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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 11

Ouch ouch ouch. I'm sending a stern glare towards all your recalcitrant bits. But a huge hug for the rest of you. This getting old business sucks. 🤗🤗😚😚😚

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 7

Doctor I'd trust more than RFK Jnr

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 7

C'mon, you're an Aussie girl. I'm surprised you haven't given it a name and started catching bugs for it. 😁

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Jeremy Jenkins @jeremyjenkins.net · Sep 5

Get them or get cursed. Sorry, I don’t make the rules. 🎃🍫
This isn’t a treat, it’s protection.

Jenkins’ Emporium @jenkinsemporium.bsky.social · Sep 5

🎃 Say hello to our mischievous little monster: The Chocolate Pumpkin!
Crafted from silky smooth 35% milk chocolate, it’s hollow on the inside, cheeky on the outside, and ready to bring a little fright-night fun to your autumn evenings.

Limited edition. Spooky. Delicious. 🍫✨

A milk chocolate pumpkin with a cheeky carved face, featuring black eyes, nose, and mouth with two white teeth.

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI

Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

www.theatlantic.com

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 6

Do you think we could get a head start on that? Asking for a friend. 🤔

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 6

At this rate, the only way to get rid of the stink of him will be to bulldoze the site and rebuild to prior specifications. If that's not sufficient, it's going to be nuke from orbit.

#beigevegas

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Matt Grainger @drmattg.bsky.social · Sep 4

Apropos of nothing....
Peer-review should be rigorous, not rude.

Critique the work, not the author team.
Explain, don’t sneer.
Build science up, don’t beat the authors down.

Respect in peer-reviews isn’t optional — it’s how good research gets better.

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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators.

Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 4

Even Satan has limits, so if he is it's definitely non consensual.

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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · Sep 3

It’s not just that the President of the United States posted a video of eleven people being murdered in international waters it’s that the President of the United States ordered the murder of eleven people in international waters so he could post a video of it.

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 2

So, some awe is excellent, but too much awe is very bad. And somewhere in the middle is just awkward.

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Satan @thedevil.bsky.social · Sep 2

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 2

It is, and the bath is not alone! 🧐

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 2

Spotted this on a new property listing today. I've taken only a piece of the listing page image, but given this is the front aspect of this house and the front path leading to the door from the driveway - what's wrong with this picture?

The front aspect of a modern, box style house, showing the driveway, garage, path through improbably green grass to the front door, and what is apparently the principal ensuite entirely visible from the driveway and path to the door through full height and width sheet glass. The bath tub is centre, shower to the left, and vanities behind the bath.

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James Moran @jamesmoran.com · Sep 1

Me, at every new casting announcement for the wizard tv show terf fund

Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda shouting “disappointed”

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Sep 1

Complete the following sentence to suit your mood -

Why isn't he ... ?

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Aug 31

Someone needs to remind every one of those idiots matching today in Aus that unless they are Aboriginal, we are all bloody immigrants. Stop being such selfish, ignorant, entitled sheep and start blaming those who are pointing you in that direction - they're the ones who are the real problem.

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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · Aug 30

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · Aug 29

“More than 1500 lobbyists currently hold orange sponsored passes that grant them 24/7, all areas access to Parliament House,” writes David Pocock. “Meanwhile, community groups and members of the public are forced to wait weeks or months for meetings.” satpa.pe/6IVRHpp

The lobbyists who control Canberra

satpa.pe

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Aug 29

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · Aug 29

Over on Whatever today, I write on the Pixel 10 Pro's "Pro-Res Zoom" and how that "AI"-generated zoom feature is not creating photos, but illustrations, some of which have not much to do with actual reality, and what that means for taking photos with the phone:

whatever.scalzi.com/2025/08/29/p...

Pictures, Not Photos: What’s Going On With the Pixel 10 Pro “Pro-Res Zoom”

For the new release of the Pixel 10 Pro (and the 10 Pro XL, which is mostly the same phone, just larger), Google has introduced something called the “Pro-Res Zoom,” a process by which, …

whatever.scalzi.com

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Aug 29

Aaarghhh! I just looked it up and honey smacks are no longer made/avail in Aus. 😭😭😭😭

(I will admit ignorance re whey powder - but I hope it's everything you could wish for in a whey powder) 🤗

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Dave Walker @davewalker.bsky.social · Aug 25

Possible causes of your problems. It’s a diagram that (sadly) still seems relevant in 2025, so reposting a year and a bit on.

Diagram titled 'Possible causes of your problems'. On the left hand side, subtitled 'Yes': Funding removed from local councils, growing gap between rich and poor, multinational companies not paying their taxes, lack of new affordable housing, government not investing sufficiently in schools and healthcare. On the right hand side, subtitled 'No': Picture of small boat, with arrow; 'People fleeing horrific situations that you and I can't imagine'.

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Mere @meredyth013.bsky.social · Aug 29

I haven't tried them in decades, but last time I did they were more like candy lollies. All fake sweetness and no proper cocoa flavour. 🫤

I now have to go research whether they even make honey smacks now - I don't recall seeing them (although there's stupid Cheerios which just aren't right).

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