Ok Bluesky, what impossibly specific topic are you like this about? 👀

Qagggy!@qagggy.bsky.social · yesterday

UK transit nerds are next level.

Egyptian OSINT Funding Op: Minority Rights Group are funding small advocacy projects that using OSINT methodologies 💰 Awarding 3x €3000 Grants 🏘️ Orgs, collectives or groups of 2+ people 📆 Apply by Aug 31

Just finished a book about the first British trail for cannibalism at sea, can’t wait to use this new knowledge to be even more chill and normal in social situations.

If you've been meaning to submit a talk for TechMids, be forewarned that the CFP ends this Friday, Aug 21st. Don't miss your chance to speak in the best city England has ever produced.

TechMids Conf 2026 - CFP (27th November 2026, Birmingham, UK)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday 21st August, 23:59 We’re open to proposals for 30-40 minute talks spanning tech and tech-adjacent topics, aimed at a relatively technical audience made up predominantly of members of the Birmingham/West Midlands tech community. We will not be accepting vendor talks etc., so please don't submit them. Super excited to have you along! Please email us at techmidsconf@gmail.com if you need any additional info! Event details: conf.techmids.org

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My cat is both kiki and bouba at the same time, is this legal?

I have just learned that there's a photo sharing social media site dedicated to astrophotography. Thanks to AstroBin for unexpected, much-needed reminder that the social web can be good and pure and cool and beautiful. app.astrobin.com

This paper mache vegetable bowling pin set are some of the most baffling objects I have ever encountered. The pea is especially haunted. I love it. I love them.

Folk Art / Scratchbuilt: The most unusual set of early to mid 20th century homemade nine-pi...

Folk Art / Scratchbuilt: The most unusual set of early to mid 20th century homemade nine-pin bowling set, made from papier mache, mounted onto wooden bases, ...

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CFP for TechMids closes in one week (Aug 21st). Submit your wittiest talk ideas for a chance to present to a chill community of tech types in England's finest city on November 27th.

TechMids Conf 2026 - CFP (27th November 2026, Birmingham, UK)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday 21st August, 23:59 We’re open to proposals for 30-40 minute talks spanning tech and tech-adjacent topics, aimed at a relatively technical audience made up predominantly of members of the Birmingham/West Midlands tech community. We will not be accepting vendor talks etc., so please don't submit them. Super excited to have you along! Please email us at techmidsconf@gmail.com if you need any additional info! Event details: conf.techmids.org

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Slept really badly last night so am engaging in my fav restorative activity: singing snippets of popular songs to my cats, with the lyrics altered to flatter my audience of beloved idiots.

Just spotted a cool open source job: The Document Foundation is hiring someone to help with marketing and comms - Global remote - Nonprofit role w the team behind Libre Office - Apply by Aug 31st I have no connection w the role, but if you get it, try and snag me a Libre Office sticker? 👀

Join the LibreOffice team as a Marketing and Communication Professional (full-time, remote, m/f/d) - TDF Community Blog

Love LibreOffice? Got a passion for marketing, media, public relations and creating great campaigns? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate ab...

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Oh, to be a tiny pink kitten, dreaming in a soft sea of blankets.

I replaced new years resolutions with a bingo card of goals to try and do over the year, awarding myself a treat every time I tick off a full line. Problem: I just got a bingo, but don't really want anything! Suggestions please? What objects or experiences are y'all coveting?

So far this week I have been given a fossilised horse tooth, had a shipment of Japanese used books arrive and learned to cook peach galettes. Riding uncharacteristically hopeful vibes, which the realities of the larger world are gonna come for any moment now...

