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tfw you were like haha yeah haha let's open the windows let's enjoy the autumn breeze haha ahaha IT IS NOW EIGHTY OF FAHRENHEIT'S FAMOUS DEGREES IN HERE so yeah I guess you can boil a frog for a nonconventional understanding of the words boil and frog

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 13h

I sought out and listened to "Choosing Texas" and I'm no longer sure that I hadn't previously heard it, because I forgot the tune as soon as I heard it. If I hadn't looked up the lyrics, I don't know I'd remember anything of it. A hole in my head exactly the shape for it to drop right out.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcculloch.com · 01/10/2026

Huh. Today in "always look up the etymology because sometimes you're just repeating a myth but sometimes it's weirder and more incredible than you could have possibly imagined" www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

Screenshot of Merriam Webster etymology note for cockamamie:
By the look and sound of it, cockamamie (also spelled "cockamamy") could have something to do with a rooster and the outrageous sound it makes. But in fact, cockamamie is believed to be an altered form of the term decalcomania, which refers to the process, invented in the mid-19th century, of transferring pictures and designs from specially prepared paper to surfaces such as glass or porcelain. (The word referring to the picture or design itself, decal, is a shortening of decalcomania.) The word decalcomania comes from French, with décalcomanie combining the verb décalquer, meaning "to trace" or "to transfer by tracing," and -manie, meaning "-mania." Starting in the 1930s, painted strips of paper with images capable of being transferred to the skin were called decals or—in children's slang—cockamamies. Those familiar with today's temporary tattoos will understand quickly that these were regarded by many as silly novelties, lending the word cockamamie the necessary leeway for application to anything ridiculous.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 30/09/2026

Discovering that it is important for me to keep smilin', because if my morale drops below threshold, I get incredible acid breakthroughs, which further degrades my morale, which furthers the acid breakthrough, and it's really just not a good scene

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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

MY BRAIN: hey here's that time you were thoughtlessly rude to a friend. remember that embarrassing gift you gave to your first girlfriend. once you ran into someone ME: please..I am begging you. Can we remember some fucking French. why did I come into this room MY BRAIN: nope. once when you were 4

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 29/09/2026

I love diceware, a great cheer for four-to-six-word-passphrases, AND if I use the password less than once a month, I haven't found it much of an improvement over random strings. Password managers remain pretty great! In conclusion, if you disable paste in password fields, you are the antagonist.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 29/09/2026

SOME LAD ONLINE: everything is bad! everything, without exception! ME: that fellow must be going through it, poor man MY BRAIN: hey tovarisch check this out [INCREDIBLY DISTORTED THOUGHT] ME: my word! no doubt but that everybody thinks such things "on the reg"¹ ¹ regularly

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 28/09/2026

I thought this was interesting because I'd bought into the frame of, US military actions these days are as they are because of specifically American dysfunctions (a president hammering the only button he has) but this argues I think well that it reflects a change in what "normal" war will be

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 28/09/2026

I wonder if Obama's kids get messages in the family chat like "URGENT REQUEST FROM PRESIDENT OBAMA what was the name of that guy in the Shawshank Redemption" and "I am humbly requesting you to bring a boba tea on your way back"

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 28/09/2026

My little dog loves when I have yogurt so much because she gets to lick the bowl out afterwards, it's part of the ancient promise between wolves and men about what to do when you murder an elk

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Crushed an Oktoberfest rosé because the lads had to figure out how to dispense the boxwine and then said "well we can't serve pre-poured boxwine" and I said YOU CAN'T JUST THROW AWAY GOOD¹ BOXWINE ¹ "Boxwine! Are you daft?" Perhaps!

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

contra my father-in-law I believe drywall anchors are good if you want to put a screw in drywall and if you want that screw to do anything like e.g. hold a hook they are worth less than shit

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

If you are making pretzel caramel brownies for the function I need to stress you gotta grease that pan like a motherfucker or have, like, an ice pick ready to go, you would not believe the difficulty multiplier of angling around the pyrex and still cutting through caramel and peanut armor

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Okay so there's a lot going on in deep time but PBS has just alleged to me that Dimetrodon, and most of the lads of the Permian, didn't really "hear" things because *ears hadn't evolved yet* youtu.be/IXU43nvmDkE

youtu.be

Why Were Sails So Popular 300 Million Years Ago

YouTube video by PBS Eons

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Everybody is like ah yes music is a friend to humanity and that's true enough as it goes, but a real consequence of music is that whenever somebody says "first things first" my brain autocompletes "I'MMA EAT YA BRAINS // AND THEN I START ROCKIN / GOLD TEETH AND FANGS"

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

going viral is always a massively disproportionate punishment for whatever crime the internet decides you committed. even when the target DID do something wrong, it’s not “the consequences they deserve”, it’s medieval public shaming, and it has caused more than one person to decide death is better.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 27/09/2026

Man I just can't engage with a story that's like, so the protagonist is in a relationship but her partner is an enormous piece of shit, because my brain is immediately like wait you're in a relationship STATISTICALLY YOU MUST BE THE ENORMOUS PIECE OF SHIT

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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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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 26/09/2026

"How's the siege of Wintergate going" if we had a nickel for every time a boulder landed one hex short of crushing an entire stack of militiamice, we'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot but we also only have the two stacks

