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Jim Collings ❤️❤️➕🟦
@jimcollings.bsky.social
(ex-Twtr aka caldron_baidu)

Curious reader, flâneur, humanist

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars: Wilde

Meanjin, Brisbane Australia
(formerly of Omelas)

festina lente
Wordle 1,606 3/6*

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Skill 71/99
Luck 62/99
November 10, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things? by Pierre Novellie

reading progress: p.39 (12%)
Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?
Why were the other kids at school obsessed with Britney…
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November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao

reading progress: p.23 (4%)
Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domina…
When longtime AI expert and journalist Karen Hao first …
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November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Wordle 1,605 6/6*

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Skill 75/99
Luck 40/99 🤷🏼‍♂️🤷🏼‍♂️
November 9, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wordle 1,604 5/6*

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Skill 94/99
Luck 28/99
November 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Theory & Practice by Michelle de Kretser

Marked As: Read ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(70/52)
Theory & Practice
It’s 1986, and ‘beautiful, radical ideas’ are in the ai…
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November 8, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

Marked As: Read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(69/52)

required reading
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…
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November 8, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Wordle 1,603 3/6*

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Skill 87/99
Luck 71/99
November 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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THIS IS SO GOOD
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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10/10 take. No notes.
November 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon

Marked As: Want to Read
Pietr the Latvian (Maigret, #1)
The first novel in the famous Inspector Maigret series.…
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November 7, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad

reading progress: p.63 (30%)
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This
From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akka…
www.goodreads.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Wordle 1,602 3/6*

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Skill 74/99
Luck 66/99
November 6, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Wordle 1,601 3/6*

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Skill 57/99
Luck 71/99
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Judge: what evidence does the prosecutors put forward to prove that the defendant is guilty?

Lawyer: things that were… things that are… and some things…that have not yet come to pass.
November 5, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Wordle 1,600 3/6*

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Skill 87/99
Luck 78/99
November 4, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

Marked As: Read ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(68/52)
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wed…
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November 4, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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“it’s 2025, surely nobody could still be using ‘password’ as their password”

the louvre: hold our baguette
the password to the louvre surveillance server was "louvre"

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November 3, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Wordle 1,599 3/6*

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Skill 79/99
Luck 67/99
November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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Great news everyone, the earth is about to be destroyed for a hyperspace bypass.
If we were meant to fly we would have been born with wings.
#DefyDogma
November 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Wordle 1,598 5/6*

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Skill 87/99
Luck 35/99

missteps were taken 🤷🏼‍♂️
November 2, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Reposted by Jim Collings ❤️❤️➕🟦
We recorded two non-earthquakes in the last 24 hours. The first was on our office seismograph, detecting Oasis fans 5.5km away at Marvel Stadium. The second was picked up by our station in eastern Victoria - likely a sonic boom from a meteor. The sound was reported widely in the region.
November 2, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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How every history and science textbook should start
November 2, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

reading progress p. 53 (14%)
The Impossible Fortune (Thursday Murder Club, #5)
Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wed…
www.goodreads.com
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM