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There’s a thread doing the rounds that started as a shitpost about RM Williams boots and somehow became a genuinely interesting argument about class, value, and what men do to signal competence in an office. The original post was about feeling like a “weapon of an operator” after dropping close to a grand on boots. People were complimenting him at the urinal. Under the stall. That sort of thing. The …

Someone posted on r/AusFinance recently feeling genuinely bad about themselves. Sub-six-figure salary, low five figures in investments, super that wouldn’t cover a long weekend. In their forties. Their words: fat and bald. They wanted to know how to stop feeling jealous every time they opened the app. It’s an honest post. More honest than most of what surrounds it. Here’s the thing about a finance …

There’s a clip going around of a Japanese animator using an AI video tool called Seedance to render anime-style animation from basic 3D models. The person behind it has over a decade of industry experience, with credits on TRIGUN STAMPEDE. He’s doing the motion capture himself. He’s designing the characters and backgrounds himself. He’s feeding all of that in as reference material, and then …

Someone posted recently about nearly failing a college course because an AI detector flagged their entirely human-written paper. Seven pages, ten citations, written over several days. One sentence got flagged because it started with the word “studies.” I’ve been sitting with that for a bit, because it’s a genuinely awful situation that’s going to keep happening to more people. The core …

There’s a photo doing the rounds of a Voss water bottle sitting on a Salvos shelf with a $2.50 price tag on it. The comments are split between people laughing at the absurdity and people saying, actually, that’s a pretty decent deal. I’m in the second camp, and I’ll explain why. The Voss bottle is, stripped of its branding, a well-made glass bottle with a lid that seals properly. That’s …

Someone on the internet spent what sounds like several weeks in hand-to-hand combat with a tube of Aquaphor that survived a full laundry cycle, including the dryer, and lived to stain several garments. They documented everything. Eleven things that failed. One absurd three-step ritual that finally worked. The whole post reads like a boss fight walkthrough, and I mean that as a compliment. The winning method involved …

Someone posted online recently, and I’ve been sitting with it for a few days. They’re an international student, studying engineering and robotics here in Australia. They came out to one person they trusted. That person exposed them. Their family cut off their money. Their visa got cancelled. Three years of their life went sideways. They wrote the post not to complain, but to warn others. The core message: …

There’s a line buried in the San Francisco audit story that stopped me mid-scroll. It notes that civil liberties groups argue people may avoid attending protests, seeking reproductive health care, or participating in political activities if they believe their movements are being tracked. One commenter on the thread put it plainly: that is entirely the point. I think they’re right. And that’s what …

There’s a story doing the rounds about SpaceX’s IPO and the growing unease among Americans who’ve realised their retirement savings may now be quietly tied to Elon Musk’s ambitions. The reaction online has ranged from resigned shrugging to genuine alarm. Both seem appropriate. The short version: SpaceX went public, got fast-tracked into the Nasdaq 100 at a speed that bypassed the usual rules, …

Someone posted their homelab setup online recently and the project itself is genuinely clever: they took their network diagram out of a drawing tool and made it a build artefact instead. A text file in a repo, a GitHub Actions workflow that renders it on every push, icons pulled from public sources at render time so nothing drifts. The diagram can’t lie to you because it rebuilds itself from the thing that is …