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Sydney, Australia
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Lola del Rey🐇 retweeted
Full moon rising over Coit Tower and Saints Peter and Paul Church in San Francisco, with a beautiful sunset sky to accompany it.
Logged into Instagram to find a bichon frise looking like a baby seal getting groomed into a perfect sphere
Missed church today but saw a newly acquired sculpture of st Francis of Assisi at the museum. What's the holy spirit telling me?
Lola del Rey🐇 retweeted
Your country might be great but does it follow Australia’s lead by colour-coordinating its currency with the nation’s favourite snack foods?
when your green text becomes federal energy policy 💅🏻
> be Next DC
> forecasting revenue in billions from shiny new data centre in West Footscray
> hire a utility to connect it to the electricity network
> utility starts installing giant power poles
> halfway through, local residents hate them
> the poles look like mini skyscrapers in the middle of the street
> community backlash intensifies
> utility suspends construction
> you downgrade your revenue forecast
> next day your share price plunges 40%
> tfw you could've just budgeted for a social licence by taking the locals to a local cafe and asking whether they wanted cash, undergrounding or a community library
> be Next DC
> forecasting revenue in billions from shiny new data centre in West Footscray
> hire a utility to connect it to the electricity network
> utility starts installing giant power poles
> halfway through, local residents hate them
> the poles look like mini skyscrapers in the middle of the street
> community backlash intensifies
> utility suspends construction
> you downgrade your revenue forecast
> next day your share price plunges 40%
> tfw you could've just budgeted for a social licence by taking the locals to a local cafe and asking whether they wanted cash, undergrounding or a community library
Overheard at the office: "I signed up to a sausage dog race so I have to get a sausage dog in advance"
Lola del Rey🐇 retweeted
13th-century marginalia featuring playful bats in the margins of a medieval manuscript.
was wondering why, on Tues Oct 6, so many Eastern European countries were looking up Plague/Black death on Wikipedia, and learned that there was a suspected plague case at a Russian research laboratory (a young woman at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute in Siberia died after developing pneumonia)
Just discovered a most interesting website telling me what Wikipedia pages a country's people read the most the day before:
- Kazakhstan: Intercession of the Theotokos
- Mongolia: Genghis Khan (lol)
- USA and Australia: Katie Zacharia (no surprises)
- Tuvalu: Toast sandwich
- Kiribati: Tear down this wall! (Ronald Raegan cold war spech)
sheets.works/data-viz/what-e…
Just discovered a most interesting website telling me what Wikipedia pages a country's people read the most the day before:
- Kazakhstan: Intercession of the Theotokos
- Mongolia: Genghis Khan (lol)
- USA and Australia: Katie Zacharia (no surprises)
- Tuvalu: Toast sandwich
- Kiribati: Tear down this wall! (Ronald Raegan cold war spech)
sheets.works/data-viz/what-e…
what people are reading in Africa:
- Ghana: Ghana
- Egypt: Canis (mammal genus including dogs)
- Somalia: Macrobians (legendary ancient people)
- Lesotho: "I Married a Witch"
- Angola: Naratriptan (migraine medicine)
- Liberia: RP-1 (rocket fuel)
- Madagascar: ChatGPT
- Nigeria and Zambia: Murder of Tupac Shakur
