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NZer, pakeha, retired librarian

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deelancaster.bsky.social @deelancaster.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
This amazing quilt is hanging at our library right where you sign out books. Even the names on the spines are embroidered.
1.5m x 2m approx, maybe larger I didn't measure. That would have been weird, even for me. Hanging on a grey wall. The quilt looks like a loaded book shelf with many books, a clock, a fruit bowl and dragon flies. Many of the names on the spines of the books are people who made donations to the library. It looks like a painting and is lovely
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 30/03/2026
I can say this for sure: the first time I heard a Siemens Taurus loco sing its song as it started running, *my* cognitive health improved in a single bound. The only disappointment: when it goes flat at the top of the scale. youtu.be/J-IC-JRJYwc...
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Singing locomotive - Siemens Taurus musical scale
YouTube video by Poiree
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
My books cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com
Five cut-out-and-keep bookplates 

 Each reads ‘ex-libris’ then has a space for the owners name. The design reflects the genre:
 
 Sci-fi:
 Nanotechnology tracks the book, monitors its condition and summons a retrieval drone if necessary. 
 
 Horror:
 An ancient curse creates feelings of unease, rising to apalling, abject horror unless the book is returned. 
 
 Romance :
 Acts as an invite to the county's grandest ball, but revoked if not returned in a polite and timely manner. 
 
 Crime:
 Tailed by a dishevelled Gumshoe who Seems cynical, but loves books more than dames and bourbon. 
 
 Fantasy:
 A fellowship of heroes lead the borrower on an epic quest to return the tome to its Rightful shelf.
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Juha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
How should Australia handle ‘sovereign citizens’ clogging the courts? A former magistrate explains theconversation.com/how-should-a... Not just Australia...
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How should Australia handle ‘sovereign citizens’ clogging the courts? A former magistrate explains
So-called “sovereign citizens” are using nonsense legal arguments to tie up court systems. Here are some ideas about how to deal with it.
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Ava Foxfort @ava.foxfort.net · 20/12/2025
I still think this is the set up for an incredible RPG
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/12/2025
A #Christmas story from the French supermarket chain Intermarché. The message (as this isn't English-subtitled): "Try eating some vegetables." Check out the fabulous animation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9V...
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Intermarché - Conte de Noël
YouTube video by Intermarché
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Create Hope @cr8hope.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I love this!
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Edzard Ernst @edzard.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
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trouteyes @trouteyes.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
I'm sorry I said you weren't very scary.
Man stands behind sad looking gargoyle
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The Fake History Hunter @fakehistoryhunter.net · 15/08/2025
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Kristine Smith @ksmithsf.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
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Lucy Gray @lucymaygray.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
#booksky
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My Father’s Daughter @aninsggirb.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
I just learned the professional way to say “I told you so.” “This was identified early on as a likely outcome.” Cassandra
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Dan Moren @dmoren.com · 07/07/2025
Where the hell is my Vorkosigan Saga prestige TV show.
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Animal Flix @animalflix.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
The most majestic thing you will see on #bluesky today. 😇
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Trains Trams Tracks @trainstramstracks.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Ladder bike rolling past vibing. Denver, Colorado.
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Sebas @ohlookbirdies.bsky.social · 13/09/2024
I'm not sure how knighting lesbians will help but it's gotta be worth a shot
Choose one. Rising water levels should be dealt with by:

- elevating dykes
- developing more water storage facilities
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Kate @katesonanadventure.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
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Mateusz Fafinski @calthalas.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
And the winner for the best name of a nineteenth century painter is, checks notes, Lancelot Theodore Turpin De Crissé
A label of a painting with prominent name of the painter Lancelot Theodore Turpin De Crissé
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 28/04/2025
(chortle)
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George @bemoremammoth.com · 21/04/2025
Morning, Robin. What a big mouth you have! #birds #robin #mouth
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 11/04/2025
Anachronym Challenge xkcd.com/3075
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JourneyDude in Scotland @scottishinsider.org · 07/04/2025
🪬🧿
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Duille @duille.com · 03/03/2025
Paris. Pierre-Yves Petit. 1920.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
A cartoon for #worldbookday (coming on Thursday 6th) for this week’s @theguardian.com books.
A small girl wearing a rabbit costume and blue coat carries a book as she walks to school. 

Her mother (head out of shot) wheels her baby brother along in a pushchair. 

The baby says "Peter Rabbit may be the 'Hero' of the story, but surely the obedient, widowed Mrs Rabbit is a more effective symbol of the oppression inherent within Mister McGregor's regime"

The girls looks furious and snaps "Mum!! He's critiquing my world book day costume from a marxist perspective again!"
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Craig M. Ranapia @craigmranapia.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Repost with the first album you bought with your own money. (And draw whatever inference from this you please.)
The ablum cover of XANADU: THE ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK. The album title in an art deco style font against a dark pink, purple-blue and white abstract also art-deco style design.
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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
click click click
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Papa Woof und Krampus und Bleaken @papawoof.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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The Alternate Histoween 🎃 @althistorian.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
We really do live in the dumbest timeline.
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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Émilie du Châtelet, who hypothesized conservation of energy, established kinetic energy as distinct from momentum and proportional to (speed)², and combined work by Newton and Leibniz with her own original ideas in "Institutions de Physique," was born #OTD in 1706. 🧪 👩‍🔬 ⚛️ Portrait: M. Q. de La Tour
Color portrait of Émilie du Châtelet. She has papers spread out before her and holds a compass to them with her right hand. Her left elbow rests on the table and her hand is propped against her cheek. She is wearing a green dress with a green bow at her neck, and white frilly sleeves.
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AlexTaylorNews @alextaylornews.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Absolute goosebumps ! 👇 One of man's greatest creations, Beethoven's 5th rattling the core foundations of God's millennial cathedral It's primal - sound on LOUD ! #NotreDameDeParis
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r o n y t h e b i k e c z a r @ronythebikeczar.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Repost if you love trains
Metra zooming by
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