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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

This is kinda funny/sad because every other photo is of poppies captioned with trivia about tulips, because the growing conditions weren't great for bulbs this year. (Article link: www.theguardian.com/environment/gal…) […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

J and I watched all of The Ghost in the Shell as the episodes came out, which got him rereading the entire manga and me rewatching the entire show before the streaming subscription runs out. The final scene is set on the 22nd of September :blobcat:

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Signed up for Netflix again. I continued watching Galileo with J, and now the kids are invested. They made me stop tonight's episode at bedtime so they can watch the end of it another time...

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I missed the earlier #SydneyWeatherTooting but it went by us so fast aarggh. Garden is mostly okay, although the wind knocked over our (closed) garden umbrella, that hasn't happened before! We have no power or NBN, but at least all of our battery backups have kicked in so I'm not typing this in […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[Work joke, swearing] My French boss in a meeting this week: "Engine, signature, signage? This language is fucked"

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Various shots of Cairns from this week. Pity I was on the early flight back, but it's good to be home!

A view of the muddy shoreline from the Cairns Esplanade at low tide

A higher view of the shore and esplanade from a balcony at dusk the next day

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

I started playing Big Walk with my family tonight and it was a great way to pass an hour after dinner! A family friend parachuted into the game early on, which was unexpected but pretty funny when we realised we actually had 5 players

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

[Food, not vegan] Finally cooked a proper dinner tonight, and it was a hit! Being able to buy "hand-pulled style" noodles at the supermarket has been a game changer :blobcatchefkiss:

A homemade bowl of Chinese style noodles with saucy pork mince, topped with cucumber chunks and chilli crisp.

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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

My employer, Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie University in Sydney, are currently looking for a electronics engineer to join our electronics engineering group. If you're an EE and would like to apply your skills to design, build, test and deploy electronics for astronomical […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2026

We spent most of Winterfest today and it was a good time! Also pretty wintry. I felt underdressed because I wasn't wearing a cape.

Inside a huge and cosy reenactor group's tent

Fancy filigree claws being modelled by M

A wide shot of a renaissance fair from the grandstand

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/06/2026

It took like 15 years, but my web host for my personal sites (1 WP, 3 static HTML, 1 Python/Django site I was just messing around with for kicks, 2 mailboxes) is no longer a good deal. I'm leaning towards VentraIP, but I'm interested in any other Australian-based options that are easy to manage […]

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Blorbo Admin Chicken @admin.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2026

mastodon.cloud is an abandoned server with open sign-ups, meaning that it's an easily exploited home for spammers etc. they're now limited from blorbo.social. we'll probably suspend at some point, because it seems like the admins aren't coming back. if you follow any accounts on mastodon.cloud […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/04/2026

That Dark Ties ending tore my heart out. Excellent, just what I was hoping for, A+++

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

My months of chaos gardening to figure out what works in the garden were well spent after all! I'm still glad I typed "quail egg" into the MakerWorld search when J asked me if I wanted anything printed. #GardeningAU

A metal bowl filled with home grown water spinach, beans, cucumbers, eggplant and one cherry tomato. Next to it is a 3D printed quail egg holder with 3 eggs in it.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/03/2026

I have to fill in an online form which asks for your ethnicity (basically the list the Australian Bureau of Statistics uses), but you can only pick one. I've been told to pick the one which I feel best applies. How do I tell my parents about this 😆

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

Elden Ring at the Sydney Opera House tonight. I'm definitely a fake Elden Ring fan but it was still a very good time!

The Concert Hall at the Sydney Opera House with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra on the stage and the Sydney Philharmonic Choirs in the box on the left. A big screen behind the stage displays the text "Elden Ring Symphonic Adventure".

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/03/2026

Eeeek I moved a coleus round the back this morning so I can repot it, but our resident teddy bear bee just came to the front door looking for it. I'm sorry buddy.... it's not that far away.... #GardeningAU

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lookitmychicken @lookitmychicken.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/03/2026

I scored a ticket to the #ATEEZ pop-up shop and am heading off there now to see if I can buy a light stick and perhaps some other merch. For anyone else in Melbourne who might be interested: events.humanitix.com/ateez-2026-wor… Tickets […]

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villainous friend @villainousfriend.federatedfandom.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

A survey on readers' experiences reading wuxia (especially Jin Yong's works) in English: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/arts… The researcher is a PhD student who says he's having trouble finding enough people to contribute, so let's help him out […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Volunteering at the usual stand at the #SydneyMardiGras Fair Day tomorrow. We're near the bar and will be maintaining the paddle pool for doggos as a public service 🥰

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/12/2025

This month has been trying in many ways but look at my lil baby watermelon!! #GardeningAU

A sugarbaby watermelon growing in a garden bed, surrounded by watermelon vines, alyssum and bok choy. The patch has just been watered so there are droplets of water on the melon and leaves.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

A handful of tomatoes from the compost volunteers I planted in Spring! The heatwave and wrong pH has killed this section of the patch so I'll have to rebuild and replant it, but at least these were tasty. #GardeningAU

A bowl of home grown cherry tomatoes of various sizes, viewed from above on a wooden table.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

[Food, not vegan] I haven't made adobo in a while and we had company over, so I went all out tonight. The kids hoovered it up which is the ultimate compliment!

