i finally cracked and made a Wikimedia account. Why? For updating dead links to their Internet Archive preserved counterparts, of course. Dead links offend me. I wish to read the sources! What do you MEAN error 404?!

renaissance painter: hey man i finished your commission for an icon of saint sebastian, its real fuckin sexy just like you asked catholic bishop: yes, this IS just as i asked. Gloria in Excelsis Deo

Information was a mistake

Faine Greenwood@faineg.bsky.social · 16h ago

I absorb so much information every single day and THIS is the outcome, which I hope serves as a lesson to you all

Oh fuck hahaha

The Daily Tism@thedailytism.com · 3d ago

A new website has launched allowing people who like to collect dead relatives to trace the autism running through their family tree, according to a recent press release.

Fellow Aussies, there’s an urgent need for A and O blood types. If you can, Please donate at lifeblood.com.au

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood | Home

Make Lifeblood part of your routine, whether you're donating blood, plasma, breast milk, microbiota or organ and tissue.

lifeblood.com.au

Vale Dr Isabel McBryde - one of the greats of Australian archaeology. She was a pioneer in many things but was also instrumental in getting cultural landscapes recognised as World Heritage. 🧪 🏺 #TrowelBlazer

Susan McMichael@susanmcmichael.bsky.social · 14h ago

@drspacejunk.bsky.social www.une.edu.au/about-une/ne...

How men feared women! she thought, walking among the late-flowering roses. Not as individuals, but women when they talked together, worked together, spoke up for one another - then men saw plots, cabals, constraints, traps being laid.

It's silently costing people friends and other connections, too. If I see that you are posting or reposting gen AI content I'm unlikely to say anything but I will immediately lose interest in striking up any kind of conversation, friendship, or working relationship. And I know I'm not the only one.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 2d ago

Hello local business, your AI ads are costing you customers: aftermath.site/ai-poster-ad-f...

Trapped in GP clinic waiting for flu vaccine to not kill me for 10 minutes. Fucking channel 7 doing a news feature on that mother fucker Alan Jones's trial, absolutely glorifying the bastard Am I allowed to (redacted) the TV

I don't use a cane, but I have. I do use an Accessibility Sunflower badge bc I need to sit on buses and trains. There's no shame in being 'young' and needing assistive devices and anyone who thinks so needs to fix their hearts or die.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

But also, at a very fundamental level, what is there for young disabled women to be ashamed of in using a cane when they feel the need to? Nothing at all. It suggests an awareness of their own bodyminds' needs which is what Stock and her ilk find so reprehensible. They want you to suffer silently.

I wonder if I could get this and then get ... a bunch of the black parts, in white, and make a Lego Stella.

Mrs. Detective Pikajew, Esq.@clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 3d ago

I’m going to CRY, my summer interns asked me what my dream Lego set was and I told them the tuxedo cat because then I could replace the white with black so it looks like Mark and THEY GOT IT FOR ME

about 5ish years ago my work and a lot of other small Australian archives switched from Archive Manager to SDS Archive Virtual. It's good.. But you CANNOT (or at least I haven't found how) navigate the damn thing keyboard only. granted, I don't think you could in AM either. but I WANT TO.

i bet you can navigate the whole thing with keyboard alone, no bloody mouse clicking i yearn for it

Katherine the Sixth@luigithirty.bsky.social · 3d ago

if your government software looks like this, it will never break, never need replacement, and will work on every computer since we landed on the moon

N o p e No thank you!

Buckinghamshire Archives@bucksarchives.bsky.social · 3d ago

If you'd like something even more dangerous, our archive is so old that we don't use these fancy modern rolling stacks. Ours are attached to a motorised chain that runs the length of the room. This means sometimes they like to move by themselves just a little, enough to keep you on edge.

I need some help with this Arabic (?) word in this RAF navigator's 1941 diary. He writes that he was told it was a universal Arabic greeting for "Good morning" or "Good day" but I'm struggling to find something similar online. Thank you so much if anyone can help

I cannot take ibuprofen (I take another NSAID and I'm not allowed to double dip) but pass it to those of you who can

🌿viktor aleksander🌿🌸patreon launch!🌸@nooskadraws.bsky.social · last mo.

thou hast been blessed by the ibuprofen knight praise be ⚔️💚

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

Matthew Cortland has been suspended from bsky for, you guessed it, bullshit reasons. Bsky continues to protect the rich from getting their feelings hurt while consistently banning those who advocate for the marginalized and vulnerable. Follow Matthew on Patreon or ShouldntNeedToBeALawyer.com

Ralph de la Torre, Steward Health Care CEO, Is A Murderer (And I've Been Banned By BlueSky) | Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer by Matthew Cortland

nb. I have been suspended from BlueSky. Patreon — now with new, easier URL, ShoudntNeedToBeALawyer.com or ShouldntNeed.com — is the best pla

shouldntneedtobealawyer.com

When you jump on the blower to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church and tell them "youse are a bunch of f'ckn dogs we run this town"

This article is excellent. It speaks volumes about how governments take so many in the environmental and conservation sectors and communities for granted theconversation.com/australia-ha.... As H5N1 begins to spread and devastate Australian wildlife the dire consequences of this are evident.

Australia has long relied on volunteers and wildlife carers. As bird flu spreads, they will need support

Volunteers have been a mainstay of conservation in Australia. As bird flu spreads, they must be supported – and kept safe.

theconversation.com

Bluesky oldheads will remember that brief period of time when the conservative trolls tried to storm the place and were flummoxed by the idea they would have to organically grow an audience and that someone who didn't want to talk to them could nuke every interaction they ever had from orbit

Seen in Marrickville: a guy with BOTH a whippet or Italian greyhound AND an Irish Wolfhound, on leads

I noticed from my 12yo's lock screen notifications over the w/e that he is still using all of the apps, only difference now is that none of the parent filters and controls apply

Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 5d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

“Nobody told me not to answer your questions, but your questions don’t seem real to me.”

"I feel I have to be very guarded in any replies, because I can never tell where a legal mind is going to take off with historical facts." So do I, Dr Tanner, ma'am. I get this sometimes at work. "Does this (source) mean (legal conclusion)?" Beats me, pal, I'm just the archivist.

Sleep badly bc of being overstimulated by my sheets Get to work Turn on PC Have to restart PC three? Times?! Computer also slept badly it seems 😴

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

I have just been sent the transcript of a deposition my grandmother gave in 1977 while she was serving as an expert witness in a series of tribal rights cases and let me tell you, if nothing else this is proof that I come by it honest for every conceivable value of “it”

I was literally deceased by the end of this www.instagram.com/p/Dba8hsKyLXh/

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful