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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 10h

Has he even thought about that or read anything about socialism? Has he heard of Google? Use it.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 10h

Elite? Does he have zero sensitivity to the meaning of words? I suppose that is a property of his idea of elite.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 10h

Like they are the people who need discriminatory laws to protect them.😵‍💫

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026

Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.

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Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist

COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Finally! A good news climate story!

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21h

🏺 🦣 🧪 Been waiting YEARS for more deets on astonishing wooden objects used by #Neanderthals at Abric Romaní (a site which, as anyone who's read #Kindred knows, I rave about). Can't wait to dive in: bark(!) trays, wood tools inc poss spears, and structural objects www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Neanderthal woodworking at Abric Romaní: Insights into the role of wood in a Middle Palaeolithic domestic context

Wood technology likely played a key role in human evolution, yet it remains poorly documented because organic materials rarely preserve in archaeological contexts. The Middle Palaeolithic site of Abri...

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 21h

🏺 I submit the funniest #Minoan-linked octopus image ever - seen this year on the inside of one of the toilet cubicles at Phaistos 🐙

photo showing inside of a white toilet door with handle and lock, above is a two-pronged coat hook which has been drawn around to make it look like an octopus

Closeup of the Octopus drawing, showing six curled tentacles added complete with suckers; someone seems to have later put the date 2020, a heart and some letters.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 23h

Lovely. I was going to suggest not putting a rope around your husband's neck, but then I saw it was a poem. I worked at Knossos my first year as an undergraduate.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Thanks reveals more bias than I'd expected of "my" ABC, but not of the bias in relation to the people interviewed. Two things stick in my craw. First, no one has demanded that the Israel recognise the right of Palestine to exist. Second, no one has questioned what Netanyahu meant by "Finish the Job"

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

This is a really good and nationally binding decision. It remains to be seen what impact it has on the NSW Government approval of a massive mine expansion at Hunter Valley Coal only days before. Presumably the High Court should rule against that too. Yay. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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‘A real-life moment from The Castle’: the retired Australian couple who took on a coal giant and won

Wendy Wales and Tony Lonergan’s four-year fight over MACH Energy’s Mount Pleasant coalmine went all the way to the high court

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026

An American president is encouraging an enemy to destroy American cities. This is treason, though he will claim we are not at war.

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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sounds like Shoebridge is doing just about everything right then, yeah? 🖕

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I want to know how any person of conscience or humanity could even think about taking the money.

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Rosemary Joyce @rajoyce.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Exactly. Feminist standpoint theory taught that there is no position outside reality from which to view things in godlike perspective. Accepting that, we each see from our situated position, and produce situated knowledge. To approach complete knowledge requires many situated viewers, my students.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

And achievements. I mean, could she possibly choose two former leaders with more accomplishments and good reputation around the world?

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

3/3 We see it here in the massive flourishing of Aboriginal art, literature, and music when people have been given opportunity. I say to people that progress is not just about giving advantages they did not have to Aboriginal people but from all our lives benefitting from original contributions.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

2/3 One of the outcomes of such University research has been the destruction of the model which says that "Slaves" were inferior people rather than enslaved people with great ability hampered by discrimination and lack of opportunity. Your government seems to want to restore those 19C values.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

But we also see it from the outside penetrating beyond the US. I have only recently started to think about this in terms of the attack on DEI. One of the outcomes of social science research has been to recognise the loss by entitling non-DEI people and the benefits from supporting DEI people. 1/2

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is the less spectacular aspect of the attack on progressive science. We weep for the philistinism that had gripped public policy in the US. But of course part of that is selfish because our weak governments still think the US is an enviable model and with that envy goes the growth of ignorance

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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Barack Obama is back in his role as Democrats’ closer-in-chief. He just cut ads for 24 Senate & gubernatorial campaigns—targeting races where he can help move persuadable voters. At 57% favorability, Obama is the most popular living president. Expect to see much more of him before Election Day. 💙

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is so obvious is should go without questions. The alternative is a system for perpetuating divisions in society and destroying social cohesion.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Book or chapters available through Researchgate

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

It would be nice to see a study which shows that some of those all white statues had painted heads so that they were representative of the diversity they documented. Skin colour only needed.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This is only one part of the massive destruction along the Rio Grande. na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...

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2026ResolutionSig (1).pdf

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The ignorance in public office in the US is unparalleled

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The US should not have the death penalty at all.

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tonywindsor.bsky.social @tonywindsor.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man doing his job gets “acknowledged”…

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We need to change the way we speak and write. Make the agent the subject of the sentence. No more impersonal passive.

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Iain Davidson AU @archaeoiain.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You understand why they are so keen on A'I' because they can run their document through to check the speling. Of course, the irony is that it looks as if this Inherent Stupidity (or IS) actually does the opposite and Divides States. Perhaps that is what they should rename it the DS

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Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

As a confirmed "Greenie" could not be a better choice. Congrats! @davidshoebridge.bsky.social I know you will be the voice of compassion, truth and fearlessness you have always been!

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