Australian living near Brisbane. Cis-het married cat lady, retired web developer, vigorously pro-choice atheist and feminist. My train station is Lawnton, I shop at Warner, and I have a potato for a federal MP.
Diagnosed at 60 as #ActuallyAutistic. Strong opinions, many interests, boring AF. I don't get out much
My pronouns are she/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie).
@anathema_device on Mastodon
Human remains thought to be found in Titan sub debris (www.bbc.co.uk)
US medical professionals will conduct a formal analysis of presumed remains, the coast guard said.
Plan for Gabba tower cites affordable housing ... but doesn’t include any (www.brisbanetimes.com.au)
“Due to the prominent inner-city location of the site, the provision of affordable dwellings within the building is not considered appropriate. Units within the development will, however, be an aspirational purchase decision for many who will use the purchase to elevate themselves up the property ladder,” Saunders Havill...
Block function not working quite right
Hey, just wanted to mention this thing I noticed. So I blocked a user after a few rounds in a thread, but when they responded to me, I still got the notification and could still see the first line of their post from that screen. But the entire comment thread, including my own replies, was invisible from the article page until I...
Deputies accused of abusing Black men are fired by Mississippi sheriff amid federal probe (apnews.com)
All five Mississippi deputy sheriffs accused of beating and sexually assaulting two Black men before shooting one of them in the mouth have been fired.
Seasonal Bin Chickens
Has anyone noticed more of the darker bin chickens getting around since it’s gotten colder? Straw-necked Ibis I believe. I saw one months ago and now they seem to be integrated with the stock standard bin chickens most places I go.
French police kill teen who refused traffic stop (www.bbc.com)
A 17-year-old is shot dead near Paris in broad daylight after failing to obey traffic police.
Need a new lawnmower? Don't buy one — borrow it from the library (www.abc.net.au)
Advanced macOS Commands (saurabhs.org)
Advanced macOS command-line tools (spotted on Hacker News). Some pretty neat tools, e.g., textutil to convert between different document formats.
Prominent billionaire James Crown dies in crash at Colorado racetrack (www.cbsnews.com)
The 70-year-old's official cause of death is still under investigation, but the coroner said "blunt force trauma is evident" from the crash.
Tucker Carlson: Fox News names Jesse Watters to replace star anchor (www.bbc.co.uk)
Jesse Watters, who joined the network in 2002, will host the channel's primetime evening slot.
Newsmax Staffers Hit With Subpoenas in 2020 Election Defamation Suit (www.rollingstone.com)
Court filings rife with internal communications exposed Fox News’ post-election misinformation push. Newsmax could be next
'Worst case scenario, we close': The cost of gentrification for West End's small traders (www.abc.net.au)
West End used to be populated by thespians and proletariats, but locals say gentrification has priced them out.
OC A beautiful winter afternoon in Shorncliffe
Why Reddit and u/spez must win (fedia.io)
Seeing a lot of hate and schadenfreude over spez and what he's doing with Reddit....
Wagner Russian Paramilitary Chief Says His Forces Will Turn Around (www.nytimes.com)
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary group, made the announcement minutes after the leader of Belarus announced successful talks with the Wagner boss.
Bribin Olymbics Finnish
What happen when Olymbics come? More or less traffic? More or less prices? More or less people?
Anyone up to anything interesting this weekend?
Getting out and about? Staying at home under the doona?
How widely do you define Brisbane when you're talking to people who live outside the SEQ region?
Do you strictly interpret 'Brisbane' as the BCC area, or will you tell people you live 'in Brisbane' when you're just shy shy of Caloundra, Ipswich, or Toowoomba? I will always call Redcliffe, 'Brisbane', even though it was established long before Brisbane, but exclude Ipswich, but I don't have any good reason for either....
Multiple US Navy personnel say they've received potentially malicious smartwatches in the mail | CNN Politics (lite.cnn.com)
The US Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating after multiple Navy personnel reported receiving unsolicited smartwatches in the mail that could be installed with data-stealing malicious software, an NCIS spokesperson told CNN on Friday....