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Bringing you Australian history through stories of ordinary people living extraordinary lives. Most of the time I just lurk.

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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Those files they've released sure don't contain any information or communications regarding the honeypot and espionage operation. All those cameras and all that storage space yet there's nothing to show for it. The released files, whilst containing items of interest, are essentially junk.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
I only just watched the Digging for Britain episode containing the discovery of the carnyx and boars head standard near Thetford earlier this week. Such an awesome instrument. www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Thetford dig unearths Iron Age war trumpet and boar standard
The discoveries are "extraordinarily rare", say the archaeologists who helped find them.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Now you know why some people left twitter before he bought it and why he assisted with the 2024 election "win".
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
I've got my money on one year and five months.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
They're gonna struggle to run the party if they can't even organise a spill.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
So let's get this straight....DHS denied that their agents use racial profiling by stating that they use linguistic profiling to determine a person's race and then racially profile them? These guys can't even gaslight effectively yet they've been given the keys to your kingdom.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
That was a great read, thanks for sharing. Now imagine this, drones with eDNA sniffers able to pin down targets to a locality based on the large DNA database ICE is currently building and augmented via the recent US proposal to harvest DNA from all VISA applicants.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Based on these documents, ICE are taking DNA samples of all people who are detained. Combined with the recent US proposal that VISA applicants will be required to submit DNA, it indicates that the US Govt or lobbyists are building an expansive biometric database. Taking US Citizens is not a mistake.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Trump will use the Insurrection Act whether the people of Minneapolis are peaceful or not. He will manufacture the justification if needed. He requires Martial Law for the consolidation phase. There is no escaping it. Being peaceful in the face of violence is just kicking the can down the road.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
You should create a discord server for your podcast community. This will allow like minded people to come together and share their experiences and prevent isolation.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Buried By Professor Alice Roberts. The book investigates British history throughout the first millenium using a combination of archaeology, osteoarcheology and DNA evidence. Ancestors by Professor Alice Roberts. This book investigates prehistoric Britain using the evidence derived from seven burials. If you love Digging for Britain, then this book delves a little deeper into some of the sites from the show.Crypt by Professor Alice Roberts. Another entertaining book this time investigating the medieval period to the start of the early modern period through evidence derived from archaeology, osteoarchaeology, historical sources and DNA.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
The truth of the matter is that they intend to enact Martial Law regardless of whether it's in reaction to an organic event or a manufactured one. The only difference is that they will be fully prepared and ready for action when they unleash the manufactured event.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
I'd definitely read it if one were to be published. I'd love to learn more about the Southwark Stews (more 16th century really) and the perils of operating or working in a bawdy house during the time of the Shrove Tuesday Riots and Bawdy House Riots.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
You know, what would make this even more awesome. Instead of the photographs, you could have the portraits they hate on sticks popping up out of his head.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
In my search of Australian newspaper archives, I came upon this lovely little article. A gentle reminder to focus on the beauty the world has to offer, especially in times of darkness. I think we can all use some Bottled Sunshine in our lives right now.
Article titled "Bottled Sunshine" from the Albury Banner and Wodonga Express published March 27 1925 sourced via Trove. 

Bottled Sunshine.

Fortunately for the world its supply of Bottled Sunshine far exceeds that of its Wet Blankets. 

If this were not so what an unbearable place the world be. Some lands, peoples and centuries are richer in it than others. 

Children and puppies and kittens and lambs and all young things (unless they be ill) are Bottled Sunshine.

Precious stones and coal, flower-buds and seeds and the kernels of fruit are Bottled Sunshine.

Flashes of kindly wit and peals of laughter from out a merry heart are its very essence.

Beautiful, witching, attractive in an unstable, uncertain sort of way, are the dispositions of some people, of whom it may be said, "They have a mercurial temperament."

