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JustASkerrick

@mkendrickphd.bsky.social
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Autistic, PhD, Pagan. Holding Ryukyu-Shinto practices in trust for the next generation. Homemaker & Academic. MSN Messenger '03, Neopets/Runescape '05, Myspace '06, ProBoards '08 and Twitter '17. Pathfinder 2e.

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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Ah yes, the stage of infancy called 'shit and barf on every surface, outfit, and caregiver you have'. He's fine, no illness, just need to size up the nappies and figure out how to stop him from scarfing his milk like a starved Labrador. He starts grinning immediately after yeeting his milk.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Enjoying the glimmer of a chubby baby discovering that they quite enjoy their bath-in-a-bucket.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Fascinated to watch a whole cohort of female academics get let down by the industry, only to channel their niche interests into their own sub-genre of Romantasy* *Brilliant female heroine, an expert in her field, is swept off her feet by a love interest who is *fascinated* by her and her intellect.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Thought of changing my display name to Smidgeon but not sure if the sudden change would throw off my fellow face-blind ND's (like me).
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
My 6 week old baby has figured out how to smile on purpose. All day we're now :D Them: :D Me: :D
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Watching a wholesome film about following your dreams, the passing on of new knowledge, and being true to yourself; Kung Fu Panda
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What in the fresh sensory hell is THIS. (Image courtesy of Kmart Australia, Summer 2025-2026 edition). Description of issues in Alt-text
Long sleeved pyjamas with three string-tie closures at the front of the shirt with a gap showing how the shirt doesn't fully close even while tied. The waistband of the pants barely reaches the hem of the pyjama top. The sleeves only just reach the wrist and there's a folded collar on the pyjama top. This implies that the shirt will ride up the arms, ride up the torso, and the collar will flap about as you sleep, creating - as the text of this post suggested - an absolute sensory hellscape during the time of day that a person is supposed to be the most comfortable. A monstrosity of pyjamas.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Academia cut me loose just in time for the holidays so I'm launching my consultancy in 2026, in running games & mentoring teens in TTRPG's as a freelance DM/worldbuilder. Fees are mostly to cover the cost of snacks.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Starting to think that perhaps not working in academia next year is a blessing in disguise
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I wonder if Sophie knows the absolute obsession my toddler has with her entire discography and style.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Thanks to the cheery daycare manager, who is obviously an elf in disguise, I have lost Whamageddon on December 2nd, 2025.
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homer simpson from the simpsons is holding a cup in front of a picture
Alt: Abe simpson from the simpsons shakes his hand in old-man indignation.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
One of my top 3 Doctors, for both Aesthetic(tm) and the type of Shenanigans he got up to with his companion, Ace. Both of them barely kept each other's chaos contained. Just the thinnest veneer of 'well, we SHOULDN'T solve every issue with an explosion...' to keep the plot fresh.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
As a Recovered Potterhead(tm), seeing HP stuff shoved into every sale, every store, and every tacky merchandising opportunity is really offputting. 8-year-old me would have been THRILLED with some of this stuff, but seeing it as a parent now feels...eugh. Like, it's *everywhere*.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
> Your hold time is estimated to be 15 minutes > Is now over 22 minutes See if computers can't even correctly estimate the workflow throughput of a call centre what hope do they have for more complex tasks.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
The temporary cure that pregnancy had for my lactose intolerance lasted 1 week after delivering my son. Farewell, carefree consumption of dairy. You will be missed. 🥺
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
For anyone who actually games/uses PCs for powerful grunt-work, $1k-ish is a very normal (decent! even) price for a brand-new gaming machine. Contextually, I got mine for gaming + research data processing (good for both) for a STEAL at $800, pre-COVID. Components have gotten more expensive since.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Me, logging onto Bsky from Australia, seeing all the Northern USians post pretty nighttime-sky pictures:
The Superintendent from the Simpsons, angrily saying "The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country?" from the famously-remixed scene where Seymore fails to cook him steamed clams.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
The country that gets there first, and begins to export, will winnn~
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scott⚡️mccloud @scottmccloud.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
A rare interview with the creators of the always-funny, always-brilliant, and *usually*-sexy—or occasionally anti-sexy—OGLAF! Cooper has kept a low profile over the years, but is legitimately one of the very best artists in comics today. Read OGLAF if you're old enough to drive!
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Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
My teachers scoffed at me in high school for reading Dickens and now I wonder if perhaps Dickens should have been in the curriculum instead of, say, My Brilliant Career.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Being an Autistic parent is protective against earworms like Soda Pop driving me insane. The NT parents at my kid's daycare are slowly losing their sanity during the KPOP Demon Hunters Era and I'm just vibing with the echolalia of 'you're my soda pop, my little soda pop *POP*'
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
I perfected the creepy 'retail face' at about 14 because it lowered the % of customers getting pissy with me over 'quality of service'. It burned me out emotionally but I made sure my smile never quite reached my eyes, my voice a little *too* chipper for 8am. As a customer I hate being greeted.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
This site, like my use of almost all social media, is to provide the world with the thoughts too short for a full diary entry/blog post but too Important(tm) to simply mention to my loved ones. What can I SAYYYYY except YA WELCOME~
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Maybe he's learned that all the gold distracts from the orange.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Omg 1 week before delivering this giant baby is the *perfect* time for my nausea to get worse, AND the council to decide to pour fresh asphalt outside my toddler's daycare. Brilliant move, universe. Simply wonderful. (Gagging during the long walk to drop-off is an amazing look).
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Maybe AI is popular because we don't have a modern equivalent of MacGyver to show kids how much fun a kludge can be.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
I'm an aunty to about 5 unrelated family's children simply because my kid goes to the same daycare, and I'm a safe human being for them to run up to and ask for help if their parents aren't around. This is such a non-issue it's hilarious.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Local butcher is experimenting with 'cheeseburger kebabs' (on a stick) and my eyes must have lit up because he immediately shuffled to fetch me some and long story short I'm cooking them for dinner tonight, duty to report back tomorrow & tell him how it went.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Not to out myself on social media but my institution and the union are fighting and my actual literal PhD in How Crises Escalate is charting the non-progress of negotiations pretty reliably. Where does an academic go to place bets? My money is on the exec doing something dumb & getting sued. #tea
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a woman is sitting at a table and says the plot thickens ...
Alt: A middle-aged woman pops some popcorn into her mouth, body language laced with intrigue. She rests her chin on her hand, propped up by her elbow. Caption to the GIF says 'the plot thickens ...'
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Liz Shannon Miller @lizshannonmiller.com · 27/10/2025
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
Screenshot of text:

unfuck google drive by shooting gemini
Hey folks! Google is fucking you via sneaky enshittification again!
Want the shit in your google drive to load instantly again, instead of taking for-fucking-ever?
Open your gdrive (web OR app)
Settings > Manage Apps
Gemini was checked "use as default" (and i sure the fuck didn't set it that way, this was a silent push)
Nuke that, and suddenly, folders that took up to a minute to populate and sort do so in a fraction of a second.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
A student mixing up 'proposal' (business document) with 'proposition' (not a business document) darn gave me the chuckles this afternoon. Hehe. (Adult student, native English speaker, fully capable of checking if they wanted to. They did not. Am entertained).
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
He lived in China and we used to feel sad that he wasn't home for Christmas 'because China doesn't really take Christmas off work 😭' but now I'm an adult and have spoken to him about my own chosen estrangement, it was always 100% his choice to stay in a 24-hour city with good food lmao
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Tell me you never talk to women without telling me you never talk with women.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Marking 82 assignments wouldn't feel like dragging my executive function in the form of a large and uncompliant goat through an uphill gravel path, if only students had the reading comprehension to understand the instructions & follow *some* of them. Guys. The rubric assigns a 0 for some of this.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
Gratitude for ppl who change their tag/name but not their display photo. I used to lose track of so many friends because my face-blindness kind of extends to screen ID's on social media (even if you're anonymous, I tend to recognize one OR the other). Changing one at a time is nice! Thank you!!
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 16/10/2025
Nice shirt. For a clown to wear. To the toilet store
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Windows XP builds are going to skyrocket in value from secondhand tech shops omg
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sam @samthielman.com · 16/10/2025
"ending remote work" is such a terrible, hostile, anti-worker thing that so many organizations have decided they need to do in order to subjugate their workforce further, and I pray it marks the beginning of a new and robust labor movement. senseless cruelty
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Chuffed to learn that, a few *years* after AI became embedded in writing systems for students, that I am still faster AND more accurate than LLM's trained on the vast internet of ours. Git gud.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Mechanic called us to say our car is on its final few months and I'm here grieving like nanna's being sent home for hospice. Sure, I'm 9 months pregnant and attached to the car that was there for our family over the past 12 years, but I wasn't ready for that phone call. I'm gonna miss her.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2025
I would absolutely read this book.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Doing Swifties a solid and freeing up the new-release album traffic by lining up for the Tree of Wisdom album instead.
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a man in a green costume is dancing in front of a group of people
Alt: Lachie wiggle (purple) watches nervously as the Tree of Wisdom (a man in a green costume covered in leaves) absolutely shreds it on the dance floor, accompanied by adequate backup dancers and Anthony (Original Blue Wiggle) in a scruffy blonde wig playing the mandolin, seemingly unphased.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
*Looks at US Gov't shutdown news* *Looks at the US airbase in Okinawa* Aw helllllll-
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Some?????????? One thing academia taught me (the infamously conservative, stodgy machine that HATES statements that are too confident) is that when you know something is absolutely true, you don't have to hedge your language with 'some experts...'. It IS a crime to summarily kill civilians.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
*Files on the Things That Make Sense shelf, with a feeling of great satisfaction*
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
At 18 months my kid was transfixed by Trial By Jury (Gilbert & Sullivan). The pattern has continued to this day where, at 3 and a half, she demands the songs from KPOP Demon Hunters to be played on repeat so she can learn the lyrics. As a parent, how do you make theatre seats comfy?
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
I didn't understand this when I was younger but then I watched Cher and Nicholas Cage absolutely blitz it into the stratosphere in Moonstruck (1987). I'm serious.
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
My loved one in Psychiatry: Why aren't they calling psych for this case *Medical shows smile and shake their heads good-naturedly over a clearly traumatized/unwell patient* Loved one in Psychiatry: WHERE IS THE PSYCH IN THIS HOSPITAL!!! *Patient lashes out, drama ensues* Loved one: CALL PSYCH!!!!!!
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JustASkerrick @mkendrickphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Pregnant Autistic me, turning to my autistic husband: Gee sure hope this paracetamol doesn't give our son the 'tism Becky with her blonde children Lakkaylee and Konstihchewshunn: Oh my GOD how could you SAY that, about your OWN CHILD-
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