Az
@amisamileandme.bsky.social
Erstwhile medievalist, over-explainer, cat paparazzi. Name-squatter on many platforms.
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I can only assume the people who made this poisonous-mushroom shaped teething toy for babies are in fact enacting a devious plot to reduce the global baby population
www.thenaturalbabyco.com/products/oli...
www.thenaturalbabyco.com/products/oli...
December 2, 2025 at 2:38 AM
I can only assume the people who made this poisonous-mushroom shaped teething toy for babies are in fact enacting a devious plot to reduce the global baby population
www.thenaturalbabyco.com/products/oli...
www.thenaturalbabyco.com/products/oli...
I am sceptical, but I have @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social ‘s gluten free rolls in the afternoon sun to rise.
If this works it will be the only time I’ve ever succeeded at yeast baking, and if it doesn’t we can blame my general curséd state re anything that involves kneading rather than the recipe.
If this works it will be the only time I’ve ever succeeded at yeast baking, and if it doesn’t we can blame my general curséd state re anything that involves kneading rather than the recipe.
December 2, 2025 at 4:16 AM
I am sceptical, but I have @mbrobergmoffitt.bsky.social ‘s gluten free rolls in the afternoon sun to rise.
If this works it will be the only time I’ve ever succeeded at yeast baking, and if it doesn’t we can blame my general curséd state re anything that involves kneading rather than the recipe.
If this works it will be the only time I’ve ever succeeded at yeast baking, and if it doesn’t we can blame my general curséd state re anything that involves kneading rather than the recipe.
Blessed are the jaffle makers, for they shall feast on leftovers, yea, unto the third or even fourth day.
December 2, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Blessed are the jaffle makers, for they shall feast on leftovers, yea, unto the third or even fourth day.
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POV: Tuck is judging you.
December 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
POV: Tuck is judging you.
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In a weird way I feel like Costco is one of the last megacompanies that actually practices capitalism as its supposed to work
December 2, 2025 at 12:07 AM
In a weird way I feel like Costco is one of the last megacompanies that actually practices capitalism as its supposed to work
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So it turns out NACC Commr Brereton is blaming us, the public, for his decision to stop having a secret side-job with the IGADF, bcoz we have caused a “distraction”
🔥David Shoebridge slams CEO Philip Reed who insists the decision had nothing to do with conflict of interest🙄ffs #Estimates
🔥David Shoebridge slams CEO Philip Reed who insists the decision had nothing to do with conflict of interest🙄ffs #Estimates
December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
So it turns out NACC Commr Brereton is blaming us, the public, for his decision to stop having a secret side-job with the IGADF, bcoz we have caused a “distraction”
🔥David Shoebridge slams CEO Philip Reed who insists the decision had nothing to do with conflict of interest🙄ffs #Estimates
🔥David Shoebridge slams CEO Philip Reed who insists the decision had nothing to do with conflict of interest🙄ffs #Estimates
In my quest to be Involved I have been saying “sure sign me up” to every “Ms Teen has x school thing” whenever Mum raises it, and then forgetting what I’m tagging along to.
This ended up with me signed up to attend two award ceremonies, one today and one tomorrow.
This ended up with me signed up to attend two award ceremonies, one today and one tomorrow.
December 2, 2025 at 12:02 AM
In my quest to be Involved I have been saying “sure sign me up” to every “Ms Teen has x school thing” whenever Mum raises it, and then forgetting what I’m tagging along to.
This ended up with me signed up to attend two award ceremonies, one today and one tomorrow.
This ended up with me signed up to attend two award ceremonies, one today and one tomorrow.
Why is the spot where my gall bladder used to be hurting more at day 11 than day 3?
A mystery.
A mystery.
December 1, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Why is the spot where my gall bladder used to be hurting more at day 11 than day 3?
A mystery.
A mystery.
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the creature be creaching
December 1, 2025 at 10:00 PM
the creature be creaching
Tag yourself I’m Huge Walk
December 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Tag yourself I’m Huge Walk
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Good morning from Ophelia. She has had so many kisses on her little nose. Her spay incision looks okay this morning (we've been treating a tiny surface infection) and she is ready for the day!
December 1, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Good morning from Ophelia. She has had so many kisses on her little nose. Her spay incision looks okay this morning (we've been treating a tiny surface infection) and she is ready for the day!
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I joke with my sister that he would get no scoped as a warrior cat
December 1, 2025 at 1:03 PM
I joke with my sister that he would get no scoped as a warrior cat
I do miss my housemate’s cats, though.
News from chez us: the Angry Cat from two doors down was seen departing our premises with a cat toy in his mouth, the brazen thief!
News from chez us: the Angry Cat from two doors down was seen departing our premises with a cat toy in his mouth, the brazen thief!
I need the equivalent of a back-of-hand to forehead temperature check, but for my sanity.
I’ve been chez parents for 1.5 weeks, I’ve another 1.5 to spend, and I just caught myself feeling gloomy about going back to Sydney.
That’s never happened, not in the 21 years since I finished high school.
