This is a newish piece of art in the pedestrian rail underpass near Albemarle Street. I love the use of negative space
After the early morning rains, there are patches of colour scattered through the streets and standing out against the asphalt
This is an interesting read about a crisis text line with a problematic CEO. Employees were forced to expose her behaviour via twitter after the company's board ignored complaints.
"They are lucky that what black people are looking for is equality and not revenge”
-- Kimberly Jones
I went for a walk through Annandale and Stanmore on the way to the market today, and stumbled across this
"Moving the mouse no longer involves JavaScript"
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/gnome-shell-performance-improvements-in-ubuntu-20-04/15972
@pzmyers I went looking for some replacement blades yesterday and was told these are un-Australian. That's alright, so am I.
@bestthingsbot first day at the new job with interesting new challenges
I may not have cycled as much in the last year or so as usual, but I still call myself a cyclist since I ride bikes in my dreams ☺
@bestthingsbot last day at the old job before starting something new on Monday. That does involve heading into the city for a few hours in the morning and meeting strange people 😷
I just started watching Charade for the first time in ages. Audrey is still my favourite Hepburn and the writing is en-point
"I already know an awful lot of people and until one of them dies I couldn't possibly meet anyone else"
I just found a new pet peeve. Software developers claiming that they're "force multipliers" can get in the bin unless they're military adjacent
@daedalus happy birthday
I just read a fascinating excerpt on Bird Site about the deeply misogynist roots of the term Stockholm Syndrome. It's from the book "See What You Made Me Do: Power, Control and Domestic Violence"... There was a psychologist used by the police who apparently decided to blame the women for his failures in negotiating the hostage crisis by pathologising them
https://twitter.com/sezmohammed/status/1252500993972948992?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."
-- Bjarne Stroustrup