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I got kicked out of Ravenna. Had to move to the lagoon and build a more equitable society.
When the new Adelaide Festival board comes in they should publish all the details of all the correspondence and deliberation that went into this fuckup. Name the fucking names.
January 13, 2026 at 4:23 AM
January 13, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Got a Specialist Track idea for PyCon AU 2026, or half of one?

We’re hosting our next Specialist Tracks office hours on Thursday 15 January at 6:00pm AEDT

This is a relaxed, open discussion session with the PyCon AU organising team. Find out more: 2026.pycon.org.au/posts/call-f...
January 12, 2026 at 10:49 PM
Starting a hosting provider for people who are unaware of their privilege.

It's called Cishetzner.
January 12, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Has anyone started a project to get Grok to start saying how Elon is so much more awesome than Trump?
January 12, 2026 at 1:56 AM
So @notalawyer.bsky.social will be happy to know that listening to 5-4 meant I got a catfishing.net question right that only 7% of players were correctly answering.
catfishing - the Wikipedia guessing game
Guess the Wikipedia article from its categories. 10 interesting people, places, and things to guess every day.
catfishing.net
January 10, 2026 at 12:28 AM
New tronc just dropped!
LG has a new home assistant robot named "Cloid".

Cloid.
January 8, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Thinking about the US midterms and wondering if you can impeach the entire line of succession down to Speaker of the House in one go...
January 7, 2026 at 9:18 AM
I made a tiramisu. So then I did the only logical thing and made another tiramisu.
December 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
I’m in this area and I don’t like it.
December 24, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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no, I said I wanted a tradewife. like a union electrician
July 11, 2025 at 4:31 PM
OUT: silkposting
IN: sorrowposting
December 16, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Remember kids: an ontology isn't just for Christmas.
December 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Times New Roman Empire?
December 10, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Is "Kanban Bordello" anything? Should it be?
December 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
And Ms. 18 and I just watched Malcolm which I hadn't seen in years and is still wonderful, and the Penguin Café Orchestra soundtrack is still perfect.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm...
Malcolm (film) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:42 AM
I am introducing Ms. 18 to “How To Talk Australians” and it’s still excellent: youtu.be/DHQRZXM-4xI
How to Talk Australians - Episode 1: ‘G’DAY KNACKERS’
YouTube video by How to Talk Australians
youtu.be
December 2, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My pitch for a solution to the Hobart AFL stadium situation: Bulldoze the Wrest Point casino and build it there.
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
❌ Move fast, break things
✅ Move breakfast things
November 27, 2025 at 3:18 AM
I regret to inform all of you that there are no Ned Ludd stories on AO3.
November 26, 2025 at 11:26 PM
All this bloody pie discourse. Australian meat pie, fuckers. Done.
November 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A true visionary would have pushed for a Muppet Rush Hour, allowing one rule to be broken by having both Chris Tucker and Jackie Chan as humans.

They also would have pretended that Brett Rattner didn't exist and hired someone else.
November 26, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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"Gender-essentialist olive painting" is not a phrase I ever thought I'd have to utter, but here we are.
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Happy International Men's Day to all the trans men only.
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM