Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The local magpie nestlings have fledged; there's now two (we think three in total) fledgelings awkwardly exploring the backyard as their parents stuff their loud, nagging gullets with food. They've even started grazing on their own accord, although that might just be young bird curiosity. 😊 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Right, so… Claude's "vinyl mode"… Does it, at the VERY least, recommend uses black vinyl instead of those inferior audio-quality splatter and picture-disc LPs? 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026YouTube has been oddly inconsistent lately with the videos it recommends me after I finish watching one. There's always ONE video (and always the third thumbnail from the top-left corner) with less than 1k views, usually in the one- to two-digit range. And this happens. Every. Frikking. Time. 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Top 9 favourite anime: 1. The Sopranos 2. A Serbian Film (Sunday School edit) 3. Reacher vs Predator 4. Ge'ez language news on SBS 5. بطولة الإمام للقتال بالأيدي 6. That clip of Jake Paul getting KTFO by Anthony Joshua on an infinite loop 7. squewe 8. I don't watch anime 9. lol 000
Reposted by AlhadisGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Laetificate (v.) - To make glad or joyful; to cheer or lift the spirits. Use: “After a fortnight of drizzle, chilblains, and matrimonial discord, Mrs. Wembles was laetificated beyond measure when the sudden appearance of the sun coincided with the equally sudden disappearance of Mr. Wembles.” 36318
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 22/09/2026There are 10 types of people: 1. Those who understand binary. 2. Those who understand octal. 3. Those who understand decimal. 4. Those who understand hexadecimal. 5. Those who understand all four. 6. Those who understand irony. 7. Those who don't understand irony. 8. Those who read in octal. 120
Reposted by Alhadiskristofarian @kristofarian.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"The Evidence of Corp- orate Concentration is Everywhere." 'Everywhere' BUT Where we NEED it MOST. 26714
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026If it weren't for this video's upload date being November 2022, I'd refuse to believe this footage was anything other than AI. The sight of a friendly plover—one that even accepts human contact—gets more and more surreal with every watch.tiktok.com#plover #swooping #notreally #niceplover TikTok video by dayliabrown 100
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Pro tip: if you need to make skin contact with a metal surface you *know* is gonna zap you with static electricity, brush against it using the rough patch of your elbow. The skin there's thicker, and the shock will be greatly diluted compared to your fingers. 110
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Reposting this story because we need more stories of unexpected altruism, irrespective of whether it's human or bird. @krissy.bsky.social You'll absolutely love this article, assuming I haven't shown it to you already.abc.net.auMagpies outwit scientists by helping each other to remove tracking devicesWhen we attached tiny, backpack-like tracking devices to five Australian magpies, we didn't expect to discover an entirely new social behaviour rarely seen in birds, writes Dominique Potvin. 272
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Watching the newest season of Reacher has reminded me why I hate the "new episode once per week" release cycle that made sense for TV programmes, but not for streaming services that could easily release every new episode at once, but choose to blue-ball me with an unbearable cliffhanger. 😫 100
Reposted by AlhadisAndy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/09/2026R U OK?: A conversation could change a life! 47423
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 10/09/2026RS with your home river. As a Melburnian, this one's a no-brainer: The Yarra River. Contrary to popular belief, the name originates from a misinterpretation by European colonisers: "Yarra Yarra" was the Kulin people's name for the Yarra Falls,¹ not the river (which was called "Birrarung").² 100
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026For some reason, the word "brane" has been stuck in my head for the last couple of days, and it's been ages since I read about string theory. The idea of working in 𝑁-dimensional spaces is pretty cool, though it's a pity I can't visualise it. 110
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"I just signed a petition: Australia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years. Sign here:" — Prefab text speaking on my behalf after I clicked "Share this partition" But in all seriousness, if you care about biodiversity and nature, help make some fucking noise.saveourmarinelife.org.auAustralia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years - Save Our Marine LifeThe Australian Government has listened to island communities, and just announced plans to massively expand marine sanctuary protection around the stunning Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. But before it becomes a reality, the government wants to hear from YOU on the proposed expansions, AND on what other improvements are needed across Australia’s offshore marine parks. […] 020
Reposted by AlhadisS. K. Riley @skriley.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Save our Marine Life 🐟 🐙 🐬 I've just signed a petition to Environment Minister Murray Watt to support the expansion of marine sanctuaries in Australian waters. You can it sign too: www.saveourmarinelife.org.au/actions/prot... #Australia #Oceans #SeaLife #MarineSanctuaries #MarineParks #CoralSeasaveourmarinelife.org.auAustralia's biggest ocean protection opportunity in 10 years - Save Our Marine LifeThe Australian Government has listened to island communities, and just announced plans to massively expand marine sanctuary protection around the stunning Lord Howe Island and Norfolk Island. But before it becomes a reality, the government wants to hear from YOU on the proposed expansions, AND on what other improvements are needed across Australia’s offshore marine parks. […] 116239
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Dark Sun: Shattered Lands (1993) Watching my dad play this on his MS-DOS PC as a little kid set the course for my future love of D&D, and by extension, the path that led me to Neverwinter Nights (the game that motivated me to learn 3D modelling AND coding). 020
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026As an Australian who's never been to the US (and even finds most US accents difficult to follow), I thought it'd be amusing to see what my results would be if I filled the quiz out myself. @krissy.bsky.social I told you New England accents are the closest in America to Aussie accents. 120
Reposted by AlhadisQuoProQuid @quoproquid.bsky.social · 29/08/2026techno-optimists befuddled by declining popular support for “the robot that tells you to kill yourself”, “the pervert glasses“, and “the camera network that stalks you” 3148011546
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Why can't pills be square-shaped, so that when you spill a bottle, they won't roll so friggin' far? 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Today I learned that Unicode has characters for Pacman that aren't emoji, but "symbols for legacy computing". (If these don't show up for you, see www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U...)unicode.org 010
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Friendship ended with Urban Dictionary. Now sfisms.org is my best friend.sfisms.orgsf-isms - a field guide to San Francisco slangA living compendium of San Francisco tech slang. Part Wikipedia, part Urban Dictionary, part Know Your Meme. 110
Reposted by Alhadisshe is rin‽ for an amazing reason @rin.artificesoft.com · 25/08/2026Claude-to-table is a better joke but meat proxy is more descriptive and more demeaning so idk which one is better 121
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026"Scream, and I'll eat your second-canary" That's six words, hyphenation saves the day yet again. 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Rewatched "The Equaliser" trilogy yesterday and my mind is stuck on that one scene in Italy where a patron hands McCall a chinotto fruit for his tea, because as a diehard lover of that drink, I'd love to know what the actual fruit it's named after feels, tastes and smell like. I'm a bit embittered. 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026What if, instead of destroying Flock cameras, you painted over their lenses or glued a circular (opaque) glassy disc to them, so they recorded no footage at all? What's easier to notice: a missing/destroyed camera, or one that's been silently recording useless footage for the past six weeks? 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Brilliant.youtube.comHonest Government Ad | Ai Data CentresYouTube video by thejuicemedia 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026New favourite Wikipedia page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of... The number of deserts named "Desert Desert" in various languages is kind of impressive.en.wikipedia.orgList of tautological place names - Wikipedia 020
Reposted by AlhadisJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 06/08/2026Over on Whatever today, I'm talking about "AI" and creativity and how, when it comes to learning creative skills, Generative "AI" is rather like the old "Guitar Hero" game, i.e., a really fun way not to actually learn how to do a creative thing: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/08/06/g...whatever.scalzi.comGenerative “AI”: The Guitar Hero of CreativitySo, you’re a person who has decided to embark on a creative journey of self-expression — to make art, in other words. First off, this is awesome! The universe needs more people making a… 43894183
