mjec
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mjec
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computery person at etsy. australian lawyer, once upon a time. north-eastern us after south-eastern tasmania. they/them

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The Australian Financial Review put it best nearly eleven years ago: world is fukt (image source mumbrella.com.au/afr-apologis...)
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Quest Diagnostics out here making me do an IRL pointer chase
February 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
IMDb can surprise and delight
January 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
January 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
In the 2008 Presidential election, the total of all independent spending advocating for the election of defeat of a presidential candidate was $168.8M www.fec.gov/updates/2008...
January 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
January 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Ah yes, that damned defiant violence, resisting all the efforts to quell it. They would have worked if only the violence weren't so clever!
January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Anna is burying the star of this auction, her "Trump on trial" sketch givebutter.com/c/trumptrial...
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 PM
I don't have Spotify, but inspired by @brocklesnitch.bsky.social here are my top five podcasts this year:
1. @fivefourpod.bsky.social
2. The @lawfare.bsky.social podcast
3. Behind the Bastards
4. Oyez / SCOTUS oral argument
5. Maintenance Phase
December 4, 2024 at 11:18 PM
Fascinating! In Australia you write a number in each box according to preference, and then they're hand counted. But of course that's a small difference in the scheme of things!
November 28, 2024 at 9:43 PM
Ok so I asked Google and thus got this LLM answer, which I cannot confidently evaluate. It seems plausible to me, but I reckon I'd be equally convinced within three orders of magnitude. So, astronomers of the Bluesky, what do you reckon?
October 23, 2024 at 4:50 AM
So mygovid.gov.au (unrelated to your my.gov.au ID) is becoming myid.gov.au. A perfectly cromulent change.
October 17, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Should I be saying thank you?! I mostly say "ah yeah I think so too!" or "yeah he's adorable but an absolute menace."
October 6, 2024 at 3:20 PM
Timeline serendipity suggests a definitive answer
September 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Just snuck in under 50k (and mostly to posting for posterity)
September 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
I thought so too! And Google Trends data doesn't disagree; the trend and max of "has the juice" increases with and after "it's corn" spikes. But seems it wasn't coined there?
September 12, 2024 at 2:10 AM
I watch *two* J.D. Vance-related videos and now this is a YouTube recommendations category for me
August 3, 2024 at 2:17 AM
can confirm
July 25, 2024 at 6:02 AM
Thank you, Bluesky Moderation Service
June 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM
April 10, 2024 at 2:14 AM
I am struggling today after a rough yesterday, but it's hard to be too sad when there's a dog around
March 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM
Please enjoy this photograph of a young female moose in early June, as captured by bcameron54 CC BY-SA 3.0 commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?...
February 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM