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Patchouli Woollahra

@woollahra.bsky.social

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Four years. Thank god you just read this profile. Working on a #comic: Updates marked #Postillion Also: NAFO Associate Non-Fella Member, Veteran not-dead Second Lifer.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · Sep 1

Day 1 of 30:
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
#ShallWeDance2025

Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (Official HD Video)

YouTube video by DemonMusicGroup

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 28m

You're supposed to land on either highway or roadway of sufficient straight length, width and repair. But hey, turns out Russia is dumber than Singapore.

a man and a woman are standing on a golf course .

ALT: a man and a woman are standing on a golf course .

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 30m

I don't care how far behind the Pokrovsk frontline you are. If Ukraine doesn't directly touch you, lack of training or operating downtime will schedule your bomber for premature decomissioning.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 54m

You don't have to watch their output. You just have to stand for the right of others to produce and consume without govt interference except on topics that are clearly beyond the pale. (Keep the CSAM fans and producers out please!)

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 57m

The frog refuses to be slowly boiled in the pot. It has read that parable.

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Municipal Fox @amunicipalfox.bsky.social · 1d

This frog is your FRIEND
He fights for FREEDOM

Person in a frog costume faces down ICE agents

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

A reminder that any dam has a limited lifespan because of the endurance of the constructions and age/wear of the turbines tech plus aggregation of river soil behind the dam. That replacement dam needs to start being worked on now if it is to be in place when the Hoover needs te safely downed.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

PonFarr may be the seven-year itch from hell, but I am down with this!

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

@pfanderson.bsky.social
@gennerveevy.bsky.social
@drspacejunk.bsky.social if someone tells you they can't imagine anything more exciting than the fuse on an explosive device burning down, show them this slug.

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

In this room, grass is touched.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

You know the rules. If you've reproduced, you're disqualified or eligible at best for an honorary nomination.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

A lack of significant consequences often leads to a lack of fear. Give those bastards those consequences to fear, see how they'll scurry.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

You can research a topic without being part of the people who made that topic a thing. If that wasn't possible, the fascists "researching" anti-fascism would be either incarcerated by now or simply refusing to put their names on their work.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

But better this kind of hell than the kind you'll have suffering even one of those conditions at full blast.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

Get ready to take the day off. Just because you don't have any existing contraindications against getting vaccinated doesn't mean your body won't go to hell calling a day off to learn how to fight new shit

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

Give the bastard the first ever Ignobel Peace Prize.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

It would be like the Mayo Clinic, but actually respected.

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

@astartiel.substack.com @skribe.aus.social.ap.brid.gy in our hurry to fret about the way the future is becoming dystopia, we may have forgotten: people are still trying to improve it.
soranews24.com/2025/10/09/h...

Human washing machine pods coming to Japanese hotels【Photos】

Pods wash you with no scrubbing or effort on your part.

soranews24.com

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

@pfanderson.bsky.social @drspacejunk.bsky.social @gennerveevy.bsky.social i don't care what people say about us being lazy. Fatigue syndrome victims and the physically limited NEED THIS.
soranews24.com/2025/10/09/h...

Human washing machine pods coming to Japanese hotels【Photos】

Pods wash you with no scrubbing or effort on your part.

soranews24.com

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder what it would take to set them up for the rest of their lives in a private medical centre

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

2 or 25!

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

You realise that would also ruin their reputation as a medical forever. I think whoever did this would need to either be in a position to diffuse the responsibility with an agreeable surgical crew, ir set it up as deniable complications. But they would definitely need a guard for a long time.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

Make up your fucking minds people. Either art is worthless or it's dear as gold. You cannot have it both ways!! #generativeAI

Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

"We'll even tell Steam to waive the usual block on refunds for playing too long, though it looks really awkward on your record protesting this game while having played enough that you were clearly enjoying this game."

Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

I wonder what Goerge Orwell or Margaret Atwood would have said if they knew the pathway to resisting fascism involved lots if people in silly animal balloon costumes.

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Patchouli Woollahra @woollahra.bsky.social · 1h

America HAS previously committed acts that would put it on the watch list, but usually with good intentions and never at a level that would have anyone staring harder than "guys with too much power trying to be the world's policeman"