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Victoria, Australia. History, archaeology, political science, economics, sociology, meteorology, climate science. Join your union.

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Fiz @fiztig.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I have maintained my loathing of John Howard, but my god, I forgot how much I detested Alexander Downer. Watching #tampa reminds me of how awful he really is, just an appalling human being. They made Australia a harsher, crueller place. #auspol
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
outstanding heritage work b/c of sign preservation & documentation of Regime changes... ...& for foregrounding political nature of heritage & its imbrications w/nationalism & social hierarchies (which are mutually entangled). Btw I have LARGE 1/e #PhDLife #InformationManagement #ArchiveCrawler
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Meet the army of amateur archivists racing to save US history in national parks
Save Our Signs aims to document every sign in the more than 400 national parks and historic sites across the country before the Trump administration removes them
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Highly usable post from last year
@weedle.bsky.social: Pete Hegseth is not going to remember his soldiers need food.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/07/2026
Holes xkcd.com/3266/
Comic: Holes. Elevation is to scale relative to sea level and ground level. Land shapes and horizontal distances are not to scale. [Lines for every 1k meters starting from -12k up to +4k: Bingham Canyon Mine (US), Veryovkina Cave (Georgia), MPONENG Gold Mine (South Africa), Sanford Laboratory (US), Giant Crystal Cave (Mexico), Derinkugo Underground City (Turkey), WIPP (US), Restof Salt Mine, with an arrow pointing at the bottom that reads “oops” (US), San Andreas Fault Observatory Borehole (US) CFB North Bay (Canada), Woodingdean Water Well (dug by hand) (United Kingdom), Diefen-Bunker (Canada), Deep Underground Command Center (Canceled in 1965) (US), Lake Peigneu, with another oops arrow next to it (US), Sydney Opera House Parking (Australia), Onkalo Spent Nuclear Fuel Repository (Finland), Hudson River, Delaware Aqueduct (US), Raven Rock (US), Wieliczka and Bochina Salt Mines (Poland), Atchison Storage Facility (US), Snolab (Canada), Detroit Salt Mine (US), Hongyancun Subway Station (China), Nuclear Test Shafts (North Korea), Super Kamiokande Neutrino Detector (Japan), Gran Sasso Laboratory (Italy), Peak above Gran Sasso, Modane Laboratory (France), Peak above Modane Laboratory, Gotthard Tunnel (Switzerland), Peak above Cheyenne Bunker and Gotthard Tunnel, Cheyenne Mountain Bunker (US), Kola Superdeep Borehole (Russia) - deepest artificial point below surface at -11917m, Lake Baikal (Russia), sediments under Lake Baikal, IDDP-2 Borehole (Iceland), Dead Sea (multiple countries), Ryfylke Tunnel (Norway), Pantal Remis Mine with another oops arrow (Malaysia), Great Blue Hole (Belize), Joides Resolution Expedition 307 (Atlantic Ocean), Deepwater Horizon Borehole (Gulf of Mexico) - deepest artificial point below sea level at -11944m, Glomar Challenger Hole 504B (Pacific Ocean), Mohole (Pacific Ocean), Joides Resolution Expedition 329 (Pacific Ocean), Mariana Trench (Pacific Ocean)]
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All Our Yesterdays @allouryesterdays.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
What did we THINK was going to happen? Warnings since 1953 (Gilbert Plass) that we were playing with fire. Louder until the late 1970s when the scientists started saying the shit would hit the fan soon. Since 1988 we've played games of pretend. Can't anymore. insideclimatenews.org/news/1706202...
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Scientists Warn of Summer Heat Spikes as Global Warming Edges Toward 2C - Inside Climate News
Researchers say fossil fuel burning and other human activities caused nearly all the rapid warming of the past decade.
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Australia fans pre-USA clash bring their 'A' Game: “Aussie boys are on a bender, Donald #Trump is a sex offender.” Should play well in bright blue Seattle ... 😅 #WorldCup
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Anna Harper @annaharper.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
The TL;DR is he blames jazz music and masturbation and thinks a a GLP-1 style drug could make people have more kids. Very Normel Stuff.
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Cate Macinnis-Ng @loraxcate.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Warmer winters cause havoc for natural systems. Here's some examples from New Zealand. There'll be similar stuff happening in Australian ecosystems and agricultural systems. theconversation.com/warming-wint...
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Warming winters are changing NZ’s landscapes, bringing insect pests, smaller fruit and carbon loss
Warmer winters mean insect pests like wasps will likely spread further, while weedy plants and rats invade alpine zones, shrinking the refuge for endangered birds.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 13/06/2026
It can't be overstated how he really doesn't know how anything works but was mythologized as a supergenius engineer by a shitty press
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/05/2026
"Peaked on Twitter" is the new "Peaked in high school"
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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
We should never have let fame become a middle-class job, or even middle-class job adjacent. It’s the toxic run-off of actual accomplishment, and instead we made it the top of the food pyramid.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Tired: Celebrating 1776 by giving guys attacking America $1.776 billion Wired: Celebrating 250 years by giving Iran $25,000,000,000
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Erica Joy Astrella @ericajoy.astrel.la · 17/05/2026
she’s in oakland, someone tell interpol
a picture of a woman dressed like carmen sandiego
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Ned Hartley @nedhartley.com · 15/05/2026
If the actor with British accent is evil then you’re watching Sci fi. If the actor with a British accent is good then it’s Fantasy. If the actor with a British accent knocks something over then it’s a Rom com.
