Chris Lassig

@CountLustig Another #fridayillusion for you - a tender moment between Dutton and Albanese (via ABC News)

Friday Optical Illusion! I know I did! #fridayillusion #opticalillusions #deceptology

@Twitchathon @wtb_Michael Update: according to the Aus Birds guide, the toes give it away!

@Twitchathon @wtb_Michael Thanks! I thought it looked more affronted than frowny, which seems a sparrowhawk attitude

Just wanting to confirm my bird ID, is this a Collared Sparrowhawk @wtb_Michael @Twitchathon?

@wtb_Michael @Twitchathon It wasn’t terribly big, so I’m leaning towards the sparrowhawk… It’s gone now, but I probably wouldn’t toss coins at it anyway

@Astrocave @Twitchathon Hmm, I think so? The legs look thick enough for brown goshawk, but the rest is giving sparrowhawk vibes (I am wrong more often then if you tossed a coin distinguishing these two species tbh)

@Lannyopolis Obviously there’s gold… um, it’s kind of a Frankenstein story, and… I don’t know, “grrrrr?”

As if the nepo babies didn’t already have enough, now they have a feature about them

@FarOutOz Linguistics perhaps?

@Astrocave The Secret Language of Birthdays sounds sciencey?

Unless these books say something different to what I expect, we have a problem here (okay, I’ll accept Astronomy)

@MaireadDoyle I know!!!

@Astrocave Good lord!!!

@MaireadDoyle I wasn’t sure whether to name and shame, but it’s actually Readings in the Emporium, Melbourne

@Astrocave Dear god where is that??

@jameshutson I cannot speak for the ERs (although I can speak now!), but anecdotally there’s a lot of laryngitis going around

@jameshutson I had something similar about a month ago, bad hayfever days that escalated into laryngitis. Paranoia about childcare bugs led to a throat swab that showed rhinovirus and adenovirus... Took over a week to get my voice back

I had a great time chatting to @MichaelEMann, always good to talk about how basic physics underlies the serious climate consequences we’re seeing. The consequences themselves, not so good

@snazdoll Wowza! But done

Our twins recently picked up Covid from childcare (we strongly suspect), and now we’ve received an email about an unnamed “illness” going around… Whatever could it be?

With the #AussieBirdCount on it’s a great time to support @BirdlifeOz, but, um, I think these posters have the wrong Brunswick… What do you think, @Twitchathon?

That is an image for history! The #DARTMission a moment before impact.

@wtb_Michael Disagree! We always used to stop in Gympie when driving south from Bundaberg, and you didn’t need to pay to get in to see it either

the classic🍍is obviously in Woombye, fully 70km from Gympie

Did everybody else know that for over 30 years there were two big pineapples??? @robertlukins?? (ty @gladrappa and @slqld for this crucial Queensland knowledge I somehow lacked)

@seanmcarroll m.imdb.com/title/tt212560…

The next Hollywood bandwagon should be superheroes based on granular materials.

The Sandman adaptation is a triumph. Congrats to @neilhimself, David Goyer, and the rest of the team.