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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Matchmaking book service on Love Your Bookshop Day 💕📚 #lydb2026 #bookworm

Postcard of a matchmaking book service - write down a book you've liked, what you're in the mood for, and some other answers, and the bookshop will recommend a book for you

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Playing hooky in Lorne

Photo of the view from a ropes bridge high up in a gum tree forest with blue glorious sky

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Meanwhile, Aus Post changed their app logo to celebrate a collab with Harry Potter 🤢 read the roommmm (deleted app for now)

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Interested to see the ghosts’ photos

Screenshot from Pixelfed photo sharing app - no photos in my feed at the moment, just a big drawing of a ghost and the text, “Ghosts have taken over this timeline!”

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Bless your cotton socks

Screenshot of email in inbox from Diaryland - announcing new anti-AI feature

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In this time of sucky companies, lil ol’ Diaryland is meanwhile giving users a digital wellbeing survey and asking how it can suck less 🫶 diaryland.com

Screenshot from Diaryland:
“Digital Well-Being Survey
I've created a short digital well-being survey with a few questions about how Diaryland can be the best experience without trying to hook people. Give it a gander if you have a minute”

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Kid A was excited to tell us about a story writing exercise they'd done at school, Frankenstories, where the kids had to write parts of a story and then voted on the winning parts to make a full final story. So here we are, after dinner, writing a Family Frankenstory about squirrels and wizards :D

Screenshot of the Frankenstories website with the writing prompt "Imagine they help a wizard" with an image of a squirrel in a forest, pushing a tiny shopping trolley, and a snippet of story:
The wizard sat up, took off his underpants, wiped the mud off his face, then popped his undies on his head.
"What?"
"Ummmm... " said the squirrel. "Are you okay?"
The wizard waved his wand again, and a miniature shopping cart appeared in the squirrel's hands, filled with miniature groceries.
"What the....!" squeaked the squirrel.

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

eutow web art demo.marpi.pl/archan/eutow/

screenshot from 'Eutow. Marpi x Archan' chrome experiment - fictional psychedelic scene, like a moment captured in time, you can navigate 360 degrees, with strange elements, textures, sculpture that looks like liquid mirror in the middle, giant with maybe a laser coming out of his hand, strange multicoloured fauna on the ground, giant glitchy hummingbird, all weird stuff

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Myspace is back, owned by Viant Technology, 'a pioneer in people-based digital advertising'. This is their homepage. Just what we don't need, no thanks

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Started Are You Mad at Me and quickly DNF’d First time seeing these kinds of 1 star reviews but won’t be the last…

1 star review of “Are you mad at me” book that says it reads like it’s been written by AI

1 star review of “Are you mad at me” book that says it feels like it’s been written with AI

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Gloria’s memoir —> so many Wikipedia rabbit holes (Americans probably know all this stuff but it’s new to me)

Screenshot of “my life on the road” book by Gloria Steinem

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

mildly related, today's sticker table at work

photo of various colourful stickers - Exercising my right to disconnect, Animals are sentient, No justice no peace, Make childcare free, Decolonise international aid, A home you can afford, Forest defender, Rent controls now

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

if you are free this saturday night... come and join me at a live podcast recording in Camberwell with @toiletpaperaus.bsky.social ! tix at greens.org.au/vic/hopenothate

poster for live podcast recording - Hope Not Hate - greens X toilet paper australia - special guests Samantha Ratnam, Mehreen Faruqi, Kylie Rocha, Jackie Carter

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Last one from last night 💙

Photo of tree at night - tree trunk and branches lit up by a million tiny fairy lights

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Lightscape at the botanic gardens - also beautiful

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Werribee zoo safari tour - beautiful

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

My kid is so indieweb it hurts

Screenshot from kid’s website - “update log” page - which begins: “I have restarted Aspaceofthings many times, but I have saved most of them. This is a page about all the previous versions. It looked very different at the start; which was a website I hosted at w3schools.com, which is a code-learning and website hosting service. But eventually it said I was using up too much data, so I switched to a hosting service called neocities”

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

From ‘my life on the road’ by Gloria Steinem: “the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself-or will use military violence against another country-

Screenshot of page from My Life on the Road book

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Just got home from our second Up Next comedy show from the Comedy Festival season - teen comedians - the kids loved it (so did we), will try to get a bigger posse to go next year!

Comedy Festival promo for Up Next Comedy, “a stand-up comedy night presenting Australia’s funniest young comedians”

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Every now and then, there is a new drop of delightful stationery/stickers/etc at work, this is what I spotted today

Photo of a colourful postcard with artwork that says “a home you can afford“

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Loved the old Paramount logo in Clue 💙

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It’s Friday, the kids have a curriculum day, my work has a 4 day work week so it’s the weekend for me, took them to Twisted Science and now they won’t come down

Photo of a kids bedroom with bed, drawers, rug, toys, reading lamp, artwork on the wall, and two kids relaxing on the ceiling

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Uni Melb asking if I'll chip in $5 for a student's food because "it's hard to focus on your studies when you're really hungry" Uni Melb, the second richest university in Australia

Screenshot from Uni Melb email asking for $5 for groceries and food, $15 to pay for transport, $50 for medical support or $50 for internet and data

Screenshot of Wikipedia page "List of Australian universities by annual revenue" showing University of Melbourne as #2, with revenue in 2024 of $3.7 billion

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sesh with Chloe Stoddard from the Mamdani campaign

Big hall of people - screen on stage showing Chloe being interviewed by senator David Shoebridge

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Sesh with Zack Polanski

Zack Polanski on big screen on stage at conference with vic greens leader Ellen Sandell interviewing

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

At the vic greens campaign con this weekend 💚

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In the kids graphic novel section of my local book shop : dark!

Photos of 2 books - graphic novels of Heart of Darkness and Animal Farm

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Misread it as "The wearable AI threat" and you know, makes sense

Screenshot of the home page of bee.computer, a website advertising a wearable AI device that records conversations and other such AI things. The heading visible on the page reads, "The wearable AI that"

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

PSA: if you use StoryGraph, the adding-friends feature is turned off by default — to allow the social aspect, in Preferences, set 'Who can send you a friend request?' to Anybody

Screenshot of Preferences screen in StoryGraph, showing where you can change who can send you a friend request - under the Community heading

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

This is a book about my son

Picture book with title “In a minute” with cover illustration of child cosy on a couch with toys, books, clothes, general mess

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

The place we went to today had a Doggy Menu inc. $35 Puppy Picnic 😶

Dogs section of the menu at Green Olive - $3 Puppychino, $6 Dog Treats, $35 Puppy Picnic

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

for my bday… so much spicy cinnamon!

Photo of box of cinnamon mentos, cinnamon ice breakers and big red chewing gum :)

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Not sure gmail staff use gmail, bc if they did, templates wouldn't be under a double-hover menu that is a total pain to use 😔

screenshot of Gmail interface - composing an email - and to get to Templates you need to hover over one thing, then over a second thing

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fx @cocolaco.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

The fresh watermelon cake from Linger bakery in Camberwell is delicious 🍉🍰 it looks like a tomato and cream cheese whole grain sandwich !! but it’s pistachio cake with watermelon and white chocolate #melbourne