Reposted by AlhadisStephen Uitti he/him/it/they/hey-you @suitti.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Iran Says it Will Reopen Strait if Trump Admits He Lost in 2020 open.substack.com/pub/borowitz...open.substack.comIran Says it Will Reopen Strait if Trump Admits He Lost in 2020“The whole world knows you lost, moron,” the official Iranian statement read. 2183
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 07/08/2026> searching Google Images for a high-res version of the BSD mascot > finds one on CleanPNG, filed under the "funny devil" category: www.cleanpng.com/free/funny-d... > sees the Happy Merchant with devil horns as one of the results > mega-yikes.pngcleanpng.comFunny Devil PNG Images – Free Transparent PNG Download | CleanPNG - CleanPNGBrowse free Funny Devil PNG images with transparent backgrounds. Download high-quality Funny Devil illustrations, clipart, and graphics for websites, presentations, social media, and creative projects. 100
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Reading the Terms and Conditions of an app I'm installing because AI, telemetry-gathering, and other user-hostile corporate bullshit has given me enough incentive to actually do so. 200
Reposted by AlhadisInternet Archive @archive.org · 05/08/2026AI companies scraping websites at scale is a real problem. But a proposed NY law could make it harder for libraries, journalists & researchers to preserve the web and investigate the powerful. That's why we've joined @eff.org & others in a letter to Gov. Hochul. blog.archive.org/2026/08/04/i...blog.archive.orgInternet Archive to New York: Don’t Kill the Good Bots in the Fight Against Bad Bots | Internet Archive Blogs 8357110
Reposted by Alhadistastewart 🦋 @tastewart.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Jeanne Gibson, beloved “Rosie the Riveter,” passed away on July 29, 2026 at 100. Gibson became a welder at Todd Pacific Shipyards in Seattle, helping build destroyers for the Allied war effort during WWII. Gibson helped pave the way for millions of women who stepped into critical wartime roles. 17978762160
Reposted by AlhadisGrandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Roitelet [RAH-tuh-LAY] (n.) - A little or petty king; a royalet. Used in a sentence: “The superannuated despot was precisely the sort of roitelet who demanded trumpets at his entrance, lest anyone overlook the grand arrival of so negligible a personage.” 210033
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Did… did this motherfucker just quote *himself*? Unironically? Also, how the shit did he manage to add a closing quotation mark without an opening one? Was Grok unable to muster enough power to generate balanced punctuation when Elon sharted this out onto his timeline? 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Dimmu Borgir's "Puritanical Euphoric Misanthropia" actually slaps and is what I'd call a "guilty listen" if I actually believed in that term. Yeah, the keyboards and synth are annoying, but the riffs and drumwork were still savage enough to call the music black metal instead of a Disney soundtrack. 010
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Yesterday I visited IMDB.com only to be greeted with a dialogue: "Migrate your account to Amazon. Set up your IMDb account with Amazon. [Get started]" I swear if Bezos forces me to merge my 22-year old IMDB account with an Amazon account I only registered reluctantly, I'm… just gonna whine loudly. 110
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Finally, a programming language whose output I'm *not supposed* to understand. (NGL though, I'd still love to hear @legaleagle.tv's take on its efficacy).catala-lang.orgCatala — Law to CodeThe official website of the Catala domain-specific programming language for translating law into code. 000
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 31/07/2026That's great and all, but… what the fuck is LinkedIn even used for, other than brand fart-sniffing and meretricious garbage about growth and office culture? 010
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 26/07/2026"some circuits are trickier than others" — An AI chatbot unable to pass a logic gate, never mind answer a question phrased as simple Boolean logic. ALAN TURING IS OFFICIALLY SPINNING IN HIS GRAVE, FOLKS 210
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Time to dip my toes into this R language every data scientist and statistician keeps Raving about. Maybe it'll Replace grap(1) for Routine graph generation in my daily workflow. (And maybe I'll take R seriously enough to stop capitalising the damn letter like the way I'm doing Right now). 010
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026phys.orgHumans can feel molecular differences between nearly identical surfacesHow sensitive is the human sense of touch? Sensitive enough to feel the difference between surfaces that differ by just a single layer of molecules, a team of researchers at the University of Californ... 010
Alhadis @alhadis.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I knew someone that was frozen to absolute zero once. He was 0K. 010