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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 3h

You are one of the very few people I’ve assumed to be younger than me who turns out to be older!
You did justice to the 80s, that’s a lovely photo.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 16h

Bother.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 16h

Fool it. Go to the hardware/plumbing store. Look at them. Get a quote for one.

Hopefully that'll be enough to bring it out of hiding. Because you know as soon as you drop some $$ on the new one it's turning up.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

Has no one told them they are an at-risk species???

Speaking of which, did you know that there is a tuatara tick. It only lives on tuatara, so it is also an at-risk relict species?

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

I don't know how common it is... just that it is known to happen!

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

Three new mandamals came into existence today.

Sascha Stronach🏳️‍⚧️, The Sunforge out now @understatesmen.bsky.social · 11d

down an internet rabbit hole reading about "Mandamals", or "Mandela Animals", as in the mandela effect. Which is to say, animals that everybody pretends have always existed but YOU know only came into existence recently due to shifting reality because you'd never heard of them

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

Basically... After mating, the female incubates the eggs internally for a few months, and then lays them in a hole, buries them, and that's her maternal duties done. They hatch months later.

Tuatara feed on pretty much anything smaller than themselves.

Baby tuatara are smaller than adult tuatara.

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Helwise @helwise1.bsky.social · 18h

It is the greatest. I learnt about Gaur from Bluesky. Utter units.

Gaur walking across the road in front of a bus. It could destroy with a look. Or with its gigantic muscles and remarkable speed.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

I think this hyrax would get on well with my kitty Pīata... She often has the same "really?" look.

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Cezary Jan Strusiewicz @ostrichson.bsky.social · 19h

Have you met the hyrax, the animal that *always* looks like it's tired of humanity's shit?

A hyrax. Looks like a big-ass hamster-like thing that's constantly pissed off.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

You probably don't want to know about tuatara then...

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

Depressed... or under the influence?

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 17h

That is one impressive unit of a beast!

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 19h

One of the greatest things about being an adult in this day and age is that even at 50 years old the internet is still teaching me about the existence of animals that I've never heard of before.

Mrs. Detective PikaBOO, Esq. @clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social · 20h

Thinking about viscachas again

The viscacha, an absurd, rabbit-like creature. They are fat, furry, and have hilariously long whiskers that extend far past their bodies. This one is plopped on his butt.

A viscacha with his whiskers pointed down and his paws in a dainty position

A viscacha holding his hand up as if to say no pictures please

Another sitting viscacha but he looks SO soft and SO fat

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 19h

I shall take your word for it!

Here's a photo of a tuatara that I took. They are the opposite of all the other species discussed in this thread - they are their own separate order of reptiles, distinct from the other three (snakes & lizards; crocs, & alligators et al; and turtles & tortoises).

A small tuatara hanging out at the entrance to its burrow. They look like a lizard, but are not lizards. They've been around since the earliest dinosaurs roamed the earth, and everything else in their order has been extinct for millions of years. This one has greenish-grey skin that looks scaly but is actually quite soft and crepey. It's quite young, and it's not yet clear whether it's a male or female, as the spiny peaks along its back are not yet clearly defined.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 20h

If you wait until tomorrow, your courgette will be a marrow.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 20h

How much wood would a groundhog chuck if a groundhog could chuck wood doesn't have the same ring about it.

(Are they actually real creatures? We just have birds and bats and things that live in water that are native to our shores.)

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 1d

I mean, you're going to run that risk anytime you hang clothes out, so 🤷‍♀️

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 1d

The plug-in doesn't let me see what the alt-text on the button would be, or else I'd do that with confidence.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 1d

That's the thing about Wellington. Sometimes it's too windy to hang stuff out unless you want to share your undies with your neighbours, and sometimes there's no wind at all. But also, no sun.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 1d

My neighbour commented one day on the fact that I'll sometimes hang washing out in the evening, "but it seems to work for you".
In Wellington it works because it's already on the line early enough to dry the next day.
When I was a student at OU, it worked by freezing the water out of the clothes.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 1d

Having an accessibility conundrum moment... Setting up the contact form on the new website. Tempted to change the processing text on the Send button from "Sending" to "Whoooosh!" Strictly speaking, it's not a clear, plain, descriptive language, but would anyone not understand it?

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 3d

Yeah, I whacked them on the bench a few times abs prised one off. I went for 200g of milk powder, hoping I get a nice thick yoghurt.

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 3d

FYI, I am finally getting around to trying this.

I hope that the yoghurt that I froze in the wake of this previous conversation defrosts ok. The portions had got all stuck together in the freezer...

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The Sewphist @thesewphist.bsky.social · 3d

Me too. I had an adult reading age when I was 7. I think it kept my mum on her toes a bit.

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