Being as I have Telstra as my mobile/ internet 🛜 I had no idea half of Australia’s internet 🛜 was down until guy who use to host giggle & hoots show did a skit about it on TikTok before the news could tell me about it
[ID: a picture from the Hermitcraft Gamer’s Outreach charity livestream! Zedaph and Tango are… cooking? Zed’s wearing inflatables on his hands and Tango’s wearing foam sports fingers. They’re both wearing chef’s hats. Their table is covered in utensils, bowls, flour (both in the packet and spilled on the table) and other mess. Tango is barely holding onto a water bottle, and Zed is leaning down to presumably try and open it. Possibly with his teeth. In the background there’s a lot of gaming setups, but the only people that can clearly be seen are Grian and Impulse who are at the same computer. The foreground is lit up with white lights but the background has purple and blue lighting. End ID]
I know it’s basically because your country is disorganised and hostile to democratic process, and coincidentally also actually an empire of many smaller countries badly stitched together, but I swear it feels like Americans are voting constantly. Every other week, there’s something important and political you’re voting about, and I’m always here like, “didn’t you just do that?? I swear you just had a big vote about something and you’ve already got another one?”
Given the decline of Google results thanks to AI, it's only a matter of time until that old Telstra ad poisons the dataset enough that it spits out a result saying that the Great Wall of China was built to keep the rabbits out, and we will have come full circle.
Thinking about how CYN/the solver would have had to consider Tessa's personality in order to imitate her well enough to trick N, V, and maybe J
Like, I'm just picturing the solver taking notes like:
-Australian
-Human, does human things like breathe and perform percussive maintenance
-Likes robots
-Australian
-Real fucking weird. Like, she kept skulls in her bedroom, humans don't typically do that shit... Unless they do? Do humans like skulls? They didn't react too well when I was ripping them out of their fellow man, so maybe not
-Stickers
Don’t worry about the crappy shading. That was from my lineart getting fucked up and me trying to make it look not completely awful (frustration evident in corner drawing) and the paper is super thin. Probably not helping. Oh well.
the skulk cub hyperfixation is so bad i spent the past three days teaching myself davinci resolve so i could bring this vision to life you're welcome
song: if eternity should fail - iron maiden
clips/audio taken from:
shubble - new life ep 4
cub - hc9 eps 23, 43, 46, 47, 48, 109, 110
thunder sfx from pixabay
The unsupervised internet access experience by Anastasia McKnight (me :P)
Portion of a video work I made last year on the dangers of minors having unsupervised internet access, reflecting on all the horrors I was exposed to in the mid 2000s to early 2010s
Li'l Elvis Jones and the Truckstoppers (Videos, 1997-1998)
The epic serialized French-Australian cartoon. You can watch it all here or on its official YouTube channel YouTube here (playlist accidentally omits episode 4).
This. Show. Has. EVERYTHING. The Australian outback, a supposedly haunted mine, a chemical element controllable by human thoughts, and the apparent secret child of Elvis Presley!
You can read articles about the series here and here.