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The Snark Maiden

@katydidnz.bsky.social
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Fan of lighthouses, McLarenF1, maps, & Moomins. Redhead, proofreader-for-hire, & freelance snarker. Casual snapper. Kāpiti, NZ. 🇳🇿 "She could break up a pigeon fight in a bus shelter" Resistance is fertile. Toitū te Tiriti! substack.com/@katydidnz

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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 13h
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Garden entirely weeded over last couple of weeks. Like the Golden Gate and Forth Bridges it must be time to start back at the beginning again. 😭🤬 🌱🇳🇿
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 03/10/2026
Today, Sunday 4 October, is International Vodka Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/vodka-day/ Also, World Animal Day. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_A... www.daysoftheyear.com/days/world-a... And it’s happy 80th birthday to noted American hornbag Susan Sarandon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_S...]
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National Vodka Day | Days Of The Year
Raise your glass and have a toast to one of the world’s most versatile spirits, vodka. Try infusing your own vodka, buying a new flavor, or making a new cocktail.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“This is for my boy Paul mthrfkr!”
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This card was written for you and no one else.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I can highly recommend it. Loved the first part so much I offered to proof-read the next two. (Not because it needed it, mind!)And Chris let me and even paid me.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
ok but what did SHE wear
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Repost this if trans people should have access to dark magic...
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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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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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Right in front of the Casino at Monte Carlo. Driver lost that bet.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 01/10/2026
For me, the act of writing is how I learn what I’m writing about. I don’t know why people want to outsource that.*
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/r... Yes, yet another way AI makes everything suck.
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Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots | TechCrunch
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
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Scott Hutchinson @dungeondaddy.org · 30/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On the topic of paywalls @paullecomtephoto.nz this was a good read. (As is everything by Sarah Kendzior)
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 30/09/2026
Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
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Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year ‘no better than cheap multivitamin’
Many products aimed at women over 45 lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, consumer watchdog Which? found Menopause supplements costing more than £400 a year are no better than a £22-a-year multivitamin, according to analysis by the consumer watchdog Which?. Which? found that many popular supplements that are aimed at women over 45 going through menopause or perimenopause lack meaningful quantities of key nutrients, yet cost 20 times more than standard multivitamins. Continue reading...
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 30/09/2026
GOAT OR BIRD????
This is even better than the
"what color is this dress" dress.
Goat?
or Bird?
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is another nice size comparison map. While New Guinea and the UK appear to be of the same size on a Mercator map, NG is three-times the size of the UK. Source: buff.ly/3kx978C
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Jonathan Edward Durham @thisone0verhere.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is alllllll making a lot of sense
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just spotted in a local pond. Must be school holidays.
The grey-green head of a crocodile (alligator?) appearing from the water of a pond where no such amphibian should be.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
George Callaghan (b.N.Ireland, 1941) Autumn Road through the Glens. oil and acrylic on canvas.
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Cage @ridiculouscage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"why would I deceive you?"
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A very long read but very interesting.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Weeding on a slope sure is hard on the gluteus maximus! 🌱 🇳🇿
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Any optometrists on here? I've got a few pairs of old glasses to get rid of and I know some opticians take them but I want to know if ones with progressive lenses are actually able to be reused.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Weekend reading has arrived from @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social thanks to Blackwells free shipping to NZ/Aotearoa.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hoping Labour's pledge to finish hospital building projects is backed up with making those hospitals fully staffed. Announcing those two things together would be a stronger message.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Add your fess: b3ta.com/addfess
Whenever I have beans on toast, or even think about beans on toast, I sing "beans on toast" to the tune of Duran Duran's "Girls on Film". And now you're doing it.

Fesshole GOLD from 10th June 2021
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new toon: large language muddle www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
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Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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pmamtraveller.bsky.social @pmamtraveller.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
these Art Nouveau doors by Ernest Delune in Brussels, Belgium, from the 1900s.
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The Snark Maiden @katydidnz.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I think I pissed off a scam company as for the last few days I've had a huge increase in spam email. Pretty sure it was due to me complaining about the shitty products they sent me and demanding a refund of the undisclosed 'membership' fee (which I did get back).
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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