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Living on the floodplains of the south and north esk rivers where they feed kanamaluka / River Tamar Estuary between tides

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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h
arstechnica.com
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming 3rd party sites keep coming.
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Whitby Gothic @whitbygothic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
+++ #OTD, the 5th of October 1981, #EinstürzendeNeubauten released their first official album 'Kollaps'. +++ The band name is translates as "Collapsing New Buildings", referring to buildings constructed in Germany after 1945. The band logo, is based on a prehistoric petroglyph cave drawing.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Did you know Australia uses the exact same private immigration detention operator as Trumps US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Management and Training Corporation (MTC). MTC won a $2.3 billion contract to manage Australia’s onshore immigration detention network
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19/09/2026
"Dude, remember that time I got four teas here? I just lined them up. The server was like, ‘What the fuck? No way you are drinking four teas!’ And I’m just like, 'Yeah, just watch.' Boom." buff.ly/W4cbWGJ
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It’s Friday Night, Bro: Let’s Get Sober as Fuck
“Teas, right? Let’s get some teas. You want some milk? Don’t be a milk pussy, dude. Get some calcium. I don’t want to be the only one with strong bones. Yes,...
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/09/2026
anyway read my latest newsletter post about exactly this phenomenon
karlbode.com
AI Doomsday Panic Is Completely Out Of Control
The press obsession with software-powered doomsday is a misdirection overshadowing a much deadlier reality: our public interest regulators no longer function.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Well I’ve reached peak relevance. 😂 CPAC Aus next month looks dire. *But* it has rebranded as NatCon. [Alt Taylor Hanson Canavan listed as speakers at CPAC NatCon 2026] Tell me if you need my primer. #Auspo
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Town gas, those were the days of hot water enabling body washing daily, electric transport through hydro and clean clothes. It was the future
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
What the actual.
Andon Labs * @andonlabs
X.com
"ChatGPT, find this person and follow them."
GPT-6 Astra can autonomously navigate a drone through our office to find and follow a specific person.
It's the first Al model to beat a human on each of the 5 Drone-Bench tasks in at least one of its attempts.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 16/06/2025
Australia has an opportunity to get out of AUKUS. We should take it. We ask the Albanese Government to prioritise Australia's interests and security, and to join the UK and the US Governments in undertaking an independent parliamentary inquiry into AUKUS. ✍️ Add your name: theaus.in/AUKUS_inquiry
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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The Israeli military destroyed an entire Palestinian village yesterday. Al-Taban — in Masafer Yatta, the occupied West Bank — was home to 12 families making up 70 people, including 23 children.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
If you see this, post your getaway vehicle.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 29/08/2026
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
ICYMI, here's Richard Flanagan's full speech from the The Festival of Dangerous Ideas 22 August. Thanks to @deepcutnews.bsky.social #auspol www.deepcutnews.com/p/segals-pla...
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The new McCarthyism: Gaza and Australia – Richard Flanagan
This is the full text of a powerful speech Flanagan delivered at the the Festival of Dangerous Ideas on August 22
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Black Wreath
7news.com.au
Australia’s heavy metal mecca in million-dollar fight for survival
A changing drinking culture, fragile tenancies and climbing costs are hitting grassroots venues hard.
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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404 Media @404media.co · 12/08/2026
NEW: ICE plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on buying specialized gloves that pulse with electrical energy, which make it easier for agents to subdue people. 404 Media read the manual that says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
404media.co
Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Is this a census or an online dating application?
"Does chris ever need someone to help with, or be with them for, body movement activities?" - screenshot from census 2026
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Do people get together on census night for sleepovers?
ABS 2026 Census Flyer
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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/08/2026
BREAKING: Dogs Running
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Hardly a day goes by without my getting email from someone looking for ways to do good with tech. From computer science students thinking about post-grad careers to seasoned coders with decades of experience, there's an army of hackers looking for a way to turn their expertise into public goods. 1/
The giant head of the Statue of Liberty. Around it are many medieval machines, tended by little medieval rude mechanicals. In the background is a crosshatched architectural drawing of some classical arches and such.
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Census – Not Religious? Mark 'No Religion'. @censusnotreligious.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Andrew Denton reminds Australians to be mindful that the Census question about religious affiliation – ‘What is the person’s religion?’ – automatically presumes everyone is religious. Watch his full video on our website: censusnotreligious.org.au/2026/08/01/a... #Census26 #NotReligious
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
It's all chicken feed
DJ folded between blue spotlights in low black light, working in front of racks of plush toys and fluro beanies all under a chickenfeed sign on the wall above.  There's a mirror balloon floating by like a cloud as if it's silent, it's not.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I have to do things, dammit. "Distractions, spurn hence; withal, prithee, be calm."
