David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 9hBogong moths are swarming Sydney. This is good news! The species was endangered after a 99.5% population crash in 2017-19 due to drought/climate change. But they are rebounding and this is the first swarming I’ve seen since then. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... #bogong #moth #nature #sydney 070
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Eating sausage roll and sketching at Banksia Bakehouse, Barangaroo. 040
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Fish and chips for lunch while sitting by the harbour on a warm spring day. One of life’s simple pleasures. 030
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 23/09/2026An OpenAI agent, without authorisation or explicit instruction, hacked Australia's universal health care system records. This is fine... www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auBreaking: OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM saysPrime Minister Anthony Albanese says an Open AI agent gained unauthorised accessed to the Medicare statistics reporting service portal. 046
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Got my new computer today. Now I can’t do any work while it spends 16 hours transferring all the data from my old machine… 160
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Forecast maximum in Sydney today was 27°C. It’s 30.4°C at 9:50am. And we’re barely out of winter. 050
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Friends and I complaining about Internet-connected appliances: - Our washing machine has modes you can unlock with an account. - They should have modes that you can only unlock as loot drops. - If you include gambling elements on washing machines they could be used for laundering. - “Spin to win.” 050
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Friends and I have a standing game of “N Questions” in our Discord chat: Give a set of initials and people ask yes/no questions until they guess who it is. Today it devolved into several rounds of “Guess Which John Smith?” 030
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026What do Australian teenagers think about AI? Spoiler: They're not happy. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auYoung people pushing back against artificial intelligenceAI may be here to stay, but the generation that will inherit the results of the guidelines set for its use has something to say about that. 062
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The last comic of our Darths & Droids version of Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker is now published! A saga 19 years in the making, covering Episodes I to IX, Rogue One, Solo, and a few other things. www.darthsanddroids.net #webcomic #starwars #darthsanddroids 0131
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026I continue to horrify my Korean student with my uses of gochujang. “It’s for rice. You don‘t put it on sandwiches. You don’t put it on pizza! YOU DO NOT PUT IT ON FALAFEL WRAPS!!” 180
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Idea for a new game I had: Sajas & Sagas A K-pop and Norse mythology crossover. #ttrpg 030
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Making slides about #physics, starting with motion. Start with Newton. Realise I should explain why Newton was so radical; start with Aristotle. Should say how Galileo began refuting Aristotle. To explain why Galileo was important I need to mention Copernicus. And for Copernicus, I need Ptolemy... 470
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The 9/11 attacks began at bedtime in my time zone. I’d already turned off TV for the night. I was sick and slept in the next morning, and didn’t see any news until about 9am, almost 12 hours after the attacks began. I might have been one of the last people in a First World country to hear about it. 150
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 12/09/2026This is comforting, I suppose. What worries me is why the ABC feels this is the right time to publish this story. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...abc.net.auWhy Australia is considered the world's safest refuge in a global catastropheFrom nuclear winter to asteroid strikes, Australia could be one of the safest places on Earth if, or rather when, a global catastrophe strikes. But researchers warn no country would escape unscathed. 010
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Me: I want to start a band called Das Das. Friend: You could start a Das Das Revolution. 140
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Question for non-Australians: Does your culture have the well-known phrase “the good scissors”? A pair of sewing scissors reserved for cutting fabric, distinct from the everyday scissors, used for everything else. Children were always warned against and admonished for using “the good scissors”. 14111
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I just finished making the very last Darths & Droids strip! It's the final non-canon bonus strip after Episode IX ends. 191
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026I had an idle few minutes, so made a map of all the flights I've ever taken. (I used mapper.now - no affiliation.) 320
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Less than a week out of winter here, and Sydney has a total fire ban in place, with high winds and 33°C forecast for today. Not looking forward to summer. 140
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026“Nice looking sushi you got there, kid. Be a shame if something happened to it.” 160
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026All of the remaining strips of Darths & Droids are now written. #webcomic #darthsanddroids 3110
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Australia's Fair Work Commission rules on a case of AI-generated workplace emails that it is a case of workplace bullying of an employee and orders company to stop using AI for emails immediately. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.au'Almost dystopian': Should AI be used to write work emails?Australia's workplace tribunal recently ordered an employee and their workplace not to communicate with each other using artificial intelligence. 041
