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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

So I've followed @bernadettebanner.bsky.social for 100 gazilion years off and on bc I love her charm and nerdiness re the ways of fashion*. Watched her LARPING today as a flesh-sewing zombie; decided to check out bio developments ... my frigging gaydar NEVER FAILS. A year late but v happy

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“.. The greatest danger facing society isn’t that software will awaken and overthrow its human masters. It is that we will allow the creators of the software to abdicate human responsibility for the systems they choose to build ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/the-...

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You should check out my best friend’s book reviews!

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

When ppl (any age) say BS like "the best music evaaar was [the year I turned 20]", I just want to die of secondhand cringe. Ofc it's worse when ppl MY age sound like boomers they're so eager to differentiate from (age 37 when this came out - it still slaps) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixw_...

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She Wants Revenge - Tear You Apart (Closed Captioned)

YouTube video by SheWantsRevengeVEVO

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Katie Hinde @mammalssuck.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

"The whole “Oh no, our models went rogue” thing … When a bridge collapses, you don’t analyze whether the bridge was ethical or sentient or why it decided to collapse. You ask, who is the person who built this bridge to be so flimsy?" www.wired.com/story/one-of...

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One of AI’s Fiercest Critics Says All the Doom Talk Is ‘Meant to Distract Us’

Timnit Gebru argues that AI companies are stoking fears of extinction to avoid discussing actual harms, like autonomous weapons.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Cishet (presumably) date next to me, chat scores™: Him: 6.5/10 Her: 7.5/10* * Scores adjusted for content to verbiage. Dude actually has decent chat, but he has yapped on approx 4x as much as she has. She has made 2x (at least 4) jokes to his.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Finally finished S1 of the #Murderbot show, and honestly, I'm still disappointed. TBH, Skarsgard never got me to the WOSD point. The Preservation Aux crew continued with the TSTL vibe. Story changes seemed pointless. Character changes f-ing annoying. Last ep w MB's "wipe" - WTAF.

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Allison @handle.invalid · 31/08/2026

This is a great way to contextualise this spending

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Random blast from the past - when Melissa Fucking Paternoster shredded Shirley Manson to *pieces*. Not really, it's an epic duet, but Melissa Paternoster (what a name!) kills it DEAD. So glad she's still recording and doing her awesome thing www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmK...

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Garbage & Screaming Females - Because The Night (Official Video)

YouTube video by Garbage

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Ah, the joys of refamiliarising yourself with desktop Linux. Sound inexplicably stops in Zen Browser, working OK in other browsers. Commence checking codecs, ffmpeg, bug reports, etc... audio devices not on mute.. wait, what's that tab there on the right in the audio volume controls..? wait...

Screenshot of Youtube page in browser and OS volume control settings on Devices tab showing all device volumes (none muted)

Screenshot of volume controls showing "Applications" tab.The zen brower application olume control shows as ON MUTE

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Achievement of the century: fixed a bug in a vbscript** Microsoft supplied in 2003.* (* aka relevant skills for today's information technology specialist 🤣) (** I friggin hated vbs even when it WAS relevant***) (*** Relevant today bc MS haven't provided a PS version - FU on-prem losers)

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

I believe the children are our future

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

(late to the party) where tf are the explosives-wielding French spy scuba divers when you need them?

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

In the year of our lord 2026, in the pub in which I am sitting, there is literally a 20-something dude performing Wonderwall on acoustic guitar. With no apparent sense of irony. (I shall refrain from booing when the agony is finally over pls soon)

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

@joshtaylor.bsky.social - re Telstra, no journos have stated the NTP standard mandates minimum of 3 stratum 0 time sources. Per quotes, Telstra implies there was only one? NTP is *very* resilient IF it's configured correctly. Obv investigation underway, but Telstra quotes imply it wasn't correct?

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

How tf does Telstra have just one (1) GNSS "node" acting as their strata 0 NTP (time) source? The NTP standard requires three (or more) sources to compute the reference time via various calculations. www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5905.... I insist on three for our semi-govvie environment!

