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Sian
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siandart.bsky.social
Keep librarians in our State Library of Victoria : www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/ha...
Hands off our State Library!
Library workers deliver essential services to 2.8 million people in our community each year. They run information services, connect people online, hold free workshops, develop community connections an...
www.megaphone.org.au
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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iainrb.bsky.social
This.

Whenever local government reviews the library budget and asks, "Why should we give you money?"

We want the library to be able to say, "Because we provide a valuable service used by many people!"

Libraries are like muscles, using them more makes them stronger. 💪
tkingfisher.com Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 4d
Anybody who is like “Piracy is activism!”—trust me, supporting your local library is about 1000% more effective activism, and it’s still free for you and authors still get paid!
November 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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xkcd.com
Fifteen Years

xkcd.com/3172/
Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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rabies.bsky.social
I really need to sell a lot of the market art that I've made so that I can move on to something new, and so I can reduce my debt some.(To be able to make that move)

I'll be posting stuff in the next couple days on @blackwidowart.bsky.social

I would be really love if I could get more eyes on it.
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
siandart.bsky.social
The neighbours (renovating) have done us the enormous favour of getting a load of dirt delivered to the footpath and only clearing some of it.
A grey cat with golden eyes, wearing a black harness, gazes past your right shoulder. there are bricks and green plants behind. the body and feet of a formerly-grey cat who has done a lot of digging in red dirt.
October 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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benjamino.bsky.social
What I don't get is why people living in poverty and struggling to survive don't simply dip into the $3 million in super they have squirreled away for tax minimisation purposes
'Eating mostly brown food': The 'devastating' juggle faced by a rising number of Australians
With one in seven Australians living below the poverty line, researchers and advocates say that COVID-era universal income is the solution.
www.sbs.com.au
October 14, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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skwashd.wtf
A few years ago Qantas completely screwed me. I bought fuckqantas.com and redirected it to social media search results of people expressing their frustration. I feel like now is a good time to do something more with it. What do you suggest?
Bluesky
fuckqantas.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:52 AM
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matthewdownhour.bsky.social
Acts 26:24 works equally well, perhaps better, if you go into it imagining Festus is Paul’s academic advisor
24 At this point Festus interrupted Paul’s defense. “You are out of your mind, Paul!” he shouted. “Your great learning is driving you insane.”
October 14, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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nickevershed.bsky.social
this is a good story but it shows that people still fundamentally misunderstand LLMs - there is no "working properly", they're inherently probabilistic models. hallucinations aren't a bug, they're a fundamental part of language models. these aren't fact machines!!!

www.bbc.com/travel/artic...
October 10, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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melissainau.bsky.social
Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
Image text reads: Do you teach board games? We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere. The survey takes about ten minutes to complete. To find out more, please use the QR code, visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au (University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778) There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.
October 8, 2025 at 12:58 AM
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laurenthemself.bsky.social
Y'all heard of this new chronology kink?

It's about fucking time.
September 15, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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anarchyasf.com
Went to ihop drunk at 4am and asked them to make the pancakes
Evil. Maybe one of the best escapades I’ve Ever been on LMFAOOOOO
September 14, 2025 at 11:08 AM
siandart.bsky.social
A grey cat flopped on his back into the arm of someone wearing a burgundy jumper. A grey cat clinging onto a tree trunk. He wears a black harness and blue leash. A selfie of Sian smiling, with two cats snuggled in the foreground. The small grey cat rests his head on the back of the brown cat. Two cats curled up together on a blanket.
September 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
siandart.bsky.social
Some Cat
Two cats curled in a cat bed. A cat in a harness sitting on top of a recycling bin Cat in a harness standing in a driveway A cat in harness behind some weeds
August 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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pjvphotography.bsky.social
"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.
A pika sits on a mossy rock. Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head. An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye. An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.
August 28, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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erinkyan.bsky.social
I love this weird little guy
A photo of a ginger cat laying on his back on a chair with his legs in the air. A photo of a ginger cat laying on his back on a chair with his legs in the air. He looks like he's sleeping. A photo of a ginger cat laying on his back on a chair with his legs in the air. He looks like he's wiggling. A photo of a ginger cat laying on his back on a chair with his legs in the air. He looks like he's sleeping again.
July 19, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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squishybelle.bsky.social
does this need a trigger warning? probably? tw:gore

i captured what i am told is an incredible wildlife photo of an australian hobby falcon enjoying a meal of brains. sparrow brains.

i am too horrified to appreciate it
July 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
siandart.bsky.social
it might be the cold forcing them together but it's finally working (in their second winter)
A grey and brown cat nestled together on a blue blanket. A grey and brown cat nestled together on a purple blanket, stretched long. two cats with their faces close together, sleeping a grey cat rests his head on a brown cat's flank
July 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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seanhavox.bsky.social
It's official. The SAG strike is finally over. It took an entire year but now VAs have the AI protections they sought. This is a huge victory. Do not let anyone who isn't in the industry tell you otherwise.
sagaftra.org SAG-AFTRA @sagaftra.org · Jul 10
SAG-AFTRA Members Approve 2025 Video Game Agreement. www.sagaftra.org/sag-aftra-me...
On a colorful digital background. At the top, in white font: Members Approve. Below: SAG-AFTRA Interactive Media Video Game Agreement 2025.
July 10, 2025 at 3:19 AM
siandart.bsky.social
Legs everywhere
A grey kitten on a purple blanket, his legs splayed and in the air. The kitten sleeps.
June 20, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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jennaprice.bsky.social
JFC THIS IS APPALLING www.choice.com.au/health-and-b...
We tested the SPF claims of 20 sunscreens. 16 failed | CHOICE
One SPF 50+ sunscreen came in with a result of 4.
www.choice.com.au
June 11, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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jhmsparky.bsky.social
You guys! Weve had a couple of Steller's Jays about this spring visiting the fountain, and today one of them brought a juvenile along with to show them the fountain! #birding
Adult and Juvenile Steller's Jay in fountain
June 7, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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ace56.bsky.social
Essential reading now early voting has started. Great article by @davemilbo.bsky.social
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Very cool data visual work by ABC on the changing way we vote www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
This triangle helps explain a titanic shift in how Australia votes
This triangle is going to help us explain how Australian politics has fundamentally changed over the past five decades.
www.abc.net.au
April 23, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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travisbaldree.bsky.social
Oh, hi there! It's cover reveal day for Brigands & Breadknives, with art yet again by the amazing @emberwickart.bsky.social-
I love it so ❤️
Coming Nov 11 '25 from @torbooks.bsky.social-
Cover for Brigands & Breadknives, depicting a campfire scene with an elven adventurer, a rattkin writing letters in the back of a wagon, surprised by a goblin in a patchwork coat brandishing a breadknife, with a demon chicken on their head. Okay, so it's hard to describe.
January 29, 2025 at 4:16 PM