Notices by Liam :fnord: (liamvhogan@aus.social)

Illustrated Children’s git commit log

When the opinions hit

Illustrated Children’s Principles of Sentencing Bar Book

Illustrated Children’s Clausewitz

https://www.helios.house/books/childrens-clausewitz

I had just been on the kind of site visit to a building that makes me want to shower, brush my teeth, cut my hair, and burn my clothes. Buildings derelict for >10 years get a certain power.

BIRD PEOPLE ON THE TOOTS

There is a crow that for some reason really likes playing with coloured rocks in my front yard. It picks them up and puts them in different places. Short of feeding this bird, how can I encourage the crows to do cool stuff like this

Post your ominous signs

‘Boredom is the Cadillac of feelings’

https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

SharePoint is what happens when you take a file system and you give it anxiety

Freemasonry, the original LinkedIn

The young man at the table next to me is telling his mate about his girlfriend, who apparently has boyfriends all around the world. I’m getting the impression of some kind of 19thC sailor arrangement, she’s got a relationship in every port

Remember, don’t offload your problems by email last thing on Friday into someone else’s inbox. Unless you’re responding to a shit turn someone did to you earlier in the week, and you’ve been saving it up. In that case 5.15pm is the perfect time to send the query.

Victorians no longer will be able to buy machetes. The privilege to wear swords to hack foliage is now the domain of the ruling classes in other States. But Victorian peasants will remember the years of turmoil when anyone might have risen on their merits and arms to become Daimyo or even Shōgun

This is going to go on a bunch of slideshows under ‘why you don’t drive through floodwater’

One of the things about AI boosterism and by extension the whole Silicon Valley mindset is that it elevates ‘building things’ as the only worthy human act. It isn’t. You and I and the whole of humanity spend most of our time using and _maintaining_ things. Whether it’s doing the laundry or cooking dinner or sewing a button back on. Or using a template to revise a report. Or being the workers who make the accountable decisions to keep things going. This is what human working life is.

It’s ridiculous that a lower house electorate should have north of 150,000 people (except in Tasmania which in this as in so much else, Special). There’s no way one person or even one office can be available to represent that many people.

Do it by MMP or just by doubling-tripling the number of divisions, who cares

In the Federation era Australia made a conscious choice to model the Commonwealth on the USA: a House of Reps, a Senate, a High Court. It’s clear considering that country’s uhhh issues, that that has been a historical mistake and we should instead take some cues from the UK: a lower house with like five hundred people in it, and an upper house that doesn’t have any veto powers, that the government can tell to piss off

It is Monday morning which means it’s time to remember: dentistry should be on Medicare and bulk billed

In a quiet moment, in which I have the opportunity to relax and contemplate anything I please,

My brain: DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL DRUPAL

The thing about disasters is that we are all primed with frameworks to interpret them, that we develop in our everyday lives, before they happen. Me, I’m off this morning to a planning meeting and I’m certain that’s how I’ll meet the end of the world; a bit too early in the morning, in a meeting room, with an agenda