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What's My JND? Find your Just Noticeable Difference in colour perception. How small a colour difference can you actually see?

Oh man, I'm so chuffed with myself!

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Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...

Someone told me he was well on the way out and wouldnt make the next election at least 12 years ago.

Support two New Zealand artists, and one Dracula:
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But my favorite pictures from Venice is not cats but this combination that I think of as “missed connections.”

LET'S NOT PLAY FRISBEE WITH THAT POET ANYMORE. [This is a comic strip, with a poem laid over it. On each panel a new line of the poem is written. The scene is a park, in the summer. A man in a trenchcoat - implicitly Philip Larkin - stands folorn, motionless, looking at people throwing a frisbee. It becomes apparent as the comic progresses that they are trying to play frisbee with him. He stand stock still for the whole comic, watching the frisbee as, panel by panel it soars closer and closer to him]. After contemplating the approaching frisbee for two silent panels, Philip begins his thoughts: Unloosed, unheralded, You soar toward me Across the dying afternoon. bright disc of childhood, Long since thrown wide Of Youth's green imaginings, Your slow declining arc Figures a sky-written truth: We will all succumb, and soon To earth's hard oblivion. [The frisbee hits Philip on the head with a resounding DONK. He falls backwards, to the ground. [Ends]

Let's Not Play Frisbee With That Poet Anymore

I have a solution for the national party

An ethereal, bioluminescent alien creature with blue-finned crests and long, flowing tentacles is illustrated against a stark black background in the signature style of artist Moebius.

Jean "Moebius" Giraud left us 14 years ago today... but I see his influence every week.

James Cameron's The Abyss (1989): Art by Jean "Moebius" Giraud

Wāhine Inside Tāmaki Makaurau Book Launch Join us for an intimate evening showcasing poetry and prose by wāhine currently or formerly incarcerated.

Tāmaki whānau, please head along to this event on Friday 27th March from 7PM-9PM at Ellen Melville Centre by Te Kāhui Creative Writing that's launching the book Wāhine Inside, which compiles writings by currently and formerly incarcerated wāhine. www.eventbrite.com/e/wahine-ins...

OH MY GOD, BOBBY'S ON THIS! I MISS HEARING HIM!

I saw the topic and Drew's name, thought "sounds awesome, I'll have to get to that one soon" but it wasn't until I went into the app that I noticed Bobby's name!

His radio podcast thing was the first podcast I ever listened to, nearly 20 years ago!

Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other

I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.

every single time I read a book: "damn, I should really make more time to do this"

Yesterday I filmed several baby birds walking across a street directly at my camera and asked Bluesky to suggest music

Several dozen folks did

Some even dubbed music over the original clip.

I haven't been able to get this out of my head.

So I give you

A Bluesky exclusive:

Reservoir Ducks

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holy shit

This is how I access Bluesky

Borrowed and Blue Reviews, old and new. Mostly books. Mostly SFF. Quite likely gay.

After a month of buildup, may I present...

The Queersar not an award 2020!

10 (+1) great queer SFF novels.

V good year for queer SFF; I found it *really* hard to narrow down to 10. But happy with what's on here & more convinced there *is* a gap in the award landscape for books like these.

Last day for pre-orders for this new tee, putting the order in to the printers tomorrow morning. Big thanks to everyone who has ordered so far, appreciate it! Orders at: xtotl.bigcartel.com

devising a new social media platform where you get three energy to spend every turn, posts can attack or defend, and the goal of the platform is slightly more obviously about defeating other commenters than here

‘Wanting to be truthful but with a soft heart’ - interview with Talia Marshall on writing her memoir Whaea Blue and what she’s working on now

Love the pigs!

Nice!

Adding a third celestial body to a gravitational system makes things wildly chaotic and unpredictable. Hence the 'Three Body Problem'. Some beautiful examples of periodic 3-body systems:

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I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Naught but a leap to the left
And thanne a clockwyse tread;
Put thyne handes on thyne hippes,
And be thy knees yn-gatheréd:
Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste
That maketh mirthe down to rayne -

Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

Ā fluffy baby albatross practicing flapping its stubby little wings

The world is a big and scary place, but this fluffy baby albatross is practicing flapping its wings on a sunny Dunedin afternoon.

Haha, they totally are, youre right! Yeah, the TV show is probably not going to be that great then...

#PratchatIWDTBR – Rights. Justice. Action. Books. Our March episode has been delayed. To mark International Women's Day 2026, here’s a bonus episode in which Ben passes on recommendations of women to read if you like Terry Pratchett - mostly from listeners like you! You can find all the authors and podcasts mentioned in this episode below. The official home of International Women’s Day is unwomen.org…

#PratchatIWDTBR – Rights. Justice. Action. Books.

Our March episode has been delayed. To mark International Women's Day 2026, here’s a bonus episode in which Ben passes on recommendations of women to read if you like Terry Pratchett - mostly from listeners like you! You can find all the authors…

we used to have Steve Jobs, Johnny Cash, Bob Hope, Mike Pensions, Gary Literacy, Pete Socialsafetynet,

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.