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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 1h

The slot-loading iMac G3 line was released closer to the last moon landing than to today.

Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 4h

A glass paperweight, a wax-soaked cardboard fruit box, and sun at 10am on an autumn morning - I noticed smoke and took pics (this was ~14 years ago, but re-found the pic today) It caught alight right after I took the photo. easy to put out with fingers, but damn... if I hadn't been there....

A photo of a round glass paperweight about the size of a cricket ball. It's bubbles of glass, but mostly a sphere. It sits on a picture frame in a cardboard box, one treated with wax as a fruit transport box. There's an extremely bright caustic near the centre of the photo with smoke rising from it. The glass paperweight is acting as a magnifier, concentrating sunlight into a spot on the cardboard box where it began burning.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 5h

Yes I will not be going up to that lookout tyvm.

A photo of a large sandstone pile in the blue mountains, covered in eucalypts, looking up and seeing a small fence on the top as a safety rail on a lookout. There are holes through the standing stone mass, showing sky behind. It all looks very precarious and fragile.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 6h

Red-hot pokers and Agapanthus at Mount Panorama. Planted around the track I believe cos the race was for decades practically just Ford(blue) and Holden (chev red), and they flower around the time of the race in October.

A bright photo of the plants Red Hot Pokers, and Agapanthus. the pokers look like glowing bright yellow orange then red bulbs made of multiple other flowers on the end of reed-like sticks, and the agapanthus are blue-purple like a fireworks shaped explosion of colour, all mixed in together.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20h

from the series Carrie (2026) Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 09/10/2026

I am so sorry. Sometimes, there are just obscure intrusive thoughts y'know?

A picture of a couple of Sydney T set trains parked in a workshop. On top of their displays one reads Darmok, the other Jalad.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 08/10/2026

Silly automatic computer decisions I keep around because they're funny; the top 5 people in my Photos.app somehow ended up with family + roman orator, lawyer, philosopher and writer Cicero, born 106BC. I've left Cicero in there for years just 'cos.

A screenshot of the first 5 people in my photos.app. It's all family, and in the middle is a bust of Cicero. I do not know why photos.app decided cicero was important to put there, but one day it did so I leave him there.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 07/10/2026

We name our landmarks here so we don’t forget what they’re called. (or so we can identify them in case someone from Kelso steals them.)

A photo of Mount panorama taken from bloody miles away. It has the name written across it in thick white lettering made of crushed white rock, and says MOUNT PANORAMA BATHURST.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 06/10/2026

Nice attempt auto subtitles, ffs. From tawaret's scenes in Moon knight here www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-yS...

A screenshot of Tawaret the hippo explaining that without balanced scales the Duat will eventually claim your soul. But the auto generated subtitles say "without balance scales the jewish will eventually claim your soul"

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/10/2026

This is one of my fave pieces of palaeoart ever - bebbeh Aquilops in a creek. Lively and cute, little joyful tiny ones - and then perhaps a mama Aquilops in green hiding much larger in the background. The size of a cat or large bunny. It’s just a gorgeous evocative piece. svpow.com/2017/04/22/t...

An illustration by Brian Engh of three little Aquilops juveniles pottering about in water in front of a green ferny background. The juveniles in their brown and spotted colouring blend into the mud sticks and water, while the unnoticed green large parent aquilops hides in the plant background taking up the majority of the illustration - hidden well and not at all immediately obvious.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 26/09/2026

I ... have the parts already almost, yes!

A screenshot from photoshop showing the layers for the parts of the edited Poster's Madness image, including original text layers ready for adding a little border to, to suit print.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 26/09/2026

Just a small piece of paper likely 75+ years old floating around on my floor, a fragile survivor of a piece of mid-century furniture long gone.

A part of a torn off label from a mid-century wardrobe that states on the remainder left "THIS ARTICLE COMPLIES WITH THE RE.... OF AUSTRALIAN STAN...." No. S.1 PUBLISHED BY THE STANDARDS AS. It's very yellowed, the folds show it's quite fragile and probably acid-affected, and the typeface is in an early century geometric futura-like font.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 24/09/2026

Did you know the redback fairy wren is actually less venomous than the spider, despite being larger!

A photo of a red backed fairy wren which is a small fairy wren, black in colour, with a bright splash of intense red on its back.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 20/09/2026

WD-40 transdermal patches. (personal use only)

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026

Showing a co-worker what it means when an AI hallucinates imagery and cannot be relied upon for *any* information. Played NCIS ENHANCE ENHANCE ENHANCE from a pixellated construction site photo.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026

I think the roof is especially gorgeous. All those overlapping little slow colonies.

A photo of the roof of a white car that sat under a dry tree in shade for thirty years. It’s all little circular splashes of lichen with some moss and moud too.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 15/09/2026

Also this one my sis bought last week!

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 14/09/2026

The best of all burgers, definitely animal sourced.

A photo of a burger made from flesh. The meat is made from flesh, as is apparently the cheese. Also, uniquely, the lettuce, tomato, onions and even the buns are made from flesh. The sesame seeds could be either warts or ticks, it's unclear. But the cheese has zits.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 14/09/2026

I’m paranoid. Those clouds look AI generated.

A photo of some clouds in the sky that just have the same strange patterned look that some AI generated images get. Everything else is normal but the clouds just look fake.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 12/09/2026

A sticker to place anywhere. Like hand dryers, toilet bowls, soap dispensers, alarm keypads, coffee machines, thermostats, pedestrian crossing buttons, BBQs, park benches, parking meters... As well as staplers, pens, potatoes, bricks, brooms, lunch, potplants and speed humps.