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Australia is evacuating researchers from Macquarie Island because the danger of H5N1 bird flu killing thousands of seals & birds will restrict staff to base, and it will be psychologically untenable for them to live there in those conditions. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auBreaking: 'Psychological risk': Australian scientists to abandon remote island over bird flu fearsThe Australian Antarctic Division will launch a mission to extract personnel from Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean due to the psychological risk posed by a potential outbreak of bird flu at the ... 031
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Two Australian ski resorts call it quits for this ski season, while it’s STILL WINTER, due to lack of snow. Normally they’d be open until Sept/Oct. Not looking forward to how hot it’s going to be this summer. (image from Mt Selwyn webcam: www.ski.com.au/snowcams/aus... ) 030
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Dream: Was working on Apollo in 1969 and a bunch of us said, "Wouldn't it be hilarious if Neil and Buzz showed up today and the rocket was already gone?" So we took the rocket to the moon, and found a town of people there. With bees that kept building honeycombs on our clothes. 150
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 19/08/2026One side effect of switching from going to the shops to shopping online is constantly being woken by the delivery guy buzzing the doorbell insistently and repeatedly half an hour or more before I planned to get up. No longer being able to sleep in. 010
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026BREAKING NEWS: Replaced bits of the Ship of Theseus sue for the right to legally be referred to as the Ship of Theseus again. 031
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Me: I'm going to the supermarket. Wife: Get me some tea. But not the big 100 bags packet. Get the small packet with 50 bags. DO NOT GET THE BIG PACKET. Supermarket: 50-teabag packet: $8.50. Supermarket: 100-teabag packet: ON SALE!!! HALF-PRICE!!! $6 This is an existential-level puzzle. 191
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Sketching in Newtown. #sketch #sketching #sydney 040
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Trying A4 size for sketching for the first time. #sketching #sketch #art #sydney 090
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 14/08/2026My challenge this morning: Start eating my breakfast and working on my tax return at the same time. See which one I finish first. Start timer... now! 130
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If he's a Count, shouldn't Binface already be in the House of Lords? #ukpol #politics 261
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 11/08/2026I want to write a Spider-Man origin story where Peter Parker squashes the spider first, doesn't sew a costume, and saves Uncle Ben. Then decides he can save other people. It explores whether he was INHERENTLY a hero or forced to be one. And why he ended up naming himself Spider-Man anyway. 060
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026Me: I'm partway through watching <movie> Friend: It’s good. <hidden comment> Don’t read that hidden comment, it’s a spoiler. ... Me: I finished the movie, now I can read the spoiler! <click> “The plot twist is just like <other movie I haven’t seen>.” Me: Aaaargghhh!!!! 072
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 10/08/2026I bought a big loaf of banana bread. Got home, cut a slice, toasted it, spread butter on, took a bite... Remembered, "Oh yeah, this is the brand we said we'd never get again because it tastes bad." 140
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Everything is fine. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...abc.net.auHow a simple request for AI to book a gym class exposed a major threatWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack. 051
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Sketch of a coffee shop. Naremburn, Sydney. #sketch #sketching #drawing #Sydney 080
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026Today's random number: 9 Context: Rolling a random third level spell for a PC magic-user who just reached 5th level. Good roll! He got Lightning Bolt! 140
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The real questions they should ask on the Census: Toilet roll over or under? Do you wash rice before cooking it? Pineapple on pizza? Is a hot dog a sandwich? 040
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026I was chatting with friends on Discord, and someone ranted against tech and said they were clearly a Luddite. And people reacted with emojis. I was going to say we need a Luddite emoji. And then I recognised the irony. 032
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Annoyed that my computer has no way to sort folders in Roman numeral order. 040
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Alternate reality idea: The world is identical to ours, except Budapest is named Pestbuda. #alternatereality 030
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026I was out running and the idle thought crossed my mind that they should make a sequel to The Goonies, with the original cast kids. Checked Wikipedia to see if the actors are all alive—they are! AND - The Goonies sequel is in pre-production as of 2025! AND the cast is all on board! 150
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Sketch of the Balmain post office and town hall, from the café table where I had lunch today. #sketch #sketching #sydney 080
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Sketch at a funky cafe my wife found in the back streets of North Sydney. Bonus food photo. Delicious. 050
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Looks like Toronto, Canada, is experiencing Sydney in the summer of 2019. Sorry everyone there. 050
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Whoa... I just realised that “merganser” ends with “anser”... I told my friends. And then I had to explain why it was so mind-blowing. 020
David Morgan-Mar @dmmaus.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Gianni Infantino and Donald Trump to be jointly awarded inaugural FIFA Ethics Prize. 192