Notices by Joanna Holman (joannaholman@aus.social)

Any Aussie politicians running on a platform of making it illegal to play videos on loud speaker on the train?

Birbs with cute but vaguely threatening auras

I found in these today in the Jacana Wetlands (Northern #Melbourne near Broadmeadows) while participating the City Nature Challenge bioblitz

#birds #birding #birdsofmastodon #citynaturechallenge #photography #naturephotography

Man sets off on 53-mile walk dressed as a curlew

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp91knr7ygpo

Realistically it’s unlikely to ever happen, but being a member of the European Broadcasting Union (the organisation that runs Eurovision), Vatican City is eligible to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest

With both #Eurovision and the Papal conclave happening in May, it’s gonna be a big month for Europeans who love overly complex, confusing and dramatic ways to select a winner that are run by international bureaucracies, include smoke for dramatic effect and feature excessively extra outfits

Christchurch woman dressed as chicken runs 10 marathons in 10 days for charity

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/558736/christchurch-woman-dressed-as-chicken-runs-10-marathons-in-10-days-for-charity

Today in things that seem like a front for something, an entire store of claw machines in #melbourne central (which surely doesn’t have cheap rent) where you can pay $2 to play for low value goods like out of date Oreos. The “store” has been there for more than a year

Werribee zoo has an adorable newborn lion cub!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL64KM4j6aU

#melbourne

Your day might be improved a little by seeing some bears try to ride a swan boat

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-68647650.amp

Don’t really have defined career goals but I did recently set a goal for the number of bird species I aim to photograph in the wild so that’s something 🤷♀️

Legit kinda surprised I haven’t seen fan fiction/comics/interpretive dance videos about John Mastodon hunting down Nicole the Fediverse Chick

It delights me when in see these little electric powered street sweepers cruising around #Melbourne. This feels more like the future to me than any electric sports car.

My favourite #melbourne tradition is how on the last day they open for the season, Pascoe Vale pool invites the local dogs to come for a swim. It might have been the happiest place in the city today. Absolutely worth getting soaked by a rainstorm for. They were such good doggos

#dogs #dogsofmastodon

I wonder what the person who took that famous photo of the Doge Shiba Inu makes of all this now?

Journaling on paper through strange and concerning times doesn’t just produce valuable material for the future historical record. It also helpful for your mental health now. I did a LOT of journaling the details of daily life in the lockdown years. It helped me feel more like an observer of strange events with something useful to do and a little less a passive victim of chaotic circumstance. It also helped me to not doubt my own sanity and recollections when the surrealness made my memory seem fuzzy

https://infosec.exchange/@kcarruthers/114101572600349304

I just cannot bring myself to believe that the same industry that created SharePoint could create properly working artificial intelligence

An important comparison to assess

One of the best sources on the internet for interesting links these days is Tom Scott’s newsletter. His website now has all the previous links with a random link option

https://www.tomscott.com/newsletter/

I have questions about this pizza concept

I would like to live in a world where I’m not tempted to mute the word “government”