Gaza was the testing ground where Israel realized there is no red line, with the help of the US they’ve shred international law into irrelevance. Israel is expanding its war to the West Bank and Lebanon because they know they will face no consequences no matter what they do.

It's been one year of analyticflying! We've had great fun doing it & never expected playing with data for fun would be so much better than a real job 🤣 A post to reflect on the journey: no data, weirdly philosophical & where next! analyticflying.com/p/one-year-of-…

Frankly, it’s depressing how one billionaire can fuck up the night sky for the rest of humanity and our collective ability to try to understand more about the universe. The newer Starlink satellites create even more interference than the old ones. bbc.com/news/articles/…

just learned about the “80s Hong Kong pre-wedding” photography style that’s supposed to emphasize the authenticity and rawness of marriage. i’m kinda obsessed with this

i hope the fact that israel hides actual bombs in products inspires a boost to the movement to boycott israeli goods

New: a project analyzing human language usage by scraping the web is shutting down because "generative AI has polluted the data." It's going to become much harder to analyze human use of language with the rise of AI-generated stuff being everywhere 404media.co/project-analyz…

This is always my favorite media scare tactic. “The strike is costing a lot of money!!” Yes. You’ve almost figured out the point.

While that craftsman house is very cute, I’m pretty sure that roughly 65% of older neighborhoods’ appeal over new developments is that they have a mature tree canopy, fully grown-in landscaping, and homes that have been painted to match the owners’ preferences.

Laundry machines are one of the single greatest time saving devices ever invented. Literal days of labor reduced to hours.

made up the term expat so they don’t have to call themselves that 😂

Men are like “the solution to climate change is to switch to green alternatives, like women’s unpaid manual labor.”

And here we are 5 years later and I still feel the same way about consumer DNA tests, and apparently the entire board of 23andMe now agrees. Massive yikes incoming.

It's really fucking unfair how much of a mental sponge I was at 16 compared to 35. It's never too late but holy shit starting early is fucking ridiculous. Make your kid read an encyclopedia. They're $200 on eBay.

Map of patronage on the Victorian rail network

Essendon has half the combined residential and employment density of Moonee Ponds (32 vs 62), but Essendon makes the top 25 and Moonee Ponds doesn't. Why?? Bus and tram connections. 35% of Essendon's ridership connects by bus and 15% by tram. In MP, it's 7.4% and 0.6%%.

You see, if we reduce V/Line fares, more people will start using it, and the operator will be forced to respond by increasing services and capacity! It's that simple!

Nick Xenophon Team, Rex Patrick Team, and now Jacqui Lambie Network Who else out there has been a candidate for 3+ parties each with a different person's name in the official party name?