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Lachlan Musicman

@datakid

Systems - computer and otherwise, data science, political and cultural theory. Book reader, music listener, D'n'D participant, traveler.

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I'm sorry what?

11.03.2026 10:34 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

You misread it, picnic boying is having a little treat beside a pleasant creek

11.03.2026 09:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What in the world is picnic buying?

11.03.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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‼️ Upcoming Event ‼️
Join us and Dr Kate Saunders who will present on β€œData driven decision making for fantasy basketball.”
Interested in turning data into decisions? Sports analytics or forecasting?
Register now on meetup! shorturl.at/CECCC

πŸ“† 18 Mar, 5.30-7.30pm
πŸ“DiUS, Level 3, 31 Queen St Melbourne

10.03.2026 22:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I do love the AFL terminology that ruck contests are "attended", almost as if you need to present an invitation to a doorman before proceeding

10.03.2026 10:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Hello Bluesky friends, I wrote a book about OnlyFans that is coming out SOON.

Would you use this book as a set reading in your course/unit/subject? Would you like an inspection copy? Let me know! I'm thinking media studies (especially social media/internet studies), sociology, gender studies etc

10.03.2026 05:43 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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How do I break a string in YAML over multiple lines? I have a very long string: Key: 'this is my very very very very very very long string' I would like to express it over multiple shorter lines, e.g., Key: 'this is my very very very ' + 'long ...

How many line breaks will you need? stackoverflow.com/a/21699210

10.03.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Clubs to play up to SIX practice games in major pre-season shake-up An expanded pre-season schedule has been pitched to clubs as an opportunity to assist the development of players who may not play during the season

Call me crazy, but 6 practice games plus 12 regular season games equals 18 games... so, why not just have one practice game and 17 regular season games so every team plays each other once?! #AFLW
www.afl.com.au/aflw/news/14...

10.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The piss tank on the ISS is now 23% full.

10.03.2026 02:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting around the world's largest city exhausts Jakartans Suburban residents give up on public transit despite investment in new train lines

Jakarta is officially the largest city in the world. And for Jakartans, living there is life on hard mode β€” residents spent an average of 83 hours in traffic last year.

asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/bi...

09.03.2026 10:01 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The piss tank on the ISS is now 69% full.

09.03.2026 09:46 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2
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A cafe in Solo, Central Java, is freedom fries-ing. Americanos are off the menu β€” ask for a hot or iced black instead. www.instagram.com/p/DVV_uxugWJ...

09.03.2026 07:38 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œAnd Then There Were NaN”
#rstats #AgathaChristie

08.03.2026 21:32 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Bar chart showing remittanes as a % of GDP, very high for Tonga (>40%), Samoa, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands and other Pacific countries, compared to much lower levels for low income countries gloablly, small states, etc.

Bar chart showing remittanes as a % of GDP, very high for Tonga (>40%), Samoa, Vanuatu, Marshall Islands and other Pacific countries, compared to much lower levels for low income countries gloablly, small states, etc.

Remittances - payments from relatives or other contacts abroad - are astonishingly high in some Pacific island countries. I round out my series creating visuals related to Pacific #demography issues with a blog post with #rstats code at freerangestats.info/blog/2026/03...

08.03.2026 06:56 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Book Review: In China With Green Day - Freedom News Cometbus is arguably the most important self-published document of the end of the millennium American punk rock landscape ~Β Soral X ~ First, a con…

Book Review: In China With Green Day
Reviews, Mar 8th
Cometbus is arguably the most important self-published document of the end of the millennium American punk rock landscape
~ Soral X ~
freedomnews.org.uk/2026/03/08/b...

08.03.2026 08:52 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading:

WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME
THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE

Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out-
stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red

Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

A newspaper headline from over a century ago, reading: WOMEN ANARCHISTS HAVE BECOME THE TERROR OF WORLDS POLICE Their Daring Crimes Are Said to Have Out- stripped the Deeds of Brothers of the Red Search for the Woman is Becoming a Safe Rule in Crimes Proceeding From Anarchistic Violenceβ€”The Guardians of the World Nearly Always Finda Woman Implicated When a Ruler is Stricken Downβ€”Emotional Women Lose Sense of Fear.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

08.03.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 4975 πŸ” 1974 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 70

Really impressed with what I've seen. Are you using analog or digital materials?

08.03.2026 09:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm having insane success rates when I ask Claude to pretend to be a god-tier programmer from the 1960s with limited computer power.

07.03.2026 22:32 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜Johatsu: Into Thin Air’: The quiet desperation of those who disappear An estimated 80,000 people β€œevaporate” in Japan each year. Arata Mori and Andreas Hartmann’s haunting documentary follows the β€œnight movers” who help their clients disappear.

'Johatsu: Into Thin Air' documents the phenomenon of the thousands who "evaporate" into a new life - a small town's worth of people every year in Japan alone. Matt Schilling reviews a Japanese/German documentary that should be seen more widely.
www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2026...

07.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Migrant Cafe in #wefo recently changed hands. New menu includes a top notch satay chicken bagel. Go get one.

07.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Yellow bird with black face and red eye, all puffed out and slightly damp.

Let me start a belated thread of Aotearoa New Zealand silvan birds.

To lead things off, a New Zealand Bellbird photographed on Kapiti Island.

06.03.2026 06:08 πŸ‘ 1623 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 31

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 6417 πŸ” 1753 πŸ’¬ 67 πŸ“Œ 64

This whole radio personality issue must have editors and spicy takers sighing with relief. Every other news item is just too HEAVY.

06.03.2026 09:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Image: six silhouetted fighter jets looming towards us from a communist red sky above a globe with China bedecked in its flag 

Text: Red Alert
Five national security experts assembled by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age conclude the overwhelming source of danger to Australia is from China β€” and we’re not prepared for it.

3 stories

Image: six silhouetted fighter jets looming towards us from a communist red sky above a globe with China bedecked in its flag Text: Red Alert Five national security experts assembled by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age conclude the overwhelming source of danger to Australia is from China β€” and we’re not prepared for it. 3 stories

The graphic treatment was 🀌

05.03.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 31 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
SMH headline: Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready
Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no.

March 7, 2023 | Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott

SMH headline: Australia faces the threat of war with China within three years – and we’re not ready Are we prepared for full-scale conflict? Our panel of national security experts says no. March 7, 2023 | Peter Hartcher and Matthew Knott

Happy final day before Australia's full-blown war with China kicks off day to those who celebrate

05.03.2026 22:12 πŸ‘ 219 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 9
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics

this is what it feels like to post on bluesky

05.03.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 4999 πŸ” 1339 πŸ’¬ 74 πŸ“Œ 129
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πŸ“£ Reportedly only 140,000 out of the 480,000 Robodebt class action members have registered to receive additional compensation in the proposed settlement.

If you're eligible, you have until 4pm tomorrow to register with Gordon Legal:

robodebtsettlement.com.au

05.03.2026 07:29 πŸ‘ 144 πŸ” 169 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 5
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04.03.2026 06:52 πŸ‘ 8814 πŸ” 3296 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 47

Being a cool uncle was attractive idea when I was 25-35. Now that I'm 50, less so. No dramas that aren't fictional, please. No, I don't want to offer my spare room to your drug using teenage drop out with a history of theft. He'll be fine in a share-house, washing dishes, like the rest of us were.

05.03.2026 09:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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SYNNthetic, by dinocevolatti 3 track album

Here's a thing I made:

questions from the past echo into the future
like carbon and hydrogen atoms dancing in Brownian motion
at the threshold of possibility for life amidst the flows of energy and entropy

dinocevolatti.bandcamp.com/album/synnth...

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