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I'm a senior bioinformatician at the CCIA in Sydney, based in Auckland, NZ.

Advocate of the carrier bag theory of fiction.

The results of the study that this article reports upon is that if atmospheric COβ‚‚ levels continue to rise at the current rate then within several decades (50-odd years) our blood chemistry will be altered such that healthy homeostasis will be compromised.

So if you are concerned about water scarcity, sea level rise, damage due to floods and storms, crop failures, war, pestilence, and mass migrations here is something to add to the list of things driving us all toward a mass extinction event.

Stop fossil fuels. Stop war.

https://phys.org/news/2026-02-carbon-dioxide-human-blood.html

Rising carbon dioxide levels now detected in human blood

Rising carbon dioxide levels are being detected within the human body, with new research warning a key blood marker for the gas could near its healthy limit within decades if current trends continue. The findings are especially relevant for children and adolescents, whose developing bodies will experience the longest cumulative exposure to rising atmospheric COβ‚‚.

Phys.org
Why AI writing is so generic, boring, and dangerous: Semantic ablation

opinion: The subtractive bias we're ignoring

The Register
Ahhh today’s the day!!! Detective Beans: Adventures in Cat Town is now available worldwide! I hope you enjoy it 😻😻😻
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Looking through customs documents to try and figure out what the excise on some hard drives might be, and I find that Section XVI, Chapter 84, Notes1(d) of the Working Tariff Document of New Zealand, updated in August 2025, has a specific reference to "Jacquard or similar machines"
I couldn't explain exactly why, but it makes me a little bit happy.

Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.

Wishing another fifteen (and many more) to Randall Munroe, his wife (name unknown but it's not Megan), and everyone else. #FuckCancer

Two Years

xkcd

Recently been python plotting tools other than plotly due to not being able to easily save a plot to a pdf or svg. Looking at Seaborn at the moment.

Then I accidently clicked on a link in an old plot that takes me to the plotly home page. Where their new thing appears to be pushing "Vibe Analytics"

Looking a lot harder at Seaborn.

MURDERBOT

murderbot. murderbot. Murder. Bot. Murderbot? Murderbot.

May 5, 2026.
#murderbot

"These red buses are beautiful! #London is beautiful!"

Spare a minute for "Bus Aunty," a mental health nurse, originally from #Nigeria, whose viral clips of TFL Double Deckers spread the transit love.

(She'll do you good.)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/02/meet-bus-aunty-the-nurse-turning-londons-doubledeckers-into-a-tiktok-sensation