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• Post #3958349

  Having a chronic illness brings a thousand small administrative tasks. One of the most frustrating new ones is having to go through every doctor's note, letter, pathology form, and consultation report and correct the little bits of fiction that their LLM note-taking app has added in. I don't need this extra task! My illness is already a full-time job. #LLM #fuckAI #chronicillness

• Post #3057218

  @Opfoss@c.im Yeah that worked so well for the UK and the EU

• Post #3057217

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@IndyMediaAus/116639726154625696 "Australia’s steep cigarette excise increases and restrictive vaping policies have fuelled a massive illegal tobacco market while undermining the country’s long-standing harm-minimisation approach to public health." Fucken oath #auspol #Australia #smoking

• Post #3057216

  Keeping the mutual obligations, keeping the privatisation but adding a couple of hoops for job agencies to jump through. Not increasing unemployment to a livable amount. The government of tinkering round the edges. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-27/jobseeker-unemployment-overhaul/106725618 #auspol

• Post #3057215

  what's with all these hyperspecific names for the full moon? i'm going to start making up moon names too this month is the wombat butt moon because the moon looks like a giant wombat butt. next month is the leaf sheep moon because leaf sheep are cool

• Post #2854922

  I've been watching Gruen since its first episode. It's important to have a show on the ABC that analyses advertising, but man the way they do it is pernicious. Every expert on their panel is someone who works in advertising. They never have a media analyst, or an academic, or a researcher in the field, or someone from the ACCC ... or even a person on a low income. It's such a dangerous way to frame this thing that affects us all so much – that only the people tricking u...

• Post #2854921

  Everything Is Going to Be All Right By Derek Mahon How should I not be glad to contemplate the clouds clearing beyond the dormer window and a high tide reflected on the ceiling? There will be dying, there will be dying, but there is no need to go into that. The lines flow from the hand unbidden and the hidden source is the watchful heart. The sun rises in spite of everything and the far cities are beautiful and bright. I lie here in a riot of sunlight watching the day break and the clouds flyi...

• Post #1334156

  I was woken this morning by two kookaburras making a racket down the side passage. Turns out their beaks were stuck together (!) While they scrambled and fought, trying to pull apart, a currawong sat on the fence commentating the life-or-death struggle. After my sleepy brain had made sense of what the bloody hell was going on, I fetched some gloves and gently prised them apart. They both flew off in high dudgeon. What a surreal start to the day. #kookaburra #KookaburrasOfMastodon #Australia...

• Post #1326297

  "We have trains," said one spokesperson. "Lovely trains. They are pretty fast in places but for the most part, they travel at a sensible and safe speed." https://www.betootaadvocate.com/nation-rests-assured-that-even-if-flights-are-cut-back-and-become-too-expensive-we-have-a-world-class-rail-network-to-get-around-on/ #Australia #publictransport

• Post #995976

  #SilentSunday

• Post #995975

  No time to look at the news, I'm busy with important things #cartography #Australia

• Post #978446

  #meme #auspost

• Post #932738

  I'm listening to the ABC Rewind's Boycott series, and in 1986 John Howard called the (eventually successful) boycotts of apartheid South Africa by Australian unions "a futile exercise". He said it wouldn't help black South Africans, that it would backfire and that Australians were shooting themselves in the foot. Of course he did. The script for conservative opposition to human rights activism never changes. Boycotts are very successful against repres...

• Post #851723

  MyGov: 1am is a good time to send messages. No one will be awake and so they won't lose any sleep seeing a message from Centrelink 😇 #MyGovAU

• Post #851722

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@futurism/futurism-s-story-of-the-day-0rrl8sl7z/-/a-gLjpv84ZQRWTdO40aMZaDQ%3Aa%3A1737388686-%2F0 Is it seagulls?

• Post #743430

  @oscarjiminy I think that would help a lot, especially at Centrelink. Part of the reason it got so bad is that it's been starved of funds and half its staff have been replaced by private contractors. We also need strong whistleblower protections. Our current laws punish people who call out wrongdoing - it's a perfect setup for generating corruption.

• Post #743429

  people really be out here screaming over spiders while they spend all day on something called "the web" #spiders #straya

• Post #682908

  "As for the stuff in your computer that pretends to correct your punctuation or grammar, disable it. These programs are on a pitifully low level of competence; they’ll chop your sentences short and stupidify your writing. Competence is up to you." — Ursula Le Guin, Steering the Craft #UrsulaLeGuin #fuckAI

• Post #661233

  One of Mary Oliver's most famous lines is "What is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" I see it quoted all the time out of context, usually on insipid inspo posts about living life to the fullest. Every so often, I like to go back and re-read the poem it's from, The Summer Day. The meaning of a line can change quite a bit when you read it in context. #MaryOliver #poetry #mindfulness

• Post #510501

  As an enthusiast for open source software who is also disabled, I get frustrated at how inaccessible a lot of open source software is. When there are accessibility options, they're usually bolted-on additions that don't work very well. Disabled users are forced into ad-hoc compromises that are laborious to install and labyrinthine to operate. The frustration often drives us back to corporate software. OSS is high friction and low benefit for many disabled users. Open source deve...

• Post #319819

  Happy lunar new year everyone

• Post #12281

  nothing to see here