Talia Effin’ Right
@talzir.bsky.social
Radiochemist, cyclotron scientist, shop steward, tunnel scurrier, zine lover.
Could be described as Australian - definitely living on unceded lands. 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🏳️🌈
Could be described as Australian - definitely living on unceded lands. 🏳️⚧️They/Them 🏳️🌈
Did you know you can cook perfect, like 👌 pearl barley in a rice cooker. King of bench top kitchen utilities!!
November 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Did you know you can cook perfect, like 👌 pearl barley in a rice cooker. King of bench top kitchen utilities!!
@mikerugnetta.com story that neverpost might be interested in - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
ACCC alleges Microsoft 'deliberately hid' cheaper Microsoft 365 subscription
The consumer watchdog is suing Microsoft for allegedly misleading about 2.7 million Australians over its Microsoft 365 subscriptions.
www.abc.net.au
October 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
@mikerugnetta.com story that neverpost might be interested in - www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
I’ve been flying Melb to Bris about once a month for the last twenty months and as a treat I took the train yesterday.
It was really, really interesting! And a complete shambles, it took 36 hours in total!! The police stopped the train twice! I had fun!
It was really, really interesting! And a complete shambles, it took 36 hours in total!! The police stopped the train twice! I had fun!
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I’ve been flying Melb to Bris about once a month for the last twenty months and as a treat I took the train yesterday.
It was really, really interesting! And a complete shambles, it took 36 hours in total!! The police stopped the train twice! I had fun!
It was really, really interesting! And a complete shambles, it took 36 hours in total!! The police stopped the train twice! I had fun!
It’s almost impossible to believe hyperballard was written before social media.
October 20, 2025 at 11:51 AM
It’s almost impossible to believe hyperballard was written before social media.
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I have a vision! I would like to see them be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I have a vision! I would like to see them be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
It’s cool to see that the 🕷️ #Spider community is into this. I don’t think that there has ever been an invertebrate Olympic mascot, so that’d be extra cute!
I have a vision! I would like to see them be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
October 1, 2025 at 11:21 PM
It’s cool to see that the 🕷️ #Spider community is into this. I don’t think that there has ever been an invertebrate Olympic mascot, so that’d be extra cute!
I have a vision! I would like to see them be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
September 30, 2025 at 10:50 PM
I have a vision! I would like to see them be the mascot for the 2032 Brisbane Olympics.
Come in, and meet the missus.
September 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Come in, and meet the missus.
I just feel like you don't need ground news, you can already access wikipedia's list of reliable/perennial sources.
It's free, you can contribute to it, and it helps you understand how consensus is built, brick by boring brick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
It's free, you can contribute to it, and it helps you understand how consensus is built, brick by boring brick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
September 28, 2025 at 1:48 AM
I just feel like you don't need ground news, you can already access wikipedia's list of reliable/perennial sources.
It's free, you can contribute to it, and it helps you understand how consensus is built, brick by boring brick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
It's free, you can contribute to it, and it helps you understand how consensus is built, brick by boring brick.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
Green day in the lab.
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Green day in the lab.
Addenda and Corrigenda - ahhh yes, the two endas.
September 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Addenda and Corrigenda - ahhh yes, the two endas.
Listening to Graeber’s Debt, which lead me to search “Thomas Aquinas Neon Genesis Evangelion” which lead me to a blog with precisely the flavour of raving I was hoping for.
The ecstasy of mutuality in esoteric ranting that the internet has given us access to is -for my money- it’s greatest bounty.
The ecstasy of mutuality in esoteric ranting that the internet has given us access to is -for my money- it’s greatest bounty.
September 4, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Listening to Graeber’s Debt, which lead me to search “Thomas Aquinas Neon Genesis Evangelion” which lead me to a blog with precisely the flavour of raving I was hoping for.
The ecstasy of mutuality in esoteric ranting that the internet has given us access to is -for my money- it’s greatest bounty.
The ecstasy of mutuality in esoteric ranting that the internet has given us access to is -for my money- it’s greatest bounty.
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What if instead of Albert Einstein it was Galbert Einstein and also it was she = mc²?
August 22, 2025 at 11:30 PM
What if instead of Albert Einstein it was Galbert Einstein and also it was she = mc²?
Orange Day in the lab yesterday.
August 21, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Orange Day in the lab yesterday.
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Bad poetry is the life force of this poor earth. In reading bad poetry we are vulnerable and cruel at the same time. It confronts us with all the complexity of our own ambivalent relationship to sincerity (authenticity/cringe), to craft (skill/trickery), to our OWN HEARTS, to LIFE ITSELF.
Let's get behind National Bad Poetry Day! I believe this transcends national borders.
Today, Monday 18 August, is (Inter?)National Bad Poetry Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/bad-poe...
