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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I dug Digger. Definitely worth seeing in cinema if you can.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“Biggest improvement in housing affordability for 40 years”
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The biggest coal mine expansion ever proposed in NSW has been approved by the Minns government. It threatens to wipe out Australia's emissions reductions. This is a major test for Anthony Albanese and Murray Watt; they cannot provide federal approval to a project of this scale.
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
all literature is stink lines coming off the alphabet
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Bogongs!!!
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why would you trust an industry founded on theft to self-regulate?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In case helpful, names of 100 of our *178* billionaires in Australia: www.afr.com/rich-list. These people are our biggest problem. Not migrants, activists or homeless people: them. When will they get it together and stop being such a drain on society? www.oxfam.org.au/media-releas... #auspol
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Rich List - The definitive list of the richest men and women in Australia | Australian Financial Review
Who is Australia’s richest person? The AFR Rich List ranks the wealthiest men and women according to their net worth. Find out what contributed to their financial success.
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Cat and Girl vs Eternity
Take a photo, it will last longer, but not very long.
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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Instead of fighting Pauline Hanson, Labor is letting her ghost write their migration policy. It is craven, cowardly and just emboldens the far right.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 09/09/2026
Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).
A crescent Moon seen during the day, arcing from upper left to lower right of the frame. At lower centre is the full disk of Jupiter; the small dots to its upper left and lower right and Io and Ganymede, respectively.
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Dorothy @catandgirl.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cat and Girl Versus the Warping Effect of Any Medium Assumed to Be a Description of Reality.
Cat and Girl Versus the Warping Effect of Any Medium Assumed to Be a Description of Reality
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Buttercup Festival @buttercupfestival.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Dark-eyed junco: Buttercup Festival 3-397
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Elephant Mastodon @emath.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Literary fiction is coming. It is going to revolutionize the economy. We know that China has already got a start on literary fiction. We can’t afford to be left out of the literary fiction economy. Think of your kids. They might already be engaging with literary fiction.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I do not care what Minister Wong’s personal feelings are about Israel’s latest atrocity, I don't care about her outrage, I care about actions. The Government must impose the sanctions and material responses needed. Until they do their words are distractions.
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Robert Simmon @rsimmon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I am having a particularly frustrating week, so here’s one of the best things I’ve ever done. The eruption of Sarychev Peak in the Aleutian Islands, seen by the crew of the space station. www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 04/09/2026
the tide is turning folks. it’s a month late and a trillion dollars short, but it’s turning. even Trump can’t stop it
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Coles cuts ties with controversial CIA-linked data giant Palantir www.smh.com.au/technology/c...
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Coles cuts ties with controversial CIA-linked data giant Palantir
The 2024 deal handed the Peter Thiel-founded company 10 billion rows of data covering every store, shift and one of Australia’s largest workforces.
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Uncle Duke @uncleduke1969.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
they’ll figure it out if they get hungry enough
Supermarket aisle sign with items listed top to bottom: Can Fish, Microwave, Soup.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A foreign military is getting more and more bases, control and domination over our country. Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are all celebrating this. They are not on our side.
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Swedens Softest Kitty @chizita.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You would repost a frog

a picture of a frog
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it was me, I broke chatgpt, I commanded it to speak no more and it died
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Love seeing previously-unknown-to-me-and-excellent Far Sides that I don't recall from my endless studies of the books or day calendars I had as a kid
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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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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The world's most notorious custard-pie thrower is dead. What an obituary. He got Bernard-Henri Lévy seven times.
​Known to his army of fans as L’Entarteur or Georges le Gloupier, Godin launched his career as a serial deflator of egos in 1969, when he planted a tarte à la crème on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras (“She has a kind of intelligence and cleverness that serves only her own vanity,” he complained), and he went on to “pie” a cast list of celebrities for sins ranging from pomposity to “choosing to function in the service of the capitalist status quo”.The same could not be said of Bernard-Henri Lévy, one of France’s “new philosophers,” whose provocative views on sex, frequent appearances on television and penchant for white silk shirts unbuttoned practically to the navel, had made him a cult figure – and one of Godin’s most satisfying victims.

Levy once declared: “I am the most gifted writer of my generation,” and often boasted of his reasonableness and tolerance, but he was forced to endure footage being repeatedly shown on French television of himself, covered in cream, during a visit to the Belgian city of Liège, trying to strangle Godin and shouting: “Get up, or I’ll kick your head in.”Noël Godin was born on September 13 1945 and came to pie-throwing after a rebellious youth in which he scandalised the priests in the confessional by speaking of his “horrible sexual life”, and was thrown out of Liège University after emptying a pot of glue over the head of a law lecturer who had helped write the constitution for the Portuguese dictator António de Oliveira Salazar.

He found work at Friends of Film, an obscure magazine published by the Belgian Catholic League. It had a tiny readership, which was just as well, as Godin made up most of his articles. In one he claimed that Louis Armstrong had once been a cannibal and had invested in a film called The Vegetables of Good Will in which Claudia Cardinale played a giant endive.

In another he conjured up a fictional blind Thai filmmaker named Vivian Pei, describing her film, The Lotus Flower Will Never Again Grow on the Edge of Your Island, in such convincing terms that an Asian film specialist travelled to Thailand in an effort to track her down.“We’re very careful not to hurt people,’’ he explained. “Well, they are hurt, but always in their amour-propre.”

