Signe Dean

Cuts to key research facilities threaten Australia’s ability to be a global scientific leader

At the same time Australia has inked a deal with the US on critical minerals, it’s proposing cuts to facilities that underpin clean energy ambitions.

Do you speak cat? Take this quiz to find out Cats are excellent at communicating, but humans still routinely misunderstand them.

Even some hardcore cat people I know didn't get 100% on this quiz! theconversation.com/do-you-speak...

No no no no no no no no

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.

Change one letter, ruin a candy.

Starwurst

Please check your kids’ Halloween candy carefully this year.

I bit into a chocolate bar and found Microsoft Teams.

Pride is not the only emotion that you're allowed to have about your history. There are many others that can and do apply. It should not be a failing or a threat to your sense of self to acknowledge those other emotions. To speak them aloud as you watch history unfold.

Thank you for taking the time to explain!

Ugh I had no idea. :/

A man was arrested for playing Darth Vader's theme music, "The Imperial March," behind National Guard troops walking through Logan Circle.

Now the ACLU is suing on his behalf. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea “Would be great if my bed wasn’t stuck in an inclined position …”…

AWS outage reminds us why $2,449 Internet-dependent beds are a bad idea arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Riker tooting on that boner

The thing that makes Star Trek utopian isn’t the end of scarcity or the harmony between all peoples it’s also that the guy on the ship who gets laid the most plays the trombone at work and periodically does community theater

Oh damn. Is this AI related?

With the AWS outage, now‘s as good a time as any to post this old strip.

What's the game industry turmoil?

we broke the embargo

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

exwife-of-frankenstein on tumblr: Youtube is full of ads, spotify is full of ads, tumblr is full of ads, pinterest is full of ads. Everything uses ai. Every new update makes the website/app worse. Youtube auto translates almost every video I want to watch. Sometimes pinterest only loads ads for me. Check out this new ai feature. Here's a new update that breaks ur laptop. Here's a new update that breaks ur phone. Why are u complaining about ur phone, just get the newest iphone lol. Join my patreon. Join my membership. Pay a monthly membership to get all features. Upgrade your membership to get even more features. Subscribe to netflix. Subscribe to disney. Subscribe to amazon. Subscribe to hulu. This content isn't available in ur country. This content was removed. This website was removed. This feature only exists for apple. This app only exists for apple. U need to a WiFi connection to play this game. U need an account. We need your email to finish creating this account. We need your number to finish creating your account. We need your id to finish creating your account. In order to delete your account please write an email. In order to delete your account you need a laptop. Oops our database was hacked and ur information was stolen. Ur data was sold from this random website u used once 10 years ago. Spam call. Spam call. Spam call. #IM GOING INSANE #NOTHING WORKS NOTHING

I would laugh if this wasn't so true 😭

So we’ve got a little stick-figure cartoon here and there’s two people sitting at a table enjoying a beer, while two other people approach them, one of them looking pretty threatening and cracking his knuckles. The guy he’s with starts talking to the people at the table “Real nice place you like hanging out in here…” he begins, “would be a real shame if it were to become an unusable, horrible place full of spam and slop…” This threat is immediately confusing to the people at the table, one of whom replies “Wait what? Isn’t this YOUR place?”

Today’s Comic: The Inevitability of Enshittification…

at this point we can just substitute “startup” with “some stupid shit no one asked for”
no one wants any of this, it’s just rich dudes figuring out how to get money from wealthy dudes

One of the questions is why we allow private corporations to fill the sky with junk?

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to? Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

Have you heard that Reflect Orbital want to launch mirrored satellites to beam sunlight down to Earth? 🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 theconversation.com/a-us-startup...

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to? Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

This article about it from a pair of astronomers is free to republish under creative commons! theconversation.com/a-us-startup...

I'm struggling to picture how that works. Are airline seats different in the US?

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to? Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried. 👉 theconversation.com/a-us-st...

Whiskers for warrens: why wombats have such whiskery snouts

Wombats’ whiskery noses help them snuffle for food, navigate burrows and sense friend or foe.

the way she almost but didn't crack the entire time 😭

oh my goodness this has absolutely destroyed me

You have the best niche humour