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Ken

@kenzime.bsky.social

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Not here for pointless arguments, and if you want that my method is block early and without regret. Living the dream in the deep south Pacific. Probably lots of dog photos, beach and bush. Failing at trying to avoid politics. I make a lot of typos.

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Barry Deutsch @barrydeutsch.bsky.social · 18m

AD(H)&D

A cartoon I sketched out but never finished.

A wizard sits on a therapist's couch. He looks anxious and says "I know I should slay the dragon. I want to slay the dragon. But somehow I never do slay the dragon." The caption says "AD(H)&D".

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 13m

This is a very common hazard on NZ westcoast ironsand beaches.

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 24m

So far from what I understood Christ to stand for.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 29m

Typical right wing evangelical right wing pro life stance.

"We only care about your unborn child while it remains unborn"

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Ken Parille @kenparille.bsky.social · 1h

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 32m

The power fooled the driver!

It was so quiet when they sat down they didnt realise it was on!

The electrons frazzled their brain!

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 35m

No reason....

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 43m

How many of them drive into curbs as well?

Also, this guy is promising to be a one term mayor, so will screw everything up and then not be around long enough to suffer the consequences.

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 1h

Stealing from our kids futures to fund tobacco company and landlord tax cuts.

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 1h

Theres still a lot of work going on in AoNZ either planning or actually building data centers and i am certain people are going to get burned when the bullshit bubble pops.

Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3h

It currently takes 2.5+ years and $32.5bn+ a gigawatt of data center development and OpenAI says 10GW of Broadcom chips will be deployed by 2030.

Blandly repeating this stuff is failing readers. Call it what it is: nonsense

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2h

I've put a few new drawings up at
www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale

There are also badges, prints and a zine at
www.tomgauld.com/shop

A pen and ink drawing.
Panel One:
A woman sits in a chair reading happily in a book-filled room.
A voice offstage says
"You can't survive on books alone"
The woman replies
"Maybe I can!"

Panel Two:
"How?" asks the voice
"I don't know yet, but I'm sure the answer will be in one of my books." Says the woman

Panel Three:
Caption: However
The book is filled with yet more books.
A skull sits on the chair. It says
"I regret nothing!"

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Kim Weeden @weedenkim.bsky.social · 3h

Photos coming out of Western AK are devastating.

Hardest hit are indigenous villages off road system, many miles by air from supplies. Most built on river deltas w/ no high ground to which to escape.

Cuts to NASA/NOAA mean worse weather data. Cuts to EPA mean no grants for erosion control. Etc.

News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 3h

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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Less billionaires will mean a fairer, more just society, less drug abuse, less crime, and a healthier planet.

The ROI for humanity from a war on billionaires, will be much higher than a futile war on drugs.

And everyone knows it.

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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 2h

Sirius season is almost here! Or really, it's already started for early morning observers. Here's a shot I captured at 4.30am on 12 October from North Yorkshire, UK 😀 #Astronomy #Astrophotography #SciArt #PhotoHour

A swirl of multi-coloured lines against a dark background. These are the colours produced by light from the bright star Sirius passing through our turbulent atmosphere. Moving the camera a little while taking a long exposure of Sirius helps to bring out the rainbow of colours. In effect, this technique 'freezes' the twinkling of Sirius to show all the colours on display. It is a fairly easy thing to do with basic camera equipment, that produces beautiful results.

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 9h

I think they also could have chosen a better story for season 2.

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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 11h

I do hope all this adulation doesn’t alter President Trump’s gracious and unassuming character…

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 9h

Can you imagine what he is going to bore them with? How much of it will make sense?

They will realise exactly how diminished he is and how easy he is to use.

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah, but we have the milky way

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 10h

😄

Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 11h

Im busy wondering what "multi orientation " means and why it is so special..

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Ken @kenzime.bsky.social · 11h

I have a new job description to fill in when I have to complete a form.

55 years an imbecile

Or

Turnip shepherd

waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 1d

Job occupations, from an 1881 census. Every one of these sounds like something a sorely provoked Captain Haddock would should at someone in times of heavy stress.