links.mimuki.net

Do I personally need this in my linkbox? Not particularly- it's not like I forget where this is, but I figure for the tiny handful of weirdos who keep me in their feed readers, maybe they would like to know. ;)

Discover the story of Fat Bear Week, a celebration of resilience and survival among Katmai's bears. Vote for your favorite and support conservation efforts.

As the end of the season approached, I lamenting it passing by with no summertime adventures to refill my outdoor-spirit cup. Then a friend introduced the idea of microadventures, and it saved my summer.

Restricted interpersonal touch experiences, for instance due to COVID-19 social distancing measures, result in detrimental effects on anxiety, loneliness and psychological well-being. Yet, interventi...

todo: track down which tutorial I bastardized for my current go-to style

Site owner is explicitly friendly to people regardless of faith or lackthereof, though they do assume you're a woman. I vaguely recall in semiprivate discussions (was this in the pagan veiling discord/reddit?) they were cool with men/etc too, but that was just too uncommon a thing to merit commenting on, or something along those lines.

AKA Typhoid Mary

Aimed at international students.

Ah, yes, test the surveillance tech in a town with 7x more Indigenous people than the national average (percentagewise). Of course, where else would you trial something so controversial and creepy. Siiiigh. (I think it's curious I hadn't heard a word about this until now.)

I am cackling at the "drugphone and saladphone" tips. Admittedly, I effectively did the same thing...but I didn't call it that.

Has that weird "immersive article experience" thing if you view in a featureful web browser. Also a few of the usual mainstream coverage of technical topics, eye-twitch-inducing traits.

Senator Carr talking about banning mobility devices.

Unless you need it, you may not know about it. But Travellers Aid is a much-needed cog in Victoria's public transport system, helping more than 110,000 people a year.

Helpfully lists the ~demands~ requirements of studying at TAFE. I suspect some of these will be easier to dodge than others, and I want very little of it touching my network. :)

Used for the TAFE student ID card, which at best is only required for most TAFE services, and at worst is required to go onto the campus.

Holy privacy nightmare batman.

Thanks, TAFE. Very cool.

Cake, a footrub, and tidying up after? Yes please.

Also there's sex that happens in here too I guess.

Can I go to the bathroom during the LLND?

Using the bathroom before beginning your assessment is recommended. However, you can take bathroom breaks if needed. Request permission from your moderator first, and for Online Monitored Assessments, keep breaks brief and infrequent to avoid triggering a potential breach.

The surveillance aspects are creepy as hell, especially given that the options for on-campus assessments are so limited. Already I'm pretty sure my accessibility tools would get flagged, but I'm offended they think they can tell me when I can piss in my own damn home.

Nation Public Toilet Map

This is the closest to AI criticism the ABC wants to get... but hey, it's something.

Quentin Tarantino approved.

The Social Smolnet par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Science Gallery Melbourne’s latest free exhibition EMERGENCE[Y] explores how we adapt to a rapidly changing world.

From October 1, free COVID-19 vaccines will still be available for:

• Adults 75 and over (two doses per year, about six months apart)
• Adults 65–74 years (one dose per year)
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people aged 50–74 years (one dose per year)
• Adults aged 18–64 years with severely immunocompromising conditions (one dose per year). This includes people with chronic kidney disease on dialysis and people with leukaemia.

AI-generated cover image, author provides slopcode to implement their idea, and I am fairly confident the text of the article is not human-written.

The core ideas here are something I want to revisit with my filthy human hands.

Investigating the use of LLMs in the Android FOSS community

How I fought my smartphone addiction par Ploum - Lionel Dricot.

Deep inside Spain’s Cova Dones, archaeologists have uncovered evidence of an organized Roman-era cult involving women, ritual offerings, and a mysterious goddess whose worshippers knew her simply by a powerful title: Domina, “the Lady.”

Some really interesting perspectives in this thread.

Asexual people have been near-universally the kinkiest suckers I have ever met. Focusing less on physical attraction to bodies and more on the subjects and actions surrounding the concept of sex would do that to you.

Where have I heard this before...

Keep in touch with Toki Pona events and creative works. Every two weeks.

Results from the 2025 Consumer Payments Survey show that cash use in Australia has stabilised in recent years.

Cash plays an important role in the community as a means of payment, store of value and a backup to electronic payment methods.

human.json - A lightweight protocol for humans to assert authorship of their website content and vouch for the humanity of others.

handouts and notes from undergraduate Computers Science at edinburgh university 1985-89 - edinburgh_cs/1985-cs1/1985-ee2-an-introduction-to-the-text-editor.pdf at main · steveloughran/edinburgh_cs

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Your phone is about to stop being yours. In 2027, Google will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with them.

