Reposted by Wes MountainCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843431192
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sam Altman: "My dog has shit in your yard. In fact, it turns out it has been shitting there for several months. The fence I built for it does not have a bottom rung, which it appears is key to keeping the dog in our garden. Thanks for your help in cleaning up as we investigate how this happened!" 36418
Reposted by Wes MountainJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned 381648289
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Really enjoying Rachel Cusk's Life of M, it is well drawn and also quite brutal. Also maybe just an indication that, with both this and the Jonathan Safran Foer debacle, Natalie Portman shouldn't hang out with writers? 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is from yesterday's Politico, but it's the mood of the day... the government's policy is the current law/targets. We're not in an election campaign, they're the sitting government. Why are we taking talking points from ON as prompts? 0123
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dear increasingly broken by Gemini inclusion Google Sheets, I do not want to convert to a table. I never want to convert to a table. I'm using a spreadsheet because it's a spreadsheet. If I wanted a table, I'd go to a doc. 050
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh I get it, Norvig wanted the Lonely Island guys for their ad and they couldn't afford them www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVd...youtube.comWe Like SportzYouTube video by thelonelyisland 000
Reposted by Wes MountainMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 484297697666
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyone else never get the second stage SMS for Radiohead tickets in Australia? Seems to be a lot of people online saying they were in a similar boat. 110
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I love the liberal use of inky black shadows and accents in the new Netflix animated show Dang!. It's a lovely and novel choice for an animated series. 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Mr President, a second meme has hit the 9/11 anniversary 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I like to fundamentally misunderstand many fields and be smug about it sometimes too, I get the impulse 0101
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ted Lasso went to shit in season 3, why is it kinda good again in season 4, when it had no need to come back and felt like it had overstayed its perfectly timed COVID welcome? Back to actually enjoying it 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The government's Help to Buy scheme is using equity to help people on lower incomes into their (mostly) first homes with just 2% deposits. Melbourne regions make up the top six areas where applications have been approved since the scheme started... and it's already our third cheapest city.theage.com.auWhere first home buyers have been getting into the market this yearThe typical buyer had a deposit of $31,000 and some areas had a much higher rate of take-up than others, new figures show. 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026From Politico today... AI is not going to help our productivity, because our productivity "problem" is a measurement one. We don't measure productivity in some of our largest growing industries in a useful way, i.e. is comparable or captures improvements. www.abs.gov.au/articles/pri... 121
Reposted by Wes MountainJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Helen Dale has gone full calipers in the last several years (either that or she has chosen to be more public about those beliefs). There hasn't been a lot of media interest which you could see as a mixed blessing. 68226
Reposted by Wes MountainBec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026would appreciate if non fat people read this 712034
Reposted by Wes MountainJohn Allison @badmachinery.com · 22/08/2026Very enjoyable, particularly the description of the smell of the carpet 1264
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don't want to read your think piece about "woke 1.0" being a mistake unless it's about the lack of real change that resulted and you are willing to talk me through what woke 1.1, 1.1a and 1.1.2 (beta) involved 063
Reposted by Wes Mountainda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN 02441565
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Might I suggest this actually is a question for the group chat? 020
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I get a lot of AI ads about writing SOPs and there have been periods of my life where I had to write these, but I don't see how that's a long-term business strategy for AI companies given how relatively infrequently most people have to write or update them and how few people specifically do this 121
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is apparently 4 years old, but the vibes still feel right 0132
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So Sunday and yesterday I massively crashed because it turns out you can't up your exercise like 50-100% without also increasing your mostly vegan diet. But STILL. Today I feel a lot better. 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I am training for a half Iron Man and I am always tired, always hungry, and always off to hit a new goal on the path, because it's a long one. It's great, I fucking love it. I don't talk about it much because I realise it's insufferable, but here is my occasional dispatch. 060
Reposted by Wes Mountainmarque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/07/2026"Independent" is a word which does not mean what Jillian thinks it means. 1527071
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Anyone ever had their Amazon Prime account suspended? Mine's been suspended with no detail, but the offer to appeal... Not sure on what grounds, given I don't know why it was suspended. 100
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Beautiful, glorious game. All is right in the world. 150
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Houses are selling for close to 20% less in some parts of the Melbourne market... which is bad news for vendors, but pretty great if you're looking to buy.theage.com.auThe Melbourne houses selling for hundreds of thousands of dollars lessHouse buyers could pay six figures less for some family homes than they would have in a hotter market. 050
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Based Leahy toon in the Daily Tele today (covering for Warren Brown of all people, quite the change of vibe in the slot) 181
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 22/06/2026I am watching season 3 of Shrinking for some reason, and even though I kind of enjoy it, I'm not sure why people talk about it like it's "good" tv. It's kinda bad. It's just not the kind of bad anyone really makes anymore, and maybe that's comforting. 000
Reposted by Wes MountainKate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas 513152961
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 17/06/2026I really like illustrators/artists who post their work, or in-progress stuff of their work, but I hate how social media turns artists into people who perform the conception & production of work. Vaguely successful social media artists are performing The Artist's Way all the time & it's so boring 110
Reposted by Wes MountainElizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 10/06/2026this is the ideal newspaper columnist. you may not like it but this is what peak performance looks like 294286594
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 11/06/2026If the UK's far right idiots rioted every time a white person stabbed someone, there'd be no homes left, no country -- they apparently so dearly love -- left. This is so depressing and terrifying. And tbh I think it's weak this article doesn't really address who "the mob" are, it's barely explainedtheguardian.com‘It was so terrifying’: care workers tell of being trapped at home by Belfast mobSumayah Nakazibwe and Stella Ariokot feared they would be next as fires took hold of neighbouring houses 021
Reposted by Wes MountainMai El-Sadany @maitelsadany.bsky.social · 09/06/2026🕊️ Today, June 8, marks eight years since the world lost Anthony Bourdain. I often think about the beautiful and humble way he brought us stories from around the world. I reflect on how he turned places that the headlines made sound scary into ones we'd want to get to know. 1419
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 05/06/2026Senate estimates 2027: "And can you explain why a third of the ABC's budget goes to a show called Global Roaming? It says here you have 345 hosts?" 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 04/06/2026I'm increasingly seeing attempts by writers to turn their writing into comics using AI or using it to supplement their writing with a generated diagram/cartoon, and it has this weird reflex effect of making the flaws in their thought processes more apparent. 121
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 03/06/2026I was not ready for the Slate Culture Gabfest to announce it was ending as I popped in on as a midnight comfort listen, as I do every week, to listen to again in the morning when I am actually awake. It doesn't feel like a thing that should ever end. 1180
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Saw Obsession today, loved it. Strikes me we really seem to be in a moment where utter obliteration of the face is the most horrific move in film, and that seems very interesting to me culturally... Like, is it an identity thing? Total destruction of the self? Or is it just the tech is here? 100
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Whenever I see a house with a Bromley, I'm like, "ah, this person wants you to know they can afford original art, AND they like boobs" 050
