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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...)
A photo of the Australian Financial Review from 24-27 April 2014, including the headline "arms build up / buys planes, world is fukt"
February 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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Quest Diagnostics out here making me do an IRL pointer chase
Note A - See Note 1 Note B - See Note 2
February 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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IMDb can surprise and delight
Screenshot of part of the IMDb page for Opposite Worlds (TV Series, 2014-), under "Did you know: Trivia" it says "The most interesting part of this show is that Jenny Nicholson did a video roasting it."
January 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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George W Bush being informed by whisper of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, with meme text at the bottom "they did surgery on a grape"
January 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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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...
A New York Times push notification: *Sorry, Big Donors* Donald Trump has run out of V.I.P. perks for his swearing-in, after donors gave more than $170 million for his inauguration.
January 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Karl Marx with a speech bubble, saying the quoted tweet
January 6, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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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!
A New York Times push notification: *Violence on the Subway*. The New York City subway feels more dangerous lately. Violence on the system has stubbornly defied long efforts to quell it.
January 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Anna is burying the star of this auction, her "Trump on trial" sketch givebutter.com/c/trumptrial...
A color sketch of an angry-looking Donald Trump, with the background filled with handwritten text, a report of Trump being found guilty
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 PM
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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
The longest podcast episode I listened to was 2 hours 39 minutes, and it was Trump v United States from US Supreme Court Oral Arguments
December 4, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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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!
An Australian House of Representatives sample ballot paper, showing 8 candidates numbered 1 to 8 in handwriting, with the instruction "number the boxes from 1 to 8 in the order of your choice"
November 28, 2024 at 9:43 PM
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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?
To completely eclipse the Sun as seen from Venus' upper atmosphere from the Sun-Venus L1 Lagrange point, an object would need to be roughly 7,000 kilometers in diameter - roughly the same size as the Earth itself. Explanation: Angular size matters: What determines the apparent size of an object in the sky is its angular size, not its actual size. To completely block the Sun, the object at L1 needs to appear the same angular size as the Sun when viewed from Venus. Calculating the size: Since the Sun is much larger than Venus, the object at L1 needs to be large enough to cover the Sun's apparent disc from Venus' perspective. Key points to remember: Distance to L1: The distance from Venus to the L1 point is relatively fixed, meaning the required object size remains constant. Venus' atmosphere: Viewing from the upper atmosphere of Venus might slightly affect the apparent size of the
October 23, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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So mygovid.gov.au (unrelated to your my.gov.au ID) is becoming myid.gov.au. A perfectly cromulent change.
An email from myGovID with subject "myGovID is changing its name to myID [SEC=OFFICIAL]". The email text is: Do not respond by email. We use hyperlinks to give you information. If you don’t want to click hyperlinks, you can search for the information on the myGovID website. [Image placeholder: ATO Logo] myGovID will soon have a new name and look Hi [name obliterated] Soon, the Australian Government’s Digital ID app, myGovID, will be changing its name to myID. It will have a new name and look, but you'll continue to use it in the same way. There is nothing you need to do, and you’ll still have: > your same details: don’t set up a new myID, your login details ... Below that is visible the top half of the following line, an alt text exclusive: "(including email address) and identity strength remains the same". This has been very meta alt text overall (just to get even more meta for a second, and so on ad infinitum parantheteum), especially the image replacement thing. But it is important context; it's a remote image and so my email client has blocked it for privacy.
October 17, 2024 at 3:43 AM
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Should I be saying thank you?! I mostly say "ah yeah I think so too!" or "yeah he's adorable but an absolute menace."
A white-furred golden doodle asleep in his dog bed, curled up and looking cute. In the background a beanbag is also visible, and some fluff that appears to be from inside a cushion or the like. I can in fact tell you exactly which cushion it came from, because we had to replace it. And two others.
October 6, 2024 at 3:20 PM
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Timeline serendipity suggests a definitive answer
A screenshot of the timeline showing the skeet this is a reply to, and another skeet with the feed "From Bluesky Team" with the account name "Bluesky" and text "Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #17,181!"
September 17, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Just snuck in under 50k (and mostly to posting for posterity)
My user number is 49,735 and I joined BlueSky in April 30, 2023
September 17, 2024 at 2:09 PM
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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?
A screenshot of Google Trends comparing search terms "it's corn" and "has the juice" over the past five years. "It's corn" has a large spike to 100 a couple of years ago, but is otherwise mostly flat around 0 before and maybe 15 after. "Has the juice" moves up and down somewhat periodically, between 20-25 and 50. It maintains its pattern but increases maximum and generally trends higher during and after the "it's corn" spike.
September 12, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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I watch *two* J.D. Vance-related videos and now this is a YouTube recommendations category for me
A photograph of the YouTube app on a TV with the first recommendations category titled "Couches and more", followed by the recommended video "My favorite guy on instagram" by Drew Gooden. My profile picture is also visible, because I am signed in.
August 3, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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can confirm
Google Translate showing the translation of Sitzgelegenheitenunzucht from German - Detected to English: Seating Unchastity
July 25, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Thank you, Bluesky Moderation Service
Sexually Suggestive (Cartoon)
June 1, 2024 at 1:05 AM
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An image of the cartoon Garfield's head with the text "you are not immune to propaganda"
April 10, 2024 at 2:14 AM
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I am struggling today after a rough yesterday, but it's hard to be too sad when there's a dog around
A golden doodle lying on its back on the couch
March 21, 2024 at 3:38 PM
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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?...
a young female moose, looking at the camera in a manner one might describe as coy. or maybe stoned.
February 9, 2024 at 3:12 AM