Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll She was born on March 20th, 1915

I love my echo chamber where everyone values the humanity of other people and enjoys the arts.

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

What your post failed to consider is me, a stranger with bad opinions

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

The Times and Sunday Times@thetimes.com · 2y ago

Young women are now consistently earning more than their male counterparts for the first time, according to a report that warns of a social “crisis” gripping young men

Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

With Nannas calling BS on biodiversity offsets used by large-scale development projects such as mining and other land-use planning we decide to instread “set- off” to hear the latest (field visit as well) at this 👎🏽conference @WandoInc in Narrabri. explorenarrabriregion.com.au/event/biodiv...

Biodiversity Offsets Conference

“Planning professionals and conservationists alike have mixed feelings about the ability of biodiversity offsets as a mechanism to reverse or slow the decline in biodiversity that plagues Australia. I...

explorenarrabriregion.com.au

“With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come”. Shakespeare.

Getting a library card is punk as fuck and free!

After years in the other place, this time I made sure half of the people I follow are artists and nature photographers. Fill your day with beauty like this...

David C. Simon@davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2y ago

My year in birds (IDs in alt-text) #birds

I have a Godzilla advent calendar. Would anyone be interested if I posted a daily Godzilla from Sunday onwards?

I didn’t have super high hopes for Albanese but I never ever expected him to be such a weapons grade pissant

Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process (And This Is Why I Hate It)

Thoughts and prayers

Anonymous@youranoncentral.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some unknown hackers breached Andrew Tate's online platform, The Real World, exposing sensitive data on approximately 800,000 users. Among the leaked information are email addresses of 325,000 users who were removed for non-payment, as well as chat logs from 616 servers.

“What radicalized you?” Bro I was told to treat people the way I would want to be treated in kindergarten and it made sense idk what else there is to say

They should invent mind control but for your own mind

We're about a decade in to this weird narrative where apparently centrists will always be driven right by us on the left but are somehow magically never driven left by the far-right.

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

X: Blocked people can read your tweets Bluesky: We will send an agent back in time to stop the blocked person's parents from ever meeting

Never forget who they are.

A 5-year-old stomped into a restaurant in a princess dress, held up her arms and shouted "I'M HERE." I just hired her to be my life coach.

The thing about Twitter versus Bluesky is that the right needs liberals on Twitter to make it feel worthwhile, whereas the left doesn’t need conservatives on Bluesky to make it feel worthwhile.

The backstory to Mary Shelley's Frankenstein puts unrealistic expectations on how much work you can accomplish in a vacation house.

The best social media accounts are folks super into something I have absolutely no interest in but through their sheer enthusiasm become very invested in knowing. You know how volcanos work? Awesome. You know about the 3 Kingdoms period of China? Great. You know how ants fuck? Tell me more my man

Incredible use of the medium, you gotta click through and read the bios go.bsky.app/KDY26rh

the major parties' primary votes have been steadily dropping — posing an existential risk for them. there's two ways they can arrest the decline: 1. be less shit. 2. cheat. it's a great shame they're choosing the latter… but, you've got to admit, it's much easier.

You’ll be shocked to hear that Labor’s reform plans (w Coalition support) won’t undermine their own corporate or union donations regimes, but will drastically curtail the teals and independents www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11...

Labor unveils its plan to end political 'arms race', with clamps on Clive Palmer, Climate 200

The Albanese government is pushing for the biggest shake-up of funding and disclosure laws in more than a decade.

abc.net.au

Six months ago, I would have said Labor's plan for caps on political donations is excellent. But I've learned otherwise. This is a plan to *entrench* the major parties. Please read the below 🧵 (and screengrabs) to see why. 1/n #auspol