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Diane Hanfelt

@dianhanf.bsky.social
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All around tough old broad. Nature, space, medicine, virology,books,etc . Probably too old for this shit. Tangata Tiriti. Toitū Te Tiriti Not interested in DMs. I block those who post AI video

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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A thread of excellent birds I have met, and their backstories, in 20 photographs.
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LateNighter @latenightercom.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Last Frame Tonight: With Kiwibank trying to stop the internet from lusting after its sheep mascot Buck, John Oliver and team gave her the final frame of Sunday night’s #LastWeekTonight open: “Veni”—Latin for “I came.”
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I just bought this! I’m happy like a kid at the holidays. A Star Trek Enterprise shuttle masquerading as a Ke Creuset baking dish. My bread will boldly go where no bread has gone before
A long rectangular off white heavy Le Creuset covered baking pan shaped like the Enterprise shuttle, with NCC-1701/7 n it
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
koinā te kōrero!
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Emily✨ @emilyoram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend
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Rebecca E. Reyes @rebeccareyeswriting.com · 23/09/2026
Guess what? I sell my books in my own personal Ko-fi store! 📚 Not only does buying a book directly from me support me better than any other online retailor, but you get: - Thank You Note - Author's Signature - Free Bookmark - My Eternal Love 💙 #BookSky #SFF #ScifiBooks #IndieAuthor
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Visit Rebecca E. Reyes's Shop!
I've opened a shop. Come take a look!
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Another reason to encourage Musk to go there? Just don’t tell him about the poison soil, it’ll be our little secret
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Great illustration of analemma pattern
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AndaliteBandit @andalitebandit.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Found this on Tumblr with the caption, "Saw a fire, stopped his car, got out and Madonna'd the fuck out of those flames". I want him carnally.
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Just listened and downloaded. Excellent music
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David K. Barnes @davidkbarnes.com · 04/08/2026
Here’s the latest stop motion animation from my Tiny Angry Witch team. (I’m the writer, I can’t take credit for the animating!) It’s one of our longest, and it nearly drove us all mad, but we’re really proud of getting it made! 1 x Tiny Angry Witch 1 x broom No AI
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 06/08/2026
I really recommend the 2022 documentary “It’s Quieter in the Twilight,” which profiles the scientists working in relative obscurity to keep the Voyager spacecraft operating—many of them past retirement age, but unwilling to quit until the Voyagers do. It was very sweet and thought-provoking.
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
THREAD/ORIGINAL ART GIVEAWAY This hare linoprint is by my mum, Jo. I'll be sending an original of this to one randomly chosen person who reposts this link to my recently updated website & pops a reply below. www.tom-cox.com The offer is open worldwide. I also have some more art to give away...
A meadow hare, filled with flowers, cut from lino by my mum, Jo.
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Dew on the grass looks like an invitation to a hidden world #BlueSkyArtShow
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Great picture from NASA featuring Barnards loop over twin volcanoes in Bolivia. Photo by www.instagram.com/gonlaserna_a... Gonzalo Laserna Vargas
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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Book reviews are an endangered species. So this independent bookstore decided to start publishing its own www.niemanlab.org/2026/06/book...
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Book reviews are an endangered species. So this independent bookstore decided to start publishing its own.
“We’re not just going to complain about it!”
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
DISASTER!!
A bunch  of chocolate chip cookies lying on the bottom of the oven where the landed after sliding off the cookie sheet
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Pic I swiped from my offspring, who is currently on the PCT. I am living vicariously through her. Not AI. She’s also at dulcewassil on insta and the middle-aged adventure chik on TikTok
A marmot with the high Sierra in the background
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🚄Rob✅✅🚆 @robdickinson.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
😆😂 this is a must watch @beehiving__badly from IG www.instagram.com/reels/DZ_vRD... #nzpol
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/07/2026
Holes xkcd.com/3266/
Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It rained and stormed for most of my time in Rarotonga. Fortunately I had some books with me. “Everything will swallow you” by Tom Cox was my favourite. A beautiful written, meandering, lush story with characters that I want to have over for a feed and a wine. Amazing! @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
A book entitled “Everything will swallow you” resting on a sandal, on a lounger. Beach in the background
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Rarotonga beckons #AlphabetChallenge #weekYforYonder
A beach with a cloudy sky and ocean on the left. The beach is deserted
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Two days of storms have put a wee bit of a damper on snorkelling but the upside is there was a double sunset rainbow last night!
A beach with palm trees, a cloudy sky and a brilliant orange glow with a yellow and vibrant red double rainbow caressing the horizon
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
It took me far too long to realise the lizard was not part of the painting.
A colourful picture of flowers in a vase with a tiny black lizard posed pensively on the vase
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
West coast of Te Waipounamu, the south island of Aotearoa/ NZ. #alphabetchallenge #wisforwater
A cloudy sky, the ocean and a dark coastline An expanse of ocean (Tasman Sea)  with acoastline in the far distance
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 05/06/2026
Classic. This Danish road safety advert is more accurate than quite a few Viking films & tv shows... and photo shoots... ;) But above all, it's very, very funny: youtu.be/pD-f45TbvEw?...
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A helmet has always been a good idea - 893
YouTube video by Rådet for Sikker Trafik
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Somehow made it to 70??!!
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Not sure where this AI nightmare of a map came from, but rather disturbing it was posted by a geographer 😬. Also, a relatively minor point, once again no one can tell the difference between the flags of Aotearoa NZ and Aussie
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In a world of cybertrucks, be a Voyager.
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Sunset. As seen in my walk
An orange glow in a cloudy sky on the left, with a silhouette of a mountain, a plank walkway and the ocean on the right
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The best thing about fall/winter is my Christmas cactus (Sclumbergera x buckley) blooming
A cactus plant with a multitude of segmented dark green stems , each tipped with a brilliant hot pink flower
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
More of this!
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
From 2018, along the Greenstone Valley track. #alphabetchallenge #reflection
Dark wooded hills reflected in an alpine lake
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Internet law, must repost. Also, 9 years?? Can’t be
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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Sir David Attenborough has a soft spot for #kakapo. We named a kākāpō after him (Attenborough the bird is now ten years old, living on Te Kākahu) and he kindly narrated a short video for us about them, which you can see here: youtu.be/5eZVjQowNvw?.... #attenborough #conservation
A male kākāpō In a roost. Credit: Andrew Digby
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A bit of a blustery evening on my walk, just enough that the kite surfers were out. Taken with my iPhone.
A wooden bench sits looking out over grassy dunes, sand and a grey ocean. Stormy clouds in the sky. Two tiny kite surfers above the ocean
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Kakapo chicks are the cutest little homely creatures
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Today’s baking drop for Good Bitches baking. My decadent triple chocolate brownies and a lovely raspberry shortbread. @goodbitchesbake.bsky.social #kindnessmatters
A box with brownies on one side and shortbread on the other.
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/04/2026
Types of Board Game xkcd.com/3235/
Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different  board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The beach is underwater here at Mount Maunganui. #cyclone
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Sad to see a great event marred by all these crap AI images being posted
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Paul "Princejvstin" Weimer @princejvstin.com · 20/03/2026
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts... “Viewers have been absolutely hooked.” Over 100,000 tune in to watch rare New Zealand parrot raising her chicks
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“Viewers have been absolutely hooked.” Over 100,000 tune in to watch rare New Zealand parrot raising her chicks | Discover Wildlife
Reality TV meets conservation – Kākāpō Cam is the most heartwarming thing you'll see all day.
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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 14/03/2026
Tiny books!! youtu.be/faN_yEghseo?...
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Smaller Than a Fingernail: Unboxing the World’s Tiniest Books
YouTube video by Victoria and Albert Museum
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Kakapo chicks are the best homely/cute little things
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
As seen in the Nelson airport, a contest to make the best tiny chair out of a beercan. My cold hard heart softens
A bunch of intricate tiny chairs and a beer canThe winning chair and the can type it was crafted fromMy favourite tiney chair with tiny woven metal straps
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/02/2026
Dinosaurs And Non-Dinosaurs xkcd.com/3204/
Comic. [2x2 chart. Top left quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of dinosaurs stegosaurus, triceratops, tyrannosaurus, velociraptor, and long-neck dinosaur. Top right quadrant: seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of mosasaur, quetzalcoatlus, dimetrodon, plesiosaur, and pteranodon. Bottom left quadrant: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are dinosaurs. Silhouettes of penguin, egret, ostrich, pigeon, falcon. Bottom right: don’t seem like dinosaurs x are not dinosaurs. Silhouettes of squirrel, stapler, plant, person, and bicycle.]
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RiffTrax @rifftrax.com · 07/01/2026
MAGNETIC Charisma!
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Diane Hanfelt @dianhanf.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
I’ll take it
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