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@cardine.bsky.social
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I'm keen to follow people who've left X entirely or don't post. AI no. Crypto no. Prediction markets no. Tech oligarchs no...too many things to worry about 🇦🇺🇺🇲

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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Also joining Russia and Belarus in rejecting election observers. Just speechless over developments in America 😩
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 25/09/2026
Four students from Brighton school infected in measles outbreak
abc.net.au
Vaccine clinic opens after four teens infected in measles outbreak
A temporary vaccination service has been set up for a school community in Adelaide's southern suburbs after four students tested positive for measles.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The news none of us wanted www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Breaking: SA records first bird flu case in sea lion
The sea lion was found at Seal Bay on Kangaroo Island.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Thinking about the AfD result & their shoutout to Musk & wondering for the millionth time how all those so-called left-leaning commentators can stay on X. It's been a shock to see how many influential people whose opinions I once respected have stayed on X, seemingly without a care in the world.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
An excellent question that someone really should ask Gina Rinehart and Pauline Hanson...at a joint public appearance preferably. One Nation should be made to account for their benefactor Gina's views on fair wages.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
While much of Australia is experiencing an early heatwave, it's pretty bloody cold here in Adelaide right now. So, a good night for my favourite soup in the world, white bean and bread, yum!
A bowl of white bean and chunky bread soup, from Lidia's Family Table cookbook. The bowl is olive green, sitting on a white paper towel, a pink and black bowl cosy, and a maroon lap rug. The soup is maybe too generously covered in parmesan and olive oil, and a spoon is poking out.
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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Sometimes I look over from my desk and there's a peeping Tom peering in through the front windows:
Male Eastern grey kangaroo standing in a garden by a birdbath, peering in through a window at the viewerMale Eastern grey kangaroo standing in a garden, peering in through a window at the viewer
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
indailysa.com.au
Exclusive polling: Premier's star rises amid widespread protests - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Park lands protests are failing to make a dent in Premier Peter Malinauskas' stand out popularity, and One Nation voters are making an impact.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Went out for a coffee today in suburban Adelaide and three standard coffees in cups not mugs was a bit over $21. The more I think about it, the more excessive that price seems..? Perhaps I don't get out enough..
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David @daverino.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“An ABC investigation discovered gift cards have been tampered with are being sold by Australia’s supermarkets, with charges even being laid over the issue..leaving shoppers confused & stressed, & raising questions about..a multi-billion-dollar criminal scam” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
abc.net.au
The gift card scam hidden on Australian supermarket shelves
An ABC investigation discovers gift cards that have been tampered with are being sold by Australia's biggest supermarkets, with charges even being laid over the issue.
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SP24 @srg-24.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
X would have died if liberals and progressives cared more about morals than engagement.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm laughing (maybe hysterically) about the existence of this story.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I agree so much that the Australian government should get off the criminal X website. I have redone my repost because I think the term CSAM is the correct term for this child abuse. It's abuse and assault. And the Australian government should be nowhere near the foul X website.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Pretty good description of Anthony Albanese right there..
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Government planning and responses to the arrival of H5N1 bird flu in Australia have been grossly inadequate. There is still time to greatly increase efforts to protect Australia’s wildlife and environments. My piece in today’s @aunz.theconversation.com 👉 theconversation.com/australias-b...
theconversation.com
Australia’s bird flu response: too little, but it’s not too late
Australia’s response to this deadly bird flu outbreak has been insufficient and too reactive.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
South Australia has been hit especially hard by various environmental disasters in recent years. Now, we have bird flu. Along with birds being impacted, today brings news that it has been found in a long-nosed fur seal. Here's one I once saw at the Goolwa Barrage ...
