Big Wombat
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Quotidian desk jockey (he/him)
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From my notifications it seems like this is a common problem, which has a solution. If you’re not familiar with JustWatch.com, it’s a brilliant little site (and app) that tells you where a given movie or TV series is streaming, and from experience is at least accurate for Australia.
December 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
From my notifications it seems like this is a common problem, which has a solution. If you’re not familiar with JustWatch.com, it’s a brilliant little site (and app) that tells you where a given movie or TV series is streaming, and from experience is at least accurate for Australia.
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おはようございます☀️
2025年最後の金曜日は好評だったとびねこランキングベスト4で締めくくり
妖怪浮毛玉が1位👑でしたっ◎
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#ねこ部FLYデー
#Blueskyねこ部
#ねこ部部員No.60No.61
2025年最後の金曜日は好評だったとびねこランキングベスト4で締めくくり
妖怪浮毛玉が1位👑でしたっ◎
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#ねこ部FLYデー
#Blueskyねこ部
#ねこ部部員No.60No.61
December 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
おはようございます☀️
2025年最後の金曜日は好評だったとびねこランキングベスト4で締めくくり
妖怪浮毛玉が1位👑でしたっ◎
ｺﾄｼﾓ ﾀｸｻﾝﾉ ♡ｦ ｱﾘｶﾞﾄｳｺﾞｻﾞｲﾏｼﾀ-ｯ🐈🐈🐈⬛✨
#ねこ部FLYデー
#Blueskyねこ部
#ねこ部部員No.60No.61
2025年最後の金曜日は好評だったとびねこランキングベスト4で締めくくり
妖怪浮毛玉が1位👑でしたっ◎
ｺﾄｼﾓ ﾀｸｻﾝﾉ ♡ｦ ｱﾘｶﾞﾄｳｺﾞｻﾞｲﾏｼﾀ-ｯ🐈🐈🐈⬛✨
#ねこ部FLYデー
#Blueskyねこ部
#ねこ部部員No.60No.61
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This is an exceptional essay which I think everyone could do with reading, critic or not. A reminder of how to appreciate art even if you don’t like it.
The paragraph about TV Tropes is spot on. I can't bear that approach to criticism where the main aim seems to be asserting superiority to the work. People who'll identify an influence and be like "Ah, rumbled!" episodes.ghost.io/art-criticis...
You are not smarter than the art you critique
Here's my best advice for young critics: Don't presume you know better.
episodes.ghost.io
December 23, 2025 at 1:25 PM
This is an exceptional essay which I think everyone could do with reading, critic or not. A reminder of how to appreciate art even if you don’t like it.
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Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
December 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Heads up to artists still using Twitter- Twitter is now adding an "Edit image" button under all images posted on the site that allows everyone to feed it into genAI and modify it as they wish with a prompt
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My work colleague asked me to text her when the Christmas meat hampers arrived at work. Turns out I took her number down wrong and I have sent a really ominous text to a stranger
December 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My work colleague asked me to text her when the Christmas meat hampers arrived at work. Turns out I took her number down wrong and I have sent a really ominous text to a stranger
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it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
Michael Caine Loves 'The Muppet Christmas Carol' as Much as You Do
God bless us, every one! But especially Michael Caine.
www.gq.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:31 PM
it is almost Christmas which means it’s Muppet Christmas Carol season and that, in turn, means it is time to revisit this delightful interview with Michael Caine, who loves everything about that movie even more than you do
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My heart goes out to David Attenborough who will not be allowed to play Lego after May 7,2026
December 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
My heart goes out to David Attenborough who will not be allowed to play Lego after May 7,2026
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I think the funniest thing to me is that the people who are working to create an Artificial General Intelligence is that it’s a bunch of libertarians who have never realised that what makes us smart as humans is community, society, empathy. The things they find an anathema.
December 19, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I think the funniest thing to me is that the people who are working to create an Artificial General Intelligence is that it’s a bunch of libertarians who have never realised that what makes us smart as humans is community, society, empathy. The things they find an anathema.
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It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It's been, uh, a while, but I have a new newsletter out, based on some conversations here, about the irreconcilable experiences of LLMs that different groups have had and how that all boils down to afordances and how 'AI' is a terrible name and an even worse UX metaphor.
