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Antibodies Against Kookery

@againstkookery.bsky.social
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Thanks to Rich Lowry for my name. I fight harmful hysteria, pseudoscience/woo, fake medicine, contrarianism and conspiracy theories. Living in Western Australia.

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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It has been interesting to see the pro-Palestinian people slowly turn into literal "the guy with the moustache tried to warn us" Nazis.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was amused at a person recently who complained that the United Nations didn't monitor the conditions in German POW camps in WW2. Um... There might be a very good reason for that.
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Strategic Tape Reserve @strategictaper.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I always tell people: buy the best music you can afford. If you try to save money by buying cheap music, you’ll only end up spending more on other music later.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Just seen a Facebook ad for a parallel-imported Japanese car. One commenter pointed out that the Japanese song playing in the background is about a woman dying of cancer. Whoops!
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
"The food probably isn't very good, there's too many white people in there" Or "It's a very whitey whitey suburb" I'm white.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
A retired footballer came to our school and, while we were sitting in the chapel (of all places) he talked to us about how one day we would "all be flying around". He must have meant that we would all have personal jetpacks or antigravity or something.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Reminds me when I had my driver's licence for only a few months, I tried to drive Mum's car to the shops. But it wouldn't give me the key back. Turns out to remove the key you needed to push a special button. No idea why.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@lila5c8b.bske.social Go beg and grift somewhere else, dickhead.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... I want a car where the internet connection can be disabled via a physical switch in the cabin. I suggested to the AEVA that they should publish guides about how to kill the internet connection on an EV.
abc.net.au
Australians love these cars. Experts have 'real security concerns'
To test the risks of surveillance and sabotage, Four Corners asked a hacker to show what China's top EV brand could see and do remotely.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
www.perthnow.com.au/news/disaste... Another week, another diesel fire. Very lucky no children were on board. We should replace these with electric buses.
perthnow.com.au
Frantic scenes as school bus gutted by fire in Perth’s north
Security footage captured the moment the driver tried to extinguish the sudden fire.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is the kind of project I wanted to do, albeit I wanted to do it with telegram relays: www.techspot.com/news/113816-...
techspot.com
A hobbyist built a working computer out of 460 vacuum tubes, and it needs 15 minutes to warm up
The project, called The Tube Computer MK3, was built by Mike, a self-taught electronics tinkerer who recently documented the machine on Hackaday. It is the third vacuum-tube...
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I don't expect apologies from the people who yelled at me that he was dead, and called me a fool and all that stuff. They'll double-down by claiming it's not really McConnell, or deny they came up with those dumb conspiracy theories.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma... It's lucky she's an actress, because gawd she knows how to be ultra dramatic.
theguardian.com
‘I felt my humanity was bastardised’: Cynthia Erivo says reaction to Ariana Grande red carpet incident rooted in racism
Wicked co-star said reactions to the incident, which included suggestions she was Grande’s ‘bodyguard’, reflect an insidious view of Black women
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I recently bought a bicycle for fitness. I only plan to ride around the block over and over again. Two thoughts: 1. When I last had a bicycle, grip shifters were all the rage (I hated them - too easy to accidentally shift while cycling hard). Now it's these shifters where one lever goes up and the>
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... It'll improve his reputation with the kind of people who voted One Nation
abc.net.au
One Nation Victorian leader Warren Pickering admits to previous drug use
One Nation's Victorian leader Warren Pickering has admitted to a history of drug use and drink driving, less than three months out from the state election.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
MyCar is advertising $150 off my next logbook service. This amuses me, because my last logbook service (for my EV) was $89.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I hope everyone had a good Father's Day. I wanted to check out a small town 90 minutes away, that I'd never visited before, so my wife agreed to go. We had a nice time. Took photos of the golden canola fields, bought some handmade items from the markets and a mosaic from a visiting artist, >
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
