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Artist and writer (fantasy/sci-fi). Lecturer and researcher with a PhD in IT/HCI. Gardener. Actually three bin chickens in a trenchcoat. Melbourne/Australia artdragon86.carrd.co

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Randy Au @randyau.com · 14h
I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today
A white cat is sleeping curled up in a med that has five fluffy white lobes of a flower petal, the cat has half her face peeking upwards and otherwise has filled the pentagonal space in the center of the bed completely
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Dad: I'm sick of having to keep checking the front door step to see if we've got a parcel. Rosco used to let us know straight away when we had a delivery.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Big happy grins on those golden faces <3
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I've never bought anything from Epic Games before but now I will not buy anything from them even harder.
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Classic Ian @cheersian.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Pretty sure I messed up this build somewhere along the way….
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
*should have been video editing, not just photo
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I get a gaming laptop because I have to do some photo editing and stuff which takes a bit more power but also in case I want to play any of my games on it. I've had this one for nearly 5 years and I haven't even installed Steam yet lol I just play on my Switch instead
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am so looking forward to the start of December when I've finished teaching for the year and I can just spend a few months going feral in my novel manuscript.
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Lisounours @lise-l.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Ils étaient mi-cerf mi-escargot, et re mi-cerf derrière
Image de deux cerfs allongés devant des rouleaux de foin
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Someone who taught on my unit said "It's a good tool if you know how to use it" and not long afterwards, used it to generate a summary of some key theories from our lecture slides "for the team to use". The summary was incomplete, inconsistent and incorrect. They were not put on my unit again.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Today’s snow pea harvest. The snow peas and my roses are doing well, and my raspberry plants also seem to have come back to life. The tomato plant that grew from last year’s tomato-growing soil is not only thriving but also has a few tiny tomato friends now.
A woman's hand holding a bowl full of snow peas in front of a garden against a fence. There's a large rectangular pot with raspberry plants and several round pots including rose bushes, a tomato and snow peas.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the year is 2030 and i no longer consume anything that isn't personalized to me. every game, every book, every movie extends to the limits of my own imagination and no further. i haven't been surprised in five years. i cry softly, in bewilderment, if i see a word i don't know
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
That's awful. Poor woofer :(
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Trans Gamer Prof. 🏳️‍⚧️ @transgamer.prof · 08/10/2026
On at 11:30 at #PAXAus to talk gender euphoria in games! Join us in the PAX Together Theatre!
Selfie of a dark haired woman with glasses next to the PAX Together Theatre sign.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Too alert to sleep, too tired to do anything productive. FML
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I had to leave a German Shepherd group on Facebook because when people posted about losing their sheppies to various illnesses it destroyed me :(
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
To the hero who drew a cock and balls on several of the potholes on Wellington Road: I salute you.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if AI can't improve productivity of coding, then all other claims about productivity improvements are essentially horseshit. Coding was the one thing everyone was like "well yeah of course it will be able to do that faster"
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toilet bones @toiletbones.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Found the email I sent when I got accidentally added to the faculty listserv of an orthopedic surgery clinic and nobody would remove me so I sent this email to all faculty/staff/med students and they removed me almost immediately
Hello Bone Colleagues, 
I have invented a new type of ankle and I'm very excited to show it to you. Early raccoon trials suggest a 60% increase in scurrying speed and dramatic increases in fine motor banditry. I know we are not supposed to create super raccoons, but I think you'll change your mind and professional ethics when you see how cute they are. I believe we are on the cusp of a new era in advanced human scurrying because if medical science has taught me anything, it's that improvements in raccoons correspond 1:1 to improvements in humans. 