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We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.
December 21, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We made a mistake by calling the output of AI ‘slop’. In academia it is now looking much more like toxic pollution, on the verge of laying waste to previously fertile plains. Suing for royalties is only a small part of the battle.
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I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
December 18, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.
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Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲
December 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Gang gang cockatoo science is sometimes quite undignified 🥲
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Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
Stories from traditional knowledge combined with archaeological work trace 2,300km of Songlines
theconversation.com
December 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Rock art images show Songlines reached from Murujuga beside the Indian Ocean to the eastern Simpson Desert, 2,300 kilometers away.
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the different coloured arrows MAKE this imo
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
the different coloured arrows MAKE this imo
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Facebook and Instagram are home to enormous numbers of scam ads (including hundreds of ads for publishing scams). Meta is happy to assist. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta’s “Trusted Experts” helped me run scam ads on Facebook and Instagram
A Reuters reporter created ads promising unrealistic investment returns and easily placed them on Meta's social media platforms.
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Facebook and Instagram are home to enormous numbers of scam ads (including hundreds of ads for publishing scams). Meta is happy to assist. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Once, when I worked in the bookshop, i was asked for a book with the “fancy writing that monks do” in it. When i pressed the woman for more information (such as a title) she informed me that she had seen the book in a dream, and woke up before she could find out the title.
man i have never had as many stupid questions as when i worked at Lush, just thinking about it now and we really put retail workers Through It don't we
December 16, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Once, when I worked in the bookshop, i was asked for a book with the “fancy writing that monks do” in it. When i pressed the woman for more information (such as a title) she informed me that she had seen the book in a dream, and woke up before she could find out the title.
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I think a lot about how Harlan Ellison said in an interview that Agatha Christie’s work would be forgotten five minutes after her death, and (by implication) his work would live on, and nearly the opposite has occurred. I’m not even sneering at Ellison. Just how we don’t understand posterity.
December 16, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I think a lot about how Harlan Ellison said in an interview that Agatha Christie’s work would be forgotten five minutes after her death, and (by implication) his work would live on, and nearly the opposite has occurred. I’m not even sneering at Ellison. Just how we don’t understand posterity.
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One of my favourite ever lads: egg thief
April 30, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One of my favourite ever lads: egg thief
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This is a little baffling. We lost computer literacy in, what, less than one generation?
Like Prometheus watching humans forget how to make fire in real time.
The older I get, the more I realize how much we lose to technology's ability to "simplify," to abstraction and ultimately, obfuscation.
Like Prometheus watching humans forget how to make fire in real time.
The older I get, the more I realize how much we lose to technology's ability to "simplify," to abstraction and ultimately, obfuscation.
December 17, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This is a little baffling. We lost computer literacy in, what, less than one generation?
Like Prometheus watching humans forget how to make fire in real time.
The older I get, the more I realize how much we lose to technology's ability to "simplify," to abstraction and ultimately, obfuscation.
Like Prometheus watching humans forget how to make fire in real time.
The older I get, the more I realize how much we lose to technology's ability to "simplify," to abstraction and ultimately, obfuscation.
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Been a @firefox.com user for years, but deffo deleting it now. Keep giving me browsers to walk away from, I dare you!! i will do it!!!
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Been a @firefox.com user for years, but deffo deleting it now. Keep giving me browsers to walk away from, I dare you!! i will do it!!!
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Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
December 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Mozilla has a new CEO and he just announced that Firefox will evolve into a modern AI browser. This is a good example of how management doesn’t understand its own user base and why they go out of their way to install Firefox on Windows, Android, iOS and other devices blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
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GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
December 15, 2025 at 1:49 PM
GIVE AWAY! // AKA WE DID IT AGAIN!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
Since The Night Guest is coming out in paperback we decided to try to gift another copy bitten by Uggi. And it went … a little *too* well. (See picture 🧵)
Like and share this post and on December 30th I will select a winner and send them this teeth marked copy!
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The Spider-Man meme, only it's a bunch of dapper gentlemen pointing cameras at each other while defying death up a partially-built skyscraper
December 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The Spider-Man meme, only it's a bunch of dapper gentlemen pointing cameras at each other while defying death up a partially-built skyscraper
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