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Mental detritus etc and so forth. As seen on the internet since last century. Occasional Flathead Valley Police Blotter amanuensis. Gadigal, Australia.

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms
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Zoo animals to get more space in 'long overdue' welfare reforms
New government guidance is brought in to modernise practice for the first time in more than a decade.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Thread.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
What Are People Still Doing on X? archive.md/wrwlC
Header of article WHAT ARE PEOPLE STILL DOING ON X?

IMAGINE IF YOUR FAVOURITE NEIGHBOURHOOD BAR BECAME A NAZI HANGOUT.
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Philip Oldfield @sustainabletall.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The detailing of Farshad Mehdizadeh’s Goldstan Residence building in Iran is looking sharp Left is a construction photo, right is how the whole apartment building will look
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 24/05/2025
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
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U.S. citizen with REAL ID handcuffed and held in immigration raid before being released
The man told Noticias Telemundo that authorities took his ID from his wallet and told him it was fake before handcuffing him.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social LMAO every bit as third-rate scammy as expected. archive.md/hC37p
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Dr. Mark P. Barry ☯︎ @drmarkpbarry.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency en.yna.co.kr/view/AEN2025...
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N. Korea in 'strongest strategic position' in decades: U.S. intel report | Yonhap News Agency
By Song Sang-ho WASHINGTON, May 23 (Yonhap) -- North Korea stands in its "strongest...
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I'm still confused. Was this his first interaction with a thing they call a story?
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
How are ppl/ organisations/ businesses etc justifying paying for ticks/ getting money from ticks from someone who has been lobbying 2.0 to push the white genocide nonsense (amongst other things)?
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".
abc.net.au
Five years on, experts say laws that allowed Juukan Gorge destruction remain
Mining company Rio Tinto blasted two 47,000-year-old rock shelters in 2020. An archaeologist says destruction continues "almost on a daily basis".
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The i Paper @theipaper.com · 23/05/2025
Elon Musk’s Tesla met with senior civil servants several times to push the Government to fast-track its self-driving cars, The i Paper can reveal. Read more: trib.al/Nxa7Dnr
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
People who start changing what they say mid stream without batting an eyelid to support their 'argument' when their argument is being refuted i.e. they're not incorrect because that's no what they said. 2.0 does this, amongst many things.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Billionaire Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his AI chatbot Grok in the US federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially violating conflict-of-interest laws and putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans."
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Exclusive: Musk’s DOGE expanding his Grok AI in US government, raising conflict concerns
Elon Musk’s DOGE team is expanding use of his artificial intelligence chatbot Grok in the federal government to analyze data, said three people familiar with the matter, potentially putting at risk sensitive information on millions of Americans.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I know that I confuse easily, but I am trying to work out how this conflation happened.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I've never been somewhere when there's been monarchy-related cheering, but I would absolutely find it somewhat disconcerting.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I think so. What's also funny is the number of ppl posting about how this is how they learned that there's a monarchy there.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This was a couple of months back and I already forgot to go back and take another look. Actually that's an interesting broader topic - books that 'do better' (however you wish to define this -sales, reviews, whatever) in translated languages than their original. Or abroad vs orig. country of publ.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn. Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience
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Theo Paijmans @memizon.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It is 1942. Nazi-Germany is heavily losing at Stalingrad, thousands die at the eastern front. Yet it still finds reason and time to publish a study about fairy abductions.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@realcrunchylatte.bsky.social
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Fine Books & Collections @finebooks.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's A Complete Map of All Under Heaven www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-n...
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The Sunderland Collection Acquires Cao Junyi's 'A Complete Map of All Under Heaven'
One of only three known surviving copies of A Complete Map of All Under Heaven by Cao Junyi (1644) has been acquired by The Sunderland Collection, the other two copies held by the National Archive in ...
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@midofo.bsky.social
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
@drng.bsky.social @noodlefish.bsky.social @realcrunchylatte.bsky.social Hahahahaha
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
LMAO
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
It does look dangerous, doesn't it? The most hilarious thing is that there used to be one there, acc to the article, so it's not a new idea for the spot.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I did. Have you read it? I'm accidentally reading in circles atm - 4 bks ago I read the Harvill Bulgakov 'Diaboliad' which incl. 'The Adventures of Chichikov'. Decided to read Sōseki bec @nelsonrarebooks.com was there. Now LX - first story is 'Diary of a Madman', insp. by Gogol (not read the Gogol)
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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 23/05/2025
Japan's new agriculture minister pledged on Friday to quickly move rice from government stockpiles to store shelves where it would be offered at prices significantly lower than current levels.
japantimes.co.jp
Japan pledges immediate rice price cuts to stop shift to foreign brands
The government has been releasing some of its stockpiled rice since March but that has yet to translate to lower supermarket prices.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Oh hang on. I just looked it up. I've *watched* The Awful Truth. I forgot the name. Sigh. I can't recall all of it, though.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The time has come. I'm going to read the Lu Xun short stories. I just finished Soseki's 'The Tower of London' and because of one of the translator's notes (about someone else), I thought of Lu Xun. Looked it up and it seems he read Soseki when in Japan.
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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Good news and well done the people behind this. 🧪 #nature @euanritchie.bsky.social cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...
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Quolls reintroduced to Flinders Ranges are thriving
Native Australian quolls and possums are thriving in the Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park in South Australia after they were first reintroduced.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Tiger mosquitoes are increasingly spreading across Europe as climate change makes environmental conditions more habitable, raising the risk that vector-borne diseases once limited to the tropics become endemic across the continent."
