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Sallymander 🦎

@narwhallibrarian.bsky.social

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Co-founder of Dark Times Academy @darktimesacademy.bsky.social Pottery at tilburyavenue.felt.co.nz Counter disinfo 🗣 Critical tech 📵 Climate 🌀 Community education 📚 Words 🖋 Art 🎨

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · Feb 6

For DECADES now we have inflated the egos of techbros into the sky & beyond.

We elevated them as geniuses & visionaries. It's our job now to deflate those egos & bring these jerks to heel. Knowing how to code or get VC funding does not mean you know anything IMPORTANT about how the world works

Rob Honeycutt @robhon.bsky.social · Feb 6

This one and NOAA really hit home.

There is no possible way Musk’s cadre of young’uns has the first clue about how complex either the aviation system or the climate system are. This is like handing a six year old the keys and saying, “You drive for a while, I’m going to take a nap in the back."

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 7h

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 4d

how to deactivate torment nexus

torment nexus deactivation tutorial

torment nexus deactivation tutorial working 2025

deactivate torment nexus no survey

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Gorey Cask of Amontilladoing @coreybrickley.bsky.social · 9h

5 ways YOU can use the torment nexus to maximize your workflow

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe, but boy that's a lot of wishing while cash burns.

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 4h

Must be because I wound an org down last year and those financials are giving ME hives. We were broke, but we were orderly about it and everyone got paid as owed. Had not recognised that as an accomplishment until this happened.

I just don't see how that kind of financial mess happens . . .

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 4h

Jeez your head must be a pretty bad neighbourhood 😅

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 5h

The numbers are real real bad. Worth taking a fortifying drink before you look.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 5h

It is sad and those financials they released yesterday are enough to give me heart palpitations.

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Jennifer Duval-Smith @jduvalsmith.bsky.social · 1d

I have two places left on my weird and wonderful carnivorous plants art workshop THIS SUNDAY. No experience necessary and all materials provided, including the most amazing pitcher plants. Message me and save $10 on the additional booking fee. Bring your BFF. Go on, you know you want to!

boal art class n carnivorous pants in Auckland this Sunday

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 1d

Puffin has paused sales of its children’s Spy Dog, Spy Pups and Spy Cat series - a website printed in some editions redirects to adult content with no age verification.

The link, originally used to promote the books & characters, has been taken over by an unrelated 3rd party.

Check your copies!

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Cath S @cathsheard.bsky.social · 10h

Huge thanks to @hollykarcher.bsky.social for turning my random posts into the story of Tony and I. 🩷

Holly @hollykarcher.bsky.social · 11h

This week's column includes an excerpt of a #love story found right here on @bsky.app

An enormous thank you to @cathsheard.bsky.social for allowing me to share part of her special journey with Tony.

Sex and the Suburbs - Holly discovers a true love story

Join Holly as she searches east Auckland for love and connection. In which Holly discovers a true love story. We’re bombarded by love stories, filled with sunsets, roses and worn-out cinematic tropes....

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 13h

Off to the glaze store to spend my kids' college fund on tin!

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 13h

🎶One of these things is not like the others🎶

🎶One of these things just doesn't belong . . . 🎶

Hint: It's the tin. The Tim is ridiculously expensive.

Screenshot form glazy:

Recipe
Material Amount Batch Cost
Ferro Frit 3195 ($22.00/kg, 0.02/g)
23.35 1,868.00 $41.1
China Clay Ultrafine Testing ($4.00/kg, 0.00/g)
21.20 1,696.00 $6.78
Dolomite ($3.20/kg, 0.00/g)
20.95 1,676.00 $5.36
Nepheline Syenite Spectrum N45 (KK) Testing ($4.00/kg, 0.00/g)
19.05 1,524.00 $6.1
Silica ($3.20/kg, 0.00/g)
15.45 1,236.00 $3.96
Total base recipe 100.00 8,000.00
Tin Oxide
($338.00/kg, 0.34/g)
5.00 400.00 $135.2
Bentonite
($4.98/kg, 0.00/g)
2.00 160.00 $0.8
Red Iron Oxide
($15.96/kg, 0.02/g)
1.50 120.00 $1.92
Total 108.50 8,680.00 $201.21

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 21h

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family.

It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support.

Thank you for your consideration.

"Help us leave safely" on FreeFunder

Click here to support "Help us leave safely" by Dara on FreeFunder!

www.freefunder.com

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Does anyone know how the electoral commission handles snail eaten ballots that have been very very wet and dried out so the glue on the envelope had to be ripped and then sort of folded down?

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Snails ate our ballots.

Sigh.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Yes and that is so important. Without the respect and listening, things fall apart.

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Oh that's a good idea! I should do that too. It's like a snail house right now and that's not great. 🐌

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Same! The snails love paper apparently!

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

I may have ground my teeth to dust while voting this morning.

Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Snails ate our ballots.

Sigh.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

We do like to talk alot! Very chatty group here at the bottom of the world.

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

True--would be super interesting to see some research about why some groups show better cooperation and culture than others online . . .

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Sallymander 🦎 @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social · 1d

It really does--we may interact online, but we exist in a social reality based on the actual world. It changes how we behave. Wonder if Japan's slice of Bluesky is similar?

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