Week 20/2026: Dusk

Week of 11 May 2026

This week I’ve been making photos of the dusk skies.

This post is wholly researched and written by me. I do not use AI in my writing. I will always bring you my stories in my real human voice.

Dusk skies

It’s a lovely time of year to go outside after work, just as it’s getting dark.

Habit tracker

• 15 minutes morning exercise sequence (7 days): 5/7
• Hip or shoulder sequence exercises (5 days): 0/5
• Walk (7 days): 6/7
• Thinking time (4 days): 0/4
• Morning planning routine (4 days): 0/4
• Mid-day journalling (7 days): 1/7
• Work shutdown (4 days): 0/4
•  9.30 shutdown (6 days): 2/6
• Evening routine (7 days): 5/7

Physio exercises

• Calf exercises (7 days): 7/7
• Hip lifts (7 days): 6/7
• Sliding bridge (7 days): 5/7

Summary of the week

Something positive

Sunday was IDAHOBIT, International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia, Intersexism and Transphobia.

Celebrated on 17 May around the world, IDAHOBIT marks the day that the World Health Organisation removed homosexuality from the WHO Classification of Diseases. In 1990. That is not that long ago.

IDAHOBIT celebrates the progress we have made in improving rights for LGBTIQA+ people, while also raising awareness about the discrimination that they still face today. Here’s my post from earlier in the year about LGBTIQA+ Pride.

This week I learned

Kelly Starrett from The Ready State was talking about some research into moving, and he said that workers who took a three-minute movement break every hour for 12 weeks saw measurable improvements in things like fasting blood glucose, blood pressure, and waist circumference. All they did was get up every hour and move for three minutes.

Kelly says you don’t need a perfect workout plan. You just have to stop sitting for hours without moving:

• Set a timer
• Get up
• Move for three minutes
• Repeat.

I feel like I need to do this. Let’s call it the three-minute fun break.

piyura

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre (TAC) has given its support for the general public to use the palawa kani name for Tasmanian Native-hens, ‘piyura’.

The TAC advises that piyura is the correct surviving name for native-hens: the name triabunna is incorrect. Piyura comes from the Swanport/Oyster Bay language region.

Palawa kani does not pluralise common nouns so piyura can refer to one bird or multiple. For example: ‘I spotted a young piyura’ and ‘I spotted a family of piyura’ are both correct.

The scientific name for Tasmanian native hen/piyura is Tribonyx mortierii.

This week I noticed

I went for a walk after work to make some photos of the light on Thursday. I was about to come off the track and head home but something made me stay on the track a little longer and keep walking. As I was looking out over the river I saw dark shapes moving in the distance. It was dolphins!

I don’t know what made me stay but I’m glad I did.

What’s making me think?

Dr. Casey Fiesler (@cfiesler.bsky.social):

There is a big difference between “people who are ‘scared’ of AI and don’t want to learn new things” and “people who have deep moral objections to AI’s underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it”.

Reading

• The Psychobiotic Revolution: Mood, Food and the New Science of the Gut-Brain Connection by Scott C. Anderson

Listening

• Little Shop of Horrors 1982 Original Cast Album
• The Book of Mormon Original Broadway Cast Recording
• Little Shop of Horrors Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Watching

• Resident Alien
• Rockliffman (The 2026 Uni Revue)