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
We already knew that the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church worked en masse to support the Liberals at the last election.
theage.com.au
Exclusive Brethren secretly paid far-right activists to perform stunts disrupting the federal election
A digital trail of evidence and political and church insiders have revealed how the wealthy Christian sect mobilised influencers around the country to track and heckle candidates.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
A fleeting expression of “rage” from Labor will make no difference 🤷‍♂️🤬 Israel will continue the genocide, apartheid and brutality. They will ignore Penny Wong and treat Australia with contempt. Grow a backbone, impose effective trade sanctions stand up for Zomi and decency
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On NGUNNAWAL land - the beating ❤️ of our nation @kbincanb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Tell your friends 👇
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Charles Johnson @charles.littlegreenfootballs.com · 18/08/2026
Anyone who understands what is really involved in traveling to the moon, let alone Mars, understands that the techbros trying to sell this to gullible people are full of shit.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
paul is it bad that im on this site 10 hours a day and i have no idea wtf the Atmosphere even is
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/08/2026
I feel like an issue that would connect well with voters would be doing anything at all to slow the current progression toward "absolutely everything now is a scam"
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Slop. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Title - instruction: “[place cartoon here - ed]”. Appearance of yellow torn out lined note paper held in place by sticky tape. Text: “The Herald-Sun has this week published an AI cartoon, where previously they might have commissioned one of their (dwindling) stable of artists. And it makes sense. (Not the cartoon.) After all, what is a cartoon, but a picture with a caption and maybe some helpful labels to make a point? In this case, a point the editor who prompted it wanted to make.
I mean, how hard can cartooning be? We would all be doing them if it weren’t for our lack of drawing skill (and some cartoonists aren’t very skilled, let’s face it), and AI means nobody has to pay the outrageous fees that “artists” charge, while they can “borrow” their existing work to train AI. It’s literally a no-brainer!” (Small picture of a brain crossed out) “We can only hope they can keep up the quality, once the AI can only be trained using other AI cartoons.”
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Ben Goldsborough MP @bengoldsborough.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A rare and valuable day in Australia 🇦🇺 I was delighted to meet the Hon Julie Collins MP, Australia’s Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, for an hour long discussion about the challenges and opportunities facing agriculture in both Australia and the UK. 1/5
Hon Julie Collins MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, and Ben Goldsborough MP meeting in the Australian Parliament
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Me too, so ashamed. I often think about the aboriginal man on the news who said "I don't have as many friends as I thought I did" afterwards 😔 It was such a fair ask, presented in friendship, and this what we did, Australia 😢
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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Jo Puccini was one of the last leaders inside ABC News, who journalists felt would go into bat for important stories, if the heat came down from executives. Few senior news leaders with spines remain. www.lamestream.com.au/abc-investig...
lamestream.com.au
ABC Investigations Boss Quits After Four Corners Controversies
Jo Puccini had worked at the ABC for 25 years and was one of the news divisions longest-serving and most senior leaders.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I'm noticing an increasing number of nonsensical headlines on online articles. Is this an AI thing? Like sentences that just stop halfway through etc..
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Wow! I thought any USA followers I have might be interested in this. One Nation (Australian far right party) being questioned by press pack for excluding ABC (national broadcaster) and Guardian from press conference. Would love to see this type of pushback to Trump for his treatment of journos.
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Graham Readfearn @readfearn.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
We have seen a rapid escalation of H5N1 bird flue cases in Australia in recent days, and now we have (probably) the first of what will likely be many, many mass mortality events in wildlife. Story from me.
theguardian.com
First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds
Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads
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Andrea Chalupa @andreachalupa.com · 01/08/2026
Lindsey Graham was on his way back to Washington, DC from Ukraine to close the deal on new Russian sanctions and advocate for Ukraine to be allowed to produce Patriot systems locally. He dropped dead at an opportune time for the Kremlin. Who is left in Trump’s orbit to push those urgent issues?
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
(SA) "..the department and G4S have implemented new processes to manage prisoner release dates," a spokeswoman said /The government respectfully disagrees with the ombudsman's request to pay compensation." G4S is a private firm, no penalty. I'm kind of speechless 😯 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Prisoner detained for 'several months' after release date, ombudsman finds
An inmate was erroneously kept in a South Australian prison for "several months" after his sentence ended, and the Department for Correctional Services says it "respectfully disagrees" it should pay c...
