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michaelhoney.bsky.social
Thinking about ecosystems, natural and cultural; scheming for a bright future. Lutruwita/Tasmania.
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to put the US situation in context for Australians, it’s like the whole government is composed of variations on Clive Palmer, Malcom Roberts, Pauline Hanson and Andrew Bolt it’ll be a miracle if they survive this term with a functioning state

How much does a new piece of information shift our prior understanding? “Bayesian heft”: surprise × validity

Carrie Bradshaw from Sex and the City as #DoctorWho: a thread. Carrie Bradshaw as the First Doctor

Unexpectedly honest appraisal of Chris Uhlmann’s commentary on the front page of the Australian

“If it had any confidence at all in being a climate-wrecking, pro-fossil party of destruction, none of this would be new information. We would have heard about it well prior to this weekend.” reneweconomy.com.au/coalitions-f...

"You can destroy an ancient woodland, as long as you deliver an “overall improvement” in woodland cover, namely saplings in plastic tubes[...] We won’t even know what we are losing, as the new legislation negates the requirement to conduct ecological site surveys." *Always* be wary of 'net gain'.

you thought you were a gold miner turns out you were a shovel

love a well-lit robot

~50yo lady in Central Park NYC tentatively attempting roller skate dancing, wearing a borrowed helmet with a prominent “FUCK” sticker

someone should build a city that only supports healthy choices

at the good bookstore, every shelf a different whole life you could have

airport escalator longboi

(despairing) look how they enshittified my boy

a kangaroo is just a kind of guy

@astrojaz.bsky.social nice three-body arrangement right now (from Tasmania), Mars lining up with Castor and Pollux

inside you are 2 wolves. you are a genetically modified wolf

This is high art

Need a filter for Zoom which switches your shirt depending on who you’re meeting, so you can pretend you change clothes during the week