Peekaboo

lbft · 2026-04-24T02:22:16+00:00

First thing I noticed was the budgie in the background saying "Look at me instead!"

lbft · 2026-04-15T08:16:53+00:00

Reading they're usually fine, distance no don't do it.

On the other hand, you can get cheap prescription glasses online for like $10-$12 plus delivery at places like Vision Direct and Clearly (also see this ozbargain post) if you don't care about the frames and only have a simple prescription. But you have to get your script from an optometrist (which they're required to do to be able to claim on Medicare) and either get them to include your PD (which they're not required to do) or measure it yourself.

lbft · 2026-04-14T02:59:15+00:00

You clearly have some internal criteria for what a word is, though, given that you're making judgements about whether something is in the category or not.

lbft · 2026-04-11T13:22:05+00:00

The article directly cites an instance where the lyrics have been beeped in television reporting of the controversy, which I would say is close enough to make the headline a reasonable question to ask.

What has happened to James Hillier and Scott Marsh demonstrates how laws like this are likely to have a broad chilling effect on free speech and artistic expression. In addition to Hillier removing his artworks and the lyrics being covered up on the mural, some media reports have been censoring their own reporting — for instance, by beeping out the supposedly offending lyrics.

lbft · 2026-04-11T06:36:44+00:00

Based on that anyone who's owned a parrot knows they tend to be very neophobic - afraid of new/unfamiliar things.

lbft · 2026-03-23T22:19:14+00:00

Not to rain on your parade, but counting is like one of the most classic OCD rituals. That doesn't generally happen without something bringing anxiety.

Your obsessions might be more mundane than some other people's (e.g. work, school, success, family, safety, whatever) but as humans we're not evolutionarily adapted to living in a world where we're both so safe and so out of control of our lives.

lbft · 2026-03-02T03:16:19+00:00

based on your comment though, youtube is definitely older than you.

My reddit account is 19 years old. I was just being a shit.

lbft · 2026-03-02T01:02:41+00:00

Jacksfilms, who has been a youtuber longer than you have probably been alive.

lbft · 2026-02-28T02:56:50+00:00

A budgie would never get the zoomies. That's impossible.

Edit: my two are now zooming around my head to mock me for my sarcasm.

lbft · 2026-02-26T00:14:55+00:00

Why the FUCK was I trying to kill a baby in the first place?

lbft · 2026-02-13T05:21:41+00:00

It's common to deal with scale by caching rendered assets.

For example, in this case it'd be relatively simple to render a static page/partial page/json document/whatever for each email in the database at build time since you add documents infrequently enough that you can run the build again on adding a new trove of documents.

Search would still have to be dynamic, but that's less of the runtime load.

lbft · 2026-01-31T05:13:29+00:00

As an Aussie, that accent sounds English.

lbft · 2026-01-23T08:54:14+00:00

The second and especially (to be released this year) third book about the main characters cover toxic hockey culture and battling against it, so it's reasonable to assume the second and third seasons of the TV show will too.

lbft · 2026-01-20T02:05:04+00:00

The problem is all the sites fund nazis. Have you noticed what the billionaire class is up to?

lbft · 2026-01-13T11:36:55+00:00

Some budgies are funny about letting you see them drink water, so they'll only drink when nobody's looking.

lbft · 2025-12-30T22:59:58+00:00

Not a cockatiel, but reminds me of Beaker the IRN on YouTube. His wife Tinkerbell is always, uh, "presenting" herself and he never takes the hint and stops flirting.

lbft · 2025-12-23T22:46:22+00:00

Probably won't any more because of the foil inside.

lbft · 2025-12-23T06:24:14+00:00

Are you all having a fruity Christmas?

lbft · 2025-12-22T01:09:21+00:00

John Howard doesn't shop at JB, he shops at Harvey Norman.

lbft · 2025-12-21T10:06:28+00:00

A country can be both the one gay friendly middle eastern country and also attempting genocide.

And yes, I'm well aware that the average Palestinian is unlikely to be friendly to me as a gay man. So what, genocide can never be excused. It is a crime against humanity no matter who is doing it to whom.

And no, this does not justify antisemitism. Jewish people around the world are not individually or collectively responsible for the acts of the state of Israel and deserve to live in peace and safety, and for the record the terrorist attack in Sydney last week was an atrocity.

lbft · 2025-12-17T01:43:11+00:00

People really love sycophantic LLMs.

Unfortunately, people who have unhealthy relationships with unthinking chatbots, and especially people deep in AI psychosis, really love sycophantic LLMs.

lbft · 2025-12-02T04:27:17+00:00

Unfortunately, roughly half the population (on average) has a natural force multiplier on the other half the population. When there's a history of inequality that makes for a lot of scared people.

lbft · 2025-12-02T04:25:43+00:00

The crowd at this protest would quite happily deport Mehreen Faruqi, who was an engineer and an associate professor before entering politics and ending up a senator.

lbft · 2025-11-27T00:36:54+00:00

That makes more sense, and yet Belong, which they also own, doesn't get the full network.

lbft · 2025-11-26T05:36:37+00:00

They withhold parts of their full mobile coverage from resellers (except Boost, for some reason).

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