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He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad. —Raphael Sabatini, Scaramouche (1921) Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/caboolture.bsky.social Mastodon: aus.social/@caboolture Threads: threads.net/@caboolture Homepage: quantum.prof

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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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MAGA Ranchers Get ZERO Sympathy From Fed-Up Americans
MAGA farmers get zero sympathy from Americans as ranchers take to TikTok begging people to buy their beef amid growing pressure from cheap imported beef and Trump’s trade policies. After supporting Trump and his agenda, many Americans are asking why they should feel sorry now that the economic consequences are hitting home Credit To All The Creators Featured In This Video #uspolitics #trumpnews #blackamericans #trumpsupporters #maga
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Taylor Swift: the good billionaire?
I wrote this post a couple of weeks ago, responding to a challenge* to write about the economic aspects of Taylor Swift. Not long after that, the world lost the marvellous Dolly Parton. Parton’s li…
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
For my Australian friends, welcome to spring!
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
"More succinctly, a former official said They're fucked. They shot all their weapons; they trashed all their ships; they ran out of their money" johnquigginblog.substack.com/...
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US Navy defeated again
But that won’t change any minds
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Fascinating. I wonder what a comparison of say, Australia and Canada would show. www.wired.com/story/heat-wave...
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In a Heat Wave, One Medical Condition Is So Much Deadlier Than Any Other
People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
"Iran has, with American help, completely reconfigured the power structure of the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the U.S. or Israel." www.theatlantic.com/internati...
Headline: Iran Unleashed, The dominant power in the region going forward will be Iran, not the U.S. or Israel. Green monochrome at left of missiles pointing towards upper right. Red monochrome picture at right is satellite photo of Strait of Hormuz
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All four macadamia species are native to a tiny patch of Australian subtropical rainforest in south-east Queensland and northern NSW. "Which is pretty much where everyone wants to live … [the trees] like expensive real estate" www.theguardian.com/food/2026...
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Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’?
While grown in huge numbers commercially, macadamias are a vulnerable crop. A group of wild Australian nut hunters is seeking to change that
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All four macadamia species are native to a tiny patch of Australian subtropical rainforest in south-east Queensland and northern NSW. "Which is pretty much where everyone wants to live … [the trees] like expensive real estate" www.theguardian.com/food/2026...
theguardian.com
Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’?
While grown in huge numbers commercially, macadamias are a vulnerable crop. A group of wild Australian nut hunters is seeking to change that
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
All four macadamia species are native to a tiny patch of Australian subtropical rainforest in south-east Queensland and northern NSW. "Which is pretty much where everyone wants to live … [the trees] like expensive real estate, which makes them incredibly endangered because we've got so little rainfo
theguardian.com
Could the macadamias hidden in Queensland’s rainforests be the key to saving ‘the world’s finest nut’?
While grown in huge numbers commercially, macadamias are a vulnerable crop. A group of wild Australian nut hunters is seeking to change that
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentis...
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The major parties several chances to meet the moment. Instead they chose to safeguard their collective mediocrity | Zoe Daniel
Labor and the Coalition united three times to defy the expressed desire of the voters; on gambling, on disability and on the power of the tech companies
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Signs of late stage capitalism…or, we're well overdue a revolution. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/st...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
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Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Vale Bill. Thank you for the many hours of laughter over the years. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-ra...
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Bill Oddie, naturalist and broadcaster, dies aged 85
Coming to fame in The Goodies, Oddie was later known for his wildlife expertise and presented BBC Springwatch
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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This 94-year-old Clacton voter’s informed and NSFW takedown of a Reform canvasser’s BS is a thing of beauty
Just two weeks ago, the call went out to all Reform UK activists to haul their arses over to Clacton to try and prevent their leader, Nigel Farage, from being pipped to the politically significant post by Count Binface. One of those to heed the call was Councillor Justin Jay from Maldon, Essex, who fell […]
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Very hard to see why either of these folk are scary to some Americans… m.youtube.com/watch?v=nffK_ji...