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David Schraub @schraubd.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
As someone who majored in Aquiracx, I’m glad that my hitherto obscure discipline is finally getting the attention it deserves.
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Molk | The Guidefather 👍🇦🇺📺 @molk.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
ONP’s policies are Wild West material. Uncosted, sugar-hit politics. No media are challenging ONP members or candidates on their “policies” and if they do are dismissed and leave it at that. The political media have become weak and ill-informed. They must keep asking the hard questions.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Not what it looks like
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The AEC needs to drop the hammer on both the party ultimately responsible, and the dipshit that signed their authorisation name to it. Protecting your democracy is like everything else important - if you don't hang the perpetrators in the town square, everyone thinks the costs are worth the effort
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Adam Sharp @adamcsharp.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you
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Fiz @fiztig.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
I recognise a couple of our Australian High Court Justices’ names when they turn up in news articles or features (the lady and the really old dude!), but I can’t think of them off the top of my head. I can name all nine SCOTUS judges and which are conservative or liberal appointees.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
A disappointing number of intelligent and otherwise philosophically sophisticated folks seem to fall into this trap of confusing semantic intelligence with consciousness.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
“Their veins ran with Anglo-Saxon courage” is some serious Madison Grant/Lothrop Stoddard stuff, straight up 1920s Klan/eugenicist language.
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Matthew Highton @matthighton.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Couldn't resist. That's not my Booky Wook.
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
Photographer Andy Harnik casually snapped pictures during the shooting incident without letting go of his bourbon.
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Googly eyes might stop seagulls from stealing your lunch. UK researchers stuck googly eyes onto takeout food containers in seagull-infested places and found that they were far less likely to be approached or pecked compared to un-googly-eyed control containers. buff.ly/G5i7JE5 #ShareGoodNewsToo
buff.ly
This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch
Googly eyes are apparently one of a gull's biggest fears.
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 25/04/2026
Question for space people: My son asked, if an ocean were suddenly to be teleported to space, whether the fish would survive. I think yes, since there would still be oxygen in the water (at least until the water froze or boiled?). Is that right?
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Sean Brodrick @seanbrodrick.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
The Lakeland Book crawl has started. Yesterday, I bought 6 books at a fantastic used bookstore I had never visited before, I am halfway through one of them, and I can’t wait to see what we find today. Here is a quote from Ursula K LeGuin, quoting Tolkien, on the magic of books.
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Mike Stevens🫰 @mikestevens.link · 24/04/2026
Wishing everybody a happy Perfect Date Day!
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 23/04/2026
Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers
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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
EXTRAORDINARY HEAT ALLOVER ASIA We are about rewriting climatic history: Dozens of thousands of records will be smashed allover Asia in nearly every country from Middle East to Japan Let's expect 46C+ in India and Pakistan,43C+ in Nepal,Myanmar,Thailand,even >40C in Central Asia
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
On Palantir’s manifesto, their AI fantasies, and how Silicon Valley billionaires think they are the new Guardians of the Universe. tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-softwa...
These monsters from the Valley act as if their own perspective is the organising principle of reality. They flatten the world until it reflects their own image back at them, and they call it order. They recast dominance as necessity, exclusion as clarity, cruelty as truth-telling. What they are building is not just a politics, but a way of being in which other lives appear as obstacles, or worse, as background.
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Bill Bovingdon @williambovingdon.substack.com · 20/04/2026
Great branding thedriven.io/2026/04/16/b...
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BYD announces extra 30,000 EVs and hybrids for Australia to support essential workers
Just a day after delivering it's 100,000th car in Australia, Chinese car giant BYD has announces plans to bring an extra 30,000 vehicles to Australia in coming months.
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Twonks @twonks.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Nah
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 18/04/2026
All these right wingers who converted to Catholicism in adulthood were just shopping around for an ideology that justified their pre-existing instincts and prejudices. If you convince them that Catholicism means peace and charity they'll just drop it and keep shopping.
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
“In a fascinating twist, the other half get laid”
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Cynthia Fox @cynthfox.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Wow. “There has been a cultural shift, with some young men becoming more conservative and seeking compliant partners. A study by Ipsos, a think-tank, surveying 30 countries, found half of Gen Z men believe women’s rights have gone far enough; 1/3 think wives should always obey their husbands.”
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Dr. Nick Posegay @nposegay.northsky.social · 18/04/2026
The continued escalation in pursuit of the perfect 'decapitation strike' is both evident and alarming 2003: US captures Saddam Hussein alive, like absolute rubes 2011: US sends some guys to shoot Bin Laden 2020: US, chasing the Bin Laden high, drone strikes several military cars to kill Soleimani ⬇︎
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Aiyana White @aiyanaewhite.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.
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egg16z 🥚 @notlikewe.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Nobody: Literally no one ever: MGP:
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AltSpaceForce 🚀🇺🇲 @altspaceforce.altgov.info · 17/04/2026
"He drinks a whiskey drink He drinks a Vodka drink He drinks a Lager drink He drinks a cider drink" -- Chumbawamba 19:97
Rev. Pete at the Pentagon
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
cool. cool cool cool cool www.niemanlab.org/2026/04/soci...
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Disney Prime Video + ᵖᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @disneyprimevideo.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Meet Joe Black (1998)
Death (JD Vance), on holiday in Europe, takes a weary soul (Pope Frankie Baby)  to the afterlife
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.
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