Dusty Wombat
@dustywombat.bsky.social
I read, therefore . . . I get distracted. I craft, therefore . . . I get distracted. I Interweb . . I get - ooh, new book!
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It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 AM
It's just been confirmed that Monash University is dropping Woodside as a partner because they don't align with their sustainable values. This is an incredible win for @stopwoodsidemonash.bsky.social who have run a dedicated grass roots campaign for years.
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Please donate encouragingly to help eradicate this bastard of a disease pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...
The Even Looser Quolls in Elders Point to Pinnacle & Brooks Point to Pub 2025
Hi there
We are trying to fundraise $35000 to help Menzies Institute for Medical Research. To accomplish this we have created a team called The Even Looser Quolls.
Please help us accomplish our goal...
pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Please donate encouragingly to help eradicate this bastard of a disease pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...
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Just got a delivery of the good stuff- I went looking online when all the stockists near me stopped stocking them, and discovered I can buy Australia’s best tortillas by the kilo 🥰 🤤
November 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Just got a delivery of the good stuff- I went looking online when all the stockists near me stopped stocking them, and discovered I can buy Australia’s best tortillas by the kilo 🥰 🤤
Exploding Whale Day tomorrow.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Exploding Whale Day tomorrow.
At that point in writing where setup is done, everything is getting to the pointy end of the story where is 'just needs to be written.'
Also at that point where 'I need a new brain to finish' plea to the gods is kicking in because nothing I'm writing seems right.
Maybe a week off?
Also at that point where 'I need a new brain to finish' plea to the gods is kicking in because nothing I'm writing seems right.
Maybe a week off?
a bunch of crumpled paper on a table with the word useless written on it
Alt: a bunch of crumpled paper on a table with the word useless written on it
media.tenor.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:58 AM
At that point in writing where setup is done, everything is getting to the pointy end of the story where is 'just needs to be written.'
Also at that point where 'I need a new brain to finish' plea to the gods is kicking in because nothing I'm writing seems right.
Maybe a week off?
Also at that point where 'I need a new brain to finish' plea to the gods is kicking in because nothing I'm writing seems right.
Maybe a week off?
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AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Homepage | Bartz v Anthropic Settlement Site
www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
AUTHORS!!
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON?
Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen.
More here:
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The people who make @oglaf.bsky.social are just over the ditch in AUSTRALIA?? And they name drop FOOTROT FLATS in this interview???
My latest at @comicsjournal.bsky.social: I talked to @oglaf.bsky.social! Not the character, but rather, the people who create it.
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
They don't do many interviews, so this was a real treat. They're funny people! Turns out they're not super private, just...really bad at PR?
www.tcj.com/talking-ogla...
Talking Oglaf with Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne: 'We'd stay up all night drawing stuff to make each other laugh' - The Comics Journal
Other than some time off every year for Christmas, Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne have delivered a new Oglaf comic, skewering fantasy tropes with absolutely not safe for work humor, every week since 2008...
www.tcj.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
The people who make @oglaf.bsky.social are just over the ditch in AUSTRALIA?? And they name drop FOOTROT FLATS in this interview???
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Did you know that I have extras on my website? One of them is a short story in the Turner series, where you learn what's happening between Smite and Richard Dalrymple when they were kids: www.courtneymilan.co...
/jb
#HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #TurnerSeries
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#HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #TurnerSeries
November 10, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Did you know that I have extras on my website? One of them is a short story in the Turner series, where you learn what's happening between Smite and Richard Dalrymple when they were kids: www.courtneymilan.co...
/jb
#HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #TurnerSeries
/jb
#HistoricalRomance #Romance #Romancelandia #HEA #TurnerSeries
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You can't go wrong with a book called The Frog Book.
The frog book - Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library works collaboratively to make biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
www.biodiversitylibrary.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:16 PM
You can't go wrong with a book called The Frog Book.
Choice of things to watch while cleaning/washing clothes this afternoon (should be terrible/easy to ignore)
Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
Or
Re-Animator
Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
Or
Re-Animator
November 8, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Choice of things to watch while cleaning/washing clothes this afternoon (should be terrible/easy to ignore)
Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
Or
Re-Animator
Slave Girls From Beyond Infinity
Or
Re-Animator
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Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.
Bell bottom-era tape unearthed, could contain lost piece of Unix history
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/u...
It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
<- by me on @theregister.com
52 year old data tape could contain Unix history
: It might have the first-ever version of UNIX written in C
www.theregister.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Absolutely WILD that the development of sofrware proceeded with so little heed to record-keeping that 52 year old source code is a major archaeological trove that requires special tools to gain access to, like it's a treasure room in a sealed royal tomb from 3500 years ago.
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The premier, the poet and the fight to save an extraordinary Australian frog
The premier, the poet and the fight to save an extraordinary Australian frog
As amphibian enthusiasts get ready to hop into FrogID Week, hope persists that one of Australia’s most bizarre creatures may survive
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It’s a story almost too preposterous to believe, starring a group of young uni students, an infamous state premier, a legendary Australian poet and an extinct frog which gave birth by vomiting its young – all at the dawn of the Australian conservation movement.
