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Can the school holidays please be over. Please.

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Tie between Watership Down (the book), and the bulldozer coming directly towards the screen in the Wombles movie, which was possibly the first movie I ever saw in a movie theatre.

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Amaranth M @jazzelves.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak about drivers! In the old days, everyone knew what men were; Fast, Furious, glory-bound. Only stories now, but I'll sound the Family's song, hoarded for hungry times.

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worm @rfksbrainworm.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

If you ever wondered why visible light is those particular wavelengths, it's because life evolved to see in the narrow range where water is transparent

Diagram of absorption of emf by water. There's a gap right that dips in the 500 nm range

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The Onion @theonion.com · 03/10/2026

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth theonion.com/womans-career-dies-in-…

Woman’s Career Dies In Childbirth
Mother’s Livelihood ‘Gone Before Its Time,’ Family Says

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Chicago Pope from the top rope!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You've seen fireworks that look like jellyfish, but what about a jellyfish that looks like fireworks? The E/V Nautilus filmed this rare Halitrephes maasi jellyfish glowing like a firework at a depth of 4,019 feet (1,225 meters) off the coast of Baja California, Mexico. (📷: Ocean Exploration Trust)

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Day 4 of the school holidays: muffin-baking, meeting with client A, make morning tea for 3 kids, meeting with client B, make lunch for 2 kids, ascertain whereabouts of 3rd kid, meeting with clients C and D, send kids 1 and 2 to dairy, doc edits for client E. My brain is fried.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

look, if you're worried about being remembered, don't try to pursue immortality or whatever, the smart move is to start selling substandard copper and then make sure anyone who complains deposits a physical copy of that complaint in a site that will later be archaeologically significant

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🦝 Pepper Raccoon: Trash Priestess 🦝 @pepperraccoon.com · 29/09/2026

🤘 KICK IT 🤘 The Bird of the Year is the Black Robin/Karure, coming in like a tiny wrecking ball to smash the competition. Thread Project premium screenprinted tees in unisex and fitted sizes S-5XL. Pre-order this tee NOW: pepperraccoon.com #birds #boty #kikorangi

A detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

A flatlay of green t-shirts, featuring a detailed dark fantasy style illustration of a black robin on a branch, holding a tiny spiked mace. The words Black Robin are in high stylised handlettered text, and the border features Chatham Island forget-me-nots.

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Great second day of the school hols: Muppet Treasure Island, popcorn, and stuffed toys.

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wordsSHIFTminds @wordsshiftminds.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Came for the horror, stayed for the ALT text. 😁

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

I'm a COOK I'm a THIEF I'm his WIFE I'm her LOVER I'm a SINNER I'm a SAINT PROFITEROLES are GREAT

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cloth gown gridlock @rosyrhapsody.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In Japan they don't call it a train of thought, it's the Thinkansen

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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Like. I have said it before and I'll say it again: when your industry's founding pitch is "what if there was a tool with human-level intelligence that didn't have human rights," then regardless of whether the tech is actually sentient (which it isn't), nothing downstream of that will be ethical.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 26/09/2026

Rogue AI agent brought iced tea to a job interview

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MeatMechSuit @meatmechsuit.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day This guy literally saved the world.

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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Ah, that traditional start to the spring school holidays: pissing rain.

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Kevin Marks @kevinmarks.com · 25/09/2026

I wanted to read de Vermis again, so I googled "John Ford woodworm poem" and found my own blogpost on his death epeus.blogspot.com/2006/11/mike... which linked to ML's collation of his works there: www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/... Making Light as a place is gone, memory is everything to lose.

Blog comment #1
John M. Ford
October 13, 2003, 05:41 PM

The worm drives helically through the wood
And does not know the dust left in the bore
Once made the table integral and good;
And suddenly the crystal hits the floor.
Electrons find their paths in subtle ways,
A massless eddy in a trail of smoke;
The names of lovers, light of other days —
Perhaps you will not miss them. That’s the joke.
The universe winds down. That’s how it’s made.
But memory is everything to lose;
Although some of the colors have to fade,
Do not believe you’ll get the chance to choose.
Regret, by definition, comes too late;
Say what you mean. Bear witness. Iterate.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring

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Iron Ring - Wikipedia

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Karen K. Ho @karenho.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

IMO, no one should put wool, silk, delicate or expensive clothing into a washing machine set to hot or into a dryer on high temp; and many conversations with lawyers, HR, and senior government officials should not be transcribed by Otter.ai and other AI transcription services.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Kid 1 and his cousin are discussing which university they're both going to go to. Comparing engineering schools, drama schools. They're both 11. I don't think I even knew what university was when I was 11.

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Jennifer Graham @jennrgraham.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Every intro to sociology class I teach gets this image.

A small digger trying its hardest to dig out the Ever Given ship that has run aground. It says, “Structural Problem” on the giant Ever Given and, “Making different personal choices” on the tiny digger.

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Jan Haugland @jansh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Douglas Adams wrote that the "kakapo is a bird out of time. If you look one in its large, round, greeny-brown face, it has a look of serenely innocent incomprehension that makes you want to hug it and tell it that everything will be all right" - And apparently, it turned out to be so!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I've spent a lot of years studying a lot of collapses, and the truth of the matter is that they're always mundane: mild climatic shifts that reduce crop yields, a dumbass in power who makes some terrible decisions, neglecting things that obviously matter but the will to fix them can't be summoned.