366日すべての誕生色を調べることができます。自分の誕生色を知ってラッキーカラーにしましょう。

I think this is someones invented custom, not something well established. But my colour is a good one, so I like it.

Early Christians [...] "considered the celebration of anyone's birth to be a pagan custom."

Don't mind if I do, then. ;)

So, apparently, there's a word for the ability to percieve and discriminate between your own [hunger, thirst, pain, bladder urges, arousal, etc]. And having a bad sense of that stuff is in fact a thing and not necessarily a personal deficit, or a skill issue, or a "stop eating so much sugar and you'll get better thirst cues" or anything like that.

It would also appear neurotypicals do not follow a diagnostic flow chart methodologically to figure this stuff out, and they "just know" with plenty of notice before it becomes a problem.

This explains a lot.

Charmingly dated site, besides some characterizations of autism that are...not the best.

"Why on earth do I need to be sicker to be helped?"

Ow, well put. Sometimes I wonder if my GP will ever review my case notes that show the time she said I had nothing to worry about overlaps with another specialist noting that [incredibly obvious symptoms of malnourishment] were occuring. (She won't.)

I remember reading this when it was first shared, and then I resonated with the clawing-your-way-out-of-malnourishment aspect. Recently, I found my own cup more literally, which has been a game changer for keeping myself hydrated.

(Mine also has a straw. Might as well use that oral fixation for something useful...)

A collection of website seizure banners created by government agencies.

If you're giving me e-paper, I'm going to make an e-printer.

The study concluded "it is clear that we cannot distinguish the sane from the insane in psychiatric hospitals" and also illustrated the dangers of dehumanization and suggestion in psychiatric institutions. It suggested that the use of community mental health facilities which concentrated on specific problems and behaviors rather than psychiatric terminology might be a solution

...nom. todo: find recipe

ABC acknowledging covid in the present tense! Release the confetti!

Taking notes from industrial mixing processes so that I don't get a snack bowl with the wrong ratio of sultanas to walnuts? It's more likely than you'd think.

"You're so much better off with kids not to put your hands on your knees and talk down to them, but to aim over their heads and challenge them to rise to the occasion," he says.

"And they will."

No, you cannot call English speech-to-text "Auslan services", STFU. Despite the headline, what's happening is that agencies are refusing to pay for in-person interpreting, and substituting it with virtual interpreters (essentially a video call with someone) and STT (which is inherently flawed and not even interpreting in the first place).

something something, "AI will fail to do your job, but that's still good enough to convince your boss to fire you"

I was hooked by the idea that my lack of happiness and fulfilment in the present moment could be fixed if I just got better at my life.

CTAD is a free government clinic providing outpatient psychological therapy for anxiety disorders and depression.

Possibly one of my favourite aspects of e621 is that it is overwhelmingly known for the porn, but a significant amount of the stuff there isn't porn.

Researchers have found that seeing touch (on TV or in films, for example) – particularly social, affective or pet touch – can give us some of the benefits of feeling touch. “This is called ‘vicarious touch’,” says Fotopoulou. “The brain codes multisensory experiences in multiple ways. We can also ‘feel’ the pain and pleasures of others just by ‘seeing’ them,” she says. “This is not a permanent or complete substitute, but a partial one.”

Products such as weighted blankets can help. Smith says that laying one across her chest and shoulders makes her feel “much calmer” – speaking, perhaps, to an instinctive need to stimulate the CTs. Interacting with animals is also settling. “My neighbour’s cat has decided to live with me half the time and having her sat on my chest, purring, is so soothing.”

No-one inside federal politics seems interested in discussing the large orange elephant in the room and how it is materially changing every other country's views of the world.

SHIPS | Sexual Health & Intimacy Psychological Services - We are a progressive psychology practice in Fitzroy, Melbourne. LGBTQIA+ friendly.

content warning: this is the talisman of a child in the context of potty training

How do you stay an artist in these times?

Unless a margarine sold in aus (not NZ) is explicitly vegan, it likely isn't (as supplemental vitD that's vegan is more expensive).

...Good to know.

Mullvad says co-founder's 5 million SEK donation to the Örebro Party 'is not part of Mullvad's values or mission.'

[Some people] are raised to think that touch must be either aggressive or sexual," and thus [are] hesitant to openly engage in positive physical contact with anyone other than sexual partners.

wait, we're posting CCTV to Instagram to try and identify people? Jeeeeeeez.