Yet the tale of the southern gastric-brooding frog, which once inhabited the rainforest streams of the Conondale and Blackall ranges in south-east Queensland, continues to perplex and inspire a new generation of citizen scientists as they hop into FrogID Week. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:36 AM
The premier, the poet and the fight to save an extraordinary Australian frog
Spooky I don't care about
I doubt the asking price if 50k or under through.
I doubt the asking price if 50k or under through.
November 8, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Spooky I don't care about
I doubt the asking price if 50k or under through.
I doubt the asking price if 50k or under through.
Just over 2100 words today. Feeling a bit ikky. Important scene(s) for setting up the end showdown but ugh. Involved meanness to several characters and a display of how ruthless one can be.
May change things around, but its shape is blocked in.
May change things around, but its shape is blocked in.
November 8, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Just over 2100 words today. Feeling a bit ikky. Important scene(s) for setting up the end showdown but ugh. Involved meanness to several characters and a display of how ruthless one can be.
May change things around, but its shape is blocked in.
May change things around, but its shape is blocked in.
Going to watch 'The Running Man'
Feel like I'm living on the set as it is, some days.
Feel like I'm living on the set as it is, some days.
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Going to watch 'The Running Man'
Feel like I'm living on the set as it is, some days.
Feel like I'm living on the set as it is, some days.
Washed hands
- swearing
- the sink has one of those stupid push--pop-plugs.
- will neither pop nor push.
- sink full of water.
. . . going to permanantly remove IF I can work out how without breaking sink.
FFS
- swearing
- the sink has one of those stupid push--pop-plugs.
- will neither pop nor push.
- sink full of water.
. . . going to permanantly remove IF I can work out how without breaking sink.
FFS
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Washed hands
- swearing
- the sink has one of those stupid push--pop-plugs.
- will neither pop nor push.
- sink full of water.
. . . going to permanantly remove IF I can work out how without breaking sink.
FFS
- swearing
- the sink has one of those stupid push--pop-plugs.
- will neither pop nor push.
- sink full of water.
. . . going to permanantly remove IF I can work out how without breaking sink.
FFS
Living in a sauna today.
Hot, the rain is making steam, not coolth.
The Oodles are lying on the floor, not in their beds.
I also need a new keyboard (thumps several sticky keys)
Still, they're cheap nowdays and this one has given sterling service).
Wonder when the G510 was released?
Hot, the rain is making steam, not coolth.
The Oodles are lying on the floor, not in their beds.
I also need a new keyboard (thumps several sticky keys)
Still, they're cheap nowdays and this one has given sterling service).
Wonder when the G510 was released?
November 8, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Living in a sauna today.
Hot, the rain is making steam, not coolth.
The Oodles are lying on the floor, not in their beds.
I also need a new keyboard (thumps several sticky keys)
Still, they're cheap nowdays and this one has given sterling service).
Wonder when the G510 was released?
Hot, the rain is making steam, not coolth.
The Oodles are lying on the floor, not in their beds.
I also need a new keyboard (thumps several sticky keys)
Still, they're cheap nowdays and this one has given sterling service).
Wonder when the G510 was released?
Food helped. whee!
could really do with an end of week drink but none in the house, so ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIg...
could really do with an end of week drink but none in the house, so ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIg...
Versengold - The Devil is a Barmaid (Offizielles Video)
YouTube video by Versengold
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Food helped. whee!
could really do with an end of week drink but none in the house, so ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIg...
could really do with an end of week drink but none in the house, so ....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEIg...
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(The sequel is in production, literally right now)
November 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
(The sequel is in production, literally right now)
Air conditioner on to cool down for the evening. Panadol for the headache. Oodles and bantams fed.
Egg sammich tonight I think. Quick, easy and tasty.
Egg sammich tonight I think. Quick, easy and tasty.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Air conditioner on to cool down for the evening. Panadol for the headache. Oodles and bantams fed.
Egg sammich tonight I think. Quick, easy and tasty.
Egg sammich tonight I think. Quick, easy and tasty.
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I do wish Australian businesses would stop using the American “Black Friday Sale” Black Friday has a whole other meaning in Australia it’s an insult to the dead
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_F...
Black Friday bushfires - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:42 AM
I do wish Australian businesses would stop using the American “Black Friday Sale” Black Friday has a whole other meaning in Australia it’s an insult to the dead
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_F...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_F...
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Related, three hunters fell into the thin ice in Kotzebue earlier this week. One brother is recovering, one body was recovered and people are still searching for the third. Warming weather in our region is deadly.
alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Related, three hunters fell into the thin ice in Kotzebue earlier this week. One brother is recovering, one body was recovered and people are still searching for the third. Warming weather in our region is deadly.
alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
alaskapublic.org/news/public-...
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I highly recommend this channel.
Raising a funny swamphen
YouTube video by A Chick Called Albert
youtu.be
November 5, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I highly recommend this channel.
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It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 AM
It's aaaaliiiiiive!!! HEART OF STONE is now available again! Vampires and dragons and djinn, oh my! Welcome to the world of the Old Races as Margrit Knight discovers her hot new client isn't just wanted for murder - he's also a gargoyle!
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FD4MKZM...