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Funranium (AKA Phil Broughton) @funranium.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

3) What can you do to mitigate or eliminate the hazard? This brings us to everyone's favorite safety infographic, The Hierarch of Controls. Most people drop off the the top two levels, Elimination & Substituion, because they have already committed to making a hazard.

Tom from Explosions & Fire provides his Hierarchy of Controls

ELIMINATION - Physically remove the hazard
SUBSTITUTION - Replace the hazard
ENGINEERING CONTROLS - Isolate people from the hazard
ADMINISTRATIVE CONTROLS - Change the way people work
DENIAL - Threats can't hurt you if they're not real

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Madam Snazzy @moatatamaira.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I usually wait until Labour Day weekend for this but Climate Change, so this is your annual reminder to include sunscreen as part of your morning routine from here on out (if you don’t already).

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Naming a new project kickoff file, typoed it to "first drat" and I might as well leave it like that. Hopefully the swear-level stays down at "drat" for this project.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is how much of a nerd I was, and still am: at 20, I wrote a list of life goals in my diary. Still have that diary, have met most of the goals (and then some!). I think she'd be pretty happy with me. She'd be sad I didn't have a flying car, though.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In 1980, there were five karure/black robin left in the world. Every one of the 300 alive today is descended from a single breeding pair, Old Blue and Old Yellow. And now, they're leading the polls in the 2026 Bird of the Year #boty. Vote karure! www.birdoftheyear.org.nz?bird=black-r...

A bar chart of the poll results for NZ Bird of the Year. Placings are:
1. Karure black robin
2. Kākāpō
3. Kārearea (NZ falcon)
4. Kea
5. Takahē
6. Tawaki piki toka (eastern rockhopper penguin)
7. Ruru
8. Toroa ingoingo (northern royal albatross)
9. Pīwakawaka (fantail)
10. Hoiho (yellow-eyed penguin)

A photo of a black robin sitting on a branch, with a "Vote Sky Birds" badge and an image credit to Oscar Thomas. The bird is small, round and black, with a shiny black eye.

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Capn Borscht @capnborscht.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

The best thing about this planet is that every few days I'll learn about an animal I've literally never seen or heard of before, like the Nilgai which is just a stupidly massive antelope

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lumberjack wharfie @lumberjackwharfie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLIN HELLO MY RAGTIME GAAAL

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

Actual technology with deep, generous purpose remains extremely cool and good. I miss feeling good about machines and computers

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Kat Beaufort @onbearfeet.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I like the phrase "not my flavor of ice cream", and taught it to students. No one expects you to like an ice-cream flavor that's not a fave. You don't have to eat strawberry if you prefer rocky road. But if you attack someone ELSE for getting strawberry, everyone agrees that you're the problem.

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NZ Transit Buzz @nztransitbuzz.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

#StationNews: Auckland Transport has confirmed the names of the new robot cleaners for the City Rail Link stations. Robot Downer Junior Fat Freddy's Mop Meryl Sweep

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Share good news. We actually can save the world, if we try.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Speaking as a coder: they want you to believe that because then they can argue they need more money to make it safe, instead of just unplugging the goddamn ethernet cable. Every "it escaped containemeeeeeent" headline is at best incompetence, but generally just malevolent marketing

Doctored version of an old IBM printout. Doctored section starts at "ALWAYS".
A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE
THERE A COMPUTER MUST ALWAYS DO THE HACKING HAHA WHAT ARe they gonna do, put a computer in jail? Haha "oops it's alive" lmao

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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

To me, forcing businesses to own their externalities is one of the primary purposes of government. Through regulation and enforcement.

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Nat Torkington @gnat.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Rock on, Roseanne Liang! She's (among many other wonderful achievements) the Kiwi director of the Murderbot episode that just won the Hugo for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form. gizmodo.com/here-are-the...

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Here Are the 2026 Hugo Award Winners

'Sinners,' 'Murderbot,' and Alix E. Harrow's 'The Everlasting' were among the big winners at this year's ceremony.

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🎃 Zack o' Lantern 🎃 @zackdavisson.com · 07/09/2026

Only four known cultures have independently created full writing systems: 1) Egypt 2) China 3) Maya 4) Mesopotamia All other modern writing systems are an offshoot of one of these.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This is another of the Mandatory Retweet posts, like Tom Holland’s Umbrella.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

HOLY SHIT DUDES fucking with the environment is now not just a sin (which Francis also said), it is classed as a direct fuck-you to God and a central tenet of the reasoning is the need to care for "our common home," i.e. you are morally obligated to think about the other people who also live here

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Vatican theological commission defines ‘sin against creation and the Creator’ in new document

The more than 29,000 word text calls for ecological conversion due to “sin against creation and the Creator.”

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Andrew Dickson @andrewdickson13.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In July Seymour celebrated the best Term 2 attendance since 2016. In August, NZ hit its worst flu outbreak in a decade. Severe respiratory illness in Auckland at the highest level since surveillance began. St John's busiest day in history. These facts are related. 5/

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

We're at that lovely point in spring where we're gaining over 2 minutes of daylight every day. Everything is burgeoning with blossom and promise. Keep going, things will get better, say the daffodils.

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Enzo Giordani @enzogiordani.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I’m a finalist in New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year for the second year running! This year they have selected my chiaroscuro coots. The exhibition opens at Britomart soon, and I'd love your support in the People's Choice award! Vote for up to 5 favs here: www.nzgeo.com/photography/...

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