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Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Socialism, Politics & NYC | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
Six months into his administration, Jon is joined by New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani to take stock of what democratic socialist governance looks like in practice. Together, they explore what it takes to lead the nation's largest city guided by those principles, discuss how his agenda is taking shape on housing, public safety, and affordability, and consider how to create a more livable New York. Plus, Jon answers listener questions about Biden’s 2020 “win,” Trump’s memoir, and the texture of peanut butter. This episode is brought to you by: GROUND NEWS - Go to https://groundnews.com/stewart to see all sides of every story. Subscribe for 40% off the Vantage Subscription only for a limited time through our link https://groundnews.com/stewart QUINCE - Head to https://Quince.com/tws for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Now available in Canada, too. BOMBAS - Head over to https://Bombas.com/weekly and use code WEEKLY for 20% off your first purchase. #TheWeeklyShowWithJonStewart #TheWeeklyShow #JonStewart #ComedyCentral Subscribe to The Weekly Show: https://www.youtube.com/@WeeklyShowPodcast?sub_confirmation=1 Follow The Weekly Show: X: https://www.x.com/weeklyshowpod Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/weeklyshowpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@weeklyshowpodcast Watch full episodes of The Weekly Show: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIti_J5fVo4IiJWQluYFpz-DbWOF0mK3o About The Weekly Show: On Mondays, Jon Stewart hosts The Daily Show, but on Thursdays he hosts The Weekly Show — A podcast featuring in- depth conversations with special guests that explores the biggest threats to our democracy. Also hear from producers and friends of the show who discuss the latest headlines, what’s on their minds, and more! The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart releases new episodes every Thursday wherever you get your podcasts & full episode is available on YouTube, Fridays at 9AM ET.
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.thedial.world/articles/ne...
thedial.world
Copyright Is Not Enough — The Dial
Why writers need new strategies to stand up to AI.
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robert j bennett, ceo, results omega @robertjbennett.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
lolll
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
To celebrate his 100th, here is a fantastic resource… "Nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you're looking for." attenborough-100.vercel.app/
attenborough-100.vercel.app
Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive
Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
johnquigginblog.substack.com/...
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The dispensable nation: update
“The cemeteries are full of indispensable people, and nations"
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Just experienced this in Naples! There's a sci-fi novel in a huge solar flare sterilising the earth at this time, leaving just 1% of the population alive… bsky.app/profile/aljazeera.co...
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
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Why airlines are always going bankrupt
How aviation companies (fail to) make a profit
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Support a full gambling ad ban www.stopgamblingads.com.au?recruiter_id...
stopgamblingads.com.au
Stop Gambling Ads
Australians lose around $31.5 billion a year to the gambling industry - the highest losses per person of any country in the world. Tell your MP to support a gambling ad ban.
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Private Eye Magazine on Instagram: "Trump: Pouring bleach into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool… That’ll stop it getting Covid! New Private Eye on shelves now."
15K likes, 441 comments - privateeyenews on June 25, 2026: "Trump: Pouring bleach into the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool… That’ll stop it getting Covid! New Private Eye on shelves now.".
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
"Full rolls are the purest expression of flight. They are normally flown only in fighters and other acrobatic airplanes, but if you ignore convention, you can fly them in any airplane, including a Boeing 737." www.theatlantic.com/past/docs...
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The Turn - 93.12
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ouch! www.theregister.com/research/...
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Boffin claims Microsoft's supposed quantum leap does not compute due to 'basic Python errors'
Nature paper argues researchers cherry-picked data. Redmond insists its work is sound
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is not news to my friends living there… www.nytimes.com/2026/06/24/cl...
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Classic. www.theguardian.com/commentis...
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What do Keir Starmer and Anthony Albanese have in common? | Fiona Katauskas
More than Albo might want to admit
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
The UK's slide into authoritarianism is well underway. www.thekeymagazine.com/p/pale...
