Dusty Wombat
@dustywombat.bsky.social
I read, therefore . . . I get distracted. I craft, therefore . . . I get distracted. I Interweb . . I get - ooh, new book!
Wishing quiet sleep and peace on waking to all.
Particularly to those who need it.
Particularly to those who need it.
November 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Wishing quiet sleep and peace on waking to all.
Particularly to those who need it.
Particularly to those who need it.
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Very cute video of a regent parrot chick being put back in their hollow tree nest - the little scoot down the mouth of the hole kills me every time
October 14, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Very cute video of a regent parrot chick being put back in their hollow tree nest - the little scoot down the mouth of the hole kills me every time
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This has always been true and never has it been more starkly clear than with gen-AI.
November 17, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This has always been true and never has it been more starkly clear than with gen-AI.
Tonights 'not great movie but -"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trH...
Cowboys vs Samurai vs Werewolves FULL MOVIE | Western Movies | The Midnight Screening
YouTube video by The Midnight Screening
www.youtube.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Tonights 'not great movie but -"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trH...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0trH...
Contemplating my washing machine.
It is not a happy contemplation.
It is not a happy contemplation.
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Contemplating my washing machine.
It is not a happy contemplation.
It is not a happy contemplation.
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A good piece from @theguardian.com — and here is the thing: ARTISTS and PHOTOGRAPHERS are right here, willing to help aid agencies with images. And they won’t suck up the world’s water supply while doing it. And they can help stop the BS stereotyping and poverty porn.
AI-generated images of extreme poverty, children and sexual violence survivors are flooding stock photo sites and increasingly being used by leading health NGOs, according to global health professionals who have voiced concern over a new era of “poverty porn”.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
AI-generated ‘poverty porn’ fake images being used by aid agencies
Exclusive: Pictures depicting the most vulnerable and poorest people are being used in social media campaigns in the sector, driven by concerns over consent and cost
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
A good piece from @theguardian.com — and here is the thing: ARTISTS and PHOTOGRAPHERS are right here, willing to help aid agencies with images. And they won’t suck up the world’s water supply while doing it. And they can help stop the BS stereotyping and poverty porn.
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Look at this beautiful illustration, my gosh! And @drongojackburb.bsky.social is *check profile* _nineteen_? 🤯😱😭
November 16, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Look at this beautiful illustration, my gosh! And @drongojackburb.bsky.social is *check profile* _nineteen_? 🤯😱😭
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Print out and post these everywhere
November 16, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Print out and post these everywhere
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The Herald can reveal officials in the Department of Home Affairs are preparing a brief for the Albanese government to consider the visa of neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Senior neo-Nazi may face deportation to South Africa after parliament rally
The Albanese government will consider the visa of Matthew Gruter, a senior member of the group that rallied outside NSW parliament. He may also face the sack.
www.smh.com.au
November 16, 2025 at 4:25 AM
The Herald can reveal officials in the Department of Home Affairs are preparing a brief for the Albanese government to consider the visa of neo-Nazi and senior National Socialist Network member Matthew Gruter. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
Surprising my husband wearing his Gorget
YouTube video by Notgabbyb
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November 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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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
/jb
#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.