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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 9h

I've gotta stop scheduling meetings in naptime

The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 13h

Psychology Back Then: Autism and ADHD are opposed so cannot coexist Psychology Now: That's like saying two angry cats cannot coexist in a bag

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Austin Appelbee, the Perth teen who swam 4 hours to shore in rough seas to alert authorities, leading to the sea rescue of his mother, brother and sister, has been awarded the Clarke Gold medal for bravery. Austin was 13yo when he made the 4km swim to shore to get help. Legend. 🙏😢 #bravery

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Might have a bit more sympathy after this for people who have lived under authoritarian regimes for decades.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

He was a certified badass, and this just confirms it.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

As we come into October, it's important to recognize the most important stakeholders at this time of year: vampire hunters.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Does the term "piping hot" come from the whistling sounds that some foods make as they are cooked, due to escaping gases?

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

..... but everybody assumes can't happen, because it almost never does.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

...... at zero gravity. In other words, on the International Space Station. But it was done! I learned this while doing my PhD on the fracture process in glass and it blew my tiny mind. I often tell students about it, because it 's a lovely example of something that is predicted by theory, ...

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

...... This was achieved with mica, which has a highly planar structure, meaning that a layer could be partially cleaved off, then aligned very precisely when it was un-cleaved. It was done very slowly (to minimise dissipation of energy as heat or other loss mechanisms), in high vacuum.....

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

......which normally means that the deformation of the material that accompanies the formation of the fracture must be almost completely elastic, and there must be no contaminants such as water molecules that can attach to the broken bonds. But it has been done! ......

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Turns out cracks in brittle materials such as glass can *in principle* spontaneously heal. I say "in principle" because it doesn't really happen in the real world. The molecular bonds need to line up precisely as they were before the crack formed.......

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cursed invention #67: Self-healing cheese slices. Cheese that, after being sliced, spontaneously fuses back into a single block in the packet. Which leads me to a curious Science Fact that not many people know about:

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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 26/09/2025

Just your annual reminder to raise a glass to Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov who on this date in 1983 saved ALL our lives when he decided to wait for evidence in stead of passing on the message that could have caused armageddon.

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Morning. ☕️

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It's probably just me, but is that a look of pity Xi is throwing at Melania?

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Soup! Bring soup. And enough bowls, spoons and bread for the panel.

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Gwen C. Katz @gwenckatz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

A crowded broadsheet with way too many fonts. It says:
Forget ChatGPT Flyers
Say it with
Broadsheets
Unlimited fonts
Stretch them
Or cram a really long sentence into one line for no good reason
No whitespace
Mix capital and lowercase
Pointing hands
(They're called manicules!)
Don't be left behind
Broadsheets are the future

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The best bit of this is that Deniz managed to bluff his way into the band area and convinced Keith Richards to buy a guitar from him.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I love how they think we want to be like them.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

As well as the Ostrogoths and Visigoths, there was a third type, the oft-overlooked Invisigoths

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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

A simple recipe. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

A political cartoon by Megan Herbert situated on a suburban footy oval with Parliament House in the background and a boisterous crowd watching on. The event: an egg and spoon race between PM Albanese and Pauline Hanson. They're neck and neck, but we see the game is rigged. Albo has his egg (Popularity) balanced on a spoon in his mouth, because he's also flipping pancakes (Foreign Policy), carrying a Pav (The Economy), wearing a tray of egg-based treats on his head (PMO, Media, Social Cohesion), and hauling a string bag full of eggs (cabinet portfolios), one of which has fallen and broken (Environment) and another in mid-fall (Energy Transition). Pauline, smiling, less frantic, carries just a single egg: Populism.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In future childrens' history books, Trump will be described as "The Mad President"

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Dolly Parton was one of those people whose primary claim to fame was of zero interest to me, but whom I adored and greatly respected as a human being.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Well, they had found a new species of wren and knew that the corresponding anti-wren must be nearby

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If it's so slow-cooked, why the heck is it called "brisket"?

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Progress. I had my first session today with a psych (therapist for Americans) who I could imagine talking shit with over a beer.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Sam: Wow, that volcano has an impressively dark and atmospheric vibe about it Frodo: Yes, that's why they call it Mount Mood

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

As I mourn both of my parents, gone within 6 months of each other, I console myself that they were blessed with the Boon of Hotness.

A bearded man smoking a pipe and fishing.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

To lose one parent is a misfortune, to lose two in 6 months looks like carelessness. (Soz, dodgy humour is my coping mechanism.)

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Farewell, my beautiful mum. I'm so relieved that your long ordeal is over.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

I had this utterly bizarre dream where I was on a panel interviewing Trump, and he was normal and rational and articulate and even kind of charming.

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 20/07/2026

Given it's the Moon landing anniversary, time for some radio telescope antenna appreciation! 📡 Here are the Honeysuckle Creek Antenna and Murriyang (Parkes radio telescope) located here in our neck of the woods. The broadcasts from Apollo 11 came to the world through these antennas! 📸 me

Looking up from below to the Honeysuckle Creek Antenna radio telescope

Looking at a radio telescope antenna which is pointing upwards in the distance. In the foreground are some trees.

A large radio telescope, pointing upwards

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Just saw The Odyssey. Really loved it, but I don't want to say more. You should see it for yourself.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

"The woke inaccuracy of Nolan's Odyssey is an insult to the primary source material" - Some guy on the internet The "primary source material": Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Clash of the Titans (1981), Hercules: The Legendary Journeys starring Kevin Sorbo (1995-1999)

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Wesley Morgan @wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Another historical inaccuracy from Nolan—IMAX had not yet been invented in the Mycenaean period, so this is not the aspect ratio that people saw in! Smh

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Well, FUCK. Too many good 'uns gone this year.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

For the love of god, stop anthropomorphising these things. It drives me bananas.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 02/07/2026

Today, Friday 3 June, is Disobedience Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/disobed... Also, (Inter?)National Independent Beer Run Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa... And it’s happy 64th birthday to actor and producer Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cru...

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Disobedience Day | Days Of The Year

Change up your life and let loose a little by breaking the rules. Alter your routine, ignore advice that’s holding you back, and march to the beat of your own drum.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That's the point of state-run terror. You must make it clear that *nobody* is safe.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

You know what cracks me up? Every portrait of a burly, scarred 17th-century general in half-plate armour.... with a silly little lace doily at his neck.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Rescued and returned home a lovely golden retriever called Sunny. Successful day! Also: why do the animals in trouble always find me?

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Reminder: Monocultures do not exist. They have never existed.

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The Hippopeteamus @hippopeteamus.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Dad would have been 83 today. After being gone 4 months, he is still the chief audience for my inner monologue, so I suspect that state of affairs is permanent.

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Skye @simplyskye.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Australian World Cup fans: “Aussie boys are on a bender – Donald Trump is a sex offender” Friday should be fun 🇦🇺 vs 🇺🇸

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