Better to be merry, to be known as Bottled Sunshine, with a heart as full of the joy and gladness of living as are the woods of singing birds in the springtime.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
The petition is a cover for data scraping. The bait of 1 million dollars maximises the number of respondents. We should be asking why Elon needs to have a large database containing the identities of potential voters in this race. Why didn't anyone ask in 2024?
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
You're forgetting about the prior data scraping done via his America PAC voting registration service. He shifted focus to the lottery petition after the misdirection and data scraping of Swing State voter information was noticed and publicised. www.salon.com/2024/08/02/e...
salon.com
Elon Musk's PAC is misdirecting and scraping data from unknowing swing-state voters
The right-wing billionaire's election-swaying efforts now include a campaign to data mine and misdirect key voters
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Maybe it's my subconscious reminding me how goddamn scary the US is looking right now. Thanks subconscious brain...I really didn't need the reminder.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Last night I had a dream that the US Military opened up on a long time ally in an unprovoked surprise attack. The world was shocked at what had transpired. People were frightened. Sometimes I have dreams that mirror later real world events. I sure hope this ain't one of them.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Interesting. It has been reported that Opus Dei operatives have infiltrated Australian politics over the past two decades but it looks like they've been just as busy on a global scale.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
YES!
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
I'm starting to think that this administration's interest in attacking and/or ceasing mandatory vaccination is actually a covert method of population control.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Not because they represented Hillary Clinton but because they hired Fusion GPS who uncovered Trump's links to Russia via opposition research in the lead up to the 2016 presidential election. The release of the Steele Dossier was the first time Trump's links to Russia were made public.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
This is probably a dumb question but i'm going to ask it regardless. Do you happen to know the family (or genus) of the specimen that left this footcast?
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Can confirm. I have a soon to be 12 year old that's ornery, trashes his room every day, eats like there's no tomorrow and has cost me a small fortune in vet bills over the years.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
There used to be a time when you could tell an article was from The Onion just by reading the headline.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Jokes on them. The fascists don't know anything about them and are just as desperate to find out. Governments around the world know they exist but don't know much more than that and they intend to keep it that way. They can't even use any retrieved tech, they can only attempt reverse engineering.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
To be fair, they wouldn't be telling Putin anything he hadn't already learned from Trump himself.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
They really don't seem to understand that they are dealing with an enemy that doesn't play by the rules and is relying on their unwillingness to break the rules in order to win. This is not the time for decorum. You can't fight fascism with polite disagreement and upholding norms.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
So now you need to figure out what news story he was trying to minimise by flooding the news cycle with Tariff talk. From now on, whenever he talks tariffs or releases some other deliberately divisive statement, look for the real story he's trying to cover up and amplify it.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Yes, i've watched it all unfold around the world for nearly 20 years. What's happening in the US is part of a global project to destroy democracy using the same methods. All western democracies are under attack from an enemy adept at waging a non conventional war. I just wish they'd recognise it.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Some people have been trying to warn America for over a decade about this, only to see the warnings remain unheard and events unfold. Even Australia knew about his close links with OC back in the late 1980's around the time this all started. US intelligence agencies have failed big time.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
They are absolutely gorgeous, thanks for sharing!
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
I find it ominous. They know what they're doing to people and they don't care about repercussions. So I ask myself, why don't they care about repercussions? The only answer I can come up with is they think their administration is unassailable, elections no longer matter and people are expendable.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I may just be ultra cynical but I find it strange that immediately after the last two friday night purges, Ashley St Clair releases the latest installment of the Musk baby daddy drama.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Interesting, so the military pushed back.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
It may be just the start of purging the top military, the first few using DEI as a motive, the remainder for unsatisfactory performance or some other baseless reason. What is of more concern in the announcement is their intention of replacing the Judge Advocates General for each service.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I think the more important thing to concentrate on is why? He is removing top military to install lackeys because he intends to do something that is so ethically and morally reprehensible that without the restructuring, there would be immense pushback.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
They were also eating rats which was of concern. In the reserve that the breeding pair I was following were located, they exhausted the supply of possums during the early breeding period so by the time the juveniles had fledged, their diet had already started to diversify.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Dr Beth Mott/PO Project did the analysis. I recall that a major finding in urban areas was a shift in prey species once the preferred prey species was exhausted. This was also evident on site as the visible prey remnants shifted from possums to brush turkeys/cockatoos then down to lorikeets.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
You can tell which one is the real nazi and which one is only doing it for political expediency.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
That makes sense. I was lucky that the pair I was following lived in an urban reserve and weren't as cryptic as they normally would be. We could collect the pellets from right underneath the low tree the babies were perched in without being attacked. The only hazard was slipping on intestines.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Gosh, i'm amazed at his age, he really looks so young in the photographs with his awkward little head on his tubby body. I was following a breeding pair for a few years as part of my job and and used to find the yearlings perched in the wierdest places after leaving their parents.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this but you already had your last free and fair election and it wasn't last year.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
He's a young male....probably between 1-2 years.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
In Trump's first term and during Biden's, Trump aligned billionaires started rapidly buying out various mainstream media platforms and Trump installed Michael Pack as CEO of the U.S Agency for Global Media (he has since resigned). They are doing the same with Social Media as you would have noticed.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Even his tailor hates him.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
I always went with the idea that when Jesus states words to the effect of "those that have eyes to see and ears to hear", it was a cue to read the next lines using the language of the birds.
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
An inquest was held before 1 November 1826 whereupon it was determined that Frederick Fisher had died as the result of wilful murder. Constable Looland then arrested George Worrall and Fred's lodgers and imprisoned them to await trial. 9/9
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Average Citizen @civilduty.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So upon discovery of the body, Constable Looland, sought warrants for the arrest of George Worrall and Frederick Fisher's lodgers. The coroner was sent for who arrived the next morning and inspected Fred's corpse, finding multiple fractures of the skull. 8/9
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