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  True crime podcasts don’t have to be dark. Enjoying Slippery Slope, an investigative podcast about the hijinks and bizarre crime that went down in the process of installing a waterslide in a small Australian country town https://nearly.com.au/slippery-slope-a-true-crime-podcast-by-dave-oneil-and-brad-oakes/

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  Hector the giant thunderstorm arrives like clockwork every day during Top End's wet season https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-30/nt-hector-thunderstorm-at-tiwi-islands-top-end-wet-season/107319826

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  Apparently the latest Australians being fools in Bali trend is getting full body tattoos under general anaesthesia. The regret rate on that is gonna be wild. General anaesthesia is risky, your body cannot properly heal that much tattoo at once and having multiple artists working at once will lead to inconsistent work. Then there’s all the reasons tattoos in Bali in general are an iffy idea like hygiene and needing to minimise sun exposure https://www.watoday.com.au/national/western-australia/...

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  Living in #melbourne is so great. The weekly newsletter for Fed Square (the larger of the city squares) this week is like in the next few weeks we’re hosting Mexican, Palestinian, Indian and Polish cultural festivals, an exhibition of Sudanese art, a workshop on drawing Indigenous flowers and an exhibition about the history of puppetry

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  I like that #melbourne didn’t put it’s most beautiful train station in the city centre, a rich area or a place lots of tourists go. It’s in Bell, a suburb 25 minutes from the city centre lots of Melbourne residents would struggle to find on a map. This is how it looked on a very overcast day, must be like a cathedral there in full sun #architecture

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  Today in extremely weird Aussie news: Prisoner fails in court bid to overturn ban on Vegemite in Victorian prisons. The prisoner argued the ban on Vegemite was unlawful because it denied him his human right to enjoy Australian culture and because he needed it for his wellbeing. Corrections Victoria argued it could be used to make alcohol and could impair sniffer dogs from detecting contraband https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-26/vic-vegemite-prison-court-ruling/107308582

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  Irrationally grumpy about the gentrification of toasties. I want a basic ham cheese and bread toastie from simple classic supermarket ingredients that costs $7 max, not a collection of too many gourmet ingredients that somehow costs $18

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  An underrated rebellion of the modern age is getting comfortable with boredom and not knowing everything. Lies that underpins the avalanche of slop (both human and computer made) is that more content to consume is always better, that not being constantly stimulated is bad and that being provided a dubiously accurate “fact” is better the discomfort of not knowing.

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  Live your life with the confidence of Australian politicians who think North Koreans government backed tech scammers will cooperate with international law because they asked nicely https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-23/penny-wong-north-korea-company-sanctions/107301184

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  RE: https://aus.social/@joannaholman/117477730094084986 Lovely to see this fundraiser in honour of Helen Haines is up to $734,000 even though times are tough for many Australians

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  20 seconds of serenity #nature #australia

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  RE: https://social.coop/@ideogram/117493511538059804 One day if I get bored enough I’m gonna do a sociological analysis of Kmart clothing pretending to be tourist merch from other countries. There’s SO MUCH of it

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  If you feel bad about how you used your time this week, queuing overnight for the new iPhones is a thing that still happens in 2026

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  The environmental organisation I work for Trust for Nature is currently recruiting for a Senior GIS & Spatial Data Specialist. It’s a #melbourne based 0.8FTE role. The team is working on some interesting projects, you’d be working with some great people and the org is quite good about flexible working arrangements https://trustfornature.org.au/careers/senior-gis-spatial-data-specialist/ #GIS #spatialdata

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  Owls have been eluding me on my see as many bird species in the wild as possible quest. Finally got to see one (with some help) and it was the perfectly named Powerful Owl! #birds #birding #wildoz #owl

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  Something I wish they’d explained better at school is that skills are transferable and often you’re learning how to learn. I see so many adults complain about how useless learning recorder in school music class was. The teachers weren’t into bad covers of hot cross buns, they were trying to teach musicality, sheet music reading, rhythm and handling an instrument that could be applied to other things in future using the cheapest, easiest to play, hardest to break instrument possible. I feel like...

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/117353732287809877 Another responsible halloween thing a lot of people don’t realise is that artificial spiderwebs shouldn’t be used outdoors. Animals can get tangled up in them and birds may try to use them as nesting material. It’s especially an issue in the southern hemisphere where Halloween falls at the peak of nesting season for many bird species

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  Aussies: need motivation to go outside and want to do something useful? In 3 weeks time the Aussie Bird Count is happening. You just go outside anywhere you like, count the number of each type of bird you see and log the counts on the easy to use app or website. You don’t have to be a bird nerd, the app has good tools to help you identify what you’re seeing. The data helps scientists identify changes in bird populations and locations, something that’s even more important with bird flu on the loo...

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  I do not need any more stuffed animals but IKEA is will soon be stocking toy Pallas's cats and I think I really need that

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  Our society would be better if we assumed that celebrities probably have takes and ethics in the poor to average range. There’s no good reason to think someone who is good at kicking footballs or writing songs about breakups or acting out characters would be good at thinking clearly about social issues, especially if they spent their formative years obsessing over developing at what they’re famous for

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  The smartest piece of office behaviour I’ve ever seen was a coworker who used a picture of his home office as his background for teams meetings when in office so that people would assume he was WFH and not come find him in person to solve problems or chat

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  King parrots are very unusual in the northern suburbs of #melbourne so this was a nice surprise on my walk today. I think these should be the mascot of Christmas in Australia #birds #birding #wildoz #wildlife

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  The most important day on the sports calendar is here! Later today the European Tram Driver Championships kicks off, pitting the best precision tram drivers from across Europe (and #melbourne) against each other https://www.youtube.com/live/R1PeT9Zeiow

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  Today in truly cursed new AI concepts: upload your child doing things and it will generate why that activity meets homeschooling standards

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  So not content to plagiarise individual products Kmart Australia is plagiarising the entire IKEA concept with their new homewares stores. They’ve called them “K Home” which feels to me like the street name for an illicit substance

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  Had a look at the #Melbourne Royal Show showbag selection for the year. Planning to do a longer mockery at some point if people would enjoy that once I get past the initial overwhelm of how badly they’ve enshittified what used to be a fun tradition (Cultural translation: showbags are themed bags of snacks, toys or product samples sold at our equivalent of a state fair)

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  One day you’re young and cool, the next you’re arriving at events early because the lake next to the event might have interesting ducks

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  a few name your price electronica albums fundraising for various charitable causes you may wish to add to your #bandcampfriday cart Colombia earthquake relief https://illegalalienrecords.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-colombia Ukraine humanitarian efforts: https://sidelinemag.bandcamp.com/album/united-1-the-freya-files Electronic Frontier Foundation https://defconcommunications.bandcamp.com/album/def-con-34-the-official-soundtrack #music #bandcamp

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  For your #bandcampfriday consideration, Memphis LK from #melbourne who creates euphoric vocal driven dance music https://memphislk.bandcamp.com/ #bandcamp #music

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  A slightly annoying thing about travelling in #singapore and #malaysia is how often I was warned about interesting animals and phenomena I did not witness. Of these I only saw monkeys