Oh Thursday is gonna be not great, huh? I’m specifically bracing for the heat in my habitat range (large portions of England) but the infinite diversity of human experience might supply you a different type of miserable Thursday 🫠

A while back I worked with a manager who persistently talked to me like I was an idiot and am still trying to excise all the reflexive over-explaining this built into my communication patterns 🫠

It's not even 4pm but I'm ready to tempt fate and call today a great day: 🦴 got to see a cool imaging lab with cool bones and teeth in it 📖 the historical naval-cannibalism book I preordered show up 🏺 zero breakages bisque firing my most recent weird pottery

I spend so much of my free time doing weird, intense research and I bitterly wish academia wasn’t terrible because I would love to be a full time research goblin.

I usually post tech for good jobs when I find them, but apparently "puppy coordinator" is a job title and I have been living my whole life incorrectly.

Puppy Co-ordinator

We are looking for a new puppy Coordinator to play a vital role in shaping the future of our programmes by overseeing the development and welfare of puppies during the early stages of their training journey.

supportdogs.org.uk

Hey. You. I know you've been wanting to give a talk. What if you do it in the Best British City™️? TechMids is a one day, community-run developer conference on Nov 27th. Submit your talk ideas (but no salespitch slop) below to come hang out in glamorous Birmingham.

TechMids Conf 2026 - CFP (27th November 2026, Birmingham, UK)

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: Friday 21st August, 23:59 We’re open to proposals for 30-40 minute talks spanning tech and tech-adjacent topics, aimed at a relatively technical audience made up predominantly of members of the Birmingham/West Midlands tech community. We will not be accepting vendor talks etc., so please don't submit them. Super excited to have you along! Please email us at techmidsconf@gmail.com if you need any additional info! Event details: conf.techmids.org

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Apparently the news used the exonerative-voice for non-cops back in the good old days.

Odd This Day@oddthisday.bsky.social · 2w ago

It’s the 88th anniversary today of this immensely enjoyable headline 🧵

Entry level opportunities seem rare these days, so I wanted to share this paid comms internship with Humanitarian Open Street Maps: 💰 6 month paid internship 🌍 For residents in Eastern or Southern Africa 🎓Current uni students or recent graduates 📆 Apply by Aug 14

Communications Support Intern

About HOT The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) sits at the nexus of participatory mapping, community-led development, humanitarian response, open data, and tech. With a talented and diverse team spread around the globe, HOT is an NGO that supports a dynamic global community of thousands of dedicated

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if you think about it, Flock is a company that operates "little free libraries" for precious metals

So appreciative of my patient and implausibly-supportive partner, who sleeps later than I do and has to wake up to texts from me like "I've figured out how to get taxidermy eyes into my pottery without using glue!!!!"

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Found another rare and cool remote tech for good job! Tor project is hiring a UX lead - 7+ years of UX/Product design exp - People and team management experience - $110,000 - $121,275 USD - Global remote -Cool privacy preserving tech

The Tor Project | Privacy & Freedom Online

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

torproject.org

Really cool remote tech for good job alert! Signal is hiring an android dev: - Global remote working US timezones - Working in Kotlin and Java - Working on open source privacy preserving product - $160,000 - $260,000

Signal Messenger - Android Engineer

Signal is hiring Android developers to help make private communication simple. If you care about code quality as much as you care about user privacy, you should fit right in. This role is an opportunity to have an immediate impact while working closely with a talented team to solve challenging problems and ship new features to millions of users.

jobs.lever.co

Brought home some pottery to work on at home and there will be no points awarded for guessing what happened next.

I have never been yelled at harder for a correct take than the time I said that Burning Man and The Gathering of the Juggalos are effectively the same event but serving groups from different classes.

Just old enough in the industry where I'm getting to watch a lot of my friends drop out of tech to work in ecology and good for them. Love this for them.

Read a journal article about how sharing memes can be seen as shared micro-fictions that reinforce identity and strengthen social relationships and now I think about this whenever I send my besties a silly internet picture

Digital intimacy: how everyday meme sharing shapes identity and relationships

In the past decade, memes have emerged as a prominent mode of online interaction that influence social, cultural, and political discourse, but less attention has been given to people’s everyday pra...

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