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Carorolyn

@carorolyn.bsky.social

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Also @[email protected] and @carorolyn on the old bird site. Likes cats and chocolate. Does project management stuff. Lives in Tāmaki Makaurau, ngai Aotearoa ahau. Born at about 330ppm. She/her.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 2h

When you want to just veg out for an entire weekend and your body is just like nah lass we’re going for a walk, get moving.

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 4h

It’s always a relief to start a new contract and find that the clients are sane, sensible, real people. Phew.

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 11h

Reflection cat is judging you. #proofOfCat

A tuxedo cat is looking at the camera with a judgmental eye. Only half of him is visible, but it’s reflected in the side of a shiny bench so that it looks like a whole cat a bit a very skinny one, all ears and paws.

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Wendy Miller @burrowingowl.bsky.social · 13h

Moist owlettes. 🪶

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 1d

Thread, up and down.

Bevis Musson @bevismusson.bsky.social · 1d

Mr Germany.
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A photo of a contestant at Mister Global 2025

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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 1d

For decades, “Underwater Basket-weaving” was the Boomer stand-in for any college major they thought was worthless, which always bugged me because…

A. Redundant!Most techniques involve submerging the basket at some point!

B. Have you seen what baskets cost? Maybe more of us should’ve majored in it!

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 23d

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 2d

There's surprisingly little chatter about the local body elections as far as Auckland goes (I'm an Aucklander) - I've seen some about Wellington but nowhere else. I have met one person IRL from Bluesky and we had to explain it to a 3rd person as "like Twitter but nicer".

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 2d

(I’ve just done the meal planning and grocery order for the week, so it’s on my mind).

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm. From memory, they put the meal descriptions online every week. I don’t even really need a recipe, just a description of the meal … hmm ….

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 2d

I would honestly pay someone (a bit) to do the dinner planning for the week. I find it the hardest part of the whole thing.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 3d

Oh my god what have I called into being. I had the legs for those in the 80s. Not so much, now. I do like the utility one tho ..

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 3d

If I'm going to have to relive the 80s, can we have the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere from then too? Plus bubble skirts.

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 3d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 3d

Ah, I see, and yes, that makes sense. It's a cherry-picked study and not solid science.

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 3d

So much of the medical decision-making in the USA is predicated on insurance/coverage, I wonder how much that affects the outcomes in studies like this. It'd be interesting to compare rates in socialised-healthcare countries. (FTR I don't believe there's a causative relationship).

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 3d

Show-off. (Complimentary).

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Danie Ware @danacea.bsky.social · 3d

Today's ##realartmatters, to counter the tide of slop. And this is breathtaking

Paintings of London @paintingsoflondon.bsky.social · 3d

'London, a view of Somerset House seen through an arch of Waterloo Bridge' (c.1865) by Henry Pether

(Private collection)

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 4d

My dad told me about Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper to encourage me to do maths and sciences at school. Now, nearly 30 years into my IT career, I am so glad he did.

Amberley Museum @amberleymuseum.bsky.social · 4d

This is Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and considered to be the first person to write a computer programme which was for Babbage's Analytical Machine. She died in 1842
In her honour, today is Ada Lovelace Day and is all about encouraging women and girls in mathematics, science and engineering.

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Citizens Fed Up @citizensfedup.bsky.social · 7d

Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents With Donuts on Fishing Poles, Calling it ICE Fishing...

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Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 4d

Also they’re only the ones on the benefits. There are lots of us who are short of work but aren’t on the dole.

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 4d

Yep, I swear by the BRAT diet to get my digestive system back under control: bananas, rice, apples and toast.

Carorolyn @carorolyn.bsky.social · 5d

(Bracing myself for cancellation). Canned spaghetti on homemade pizza. With pineapple. I use the excuse that my kids like it but actually they don’t.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 6d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.bsky.social · 5d

See that small, moving splotch?

That's 3I/ATLAS, a comet that formed in a different star system, photographed from Mars orbit by the ESA Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A comet from a DIFFERENT SOLAR SYSTEM photographed by a ROBOT ORBITING MARS

last Friday

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 6d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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