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dirt of the looming dawn @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
the age of celebrity endorsement is dead. or should be. nothing turns me off a product faster than some rich celebrity shill trying to convince me some new technological bullshit completes my "lifestyle". i aint with it.
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I hope every journalist attending that dinner is embarrassed. Because they should be.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Dear @albomp.bsky.social and @markbutlermp.bsky.social please don't let Trump use his new tariffs to bully Australia over our pharmaceutical benefits scheme. He's fake news and we all know it, and we hate him.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This story is pretty alarming - the developer involved has gotten away with way too much thus far. "Aunty Sheryl Giles says she has been left devastated. She feels let down by the systems that are meant to protect her ancestors and culture." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Unlawful excavation of river cliff disturbs Aboriginal ancestral remains
A cliff site in South Australia's Riverland, home to Aboriginal ancestral remains, has been excavated without authorisation.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"First, it says employment services should be entirely returned to public sector delivery for both online and in-person services because the privatised model has failed in Australia." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
abc.net.au
Job system broken for workers, booming for private equity, report says
A new report argues Australia's employment services system is failing jobseekers, while filling the pockets of private equity firms and millionaires.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My casual, inexpert claim is that when a rightwing party is doing well, polling frequency increases. I first noticed it during the Rudd/Gillard troubles..constant polls that Abbott rode the wave of. When is it real news and when is it actually manipulation? www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
thenewdaily.com.au
As One Nation rebounds, a warning to read with care
Federal politics is awash with polling, with new data dropping on average twice a week during 2026. But is it good for democracy?
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John Quiggin @johnquiggin.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Tony Abbott the archetypal example of a noisy minority group leader demanding special status for his own group (Anglo-Celtic Christians), amounting to around 20 % of population. He should be grateful that multiculturalism allows this minority to benefit from publicly supported schools etc #auspol
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Dr. Tina Paone @drtinapaone.com · 14/07/2026
If you could change one thing about how the legal system or mental health professionals handle parental alienation, what would it be? ⚖️ I’m curious to hear from those with lived experience or professional insight. Let’s talk about reform and better outcomes for families. 👇 #HealingJourney #CPTSD
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Iranian tolls bad, Trumpian tolls good, bombing for peace and all things 2026. Australia, and the world, needs leadership now, not a bunch of tragic Trump-lite followers who won't say the blindingly obvious truth. The US is dangerous and the parts of the world that want freedom need to push back.
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bskycheck.com @bskycheck.com · 11/07/2026
📈 26.0K new users joined Bluesky yesterday (↗ 42.4% from previous day) Welcome to all the new users on Bluesky! 👥 User count: 45,333,870 🎯 46M expected on Aug 5, 2026 ⚡ Averages: 803/hr, 0.22/sec 📊 Weekly momentum: ↗ 8.3% www.bskycheck.com
Daily growth stats for Bluesky. Yesterday 26,004 users added, growth vs previous day +42.4%
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Anastrophist @anastrophic.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
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Save our SBS!
Pauline Hanson has pledged to scrap SBS. The government needs to hear from the rest of us now.
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Bits of Jupiter @jupiterbits.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
A bit of #Jupiter (NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Giovanni Soligo)
Picture of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, a massive storm that's been active for multiple centuries.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in ICE custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump admin.
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Andrew Craig @andrewcraig.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
"They all laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now." Possibly the best joke of all time, by Bob Monkhouse.
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Flimmy @cardine.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So sometimes bad things really DO happen to bad people huh..a little spark of hope in this increasingly rancid world.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The facade is cracking
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LouiseMorris @louisemorris.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Will be a witness to the upcoming ALP National Conference in RAdelaide & keeping a keen eye and ear out for those increasingly hard to spot Labor Values. We need an #ALP for the people of Australia, not corpprate vested interests
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