When you have cancer, people come out of the woodwork to try to tell you what to eat. I know they mean well, but if we followed everyone's unsolicited advice we wouldn't have anything at all we could eat.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I passed a truck (lorry) today with printed and handwritten posters advertising COVID-era conspiracy theories. It made me think about why cookers are still living in 2020-2022. My hypothesis is two factors: 1. They never got the satisfying conclusion they wanted. Their views never became >
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It's still great news, but we must really install more AC destination chargers and DC fast chargers, or existing infrastructure will be overwhelmed.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wife is listening to a Catholic internet radio station that plays dorky Christian music 50% of the day, and spends the other 50% of the day chanting the rosary.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Now he has decided to use the existing list of LGAs and districts in his department, but - to get back to an earlier topic - the system he is using is Off-The-Shelf-Shit and puts restrictions on the number of districts it can store. Not enough districts to represent Western Australia.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/... AI image generators make many unique pictures of people who don't exist. Statistically, many of the pictures will resemble a number of real individuals, even those not in the training set. Doesn't mean the CSEM made of her was used in the training set. Secondly, >
arstechnica.com
Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
It should be flat-out illegal for the agent selling your house to be the buyer of your house. There is a huge conflict of interest: as the buyer they want to pay the least amount possible, as the seller you want the most amount possible; they will not be acting on your behalf.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Trump is a narcissist. He knows full well he is talking about himself. He even *wants* you to know that he is talking about himself.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
If you are transgender you probably aren't inclined to believe anything I say. You probably believe I want to make you extinct, or something like that. But please PLEASE go to hospital if you are suffering acute illness. The hospital will *not* reverse your gender surgery without your permission.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
One particular problem I sometimes encounter at work is what I call "Cargo Culting" - adopting a practice or procedure from another department without knowing the full purpose of that practice. "If they're doing it, it must be useful for us!" In an extreme example, somebody was using a list of >
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Tell this joker to fuck off back to Israel and take his lies and empty promises with him.
abc.net.au
Israel open to compensating Zomi Frankcom's family, ambassador says
Hillel Newman says the issue of paying reparations to the family of the aid worker will be investigated in Israel if a specific request is lodged.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
That video seems to be AI slop. The only announcement Toyota has made in the last few days is that they are moving away from NiMH batteries in their hybrids - and I'm frankly shocked that their hybrids use such an old battery chemistry.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_I_La... This lovely hit song was a tribute to her late father. Unfortunately, until I looked it up, I thought the lyrics were about killing herself because a guy broke up with her. Whoops. I like the song even more now.
en.wikipedia.org
As I Lay Me Down - Wikipedia
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❆༄.°┃𝘔𝘢𝘭𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘴 @malbliss.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I hate when they get really attractive women in tight, revealing dresses to unveil cars. Just the whole idea that a man should own a nice car and an attractive woman annoys me. It just objectifies women, and it's a tradition that needs to be KILLED.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Good article, but both headlines (they are doing A/B testing) are rubbish. It's not that "the sharks built the shark nets", it's that the eSafety Commission was running a fool's errand in building this legislation and didn't listen to even its own realists.
abc.net.au
Anthony Albanese's teen social media ban has a shark problem
If the prime minister is right and there's no time to waste, how much more of it can we spend just waiting for the teen social media ban to work?
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
www.sbs.com.au/news/insight... Walter's life was obviously affected negatively, but he may have gone about things the wrong way if he didn't talk about his concerns with the venue before getting the council involved.
sbs.com.au
Walter led a campaign that resulted in the shutdown of a music venue. He says whingeing is a right
Walter felt it was his civic duty to complain and says whingeing shouldn't be disparaged. Others think differently.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Be careful with your chemicals. I think we've all become a bit too complacent with them, myself included. I should think about moving some of them to higher cabinets. Incidentally, there are safer and more effective ways to unblock a drain. au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/aussie-mums-...
