Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 16h🎼Nanny goat sits in the old gum tree... (It is, in fact, the Greatest Of All Time kookaburra) 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 18hWhat was that lined about an empire being able to making its own reality? That is what Schmitt is trying to do here. 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 18h"Welcome my son. Welcome to the machine...." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh20...youtube.comPink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine (Official Video)YouTube video by Pink Floyd 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 20hpossibly for the same reason reason I dislike the Simpsons? (the 'we so du-umm' trope might be why we so du-umm.) 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 20hWhen you're paid to play, it does make sense to check which game you're playing in. 101
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 21hNever realised the date, which would have been 100 years after original airing. ... but it does raise a question: what did they do against the Faro Plague? 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 21hHow this got to be rebooted is beyond me. (even though the reboot was light years better.) 001
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026static.klipy.comHipster Snowman Melting in the DesertAlt: Hipster Snowman Melting in the Desert (or Oval Room) 000
Reposted by Tony FiskAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9252033185
Reposted by Tony FiskDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026Subscribe to Volts to hear about cool energy ideas that the NYT will get to a year later!volts.wtfSubscribe to VoltsA newsletter, podcast, & community focused on the technology, politics, and policy of decarbonization. In your inbox once or twice a week. Click to read Volts, a Substack publication with tens of thou... 29011
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Oh! Look what happens when you insist on recycled water and renewables. 010
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026If it works at all, this theory of victory is looking increasingly like a pyrrhic one. (Packing up and going home while saying 'we won' would be preferable. Stickers could be provided...) 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026This is interesting, as 15,000-13,000 years is about the time we begin to see evidence of mill stones in Australia. 010
Reposted by Tony Fiskc0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Raqefet Cave in Israel was a sacred burial site for the hunter-gatherer culture known as the 'Natufians' around 13,000 years ago. More recently, we've also discovered here the earliest evidence of BEER BREWING from grains. Even more remarkable because these people HADN'T INVENTED AGRICULTURE YET.smithsonianmag.comTraces of 13,000-Year-Old Beer Found in IsraelAccording to the authors of a new study, the discovery marks the earliest-known evidence of beer production among ancient peoples 1029067
Reposted by Tony FiskAlt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Who’s ready for No Kings? We’re getting an early start on making signs! ✊💚 320119402841
Reposted by Tony FiskStefan E. Jones @stefanejones.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Did Black Mirror do an episode about something like this? 131
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Neoliberalism is the natural predator of the naked mole rat. Discuss. 010
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"Hey, you on the ladder with the roll of masking tape..." 000
Reposted by Tony FiskGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time. 752923748
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Somebody... is taking the piss. (and will doubtless recommend the same thing for *that* as well) 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Same tactics were in play (by pretty much the same people) prior to the Brexit vote. 000
Reposted by Tony FiskEd Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.socialsammatey.substack.comHappy Stanislav Petrov DayTake five minutes to not destroy civilization 252099925
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026There is a next step to this, which I shall leave to the reader's imagination... 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026🎼In derelict sidings 🎼the poppies entwine 🎼round cattle trucks 🎼lying in wait, for 🎼the next time. 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026In fact, a glance at the SST anomaly map shows that most places are about what passes for 'average' these days. ... except for equatorial region to the west of Peru. www.psl.noaa.gov/data/gridded...psl.noaa.gov : NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory US Department of Commerce, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory 010
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026amid this idyllic scene, pity the street urchins, wielding their oversize brooms and straw bales. Is it the brachiosaurs pulling the night carts? 2193
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The supercar of yesteryear becomes the super embarrassment of today. 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"... but we *know* they aren't citizens. ICE deported them." 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The option isn't available, but the correct answer is "Hell yeah!" 000
Reposted by Tony FiskWear The Peace @wearthepeace.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Actress Susan Sarandon being arrested earlier today for protesting Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the United Nations. One is speaking out against genocide, one is committing it. One was arrested, one was not. 875285958235
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I wasn't aware that having a moon was expected. (if I were to speculate, I'd say being further down the Sun's gravitational well reduces the viable orbital distance of any moon.) 000
Reposted by Tony FiskIndivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 25/09/2026We’re just over three weeks away from the next No Kings! October 17 will be the biggest early vote activation in American history. This is how we build a nationwide movement ready to activate at the first hint of election sabotage. Find (or start) your local event: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... 10483232
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The Queen* told the Nats and the Nats informed the Liberals: "Your policy is nuclear. That's all that need be said." The Liberals, they grovelled: "Oh, c-certainly, your Majesty! We'll sell it to the voters before to the polls they head." * regina 000
Tony Fisk @arfisk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Can one call someone speaking from a position of profound/studied ignorance a liar? (ie in a way that the resulting defamation charges won't stick) 000
