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Bellycan
@pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy
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If ye cannae see the bottom, dinnae wade. Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia [bridged from https://aus.social/@pelicangut on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
My OzNouns are shiela/luv, don’t call me mate, darl.
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11h
LBT¹: Everyone in the know agrees, it’s time to plan your #arduino exit. Need help? My day job is helping folk select technology, free advice for fedi friends, paid advice links in bio.

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Everyone with an Arduino project has, starting as of **NOW**, six months to look for a replacement. If you don't start right away, I can point out someone who will be in a lot of pain in a few months. Believe me... https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2025/10/qualcomm-to-acquire-arduino-accelerating-developers--access-to-i I know this will play merry hell with the 3d printer and mechanical keyboard scene. Innumerable hardware will die from this takeover. #arduino #qualcomm
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19h
Tonight we finished The Valhalla Murders, a Nordic Noir from Iceland. I've seen a couple of spotty cop shows from Iceland, and this is not one of them; top notch work here.

It's a gripping thriller, about the awful topic of child abuse, but very well handled and […]

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
[Request for recipe advice, meat related]

Due to poor planning i’ve ended up with two 500g parcels of pork mince to use this week. A batch of sausage rolls is a staple for the Teen Eaters, but what to do with the other? (The Teen Eaters say two batches of sausage rolls is a GREAT solution) […]
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Current status: hot, and dragging. Nothing really clicking. So here's lots of clicking!

Mahlathini & The Mahotella Queens – Mbaqanga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEWYFkjH2jc

#mbaqanga #zulumusic
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I've been enjoying a few good Polish TV programs this past year, and finished another good one last night: Murderesses.

Good characters, tight action sequences, baddies, corruption, a dysfunctional family mystery. Excellent […]

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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 2d
Hard to figure out sometimes whether submissions were made using AI, but then sometimes they make it fairly easy.
Three citation urls that include the source being chatgpt.
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Tim Bray @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 3d
TIL about the OctoBass as a result of my random YouTube-live-music feed stumbling into a performance of Gounod’s “Messe Solonelle” which is pretty good and, well, has an octobass in the orchestra.

#music
Eric Chappell of the Montreal Symphony Orchestra playing the orchestra's octobass Author: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (Antoine Saito) This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 2d
A riddle for @theguardian.com books page.
p.s. My new book 'Physics for Cats' is out this week in bookshops and online. Details at www.tomgauld.com
Title: One door leads to freedom, the others to certain death. You may ask one question. Image: Three guards with shields and speard stand in front of three doors. One guard sits at a folding table working at a typewriter, his shield and spear leaning against the wall. Caption: One guard always tells the truth, one always tells lies, and the third always tells an entrancing story that blends reportage with imagination in an attempt to reach a deeper authenticity by moving beyond the narrow categories of fact and fiction.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
It's funny, the more life comes at me, the more enjoyment I get from sharpening knives.
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Phaistos Disco @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 3d
Josh Crowley (sp?) @jdcrowley If I built a big robot that consumed 33% of my state's electricity so it could go around stealing people's art I would be arrested, and that's how you know law is a social construct.
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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
Ah, the craziness of Australia in summer time.

(Diagram taken from: https://www.theage.com.au/national/daylight-saving-is-here-again-for-some-what-s-it-all-about-20250926-p5my5p.html)
Screenshot depicting the many time zones across Australia in summer.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d
On the recent recommendation of @troberts, I watched the movie Shadow last night. It's a slow-paced, deeply serious, wuxia drama with just enough action / fighting to keep it interesting.

A very artistic movie, hugely atmospheric. Not monochrome, but bloody close! A political thriller, with […]
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Stefan @stefan.gardenstate.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
How many Downton Abbey episodes do you have to watch before it's really good?
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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
"Oranges aren't sentient, they can't hurt you."