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Australian local council planning committees LMAO.
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Cormac (Bee guy) @jagungal.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Did you know that #beekeeping is a major industry in #Ukraine, and that they were targeted during the Russian invasion? Myself and the Ambassadors for Slovenia and Belgium were interviewed ahead of the major World Bee Day events coming up this Saturday! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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The ruthless way honey bees survive the winter and how they are helping Ukraine - ABC listen
When the head beekeeper of Parliament House Cold said cold weather leads honey bees to kill off all the the male bees in the hive, it created a buzz amongst our guests, bee enthusiasts and diplomats, ...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Reminder that Maye Musk's parents were techno-fascists who moved to South Africa because they were fans of apartheid www.newyorker.com/news/daily-c...
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The World According to Elon Musk’s Grandfather
What happened to antisemitic rants before social media.
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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
There's still time to apply for our Ronald Duncan Stipends for South-West Writing! ✏️ There are 3 stipends available for writers to explore our incredible archives and to inspire new creative works. 📆 Deadline: 15 June ⬇️ More info and apply
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LibGuides: Archives and Special Collections: Ronald Duncan Stipend for Southwest Writing
LibGuides: Archives and Special Collections: Ronald Duncan Stipend for Southwest Writing
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 23/05/2025
🚨Over 25,000 people have been newly displaced in Mozambique in a matter of weeks. They join close to 1.3 million people who have been uprooted by the armed conflict, back-to-back cyclones and drought.
Women whose homes in Mozambique's Cabo Delgado Province were damaged by Cyclone Chido collect water from a local school in December 2024.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Albanese says extreme weather events...are becoming more frequent and intense as a fifth body has been found in the disaster-hit region." What the PM didn't say: 'It would be irresponsible of us to approve any more gas fields or coal mines.' #hypocrisy #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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NSW flooding: PM delivers climate crisis warning as flood-hit region braces for strong winds and fifth body found
Anthony Albanese acknowledges home insurance now a ‘real challenge’ as government announces disaster assistance for 19 local council areas in NSW
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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I guess we'll find out how much 'the unions' influence what the ALP does
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Joel Chan @kjoules.org · 23/05/2025
Hong Kong’s Centre for Health Protection reminded high-risk groups to get their Covid boosters, as Covid levels will likely remain relatively high for the next few weeks, but also noted infections are now relatively mild, so the general public need not be overly concerned
   "In general, the symptoms of COVID-19 infection in the general public are mostly mild, similar to other common respiratory infections. There is no need for the public to be overly concerned. However, high-risk groups (including the elderly and young children, persons with underlying illnesses and persons who are immunocompromised) are more likely to develop severe symptoms. Therefore, COVID-19 vaccination is important to protect these high-risk populations," Dr Tsui added.
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Eldritch kcarruthers @kcar.me · 23/05/2025
Elon Musk's Starlink issued warning by Australian communications watchdog www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Elon Musk's Starlink issued warning by Australian communications watchdog
Elon Musk's satellite internet service, Starlink, has received a formal warning from the Australian Communications and Media Authority for failing to submit required quarterly complaints reports on…
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
So - have more of those govt organisations/ departments, educational institutions, libraries, similar bodies and well, individuals still at the other place left after Muskrat lobbied Trump to push that Oval Office BS about white genocide in South Africa (and stood there watching the farce)?
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
#trustnoone
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Jack Ashby @jackdashby.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I could watch #echidnas forage for hours. They wander around, occasionally ramming their sensitive snout into the ground to search for ants and termites, using smell or by detecting the electrical impulses given off by their prey's nerves and muscles.🐽⚡️🐜 #fieldwork #Tasmania #MammalWatching #WildOz
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A fourth person has been confirmed dead and another is still missing in record floods on the NSW Mid North Coast. These pictures capture the impact the flooding has had on people's lives.
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In pictures: The devastating impact NSW floods have had on residents
A fourth person has been confirmed dead and another is still missing in record floods on the NSW Mid North Coast. These pictures capture the impact the flooding has had on people's lives.
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Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
More of this please. Co-designing play spaces with children and young people near their homes led to “what researchers say is the highest increase in children’s physical activity ever recorded by an intervention of its kind”
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Bradford project produces ‘outstanding’ rise in children’s physical activity
JU:MP programme included co-design of play spaces, exercise in faith settings and interventions in schools
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ianVisits @ianvisits.co.uk · 23/05/2025
This Sunday, South Western Railway will become the first train company to be nationalised under the government’s plans to transfer the passenger services into public ownership. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/sou...
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South Western Railway (SWR) will be nationalised on Sunday
This Sunday, South Western Railway will become the first train company to be nationalised under the government’s plans to transfer the passenger services into public ownership.
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go follow @news.abc.net.au @abc-news.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Diamond mining company goes into administration: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-23/luca…
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Diamond mining company goes into administration
Australia's diamond industry future is described as "a long shot" as the Perth-based company behind the Northern Territory's Merlin diamond mine goes into administration.
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aptronym @aptronym.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I hope I find somewhere online where I can watch both of them for free.
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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
I wrote about one of the most vindictive people I’ve ever met so, uh, if something happens to me… www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Charlie and the Ambassadorship Factory
Charlie Kushner, the newly confirmed US ambassador to France, is a vindictive, felonious, and score-settling real-estate mogul, not unlike a certain US president.
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