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Queen Olivia III

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🤖Sci-fi, 🦩drag* & 🐈cats 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Bestselling author of “The Cat Operator’s Manual” 📕 https://cuddleunit5.com published by Chronicle Books Residing on Space Station 1

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · Jul 2

Welcome, new followers. Here you’ll find the sci‑fi drag transmissions from #SpaceStation1 with the cuddly cat chronicles of #cuddleUnit6, static bursts of queer technicolor, and hot takes on the bizarre world I orbit above. Book news on The Cat Operator’s Manual cuddleunit5.com and tender revolt.

The Cat Operator's Manual - Get the Most from Your New Cuddle Unit

A fresh and quirky guide to understanding your cat, complete with technical information, warnings, insights into all of your Cuddle Unit 5™'s features and modes, and a bonus sticker sheet.

cuddleunit5.com

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Malcolm RF 💚🇳🇿 @p-no-nwa.bsky.social · 3h

Emmerson cartoon: Luxon & Willis as Marie Antoinette and Louis XIV. She is saying "Let them eat tax break."

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Ms Hooper @mshooper.bsky.social · 4h

“ “If you want a job, go where the jobs are.”

“he told a broke, exhausted nation in recession that he was “wealthy and sorted”.

“ telling parents of poor kids that if they didn’t like the prison slop on offer in schools, make a marmite sandwich.”

“He’s a dead man walking.”
#nzpol

Christopher Luxon, like a modern day Marie Antoinette

Opinion: In his head, I think the prime minister is doing the whole tough guy bit.

www.stuff.co.nz

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 1h

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via https://queenoliviastredfern.tumblr.com/post/796266075678523392

This image is a humorous comic strip titled "hotel experience." It contrasts expectations versus reality.

- **Expectation**: Shows a person excitedly thinking, "A king bed! I'm gonna sprawl out!" while lying on a large bed.
- **Reality**: Shows the person curled up near the edge of the same bed, reaching for their phone presumably charging on the nightstand.

The comment below suggests getting longer phone charging cords.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 3h

The work of contemporary Northumberland artist and printmaker Rebecca Vincent #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Print featuring a view over a colourful furrowed field landscape to a flat horizon on which a single windblown tree grows under a sunset pinky blue sky

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 1d

This week someone used the word “palaver” in casual conversation with me, and I just wish it would happen more often

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Sally Beaumont- Voice Actor & Game Writer @sallybeaumont.bsky.social · 10h

I don’t recommend connecting on LinkedIn with your housemates, because ten years later you have to contend with seeing the girl you caught peeing in the kitchen sink making managing director.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 7h

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The image is a meme based on "The Very Hungry Caterpillar" children's book, but instead of a caterpillar, it features a cat's face on the caterpillar's body. The text reads, "When your owner is 1 minute late giving you breakfast," and "THE VERY HUNGRY CAT," humorously suggesting that the cat is eagerly waiting for its meal.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 12h

a cartoon character is sitting in a bed with a bloody hanger on the floor

ALT: a cartoon character is sitting in a bed with a bloody hanger on the floor

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Stu Fleming @thebasement.nz · 13h

Because when you break fundamental things, it takes decades to recover.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 13h

This is another favourite - Andrew Hodges' fine biography of Alan Turing.

Cover of Alan Turing. The Enigma of Intelligence, by Andrew Hodges.

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 12h

a black and white cat with a sad look on its face is covering its nose with its paw .

ALT: a black and white cat with a sad look on its face is covering its nose with its paw .

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 12h

From my archives

Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 12h

a man with white paint on his face is making a funny face with his mouth open .

ALT: a man with white paint on his face is making a funny face with his mouth open .

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Queen Olivia III @queenoliviaiii.com · 13h

Castle point?

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @cosmicrami.com · 14h

You can always tell these companies are full of BS because they lack the coherent details of any of this to make sense:

- what materials is the reflector made from? (because costs)
- What is the product lifetime? How will they be disposed?
- How are they maintained / kept in orbit?

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 2d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
🧪 @mjibrown.bsky.social

A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 13h

There’s a large moth hitting the lounge window. Sabrina is fascinated and is trying to catch it. She’s making little chirping noises at it 😂

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Wellington Pride Festival I Tū whakahīhī e Te Whanganui-ā-Tara @wellingtonpride.bsky.social · 13h

Wellington Pride Festival is for the community, by the community. That means people like YOU create events for it! So we are running an online Q&A session next Tuesday at 7pm www.wellingtonpridefestival.com/events/onlin...