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[My name]
Chief Bone Inventor
Chair, Department of Foot and Leg Innovation
Lord Mayor, Musculoskeletal Medicine 
Hartford HealthCare,
The Bone & Joint Institute at Hartford Hospital.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A dog in front of a computer. In the first frame it says "What a lovely day on the inter-" and then looks at the camera with a traumatised expression and says "Good lord"
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Organisations love to claim they promote equity, diversity and inclusion and that they don't tolerate racist, sexist, ableist, transphobic etc behaviour, but they refuse to actually take any action against staff perpetrating that behaviour (regardless of how many times they've been reported).
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I was terrified of the Wicked Witch in The Wizard of Oz. I would hide behind the couch when she was on the screen.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Because everyone knows recovering alcoholics never watch streaming TV.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's Halloween month, so I have set a scary display name and an appropriate profile picture.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
When I was doing my PhD, I was far more productive working from home because I didn't have people interrupting me to socialise every five minutes or talking loudly on their phone in the next cubicle or hearing the fucking microwave in the adjoining kitchen 'sing' every few minutes
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tpwrtrdmn @tpwrtrmnky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If you're a fan of a big media property, a really dedicated and invested fan, you have to learn to respond to criticism of that thing in a calm and reasonable manner rather than as a personal attack. In fact, you should learn to do the criticism yourself, without feeling embarrassed for liking it.
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socalbookish.bsky.social @socalbookish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This👇👇👇👇👇👇
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I stopped watching during Whittaker's era and things keep happening to confirm that was the right decision
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
that chatbot doing that unsafe/violative thing is not it 'going rogue' or an 'unfortunate incident of unintended consequences,' it’s the logical and devastating consequences of an unsafe product put out by irresponsible companies that have been conditioned to believe consequences dont exist for them
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Cath RN, PhD @headdoc35.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Trans athletes are a tiny % of all athletes. Fewer than 10 out of >500k US college athletes identify as trans. I don’t hear anything abt them haze raping. Yet, 1 in 5 women will be raped during their time in college. How about bitching against frat houses who drug & gang rape women & get away w/it?
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Went for a walk to play Pokemon GO because shiny Applin has been released for the current event (my favourite Pokemon is Appletun). Sadly didn't catch any shinies but I did get to pat an absolute unit of a Rottweiler.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I always assumed the only valid reason for eating activated charcoal was if you'd eaten poison. When our second German Shepherd was a puppy he had to be fed activated charcoal at the vet because he ate a heap of toadstools he found in our back yard.
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Darren Ewing @sadknob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"it's WHOOOO, steve." "fuck off." "seriously... it freaks everyone out when you scream 'WHYYYY' at 4am."
a great grey owl on a branch looking slumped over and exasperated. (john blumenkamp)
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I will likely end up looking for a plot summary of books 2 and 3. The issue with this series is that although I like the magic system and the world/setting etc, I either am indifferent to or actively dislike most of the main characters.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The frustrating thing is that there are aspects of the books I quite like (the world/setting, the magic system etc), so part of me wants to keep going... but with very few exceptions, I'm either indifferent to most of the POV characters or actively dislike them.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminds me of that meme that goes along the lines of "Remember how modems used to scream when we went online? We should have heeded their warning" lol
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Precious little button nose <3
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today's extremely first-world problem... I want to DNF a book, but it's book 2 in a trilogy and I already bought the third book as well.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Frank discussion" "Expressed concern" @albomp.bsky.social has a wet noodle for a spine.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is what happens when my technologically illiterate Dad tries to SMS. (apparently he was trying to ask if we had milk)
Message history with "Dad Mobile". A message on Friday 27th March consists simply of the letter J, while a message sent earlier today says "Jug"
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The three main lessons all kids should be taught in high school before they get a job: -HR is not your friend -'Anonymous' surveys are not anonymous -You will get the same pay and abuse for going above and beyond as you will for doing the bare minimum.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Honestly the idea that you're required to respond if you're called up after you leave the service is bizarre to me. Like, if you've left... You've left. Also what sort of condition are former soldiers going to be in after sitting on the couch and doing fuck all for 9 years?
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And yes, we've scanned for viruses/malware etc and found nothing. I always use Ecosia and have had no issues with it. I suspect it's less a case of 'suspicious behaviour' and more a case of Google being butthurt they can't track us and harvest as much of our data as they want to.
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My Dad can't use Google on his computer anymore because it always gives him this message. He doesn't have a Google account and I get the same message if I try to do a Google search through an incognito browser window when I'm not logged into mine. No issues with other search engines.
"I am not a robot" captcha, followed by "About this page

Our systems have detected unusual traffic from your computer network. This page checks to see if it's really you sending the requests, and not a robot. Why did this happen?

This page appears when Google automatically detects requests coming from your computer network which appear to be in violation of the Terms of Service. The block will expire shortly after those requests stop. In the meantime, solving the above CAPTCHA will let you continue to use our services.

This traffic may have been sent by malicious software, a browser plug-in, or a script that sends automated requests. If you share your network connection, ask your administrator for help — a different computer using the same IP address may be responsible. Learn more

Sometimes you may be asked to solve the CAPTCHA if you are using advanced terms that robots are known to use, or sending requests very quickly."
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
static.klipy.com
Clint Eastwood
Alt: Clint Eastwood sitting on his porch with a cup of tea and looking disgusted
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Dan Whitehead @danwhitehead.net · 22/09/2026
Nothing will ever be enough for these people.
Microsoft gross profit for the quarter ending June 30, 2026 was $60.482B, a 15.36% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft gross profit for the twelve months ending June 30, 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase year-over-year.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2026 was $225.465B, a 16.28% increase from 2025.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2025 was $193.893B, a 13.38% increase from 2024.
Microsoft annual gross profit for 2024 was $171.008B, a 17.09% increase from 2023.
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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
they sent Pikachu to space without a plan to return. June 17th was when he ran out of oxygen. Goodbye brave rodent 🫡
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New myGov Inbox message @artdragon86.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The only reason I don't go to ALDI more often is that it's literally on the other side of town and I'd have to drive out of my way to get to it, whereas I have both a Coles and a Woolworths within 5-10 minutes walk of my house
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