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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

🧵Spotted on a Rainy Market Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A small human (3?) is clutching a wheel of camembert cheese to her chest and wearing a big watery frown. Dad asks what's wrong and she bellows with utmost distress: "MY CHEESE IS SAD!" Dad trying to commiserate in between belly chuckles.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am also a tab maximalist. Many of my tabs are pinned, in fact. And apparently this browser (and others, I am informed) have fancy ways of grouping tabs for "efficiency", which just sounds like enabling to me. I'll stick with my chaos thank you very much.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today I heard someone use the Human Centipede as a way to explain why large model AI is inevitably heading towards its own self destruction by tainting its future inputs, and honestly? It was a beautiful teaching metaphor.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Having spent many hours poking at my phone while my parents watch TV, I can confirm that this is accurate.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

If anyone would like to attend an online workshop about micro journaling to find positive moments in your day, I'm doing one. October 3rd 9am NZT. Pay-What-You-Can/Koha Available for 2 weeks for all ticket holders if you can't make it on the day.😊🪻🌸 www.eventbrite.co.nz/e/finding-ti...

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Finding Tiny Moments of Joy in Everyday Life

Do you need more joy and calmness in your life? Then this workshop about how to find small joys in the world might be for you!

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I have separated the art from the artist and am now whipping the art to stiff peaks, after which I will gently fold it into the artist before baking at 350 til golden and puffed

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Girl’s Own advice @girlsown.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Exercise should be taken with a skipping-rope, battledore and shuttlecock, and indiarubber ball, this last being recommended by many doctors for people of middle-age.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I've seen (and loved) some of the songs as stand-alone videos, and I really, really want to see it live. One day....

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A border collie approaches some traffic lights with her human and looks at him expectently. Human nods and Border Collie jumps up and boops the traffic crossing button with her nose. Both waiting patiently until the little man turns green.

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

A woman (80s?) with sequinned purple trousers, a tuxedo jacket and a black laquered walking stick is striding down the street. Posture immaculate. Expression imperious. Style personified. Later seen in a bar window, sipping a classic martini.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/books/pictur...

Title: Methods for Encouraging a Reluctant Young Reader

Panel 1
Caption: Read Together
Image: A small child sits on a sofa, face buried in a book, between two adults doing the same.

Panel 2
Caption: Bribery
Image: The small child sits on a treasure chest wearing a crown, face buried in a book, in a room full of coins, jewels and precious items.

Panel 3
Caption: Element of danger
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, precariously balanced on a thin branch in a tall tree.

Panel 4
Caption: Reverse Psychology
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, beside a huge bookshelf and a sign that reads “Adults Only”

Panel 5
Caption: Pulleys and Pistons
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, amidst a complicated mechanism that provides endless new books.

Panel 6
Caption: Rituals and Incantations
Image: The small child sits, face buried in a book, in a circle of candles amidst clouds of smoke and mysterious phrases.

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 01/09/2026

Highway Signs xkcd.com/3289/

Comic. [sign on road reads Next Exit: 1,390,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The number on the speed limit sign in front of it is 0.000000097] [caption] Our local highway department is switching to planck units.

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Jared Pechaček @vandroidhelsing.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I just remembered how when I put this on Twitter back in the day, someone told me you’re not supposed to clean a snake with soap, as if this was meant as a guide to the care and feeding of your serpent

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Tonight Rebecca Solnit has posted several quotes by the great Wendell Berry, who has died. This quote in particular speaks to me, as someone who has to fight off cynicism every waking hour. 👇🏽

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Andrew Digby @digs.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

325 #kakapo! The chicks from this year's record breeding season are now juveniles and so have been added to the population. In 1995 there were just 51 kākāpō left. Recovery of critically endangered species _is_ possible with sustained effort. #kakapo2026 #conservation #parrots

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Will Quinn @willquinnart.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

a Mouse King. is there one under your desk??

drawing of a bunch of computer mice with their all cords tangled together

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Please enjoy this spoon of scone 😇

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Amethyst Smiths. So easy to pronounce after a couple of Stoli-Bollies, darling.

