OK I'm hoooked! Amy fell asleep haha https://10.com.au/the-traitors

Might check out the new season of Traitors Australia tonight

I'm already never flying Jetstar ever again. Now I'm doubly never flying Jetstar ever again. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-05/jetstar-to-charge-fees-for-overhead-carry-on-baggage/106997626

Jetstar to scrap free 7kg carry-on for new overhead luggage fees

Jetstar has announced it will charge passengers to stow carry-on luggage in overhead lockers from next year, allowing only a small under-seat bag at no extra cost.

abc.net.au

"A 30-year property super-cycle that has made Australian homes among the most expensive in the world may finally be coming to an end" I hope so, even though I will be in negative equity. I'll survive (hopefully). House prices need to fall another 50% to be considered "affordable". Keep it […]

This episode was pretty great actually ___ Sam Kirchner, the founder of an anti-AI protest group, was on a mission to stop AI’s development. Then he mysteriously disappeared. WSJ’s Zusha Ellinson takes us inside the growing anti-AI movement. As violent threats against AI companies are on the […]

As an Open Source person I am apparently expected to keep doing things for free so I get invited to participate in EU policy events in Brussels, with not even an attempt to offer me compensation for travel, lodging or time. So I decline.

Number 475 on my Rolling Stone top 500 albums of all time countdown is ... "Sheryl Crow" by Sheryl Crow from 1996. Weird that I hadn't actually heard this album before in its entirety, but the songs all seemed very familiar, even the ones that weren't big hits […] [Original post on bne.social]

RE: https://mastodon.online/@50years_music/117029680058169543 *looks at camera* we did in fact get fooled again

"What if you just talked to your children?"

Sheryl Crow was right every day really is a winding road

Happy World UFO Day to all who celebrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_UFO_Day

I've been listening to this Sheryl Crow album on repeat for the past few days and I love how the first song "Maybe Angels" is straight up about ALIENS 👽🛸 https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=958K6iYjVDY

A computer can never be held accountable...

Unfortunately Disclosure Day was a bit mid

It is an honour to have been interviewed on behalf of the @drfed team for @APC's _Building a Free Internet of the Future_ series. https://www.apc.org/en/news/drfed-reducing-complexity-and-enabling-more-people-shape-fediverse

DrFed on reducing complexity and enabling more people to shape the Fediverse

DrFed is a web-based platform for developing and debugging implementations of ActivityPub – an open standard and protocol for decentralised networking. A team of four people from East Asia is developing DrFed. We interviewed one of them, Hong Minhee, regarding openness, tech, technical specs, the Fediverse’s strengths and limits, language barriers to decentralisation, and far more.

apc.org

Timely release of Sheryl Crow's self-titled album for the first time ever on vinyl. Might have to put this one on the Christmas list. This is one heck of an record! https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/sheryl-crow-vinylphyle/

Sheryl Crow's Self-Titled 1996 Album Is Getting A Vinylphyle Reissue

Sheryl Crow’s self-titled 1996 sophomore album is coming to wax for the very first time as part of UMe’s Vinylphyle series.

udiscovermusic.com

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Sheryl Crow is the real deal man.

Look what I found at the city library over lunch

Number 476 on my Rolling Stone top 500 albums listen is ‘Kimono My House’ by Sparks from 1974. This wasn't really my kind of thing, but I gave it a go a few times. It's pretty fun and weird. But happy to be moving on to some Sheryl Crow next up! […] [Original post on bne.social]

Another day another company (Origin Energy) leaking my name DOB email phone number bank and credit card details and they're just like *whoooopsie soz* I seriously think companies should be banned from storing customer data until they can learn to store it securely 🤷

I enjoyed The Odyssey a lot despite my brain going *Team America voice* Matt Damon for a lot of the movie. Well done to all involved. 👏

Excited to be seeing The Odyssey as Christopher Nolan intended tonight ... in the old Brisbane IMAX cinema at South Bank that is not actually an IMAX any more but it still has a pretty big screen! :DealWithIt:

Brought my lunch today, but overheard a few workmates talking about going to Wrapture for a farewell lunch, so I weaselled my way in. Love Wrapture. Best wraps in the city I got the falafel and it was fabulous. Farewell fellow workmate! 👋

"A really concerning number of illegal knackeries and the result of that is that you've seen horses and other animals ending up in what people would assume to be minced beef or minced lamb." I would simply eat a Beyond Burger 🤷 […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116974442462944015 Me and @ash were up past midnight to patch this on the server asap. All done! You're welcome. LOL :D

Mastodon Engineering@mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 2w ago

We are planning to release new Mastodon security updates for versions 4.4, 4.5, 4.6 and nightly this Monday, Jul 27, at around 14:00 UTC. It solves two major security issues. We encourage server administrators to plan for an update in the hours following the release to ensure their instance is […]

The other day I started re-listening to S-Town (aka Shit-Town), the very first investigative podcast I ever listened to, and the podcast that first got me into podcasts, way back when. I'm 3 episodes in and it has me hooked all over again. It truly is the most incredible story. Maybe the […]

A society cannot keep concentrating wealth at the top while expecting ordinary people to afford housing, healthcare, education, retirement or a decent life. We either tax extreme concentrations of wealth or accept that secure, ordinary lives for working people will become a thing of the past.

PSA: in the northern hemisphere, there's currently a massive oversupply of potatoes, to the point where mutual aid groups are diverting literal truckloads from going to landfills, and giving them away to anyone who wants them. The one in Denver is tomorrow morning and they have 21 tons to give […]

New from our team: The countdown begins! 🚨 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/what-to-know-about-ausalert-emergency-warning-test/106919574

Ten degrees is not enough degrees. Bring on spring I say.