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Punishing Protest as Terrorism
The eminent human rights lawyer on the sentencing of The Elbit 4 and the UK government's unprecedented suppression of protest
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/06/2026
This is the job ad Anthropic just posted for their Australian data centre 'energy lead'. No mentions of climate, sustainability, clean tech, emissions. Lots of explicit mentions of urgency, impatience and speed. A few cryptic but blatant references to behind the meter fossil fuel plants:
Data Center Energy Lead, Australia
Anthropic Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Responsibilities
Develop creative and novel means of energy deployment - grid connected, behind-the-meter/fence, etc. that drives fastest timelines to energization, while maintaining social license
Lead energy procurement and markets strategy to secure multi-hundred megawatt power capacity for Al infrastructure across the National Electricity Market (NEM), Wholesale Electricity Market (WEM) and Northern Territory Electricity Market (NTEM) structuring utility partnerships and commercial agreements that prioritise speed-to-energisation and scale
Own utility and regulatory stakeholder management across multiple Australian jurisdictions, building strategic relationships with ISOs, Transmission Network Service Providers (TNSPs), Distribution Network Service Providers (DNSPs), and state regulators to accelerate connection timelines and unlock constrained capacity
Drive energy markets and policy strategy for Al compute facilities, monitoring National Electricity Rules (NER) and regulatory developments and engaging policymakers to address grid capacity challenges and expedite approval processes for critical infrastructure
Partner with engineering and delivery teams to translate energy market dynamics and network constraints into actionable capacity acceleration strategies that align procurement schedules with aggressive project timelines
Develop deep market intelligence on regional power availability across the country, transmission constraints, and connection queue dynamics to inform site selection and deployment strategy
Structure innovative commercial frameworks and partnership models - including PPAs, network use of system arrangements, and behind-the-meter solutions that enable faster power delivery and mitigate grid capacity risks across Anthropic's Australian datacentre portfolio
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.
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Prof Stephen Serjeant @stephenserjeant.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Don’t trust LLMs with your literature searches. Horrible gender biases as found in this paper (from later in the thread below) arxiv.org/abs/2508.02740 🧪🔭
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Who Gets Cited? Gender- and Majority-Bias in LLM-Driven Reference Selection
Large language models (LLMs) are rapidly being adopted as research assistants, particularly for literature review and reference recommendation, yet little is known about whether they introduce demogra...
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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Emma Jacobs @emmavj.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Teenagers have described easy workarounds — drawing a mustache on their face for an age estimation scan www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/w...
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Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Floundering. Can It Still Help Younger Kids?
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Winston Churchill starved India. We owe it to the victims not to rewrite history.
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Elias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Watched the clip of John Paul Janke, Indigenous Affairs Editor at NITV, question Hanson about her plans to abolish what she calls, disgustingly, the "Aborigines department"— she responded with a neo-assimilation policy. Janke's poise and incision stood in stark contrast to the rest of the press.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Lodge this in your mind. The reality is diametrically opposed to what most of the media and several political parties are telling us.
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Critics of multiculturalism in Australia fundamentally don’t get what it is It is a right to cultural identity (within limits), equal opportunity & fair treatment + recognition of the skills/talents of migrants, all within a shared Australian civic framework Food is merely a side benefit #auspol
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Alex Merz 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦 @merz.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Just to add, for those who don't remember: The President "shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, ***provided two thirds*** of the Senators present concur." (US Constitution, Article II, Section 2, Clause 2)
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
G) I honestly don't know why Iran didn't ask for ponies, they basically got everything else.
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Cole Donovan @colesci.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
E) It's probably illegal. I don't think the President intends to send this to the Senate for ratification. There is no way on earth the United States is capable of fulfilling these terms without involving Congress. This is the dumbest possible ending to the dumbest possible war.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 18/06/2026
A generation ago, Britain was a global power—today, its output is barely above that of America’s poorest state, Idrees Kahloon reports. He traveled to the nation to explore what happened:
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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
A case study in self-sabotage
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
There's a disturbance in the time stream… milliontimes.vercel.app/
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A Million Times — web tribute
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Plashing Vole @plashingvole.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Utterly unsurprised to hear (from friends in the Digital Services department) that my VC’s Linked-In posts are now produced by ChatGPT. Now wondering how much of his output in other channels is beneath him to write.
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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The algae is such a great metaphor. The US looks in the mirror and all it sees is slimy scum.
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Archaeo - Histories @archaeohistories.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
He's back 😄 #archaeohistories
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
The US financial system is a spectacular refutation of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
substack.com
One big grift
The US financial system is a spectacular refutation of the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Alright this definitely gets added to the scary file
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maia arson crimew 🏴 @crimew.gay · 16/06/2026
Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.
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Andrew White @caboolture.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
To celebrate his 100th, here is a fantastic resource… "Nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, natural phenomenon, or theme to find exactly the episode you're looking for." attenborough-100.vercel.app/
attenborough-100.vercel.app
Attenborough at 100 — A Nature Documentary Archive
Explore nearly 5,000 episodes across 90 series — from Zoo Quest in 1954 to Secret Garden in 2026. Search by animal, habitat, location, or theme.
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