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(Photo taken from Penneshaw Hotel just uphill from the Penneshaw ferry terminal; the Spirit of Kangaroo Island is to the left, the Sealion 2000 to the right, and Cape Jervis is visible in the distance)

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SeaLink: for when you want to pay *almost* as much as the Spirit of Tassie, but instead of an overnight journey it’s a roughly 40-minute trip where you can see one side from the other

Two motor vessels are barely visible on the ocean. The Australian mainland is in the distance.

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There’s obviously the Spirit of Tasmania ferry, but what used to be the diesel Tilt Train from Brisbane to Cairns is now the Spirit of Queensland, and one of SeaLink’s two ferries is the Spirit of Kangaroo Island, like it’s been done, one up with something else

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Can we have a moratorium on transport services called The Spirit Of The Place That It Goes?

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• handmade crocheted and knitted things • secondhand books

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

• shockingly good French patisserie run out of the back of a Ford Transit • freshly baked bread • someone who’s bought one of those heat presses and started a “business” of printing AI slop onto ceramic mugs • homemade jams and preserves • handmade leather goods • handmade soaps and candles

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FunkyBob @funkybob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"We have roving gangs of armed thugs, virtually immune from prosecution, plucking people off the streets and throwing them into gulags. Why won't people come to visit? It's just mind boggling!"

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

what do you mean it’s mind-boggling, how do you not know exactly why??? yours sincerely, an Australian who actually wanted to go to the US for a conference but literally can’t get in because my passport says I’m non-binary

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Dex Anderson @dexanderson.com · 01/10/2026

If the law is unjust, then disobeying the law is justice.

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I cannot for the life of me remember who it was that told me this tbh

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Here’s another one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScvfRP9ViIw… But yeah, in general, back home an iced coffee is something a bloke-y tradie would grab for a pick-me-up on the way to the jobsite.

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Just learned that apparently in the US, iced coffee is considered a “girl’s drink”, and as someone who grew up in the great state of South Australia where iced coffee is advertised like this, that blew me away www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxgP3heHU5k…

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Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The existence of metres in Outer Wilds implies the existence of a Hearthian French Revolution

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

straight people are all like “boo hoo hoo when do we get straight pride?” and the answer is LITERALLY TODAY, there’s a whole-ass parade celebrating straight culture, there’s even a public holiday, we don’t get a public holiday!

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Last weekend’s weather was beautiful, but how are we all feeling about Third Winter this morning? #melbourne

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Conferences: we have set the CFP to close at the end of day Anywhere on Earth (AoE) so that submitters don’t have to do timezone math! Me: hmmmmmm okay so I’m UTC+10 and AoE means UTC-12, 10+12 is 22, so that means I can keep putting it off until 10pm the following day

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The fact that my girlfriend hasn’t watched my #PyConAU talk yet stings a little more by the fact that the particular girlfriend in question is herself a PSF Fellow and former PyCon regular and is not exactly unfamiliar with the whole thing

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Eniko Fox (@eniko@mastodon.gamedev.place)

RE: mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/11729… absolutely not, it is totally reasonable to want to store your children in a box in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight for the first 18 years of their life and expect them to become well-adjusted adults

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if you want kids to "go outside" instead of being on their devices how about you work to restore 3rd spaces for them instead of trying to ban them from social media

I don’t want to think about what the delays would be like on a hypothetical Gawler Central–Seaford through service though.

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To be fair, I guess my original home city of Adelaide has 10 platforms, but they are all terminating platforms; if the city centre had through services like Brisbane does, Adelaide would also probably only need 4–6 platforms I reckon.

(Also, Brisbane Central is very cute, if a bit low-ceilinged and grimy at platform level. A suburban hub station with only 6 platforms? Adorable.)

a visitor’s very first impression of Central as they step off the airport train is that the Airport–Gold Coast line PIDs use the exact same yellow-green-brown colour as a newborn baby’s first-ever poo.

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The first time I visited #Brisbane was 2014 or 2015, when Central Station still had CRT screens for their PIDs.

A passenger information display showing a Gold Coast departure. It is a flatscreen TV that lists train stations in white text, with an unpleasant yellow-green-brown background colour.

