Mick
@mickgrn.bsky.social
Inventor of the horse-drawn seed drill. Miniature painting. Wargames. Ngunnawal Land/Canberra
Having an ag school education is useful in precisely one context, and that’s when the pub trivia question involves knowing the difference between a Holstein Friesian and a Murray Grey.
January 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Having an ag school education is useful in precisely one context, and that’s when the pub trivia question involves knowing the difference between a Holstein Friesian and a Murray Grey.
The best use case for generative AI that I’ve seen is to write the emails you don’t want to, but I write 40 emails in a typical work day and I do it the old fashioned way, with my friends Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.
January 6, 2026 at 9:59 AM
The best use case for generative AI that I’ve seen is to write the emails you don’t want to, but I write 40 emails in a typical work day and I do it the old fashioned way, with my friends Ctrl+c and Ctrl+v.
Got a new toy for Xmas and I’m about to make this my whole personality.
December 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Got a new toy for Xmas and I’m about to make this my whole personality.
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Cinematography by Martin Kukula
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Cinematography by Martin Kukula
The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction
December 26, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Good Bye, Lenin! (2003)
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Cinematography by Martin Kukula
Directed by Wolfgang Becker
Cinematography by Martin Kukula
Reposted by Mick
oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
December 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
oomf who is a librarian had to take down the David Walliams poster at work today and said it felt like pulling down the big Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad in 2003
I think I need more light-up reindeer.
December 14, 2025 at 11:00 AM
I think I need more light-up reindeer.
Being a moon landing denier in 2025 is so funny. NASA is going back in 2027 and after that every year or so for a decade. China will probably send their own crewed mission in 2029 or 2030. You're going to be sick of moon landings in a few years.
October 31, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Being a moon landing denier in 2025 is so funny. NASA is going back in 2027 and after that every year or so for a decade. China will probably send their own crewed mission in 2029 or 2030. You're going to be sick of moon landings in a few years.
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Creed (2015)
Creed II (2018)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Creed (2015)
Creed II (2018)
October 20, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Creed (2015)
Creed II (2018)
Rocky II (1979)
Rocky III (1982)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Creed (2015)
Creed II (2018)
Last day in Welly so I got up at dawn and found the spot where the hobbits hid from the Nazgul
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Last day in Welly so I got up at dawn and found the spot where the hobbits hid from the Nazgul
On our tour of New Zealand's parliament today we learnt that private members' bills are drawn at random from a biscuit tin. This is an amazingly charming and silly way to run a country. Anyway, we got to see the actual biscuit tin and it was like meeting Taylor Swift.
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
On our tour of New Zealand's parliament today we learnt that private members' bills are drawn at random from a biscuit tin. This is an amazingly charming and silly way to run a country. Anyway, we got to see the actual biscuit tin and it was like meeting Taylor Swift.
They can't make me leave. I'm a Hobbit now.
September 28, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They can't make me leave. I'm a Hobbit now.
My dad, talking about a trip to Queensland: "it's like you're in a foreign country up there..."
Me, thinking: "oh no. This is it. The boomer switch. He's about to say something deranged"
"...they have so many bird species I've never seen here" *starts listing birds*
Me, thinking: "oh no. This is it. The boomer switch. He's about to say something deranged"
"...they have so many bird species I've never seen here" *starts listing birds*
August 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My dad, talking about a trip to Queensland: "it's like you're in a foreign country up there..."
Me, thinking: "oh no. This is it. The boomer switch. He's about to say something deranged"
"...they have so many bird species I've never seen here" *starts listing birds*
Me, thinking: "oh no. This is it. The boomer switch. He's about to say something deranged"
"...they have so many bird species I've never seen here" *starts listing birds*
Great news. The maxillofacial surgeon said he's "never seen a tooth do that before".
August 21, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Great news. The maxillofacial surgeon said he's "never seen a tooth do that before".
Shout out to the couple who brought their toddler to see The Life of Chuck last night. What on earth were you thinking?
August 20, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Shout out to the couple who brought their toddler to see The Life of Chuck last night. What on earth were you thinking?
Me on Sunday: "hmm. Mouth feels a bit weird"
Dentist today: "have you suffered any facial trauma lately?"
Dentist today: "have you suffered any facial trauma lately?"
August 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Me on Sunday: "hmm. Mouth feels a bit weird"
Dentist today: "have you suffered any facial trauma lately?"
Dentist today: "have you suffered any facial trauma lately?"
I think we should develop factory-grown meat so that we can stop torturing and butchering animals for protein and start doing it purely for the love of the game.
August 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM
I think we should develop factory-grown meat so that we can stop torturing and butchering animals for protein and start doing it purely for the love of the game.
It's been 4 years since the lockdown started in Canberra, and I (still working retail back then) had to deal with a mad rush of panicked shoppers and also this owl who flew into our store.
August 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
It's been 4 years since the lockdown started in Canberra, and I (still working retail back then) had to deal with a mad rush of panicked shoppers and also this owl who flew into our store.
"Men don't read fiction anymore..."
Hold on a sec, buddy. There's like fifty Horus Heresy novels. They're writing those for somebody.
Hold on a sec, buddy. There's like fifty Horus Heresy novels. They're writing those for somebody.
August 10, 2025 at 3:56 AM
"Men don't read fiction anymore..."
Hold on a sec, buddy. There's like fifty Horus Heresy novels. They're writing those for somebody.
Hold on a sec, buddy. There's like fifty Horus Heresy novels. They're writing those for somebody.
Defunding PBS the year a new Ken Burns documentary is released is a direct attack on dads everywhere.
August 2, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Defunding PBS the year a new Ken Burns documentary is released is a direct attack on dads everywhere.
Love when a book has some sort of sci-fi megastructure in the cover. If you put a megastructure on your book I will buy it, 100% of the time, and probably enjoy it. It doesn't even have to be *in* the book. Just having a Dyson Sphere on the cover will improve my experience.
June 24, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Love when a book has some sort of sci-fi megastructure in the cover. If you put a megastructure on your book I will buy it, 100% of the time, and probably enjoy it. It doesn't even have to be *in* the book. Just having a Dyson Sphere on the cover will improve my experience.
Picked another pumpkin. We shall not starve this winter.
June 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Picked another pumpkin. We shall not starve this winter.
A few years ago my dad had a stroke and had to completely relearn how to read and write. This month he's been published in Nature. This is just to say I'm proud of him.
June 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
A few years ago my dad had a stroke and had to completely relearn how to read and write. This month he's been published in Nature. This is just to say I'm proud of him.
They painted the Big Potato, Australia's worst big thing, at Robertson to celebrate 30 years of Babe being filmed there and it rules.
June 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
They painted the Big Potato, Australia's worst big thing, at Robertson to celebrate 30 years of Babe being filmed there and it rules.
I am shocked, shocked, that the violence of the periphery has returned to the imperial core.
June 11, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I am shocked, shocked, that the violence of the periphery has returned to the imperial core.
In 2007 the ABC aired a film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, against the protests of their science team and experts who warned that it was misleading, climate-change denialist propaganda.
June 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
In 2007 the ABC aired a film, The Great Global Warming Swindle, against the protests of their science team and experts who warned that it was misleading, climate-change denialist propaganda.