Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)
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- now, i ain't no soil scientist, but i know that there's a bit of difference between the measured air temperature in a shady box a metre or so off the ground, and the surface and root-level soil temperature, so i do wonder how food crops feel about extended periods of 40 - 50 degC. lovin' it, yeah?
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- coulda sworn that AU was a signatory to some convention about having to actively work against genocide and had passed some subsequent legislation for that purpose. then again, i ain't no law-speaking type person, so what the fuck do i know.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)People say it's too hard to cook at home and I say maybe you just aren't trying hard enough
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- someone fucking explain alex fuckmuppet scott from the Together Union to me?
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)ITV Retro has put all of the science-fantasy series “Sapphire and Steel” (1979–1982) on YouTube. www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Stars David McCallum and Joanna Lumley and very cheap production. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapphir...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)The only take on Asimov that matters is @zsamudzi.bsky.social's, which is that his "Three Laws of Robotics" are just chattel slave laws, and that the ubiquity of these "Laws" in culture is dangerous
- the neighborhood kids at it again tidal.com/track/488046...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)NEW: Here's the list of the 144 processes Centrelink has flagged as operating unlawfully or erroneously There's so much to go through, including more false debts, failures to record ppl's circumstances & income properly, & the whole-scale fuck-up of Rent Assistance www.aph.gov.au/api/qon/down...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)It's a massive venue. I'll need you all to be there, and bring your neighbour, your parents' neighbour, the nice person at the fish & chip shop that adds extra vinegar, your Aunty - all your aunties - and anyone else you can think of. A not-full venue echoes, and we can't have that
- there's like 5 different bands all called "mudrat", for fucks sake. knock it off.
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)After the Columbian exchange, all food everywhere became Native American fusion food. So quickly, so thoroughly, that it is hard to even imagine their cuisines before tomatoes and chili peppers and potatoes. But the recipes, the beloved dishes passed down across generations? Brutally erased.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)oh btw if you need the CIA World Factbook because they took it down with no warning because we can't have nice things, here's where you can get the PDF for the 2024-2025 edition: annas-archive.li/md5/92d7b783...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)i think it was the great screenwriter william goldsmith who famously said there are only three stories in all the world. a man goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and people fighting their way up and/or down a high-rise building
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)ATTENTION: DOMESTICATED CATS WERE PRESENT IN POLAND 8000 YEARS AGO WHICH IS FAR OLDER THAN IN EGYPT
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)So while you're all shocked we need to talk about Arthur C Clarke...
- i assume that because of indonesia long and public maintenance of their non-aligned position, australia is being the mule between them and the usa. that seems pretty likely.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)Culture-shaped holes where you can tell that someone, somewhere, committed a crime so vast and inhuman there's no hell hot enough for them.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)And now think about how, in 20 years or 50 years, there will be a similar gaping void in culture where people used genAI instead of making and sharing their own. What once took an unimaginable horror to do will now take 3 billionaire pedophiles in a trench coat passing the same cash back and forth
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)I used to love computer it was my friend. Now I have hate in my heart
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)To everyone just now finding out Isaac Asimov was rather famously a sex pest: He's been gone 34 years now, you can handle this truth, I believe in you
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)Chris Rosati, member of Boston hardcore band Death Ray Vision (members of Killswitch Engage) outed as active Patriot Front Member bywayofplymouth.noblogs.org/post/2026/01... @bywayofplymouth.bsky.social
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)An investigation by a German outlet has found that in German supermarkets, wines from illegal settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank are labelled as "from Israel". This violates both EU regulations and the International Court of Justice's advisory ruling on the occupation of the oPT.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)had to look this up because i was pretty sure there was no Shakespeare play of this name and there isn't: instead today i learned that Shakespeare did a guest verse in a play by some hacks in the early 1590s. you love to see it
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)A good blog about computer viruses in Soviet times, the KGB and computer security in the USSR. #hacking #history fromcyberia.substack.com/p/how-the-kg...
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)Clearly it’s time to appoint a permanent officer in the government to look over all the festival programs. Some fellow in a centralised office where all the art can be submitted beforehand, to make sure it’s socially cohesive. Some kind of Chief Approver, if you like www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)They closed the CIA World Factbook and deleted it entirely.
- shocked. verily, forsooth. shook, even. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... but if anyone needs an airport location or some highway for filming...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)Like idk personally speaking for me it's hard to distance Leon: The Professional from the real life 12 year old girl Luc Besson met, impregnated and then married who inspired the film
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)Another fascinating paper in the works that will probably help us deal with the myth that medieval people all married & had babies very young: ‘Medieval women had their first child much later than previously thought’ www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2026...
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)fiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)It is perhaps notable that it is 3D printed whistles and not 3D printed gun parts that are making a collective difference in actual community resistance.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Jeffrey" i holler as i overturn a brazier at the billionaire party and turn this Eyes Wide Shut into Eyes Wide Shit
- as your duly elected tyrant, i will [redacted] services australia down to the foundations and every last motherfucker employed there in the last decade will spend the rest of their lives exiled to a barren rock in the antarctic ocean.
- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)The weird thing about anarchism is realising that whether we live in a world with or without cops, coalitions of the willing are the only thing that will bring about justice, freedom or equality either way, not cops.
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossa... Will Crowther's 1976 Colossal Cave Adventure, the OG text adventure game. He was an avid caver, he and his wife hung out all the time in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, doing surveys of it and exploring it and doing pretty much the first computer-assisted cave maps
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)NEW INTERVIEW 🚩 “They were mothers and grandmothers that were picking up weapons. There were wounded fighters still in their wheelchairs that were creating military units and were declaring their preparation to fight. It is a full mobilization.”
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- Reposted by Darkly, Glass Darkly ('26)It took a long time to approve. But finally, after a three-year trial run, women in Japan can now buy the morning-after pill nationwide without a prescription. The move comes after years of opposition - including from men in Japan's medical community.