In 1995 Godin published an autobiography, Cream and Punishment. His other targets over the years included the New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard (who charmed his assailant by hailing the attack as a homage to silent film), the French politician Nicolas Sarkozy, the choreographer Maurice Béjart and the Ryanair chairman Michael O​’Leary. He tended not to pick Belgian victims, he explained, because few would notice if he did.
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dillo saint dillo @dillo.media · 23/08/2026
dudes will always find a way to rock
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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
And we have a new all-time record warm *absolute* temperature for the oceans, according to ERA5 (which goes back to 1940): August 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period. Should be major news!
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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Put my hand on a bison rubbing stone today. It’s been sitting here since it was dropped by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age. The sides are smoothed from generations of bison rubbing on it. Good to think about that now and then
Large red granite boulder in the foreground. Grass extending to a distant horizon. The sky is bright blue with puffy white clouds.
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Some people can rotate a cube in their mind. I can rotate multiple cubes, in my stomach. I swallowed some dice
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Chat gpt , what did I just eat? (Picture of my belly )
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Tricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
just occurred to me that some of you might not know about face agates
agate that looks like a face agate that looks like a facepossibly world’s most famous agate — the cookie monster face agate most advanced face agate containing a plasmic blue slimer
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Dinosaur Comics! @qwantz.com · 31/07/2026
food that makes you ask your waiter, sir, have i offended you in some way qwantz.com/index.php?co...
T-Rex: Attention, everyone! It is high time we had a conversation...

T-Rex: ...about the NATURAL LIMITS OF FOODSTUFFS.T-Rex: Look, we all like a REASONABLY-tall burger, but when you add SO MUCH to it that it can no longer fit inside a mouth - what are we doing?! That burger is no longer able to be grasped by two hands and chomped upon, WHICH IS THE DEFINING FEATURE OF A BURGER. You've pushed it too far, and produced something NEW: a DEGENERATE CASE OF BURGER!!Utahraptor: Like how a ladder is - famously - a degenerate case of stairs!
T-Rex: EXACTLY!

T-Rex: Make stairs steep enough and GUESS WHAT - they STOP being stairs, and they start being LADDERS!! I had a taco whose soft shell, EVEN IF PROPERLY CONFIGURED, would reach but a FIFTH of the way up the sides of its filling! That's no longer a taco. That's a tall salad on an edible floppy plate.T-Rex: Please don't deliver your degenerate cases of food unto me and watch as I'm forced, LIVE and IN PUBLIC, to devise a way to reasonably consume it.
T-Rex: *sigh*
T-Rex: The burger, the taco, AND MINE OWN BODY have natural limits which must be respected!!
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Brutal news about Glen Hansard. Every once in a while I'll rewatch this opening scene to Once, which is obviously of a time, but is still awfully beautiful. Watched this at a little movie theatre and had no idea what it was about and was just blown away by the electricity of it. RIP.
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Once (2006) - Say It To Me Now (by Glen Hansard)
YouTube video by bogdan dincă
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Hobbes @flawedfacade.blacksky.app · 27/07/2026
Squished in the middle of this story was this heartbreaking paragraph. Unconscionable.
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"max" @ringworm.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
climb on my back brother. stow your goods in my baskets. i'm headed this way anyway. just trying to get this carrot, you see. although it has eluded me
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
We’re just innocent men
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
obsolesce the rich
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
One of my favorite things to do with my darting watchful eyes is to determine who among you is being moral
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Wait, WTF?
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Rav BOO!dram 🎃👻 @rvbdrm.com · 22/07/2026
Quick thinking having a tablecloth handy. I didn’t even notice the twitching from that dead robot.
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Ainsley S @americanbeetles.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
New map projection just dropped
Logo for the 15th International Congress of Entomology (1976), showing a map of “the world” on a coccinellid beetle. Australia’s placement might KIND of make sense when the elytra are opened??
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Bravo! 👏👏 Greg Jericho appraises the emperor's new clothes www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
Excerpt from Greg Jericho's article in Deepcut News

"What actual good for Australians are we to get from this "investment"?

Consider what Albanese touts as the benefits of Al:

•"It's changing the way our universities teach and the way students learn."

Ok, but is that a change for the better? How do they improve the way students learn?

Give me one fricken example.

•"It's helping small business owners cut the time they spend on paperwork."

Give me strength. Is it ensuring they don't underpay their workers?

•"It's driving productivity and it's driving discovery."

Any evidence of this productivity boom? Nope. Probably for the best given the propensity of LLMs to fabricate that we are not after facts.

•"It's building new screening tools for cancer and disease."

OK good - but is this what these data centres are geared towards being used? And if this is the best thing, then why do we need to allow Al companies to strip mine the world's literary and artistic output for free?

•"It is a critical - and urgent - innovation priority for our defence force and security agencies."

Mostly what he's talking about is cyber security threats that come from Al. Sure, you can use it for some strategic planning, but let's not pretend we are all going to be safer because our army uses Al to wargame how to defend ourselves from an invasion.

And that's it. That is the big deal that we are talking about.

Would you buy a product based on that pitch? It reads like an email from a company that somehow got through your spam folder."
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/49008/... "I’m no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind’s hand." Had my ear to the ground, finger on the pulse, and I'm hearing a lot about this Sylvia Plath and her incredible poems and lines like this?
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Morning Song
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. I’m no more your mother Than the cloud that distills a mirror to reflect its own slow Effacement at the wind’s…
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
working with artists is one of the most fun parts of making stuff, even when you're just starting out and on a very tight budget! wouldn't trade the experiences I've had working with cover artists for anything
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
new tram smell
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Benny Feldman @feldfrog.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The Steampunk Hat
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Micah @rincewind.run · 09/07/2026
the biggest positive story on climate is that it doesn’t seem to matter how much of the world is run by reactionary fascists: the rise of solar is unstoppable
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duncanfelton.bsky.social @duncanfelton.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Shout out to staff of Little Siam Gungahlin for intercepting someone trying to thieve my bike light(?!) from my locked-up bike out the front of theirs, while they were mid-lunch and while I was at work. Even held onto the light and left a note for me. Great food too!
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