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@ashkyd.bsky.social
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Ash K, Brisbane, Australia. He/him. This account and its views are personal obvs. 🏳️‍🌈

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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The trick, if you're interested, is cushions. Have enough cushions you could lose a pet or small child. If I can still see your couch you're not trying hard enough. Open
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
don't post ashk.au/2026/07/07/t...
ashk.au
The web is dead, what's next?
Long live the web. If Apple strangled it, it's the tech bros finally put it out of its misery.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
@patricklenton.bsky.social random obervation, Substack has your newsletter behind an age gate. I'm not subbed at the moment, but I was very surprised to see this pop up when I tried to log in.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
A new quiz format? In this economy? Celebrate budget day with our More or Less challenge - a new one from our team. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05... #AusPol
abc.net.au
More or less quiz: Follow the money and see what it gets you
A new quiz format? In this economy? Celebrate budget day with our More or Less challenge.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Me: “can we try throttling these?” Apple's voice input: “can we try threatening bees?” 🐝
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
mystery gym exercise I dictated to my phone at some point: "Cable pay how do you time your breasts just guess off rotation"
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
I washed my hands right before I met the person at the desk behind me and they went in for a handshake and I was like "sorry I've got wet hands" but put my hand out anyway and they grabbed it and looked so disappointed
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🛫 VA 306 to Melbourne
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
doing the midnight gym thing
it's a-me, looking sweaty at night in front of a purple-interiored Anytime Fitness
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
I signed up for Anytime again. I love my old gym but it's a huge pain how early they close on weekends; I'm just not a morning person. I am, however, an 8pm person. (Also I have DOMS.)
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🏳️‍🌈 Brisbane Queer Tech meetup for April: come hang out with me and make some IRL friends at the Ship Inn. Are you in? RSVP at luma.com/bs5smgmw?utm... and pass it on :) #brisbane #btub
luma.com
April Queer Tech Drinks · Luma
Are you LGBTQIA+ or an ally and working in, with, or around technology and want to meet new people? Then join us for a drink (alcohol optional), finger food,…
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The Brisbane Lights @bnelights.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
Tonight Reddacliff Place, Story Bridge, Kangaroo Point Bridge, & Victoria Bridge will be lit purple, orange, blue, green, & pink for Brisbane Cycling Festival ✨
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Couldn't work out why the hand dryer wasn't working. It's a paper towel dispenser.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Iran's strikes on data centres show vulnerability of AI expansion www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...
abc.net.au
Iran's strikes on data centres show vulnerability of AI expansion
Iran struck three data centres in the Middle East, and has signalled that technology infrastructure will continue to be in the firing line.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
lol, but also yes. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
These charts show the price patterns that have landed Coles in court www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
abc.net.au
These charts show the price patterns that have landed Coles in court
The pricing patterns of these six products show how Coles stands accused of using its Down Down marketing campaign to dupe shoppers.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
'I am shocked': Unpacking One Nation's spectacular rise in the polls www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02... #AusPol
abc.net.au
'I am shocked': Unpacking One Nation's spectacular rise in the polls
Pauline Hanson's One Nation has seen the fastest polling rise in modern Australian politics. What is going on?
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
One week to go. Are you a tech-adjacent LGBTQIA+ in Brissie and want to meet some new peeps? Do some networking? Or just have a drink on the boulevard? You should come! Tell a friend :) luma.com/wqzle2re #Brisbane
luma.com
February Queer Tech Drinks · Luma
Are you LGBTQIA+ or an ally and working in, with, or around technology and want to meet new people? Then join us for a drink (alcohol optional), finger food,…
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Sofi Tukker at Fortitude Music Hall. So damn good. Like being inside a real life Winamp.
Sofi and Tukker on stage. Tukker is on the decks and Sofi is being grand up on a platform, amongst a red sea of fire visualisation on the screens
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
$4.98 at Bunnings, a pack of Babybel and the CityCat home.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
dumb idea: a tool to take a long article and turn it into a series of skeets throughout the day for the short of attention span. blog as linear television.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
The thing I'm looking forward to least is that Adobe has had a MRR chokehold on visual folk forever, and it feels like now it's us developers' turn nadh.in/blog/code-is...
nadh.in
Code is cheap. Show me the talk.
Linus Torvalds once said, 'Talk is cheap. Show me the code'. That is no longer the case.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Today it's a very merry cockroach guys day because the cockroach guys came. So now I'm excited for, to be fair, the same amount of cockroaches but in different configurations of alive.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Today I have quite a bit of hair going on, and while it's not exactly cooperating I kind of like it so you get to enjoy it too
My noggin wot with the mad scientist mullet and all. Some junk and my apartment in the background.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
For the Brisbane queers on computers, 2 weeks to our next pub meet. You should come along luma.com/wqzle2re
luma.com
February Queer Tech Drinks · Luma
Are you LGBTQIA+ or an ally and working in, with, or around technology and want to meet new people? Then join us for a drink (alcohol optional), finger food,…
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Lunch break at Brunch Lake
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
But I got an email reminding me that I'm seeing Sofi Tukker on Thursday!! Which is Today!! Oh shit!! (next thursday).
