan Sutherland Theatre loudly moo-ing 🤭

A gallette, ie a savoury buckwheat crepe with ham, onions and cheese. Also visible: cider rose in a round cup.

Obtained: galette tartiflette (raclette cheese and all)

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

… I assumed this was going to be a strike over a decision not to implement this or that safety measure.

Striking over disagreement with a sentencing decision is a whole other problem.

Good to know prison officers have no faith in the justice system. Great news.

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Let’s be real: approximately ten seconds after you told Tolkien that Catholics couldn’t go to Mass because they were afraid of being disappeared by agents of the government, he’d be out there protesting.