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 26/09/2026

I'm learning about therapy horses, which is interesting because it seems like a big part of how they can work is horses (prey animals generally probably) don't believe you when you say everything is fine when you're not fine, so they're sort of a visualizer for your inner turmoil.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 25/09/2026

SIXTY-SEVEN DEGREES FAHRENHEIT OUT OF DOORS: ah marvelous, a warm spring day. I could ride my bike or read a book or simply enjoy this sun shine. SIXTY-SEVEN DEGEEES FAHRENHEIT IN DOORS: this hungering cold is beyond human endurance.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 25/09/2026

Sometimes I get mad at computer and I use strong language like "hey what the fuck" and my little dog gets up and leaves the room and it makes me feel TERRIBLE each time

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blueminder @ohnoim.online · 24/09/2026

it's too bad i have important shit to do. this would be a great year to fuck off from society and train with some shaolin monks

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 24/09/2026

Unintentionally found myself in a Radio Yerevan joke, that went, roughly Radio Yerevan was asked: why is this operation so complex? It is not worth optimizing because it is rarely done. Radio Yerevan was asked again: but don't we do this commonly? Yes, but each time we only do it once.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I am now keeping this on speed-dial

Edited old IBM printout in black caps on off-white paper.
'A computer can never be held accountable
Therefore 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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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 24/09/2026

I was like "a quota? that's what it cawsts to make a phone cawl in Bawstun" and then I realized that payphones are extinct and started to panic. A quota is... all da Patriots need ta win da big gayme? I'm lost at sea! Fuck!

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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay. Let's take them at face value. Put them in jail. That's the only logical response to such an "admission."

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 23/09/2026

My little dog loves to lie on the stairs to guard me from e.g. FedEx guys, but she also wants to dig up the carpet at that particular spot. I have installed a little bed there, and we are now at an uneasy truce.

A little dog lies in a pink bed on some stairs

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 23/09/2026

I'm chunking my way through Ancillary Justice by Ann Lecke and it's doing pretty good at hitting the unreliable narrator notes that I love so well despite the narrator probably being, like, mechanically unable to doublethink

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 22/09/2026

whenever i hear some variation on "but what if trump does X or Y or Z" i think of this ulysses s. grant remark to a subordinate during the wilderness campaign.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 22/09/2026

I was like, "what is the etymology of ammunition vs. munition" and the answer is, older French was like "ah oui oui, «ze war shit», c'est «la munition»" and middle French was like "aha, certainement vous avez dit «l'amunition»"

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 22/09/2026

"So this exercise is like a sit-up but we make it a little harder" wait hold on what do you mean a sit-up can get harder

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 19/09/2026

I hate when I’m hit with a weapon or elemental damage type that corresponds to my weakness

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 21/09/2026

Goodness gracious these are fantastico

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 21/09/2026

So a vile assassin left a screw in the road to harm and oppress the pickle van, but I REMEMBERED my driver's ed classes and I can change my own tire and I felt like Danny Champion of the World anyway do you realize that spare tires can go flat? feels like there oughta be a rule against that.

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 21/09/2026

ME: alright I've got pre-commit fully configured, got all these hooks in place, this time I'll have good coding habits for sure PRE-COMMIT RUFF HOOK: hey man you forgot to document this function ME: I'll kill you and eat your body

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 20/09/2026

who were the voters who were like "the problem is there just aren't enough rooftop sniper platforms in Washington DC" who were they

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 19/09/2026

DM: everybody, roll perception WAYNE, DRUID ASSASSIN: nine WAX, ROGUE DIPLOMAT: six ROSE, CATSPAW OF A MONSTROUS DARKNESS: eight RENONA, DRUID OF A THOUSAND SHAPES: ten ABIGAIL, SECRET POLICEMAN SORCERER: ten DM: [choking on tears] the DC... was eleven...

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Copper Hamster @copperhamster.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

My friend got a picture of them all together.

Sailor Moon cosplayers in a Mexican themed variation

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SPACEMOUSE 🇨🇦 @spacemouse.ca · 19/09/2026

EGO: (HAS LAID OUT ALL HIS ITEMS, IN UNDERWEAR) COATL: I do not see the cursed item here, it's still on you DYNAMO: it's not here, did you eat it EGO: Ego is in his underwear! ATANAH: You can eat things in your underwear, it's called depression

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 19/09/2026

COUATL: only the most CLEVER of your band could solve this riddle DYNAMO: here comes INT 18 em effers I'm a COLLEGE GIRL (rolls a one) WILLOW: keen elf senses will pierce this riddle (rolls a one) ATANAH: uh (rolls a four) EGO: [still kicking a hole in a wall] COUATL: COUATL: what the fuck guys

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Christopher "the" Agocs @agocs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Holy crap, some calves from the T36 pod decided to swim under our whale watching boat

A pretty close picture of a small black and white orca popping its head out of the water

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 19/09/2026

Shout out to Dr. Khan and her bomb-ass rose gold stethoscope, don't know why it never occurred to me that doctors could choose to accessorize with their paraphernalia, anyway it looked great let's all look great forever

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geoff @kookaburrasakura.co.nz · 18/09/2026

Among my various crimes, I am constitutionally incapable of serving base form Kraft Mac 'n Cheese, so here's today's Kraft Dinner feat. cherry tomatoes, garlic powder, oregano, basil, parsley, red pepper flakes we had no spinach :(

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