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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Consummate mic stand tricks, leaping from speaker stacks, tight as hell. The whole shebang.

Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I was joking with friends who we’ll go to Powderfinger with that, because it’s at the RNA show grounds, it’ll be a chance to relive a Livid festival circa 2000. Ends up Powderfinger played 2002, the same year I watched The (International) Noise Conspiracy give one of the best performances I’ve […]

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

We have tickets for both Radiohead and Powderfinger next year. 2027, a bumper year for turn-o-the-millennium music-gigs. I've never seen either. (I'm pretty sure? Someone could tell me I had actually seen Powderfinger that one time and I'd believe them though.) I'm also looking forward to a […]

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

I was just spending a little time sprucing up the ol’ filters. “Hide completely” is the go for me.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Re: Australian English quirks Well, it could be broader, but my problem is it potentially being the opposite. If I say "Nah, you're 'right", what do I mean?

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Who's ready for another instalment of "blurry photos of cool Australian birds"!? Pale Headed Rosellas are around, but they seem very shy, very jumpy. This is as close I was willing to get, at this point it was already getting ready to take off. Fortunately it […] [Original post on bne.social]

Bog-standard Australian subtropical bush. In the middle, very small, is a bright yellow and blue parrot. A Pale Headed Rosella, though you can barely see it. It's perhaps five or six metres away, perched in a tree overhanging a dry creek bed.

A zoomed in version of the last picture. Zoomed into the point where everything is blurry and artefact-y. It looks terrible, but at least you can make out the general shape and colours of the aforementioned parrot.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Feels like spring or early summer today. The windows are all open. Bugs buzzing around. Warm. A bit breezy.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Jet goes home today. It’s been a blast having this double act cruising around for the week. To the right, not pictured, is a six year old eating a pastry.

Two whippets next to a small outdoor cafe table, staring intently at something out of frame.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I think Rosie has really enjoyed having Jet around.

A close up of Rosie the Whippet, sound asleep, with her head resting on Jet the Whippet’s bum.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I was going to get up, but I’m worried that might be illegal now.

A brown and white Whippet sleeping with her head resting on the bum of a black Whippet Italian Greyhound cross who’s asleep with his head resting on my leg. It’s all very cosy.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Fun fact, inspired by news articles being shared: bluebottles are siphonophores. They "blur the line between individual and colonial organisms", being made of a coordinated ensemble of not-quite-individuals (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonophore). A very unfamiliar way to live, introduced […]

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"Wait, what on earth did I just type ':wqa' into?"

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Happy "Charles Darwin is poorly today" Day to those who celebrate 165 years ago today, Charles Darwin was having a rough one

Photo of Charles Darwin's hand-written journal entry from 1 Oct 1861 and digitized text of same

"But I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

A very cool thing happened recently. I hope is the first instance of many. It's been interesting to watch my kid develop his musical taste, he likes things for his own reasons, with a certain consistency. The things he likes have unifying characteristics. It's not just what he's heard most […]

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I mentioned the other day that I have a collection of words I pronounce funny in my head in an effort to spell them correctly. One came up just now: auxiliary.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This is Jet’s bed. Jet is currently tucked in with the kid in his bed.

Rosie the Whippet in a pose I can best describe as outrageously relaxed. She’s tangled up in an orange blanket, half on her back so her paws are in the air. Her head is half buried in bedding, you can see her snout poking out with slightly bared teef.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

We are dog-sitting. The smaller black Whippet Italian Greyhound cross is Jet, our guest for the week. Rosie is quite happy to have a friend around, though she prefers Jet's bed, even when Jet is already in it. Jet is not on board with this. Each dog prefers the […] [Original post on bne.social]

A large white and brown Whippet (Rosie) and a smaller jet-black Whippet Italian Greyhound cross (Jet) are resting on cushions outside in the sunshine. The large white and brown Whippet looks slightly sullen.

A large white and brown Whippet (Rosie) and a smaller black Whippet Italian Greyhound cross (Jet) are walking side by side down a wide bush track.

A large white and brown Whippet is laying more or less on top of a smaller, black Whippet Italian Greyhound cross who is just trying to rest in his bed, under his cozy blanket, and would prefer not to have to deal with this big oaf.

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Mineralogical Society of America @mineralsocamerica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Thin Section Thursday! Chalcopyrite in galena (or sunset in a wintery forest, slightly askew), reflected light. Photo by Ingrid Kjarsgaard (c) You can contribute too! Send image(s) and short caption to akoziol1 (at) udayton dot edu. #thinsectionthursday #galena

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neville park @nev.flipping.rocks.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

The #Economics Prize goes to Dr. Paul K. Piff & co. for this 2012 study showing that rich people steal more candy from a dish marked "for children" www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.… #IgNobel

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Stefano on littleFedi @stefano.rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

# This is the first genuinely operational littleFedi instance. It has been online since 1st July, is single-user (just me), and runs on a Raspberry Pi Zero W powered by NetBSD, directly on its SD card. **It consumes just under 1W.** Its database […] [Original post on rpi0w.stefanomarinelli.it]

My Raspberry PI Zero W, hosting this instance, in its current position. Powered by an USB cable coming from the switch.

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

So I'm happy to now have a device with a USB-C port rather than thunderbolt. I'm free of thunderbolt in general, and that's good. But. I was in JB HiFi the other day and they'd sold out of 3.5mm audio to USB-C adapters and wired USB-C in ear headphones. The sales person said they'd been really […]

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Brad @brad.bne.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

A bit moody up at the radio tower this morning. CC. @brisbane_noir

Looking up from the base of a radio tower. I’d estimate it at perhaps 80 odd metres tall. It’s a wireframe square base pyramid. From this perspective it forms a triangle with its base spanning the bottom, and its vertex at the centre of the frame. The sky above is overcast with roiling grey cloud. The dark silhouette of a tree peaks in from the top of the frame.

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