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Tze Ming Mok 莫志明 @tzemingdynasty.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

The book is in press! HK Lennon Wall cover fuck yeah ✊ @keithng.bsky.social , harking back to Te Papa's first round of Asian activist materials collections. I wrote the intro & a few other bits & bobs. Can't wait to see how Grace has let our history speak through objects in the national collection.

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Between Dreams: Resistance and Representation in Asian Aotearoa | Te Papa

This landmark collection presents fresh, progressive perspectives on what it means to be ‘Asian’ in Aotearoa.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

All #welly (reasonably) throwing fits bc the main sewerage station is busted , and they're pumping minimally-treated stuff (sieved to get of lumps and fucking flushed wetwipes). Meanwhile in Sydney (pop 5.5 mill), they have THREE pipes pumping the same kind of shit offshore every day.

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

we need more allies doing stuff like this instead of sharing screenshots of content by white supremacists

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Great post about generative AI. Happy Holidays. Don't say I never gave you anything. anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

I do understand: you want permission. There’s a machine in the corner wrapped in human skin that makes things out of shit and blood to look like whatever you want (as long as you don’t look too closely). You gave one to your teacher and they didn’t notice. Your boss told you to use it after they laid off half the team and it was fine. You fed one to your kids and they liked it. You want to know you can use it sometimes without me thinking less of you. You don’t need me to believe it’s useful, you just want me to be polite about it.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

[screaming!] WHY DID NO-ONE TELL ME ABOUT THE EIGHT DAYS OF DIANA WYNNE JONES PODCAST OMFG www.eightdaysofdiana.com (Now is also time to listen to the audio version of the Dark is Rising brb tunein.com/podcasts/Sto...)

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Eight Days of Diana Wynne Jones

Award nominated readalong podcast about Diana Wynne Jones with Emily Tesh and Rebecca Fraimow

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

You CAN condemn what happened to the Bondi Jewish community and you CAN oppose the genocide and you CAN oppose Oct 7 and you CAN condemn the oppression Gazans faced before that, without it justifying anything that came next. You can and you must. You have to want it *all* to stop.

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Alli Shaw @allidrawscomics.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

I try to focus on posting about art and comics and not my complaints about the state of everything but GOOD GRIEF

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Kyra Dempsey - Admiral Cloudberg @kyracloudy.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

After weeks of development hell, my most ambitious Mentour Pilot script to date has finally seen the light of day. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0B4...

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Litany of LIES! | The Mount Erebus Disaster

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Apparently I have to hand in my queer card for never having watched an entire ep of OITNB - I'm sooo sorry, I'm not into soap operas/shows that are 100% about interpersonal drama. (Ok, I watched the first three seasons of The L Word bc J Beals horniness)

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 02/12/2025

“Have Yourself A Merriam Little Christmas” Merriam, a career-oriented lexicographer from the city, returns to her small town for the holidays and meets Webster, a ruggedly handsome librarian, who shows her the true DEFINITION of Christmas.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Dear corporate BS writers, "to service the public" implies our jobs are much more exciting and better paid than in reality. Altho the level of WTF we encounter is probably not too dissimilar at times, albeit wildly different in type.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Me [goes thru airport security scan]: ... Scan: ✅️ Scan dude: Wait do you ID as F? Me: Y (wtf?) Dude to other dude: Hey, you got it wrong, SHE has to go thru again Me: ...👹 ↪️ Scan: ✅️ Me: 👹👹 Dear AU Aviation Security, what diff does my GENDER make to the fucking scanner?? (Pat-down, OK; a scan, WTAFF)

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Hint: I did it in the browser rather than trying to hunt thru Android/Gmail options. Also, "smart features" is fairly accessible via Gmail on Android - not sure of the interaction between the settings, but I just got rid of each. In other news, I am pleased Firefox is committing to AI OPTIONAL.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Literally visited his gravestone in the Bolton St cemetery in #Welly last weekend, as part of a tour for the Wellington Heritage Festival. Some really cool events - definitely worth checking out what might tickle your fancy wellingtonheritagefestival.co.nz

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

And if you have zero shots. Bizarrely, it was somewhat complicated to get the MMR fairly recently, since there is/was some policy that if you are born prior to 1970, you'd had the measles. I hadn't. I got my first vax when in Oz, then argued for the 2nd when I moved back to NZ.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

If you're bougie enough to be in close proximity to any of the "elites" that think techbro merch is cool, you're bougie enough to buy these items. Less than 9 cm long, will fit into your pocket or bag. www.supremecommunity.com/season/itemd...