Orange World, Mildura:
Giant orange in the distance. Giant orange getting closer. Giant orange in front of you. Giant orange closing in for the kill!
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Poesie @psychopoesie.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
My brain keeps trying to come up with alternate lyrics for an unChristmas carol, The First Koel. Possibly accompanied by slide whistle. 🤪😂

Yes, the koels are currently calling, loudly and often, why do you ask?
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
From Adam Sharp on Bluesky:

«I will again say that my favourite way of telling someone to fuck off in French (often chanted to opposition crowds at football games) is rentre chez toi, ta mère a fait des gaufres. It means "go back home, your mother made you waffles"» […]
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
After our picnic at Speers Point Park, we walked to the bus stop near the pub to catch a bus up to Hammerbarn. I lost count of the number of time a magpie flew into the tree next to us, a worm in its beak each time. Here's the nest it was poking them into, in a […]

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A tangle of brown dried twigs makes up a nest in a bright green tuckeroo tree next to a wooden power pole. Blue sky and power lines above. You can see bunches of green, unripe tuckeroo berries that will turn a dusky yellow when ripe.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Always look in the stormwater drains. This great egret (white heron as we call it) stepped out of the drain under the Five Island Bridge to hunt in the water flowing into the lake.

Always look up too, especially at lamp posts next to water. Maybe don't stand […]

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A tall white bird with a yellow beak stands in water draining through rocky ground with mangroves dry grasses. We usually call it a white heron, but it's name is great egret. The majestic Australian pelican stands on a lamp post watching all below (it's at a boat ramp). Blue sky above, casuarina trees catching the breeze behind.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
A couple of these yachts don't seem to have this "mooring" thing down properly. Shouldn't they be mostly *above* water?

#lakemacquarie #yachts #sunk
A couple of boats at mooring, blue lake, trees and land beyond, and… is that a mast sticking out of the water next to that mooring buoy? Uh oh. Any mast above water is a fine place for a shag to perch on. Yacht owners generally don't like shags perching on their masts and painting the surrounds, but I think this yacht's owner has bigger problems.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Walking from Marmong Point to Speers Point Park yesterday, lots of birds to be seen. Ducks, shags, moorhens, herons (3 types), pelicans, white-bellied sea eagle, swallows galore, seagulls, magpies, noisy miners, bell miners, parrots, …. prolly more. Magical place […]

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A pair of wood ducks swim in brown water in a stormwater filter pond, with two very fluffy ducklings. Another pair of wood ducks swimming in a shaded part of the stormwater pond, with a dusky moorhen. Red bottlebrush flowers and green grass overhang the pond on either side. Dusky moorhens and ducks on the sandy bank of the stormwater pond. A vine grows up and through a tree above, walking pathway and road behind. A little pied shag (cormorant) swims away from the pebbly "beach", hunting for fish. Blue lake and moored boats behind. If you look carefully, there's another shag in flight, towards the boats.
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Bellycan @pelicangut.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
Given that clients are still getting their acts together, remaining parent is throwing tantrums at the care home, and it's a long weekend here for the next three days which means everybody and their support animal will be out and about, we pulled the rip cord on today and had Friday Picnic […]
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arclight @arclight.oldbytes.space.ap.brid.gy · 6d
[Workity Work: The 95% Solution]

Word is like divorcing someone you have grown to hate. Unpleasant but easy, no fond memories. LaTeX is a failed marriage where both parties love each other but have irreconcilable life goals and cant be married to each other without both of them being completely […]
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Anthony Horton @spacelizard.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
The kid has named this big boy "Jimmy". This is, apparently, His Spot, as he is frequently seen striking a pose in this exact location, near the hotel swimming pool.

#lizardposting #lizardsofmastodon #lizard
Photo of an Eastern Water Dragon sitting on bark mulch next to a fence.
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Andrew Jennings @andyjennings.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
It’s not the crash that wakes me up at 4am. That’s survivable. I worry about what the American leadership will do when they suddenly find themselves in charge of a very poor country with the world’s most powerful military. #auspol #finance
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