I love the idea of teams returning to Bendigo & Geelong & Ballarat and building up the density in their CBDs so it’s realistic to live there without a car - but a 1km long tram route is taking the piss. 10km, yes, not 1km. I can walk 1km in 15 min, what’s the fucken point

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-12/bendigo-geelong-urged-to-join-light-rail-revolution/107139112

@inquiline Last night I dreamed that he fell asleep like this in a meeting next to a candle, and that puff caught fire.

@molly0xfff I have not gotten any of these yet, likely because as a software engineer I am not their target audience, but I have gotten plenty from equally agressive companies claiming to handle code reviews and system design tasks. I have them set to be fed into an autoresponder powered by a handful of cheaply pre-generated emails demanding for more information, but never agreeing to anything. So far I managed to keep a few email chains going for about 50 emails (I have far less than 50 pre-generated responses) which, even by cheaper models' rates, I'm hoping either comes out at a loss for them, or that the chain continues until it does.

"Nuorten miesten joukko hakkasi arabitaustaisen suomalaismiehen ja liimasi hänen selkäänsä äärioikeistolaisen Sinimustan liikkeen tarran.

Väkivaltatilanne tapahtui Vanhassa kirkkopuistossa Helsingin ydinkeskustassa sunnuntain vastaisena yönä kello yhden jälkeen. Aiemmin lauantaina Sinimusta liike järjesti Helsingissä maahanmuuttovastaisen mielenilmauksen."

https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/b138bc92-28a8-4ffd-917a-f3223dda5d0e

#antifasismi #antirasismi #EiNatsejaHelsinkiin #EiNatsejaMinnekaan

Y'all, I know I'm old because I confidently filled this in as CORTANA

One of the nice touches of Horizon Zero Dawn et al, your character, Aloy, is a 19yo woman who's a total badass. And there's no sex in the game. But all the boys just think she's the best thing since sliced bread.

@danyork I had turned on the radio and gotten in the shower. I used to listen to Mark and Brian in the morning, and they were talking about a plane crashing into one of the WTC buildings. I thought it was a skit and was getting mad because it wasn't funny. It took too long for me to realize it wasn't a skit.

When I got out of the shower, I turned the TV on.

I got a call from work telling me to stay home because I worked in a high rise (30+ stories) at the time, and they were evacuating.

@Gargron Did you try the ios 27 beta at all? It runs smoother (or at least more consistently) on my old iPhone 11 Pro that I’ve been using for testing than iOS 26 did on an iPhone 17, to the point where I was seriously considering going back to the older phone.

Feels like Apple assigned someone to work on optimization for the first time in years.

@nen Yleensä jätän nää alkoholikysymykset vastaamatta, koska oon niin valtavan puolueellinen. Kun kysyit noin, niin vastaan, että et ole. 😄

Toisaalta en kai oo oikea henkilö vastaamaan, kun en oo ollu ikinä humalassa. Oon korkeintaan maistanu joitain juomia, mutta alkoholin maustakaan en tykkää. Enkä oo alkanu juomaan mitään "limuviinoja", ettei vaan tulisi tapaa tuosta.

Syynä ehkä perinteinenkin, että lähipiirissä on näkyny sitä läträämistä sitten. Enkä haluu sitä kokemusta muille.

@molly0xfff If they valued creativity, they wouldn’t be all-in on AI.

@wikidata why do ordinary buildings in Milan show up as fortresses? Is it that "palazzo" is being translated as "palace" and interpreted as "fortress"? Also in Bulgaria, 19-20th century palaces are not fortresses.

"ICE has sent a documented immigrant from Somalia to the notorious detention camp at the U.S. naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Adam Abdullah came to the U.S. as an asylum seeker in 2023. He had a valid work permit, Social Security number, no criminal history and was working as an auto mechanic in St. Paul, Minnesota, when federal agents arrested him last December at the start of Operation Metro Surge."

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/9/11/headlines/ice_sends_somali_asylum_seeker_to_guantanamo_bay_prison_camp
#ICE #migrants #refugees #humanrights #guantanamo

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅

https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1wdqum6/outside_ray_ban_covent_garden/

#pervertglasses

Picture 1: in Kyiv, a 60-year-old woman was murdered by a Russian drone while tending her garden.

Picture 2: In India, Prime Minister Modi felt delighted to meet Vladimir Putin to establish closer trading ties, thereby financing Putin's war in Ukraine.

Why are we still not sanctioning India?

China will raise its visa fees for Japanese nationals by about sevenfold, effective for applications submitted on or after Monday, the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/09/12/asia-pacific/china-japan-visa-sevenfold/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #chinajapanrelations #visas

RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/117073967748873651

i periodically delete photo posts manually but i often have a hard time going through with the deletion. the more perverse, the harder time i have

should i delete this or leave it up to repost when he croaks??? 🤔