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marian

@talopine.bsky.social
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Section 51(ii) minion. Jaded ex-ALP member. Interests include fibre arts, elections, Strauss & Mahler, speculative fiction. ✊ #TransRights 🏳️‍⚧️ #freePalestine 🇵🇸 she/her

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books
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USER WAS BLOCKED FOR THIS POST @blockedforthispost.bsky.social · 11h
You don’t have to be a slack jawed MAGA voter to like hot dogs whats your problem
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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Will Weldon @oldmanweldon.bsky.social · 7h
Top ten most foreboding sentence I've ever read.
She had bought raw goat milk from a farm recommended to her in a Facebook group run by her chiropractor
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Camryn @rhotrans.bsky.social · 15h
I just needed to remind myself. Everything looks stupid and wrong when you’re only envisioning the end goal. It’s like wanting an omelette without breaking any eggs. A failure is not a stain on me, it’s all growth. Learning experiences. Evolution. WE are the art, life is the paintbrush.
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Qasim Rashid, Esq. @qasimrashid.com · 9h
“But if you’re so upset about what Trump is doing, why didn’t you complain when people died in ICE custody under Obama and Biden?”
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Evan May @gianttourtiere.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Do you want good tortoise news? I thought so. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Scientists discover 180,000 giant tortoises on one Seychelles island
Free-roaming Aldabra population far exceeds human population of Seychelles after decades-long recovery programme
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Janina Matthewson @j9andif.bsky.social · 20h
The thing that pisses me off about about this is that loads of the people employed in the arts and entertainment and crucial to its success are unseen workers in jobs that are considered trade when they're not in services of the arts
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 19h
Trying to think of a recentish series with progress over seasons... I liked what The Good Place did with its seasons tbh.
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 09/10/2026
seems like it’s a question mayors tend to prefer to leave unanswered in general, given that once an answer is found, the police know that answer now too
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bree bird 🇨🇦 @goose.ski · 09/10/2026
i can’t imagine mamdani is particularly eager to find out how much or how little control his office can actually exert over the NYPD
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump: [calls cis Democrat an anti-trans slur] Cis Democrat: [calls all trans women an anti-trans slur in response]
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
with alt text so we can share
A four frame drawing of an older, grey haired woman in a yellow shirt talking to a younger, brunette woman with glasses in a green shirt. 

The older woman says, "All this Jane Doe, Cornell stuff is totally overblown. It's so silly!" and she continues, "If that's what they call rape now then I guess my friends and I have all been raped, too!" 

