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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 19m

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 12h

Portland has elevated protesting to an art form.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

#WarRavagedPortland

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Mike Glass @m-r-glass.bsky.social · 7h

😲 Thank you ‪@kevinmkruse.bsky.social for all the support and encouragement over the years!!!

This book started with discussions in your office, where I always chewed gum too loudly!

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 8h

Just got my copy of this brilliant new book by my former student @m-r-glass.bsky.social, an amazing new study of postwar suburbia on Long Island.

Check it out!

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Julia Rose Kraut @juliarosekraut.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Banned Books Week! 🗃️

For more information on Book Bans, check out this recent report from @penamerica.bsky.social

pen.org/report/the-n...

Read Banned Books under a shelf of books.

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The Octopus Gallery @octopusgallery.bsky.social · 9h

Good news for sewists: the paper pattern company feared lost to bankruptcy has been saved as an independent company.

craftindustryalliance.org/sewing-patte...

Sewing Patterns Rise from DGA Bankruptcy Ashes - Craft Industry Alliance

The “Big 4” sewing patterns are saved. Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue & Butterick get new life under Rubelmann Capital.

craftindustryalliance.org

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/folk-song-ly...

Folk & Traditional Song Lyrics - The Woodcutter's Song

www.traditionalmusic.co.uk

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

27C

17 and I'd be happy.

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Well, off to bed for me.
Hope I can get to sleep.

(Wondering if I still have the steeljaw rabbit trap somewhere? Highly illegal to use now - and cruel - but hmm. memories)

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Goodnight.
17C at 10pm

Summer is coming, alas.

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

I still use camphor blocks!
Helps keeps the rust off in the toolbox :)

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Dad used to use an old wire-frame single bed base for harrows on the 'clearance' around the house.
Hook it up to the back of the holdedn rather than get the tractor out. Quick'n'dirty but worked.
Didn't do a bad job either.

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Screw it down, wind it round!
(and don't forget the extension length of galv waterpipe for additional torque)

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

fencing wire/campfire toast. the smoky burn.
😍

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

I miss a good brawn.
'Its all about the gelatine' by grandmother used to say.
The gelatine, the pig cheek, the finely chopped bacon,etc etc

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Kill it
KILL IT
KILL IT FASTER!

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Bladders are good at that *

* 2am, 3:30am 5am ...

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

I think of trudging throgh the mud :P

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Internet archive/project guttenberg 🥰

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

'guitar tight' doesnt cover it.
old manual mincer and tongue presses too,
if only tongues werent so expensice these days

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Time to share is possibly one of the most precious things we have.

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 17h

Don't laugh, but I have my dad's old chain fence strainer.
The tension that can put on - enough to lift a post sideways.

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Gabby @gabbydp.bsky.social · 13d

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 18h

So many tools went missing when I moved. Pretty good idea where to, sadly
The one I miss most (apart from the drill press) was my shepherd's axe/fokos/hikers axe
Combination walkimg stick/light axe (with an extended hammer-head) on the non-blade edge
OH SO USEFUL around the farm/yard for small jobs

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 18h

Good luck :)

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Dusty Wombat @dustywombat.bsky.social · 18h

Once upon a time, I'd have grabbed a metre of cheap pine and sawn/sanded to shape in a weekend, since it doesn't need to be structural.
Hands/wrists won't let me do that any more. GRRR

Might have to go the paper mache over PVC tubing route
Will consider ...

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