Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialMatthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Not sure how you can oppose something as a matter of principle, but support it if Russia were to vote in favour of it 🤷♂️ 111
Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialBart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 21/09/20261/x In the 1840s, a lame American naval officer, grounded at a desk in Washington, cut weeks off the world's ocean voyages without inventing a single machine. His raw material: a warehouse of logbooks nobody had ever read. Matthew Fontaine Maury, Pathfinder of the Seas. A 🧵 #maritimehistory 720372
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Is this #AusvsBan #cricket series going to be some kind of record for Australian batsmen chopping on? 000
Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialJoseph Browning @jgbrowning.bsky.social · 09/08/2026It's elevation colored. If you want a deep dive into the possible climate, check out this link: worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com/2026/07/publ...worldbuildingpasta.blogspot.com 011
Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialDeep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein @deepcuts.blog · 22/06/2026It is possible to achieve full marks without understanding the assignment. 38796196
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026My upgraded #Vodafone internet is glacial (4G backup). Talk to chatbot on my PC and it's useless, with an idée fixe I must be asking for a refund. Later decide to try again, happen to connect from my phone. Chatbot is helpful, quickly finds correct human, problem fixed. Wondering why the difference. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Looking to buy a couch. Didn't know they have USB now. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Not sure if someone's said this but Vance's criticism of Pope Francis is more interesting and less crazy than it's been reported. Francis' statement was the sort of thing Jesus would have said but not the basis of anything the church has believed, ever. Vance was right to say the pope should ... 100
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 22/03/2026There's much discussion as to how many seats Pauline Hanson's One Nation will get in the South Australian election. But nearly all PHON senators have been opportunists who abandoned the party during their first term. The time to worry might be when that stops happening. 010
Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialPhilo Vance @psmaclaren.bsky.social · 13/03/2026It's Poseidon's birthday, everyone! 021
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 04/03/2026The #Belvoir's production of #AMirror is strongly recommended. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Stokes just called for a "normal silly point". In #cricket, even silliness is standardised. #ashes #AusvsEng #EngvsAus 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026Just had the classic Australian arachnophobe experience - a spider landed on me when I was lying in bed. It was a daddy long legs which on a fear scale of 0 to 10 is I guess about a 3? Didn't think to get a photo. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 25/12/2025The Trump battleship plan is obviously insane but I'm wondering whether there's any way to justify a surface combatant substantially larger than Ticonderoga class, say 20,000 tons. We'd need to identify a capability it's hard to fit on a smaller vessel. ... 100
Reposted by @davidbofinger.bsky.socialAddy Teoh (张美鍊) @witmol.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Hot day today. This little one turned up on my mum's balcony seeking shade. 021
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Got a fever. Had a brilliant plan: steal @davidbofinger.bsky.social's identity, including his Blue Sky account. Told concierge at my block of units I'd left my keys and ID inside, social engineered her into letting me in. Not much to steal, the guy lives like a pig... 110
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 09/11/2025I would like the secret masters of #typesetting to tell me how deleting a letter moves the word to the next line. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 29/10/2025I found out about CDK, which the rest of you probably heard about ages back. www.facebook.com/reel/1617475...facebook.com6.1M views · 128K reactions | CDK just showcased this absolute masterpiece! 🔥😲🙌🏼 World Of Dance Eindhoven 2024 | World of DanceCDK just showcased this absolute masterpiece! 🔥😲🙌🏼 World Of Dance Eindhoven 2024 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 23/10/2025When I read the script for #shakespeare 's #MuchAdoAboutNothing I now hear Benedick's lines in #MattBerry's voice. I think #Krapopolis is principally to blame. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Australia didn't become independent all at once. But the single most important event was ratification of the Westminster conference, 73 years ago today. After this Britain can't make legislation for Australia, and Australia has its own ambassadors and foreign policy. #notfederation 001
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Trump thinks he can do any job better than experts, whether that's medicine or economics or golf. Essentially he thinks he's Barbie. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025People who think Israel's bombing of Qatar is a mistake have I think forgotten that Israel's interests and Netanyahu's interests don't align. The moment the emergency ends Netanyahu is off to court and then prison. 001
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 09/09/2025When are we likely to know the dates for #dinoconuk 2026? In particular how they relate to the total solar eclipse in Spain, on August 12. 110
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 23/07/2025With Ozzy Osbourne bat decapitations no longer to be feared only two defences remain against Dracula's return. 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 02/07/2025My phone has started giving me advertisements for the real estate agent who sold me my home. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 21/06/2025The winner of this year's @aptshadow.bsky.social #AlienClay award for creepiest organism assembled out of semi-independent overly plastic parts is #MyakuMyaku, the mascot for the Osaka Expo. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myaku-M....en.wikipedia.orgMyaku-Myaku - Wikipedia 020