au.lifestyle.yahoo.com
Aussie mum's warning after recalled Reject Shop buy nearly kills son: 'Put it on his hot chips'
The incident could've ended in tragedy and the brand issued a recall on the item last month.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Imagine if the Iranians managed to blow it up, or there was an accident onboard causing mass casualties. The families would remember that their loved ones died malnourished, in mental anguish, ankle-deep in human waste.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Weird Ben Roberts-Smith cookers think that Afghanistan is still "the enemy" and that the government is treasonous for sending foreign aid
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I've never been more thankful for Australia's public health system Medicare. My wife will need 6 weeks of radiotherapy as an outpatient. The clinic charges $20,000 for the therapy alone. Medicare gives us back $18,700. Best of all, the clinic has a scheme where we only pay after Medicare has >
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Now there's people claiming they aren't Jewish but will write on the Census that they are, because "I stand with Israel". Dudes and dudettes, the Australian Bureau of Statistics isn't impressed by your virtue-signalling.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... Shock, surprise: When you pay people next to nothing for their power compared to what it's worth, they don't want to sell it to you. More people would sign up to VPPs when the economic incentive is there - that means they need to make good money from it.
abc.net.au
Battery-powered households not signing up to 'virtual power plant' scheme
Thousands of households with batteries installed under the federal government's scheme are choosing not to sign up to be a so-called virtual power plant that sells stored energy back to the grid.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Australian cookers are freaking out about the same Census question that they answered last time and the time before that. Self-appointed white knights are upset that the 0.4% who are Jewish have to write it in. They aren't concerned about the 0.8% of Sikhs who have to do the same...
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
www.perthnow.com.au/entertainmen... Laufey's fandom is anything but "chill"; they aren't too bad compared to Swifties but definitely a little highstrung and obsessive.
perthnow.com.au
Adult fans ‘jealous’ after singer picks girl as best-dressed
Laufey has been forced to defend a little girl she crowned best-dressed at her recent Perth concert after fans were outraged with the singer choosing a child.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The Australian yesterday: "The AusAlert test will hack your phone and kill anyone who got vaccinated" The Australian today: "The government is incompetent because not everyone received the AusAlert"
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I agree - experimental cars were capable of autonomous highway driving in the 1990s. There's open source software that can autonomously drive cars on the highways these days. Highway driving is not the problem.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... We shouldn't have a "One China policy". We should have a Multiple Chinas policy, as clearly Taiwan wants to continue independently as the Republic Of China.
abc.net.au
Chinese diplomats leave ALP conference after bid to eject Taiwan officials
The incident could stir fresh tensions between China and Australia in the wake of several recent high-profile disputes.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07... "History of self-medicating" You mean, he's a fucking drug abusing cunt. Methodically threatened a woman and then tracked her down and tried to kill her.
abc.net.au
Bystanders hailed as 'heroes' after stopping attempted murder on CCTV
A man who "doggedly" tried to kill a woman in a prolonged attack in suburban Perth caught on CCTV has is been jailed for 16 years.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I never thought I'd hear blatant anti-EV misinformation on the #ABCnewsdaily podcast. Internet-connected Chinese EVs do not require their Internet connection to function! Some of them do not even come with an active SIM!
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The joys of having a 5-year-old son: "Daddy, why is there a hole in everyone's butt?" Me: "So the poo can come out."
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
scienceblog.com/a-single-cot... Puts AI into perspective. The main opposition to AI from a water use perspective seems to be "but it's the water in OUR communities".
scienceblog.com
A single cotton T-shirt requires approximately 2,700 litres of water to produce, the equivalent of one person's drinking water for two and a half years, and the global fashion industry now consumes ap...
The T-shirt on your body right now, whichever one it happens to be, cost roughly 2,700 litres of fresh water to bring into existence. That figure is the
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I hope the paper Incoming Passenger Cards in Australia will be kept as an option. I hate the digital equivalents. Device incompatibility, loss of Internet connection during travel, and it simply *taking longer to fill in* are all downsides of the digital passenger cards.
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Antibodies Against Kookery @againstkookery.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Bluesky people seem obsessed with saying Mitch McConnell is dead and that the Republicans are covering it up. Remember two years ago when they reckoned Kate Middleton was dead and the Royal Family was covering it up?
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