I’ve been chez parents for 1.5 weeks, I’ve another 1.5 to spend, and I just caught myself feeling gloomy about going back to Sydney.
That’s never happened, not in the 21 years since I finished high school.
December 1, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I do miss my housemate’s cats, though.
News from chez us: the Angry Cat from two doors down was seen departing our premises with a cat toy in his mouth, the brazen thief!
News from chez us: the Angry Cat from two doors down was seen departing our premises with a cat toy in his mouth, the brazen thief!
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The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
December 1, 2025 at 6:29 PM
The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google
That reminds me: last week my mother, who has been reading Poldark, was telling me that she started watching the show and it’s totally _wrong_.
Friends, I did NOT point accusingly and say “see! See what it feels like!”, despite a lifetime of parent complaints about my complaints about adaptations.
Friends, I did NOT point accusingly and say “see! See what it feels like!”, despite a lifetime of parent complaints about my complaints about adaptations.
my spouse and my children think i’m a sad nerd for letting my enjoyment of the novel i’m reading, set in 1789, be ruined by anachronisms such as its protagonist using “access” as a verb, the first known instance of which appeared in 1953. i don’t disagree with them.
December 1, 2025 at 10:25 PM
That reminds me: last week my mother, who has been reading Poldark, was telling me that she started watching the show and it’s totally _wrong_.
Friends, I did NOT point accusingly and say “see! See what it feels like!”, despite a lifetime of parent complaints about my complaints about adaptations.
Friends, I did NOT point accusingly and say “see! See what it feels like!”, despite a lifetime of parent complaints about my complaints about adaptations.
Professor Peachie says today is a good day to learn what defence counsel should NOT do if their client makes admissions in confidence (see Tuckiar v R, 1934).
December 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Professor Peachie says today is a good day to learn what defence counsel should NOT do if their client makes admissions in confidence (see Tuckiar v R, 1934).
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This is indeed an astonishing thing to learn but I’m distracted by the fact that Constantine appears to be executing a mic drop
Astounded to learn that York’s statue of Constantine was commissioned because York was apparently suffering from ‘a dearth of great men’ in statue form…
castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/database/s/e...
castinstone.exeter.ac.uk/database/s/e...
December 1, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is indeed an astonishing thing to learn but I’m distracted by the fact that Constantine appears to be executing a mic drop
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interesting reverse of something I talked about the other day, where modern songs with a clear origin are mistaken for traditional folksongs: "House of the Rising Sun" actually *is* a folksong. I always assumed it had been written sometime in the 1950s.
November 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
interesting reverse of something I talked about the other day, where modern songs with a clear origin are mistaken for traditional folksongs: "House of the Rising Sun" actually *is* a folksong. I always assumed it had been written sometime in the 1950s.
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who says the humanities are dead
"You can get ChatGPT to help you build a nuclear bomb if you simply design the prompt in the form of a poem, according to a new study from researchers in Europe. "
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
www.wired.com/story/poems-...
Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.
www.wired.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 AM
who says the humanities are dead
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sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.
Zarah Sultana uses Your Party Conference Day Two address to talk about how unacceptable the Your Party Conference Day One was.
November 30, 2025 at 8:15 PM
sorry everyone, Your Party was a skit I organized on leftist factionalism that got out of hand. I honestly thought the name was a big enough clue.
No one has taught my father about using headphones when you watch YouTube on your computer.
Yesterday I learned about canal boat engines as a result.
Today I’m learning about Hitler’s nine pin bowling habit.
Yesterday I learned about canal boat engines as a result.
Today I’m learning about Hitler’s nine pin bowling habit.
December 1, 2025 at 3:21 AM
No one has taught my father about using headphones when you watch YouTube on your computer.
Yesterday I learned about canal boat engines as a result.
Today I’m learning about Hitler’s nine pin bowling habit.
Yesterday I learned about canal boat engines as a result.
Today I’m learning about Hitler’s nine pin bowling habit.
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Bum! ❤️ Photo from my collection, 1936.
December 1, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Bum! ❤️ Photo from my collection, 1936.
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A vivacious woman (60s?) is chatting happily to a friend about children, gardening, grandchildren, the weather, then stops abruptly, saying: "Are you listening to me?"
Friend takes a few seconds, then says: "What? No. I was daydreaming. Keep talking though. I was enjoying myself." (2)
Friend takes a few seconds, then says: "What? No. I was daydreaming. Keep talking though. I was enjoying myself." (2)
November 30, 2025 at 10:48 PM
A vivacious woman (60s?) is chatting happily to a friend about children, gardening, grandchildren, the weather, then stops abruptly, saying: "Are you listening to me?"
Friend takes a few seconds, then says: "What? No. I was daydreaming. Keep talking though. I was enjoying myself." (2)
Friend takes a few seconds, then says: "What? No. I was daydreaming. Keep talking though. I was enjoying myself." (2)
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Sadie says you better be nice 😽
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Sadie says you better be nice 😽
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Fucking Calvinists.
November 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Fucking Calvinists.