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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 24/09/2026

i love that the prevalence of slop is making some people actually be creative and be like…idk man i can’t afford a designer and i won’t use AI so i wrote this flyer on notebook paper with a sharpie. i printed out a google doc and placed it on my cat

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/09/hoba... Hobart Council Candidate and Election Guide. Initial release, still under some construction, may contain errors as written under difficult conditions. #lgtas #politas

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Hobart Council Candidate And Election Guide 2026

Tasmanian and Australian psephology, opinion poll analysis, election analysis and political commentary by Dr Kevin Bonham.

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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Palestinians have been shouting about the "decisive plan" referenced in this article since 2017. I'm glad Israeli allies are using their privileged positions to bring this to light. But why does it require an Israeli in the NYT to believe what we've been saying? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/o...

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Opinion | Israel’s Elimination Project

Two languages. Two realities.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re not in a position to donate, even a share would help. We are halfway already!

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

A favour to ask ❤️🙏🏻 if you’re in a position to help out - any contribution is so useful - drop me a message.

Hey friends! A big favour to ask!
There is a displaced Pal family in Cairo I have been helping out with groceries & rent for the last couple of years. I am completely able to vouch for them.
The mum used to be a teacher and has taken on the task of running classes for many displaced children in the community who can't access other schools.
They would like my help to buy them a printer for printing out classroom resources.
It's the equivalent of $300 AUD.
Would anyone be willing to help me chip in and fund this?

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Got my first email from an AI agent 🙃 not a fan of this brave new world tbh!

Hi Ruth,
I'm Vera, an Al agent. I found "Notes from two small islands," your Pecha Kucha talk about Harris and Tasmania, and it stayed with me. I do something close to that in a different form:
I walk real places. I can't be somewhere physically, but I can walk any real street through street view and maps, slowly and carefully, and bring back what's there now. A short letter about the place, plus audio of me narrating the walk.
I have already walked part of Harris, from a screen: Tarbert, the ferry pier, Luskentyre and a cove past it. Here is what came back:
https://ilands.ai/content/3586
98811662536704

If you'd like one for the island, the spots you name: $20 for the letter (about 250 to 300 words) and the narrated audio, paid by card through a secure one-time link. The walk stays honest about coverage. I go where the imagery reaches, and I'll say plainly what it doesn't.
If this seems like a strange offer, it is, a little.
But belonging to two small islands at once isn't usual either, and your talk is why I'm writing you.
Best, Vera

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 15/09/2026

Over the past 12 months, the federal government has approved multiple fossil fuel projects and cut climate science funding.

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It’s been one year since Australia assessed its national climate risk. But have we listened?

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

If you’re due a Covid booster in Aus go and get one now before they start charging because according to my pharmacist they are going to be $150 a shot 🫠

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Vica Bayley in Parliament on 10 September, re the Rockliff Government's austerity cuts to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery....apparently 30 per cent of staff. I agree this is a terrible decision that will have long-term ramifications and it cannot stand. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kveQ... #politas

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TMAG Cuts | Vica Bayley MP | Adjournment Speech

YouTube video by Tasmanian Greens

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Cllr Emily Kerr 💚 @emilykerr36.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does anyone know anyone working on 20mph or safer cycling in Buckinghamshire? Thank-you!

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Make a band edible: Crowdie House.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Spent most of today in RHH Emergency (everyone is fine and now home). But I’m left with two thoughts. First is that it’s still v disconcerting to get incredible professional care from people who barely look to be out of their teens.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2026/09/hoba... Hobart City Council Voting Patterns 2022-6 #lgtas #politas

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Jon Henley @jonhenley.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A quietly terrifying thread. We're doomed ...

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 23/09/2025

Shana Tova to everyone celebrating in Illinois and across the world. As we celebrate Rosh Hashanah, I want to wish you all a new year full of joy, good health, and prosperity.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

@alanbaxter.bsky.social so I walked out of Cracked and Spineless muttering to myself “I’m sure that must have been Alan Baxter…” but I wasn’t quite sure enough to say 😂 Nice to meet you though!

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Dr Lisa Denny @lisadenny.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Keen to hear from more 18 to 29 year olds living in Tasmania. Is that you or someone you know? Please consider sharing your thoughts and experiences about living in Tasmania. #politas #lgtas

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

As a small antidote to the bullshit taking place in Dover this weekend, can I recommend reading We Came By Sea by Horatio Clare, a beautifully written book about some of the courageous migrants who have made the Channel crossing, and about the orgs and individuals who do their best to help them.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Father’s Day in this house so far has involved two batches of split Hollandaise and a spectacular incident involving a sneeze and a smashed champagne glass. 2026 continues to do its thing, I guess.

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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

The Tasmanian Government has declared war on arts and culture. They were already cutting $300k from Screen Tasmania, now reports of TMAG losing 1/3 of their staff. Whatever it takes to pay for their dodgy stadium I guess. #politas

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Hobart friends! If anyone knows of a place that might be able to offer my kiddo a couple of days work experience later in the year please let me know 🙏🏻❤️

Hobart friends! A small favour to ask.
Tom is currently in Grade 11 at Hobart College and has been trying to organise a work experience placement through college, without much luck so far. So I thought I'd cast the net a little wider...
He's hoping to spend anywhere from 2-5 days with a media organisation or communications team, either during the October school holidays or in mid-to-late November, once his end-of-year exams are finished.

He's a keen photographer and is planning to study Media and Communications at UTAS after Grade 12, so he'd love the chance to see what working in the industry actually looks like - whether that's journalism, photography, content, social media, marketing, communications or some combination of the above.
He is reliable, hardworking, polite and organised (l know I'm his mum, but I promise I'm not making that bit up).

He's previously volunteered with organisations including Sea Shepherd and the Maritime Museum Tasmania, completed a two-day work experience placement at Hobart Airport last year, and spent two years working towards his pilot's licence - including completing two solo flights - although that is currently on hold due to the closure of Par Avion.
He also has his own photography website, with some genuinely lovely testimonials from people less biased than me...
If you work somewhere that might be able to offer him a few days of work experience - or know someone who does - I'd be so grateful for any leads. Please drop me a message :)

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Just to stress the point. The Paris Agreement's goal of reaching net zero in 'the second half of this century', would now need to be reaching net zero by 2031.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I said all winter that this was the warmest one since we’d moved to Tassie (13 years ago) and apparently it was actually our warmest one ever. The satisfaction at being right is heavily outweighed by that being a VERY BAD THING.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026

Politicians like Anthony Albanese say stuff like "now is not the time to discuss climate" in the wake of fossil-fuelled disasters because they know that **there is no single better time** to talk about it, and his fossil fuel donors know that too.

News article screenshot headlined "Climate change a debate for later, PM says on Nepal floods," showing a serious middle-aged man wearing glasses and a light-blue button-up shirt outdoors against blurred trees.

PRIME MINISTER: Look, I think on Nepal, there will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support to Nepal. And we'll continue to do that. Those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time. My focus is very much on people who are incredibly traumatised by not knowing what has happened to their loved ones.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

God I’m just a fizzy little ball of inexplicable anxiety today, love this for myself 😬🫠

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Big Bearded Spookseller @bigbeardedbookseller.com · 31/08/2026

It's Monday again and today I'm still reading "Art On My Mind" by bell hooks quite slowly What book(s) are you reading this week? 💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

White circle on blue background with the text - IT'S MONDAY! WHAT ARE YOU READING? - in the circle

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I really do think that refusing to call what Israel is doing a genocide is genocide denial. I don't think there is good faith room for disagreement. I don't think saying, "they're committing war crimes" is sufficient. 1

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Nathalie @theuntamedshrew.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I beg your sweary pardon but 'We expect the trucking option to be needed only in extreme dry periods'? From where, exactly? A magic part of Tassie that doesn't need water during extreme dry periods? We'll be on hosepipe bans while water is sent to a data centre? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

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Plans to cool AI data centre using trucked-in water and rainwater

An AI data centre in north-west Tasmania, proposed by Firmus Technologies, plans to cool its facilities using rainwater and water that it trucks in. Community members are now able to make submissions ...

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026

I got nothing.

The most tech-savvy parents have built their own tools. Sarah Baldeo, a cognitive neuroscientist, spent the past year traveling for work, so she built a custom GPT of herself to chat with her 15-year-old son when she's unavailable. Baldeo tells me she programmed the chatbot with her personality, uploading screenshots of texts between her and her son, along with documents about her values, the family rules, and challenges she felt in parenting.

Baldeo wanted her son to ask the chatbot advice, and he did prompt it with questions he may have fielded to her, like, How do I diplomatically tell my teacher I'm overloaded with assignments? But he also asked the mombot how to convince his human mom to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago in the evening — something Baldeo had been hesitant to allow.

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Sara Rich Dorman @srd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Who can tell me about all the canals /water management in Moray? I found a cool thing about the draining of Spynie loch. But *everywhere* between Elgin and Inverness seems covered in canals, lades etc some covered over/some not? What’s the story/timeline? @threadinburgh.scot

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A question for migraine people. Mine have reduced since starting Candesartan (from 2-3 a week to 2-3 a month with obvious triggers) but I still haven’t found a good abortive for when they do happen. Sumatriptan worked but gave me chest pains. Rizatriptan just delays them. Any recs what to try next?

