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• Post #3758622

  Good people of #Clacton Do the Boaty McBoatface thing Signed, The good people of everywhere else on Mastodon.

• Post #3728924

  Silence on genocide is support for genocide: "I find that the MSO did have a policy for not expressing support for either side of the Israel-Gaza conflict," Justice Hill said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-10/jayson-gillham-melbourne-symphony-orchestra-mso-verdict/106898876

• Post #3441728

  "The scientists will tell you that the feral cats will eat about 100 kilos of native wildlife a year," Mr Squires said. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-28/cat-trapping-northern-tasmania-devil-population-increase/106813282

• Post #3144542

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116695660002836610 On good almost anything

• Post #3144541

  As a first hand beneficiary of a public hospital I felt this in the cockles https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-best-people-in-the-world

• Post #3144540

  RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@xssfox/116696027659027513 Please support this proposal. Everyone deserves a more obedient web #CSS

• Post #3144539

  Just so you know. Citing your favourite bot output didn’t win you our argument. I walked away to avoid further sunk cost talking at a machine.

• Post #2996987

  Nearly lunchtime

• Post #2996986

  Have a business? Invest in your own website. “Customers who booked directly on the website of his Bendigo City Centre motel saved plenty of money, paying $165 a night for a standard double room compared to those who reserved the same room through Booking.com and paid $190.” https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-30/booking-com-price-parity-clauses/106727746

• Post #2996985

• Post #2996984

  You didn’t notice most houses were sans until you met the serif

• Post #2996983

  My wife: “Nothing says colonialism like…” Me: “… an Aboriginal name set in Times New Roman”. Us, beautiful nerds, looking at a public building – finishing each other’s sentences ❤️❤️

• Post #2996982

  RE: https://aus.social/@pharsicle/116661837381374189 There’s a metaphor here somewhere, can’t quite put my finger on it.

• Post #2996981

  The energy revolution is not coming. It is already here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgBTARXEfxU

• Post #2813280

  Just now looked up when Global Accessibility Awareness Day falls. It was today! As it happens I spent most of my GAAD writing accessibility fail Jira issues. Finished up the day by writing a stroppy reminder to my lovely colleagues about purposeful image alt text. Suppose I celebrated appropriately after all.

• Post #2813279

  “When developers automate UI development, they automate discrimination from rights, services, and opportunity.” https://conesible.de/wab/

• Post #2813278

  “The Executive Council of Australian Jewry (ECAJ) has received more than $176m in Commonwealth grant funding through an ACT incorporated association that is not subject to the same public financial reporting requirements as registered charities or companies.” https://michaelwest.com.au/money-trail-leads-to-obscure-israel-lobby-entity-then-runs-dry/

• Post #2813277

  For the special person out there waiting for it – version 13 of my new NetNewsWire theme is looking ripe to publish! Spent some hours finding a way to work around a Safari SVG filter regression. Now I need a screen break. Will be back to write up what’s new.

• Post #2813276

  Magic hour earned its name this evening.

• Post #1332983

  We didn’t need Paul Keating to point out the racism, but it’s welcome https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/17/paul-keating-angus-taylor-liberal-party-immigration-statement-in-full-ntwnfb

• Post #1332982

  RE: https://mstdn.social/@grickle/116420896885873027 Investing in art you like, supporting the artist who made it, doesn’t stop feeling good.

• Post #1188594

  Chrome has added the `revert-rule` CSS property making it a universal implementation. https://bcd-watch.igalia.com/weekly-completed/2026-04-13.html Had to look it up. The spec example uses `revert-rule` as a fallback value in an `if()`. This may obscure its usefulness as a simple custom property fallback e.g.: ``` .featured { color: var(--featured-color, revert-rule); } ``` Here `color` is only assigned if `--featured-color` is defined! Useful when we want to fallback to a color defined by an...

• Post #1188593

  RE: https://typo.social/@jasonsantamaria/116403845359254055 Design Santa dropped by to fill your RSS stocking with goodies!

• Post #1188592

  Tell me again about those ugly wind farms https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-16/geelong-oil-refinery-fire-live-updates/106570266

• Post #1188591

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@huffpostuk/politics-egdlp3c4z/-/a-1pPCv86pTnKB6YeuMLPQKw%3Aa%3A878833414-%2F0 “It's not what I want, it's what I can give you.”

• Post #1064874

  Incredible medical technology https://uwaterloo.ca/news/media/beating-cancer-eating-cancer

• Post #1064873

  RE: https://social.ericwbailey.website/@eric/116375155429836526 A boost quote to push this amusing thread content to my own followers. Second sentence echoing the theme to share my own cleverness.

• Post #841325

  “She forgot one thing. I am a nerd. And I have an internet connection.” https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/ ✊

• Post #653865

  These days Apple makes loads of money from services. It makes sense for them to sell cheaper machines to get more people onto their services train. This doesn’t mean their cheaper machine is bad. It just has more reason to exist as a product than it did before.

• Post #653863

  Respect to the Dutch. Some of my favourites were born there.