Also, Pinot Noir Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pinot-n...
And it’s happy 89th birthday to actor Robert Redford. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...]
Also, Pinot Noir Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/pinot-n...
And it’s happy 89th birthday to actor Robert Redford. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_...]
August 18, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Bad poetry is the life force of this poor earth. In reading bad poetry we are vulnerable and cruel at the same time. It confronts us with all the complexity of our own ambivalent relationship to sincerity (authenticity/cringe), to craft (skill/trickery), to our OWN HEARTS, to LIFE ITSELF.
I love the audacity of native flowers here, to just look like pollen.
August 17, 2025 at 7:02 AM
I love the audacity of native flowers here, to just look like pollen.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
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Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?
Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch
Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch
Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
retractionwatch.com
June 30, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up?
Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch
Intern Rita Aksenfeld's first story for Retraction Watch
Browsing the now defunct "most missed articles" list on wikipedia - for articles that were deleted but still get requests/clicks.
There used to be an article for "David Byrne and Brian Eno", which yeah that is missed, I woulda liked to read that one.
There used to be an article for "David Byrne and Brian Eno", which yeah that is missed, I woulda liked to read that one.
June 16, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Browsing the now defunct "most missed articles" list on wikipedia - for articles that were deleted but still get requests/clicks.
There used to be an article for "David Byrne and Brian Eno", which yeah that is missed, I woulda liked to read that one.
There used to be an article for "David Byrne and Brian Eno", which yeah that is missed, I woulda liked to read that one.
Who called identifying Irish people in Australia “big Irish head on ‘em” and not “PadeMelon”.
June 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Who called identifying Irish people in Australia “big Irish head on ‘em” and not “PadeMelon”.
I took too many beta-blockers at work today because I get nervous in meetings and presentations, and then thought I was dying on my evening jog home.
🏃😬😮💨🙅☠️
Why🤡
Do🤡
I🤡
Feel🤡
So🤡
Bad????🤡
🏃😬😮💨🙅☠️
Why🤡
Do🤡
I🤡
Feel🤡
So🤡
Bad????🤡
May 7, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I took too many beta-blockers at work today because I get nervous in meetings and presentations, and then thought I was dying on my evening jog home.
🏃😬😮💨🙅☠️
Why🤡
Do🤡
I🤡
Feel🤡
So🤡
Bad????🤡
🏃😬😮💨🙅☠️
Why🤡
Do🤡
I🤡
Feel🤡
So🤡
Bad????🤡
This is INCREDIBLE work, I love it so much.
It unfortunately reminds me of that old bit about how ‘there didn’t used to be so many transes’ because disappeared trans histories were the way to secure safe trans futures.
It’s also Underscores last album 💿 Wallsockets. No I can’t explain.
It unfortunately reminds me of that old bit about how ‘there didn’t used to be so many transes’ because disappeared trans histories were the way to secure safe trans futures.
It’s also Underscores last album 💿 Wallsockets. No I can’t explain.
My new video, Notes on Vanishing, is out now.
I keep returning to an unthinkable question: is it time for trans people to make ourselves disappear?
Enjoy 🌃
youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8
I keep returning to an unthinkable question: is it time for trans people to make ourselves disappear?
Enjoy 🌃
youtu.be/cqhiup5qSY8
Notes on Vanishing
YouTube video by Lily Alexandre
youtu.be
May 2, 2025 at 10:45 AM
This is INCREDIBLE work, I love it so much.
It unfortunately reminds me of that old bit about how ‘there didn’t used to be so many transes’ because disappeared trans histories were the way to secure safe trans futures.
It’s also Underscores last album 💿 Wallsockets. No I can’t explain.
It unfortunately reminds me of that old bit about how ‘there didn’t used to be so many transes’ because disappeared trans histories were the way to secure safe trans futures.
It’s also Underscores last album 💿 Wallsockets. No I can’t explain.
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I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
November 29, 2024 at 6:25 PM
I’m glad so many people have found my “capybara method” for how to write alt text and image descriptions helpful! However, I know conflicting access needs exist and not everyone can write their own #AltText, so here’s an ongoing thread of tools that can help. Inclusion in thread ≠ endorsement
I guess this is the week where I finally felt it, in the consumer in the supermarket, hip pocket way. Oooft.
No eggs.
Several of my favourite things unavailable.
$100 for a single bag of necessities.
Goodness Gracious.
No eggs.
Several of my favourite things unavailable.
$100 for a single bag of necessities.
Goodness Gracious.
April 30, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I guess this is the week where I finally felt it, in the consumer in the supermarket, hip pocket way. Oooft.
No eggs.
Several of my favourite things unavailable.
$100 for a single bag of necessities.
Goodness Gracious.
No eggs.
Several of my favourite things unavailable.
$100 for a single bag of necessities.
Goodness Gracious.