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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

GifCities is the Internet Archive's new museum of vintage gifs. You can search thousands of animated gifs from the early internet. This brings back memories of geocities and angelfire and hours spent tinkering with html from WebMonkey tutorials. @internetarchive […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I don't like agents and don't use them. But I wouldn't blame people using social services for wanting one to navigate the bureaucracy for them. Services like NDIS are set up to be as complicated and demeaning as possible to wear down people who are already dealing with chronic illness or […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Things I don't need but decided to get anyway: PUSHEEN PERFUME Smells mostly of mango and coconut, but being an eau de toilette, it's weak and doesnt last long. Dry down is mostly vanilla. #Pusheen #perfume #toys

Bottle of Pusheen eau de toilette. Lid is a grey stylised cat on top of a pink glass bottle with Pusheen written on it.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Back in the day, a screeching modem let you know you were connecting to the internet. If you're feeling nostalgic for that 1990s dial-up experience, 56k.rip has got you covered. @jbz indieweb.social/@jbz/11736401070824… #internet #retro

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the 1996 dial-up internet experience https://56k.rip/

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

These two will be interesting to read back to back: 💩 Enshittification by Cory Doctorow ⏻ Reboot by Prof Beth Simone Noveck One is about why things have become so shitty. The other is about how people might use...wait for it... AI for pro-democracy civic […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Two books side by side. On the left: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to do about it. On the right: Reboot: AI and the race to save democracy

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Why isn't the media questioning the hypocrisy of big tech calling to slow down AI development? After years of making AI what it is, blaming govt regulation as the enemy of progress, and using the "move fast and break things" mantra to avoid accountability? And only now they want to slow down […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Behold the custom cover for my 2027 diary: 1905's version of pet shaming. Call me old-fashioned, but there's something about the act of putting pen to paper that isn't present with online calendars, convenient as they are. #caturday #stationery #analog #muji

Postcard of a vintage black and white photo of a cat wearing a dunce cap, perched on a chair.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

There's a Little Golden Book about John Farnham!! Now there needs to be one about Nick Cave. #Music #Australia

Little Golden Book Biography about iconic Australian singer John Farnham. $4.99

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

Im sick so may as well make the most of goblin mode: Eat nutella by the tablespoonful while bedrotting and watching a comedy series about the rise of a women's erotic magazine in the 70s.

In the foregroud A tablespoonful nutella in the jar. In the background, there is a ipad playing "Minx" the tv series

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

TIL: the School of the Air used the 2way radio network of the Royal Flying Doctor Service. Established in 1951, the school provided interactive classes for kids in remote areas of Australia to supplement correspondence learning. Today the School of the Air […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Exhibition signage of 75th Anniversary of School of the Air. There is a tv screen embedded in the signage which plays videos about the School. At the bottom of the signage is a hand drawn picture of a 2 way radio.

Map of Australia showing the locations of Schools of the Air.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Tonight I discovered Nutella can microwaved to make chocolate dipping sauce for strawberries. Only now after all these years.

A strawberry on a fork dipped in chocolate

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

Its 4am and I'm awake thinking of this: To paraphrase Audre Lord, when it comes to AI can the master's tools ever be used to dismantle the master's house? #democracy #ai #civictech

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

I take back my previous post about linking AI tokens to water rations. If tokens were somehow linked to the amount of hot air generated by our fearless politicians, data centres would have an infinite power supply.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/07/2026

My plan to read Horrorstör in Ikea was finally fulfilled at Ikea Canberra's first Silent Book Club last week. I sat in a display lounge room reading about a group of customer service staff trying to survive a night shift at Orsk, an Ikea-type furniture store […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

The book Horrorstör, which looks like an Ikea catalogue, is on a circular beech coffee table in an Ikea display lounge room. The book is next to a sign advertising Silent Book Club at Ikea Canberra.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/07/2026

Throwback: My sister's old pets, nicknamed Silent and Deadly for their putrid farts delivered with assassin's precision. Cat: wait for humans to watch a movie before casually letting one rip while sauntering past. Dog: quietly fart at visitors to drive them […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A tortoiseshell cat sitting on a large floor cushion next to a brindle German Shepherd-Bull terrier mix

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

AI tokens should be tied to water rations so when people burn through tokens they can see how much water

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026

Still don't know what to make of the meatball flavoured lollipop or wholesome Ikea telling customers to go eat balls.

Electronic billboard at the the Ikea Restaurant entrance. Sign reads: Every tried a meatball flavoured lollipop? Get one free when you buu an adult plate of eat balls. There is a picture of a chupa chup in blue and yellow wrapping.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

Technological progress is often treated enlightened human advancement, but when I look at what we do with it, the more I agree with Peter Nowak that it's driven by "sex, bombs and burgers". And as a species we haven't moved much past that, have we?

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

"I steal art & I get an 8 year sentence. AI tech bros do it & they get called "visionaries" who are revolutionising the workplace." Cartoon by Fiona Katauskas

Line drawing of 4 prisoners in a shared cell sitting in their bunk beds. One of them is complaining: "I steal art and I get an 8 year sentence. AI tech bros do it and they get called " visionaries" who revolutionising the workplace"

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

What's social media without gratuitous posting of one's food choices of the day? #lunch

A glass of iced yuzu tea is next to a poke bowl of rice, poached chicken, kimchi, boiled egg and pickles. The table is up against a window which faces a garden of native Australian trees. Its sunny outside

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2026

I'm thinking of getting a Plant Wave, after hearing music made from plants by the Data Garden Quartet years ago and backing Midi Sprout on Kickstarter (although I didn’t get it). Plant Wave converts plant biofeedback into musical notes so you can hear to what a cactus or a tomato sounds like or […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

"I use emdashes and I'm not a robot" may be the most subversive writing act you can do today.

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Jade @ap.jade.ellis.link · 30/05/2026

Sunlight goes through a hummingbird's wings

A hummingbird in the forward stroke of its wings is silhouetted by the sun. The feathers of its wings and tail let the light through, forming subtle rainbows.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Thanks to AI shaming, the em dash has been unfairly maligned as a sign of AI-generated writing. But, as Brian Phillips writes for humanity's salvation, the em dash is the most human punctuation of all: "It would be a tragedy if writers stopped using em dashes out of fear of sounding like AI […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/05/2026

Last week I learnt about the Future Library in Norway, a 100-year project from 2014-2114. Each year, a new writer is chosen to write a book which is kept secret until publication in 2114. It's interesting because it raises questions about the future of the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Kathryn Favelle, National Library of Australia (left) and Anne Beate Hovind, Chair of the Future Library Trust (right) seated on stage. Behind them is a projector screen image of the Oslo Public Library. On the right of the stage is a vertical banner for the Norwegian Embassy, showing a boat sailing towards land covered in snow.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/05/2026

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web. While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to […]

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

$100m bid to reduce Canberra to Sydney train travel time to under 4 hours www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-11/canb…

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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

12 Times Cities forgot to be serious (and suddenly the street became a place to play): streetartutopia.com/2026/05/10/art-…

White chalk hopscotch squares drawn on a sidewalk leading directly to an ATM, with the words “Child Hood” written beside the game.

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Opoponax @opoponax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Why do some prototyping apps advertise themselves like "Works best on Chrome" or "Exclusively for MacOS" like it's something to be proud of? #Design #UX

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