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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Tansy’s delightful The Season of Dragons is live on Kickstarter. Go get yourself a cozy dose of romance, humour, whimsy and, obviously, dragons. www.kickstarter.com/projects/tan...

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The Season of Dragons - Deluxe Special Edition

A cozy, romantic fantasy retelling of Pride & Prejudice in a society of matchmaking dragons and ruthless fortune-hunters...

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Aussiecon5 @aussiecon5.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Congratulations to Dr Sean Richards who graduated in September with a PhD in Physics from the University of Auckland. Richards described graduating in astrophysics as continuing a path set by "our ancestors" who used the stars to navigate the Pacific Ocean. #WorldSpaceWeek #Aussiecon5

rnz.co.nz

First Samoan astrophysicist encourages Pasifika students to reach for the stars

The first Samoan person to graduate with a PhD in physics at the University of Auckland has encouraged Pasifika students to remember that they belong and can succeed in academia.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I have just put the 4th load today through my dishwasher. I have also done a considerable amount of hand washing up. This house does not function well when I work five or six days in a week. (This week was five days, three of them very long ones.)

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 28/09/2026

More important bogong moth reminders.

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Tom Larkin @tomlarkin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

We’ve spent many, many hours over the past few months searching the rock pools of Cornwall for a rainbow sea slug. Today, we finally found one! Absolutely worth all the time we’ve spent - it was truly breathtaking.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 21/09/2026

One of the less remarked-upon aspects of atheism is how it changes the way you see sunsets. If you believe in an omnipresent God, then sunsets are one of God's intentional creations, which means that the beautiful colors refracting through the darkling sky were *chosen* to produce that effect.

$Two cross-sectioned anatomical drawings of men's heads revealing their brains, which have been filled with marching robots from old pulp magazines. Their stare at one another with raw, exposed anatomical drawing eyeballs, which radiate a halo of spiky lines. The background is a psychedelic, fractal-shot colored cloudscape.$

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Dimity and Rackham are tremendous fun. And there’s dragons!

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"My house and his house are two different houses, territories overlaid and overlapping. Our topographies don’t yet mesh; we are both creeping around each other’s edges, living together but apart." My first few weeks with a cat. nothingbutawordbag.substack.com/p/where-a-ca...

Substack preview. Art of two black cats, voids against a floral sofa. Text: Where a cat could sit - on learning to live alone together

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Ciara | Ciaraíoch 🎨 @ciaraioch.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The amount of local craft groups using AI to advertise is actually baffling. If only creatively making things was a hobby of some sort 🤔

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 20/09/2026

"It had been known earlier to women." I love this understated line from the Online Etymology Dictionary, on the clitoris.

The anatomist Mateo Renaldo Colombo (1516-1559), professor at Padua, claimed
to have discovered it ('De re anatomica,"1559, p. 243). He called it amor Veneris, vel dulcedo "the love or sweetness of Venus." It had been known earlier to women.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 18/09/2026

ICYMI the last Saturday, well, you need to know about this.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Came home from a work shift and baked scones. For Reasons.

Pic shows a plate with a pile of scones, another plate with a single scone split and topped with jam and cream, a pot of tea on a pot warmer, and a cup of tea.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 18/09/2026

This is fascinating. For many centuries, we’ve been told that the Parthenon was built with curves to avoid optical illusions. But Oxford mathematician Alain Goriely argues that there are no such illusions in the architecture. So the curves are there, but we don’t know why.

theguardian.com

UK mathematician debunks myth around Parthenon’s optical illusions

Study challenges belief that temple’s curves were designed to correct optical illusions that would have ruined its clean lines

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/09/2026

Actual technology with deep, generous purpose remains extremely cool and good. I miss feeling good about machines and computers

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m sitting in my car in my driveway after getting home from work and I’m too tired and sore to face getting out of the car. Also, I think I might have broken a toe when I fell in the bathroom yesterday. Ok. I can do this, right? Being inside my house is a worthy goal. There’s tea in there.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Slipped and fell in my bathroom this morning as I stepped out of my shower. Do not recommend. No serious damage but everything aches and I’m going to be limping for a while. Had to cancel today’s shift with a client at very short notice, fortunately her mum was around to fill in for me.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Better than average way to spend a Monday morning.

Mim sitting in a lounge chair. She has faded purple and green hair, is wearing glasses and a red apple print dress and holds a cup of coffee. Sunlight is streaming in through the window beside her.

View out the lounge room window showing the back of a wooden garden bench, some trees, a glimpse of the house opposite and brilliant blue sky.

Sebastian is lying on Mim’s lap in the sunshine. He is a slim and sleek black cat. He has his face turned towards the sun coming through the window and his eyes closed.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Spending my Monday morning taking my 24 year old kid to their GP and psychiatrist. This involves about 2.5 hours of driving and a fair whack of my money. I’m tired.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Having a fabulous time at The Festival of Dangerous Ideas. First session I went to was Rethinking, Think About Islam with Aftab Malik (The Special Envoy to Combat Islamophobia) chaired by Simon Longstaff. Very interesting and moving talk.

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Adam Richard @adamrichard.com.au · 19/08/2026

Some covid memories are fun.