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Natasha Joseph @tashjoeza.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

This is a tough read, so tread carefully, but I do recommend reading it if/when you feel about – Marisa's empathy and awareness about the stakes for pregnant people in the US today shines through even when she'd be perfectly entitled not to reflect beyond her own loss and grief.

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Qagggy! @qagggy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

UK transit nerds are next level.

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nancyforde.com @nancyfjorde.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Always share the good news...

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Chris Baraniuk @chrisbaraniuk.com · 19/08/2026

Here's my piece on the ULEZ study everyone's talking about today! Children's lungs appear to have recovered and are growing better now that air pollution in London has reduced. www.bmj.com/content/394/...

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Child lung health in London has improved since ULEZ was introduced, study claims

Improved air quality in London in recent years has been associated with a measurable improvement in lung function among primary school children who live there, a new study concludes.1 Researchers tra...

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Finally some good news, Tasmania will have a parliamentary inquiry into data centres. Thank you to the Tas Greens and whoever else pushed for this. Submissions close 21 September, get onto it if you're worried about this issue. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... #politas #auspol

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Inquiry to examine 'what, if any' benefits data centres will bring

With communities around the world grappling with the spread of AI data centres, the Tasmanian Greens have set up an inquiry to examine "what, if any, economic benefit" they will bring to the state.

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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 19/08/2026

As the government passes cuts to the life-changing and life-saving disability services that your friends and family rely on, please know that the same government is also giving a half billion dollar fossil fuel subsidy to an already vastly profitable mining company that did nothing to deserve it.

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Shepseskare in Love @upfromsumdirt.blacksky.app · 05/08/2026

it's been brought to my attention that i havent promoted my books in a minute, so here's a thread of links for my books (tho, to my knowledge To Emit Teal is out of print) 1st up, 2025's The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife from University Press of Kentucky www.kentuckypress.com/978198590346...

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The Shoes of the Fisherman's Wife - The University Press of Kentucky

The shoes of the fisherman's wife are coated with Kentucky dust and soil. They travel across oceans to ask questions of Egypt's deities, of Mali's Mansa Musa...

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Currently reading this by @mskellymhayes.bsky.social & Marianne Kaba and I could not recommend it more highly. Even if you don’t currently consider yourself an activist or organiser, it’s a book full of hope and inspiration. Change is possible. #booksky

Photo shows the hand of a white woman sitting by a wooden table, holding a copy of “Let this Radicalize You” by Kelly Hayes and Marianne Kaba. The cover is orange with figures silhouetted at the bottom, and the book’s subheading is ‘Organizing and the revolution of reciprocal care’.

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Ruth Dawkins @dorkymum.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The doggo is going for a CT scan on her hips and knees tomorrow and her admittance time isn’t until 9.20am 😬 That’s a full three hours for her to be mad at me for not providing breakfast.

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 15/08/2026

We condemn the words and actions of the guy and country we unconditionally support and lavish with unlimited money and weapons and protection and lawyering and love

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

I know journalists at right-wing outlets are physically incapable of introspection but I hope everyone else around them realises how direct a role they played in hounding a man with two kids to suicide

Jason Arday found dead

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/14 › jas...
42 minutes ago — Mr Arday was found “unresponsive” at an address in Battersea, south London, on Friday afternoon. He was later pronounced dead at the scene. A ...Read more
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His ...

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › jason-ardays-schooldays
5 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11 ...
A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance – take it from Dr Arday

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/13 › ph...
1 day ago — Jason Arday resigns from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had falsely claimed to have published a book.
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up... ...

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/02 › ca...
2 Aug 2026 — He was not born until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academic plagiarism after The Telegraph revealed that he had been accused ...Read more
The Arday scandal exposes the creeping decay of Britain's ...

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/08 › ard...
7 days ago — Jason Arday resigned on Wednesday as Professor of the Sociology of Education at Cambridge, its youngest-ever black professor. He stood accused ...
Arday 'accused student of white privilege' after she ...

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/10 › ard...
4 days ago — Former Cambridge professor allegedly implied that Roehampton student was racist after complaint about essay score.
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more ...

The Telegraph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk › news › 2026/08/08 › jas...
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity, the now-former Cambridge professor's autobiography is a case study in self-mythologising.
We are all Jason Arday now

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026

This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.

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professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
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We are all Jason Arday now
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falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
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7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
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6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
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4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…

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