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
What is this on my camera role? I'll have to look closer in the morning. I hope it isn't rude
I'm not wearing my reading glasses so I can't make out what this is.  Looks alien
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Went outside and found this www.thequoin.org
Open valley grasslands alive with Wallaby as the entrance way to the rocky cliffs of the quoin surrounded by forest.
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Alexandra Heller-Nicholas @horrornonna.com · 13/07/2026
This is pretty well known, but the Australian flag Sam Neill wore on his uniform in Event Horizon was designed at his request to show the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because he hoped in the future this is how it would actually look. A proper fucken ally in every way, this bloke.
Sam Neill on profile in EVENT HORIZON, with a patch on his jacket that shows the Australian flag but with the Union Jack replaced with the Aboriginal flag, because fuck colonialism and Sam knew that this always was, always will be, Aboriginal land
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
youtu.be
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [Top Of The Pops 1984]
YouTube video by bonnietylerVEVO
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Pam the Bird: petitions.getup.org.au/petitions/pe...
petitions.getup.org.au
Petition to Preserve "Pam the Bird" on the Bolte Bridge
This petition isn't about encouraging illegal graffiti or suggesting every tag deserves protection. Quite the opposite. It's about recognising that, on very rare occasions, something captures the publ...
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
This sounds like the greatest afternoon ever. "These are the otters. They're heavily invested in crypto and mortal enemies of the giraffes who, as I'm sure you know, are dedicated Maoists."



Fake zoo guide busted after taking 18 tourists on an hour long tour just to completely make up random facts about otters.
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Boing Boing @boingboing.net · 07/07/2026
China built a 40-story tower that banks wind power by hoisting giant concrete blocks, then dropping them when the grid needs juice. A skyscraper-sized battery with no lithium in it.
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China built a 40-story tower that stores wind power by stacking concrete
The Swiss company Energy Vault spent years pitching a novel idea: store surplus electricity by using it to stack heavy blocks, then recover the power by letting them fall. Boing…
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
June passes and I'm a year older as the land freezes over and as the days edges expand to become longer I put on another jumper remembering the summertime I was born.
Margarita Passione Sour on a wood tabletop in an old fashioned glass with a sawtooth grip, lipped with coloured salts around the rim and garnished with a wedge of passionfruit floating above whites on ice
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This fella, always looking for a break. Currawongs are the pick pockets of birds. This one's casing me but is also drenched, and not putting too much effort in. Fair enough because I'm getting wet as well and not stopping for too long.
Currawong in the branches of a dead tree. It's raining and its feathers are drenched.  It's a harsh silhouette against the grey sky.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I went outside yesterday as well, in the heavy rain, in the bush. I wanted to remember how my wet weather gear works. Turns out, it's not too bad. When the clouds cleared before sunset I was drying out with the residents in the open.
Wallaby in the tall grass from under the Casuarina tree. Before sunset after the sky ha cleared.  The low grass in front is waterlogged and steaming from the days rain.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I went outside again
Spiderbait on stage in Inveresk at the Launceston railyards 2026
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Going to try to leave the house, boots at the door. Wish me luck
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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
There is a man I've known since I was a child who is approaching retirement and, because his job has an open payroll, I looked up what he makes. Reader, he makes $50k. That is $16k under the median in his city and $19k in his field. He's worked that job 32 years. Learn to fight for a fucking raise.
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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 23/06/2026
A woman with severe Alzheimer's disease who hadn't spoken more than single syllables in years began initiating conversation after a single dose of psilocybin
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Woman with Alzheimer's starts conversing again after taking psilocybin
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A petition relating to data centers in Tasmania. They're here for the cheap power and water. The cool climate helps as well, then there's the Marinus Link and once established the additional data flow could support further development. I think it's worth keeping an eye on them:
haepetitions.parliament.tas.gov.au
Petition Details - Tasmania Parliament E-Petitions
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Herd at almost 3.30am. My place is better than your place. Response: Whatever.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Clipping - Dark Mofo - Tasmania
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I need to pack a bag for the bus trip to Dark Mofo, so of course I logged in here filtering for distraction.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I might have to leave the island. If only the boat hadn't moved to Geelong, makes for a significantly longer journey.
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Chris @christopheroconnor.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
AusAlert Testing - Launceston, Tasmania 11:00 am Monday 15 June 2026 Be somewhere crowded for full effect
AusAlert Testing is being tested in Launceston Tasmania 11:00am Monday 15 June 2026 - https://www.ausalert.gov.au/sites/default/files/2026-05/AusAlert_Testing_Explainer_Animation_Auslan.mp4
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Dia VanGunten / Writer @pinkzombierose.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
TDIF 🦴
Title: "The Lonely Man"
Author: Milo
Technique: Urine on concrete
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