Back in the naughties the leader of the Australian Democrats was Natasha Stott-Despoja. She was a politician from South Australia. She suggested on TV that since rabbits are an invasive species damaging our ecosystem, maybe Australia should have an Easter Bilby! South Australia is also where one of our highest quality chocolate manufacturers, Haighs, is based. So, they shrugged their shoulders and went, "Why not?!"
Haighs chocolate bilbies were a hit! They sold well to Australians AND visiting tourists. The chocolatier brings them out every year at this time.
i've created a torrent but i don't know if it actually works. all my friends are asleep/busy (timezones 😭) and i need someone to test it. you don't have to download the whole thing, but just see if any of it downloads at all. i only need ☝️ one volunteer to send the .torrent file to
Illegal logging and palm oil destroying rainforests of Sulawesi endangering the island’s critically endangered Sulawesi black-crested macaques. Fight back!
One of the reasons we’re in the mess we’re in is because this country fails to face up to its shortcomings. Just as we have never grappled with our deeply embedded racism, we have never acknowledged our misogyny, both prejudices so deep that they are woven into the fabric of who we are in a way that makes it almost impossible to unravel.
There are so many ways in which the Trump regime is using the knee-jerk misogyny of most Americans to continue its assault on women, particularly women of color.
Unemployment for black women rose nearly two percentage points in 2025. Men, on the other hand, joined the labor force at three times the rate of women. During the same time, the Trump regime has dismantled the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, gutted diversity programs, and instructed the Equ
One of the reasons we’re in the mess we’re in is because this country fails to face up to its shortcomings. Just as we have never grappled with our deeply embedded racism, we have never acknowledged our misogyny, both prejudices so deep that they are woven into the fabric of who we are in a way that makes it almost impossible to unravel.
There are so many ways in which the Trump regime is using the knee-jerk misogyny of most Americans to continue its assault on women, particularly women of color.
Unemployment for black women rose nearly two percentage points in 2025. Men, on the other hand, joined the labor force at three times the rate of women. During the same time, the Trump regime has dismantled the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, gutted diversity programs, and instructed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission not to prioritize gender discrimination charges. It’s also advanced what the National Women’s Law Center calls a “false and dangerous narrative” that the success of working women constitutes reverse discrimination.
Negatively impacting the economic independence of women is not ancillary to the Trump regimes agenda, it’s a goal. After all, women who are financially dependent are easier to control...
i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can finally come clean now.
i spent months editing the entire star wars movie. at first i made subtle changes (colour correction, fake shot/reverse shot scenes, etc.), but as the movie went on, my edits got more and more absurd (extra powerpoint transition wipes, doom door open/close sound effects, etc.).
i can't upload the full thing for obvious reasons, but here's one of my favourite parts: the death star scene. spoilers for a movie that came out nearly four decades ago
i've been keeping this a secret for half a year, but i can finally come clean now.
i spent months editing the entire star wars movie. at first i made subtle changes (colour correction, fake shot/reverse shot scenes, etc.), but as the movie went on, my edits got more and more absurd (extra powerpoint transition wipes, doom door open/close sound effects, etc.).
i can't upload the full thing for obvious reasons, but here's one of my favourite parts: the death star scene. spoilers for a movie that came out nearly four decades ago
due to popular demand... Star Wars: Lynne & Roxie Edition in all its glory! i don't really know what i'm doing with torrents, so hopefully this works 🤞
due to popular demand... Star Wars: Lynne & Roxie Edition in all its glory! i don't really know what i'm doing with torrents, so hopefully this works 🤞
due to popular demand... Star Wars: Lynne & Roxie Edition in all its glory! i don't really know what i'm doing with torrents, so hopefully this works 🤞
@zaire @SymTrkl originally it was ~4.5GB. when roxie added her edits and reexported it, she chose a super high bitrate (because she has Video Quality Autism) and yeah 16GB movie
@SymTrkl how was this encoded. i know video editors tend to have dogshit export options so thats that, i can assume something like nvenc (with bad defaults)
... and since Ben Burtt (sound designer for Star Wars) very much helped proliferating the running gag of movie sounds: Do you have incorporated the Wilhelm Scream somewhere? (Can't watch the full edit for the next two days to find out myself...) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_… (section "History", 3rd paragraph)
incredible stuff, great work! it's inspired me to think about some edits for my in-group popular films (twilight, national treasure, hackers)... the fact that you have to restrain yourself for the first half is SO funny to me.
I'm thinking also of good framing devices that let you get away with more - Noodle's "lost VHS tape" is a good bit, you could also do "whoops I accidentally downloaded a foreign release" (lets you sneak in a bunch of subtitle gags), or "well it turns out this is a dodgy camrip" (make the screen shake increase more and more as the movie goes on)
@greg i had a whole backstory planned. "i was browsing this obscure forum and found this thing called Star Wars Legacy Edition where some guy claimed to have taken the best most accurate scenes from both 4K77 and the special edition"
Ok, the USB plugging sound broke me. Then the mudcrabs. Then the Serious Sam scream, immediately followed by "[Stupid fucking Wookie moan]" and "[Another one]"
for anyone wondering why the ending cards say "what he believed to be obi-wan's death"... i genuinely didn't realise obi-wan died in this movie. i thought he just teleported away, and that was why luke could still hear him.
i didn't even know about force ghosts being a thing. the idea to have a transparent PNG of obi's face appear whenever he talks was my own thing.
my favorite parts: * Han chasing stormtroopers * I will remember you obi-wan montage * ready-brek geiger counter * red zone white zone reference * George lucas powerpoint * The breakfast club credits
i love the stack overflow "hot network questions" thing.
