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WhombeX

@[email protected]

He/Him/They. Ally. 40-something.
Step parent to a trans young adult 🏳️‍⚧️.
Lives in Mianjin/Brisbane, youth in Noothera/Noosa. Voted Yes23.
Wombats are awesome. Has a crush on Tasmania.
SBS Chill 🎶
Space (both crewed and not). SciFi. Star Trek.
Board Games.
Following the world’s decarbonisation, especially in mobility & automotive.
Sports followed: Big Cycling events (Couch Peloton), Motorsport (zero emissions F1, please!)
"WhombeX" is one of my StarTrekOnline characters (Denobulan).

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. View on remote instance

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RE: https://photog.social/@WayneMoranPhotography/115972788619162402

100% on Wayne's comment here.
You'll spend much more time in Vernazza than you planned.

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I have said this before, but I am all for of
A neutral, unifying cheeky date:
May Eight.

Say it as a one syllable word.

Mayyyyyte.

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…something a bit stronger than synthehol while rewatching
(subtitles very much recommended)

A photo of a green drink (AGWA with lime soft drink), with ice in a tall glass. The glass is etched with a frosted “Quark’s Bar” logo. Behind on the coffee table is a mini games system like an arcade machine, the behind on the tv stand is a scene from Starfleet Academy, where the Doctor and another performer in uniform are singing opera.
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Hey, I hear of a totally rad Christmas Party happening tonight at Nakatomi Plaza, can anyone get me an invite? I'll bring the Twinkies.

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Southern Australia states may be in for a significant aurora sighting over the next few nights. especially, but Victoria and South Australia too.

I guess this also applies to Canadians and Europeans of higher latitudes.

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The next 2 nights is meant to be big for Aurora. G3-G4 solar storm range apparently.

@WhombeX@bne.social avatar WhombeX , to random

@FediTips @ash @phocks a question, something that very popular recent post helps highlight.
Are the differences in the boosts/likes between the two due to how far my instance has federated? The higher numbers version are looking at the toot in an external browser, the smaller numbers version is looking while logged into my instance and via an app (Ice Cubes).
No malice toward my instance is intended.

The toot by @peter “it's genuinely funny that huge swaths of the internet went down today and Mastodon is just sitting here like a cockroach nibbling on an old sandwich like nothing happened.” As seen in my Mastifon app and showing 86 boosts and 18 favourites.

The toot by @peter@thepit.social “it's genuinely funny that huge swaths of the internet went down today and Mastodon is just sitting here like a cockroach nibbling on an old sandwich like nothing happened.” As seen in my Mastifon app and showing 86 boosts and 18 favourites.
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@AlsoPaisleyCat @SnowyCA @WhombeX

Yes, this is indeed a big risk for new people who aren't used to how this place works, I've been trying to draw attention to this.

There's a guide explaining why profiles may look blank at https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/

On a related issue, the next update of Mastodon (v4.5.0) will automatically fetch all the replies in discussion threads so that everyone sees the same set of replies no matter which server they are on. A similar fix is on the way for profiles later.

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@FediTips @AlsoPaisleyCat @WhombeX

"...threads so that everyone sees the same set of replies no matter which server they are on. "

this is excellent news. Thank you so much. 😀

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Wow I was only just in this room last month! Daylight robbery of Crown Jewels in The Louvre’s Apollo Gallery. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-19/louvre-museum-in-paris-robbed/105909826

A view of the Apollo Gallery at The Louvre, with the tops of display cabinets and the tops of peoples’ heads. The main focus of the image is the intricate decoration of the ceiling and the many paintings on the ceiling.
A silver tiara with emeralds and diamonds is displayed alongside an ornate pocket watch, both with intricate styling. Both are mounted in a glass display cabinet.
Louis XV’s crown, a red cap but with 8 arched silver pieces leading to a peak with diamond leaf shapes. All parts of the brim, cap and arched silver are bejeweled.

Louis XV’s crown, a red cap but with 8 arched silver pieces leading to a peak with diamond leaf shapes. All parts of the brim, cap and arched silver are bejeweled.
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An in-depth breakdown of the Louvre incident. Good to view on a larger device (laptop/PC/etc)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-21/louvre-museum-heist-how-crown-jewels-became-and-easy-target/105913348

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Okay more than half this Metro 1 train is filled with runners wearing pink. There’s dozens of them.
Very disappointed, runners of Paris.
Taking short cuts… tsk.

A discrete image of people sitting on a Metro train, but not revealing any faces. A group are wearing running clothes but with pink t shirts and some have their runner’s numbers pinned. It is likely they have finished the run, so my joke is light sarcasm.
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@WhombeX@bne.social avatar WhombeX , to random

Okay this is awesome. Deets in the alt text.

Multiple sky phenomena at once. Looking up at a 45 degree angle, behind some trees in the foreground, is fine, thin, high-altitude clouds that are backlit by the sun. The sun is just behind the top branch of the tree to help bring out the three features: 1: a halo surrounding the sun. About two thirds of it is visible, the rest is behind the trees. A halo is a perfect circle in the sky surrounding a sun 22 degrees away from it. It is lightly rainbow coloured. 2: a sun bow above the halo from my perspective. The sun bow is like a rainbow, but less vibrant in colour with lots of white. The top of the sun bow intersects with the top of the halo. 3: sun dogs. They are brighter areas at the same altitude left and right of the sun, sometimes appearing as mini suns. In this case they are iridescent with white beams of light extending outwards from them. Also there are occasional contrails in the sky.
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TOS: (haven’t watched enough episodes to decide. Maybe Sulu or Chekov)
TNG: LaForge
DS9: Rom
VOY: Tuvok
ENT: Phlox
DIS: Saru
LDS: Rutherford
PIC: Worf
SNW: Scotty/Uhura
PRO: Rok/Zero
STO: Nog *

If you asked me this again in a few months this list may change. Except Rom.

  • STO = Star Trek Online. Aron played Nog so good in this game.

@zora

From: @theresmiling
https://ibe.social/notes/adbt4h47kp

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Good old Rom, he was more than a hero, he was a union man (for a few days).

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Well, that’s something.

The Mona Lisa painting. The actual one.
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And interesting as well, the throngs crowding to take the photos (faces blurred). Curious that out of this room in the main Italian Paintings hall, is numerous other DaVinci paintings, without said crowds.

@WhombeX@bne.social avatar WhombeX , to random

Thanks to @FediFollows for tooting about @ [email protected] to follow RSS feeds on Mastodon! It is seriously helping me scale back my FB follows. Getting easier to step away from there because of this kind of thing.

Here's the toot: https://social.growyourown.services/@FediFollows/113804439755330632

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@WhombeX

Really glad to hear it helped! 👍

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@IceCubesApp I’m often seeing a box in place of an image or video. Is this an instance thing or an app thing? I don’t believe I see this when using a web browser (which is only 10% of my Mastodon use). Having a great time with the app otherwise, although an occasional crash if cancelling a toot or edit.
( @ash @FediTips may have insight as well)

A toot from a user, but a blank neutral coloured space in the place an image would be.
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@WhombeX @IceCubesApp

Can you test the same post in the web browser?

If it's the same bug for the same post in the browser and app, then it's probably an instance problem. (Possibly to do with their media storage provider.)

If the same post works in the browser but not Ice Cubes, then it's probably an app problem.