There is a moment where neither woman speaks, then the younger woman places her hand on the older woman's shoulder, with a look of compassion.
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 20h
I've always seen it as a great failing that I could never remember if the Nobel Prizes were from Sweden or Norway, but I checked today and 5 are from Sweden and 1 is from Norway, so now I feel wholly justified.
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 20h
This is very relevant to my interests
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 21h
Why on earth would I be me when I could be Aloy or Shepard or Hornet?!?!
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 21h
Seems pointless and looks like absolute crap.
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The Merciless Peppers of Quetzlzacatejimbo @redjolt.bsky.social · 23h
When I go to the doctors and say “doctor my back hurts and has done for twenty six years”, and they say “no it doesn’t; there’s nothing wrong with your back”, my back doesn’t stop hurting.
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Scornflake Ghhhoul @scornflakegrrrl.bsky.social · 22h
First there were too many gays, then too many depresseds and of course too many transes. Now it’s too many neurodivergents. And why should we be happy if we could just be normal. Arseholes.
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
they did overturn the school board in our community, btw. it worked. people were like yeah no fuck this we don't even have a track team and y'all are trying to ban trans athletes?? we don't have a school library and you're trying to ban queer books?? they said "grow up". it worked
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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the way to fight this is to fight it at its source--school board meetings, legislation, PTA. reading the top 5-10 banned books will do virtually nothing for anybody except those 5-10 authors
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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️ @mady.cat · 23h
american *sees something american happening americanly in america*: what are we a bunch of ASIANS?!?!???
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jenny tightpants @jtp.bsky.social · 22h
"windows is fine just run these scripts"
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Dave @sheepfilms.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I know it's a bit hard to imagine, but if buses could move, how would they move?
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Nothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 27/10/2023
Sigourney Weaver
Sigourney Weaver in a man's suit photo by Helmut Newton, I believe
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Marcus Chown @marcuschown.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Privatisation in a nutshell: 1) Steal from us something we own. 2) Sell us back an inferior service 3) Charge us a higher price. The pattern is the same everywhere: royal mail, water, railways, the NHS, public services, council services…
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Basically AI allows software engineers to produce shitty code *faster* and in higher volumes which increases the amount time spent on code reviews and revisions nullifying the productivity gained from producing the code in the first place.
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AndyGHK @andyghk.leftis.best · 08/10/2026
I’m so serious that this is terrorism. This is political violence. Not just because it’s meant to silence wome, not just because she’s a candidate, not just because it happened while she was repairing campaign signs, but also because her opponent, the incumbent in the race, is literally pro-rape.
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Goldstein (still not a pseudonym) @goldstein.latinsky.app · 08/10/2026
This feels like the way teen celebrities get sexualized and they have a whole "wait until they turn 18" aura around them. The FBI just priming the pumps but never quite letting them show nipple until they hit 18. Like the FBI was the manager of a teen sex icon.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If he wants to do explosions, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he wants to do explosions, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you're all just there for yelling And on violence he keeps dwelling If he wants to do explosions, he's a Fed 👏👏
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed 👏👏 if he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he wants you to repeat it Where the chat room won't delete it If he says you don't need OPSEC, he's a Fed 👏👏
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Repeating my helpful little mnemonic song from Twitter: If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏 If you can't get there without him And you don't know much about him If he'll drive you to the criming, he's a Fed 👏👏
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heejinsoulyves. Sullyoon, Kyujin, Giselle, Tzuyu @heejinsoulyves.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For anyone looking up flights, look up the exact same flight in an incognito tab!!
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max power 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 08/10/2026
Nobel Prize In Economics denialism is such an interesting position in that it is absolutely correct and also nearly perfectly correlated with being a crank
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Jane @jane.meangirls.online · 08/10/2026
I was talking to my mom this morning and she asked what was going on with the terrorist attack they stopped up here. I said “it’s probably another one of those things the fbi loves doing where they convince a teen to plan an attack then arrest him so they can boost their number,” and lol yep.
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 08/10/2026
This doesn’t happen with my Bialetti moka pot.
ENTERTAINMENT
Man discovers his parents' coffee machine used 1TB of data in 10 days
by Joe Pring
Published: Oct 08, 2026, 03:07
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026
Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.
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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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marian @talopine.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I love this photo so much
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Anise K. Strong @anisekstrong.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why parents make great scientists: Because they recognize that "Lauren errors" happen all the time.
There was the incident that became known as “the Lauren error”: One day, her daughter Lauren, then four years old, was playing with the command module simulator at the Instrumentation Lab when she somehow activated a pre-launch program, called P01, while the simulator was in midflight — which crashed the simulator altogether. Hamilton created a program add-on in the technical documentation warning users not to launch P01 during flight. 

She also proposed a software fix to prevent the error happening during a real mission, but she was overruled on the grounds that the highly trained astronauts were never going to make that same mistake. Yet during the Apollo 8 mission in 1968, that’s exactly what happened: Jim Lovell inadvertently launched P01 during the flight, causing the on-flight navigational data to vanish. Hamilton and her team were called in to solve the error, and after that her proposed changes were integrated into the program. This was an early example of “defensive” programming, the practice of building software that could anticipate or fix errors on its own.
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aaron boothby @ellipticalnight.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I didn't know his name before this but he's a real one: member of La France Insoumise (to the left of the Socialists), took down Macron's portrait in the mayor's office, said elected leaders belong in the streets with the people
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Philo of Alexan @philoof.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It’s like who’s on first but with oligarchs
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Rob (the floor one) @floorisbed.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
ELON MUSK: [speaking into watch] what should i say to mark zuckerberg WATCH: hello mark zuckerberg ELON MUSK: no no I’M not mark zuckerberg, i’m elon MARK ZUCKERBERG: [to watch] hello
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My mother would have hidden this from me as a kid lol, and she'd have been right to
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Shady Inference 🌫️ @blot.city · 07/10/2026
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
BARTENDER: another round JIMMY OLSEN: no we’re done thanks BARTENDER: *removes glasses from bar* LOIS LANE: omg it’s superbar
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"I'm supposed to be a tough guy," Curtis confided. "I can hold your hand," the mayor offered "What happens if I faint?" Sliwa asked. "I've got you," Mamdani assured him, grabbing his hand as Sliwa received his flu shot. abc7ny.com/post/nyc-may...
abc7ny.com
Mayor Mamdani holds hands with one-time rival Curtis Sliwa to get flu shot
An apparent bromance has continued to blossom for the one-time political rivals.
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LIV 🌻🍉😷 @mmechomski.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
RIP Richard. www.smh.com.au/culture/cele...
smh.com.au
Former ABC newsreader Richard Morecroft dies aged 70
Morecroft was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year, and died with his partner of 36 years by his side.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Love this SO MUCH
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