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Supreme Montana Cans Mini Can Set (SS21) - $44

Supreme Montana Cans Mini Can Set accessory - $44 retail. Set of six 1. Buy on StockX, GOAT, Grailed.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

Dear "Australian Research Centre", if you're going to robocall me, maybe ensure the greeting your bot plays doesn't sound like it was recorded in a wind tunnel. I had to listen for nearly 10 sec before determining it was fine to hang up - seconds I could have spent on a sip of coffee!

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Latest wee project is done

Mokakniv woodworking knife and hand-carved pohutukawa wood sheath

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Went into a bar to buy a half-pint of beer, only to be told "no". Apparently, for this boutique brewery's bar, it's pints or nothing. I normally drink pints, so I'll have to start checking out whether this is a thing across the board. If so, it sucks.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Stupid shit menopause does to you that no-one mentions, #48: you* can't even fucking whistle any more (*you = I and me. Maybe *you* can still whistle, but I, an accomplished (if amateur) whistler previously, cannot, subsequent to frigging m3nopuKe)

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

With alt text so everyone can get it

Post from x account gooseymane that reads "can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if a.i. does?"

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Serious question: if a service provider sends you a PDF file *without* editable fields for you to provide them some info, how, exactly, do they expect people to do that? Go through the rigmarole I just did of converting to image so I could scribble on it? Or literally print it out and ...?

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

What also gets me about this kind of job/income erosion is that the said billionaires could earn MORE ridiculous profits from people with discretionary $$ to spend on their goods. Altho, with already-stratospheric incomes, maybe they're limiting supply for the merely-rich to harvest

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Small comfort in these days of "AI"/ various forms of machine learning, and the many years of metadata scrapings, that the Goog apparently don't know how unappealing this is to me on at least three levels

Google Play ad suggesting, "Celebrate Taylor's new album on TikTok"

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Helpful hint for anyone who doesn't get hiccups for literal decades, and who then gets stuck with a 15 min bout that feels like it'll last foreverrr - this works! Basically, sit up straight, extend your neck upwards as far as you can and hold your breath as long as possible. Relief!

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A Simple Maneuver to Treat Hiccups

To the Editor:— Recently a simple maneuver has been observed to end prolonged hiccupping in a dozen subjects. The individual is instructed to sit upright and to hold his breath. The patient then ...

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Time to hit mute on JK R*wling discourse. I never liked the books and I don't know why this woman's hateful views keep being platformed. We all know what she is now, I'm not interested in any further bile she has to spew.

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Dear medical practice, thanks SO much - not - for the information that my awesome GP has returned to Canada permanently. You'd think that'd be something to mention to a GP's patients? Even more awesome there are no appts available with any of the other doctors there for about a month.

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

tbh reposting this on here (there aren't a lot of kids on here) feels a bit futile so I just want to champion Scarleteen as a really incredible accessible resource for kids seeking inclusive sex ed (+ other stuff re: teen safety) and if you can get it into the hands of kiddos now that'd be good

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Apparently our CEO/PM hasn't heard of the project management triangle, expressed in brief as: "Good, fast, cheap. You get two." I know which one *shouldn't* be sacrificed in a """representative democracy""" (Since this stupidity is such a part of the RW playbook now, I'm sure they feel otherwise)

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Lol yeah, I wonder if the OP has ever heard of Czechoslovakia, August 1968

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Trix @trixtah.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

In honour of a 20th anniversary showing of #SerenityMovie, here's a link to one of the best fanvids I've ever seen. Not such a fan of the song, but it works perfectly here. (Pword to the video is immediately beneath the embed) heresluck.livejournal.com/183746.html

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vid announcement: Serenity, "New Frontier"

fandom: Serenity (movie only, no Firefly eps) music: Benefits of Being Paranoid, "New Frontier" format: DivX, 38 MB available at: heresluck.net I like feedback, whether in LJ or as e-mail. Three-word ...

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