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Look, I would rather the PM didn't make ham-fisted sexist jokes to win over the blokie tradie voters, but we're heading into a catastrophic fire season on the back of a super el nino and I'd much rather talk about why it isn't on the fucking political radar.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My car’s name is GCU Autonomous Decisions.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I started a Murderbot Diaries audiobook reread on July 8th. I’m now partway through book 4. I guess that puts Murderbot firmly in the number one position for my go to comfort read.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 20/07/2026

NEW CROWDFUNDER: Please support “The 9pm Spring Series 2026” for more special-guest episodes of “The 9pm Edict” and some eps of “Another Untitled Music Podcast”. All the usual rewards are available, now on Ko-Fi rather than Pozible. the9pmedict.com/spring2026

the9pmedict.com

Launching The 9pm Spring series 2026 crowdfunder

Stilgherrian published a post on Ko-fi

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

We had Dad’s memorial gathering yesterday. Mum had originally estimated 60-80 people coming. There was about 150. My brother coerced me into speaking, apparently it was terribly important to him and his kids that I read out a poem written by my dad. It got a few laughs.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 13/07/2026

What a bizarre act of self-sabotage by the new editor! Why the hell would you ditch one of the country's best cartoonists?

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/07/2026

Here's an irony: the "gig economy" is a statistical black hole. Workers, customers and regulators know very little about the most basic aspects of it: how much workers get paid, for example, or much unpaid time on the clock a worker puts in before they get a job from the app. 1/

A giant arachnoid woman arched backwards on the banks of a tropical river alongside which stand armed men. Behind loom palms, mountains and a smoking volcano. Rain sleets down over the scene.

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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 10/07/2026

What a delightful article, I haven't really dedicated a lot of time to thinking about the anatomy of the neck and this was really interesting and cool! Also it's about whales.

orionmagazine.org

Looking Back - Orion Magazine

Why the beluga kept its flexible neck

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

That is one heck of a story 🤣❤️❤️

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

We made the decision tonight to opt for palliative care for my Dad. The ICU staff are being wonderful. Could be looking at days, or could be hours. My brother and I are currently hiding in the waiting room so my sister can visit Dad without seeing us. I could do with a hug.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Sarah Mansfield MP has made a little book about The Very Hungry Data Centre

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Dad’s second dialysis session yesterday also got cut short by a seizure. Today he is having another MRI to check for possible CSF leaks. His seizures got bad enough yesterday that the decision was made to sedate and intubate him, which needed to be done anyway to facilitate the MRI.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

The place I rent a storage unit from changed hands at the end of June from being an independent operator and is now owned by Storage King. Yesterday I got an SMS telling me I was 2 months behind in rent and would be locked out of my unit until I paid up. And the office is closed on Mondays.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

My dad is back in ICU. He’s had multiple big seizures over the last few days. Lots of unanswered, and possibly unanswerable, questions about what’s causing them and whether anything they can do will make any difference.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 02/07/2026

“The message that I always bring when I have a chance is that, when the text that comes out of one of these systems makes sense, it’s because we are making sense of it. This is also in the stochastic parrots paper.”

spectrum.ieee.org

What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots"

Five years later, its lead author revisits the paper in the age of ChatGPT

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

My 81 year old Dad, who has failing kidneys and is waiting to start dialysis, had 5 major seizures in the last 24 hours. He asked for me and my siblings to come in case it was going to be time to say goodbye. (It isn’t yet, but he was scared.) My kids all came with me to the hospital. It was A Lot.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Show me a picture that captures your essence.

A woman with short purple, green and faded pink hair, slightly mussed. Glasses. Smiling with lips pressed together in a sort of determined to be cheerful despite all “this” way. She is holding a very large handmade mug of tea which has been sculpted with owl eyes, beak and wings.

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Jay @tarvolon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

“Lincoln and the Harvester C-100” by @rsagarcia.bsky.social is a “find a clever way to resist a group with a lot more power and money” story that’s executed at a high level, with colorful characters and an engaging narrative voice www.uncannymagazine.com/article/linc...

uncannymagazine.com

Lincoln and the Harvester C-100 - Uncanny Magazine

Well, Officer, the trouble really start when Mr. Vincent dead. I shouldn’t have been surprise eh. My neighbour wasn’t studying he health at all. He was young still, in he sixties, so he spend a lot of...

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MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I put Humans need to take rest periods on the general action list.

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Global Museum @globalmuseum.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

While we are on a music kick, lets listen to what ancient Persia sounded like around 1400 BC? Sarah Parsaei performs on the Arjan harp — a historic instrument with roots going back nearly 3,400 years — in Tehran, Iran. #globalmuseum #music #Persian #musicalinstruments #history

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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Actively annoyed by seeing some AI people smugly agree with each other that the reason we hate their shitty technology is that we resent it "lowering the barriers to entry" for the arts, which apparently the world of software development has always done.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/06/2026

The viral fake quote attributed to Jeff Bezos got me thinking about how, in contrast to the fossil industry's disinfo campaigns, big tech is just destroying our shared reality from the inside out Inside media outlets, inside academia and yes, inside climate organisations and institutions as well ->

ketanjoshi.co

How to breathe air when we’re drowning in big tech’s slop

A viral fabricated Bezos quote reveals how big tech is engineering widespread reality collapse. We need to stop them.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Tonight’s dinner was garlic prawns (cooked in olive oil and butter with chilli and parsley) with plenty of sourdough bread to mop up the buttery garlicky goodness. And some salad.

A small bowl of garlic prawns. Behind the bowl, out of focus are slices of sourdough bread, a bowl of Greek salad, and the cast iron pan the prawns were cooked in that still has quite a lot in it waiting to be served up.

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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Jarvis enjoying a sunny spot earlier today.

A black and white cat lies on a bed in the sun, on his side, head twisted upside down, front paws tucked against his chest and back paws stretched towards the camera showing pink toe beans.

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