Alis Bouma
alisisconfused.bsky.social
Alis Bouma
@alisisconfused.bsky.social
Engineering student in Waikato, Aotearoa
Maker & aspiring musician - trying to make a career in Sci-Comm

Focusing on connecting with community - feel free to reach out!

I like to collect hobbies

she/her | Queer | Pākeha | Toitū te Tiriti | ADHD
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Increasingly convinced the main damage cell phones have done to creativity isn't decreased attention spans or what not but the elimination of productive boredom. Inspiration comes from the mind filling the void inside. Hard to make art when you're constantly silencing the silence with "content."
July 22, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Per capita plots are a proud Kiwi tradition, but has anyone seen this one? (Hat tip to @planet4589.bsky.social for the data)
July 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM
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New Zealand is neighbourhood two... 😕
July 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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someone should tell all the songwriters they arent allowed to use the same chord progression ever that'll show them
March 15, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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March 13, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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What if you built a billion-story building?

Watch the latest What If? video collaboration with MinuteEarth!

youtu.be/Z_xJ40QXu7Q
What if you built a billion-story building?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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The National party and coalition government have outdone themselves in showing that they are not responsible economic managers, or responsible managers of any other area. So far they have:
- borrowed 12 billion dollars to give tax cuts that really only benefit the very wealthy. #nzpol
February 8, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Even cooler! Near null island, there's a set of points shaped like the US (you can see Florida in the lower right.) But when you zoom out, they're off the coast of Liberia, exactly where they'd be if the latitude and longitude were both divided by 10 (eg so NYC is at 4.1, -7.4 instead of 40.7, -74).
January 6, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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January 28, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Every so often I think about what it would be like if the Tron had commuter trains, to TA and Morrinsville and Huntly... And then I think this is just idle fantasy, but *then* I see an article suggesting how this could be done. Could we? Pleeeease? 🇳🇿
www.greaterauckland.org.nz/2025/01/13/h...
Hamilton Central Station: Britomart 2.0 - Greater Auckland
Patrick Reynolds is deputy chair of the Auckland City Centre Advisory Panel and a director of Greater Auckland In 2003, after much argument, including the election of a Mayor in 2001 who ran on stoppi...
www.greaterauckland.org.nz
January 14, 2025 at 7:46 AM