Thisfox

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Aussie teacher, traveller, musician. She/her. I like cats. I hate caffiene. Kingdom of Lochac, embroiderer, bard.

A calico cat up an olive tree, worms-eye view, as she was several metres up. The sky is blue above her.
A drop spindle, naked, next to two balls of unplied wool and a bag of mixed red wool and white silk.
A drop spindle and the yarns I spun this week. Been enjoying a sample pack with natural coloured sheep, and also I still have all that coloured merino my mother gave to me. It is far far too fluffy, but I spun another blue even so.
A freehanded heraldic piece of layed work showing a white field with a castle and a purple side-chief-thing with a cross on it. The castle has little coloured flags and glowing gold windows and a green door..
A calico cat with green and gold eyes lies on a few striped grey wool blankets, head turned back and her huge ears posed to pick up every sound. She has white front and whiskers, and a black medallion saying "Thessa" on a black collar.
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A blue striped bee from Eastern NSW, in flight, tongue out but wings invisible due to the movement of flying. It is hovering next to a purple garden flower of some sort.
Red six pack of Matso Lychee Beer, made in Western Australia. You'll need a bottle opener to open this.... Picture nabbed from the Dan Murphys website.
A black cat lies in a ball on a blue bedspread, and gazes over her own shoulder with yellow eyes. She has a small silver toy mouse next to her.
A calico cat in a bit of a spotlight , white fur glowing, shadow blue and blocky. She is sitting on a grey carpet, looking just below the camera, at her sister who has my lap, which both cats insist is not big enough for two.
A black cat curled in a ball, but with her hind legs stretched out long. She is on a patterned wool blanket.
A calico cat sits on a grey carpet cat tower in a window with a white plasic coat hangar stuck over her shoulders. She has attack eyes but a resigned defeated expression.
I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won't be just as bad for those.
White text on black background: [M]ost of the things which stir the Universe up in any way are caused by dispossessed people. There are two ways of accounting for this. One is to say that if everyone just sat at home nothing would ever happen. This is very simple. The other is to say - as Oolon Colluphid has at great length in his book 'Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Guilt, But Were Too Ashamed To Ask' - that every being in the Universe is tied to his birthplace by tiny invisible force tendrils composed of little quantum packets of guilt. If you travel far from your birthplace, these tendrils get stretched and distorted. This compares with an ancient Arcturan proverb. However fast the body travels, the soul travels at the speed of an Arcturan Megacamel. This would mean, in these days of hyperspace and Improbability Drive that most people's souls are wandering unprotected in deep space in a state of some confusion, and this would account for a lot of things.
Picture of the Comic book hitman duo Sinister and Dexter from some cover art. Sinister left, Dexter right. They are not nice people. Dexter has a gun. Not above Dexters eye is a sony brand logo; It is there because it indicates his eyes were made by Sony. The comic was published in 2000AD, and thus part of British sci fi history. I used to read it in the 90s.
A yellow banner showing hanson with shnnies and flying money. "I opposed a pay rise for workers While I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself"
A calico cat with long white whiskers gazes lovingly at the hand directly above the camera. She has a black colkar with a black name tag that says Thessa in silver.
A blue and black poster for Cleverman, showing the main character, Koen, with odd david bowie eyes and a black hoodie. (The eyes are relevant to the story. Spoilers, darling!) The word Cleverman is emblazoned in red across the lower half of the poster.
A black cat licks her nose while lying awkwardly in tall green grass.
A calico cat fills the screen, mostly white fur. She has a black name tag reading "Thessa", and gold eyes.
The Ellenborough Falls, a tall white waterfall in a rainforest, in NSW Australia.
A black cat lying on some wool and cotton blankets.
A blue police box, known as a typical TARDIS camoflage shape in the Dr Who universe.
A calico cat curled into a small ball lying on a white cotton cushion. Her firepaws are over her face.
White script on pink The woke mind virus is literally just empathy. That's it, it's empathy.
Aldi Choceur mini hazelnut creme bars, in blue wrapping. They're the British-style little individually wrapped 40g chocolate bars, like in a British book such as Swallows and Amazons. They come in many flavours, I like the hazelnut ones.
A packet of a single wagon biscuit. Legendary since 1952 Arnotts Wagon Wheels Original Choc coated Marshmallow & jam net 48g biscuit There is no substitute for quality Energy 864J DI10% Per 48g serve
A view of the Australian bush. Foreground of ferns and scrub. Two gum trees in the midground, with tall white trunks. To the left is a young black bean tree, all dark sapling trunk and green leaves. Red sandstone cliffs in the background, towering through a richly green sunny area.
A calico cat lying on her back in long grass, her paws in the air.
A 1970s era panasonic tape recorder. It has the toelike buttons the Captain wants, but they are the wrong colour.
A black cat lies on a brown wool blanket, asleep and contorted into a cheerful knot, head upside down.
A white peahen pacing to sinister, in a dusty bushy landscape.
A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing - a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
A picture of a mid-April dinner on the USS Abraham Lincoln, shared by a service member with his family, was similarly unappetizing - a small handful of boiled carrots, a dry meat patty and a gray slab of processed meat.
A typical plate of fish and chips, with salad and lemon.
A burnese cat lies on a wooden verandah in the sun. Her forepaw pillow is pink and puffed up. Her collar is green. Her fur colour is burnt chocolate.