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 15/06/2025Trump has asked for soldiers who agree with him and have a particular look he thinks desirable to be seated for the cameras. He's basically one step from creating the guards regiment of Frederick the Great, where all the soldiers were tall and had moustaches. 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 08/06/2025Deform the police. (rural Korea) 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025In Sydney someone might point out shopping by saying there is a shopping mall. In Seoul someone indicated shopping by saying that the density of shopping malls was unusually high in that area. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Did anyone have Elon Musk = Yevgeny Prigozhin on their bingo card? 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 03/06/2025In the West institutions draw sharp boundaries. To pass this point you must have a ticket, or must buy the goods you have selected. In Korea things bleed more. Here is a shopping mall, that's a piece of another shop and those people are buying ice cream and sit over here but in between... 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025In Seoul and haven't had this bad an experience with GPS in decades. Slow to acquire, bounces about, tells me I'm on the other side of a six lane highway. My mind seeks mostly implausible explanations... 100
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Mud loach taste better than they sound. Actually they don't taste of much at all. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 01/06/2025Bought gimbap from a hole in the wall place in Incheon. Thought it was 1,000 won for one, but actually it was 7,000 won for a tray of 10... 100
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025As usual my hotel in Korea is 2 star. Again as usual that means my fire escape involves a rope, an abseiling device and a fifth storey window. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 31/05/2025The authorities are spoilsports, intent on preventing anyone from reenacting iconic scenes from Titanic. (Incheon, South Korea) 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 30/05/2025Korean Air gives us disposable house slippers to wear around the cabin. Nobody in the rear half of the 777-300 uses them. Then as I'm walking out through the front half they're underfoot everywhere, it's majority adoption. ... 100
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 23/05/2025booking.com helpfully offers an "upgrade". It's exactly the same except it allows smoking and is more expensive. Non-smoking was a requirement in my original search. 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 17/05/2025I don't know why #Thunderbolts is getting so much praise. Not actively bad, just a bit tiresome and paint by numbers. I couldn't help feeling if someone gives you Pugh + Kurylenko + Louis-Dreyfus you ought to able to make a better film than that. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 18/04/2025Australian opposition leader #ofDutton, who frequently says stupid harmful things (e.g. about immigration) and gets away with it, said something sensible about the #Hunter Valley's prospective economic problems and is being flayed for it. The justice is I suppose poetic. 110
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 17/04/2025Well they certainly didn't shrink wrap it. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Whoever sold shares just before Trump put on the tariffs and bought them again just before he announced the pause is a candidate to be his accomplice in all this, and to be paying Trump kickbacks. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 06/04/2025The markets are down because of Trump's policies. Trump says we should buy while it's low. In practice to buy now is a bet that the tariffs will be removed. That might be a bet against Trump staying in charge, or might be a bet that Trump's plan is to have his friends buy then drop the tariffs. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 30/03/2025Visiting my mother in hospital. Woman in bed opposite spoke English but has suffered a brain injury and now rants only in Serbo-Croatian. Tried Google Translate from audio and it said, "But now we caught him and performed witchcraft." 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 26/12/2024Churchill on WW1: "[I'm asked] 'What else could have been done?' And I answer it, pointing to [tanks]: 'This could have been done.'" Similarly, what could have been done about #Bumrah? And #Konstas points to near-T20 aggression and answers, "This could have been done." #AUSvsIND #INDvsAUS #cricket 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 08/12/2024Has anyone done an equivalent of #supersizeme but for AI, where you let AI make your decisions and see what happens? 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2024When #Vesuvius erupts it can throw city-killing pyroclastic flows (IIUC in unpredictable directions). When it erupted In 1631, forty thousand people sensibly fled from cities and towns within the potential kill zone. And went to Naples, also inside the potential kill zone. 010
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Interesting that being the most successful Australian rugby coach in living memory rates lower than being an English teacher or writing speeches for Malcolm Fraser. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...sbs.com.auBroadcaster Alan Jones charged with 24 offences over indecent assault allegationsThe 83-year-old was charged following an investigation into alleged indecent assault and sexual touching offences spanning two decades. 000
davidbofinger.bsky.social @davidbofinger.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Just saw #osagecounty at the #belvoir in #sydney. Really good dialogue, Excellent delivery, great acting (though I think they were tired by Act III). I had minimal sympathy for any of the characters and I still loved it. Pamela Rabe is some kind of genius. 020