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Getting a new wave of spam in Dutch. There must have been another data breach.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Like that time I was riding along the Riverwalk and the pedals fell off. No way stop the charges until I pushed the heavy AF bike couple of kilometres to a parking area. Capitalist fucking hellscape with cute, inoffensive branding.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I really dislike that Lime has a completely automated support system. No humans involved at all, and no accountability. You're legally required to wear a helmet, but half their fleet has been damaged or stolen, and there's no way to report it.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Should this heatwave be named? theconversation.com/where-did-south…
theconversation.com
Where did southern Australia’s record-breaking heatwave come from?
Australia’s northwest is well known for its heat. But this furnace-like area can deliver heatwaves to the southeast, thousands of kilometres away.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
RE: aus.social/@KathyReid/1159643309029… weeeeee
aus.social
Kathy Reid (@KathyReid@aus.social)
For any other @marthawells@wandering.shop fans, #Murderbot 8 is available for pre-order in all good bookstores. You're welcome. NEW MURDERBOT !!11!!11!!!1111
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
'nother brownout. Lights dimmed and the UPS clicked. Lots of gas in the grid at the moment, and looking at the charts it lines up pretty well with the heatwave. Funny that. Those emissions are yucko.
A seven date chart showing emissions volume in the Australian NEM electricity grid. The last three days are significantly higher, with orange peaks showing increased gas emissions. Not pictured, but lines up pretty well with the heat wave sweeping the country.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
(lol)
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Now we have AI to build it for us, the hardest part is registering a good domain name.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Hey nerdfolk, if I was looking for a cheap monitor to run a MacBook Pro, would something like this be alright? I think the non-Thunderboltiness is ok for a keyb & moose. But is the wattage too low for general workday workloads? What's the catch?
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The fire engine rolls into my street as the storm breaks overhead. It's a bad omen. Nothing good ever happens with the fire engine in my street.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-24/temp… #link
abc.net.au
Track temperatures live as heatwave sweeps across Australia
Use our tracker to keep an eye on temperatures as a heatwave moves across much of the country.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Heatwave conditions. Aldi bag o' caesar salad. Can of raspberry drink. Life is alright.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The ship sank with no survivors because the millennial on the radio was tapping out morse code for the Nokia message tone.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
It feels like a storm, everything's dark. I'm not going to look it up, let it be surprise.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I'll just finish this short story and go to bed. An hour later I'm still going, so I check the remaining chapters and realise it's actually the back half of the book. Stag Dance. Might have to pick it up again tomorrow.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
That was a really great night. Fills the cup, etc. What a bunch of cool and interesting people.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
It begins!
Shawn and I at the pub with a Brisbane LGBT+ and Allies in Tech sign on the table
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I find a quiet spot to do some yoga on the carpet where nobody will see, then the door to a nearby meeting room opens and literally everyone walks past.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I am sitting at my desk at work and I can FEEEEEEL my back tightening up. Something is wrong here and I don't know what it is. Is it the chair? Is it the scooter ride in? Is it the backpack with the heavy laptop? Is it the foul wind from the battery of microwaves? There are so many variables.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Slab of roided out himbo wearing a stringer and walking his pug by the river. It's a gender-affirming, pectoral sort of masculinity you don't usually see in these parts and I appreciate it.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Can you guess which idiot reserved a table at the Plough Inn instead of the Ship Inn? Lucky I checked. Anyway it's fixed, and I hope yo see you there. Pls feel free to forward it to anyone who might be interested events.humanitix.com/brisbane-lgbt-…
events.humanitix.com
Brisbane LGBT+ & Allies In Tech Drinks 2026
A social pub meetup for LGBTQIA+ folks in (or interested in) the Brisbane tech scene.
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
A piece of Australian culture is disappearing. (What are the relevant food hashtags for this one?) ashk.au/2026/01/20/how-good-is-chee… #food #blog
ashk.au
How good is cheesy rice tho
I’ve been loving my rice cooker. Between that and the air fryer it makes it super easy to prepare work-from-home lunches without having to do much of anything at all. It’s a little Cuckoo 6-cup pressure rice cooker, which is the perfect size for me. And, look, probably the perfect size for anyone unless you … Continue reading “How good is cheesy rice tho”
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Ash @ashkyd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
RE: bne.social/@ash/115902014639198001 Brissie queers come hang out with me challenge. This is on Thursday so make sure to RSVP!
bne.social
Ash K (@ash@bne.social)
Hey BNE LGBTQIA+ peeps working or interested in tech: I've organised another hangout at the Ship Inn (new venue!) next Thursday. Maybe you'd like to come and socialise? No pressure, but I reckon it's a fun way to meet peeps. https://events.humanitix.com/brisbane-lgbt-and-allies-in-tech-drinks-2026 #Brisbane
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