Peta Thurling

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302 Posts
Mark maker, designer, parent, humanist. Took to the bird and now mastodon mainly to read and try to keep pace with events of our changing world. Seems like we all need some expertise at the moment.
Peta ThurlingJun 8, 2024
the Stripey GoodnessJun 5, 2024

I feel like maybe people would 'get it' WRT #ADHD if, when we hyperfocus, there were some cool special effects.

"Hey Stripey, whatcha doin'"

:EYES GLOWING BLUE WHITE:
:SOME BIG FAN OFF SCREEN CAUSES CLOTHES AND HAIR TO ALL FLY UPWARDS DRAMATICALLY:
:SPEAKING WITH ALL TREBLE COMPLETELY FILTERED OUT AND HEAVY PRE-VERB:

"Twelve weeks worth of work in an afternoon. You?"

Peta ThurlingJun 4, 2024
SylvhemJun 4, 2024
Wait a minute @helveticablanc! You illustrated a Magic card??!
Peta ThurlingMay 12, 2024
Kathy ReidMay 12, 2024

In the most glorious "fuck you" I have seen in a while, you know the book that Cumberland City Council banned because they're homophobic bigots - Holly Duhig's "A focus on Same Sex Parents"? Well, the publisher, BookLife Publishing, have made a PDF version of the book available for free.

Sure be a shame if it was shared far and wide now, wouldn't it?

Every time you ban a book filled with hope and kindness, and care and love, we will resist.

https://www.booklifepublishing.co.uk/a-focus-on/same-sex-parents/

#CumberlandCityCouncil #SameSexParents #BookBans #Bookstodon

Peta ThurlingApr 12, 2024
Show threadNerviest InitialApr 12, 2024
What would have killed you in infancy in another era?
#poll #BoostsWelcome
Botched caesarean
7.3%
Evil spirits
1.9%
Rare infant gout
0.8%
Hippo
1.5%
One of the plagues
4.1%
Bog sacrifice to ensure harvest
4.6%
Paper cut infection
3.2%
Paper cut mutilation
0.4%
Allergy to wheat
1.9%
Vikings
2.7%
Children's Crusade
1.3%
Adult Crusade mistaken identity
0.2%
Miniature auto-da-fé
0.9%
Time-traveling Honda Civic
4.8%
Named pope, poisoned
0.1%
Named anti-pope, stabbed
1.7%
Failure to yield to oncoming dung cart
3.1%
Vanished as object lesson to surviving siblings
1.7%
Hanged by mistake
2.2%
Poverty-induced gin-overconsumption
1.5%
Angered the king by crying
2.6%
Baked into pie for surviving siblings
0.7%
Quantum-superposition accident
4.6%
Ironically eaten by Jonathan Swift
2.1%
Rockin' Pneumonia and Boogie Woogie Flu
4%
To force mother back into estrus
0.6%
Clan feud
1.7%
God smiting some tribe or other
0.5%
Invention of fire
0.4%
Invention of the wheel
0.2%
Invention of radium pacifier
1.5%
Genghis Khan
1.9%
Family chose incorrect side in religious schism
3.8%
Family chose correct side in religious schism
1.2%
Dysentery
5%
Dropsy
0.9%
Collateral damage in duel
0.5%
Lost extremely rare infant duel
1.9%
Won extremely rare infant duel (celebration)
0.8%
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome
0.4%
Fell afoul of prophesy
2%
One too many potions
1.8%
One too few potions
1.5%
Tripped into thresher
1.7%
Killed by jealous siblings for technicolor diaper
1.5%
Usury
0.6%
Wrath
1.3%
Accidentally built into fortification
2.6%
Bad dates (dried fruit)
0.8%
Bad dates (Julian calendar confusion)
4.8%
Poll ended at .
Peta ThurlingApr 11, 2024
Show threadnoodlejetski Apr 11, 2024
@futurebird someone called the phenomenon of LLMs training on each other's data "Habsburg AI" and it makes me very happy
Peta ThurlingMar 30, 2024
Radical GraffitiMar 29, 2024
"A world without trans people has never existed and never will"
Poster spotted in Olympia, WA
Peta ThurlingMar 27, 2024
DgarMar 27, 2024
Peta ThurlingJan 10, 2024
Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Jan 9, 2024
What an...interesting...interpretation of the current COVID-19 wave in Australia.
Peta ThurlingJan 3, 2024
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Dec 31, 2023
I'll try & pick up the blog writing in 2024, but mostly niche writing for myself as a blog only gets a few hundred initial reads, so the feeling of urgency/service is no longer there.
Challenges ahead if I want to keep aiming to fulfil any fantasy of a science communication role
Peta ThurlingJan 3, 2024
Show threadIan M. Mackay, PhD (he/him)Dec 31, 2023
For the moment, I'll keep posting across multiple platforms (now 4😮‍💨).
Followers help (Masto(5600)>>BS(1400)>>Spoutible(570)>>Threads(37), as do boosts\retweets both of which I now lack. But I remember that same feeling a decade ago so I'll keep working on it.