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Cat feeder.
London(UK) / Garramilla (Darwin) / Naarm (Melbourne)
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A new tab! Nice
New tab
November 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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The permissions seem excessive but I signed up anyway
Excessive leaflet permissions dialog
November 14, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Why does my cat flick her paws when drinking?
November 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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My cats
Orlando(cat) in pantry Purdy (cat) on couch
September 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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"XXXX, while historically important and technically very interesting, is an excellent guide for how not to design a language."

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. I'm sure this is true for any language.

@stylewarning.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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The closest thing for me as a young person learning about computer science was ‘The Turing Omnibus’ with its bite-sized chapters and categories. My memory is chapters would tell you what was next so you could follow the automata or cryptography ‘paths’.
I only have the ‘new’ version.
Chapter categories Table of contents
August 16, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The right thing and the thing I always choose.😰
Gary Larson cartoon In classroom: Student with small head asks teacher: “mr osborn, may I be excused? My brain is full.”
August 14, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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Only hard languages have value
August 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Vonnegut timequake 1997
an architect, had committed suicide after a nearly identical blow to his self-respect only a month earlier. Yes, and Frank Pepper would eventually be popped out of his grave by the timequake, so he could blow his brains out while his wife and three kids watched a second time. Here's the thing: Frank went to the drugstore for condoms or chewing gum or whatever, and the pharmacist told him that his sixteen-year-old daughter had become an architect and was thinking of dropping out of high school because it was such a waste of time. She had designed a recreation center for teenagers in depressed neighborhoods with the help of a new computer program the school had bought for its vocational students, dummies who weren't going to anything but junior colleges. It was called Palladio. Frank went to a computer store, and asked if he could try out Palladio before buying it. He doubted very much that it could help anyone with his native talent and education. So right there in the store, and in a period of no more than half an hour, Palladio gave him what he had asked it for, working drawings that would enable a contractor to build a three-story parking garage in the manner of Thomas Jefferson. Frank had made up the craziest assignment he could think of, confident that Palladio would tell him to take his custom elsewhere. But it didn't! It presented him with menu after menu, asking how many cars, and in what city, because of various local building codes, and whether trucks would be allowed to use it, too, and on and on. It even asked about surrounding buildings, and whether Jeffersonian architecture would be in harmony with them. It offered to give him alternative plans in the manner of Michael Graves or I. M. Pei. It gave him plans for the wiring and plumbing, and ballpark estimates of what it would cost to build in any part of the world he cared to name. So Frank went home and killed himself the first time.
August 3, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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The animated version for those of you who aren’t lucky enough to be using DrRacket today
Animated version
June 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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I love these Easter eggs in #DrRacket
DrRacket splash screen Easter egg (Hawaiian turtle)
June 11, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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P229 Fig. 2 Scenarios of endangerments of life and support systems at key thresholds of global warming. (Adapted from UNEP, The Adaptation Gap Report 2021)
Fig. 2 Scenarios of endangerments of life and support systems at key thresholds of global warming. (Adapted from UNEP, The Adaptation Gap Report 2021)
May 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Wood pigeons taking a bath
Wood pigeons taking a bath in a large wide plant pot repurposed as a bird bath Wood pigeons taking a bath in a large wide plant pot repurposed as a bird bath
May 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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More London ducks
Duck and 5 ducklings (4 ducklings visible) in canal
May 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Kew Gardens
Goslings
April 20, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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Cat
Cat on cushion. Not that interesting
March 26, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Loud purring from Purrdy
March 10, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Valentine’s Day @qmuleecs.bsky.social
February 12, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Weak from hunger
Purdy the cat collapses on the floor
February 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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”Pitiful England slide to heavy defeat against rampant Australia” - BBC sport
Sat 25 Jan 2025 Women's International Twenty20 Match From bbc
January 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Pick the odd one out
Sofa with cat in the middle of a row of cushions
January 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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I do have a favourite cat
Cat on couch
January 8, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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This is gold
Three post thread by different people 1. You can ask (researchers) and the will answer 2. (Researcher) wanted to responded then realised the have outstanding unanswered questions 3. (Replying to 2) yes, please respond
January 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Purrdy
Cat reclining on foot cushion
January 7, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Here with alt
JIMMY CARTER Life on a Killer Submarine I had a warm, sequestered feeling deep beneath the sea, moving silently, assessing what we heard from far away because we ran so quietly ourselves, walking always in our stocking feet. We'd often hear the wild sea sounds, the scratch of shrimp, the bowhead's moan, the tantalizing songs of humpback whales. We strained to hear all other things letting ocean lenses bring to us the pulse of screws like a heartbeat, the murmurs of most distant ships, or submarines that might be there and hunting us. One time we heard, with perfect clarity, a vessel's pulse four hundred miles away and remembered that, in spite of everything we did to keep our sounds suppressed, the gradient sea could focus, too, our muffled noise, could let the other listeners know where their torpedoes might be aimed. We wanted them to understand that we could always hear them first and, knowing, be inclined to share our love of solitude, our fear that one move, threatening or wrong, could cost the peace we yearned to keep and kill our hopes that they were thrilled like us to hear the same whale's song.
December 31, 2024 at 12:48 PM