A piece of colourful corporate nonsense looking sticker stating NOW AI POWERED! Talk to me. Ask me to do things! with a happy little speech bubble computer-looking character, with shiny little AI stars and a space looking background in the middle. To be placed on things that look like maybe they could be AI powered, BUT ARE NOT.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 11/09/2026

Mum’s toy poodle, Charles. Born December 2006. No teeth, blind and deaf and extremely slow, he potters around by scent and feeling heat.

A picture of a very small weedy stringy ancient little toy poodle named Charles who will be twenty years old in December.

Thought he was seventeen until finding photos of him as a little pup in early January 2006.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 11/09/2026

Who has two thumbs and is gonna corner the market on cheap generic slightly out of rego VHS sticker packs for blank T-120s?

A photo of a dozen sticker sheets of those labels that cable with blank VHS cassettes, including blank top, side, and letter/number labels with little genre illustrations. Some are peeled up to show the cuts have been applied.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 08/09/2026

A week and a half ago there was a small crash between a bus and (I think) a semi trailer. Half the bus concertina, ripped open and rippled. For the last week a piece has been sitting on the side of the highway. Naturally hoarder instincts told me to grab it. Formed in a fraction of a second.

A piece of aluminium with some green paint, bent and rippled as the result of the side of a bus being torn open in a crash on the Mitchell Highway on August 31.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 07/09/2026

Me four months ago: packing everything in boxes and bags that made sense so I could hit the ground running and be set up comfy in the new place. Me waking up this morning moving around the entire damned house:

A photo of a pile of waste at a dump with a piece of plant equipment bulldozing the piles about looking almost ineffectual. It’s just broken and thrown junk as far as the horizon.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 04/09/2026

Surprisingly no! One of those local names that’s relevant to local things but country or even statewise makes little sense. In the red below. Named relative to Sydney which is on the east coast of it I believe, and the state it’s in (New South Wales).

A map of Australia with a red squiggle marking the Central West. Because names don’t mean simply a sum of its parts it’s actually on the far south east.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 04/09/2026

Well that’s pinned me bang on as talking most like someone from Massachusetts—a state name I probably wouldn’t pronounce correctly. (Actually Central West Australian) mydialect.us/quiz-full.html

A dialect map for my answers which shows in the USA I am most close to speaking like someone from Massachusetts

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/09/2026

I suspect some vinyl retroreflective adhesive sticker would do wonders there! imagine it at night... Class 2 polymeric self adhesive vinyl if you want to hunt it down!

A picture of a TARDIS doorway with some glowing windows in a simulation of what retroreflective sheeting might look like!

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 03/09/2026

I love that my brain gets used to things and forgets they're there and then BOOM I suddenly notice and remember I work in a TARDIS. The perception filter joke never gets old cos I FORGET I TOLD IT A FEW MONTHS AGO THE SAME WAY.

A photo of a couple of doors in a factory wrapped to look like a TARDIS, probably the tenth doctor's or something. It's taking up about 2/3 of each door, and the remainder behind it is a forest scene going off into the distance. Over the top of the door is an alupanel frame to show the rest of the TARDIS top, with the POLICE PUBLIC CALL BOX sign lit up.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 31/08/2026

had a terrifically @mel.bzky.team moment back in 2004. I had to be somewhere I think, I couldn't remember where. I was distraught how I couldn't seem to get out of what would later be called boymode. Now I look back and go YOU BEAUTIFUL THING SHUTUP AND ENJOY IT.

A macOS icon in Finder with a pic of a redheaded woman in its preview. She has mid-length hair in a shitty early 2000s webcam hiding the fact she feels like she's way too boy looking still. Below is an info window showing it dates to at least August 2004, 22 years ago.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 30/08/2026

The NEC Breakfast Computer PROFESSOR TOAST HYPER 7 was a unique morning-oriented computer designed to sit on a user's nightstand and provide a quick portal into email, local news, and hot fresh toast all in the one unit.

A picture of an NEC Breakfast Computer PROFESSOR TOAST HYPER7, with a small keyboard in front, greyscale LCD in the front showing flying toasters screensaver, twin floppy drives, and a couple of slices of perfectly made toast popping up out the top.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 28/08/2026

ONCE AGAIN here your Australian twin.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 24/08/2026

Huh. looking up Young Guns, seeing Dermot Mulroney - one of those seen-him-for-a-decade and then he faded away but still memorable folk - I ended up on his wikipedia page. That's a lot of Cello.

A screenshot of part of Dermot Mulroney's filmography; part of the fringe of brat pack late 80s early 90s, and he's marked as a Cellist in Star Trek Into Darkness, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Tomorrowland, Jurassic World, Inside Out, Zootopia, Star Trek Beyond, Rogue One, Spider Man Homecoming, War for the Planet of the Apes, Incredibles 2 and Spider Man Far From Home.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 18/08/2026

I figured AI would indeed come for my job.

I ask Google to tweet like nanoraptor. It tells me my full name and that I create hyper convincing cursed retro tech hardware and deadpan Alternate history computing. Then it makes a post like me: newly unearthed promotional material from 1987; the IBM personal mouse printer. A full 9 pin dot matrix print head integrated directly into the palm rest. Weighs 4.2 pounds. Requires a dedicated USA card and a separate heavy duty desktop power brick. Cordless version available pulls 12v directly from the keyboard bus via a steel tow cable.

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