"i see you're reading a thread about ffmpeg command line options. would you be interested in a debate about whether the inert cube in Portal 2 (2011) is sentient"
The thing that hurts the most though is everyone complaining that the game required the installation of an emulator (?) and that the instructions for the game were too terse (???)
All the other games were made for windows, so I'm gonna call this a skill issue uwu
Global Witness report finds JBS, the world’s largest meat company, is directly linked to deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal putting jaguars at risk
⚠️ Before submitting, please verify the following: ⚠️ This is a bug, not a question or a configuration issue. This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it). Nextcloud Server and D...
When I had a tenured job, I got the most requests--probably 7-10 a year, and I would reject maybe 30% of them, either because the journal was so janky they were asking me to review random articles on topics I don't work on, or because a journal was sending me an article I had already rejected/R&Red for another journal.
I do around 10 journal articles and 10 conference submissions per year. I reject all requests from publishers that charge APCs (around 15 per year). #openaccess
In Computer Science, I end up reviewing 5-10 papers per year via request (half journal, half conference) and sit on the program committee for 1-2 conferences per year (reviewing and/or managing the reviewing of 5-10 conference papers). I reject almost no individual requests to review, but I reject 2-3 offers to sit on a conference PC per year.
The accompanying question might be … When you review an article: How much time do you spend with your review? … It is very time consuming to analyze (and overanalyze?), document, and explain proposed changes. I have heard from top brass that it takes an entire weekend every time. … And, as a sane person, I left academia for this reason.
🌊 🌊 🌊 Today, we’re launching social websites, a new kind of online destination. These blend posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and more, plus YouTube, podcasts and your favorite publications to create community sites based around the things that matter to you.
For years, most online communities have lived inside platforms they don’t control. Conversations happen in one place, videos live somewhere else, podcasts are scattered across apps, and creators have little say over how people discover or experience …
Thank you so much Eugen! There's no way this could have happened without you and the work you did for years. Everyone who signs up for Surf automatically gets a Mastodon account running on the surf.social Mastodon instance. The Mastodon API, account system and server infrastructure is extremely impressive and foundational.
🌊 🌊 🌊 Today, we’re launching social websites, a new kind of online destination. These blend posts from Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon and more, plus YouTube, podcasts and your favorite publications to create community sites based around the things that matter to you.
For years, most online communities have lived inside platforms they don’t control. Conversations happen in one place, videos live somewhere else, podcasts are scattered across apps, and creators have little say over how people discover or experience …
🌎 Organizaciones de Latinoamérica construyen autonomía digital para defender territorios: proyectos de soberanía tecnológica, formación comunitaria y herramientas libres que fortalecen resistencias frente a extracción y vigilancia. huelladelsur.ar/2026/03/29/org… 🔗
🤝 Compartamos recursos y replicables prácticas que empoderen a más comunidades.
La segunda edición de la Escuela de Comunicación y Tecnologías Libres para la Defensa Común del Territorio reúne a 18 organizaciones de ocho países latinoamericanos El encuentro se realiza en Buenos Aires del 19 al 29 de marzo y busca brindar técnica…
Juxta the Combinator Cat lore: it's able to use stack combinators as magic abilities. swap allows Juxta to change oppositions with an object as long as nothing is in the way. drop can make objects disappear temporarily, dup can make copies of them temporarily, and quote lets juxta summon a box. Which it obviously sits in.
Abilities can only effect objects roughly around its mass.
Dich hat jemand (aus welchen Gründen auch immer) erwähnt, deswegen hast Du den Beitrag erhalten. Das lässt sich nicht verhindern. Du kannst natürlich diese Person blockieren. Dann siehst Du es zumindest nicht, wenn sie Dich erneut erwähnen sollte.
Nachtrag: Das scheint ein automatisierter Account zu sein, der immer diese Nachricht schickt, wenn man von der anderen erwähnten Person geblockt wurde. Ich habe in die Posts der Person geschaut. Es ist augenscheinlich einer dieser rechtsextremen Trolle, d.h. Judenhasser, Frauenhasser, Trans-Hasser, ...
If you want to know when Valve will announce pricing and dates for the Steam Machine and Steam Frame...next week, because I am away all week. Guaranteed to happen then 😆
From reading the post, it's not made clear that shell-specific configuration files should be, and, in fact are, defined per shell. A user was always required to know this, even for sh and csh,.
Also, isn't there already a mechanism for setting user environment variables via systemd? I could be wrong, so could others execute "man environment.d" clear that up for me?
Finally, making setting environment variables more complicated than it already is seems bad. wiki.archlinux.org/title/Envir…
would you mind some more detail or pointers for the very marketing-y "even more secure" phrase?
Is it an "all hands on deck" situation?
I can't find details for any security-relevant even in the change logs - just the titles of the fixed issues aren't too descriptive and don't help judging the urgency.
The black-faced lion #tamarin Leontopithecus caissara, also known as the Superagüi lion tamarin, is listed as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List. With a total population of fewer than 400 i…
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