@bencourtice stick with me. I can kill them with my brain.

Car drivers: Cyclists need to get off the road, you're slowing us down.

Cyclists: Pedestrians need to get off the path, you're slowing us down.

Power walkers: Old people need to get off the footpath, you're slowing us down.

Old people: It's our footpath, you need to get off. Young people are too lazy to use the footpaths, back in my day...

Young people: I'll never afford a footpath, I'm going to walk online.

Government: You're banned.

Re last boost, also works with “if they were running the Serenity, you’d be happy to join their crew”.

@david blasphemy

@psychopoesie hope camp is fun, wish I could be there but work and family responsibilities this month mean I can’t make it

To help us Europeans in 1945, thousands of Americans had to fight their way from the bloody beaches of Normandy all the way to Berlin, under fire, in ice cold trenches, watching their friends die left and right.

But to help the Americans in 2026, we Europeans need to sit in our heated livingrooms and hit "end subscription" on streaming services that finance the American oligarchy — and of course no one wants to live through the horror, so fascism it is.

#UnsubscribeNow

@david @timrichards I still have my Palm Treo and it still boots. It’s got old databases on it that I built to manage my life admin, they still work.

We saw ocean puppies! At Bermagui Blue Pool.

@timrichards I remember watching that first time around while I was hanging out in Fitzroy with a social circle of early career surgeons and film makers and writers and artists and software developers. It felt like our lives at the time.

But if I was using a Nokia that year, it was only for the 9.6kbps modem to connect to my Palm so I could download ABC RSS feeds and email and update a couple of databases with the office server, so I could read on the train home.

@ewen very true, media do just want click bait. This may be why more Greens are turning to podcasts and social media to communicate what their plans are and what they’re doing, rather than relying on trad media.

@ewen
These changes are pretty much already standard Greens policies.
The problem is not a suitable candidate, it’s that people don’t vote for these policies.

@dandylover1 @daedalus I’m skeptical about operating systems that collect and share data on my work computer because some of that data needs to remain confidential for work related reasons. Hence the comment about employers making people use that OS, but the user wanting to turn off Copilot.

Resistance is getting your friends to join Mastodon.

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Which one of you Aussie psychos made this?

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2941360/Pie_in_the_Sky/

#gaming

@randahl yeah that one I find strange… I already have an easy time getting info about my hobbies on Mastodon, but maybe because people who share my hobbies are already here? Is it just that some people are too lazy to switch out of their doomscrolling app to find hobby info in other online places? I don’t want one app that does all the things, I prefer to compartmentalise so my work info and hobby info and family info are not all mixed together.

Australian-made #EV the Savic C-Series Alpha got an enthusiastic review from the UK:

https://youtu.be/bTvPOZlC0iI

Backed this engineering endeavour almost 2 years ago now, so I'm very glad to see reviews like this with my one (which looks more like the photo than the video) due to arrive in March 😀

may be of interest, @PaulWay @carbsrule_en

#australianMade #motorcycle

Average again.

#SaturdayPaper

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The Saturday Paper Quiz No. 585
I got 6/10!
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/quiz/2026/01/31?rival=0010110111

@phocks also I never got to participate in a chess tournament as a kid because I didn’t know anyone else in my town who could play. So as the youth justice Minister in Canberra, we funded a young woman who’s an international chess master to run a tournament for the young people in the youth detention centre. And then I got to visit and play against them too, and was absolutely delighted to have my arse kicked by them. Some very smart kids with some excellent logic and strategy skills.

@phocks hello it me