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I am loved by birds and printers 🇳🇿
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Do we need to see some red pandas? I think we need to see some red pandas. {sound *off*, it’s very bad}

Me: *misses out on a movie in it's theatrical run, adds it to my to-watch list* Some film website: "Today we look at this iconic film, a decade on it remains relevant, but still a product of it's time" Me: Yeah I really should get round to watching that eh

Space Meowrine

OH MY GOD, YOU ALL. I have to tell you what just happened. I AM DANCING ON A CLOUD RIGHT NOW. 1/

Millions of birds nest in the Arctic each year. But did you know they’ve been doing this since the Cretaceous? Can’t believe I finally get to share that our paper on the birds of the Prince Creek Formation is out in ‪@science.org (and on the cover)! 🧵 Art: Gabriel Ugueto ‪@serpenillus.bsky.social

A little sneak peek at my new Detective Beans book! Out now in AU/NZ!!

Going anti-trans is one of the planks that is absolutely destroying UK Labour. They can’t win elections for town dog catcher after sweeping parliament a year ago. This is a losing position.

For TechCrunch, I wrote about Thinkst Canary, a bootstrapped maker of honeypots (for catching hackers), which this month marks its 10th anniversary. The company now brings in $20 million in ARR without VC funding or an outbound sales team. Refreshing at a time when cyber is dominated by VC dollars.

every time i scroll past i think this is some kind of oil painting from a Parisian cafe in like the 1890s

As someone who has built AMLAT systems I am having A Moment watching people be confidently and loudly incorrect in the way that causes me to wonder what else those same people are confidently full of shit about

Yesterday I found this beautiful Northern Rough Green Snake (Opheodrys aestivus aestivus). Such a cutie! #snakes #herpetology

Tout le monde doit voir ça

Good Morning, a bright newt day is here

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I worked for a print bureau in the 90s and I miss the days when you could have couriers deliver stuff across town in 15 minutes as long as it could be carried on a cycle. Now you're lucky if it doesn't cruise the suburbs for a day or two in a van.

Mocking Wellington while doing everything you can to destroy it will reliably get a certain sort of Aucklander to vote for face-eating leopards so I guess I can't really begrudge Luxon pandering to the stupidest fucking voters in New Zealand.

Ferocity

shark having that nightmare where all your teeth fall out and it just keeps going and going and going

Fairytales

That first one looks like someone is about to get stabbed with a sharp mouse

ART and Murderbot is Darcy meets Darcy and falls in platonic love with Darcy