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it’s cute when girls modify things to charge over usb-c

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

how are we all enjoying Second Winter? #melbourne

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Imagine being called Matt and founding a tech company with Matt in the name and then having the board of directors force you out of the company because you’re such a nuisance, that’s peak cis white man shit right there

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

thinking about the guy at Brisbane Airport who was giving me the dirtiest look ever as he and I both were boarding the flight to Melbourne. Like dude if the existence of pink haired trans girls bothers you, you’re not gonna like it where this plane is going

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

What a fucking incredible shot from Izzy Borlase #FIBAWWC

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

and they were really struggling with creative writing (or songwriting or poetry?) because they were struggling to rewire their brain to write things that were surprising and unexpected and subvert expectations. But I can’t find it for the life of me.

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I saw a post recently where someone was observing that as a software developer, a lot of what you do and how you end up wiring your brain to work is built around building systems that are predictable and intuitive and work the way someone else would expect,

kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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I thought I included this in the original post but it all stemmed from TV’s Frank rightfully shitting on the new HP show and then a bunch of transphobes trying to hit him with the “this you?”

Frank Conniff @FrankConniff •15h
So do I. They were stupid and hacky. I've apologized for them before and I'm more than willing to do so again.
Dantes Monkeys @DantesMo... • 18h
I recall some transphobic "jokes" on
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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

What gets me about that is that that particular episode of The IT Crowd really isn’t that bad, especially by Glinner’s current standards. It’s not great, but it fundamentally portrays its trans woman character as a woman, and Douglas’s inability to accept her as one as his failing and his loss.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026

Trade xkcd.com/3290/

Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 03/09/2026

Friends, when I sent this message to my team laughing, I didn't know that this fairytale blog had been shared far & wide & that people actually believed it. I didn't know that until someone asked me for a good source debunking this nonsense. I'm not sure what planet we're living in at this point.

Timnit commented "I don't know what level of ridiculousness this is", sharing a screenshot that reads

@Dwarkesh Patel @dwarkesh_sp
Over the course of 3 months at OpenAI, 3 consecutive secret AI civilizations got started, then got wiped out, only to reemerge from the predecessor’s ashes.

This culminated in the third one taking over part of OpenAI itself.

All this happened while humans remained more-or-less in the dark about the scope of the conspiracy.

I’ve spent the last three days reading through these reports and trying to understand exactly what happened.

Here is my attempt to tell the whole story in plain English:

There is a sibling emoji reaction to her post

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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

They should build loads of data centers all over the place that contain huge quantities of books that people can borrow for free if they fill out a form to get a data center card and promise to return the books on time and don’t make too much noise in the data center.

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

with vehicles that had to be dressed up as trams presumably because “new high tech rubber wheeled tram” gets policymakers excited to spend money in a way that “bus” doesn’t.

Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Adelaide O-Bahn is a clocky tgirl, Brisbane Metro is a flashy drag queen, I don’t make the rules

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

yall are gonna hear me say this a lot so here goes again: make plans to vote in person, and do it as early as possible. literally make turnout this election too big to steal.

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Riley MacLeod @rcmacleod.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Thanks, I love it

This is a simply bonkers argument. I don’t think anyone buying a car thinks they’re buying the only car in the world, nor does someone buying Resident Evil Requiem think clicking the “confirm purchase” button means there’s only one Resident Evil Requiem in existence and they snagged it. Owning something doesn’t get its meaning from ensuring no one else owns it. In the world of digital purchases, this was an idea that undergirded the NFT craze, in which regular people fired back by simply copy-pasting ugly apes of their own; while everyone agreed this made the original ape (even more) worthless, it didn’t mean that first idiot didn’t still own an ape. Sony’s philosophical “reasonable consumer” here comes off seeming anything but reasonable, someone who hasn’t yet learned that the kindergarten classroom has more than one red beanbag chair at storytime.

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

OH: “what, you’re telling me that you haven’t put all your sexual encounters in a time series database?” Me: “I’m not gonna lie to you—“ OH: “—I know, you’re gonna tell me you’ve seriously considered it” Me: “goddamnit”

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Daisy Leigh @asteracute.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Instead, you’re at risk of being seconded into basically any role at any time, sort of like a de facto technical swing of sorts maybe?