White text on black "Even more concerning than the time I would waste is the fact it's actually really physically difficult to comply with a 10km/h speed limit on a bicycle," she said. "I'm looking at my speedo the whole time, I'm wobbling. I think I'm more likely to spook a pedestrian trying to get past them at 10km/h." Fines for breaking those speed limits will almost double. Riders clocked going less than 11km/h over the limit will be fined $333, 11 to 20km/h over the limit fined $500, and 21 to 30km/h over the limit fined $751.
Old stubbies ad. Men wearing Stubbies with the caption "Whatever you do with yiur body, it'll feel better in Stubbies"
A sulphur crested cockatoo (we call them "cocky" like a farmhand) with crest raised in a yellow mohawk on top of its head.
Promotional poster for the movie The Fifth Element
A calico cat lies under a laptop riser, on a desk full of knitting.
A milk churn on a post, a typical Aussie rural letterbox. In country areas, the 3128 on top of the churn indicates it is approximately 31 kilometres from the start of the road (1000 would be 10km from the road start, 25 would be about 25 metres from the road join) and the farmer might have several kilometres of unmaintained driveway between their house and the road. Agapanthus and grass are growing around the base of the post, and there is a barbed wire fence and an old wooden-rail yard in the background.
A row of one storey terraces in Sydenham, painted alternatively grey and yellow, with red tile roofs.
Mammalian dragon thing with four ears: Welcome to granblue fantasy! RPG girl with sword: Cool, where do I start? Mammalian dragon thing with four ears: Well, we're a free to play mmo that's been going for four years, so there's a few different currencies to learn. We got rupies, crystals, cerulian sparks, cerulian stones, mobacoins, pendants, journey drops, bronze moons, silver moons, gold moons.... RPG girl with sword: Nope, fuck this.
....despite concerns about potential human rights breaches. New gene testing was announced for women aiming to compete in the female category at the Olympic Games, Youth Olympics and Games qualifiers by the International Olympic Committee (IOC)....
Peanut butter ingredients sticker. ALL NATURAL ingredients PEANUT BUTTER INGREDIENTS: ROASTED PEANUTS (99.5%), SALT. CONTAINS PEANUTS. NUTRITION INFORMATION SERVINGS PERPACKAGE: 4.8 SERVING SIZE 22g (1 Tablespoon) PROTEIN AVG SERVING% DAILY QTY PER INTAKE* PER QTY PERSERVING AVG 100 g ENERGY 563 kJ 6% 2560 kJ PROTEIN 6.1 g 12% 27.5 g FAT, TOTAL 11.1 g 16 % 50.3 g - SATURATED 1.4 g 6% 6.2 g **ND - POLYUNSATURATED 2.7 g - MONOUNSATURATED 41.3 g CARBOHYDRATE 9.8 g - SUGARS, TOTAL 5.5 g - ADDED SUGAR 0.0 g DIETARY FIBRE 8.1 g 149 mg 13 mg MAGNESIUM 189 mg *Based on an average adult diet of 8700 kJ. **NOT DETECTED. <-Less than. SA CHEESELIMITED 1. VEGEMITE WAY MELBOURNE, VICTORIA 3207, AUSTRALIA
White text on dark blue. He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius, I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rockets.
black cat with yellow eyes and a black name-tag on her pink collar (it says "persephone"), lying in a cat nook just her size, on a pink rug under a low roof. She is noble, shiny and beautiful, as many black cats are. #void #catsofbluesky # blackcats #cat
A map of Newcastle showing the price of diesel fuel in the local petrol stations. Cheapest are in red; 294.5, Which is almost three dollars a litre, or approximately 11 per gallon. There are plenty offering for slightly more.
White paper, black text. We cannot afford to limp along with men whose attitudes are rooted in the 1950s: Slogans of fear and hate. Gough Whitlam.
A calico cat with yellow eyes lies spreadeagled on the grass, exposing her fluffy white underfur to the sun.
Aussie halal snack packs. Meat, chips, sauces, although these ones are missing the tabouli and salad ingredients common in a good kebab shop snack pack.
White text on black "We're stuck in these country areas, feeding the cities and no-one can give a definite answer when the fuel supply is going to come back," Mr Falvo said. "I'm just baffled that the government didn't pick up on this sooner. "They should have prioritised the farming sectors as soon as possible."
A calico cat lying curled up asleep, with her jaw pillowed on her left hind leg.
Black and white freefall comic. A graffiti wall, with Florence the Wolf Engineer. Quote#1: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from Magic", Arthur C Clarke Quote#2: "Any technology indistinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced" Barry Gehm Quote #3: "Any technology, no matter how advanced, is magic to thise who don't understand it" Florence Ambrose.
A black cat lies one paw curled, in a slightly shadowy area. Her collar tag reads Persephone.
Pink background, white text. The woke mind virus is literally just empathy. That's it. It's empathy.
A calico cat lies whitely on a green lawn, eyes closed happily, paws bent gracefully.
Two of my cats lying in the grass. Persephone in the foreground, black and shiny. Her littermate Thessa in the background, a calico.
A map of the world colour coded for female minimum age of marriage. It shows that a majority of nations require a female partner in a marriage to be at least 18 years old.... Except that the U.S. and some parts of the middle east can marry a girl at age 9... for some incredibly disturbing reason or other?