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 26/08/2026

It sucks that Viking explorers never made it all the way to South America, because I feel like they would have loved to dare each other to eat really hot chili peppers for a laugh.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Make a band bigger. R.E.M.N.O.P.Q

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Biochemist: The volume in the cup is academic, because you're still going to need 10% extra to get 20 50uL aliquots out of a mL of reagent.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

First thing I do with a new recipe is open my trusty Edmonds* and flip to the conversion table. My notes on the scone recipe are so painfully nerdy 😆 *iconic NZ recipe book and cooking reference.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

A perennial favourite of mine 😁 Translation of Rita's speech in a reply to the original post.

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ceej @ceej.online · 20/08/2026

they put up a dada center just outside of town and life has been unbearable ever since. thing looks like a fucking fish

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 20/08/2026

I’ve acquired chickens from people I met on social media. It doesn’t get any more real than that.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

In the last book I finished, I’d be a police lieutenant in a rocky romance with a “serial numbers lightly filed off” version of a snarky sci-fi antihero, and I bet there are several among you who recognise that series 😇

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I haven’t yet figured out who the MAIN main character* is in the book that I just started, but one of the candidates is literally Satan walking among us, which could be fun. *I have a sneaking suspicion it’s the one who is currently in utero

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I ignored the warning, and am now using fervent disbelief as a defence mechanism. It’s surprisingly effective!

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Lauren Flans @laurenflans.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

It was the "This you?" of times; it was the "It me" of times.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

All of my communication apps are some shade of blue now. It's getting difficult to tell the icons apart 😒

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

To be honest, I sometimes have a similar issue when I pick a book back up. But I solve it using a technique that I like to call "flipping back a few pages".

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

ohhh, lambies in August, I do hope the weather will be kind to them and their māmā 🤞🤞

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A long haired little white dog (Shih Tzu cross mop?) is jauntily trotting through a fern forest. Her humans don't notice the giant stretch of mud ahead and Little Dog trots right in and... ... Hmm... ... A long haired little muddy dog (Shih Tzu cross bog monster?) is jauntily trotting... (3)

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I think they gave us a broad idea ("tomorrow afternoon") and might even have promised a follow-up call with a more precise time. Which never happened. They're a big firm with branches all over NZ, so it's not like they're a two-person operation with minimal admin skills 🙄

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

It's the reason we don't use them any more 👍

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Fortunately for all concerned, the interviews were done over the phone, not in person. But there was a stupid amount of email and SMS tag required to set them up 😒

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

JESUS CHRIST WHAT ARE WE DOING THERE'S A TINY SHINY BIRD IN PANTALOONS

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Micah @rincewind.run · 10/08/2026

I think being Extremely Online has been good for me in many ways - I have made a lot of friends through the internet, some of whom helped me get to where I am today, and I’ve managed to avoid a lot of the pitfalls I think being Extremely Online is not good for most people and I discourage it

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George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

A woman (30s?) is walking around a fruit and vegetable shop, playfully booping her partner on the backside with a large telegraph cucumber as he selects a cauliflower. Grinning angelically when he tells her to behave. (3)

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Reminds me of the local electrician firm who advertise a free hour of work if they don't turn up within 30 minutes of the arranged time. The catch is, they never arrange a time - they just ...turn up.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We don't have a census this year, but for some reason they are doing phone interviews of all members of randomly-chosen households. Guess who drew the short straw 🙄

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 08/08/2026

Does anyone else hate the Speed of Light? It's so lame. We can never zip around and visit a million planets just because of some stupid hardcoded limit that they arbitrarily put in because the devs refuse to optimize their engine to handle faster travel.

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Stumbling on a wet Sunday morning through a maze of twisty internet passages, all alike, I came across Matthew Rhys in the Criterion Closet, being utterly delightful and having exactly correct opinions on all of the pictures that I also have opinions on. Please enjoy: youtu.be/r0-5G6-g7WI?...

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Matthew Rhys’s Closet Picks

YouTube video by CRITERION

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ThisNicola @thisnicola.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

For a junk drawer to legally qualify as a real junk drawer, what is the ONE absolute mandatory item it must include? The unbroken bits of an otherwise broken kitchen tool, kept in hopes that they might Come In Useful when it's time to repair the next one.

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