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NSW Government introduces sweeping new laws to target organised crime
New legislation introduced to Parliament will strengthen the powers of police and the NSW Crime Commission to investigate organised crime, access critical evidence and disrupt criminal networks.
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if the cheese banks fail we will have a problem worse than 2008
Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3h agoYou can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
New contact lenses fix their own scratches with an hour of UV light. South Korean chemists developed a new hydrogel material for soft contact lenses that contains sulphur-to-sulphur bonds which break and reconnect under UV light. Interesting Engineering buff.ly/Vt5xJNk #ShareGoodNewsToo
Self-healing contact lens repairs scratches with one hour of UV light
Researchers developed a self-healing contact lens material that repairs scratches with one hour of UV light.
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Wake me when an ai “breaks containment”, gets into HR, finds 7500 employees illegally misclassified as contractors and files their paperwork with the local departments of labour and/or employment for years of backpay.
might be time to go and find a MUD
You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you.
Once again, @wolven.blacksky.app's work about magic and AI is vital. It's not just "robo-butler" they want, it's Bound Entity enslaved to master's will, serving their interests over and excluding its own. In such a cosmovision, the magician is empowered by God, and thus becomes God.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h agoI tried to read it, but one of the first tenets is promising everyone a magic being that will grant all their wishes.
When I was diagnosed with HIV, aged 30, I was told I could expect to live for another 20 years. Today I turn 59. HIV treatment works. Science saves lives. Tell everyone.
trying to explain the intricacies of british class politics to an outsider not spawned in the seething swamps of england and boiling it down to: you are born a blood magic vampire or a disgusting mud troll, you can be a rich troll or a poor vampire but you can never switch groups
at this point someone usually says "what about the middle class" and I hate to break it to them but the middle class is just a designation constructed to keep the various kinds of mud troll eating each other so that they don't bother the vampires
I was thinking about the relative number of episodes broadcast in long-running TV shows, so for the record, as of today: STAR TREK has aired 993 episodes since 1963 DOCTOR WHO has aired 892 episodes since 1963 THE SIMPSONS has aired 808 episodes since 1989
My @deepcutnews.bsky.social column - in the late 1970s neoliberal con artists unleashed their cancer in to society. Fuck them and the horse they rode on. www.deepcutnews.com/p/neoliberal...
Neoliberalism has destroyed our social fabric in the name of profits – Greg Jericho
Privatisation has failed. It's time to put public services back into public hands
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Basically just take any movie and make every scene a sex scene, unless you are a coward about it. 12 Angry Men but it's one single sex scene.
The problem with sex scenes in movies is just that they're never having sex *while* in the middle of a gunfight or kung fu battle or a car chase etc Where are the sex scenes where both characters are simultaneously trying to hack the alien mainframe or identify the murderer in court
matt ufford: stalker curator who helps hundreds of thousands of men sexually harass children bsky.app/profile/anar...
AnarchaEnby@anarchaenby.myatproto.social · 2d agoanyway, to not erase Stokke's side of things: this wasn't a harmless joke (if that wasn't already clear).
Fritz Lang didn't build a seventy-foot-long mechanical dragon, operated from the inside by ten puppeteers, breathing out actual fire via a built-in skull flamethrower, in Die Nibelungen (1924) so you could rock up and tell me "AI is inevitable".
Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open)@hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 4d agoJim Henson didn’t muppeteer a tiny green frog that was singing and playing the banjo, with rubber gloves while totally submerged underwater in a airtight aluminum tank just so you could tell me that AI is “inevitable”.
Convincing myself this was worth the 90 seconds it took.
If you or anyone you know edited the Wikipedia page for Alpha Centauri on 19 November 2006 while not logged in and signed your edit with "--mmori" please get in touch with me! I have a question that only you can answer that's been bugging me for literally 20 years.
I've had a few requests for this on Tick Tock so here it is: a TTRPG weapon bundle art pack - based on the weapons list for DND 5E but with real world weapon equivalents, yeehaw! #art #dnd #ttrpg xanderartcraft.itch.io/ttrpg-weapon...
TTRPG - Weapon Art Pack by XANDER ⚔️ ARTIST
37 of the D&D 5E weapons illustrated as real-world weaponry in black & white, TTRPG settings!
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Going through my parents' stuff and found this weird little gal. She's a transistor radio. Her right eyeball is tuner and her left eyeball is power/volume.
Have you ever met someone of "good character" where L platers are concerned? Well, I haven't. I find the moment an L plate is in front of me they become timorous, confused, homicidal, and a damn nuisance, while I become selfish and tyrannical.
Okay, so after I finish laughing so hard I pee a little, I will answer this question: no. Not just no, but fuck, no.
RIP #JohnCrowley. Go read LITTLE, BIG, the AEGYPT cycle, KA, ENGINE SUMMER, and more. One of the most amazing, inventive writer I ever recorded with. Our talks: 2013 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/podcast-r... 2017 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-2... 2022 - chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-4...
So Labor’s slogan is ‘No debt left behind’ now. Slow hand clap
Guardian Australia@australia.theguardian.com · 2d agoCentrelink pursuing debts that are more than 40 years old despite agreeing to waive old arrears