A plate of homemade chicken and pork adobo with quail eggs and baby corn, with sides of white rice and quick pickled tomatoes. A can of watermelon soda is in the background.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Fuark it's hot this week. But I've finally grown a very legit sunflower and cosmos in the new garden beds! #GardeningAU #sydneyWeatherTooting

A sunflower in bloom in a garden bed, surrounded by sunflower plants that are yet to do the same.

A bright pink cosmos flower in a garden bed.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 30/11/2025

I will ask chat GPT I will boil the last of our drinking water Salt the soil of the scrub-lands Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire I will ask copilot I will scramble your library maim the faces of your favorite paintings I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams I will ask […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/11/2025

Quick Cao Cao doodle tonight, because playing lots and lots of Dynasty Warriors: Origins has definitely gotten me through this month

A digital pencil sketch of Cao Cao as he's portrayed in Dynasty Warriors: Origins

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Pirotess @pirotess.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

J and I went on a behind the scenes historical tour of White Bay Power Station today! The MHNSW tour guides were excellent and there is so much interesting (and sad) history in this building. I took a ton of photos, might dump more of them on Pixelfed later.

Two smokestacks and the side of the power station from ground level, against a slightly cloudy blue sky.

A well-worn "Safety Boots Must Be Worn" sign in front of the lower control room. A wall of dials inside the control room is visible in the background.

A shot looking down a brick wall which is a several-storey drop.

The electrical wiring behind the controls inside the upper control room.

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Medieval Illumination @medieval-illuminations.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/11/2025

Fishcat vs. spear rat. Pontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390. Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms. 143, fol. 161v. #medieval #MedievalArt

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Ooherrrr someone at Woolworths IT is getting a call. I assume it's DNS.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

I need to go harvest a cabbage from the garden so we can make okonomiyaki tonight but that means getting back up... aaa. Here's a cute lizard I met near the brassica patch earlier

A large Eulampus quoyii (Eastern Water Skink) on a concrete retaining wall in front of a veggie patch.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025

Sorry(?) all. I caused the outage by ordering a non-amazon doorbell last night

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Some nice spring #bloomscrolling from the garden in the past week or so. #GardeningAU

Spring star flowers in bloom with one little grape hyacinth flower at the base of a big pot

A white tulip with two more light-coloured tulips out of focus in the distance

A dendrobium orchid with pale pink flowers just starting to open

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2025

It's official, I'm a stallholder at the Parramatta Zine Fair this month! Now I have to go find all of my old stock aaahaha... but I'll have (18+ BL) comics and food zines and possibly a new gardening zine! www.schoolofzines.com.au/parramatta… The stallholder list is […]

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2025

I found a smol friend on the side of the green bin while I was gardening today, so I put them back in the hedge #GardeningAU

A small praying mantid on the side of a black plastic wheelie bin

The same praying mantid standing on the branch of a lilly pilly plant

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2025

Went for a nice little walk on a #GloriousSydney day before the um, weather arrives this week. Spotted a couple of raptors :D

A wide shot of the scrubland area in Bungarribee Park on a clear, crisp winter day.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025

I neglected this rose all year, then I pruned it 6 weeks ago and it's burst into bloom again! Haven't had much luck IDing it but I'll try to propagate some cuttings this winter. #GardeningAU

A close up shot of a light pink rose in full bloom.

A midrange shot of the same rose bush, showing an extra bloom partially obscured by bright green foliage.

A third shot of the same rose bush with a younger bloom in focus. In the background are smaller buds, a cream coloured fence, a hedge plant and a hint of blue sky.

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Pirotess @pirotess.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Elizabeth Farm last night / Cronulla Beach today

A view of the night sky through the artwork "Healing land, remembering Country" at Elizabeth Farm, Parramatta NSW Australia

A tiny camouflaged crab on the concrete floor of The Wall at Cronulla NSW Australia

A view of Cronulla Beach from Cronulla Park. A pair of feet in socks are visible at the bottom left and a dog is standing at the bottom right, looking at the beach

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2025

If I were queen I'd make dreamwidth hide community posts from users you've blocked.

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/04/2025

Had a great time at day 1 of Sinpozium today! I can't believe the last in-person event was 8 years ago :blobcateyes: Hopefully I've convinced a few people to try out fedi with my talk, and looking forward to day 2!

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

First day of the long weekend and pumped for Sinpozium tomorrow + Sunday! Rewarding myself with MFG fanart finally

Sketches of various facial features and expressions on Kanata and Michael

Rough sketch of Kanata in his butler uniform, serving a coffee to Michael

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pirotess @neohysteria.blorbo.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/04/2025

Finishing off the atchara this morning! Just waiting for the pickle liquid to cool down a bit. My dad grew the papaya and I bought the capsicum from an Easter Show district exhibit, so it feels a bit special :blobOwO:

A big bowl of vegetables and spices for a Filipino papaya pickle, ready to go in jars

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