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  Can we have a moratorium on transport services called The Spirit Of The Place That It Goes? There’s obviously the Spirit of Tasmania ferry, but what used to be the diesel Tilt Train from Brisbane to Cairns is now the Spirit of Queensland, and one of SeaLink’s two ferries is the Spirit of Kangaroo Island, like it’s been done, come up with something else

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  I am at the town market in Penneshaw, on Kangaroo Island in regional South Australia, and it’s a very small market that nonetheless hits every stereotype of the sorts of stalls you get at a country town market, good and bad. We’ve got: • hippie-looking shawls and other related bits and bobs • shockingly good French patisserie run out of the back of a Ford Transit • freshly baked bread • someone who’s bought one of those heat presses and started a “business” of printing AI slop onto ceramic mugs...

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  @mcc@mastodon.social adhd

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  Just learned that apparently in the US, iced coffee is considered a “girl’s drink”, and as someone who grew up in the great state of South Australia where iced coffee is advertised like this, that blew me away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgP3heHU5k&feature=youtu.be

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  none of these words are in the bible what is “Worfie time” I genuinely don’t understand https://mastodon.au/@TheVoiceGuy/117336120833648918

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  The existence of metres in Outer Wilds implies the existence of a Hearthian French Revolution

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  straight people are all like “boo hoo hoo when do we get straight pride?” and the answer is LITERALLY TODAY, there’s a whole-ass parade celebrating straight culture, there’s even a public holiday, we don’t get a public holiday! #Melbourne #AFLGrandFinal #DayBeforeTheAustralianFootballLeagueGrandFinalPublicHoliday

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  Last weekend’s weather was beautiful, but how are we all feeling about Third Winter this morning? #melbourne

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  Conferences: we have set the CFP to close at the end of day Anywhere on Earth (AoE) so that submitters don’t have to do timezone math! Me: hmmmmmm okay so I’m UTC+10 and AoE means UTC-12, 10+12 is 22, so that means I can keep putting it off until 10pm the following day

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@invalidname/117295247645401965 The very last sentence of this is the most 2026 sentence ever

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  RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/117292152041410285 absolutely not, it is totally reasonable to want to store your children in a box in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight for the first 18 years of their life and expect them to become well-adjusted adults

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  The first time I visited #Brisbane was 2014 or 2015, when Central Station still had CRT screens for their PIDs. When I went back this year they had been replaced with flatscreens, but one thing has remained true: a visitor’s very first impression of Central as they step off the airport train is that the Airport–Gold Coast line PIDs use the exact same yellow-green-brown colour as a newborn baby’s first-ever poo.

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  it’s cute when girls modify things to charge over usb-c

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  Does anyone have any good photos of me from #PyConAU? @garthk@eigenmagic.net @sophie@cloudisland.nz (I don’t know if Patrick is on here) or anyone else?

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  Imagine being called Matt and founding a tech company with Matt in the name and then having the board of directors force you out of the company because you’re such a nuisance, that’s peak cis white man shit right there

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  thinking about the guy at Brisbane Airport who was giving me the dirtiest look ever as he and I both were boarding the flight to Melbourne. Like dude if the existence of pink haired trans girls bothers you, you’re not gonna like it where this plane is going

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  I saw a post recently where someone was observing that as a software developer, a lot of what you do and how you end up wiring your brain to work is built around building systems that are predictable and intuitive and work the way someone else would expect, and they were really struggling with creative writing (or songwriting or poetry?) because they were struggling to rewire their brain to write things that were surprising and unexpected and subvert expectations. But I can’t find it for the lif...

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  Adelaide O-Bahn is a clocky tgirl, Brisbane Metro is a flashy drag queen, I don’t make the rules

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  OH: “what, you’re telling me that you haven’t put all your sexual encounters in a time series database?” Me: “I’m not gonna lie to you—“ OH: “—I know, you’re gonna tell me you’ve seriously considered it” Me: “goddamnit”

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  Attending a conference at which you are a… conference director emeritus if you will, is an odd position to be in. You have no formal responsibilities, and yet you can walk into basically any room and nobody will tell you to leave. Instead, you’re at risk of being seconded into basically any role at any time, sort of like a de facto technical swing of sorts maybe?

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  OH: “I can’t be program chair, I want to get laid next year”

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  "Even if you get away from the Elon Musk of it all, Australians have their own ideas about how they live their life that are very different to Americans." —Cam Wilson #PyConAU This is really immediately the most evident with how a lot of tech products treat expletives. I've literally ditched speech to text software because it just would not let me send texts to my friends with a normal Australian amount of swearing.

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  If day drinking at conferences wasn’t an obscenely bad idea I’d suggest a drinking game based around on-stage utterances of “human in the loop”. #PyConAU

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  Me eating breakfast in my hotel in Brisbane before the opening day of #PyConAU while on the TV in the corner, the Premier of the very state I’m visiting extols the virtues of not just AI but also fossil fuels, and talks about how great it is that he’s convinced the Prime Minister to allow Queensland to use coal and gas to power AI data centres:

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  I have successfully made it to Brisbane and onto one of their weird skinny trains

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  Uber driver: hello! Me: g’day! Uber driver: how are you? Me: not bad! Uber driver: Virgin? Me: pardon? Uber driver: Virgin? Me: … [remembers that I’m flying with Virgin Australia and that they have their own terminal here] Me: yes please

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  pillows for side sleepers, pillows for back sleepers, where are my pillows for people who slowly rotate in their sleep like a rotisserie chicken

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  This isn’t an original idea but rather a distillation of the ideas of others in a way that made it click for me, but: AI slop code review is so much more draining because it is a fundamentally different task; your job goes from verifying and sense checking someone else’s human understanding to, oftentimes, developing the human understanding that the “author” has not bothered to undertake at a more-than-perfunctory level. Which is exhausting in itself and ALSO violates the social contract of cod...

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  RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/117037614521306051 …and honestly for a lot of the code that’s written in corporate environments, the answer is often “no”

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  Excited for when the crash happens, and the business world will be all like “who could have predicted this” and everyone will be like “LITERALLY ALL OF US” and they will be like “well yes but the Very Special Computer Boys had no idea and they are very smart after all” and nobody will have learned anything whatsoever