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

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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 don’t function well doing that either. It’s not a good combination. Something has to give but I can’t afford less work. Budget says “nope”. 😩

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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One foot in front of the other and hanging on desperately until my two weeks holiday in 21 days time. First proper break from work in 3 years.

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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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I’ve got my three adult kids and one’s spouse living with me. Age range is 24 to 29. The married couple managed one year renting independently but covid put an end to that. I don’t see anything changing any time soon.

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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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Wonderful bit of writing ❤️

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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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I ditched twitter many many moons ago, been making do with FB and Instagram but they’re both fairly unbearable now.

Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’m trying to be more here lately 😊 It’s lovely to see familiar names popping up.

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

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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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Yikes 😬 fingers crossed for best case scenario 🤞

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I would love to bake scones for you. Geography is very inconvenient.

If it was whipped cream there would be more. With double thick cream a little goes a long way 😁

Main reason being I wanted scones.

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 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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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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This morning I said to my kids re the conversation that was happening “no negative stuff please, I can’t take it, there’s too much of it out there already”.

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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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I have two weeks off booked for late October 😁

Hippo birdie two ewes!

I was without an owlmug for ages after #owlmugmk2 came to grief during a cat parkour incident. It made me very happy when I was able to place a custom order for two new owls. The other one is not angry 🤣

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.

Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Never could get the hang of Thursdays

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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

Third and last session for the day was “Trust Me, It’s a Conspiracy” with Ariel Bogle, Harry Hobbs and Anke Richter, chaired by @patrickstokes.com. Came out of that one with a bunch of books added to my to read list. A day spent with clever people talking about interesting things, highly recommended

Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Rather chuffed to have met @doctorow.pluralistic.net as he signed books after his session “Enshittification”. Lots of people standing in the line for that session had only recently become aware of Cory. Told them all to listen to his podcast.

Selfie of a madly grinning Mim beside the very lovely Cory Doctorow.

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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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Mim @mimbles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sending good vibes your way. Two of my kids are trans and I see them struggling with so much of this stuff too. (Including hair loss for one of them!) It’s hard. Reaching for meaning and fun is an act of strength ❤️❤️