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Anathema Device (Brisbane)
@iamanathemadevice.bsky.social
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Married cat lady, extremely boring retired web developer, pro-choice ATHEIST and feminist. #Australian on unceded First Nations territory (Brisbane / Meanjin) #ActuallyAutistic. She/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie)
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · Aug 4
All these are accounts I follow for wonderful photography and art of nature ❤️ 1/5‪
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@wa-orchids.bsky.social
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@gnomieshobbycorner.bsky.social
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 2h
My smol collection of vintage cat-in-shoe pencil sharpeners. 👠
Three little figurines depicting strangely smooth and cosmetically enhanced cats sitting in platform heel shoes. One cat is light brown in a dark blue and white shoe, one white with blue highlights in an orange shoe, and one is an odd sea green in a red shoe. Photo of two pencil sharpeners side by side on a wooden shelf. One is a pissed off looking grey tabby in an orange and red shoe, the other is a derpy looking pink cat in a dark blue high heeled clog.
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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 2h
Straw-necked Ibises!
#birds
Photograph of... wait a minute... 27 Ibises (sorry, had to count) flying overhead against a clear blue sky. All are currently soaring rather than flapping, with their wings spread. They have white bodies, long straw-coloured necks, glossy black wings, and long curved beaks.
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 1h
poor puppy :)
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Jess Zafarris @jesszafarris.bsky.social · 2h
Cold, rainy days are a new and unwelcome experience for Fable.
A puppy looking sad in the rain
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 3h
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 6h
This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵
Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu." Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 5h
"The U.S. is two economies. There's an enormous AI boom going on, huge investments, particularly in data centers. If you took that out of the numbers and you just looked at the non-AI parts of the economy, it's basically flatlining. We're on the cusp of a non-AI recession."
-- Me
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 3h
answer: never soon enough!
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Hitchhiker @42inabook.bsky.social · 4h
“Outsourced” information “stolen then leaked” on the WWW ….well not so much a “leak” but torrent …as a quarter of Australia’s Adult Populations personal data is released

Thank you “Quant-arse”… and thank you Mr Joyce …we hope you’re enjoying YOUR anonymity and multi million dollar payout
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h
protest marches will be deemed unconstitutional in three seconds flat if there's a march that size
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
I don't know why they do it, but reader mode is the default for me on almost every new site and blog now. It's unbearable otherwise
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
Exactly. Ronni Salt said it perfectly:
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot
“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...
theshot.net.au
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
I know who you mean, and why you mean that :(
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WA Orchids @wa-orchids.bsky.social · 14h
🌿🌱 Some of the beautiful flowers blooming in the south of WA at the minute with a focus on those in white 🤍🩶

🌿 Stackhousia monogyna - Creamy Candles
🤍 Anthocercis viscosa - Sticky Tailflower
🩶 Drosera erythrogyne
🌱 Lysinema ciliatum - Curry Flower
#ozflora #wildoz #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
A tall spike coveted in numerous small white flowers with 5 petals each A large white flower with a yellow/green centre A delicate white flower with several buds beneath it A flower head with several white flowers clustered together with reddish/brown stems
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Ian Betteridge @ianbetteridge.com · 14h
This man is basically putting every other man on the platform to shame.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · Jul 21
Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet.

IG risolve
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
He can't even sneeze truthfully
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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 12h
It's been a pretty surreal day on BlueSky. It reached its peak when some rando insisted that I am English, despite my protestations to the contrary, because I am "culturally English", and should embrace being English, since "ceding Englishness to Reform" is why they are so high in the polls.
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
indeed
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
exactly
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 10h
The Trump-China trade relationship reminds me of my middle school love life: On one week, off the week, high drama, passing notes, heartache, renewal, gossip, and we did it all again the next week.

The reality, of course, is that despite the drama, no-one was making long-term commitments.
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
❤️🫂
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ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 7h
Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/tasmania-saltmarsh-wetland-restoration-former-sheep-farm/105883488
Wildlife returns after Tasmanian sheep paddock restored as wetland
A sheep farmer has welcomed the restoration of an internationally significant wetland on his property outside of Hobart. The collaboration of a non-profit organisation with landowners, scientists, the Aboriginal community and governments has allowed the return of a vital ecosystem.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 6h
One of the many touching things that happened this past week was that my friends at @merrymacsanctuary.bsky.social named a new rabbit after Fergus. Like my Fergus, he is BIG and soft and sweet and has huge adorable paws.
Photo of a very handsome brown rabbit, sitting up and looking disapprovingly at the camera.
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 6h
Georgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partner | Domestic violence
Georgia’s story: how a domestic abuse victim’s suicide was ruled an unlawful killing by her partner
A London coroner found Georgia Barter’s death was caused by years of violence and coercive control by Thomas Bignell. Her family want justice, but the CPS won’t charge him and the police can’t find hi...
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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 7h
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_ar...
A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about AI art.
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