(for comparison, see also these other competitions my school also ran)
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![photograph of the bottom half of (one of) my certificates from the 2009 National Geographic Channel Australian Geography Competition - I came 4th in the state in the intermediate age bracket!
[text:
"came fourth
in New South Wales
in the intermediate level of the
2009 National Geographic Channel
Australian Geography Competition"
logo text:
"Proudly sponsored by
NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC
CHANNEL"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreich4xba7sive6wnsenk63ejbfshdpkgr3dc6nfzvctq7llsy7agfy)
![photograph of the bottom half of (one of) my certificates from the 2009 National Geographic Channel Australian Geography Competition - I came equal 2nd in the state in the junior age bracket!
[text:
"came equal second
in New South Wales
in the junior level of the
2009 National Geographic Channel
Australian Geography Competition"
logo text:
"Proudly sponsored by
NATIONAL
GEOGRAPHIC
CHANNEL"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreiapva2qc6f77dn7rg4aduhfmutu6fcffxzjyzoxykwt27mbcgxghm)
![photograph of part of the top of a Distinction certificate in the Australian Maths Competition (the one that's run by the maths teachers at the Australian Mathematics Trust but isn't Olympiad-related at all; it used to be sponsored by Westpac but that stopped after my first one in 2007)
[text:
"AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS TRUST
AUSTRALIAN MATHEMATICS COMPETITION" (preceding two lines in small caps btw)
"CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION"]
[cut off to the right would've been the logo of the Australian Mathematics Trust btw]
(I got this particular one in Year 11 in 2011, btw, but I got a lot of them - I wasn't particularly good at maths in high school and it bored me; and yes, I had Eddie Woo as my class teacher in one year and I still fell asleep in his class (but also, see also undiagnosed ADHD))](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreicx373rxmmyr2ocqrkn6xcuptk4cvaxqt3eormhydvp7fm6tty7ky)
![photograph of my Distinction certificate in the 2011 Rio Tinto Big Science Competition, senior division (for years 11/12; I was in year 11 at the time)
[text:
"is awarded a
Distinction
in the
Senior
2011 Rio Tinto Big Science Competition
1 June 2011"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreiebxu7rgt4p7hqmivktpcaoxcmljtzgn4aerwr5khnjb26afr7xde)
helen a. [last name redacted] (she/they)
@purpleshift.bsky.social
382 followers 670 following 153 posts
Slow adopter. Perpetual student 😅 currently not-studying: library technician 📚 ALIA member Amateur cataloguer - will tag your AO3 fics #adhd #libraries #critcat #linguistics is location in bluesky yet? if not: Burramattagal land, Australia
![photograph of the top half of my High Distinction certificate in the 2010 ICAS Computer Skills competition (which IIRC would've been Paper H) from Year 10
[detailed description: university certificate
logo of UNSW Global, wordmark reads:
"UNSW Global
THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
SYDNEY • AUSTRALIA"
next line, where I think the department/faculty would normally go, reads: "EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT AUSTRALIA"
award lines:
"2010
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHOOLS [this line in small caps]
COMPUTER SKILLS
High Distinction"]
[the rest of the certificate is not in the picture because it was framed like that; you don't need my name, that I was in Year 10 at the time, and the name of Farm School (I've mentioned it enough times online that you can easily figure out its real name and look it up); nor do you need the signatures of the then vice chancellor and deputy VC]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreibffjddfyzwbiqdc7uc67bbrtd7ycjzvicm4toczzsonai7ohxmxa)
![Screenshot of the Botanic Gardens of Sydney's website page about Putricia the titan arum (titled Corpse Flower: A Plant to Die For), with a banner announcing that it has started to bloom and their special opening hours (8 am until midnight [instead of until sunset]). Text is the same as the pinned message in the livestream chat (though this banner actually appeared slightly earlier on the website)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreidkdlilrbgmpyvp7hljhm5uula2vncv5jr7544mr44qj5luzkrus4)
![Two consecutive Bluesky posts, one containing a picture & a quote tweet
Post 1
Shiv Ramdas @nameshiv.bsky.social 3h
i'm sorry there is no way there are enough ideas in there for you be calling it a manifesto, more like minifesto
Post 2
Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social 3h Among other things, the guy called DEI "a cancer" in his alleged note. Sounds like radicalisation to me
Herald Sun:
[Cropped photo of newspaper]
[headline] I'm not a terrorist
[byline] Tom Minear
[body text] A special forces soldier who blew himself up in a Tesla Cybertruck declared in a suicide note that it was "not a terrorist attack" but a way to "cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost".
only pay attention to spectacles and violence. What better way to get my point across than a stunt with fireworks and explosives? Why did I personally do it now? I needed to cleanse my mind of the brothers I've lost and relieve myself of the
[photo cuts off]
Quoted post in post 2:
Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social 7h
At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpoints memo.com/ edblog/why-a...
Link preview in quoted post:
MATTHEW ALAN LIVELSBERGER
Why Are Publications
Sugar-Coating Livilsberger's
Political Minifestos?
Over the last four days the bizarre Cybertruck fire outside a Trump hotel...
talkingpointsmemo.com](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreiddsqrhz2ng6c3vxtu76lta63gldkbrlfj4xwyb5typymktxueqe4)
![An oft-cited story in the sillok about King Taejong falling off his horse has been used to illustrate the commitment of Joseon court historians to documenting even events displeasing or embarrassing to the king and the extent to which the king could not influence which stories were included in the sillok.[citation 12]
[quote] The king himself rode a horse and shot arrows at a deer. However, the horse stumbled, causing him to fall off, but he was not injured. Looking around, he said, "Do not let the historians know about this."[citation 13][note b]
―The Veritable Records of Taejong, Vol. 7, article 4 [/end quote]
The historian present defied King Taejong's order and ensured that not only the king's fall but also his wish to keep it off the record were documented.[citation 12]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreihctiyvcpmyave3azt5yi3ddsrmo5dnh4ykdon3733eahiahynvgm)
![Screenshot of two posts? skeets? tweets? by the @bsky.app account, the first one dated November 16 2024 at 4:17 AM [AEDST], the second one dated 1d [1 day ago]
First post: "A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so."
Second post: "Bluesky uses AI internally to assist in content moderation, which helps us triage posts and shield human moderators from harmful content. We also use AI in the Discover algorithmic feed to serve you posts that we think you'd like.
None of these are Gen AI systems trained on user content." (None of the words of the second post are cut off, just the interaction metrics.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zp5omlmiqmuas5uje7iijimx/bafkreiady7qn4vaoqakdndi4ixlj4aw2jqvrjfapi7o65gtg5ow5gnk4ia)