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Fraser

@fraserinau.bsky.social
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Librocubicularist, citizen of the People's Republic of Merri-bek, husband, dad, player of games, subscriber to public radio.

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Solar Melbourne @melbourne.solar.v.cx · 03/10/2026
The sun will rise in #Melbourne #Victoria tomorrow at 6:51, 3507 seconds later than the day before. It will set at 19:26, 3653 seconds later than the day before. 🤷
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026
Stay for the alt text
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🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @militarynewsua.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
❗️Failed attempt by Russians to transport a Mi-2 helicopter on the roof of a pickup truck in Krasnodar Krai.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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U.S. Naval Institute @usni.org · 03/10/2026
The harrowing story of a near-disaster on board Soviet submarine K-219 in October 1986. www.usni.org/ChernobylAtSea
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Averting a Chernobyl at Sea
The harrowing story of a near-disaster on board Soviet submarine K-219 in October 1986.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I’m not a doctor but this one checks out…
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Me: "OK I'll come but I'm only having one drink" Also me an hour later:
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Starting a temporary thread of threads so I can find stuff again, starting with a subject close to my heart...
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 02/10/2026
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A screenshot of my Bluesky bio page with "Champion amateur horologist" highlighted.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Naomi Klein Is Spot On.......
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hammancheez but spooky @hammancheez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yall wanna see a 2 hour old highland cow
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
this would be an incredible film if you started it with all the normal serial killer hunting tropes
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Orkney Library & Archive @orkneylibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
a short poem name like when we meet a bovine and we say 'hi coo' #NationalPoetryDay #Haiku
A black and white archive photograph of a cow standing beside a track leading down to a mill. The cow is looking at the camera.
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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please share! Participants wanted for an online survey investigating player attitudes towards hybrid boardgames. Scan the QR code/go to go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey & enter the prize draw. Questions? Email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au University of Melbourne Ethics ID No.: 35781
The stylised image looks like a snakes and ladders board, with the logo of The University of Melbourne at the top left.  The text reads:

Call For Participants
Board Game Research Study
The University of Melbourne Ethics ID Number: 35781

We are conducting a research study that investigates player attitudes towards hybrid board games. We are inviting people who are interested in board games to participate in an online survey.

Who Can Take Part?
·        Board game players comfortable participating in an online survey
·        Be at least 18 years of age

What Will You Do?
·        Take part in an online survey which takes about 20 minutes to complete
·        Optionally, enter a draw to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

What’s In It For You?
·        A chance to contribute to research shaping the future of board games
·        A chance to win a digital gift card equivalent to AUD$200.

Where/When?
·        Online, at a time that suits you!

How Do You Sign Up?
·        Scan the QR code or go to https://go.unimelb.edu.au/t44h to complete the survey and enter the prize draw!
·        Any questions? Email us: hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
26 Sept 1904 // Destroyer HMS Chamois was sunk in the Gulf of Patras by her own propeller shaft. The shaft was thrown out of balance by the loss of a blade at speed and came adrift, damaging her hull, and she flooded and sank. There were no casualties. (IWM image: Q 38460) #RoyalNavy #NavalHistory
Destroyer HMS Chamois. Image: Imperial War Museum Q 38460. A small destroyer with three funnels, port side view, at speed offshore with the coast visible behind her.
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.
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Stevie Kilner @1steviekilner.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
If anyone would like to see a short video of a deer fawn asking you to follow it to Narnia, this is your lucky day.
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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @luizajarovsky.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Norwegian humor is on another level. Here's how the Norwegian Consumer Council explained @doctorow.pluralistic.net's concept of 'enshittification':
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Bart⚓️ @bartgonnissen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
1/x Captain Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama is taken hostage in a lifeboat, and US Navy SEALs end it after five days. The snipers dealt with the guys in the lifeboat. The Belgians dealt with the guy at the top of the whole trade. A thread.
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AgonyFlips @agonyflips.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
When you're ticked off and a friend sends you something to make you feel better. 🐑🔊
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Nathan C @elprezau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Remember how, when streaming happened, a lot of people stopped pirating simply because paying a reasonable monthly sub was so much more convenient. I wonder how that’s going these days.
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Comic Book Yeti 🎃 @comicbookyeti.com · 21/09/2026
Just gonna leave this here for…reasons.
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paulpro @mariopro.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@pxmolina.bsky.social
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Rob Schamberger @schambergerart.com · 08/09/2026
RT if you've never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period. (So it’s a browser thing? Like, it’s a website you go to? I genuinely didn’t know.)
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Phteven @2fbs.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Sometimes you just gotta admit there's no-one else to blame, and whatever is fucked in this country we've done it to ourselves ...
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 01/09/2026
I love how Werner Herzog is ALWAYS like this:
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
My kinda meme…
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Pile Of Garbage @pileofgarbage.net · 26/08/2026
it's important to stay busy
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Fraser @fraserinau.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Will it work? Question 1: Are you on the Do Not Call register? YES Question 2: Do you still get Spam calls? YES I am interested in how this will be different.
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Australians could soon be able to block all online gambling ads. But will the plan actually work?
The goal is for anyone to be able to put their name, email address or phone number on the register and never see any gambling ads on any online
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Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
If a baby hands you a toy telephone to answer, that's a sign of great respect in their culture.
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Diane Duane @diane.dianeduane.com · 14/08/2026
...Cripes. :/
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Fraser @fraserinau.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Andrew Bragg clearly hasn't read Terry Pratchett where it is explained that 10 pound shoes cost more than 50 pound shoes. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Bragg says lower-income earners should accept substandard housing as colleagues rebuke his migration target
Angus Taylor cautions NSW senator for diverging from policy in National Press Club speech as Nationals warn against changes to working holiday visas
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Fraser @fraserinau.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
So there's going to be a good spot (somewhere in NSW at a guess) for total solar eclipses in both 2028 and 2030.
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Steve Hayes @sxh.eurosky.social · 12/08/2026
A 5 year old UK passport comes out of the wash in better condition than a brand new Australian passport. Trust me on this.
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Bat Terror @mattthr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Presented without comment
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Props to CSIRO for this
Picture of a wombat, caption reads “Did my ancestors invent the Cubist movement?”. In reference to wombats’ square poo
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Glennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Remember, do not look directly at the sun today. If I were you, I'd also give the express and mail a miss too.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The draught in France is visible from space. Here are three cloud-free views of France in the last three Augusts. Source: eu-space.europa.eu/components/e...
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Andrew Waugh @mandrewwaugh.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The celebrity endorsement that tells you that it would, in fact, be a very good idea indeed.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
You can't predict the turns this sentence takes. Extreme heat is threatening Italy’s “cheese banks,” where hundreds of thousands of Parmigiano-Reggiano wheels are stored as loan collateral. fortune.com/2026/08/10/i...
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Italy's $4.7 billion cheese economy is feeling the heat as climate change threatens its cheese banks that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral | Fortune
Extreme heat is straining the vaults that hold Parmigiano wheels as loan collateral, and economists say the damage runs wider than the vault
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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 08/08/2026
We did see that coming.
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Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
An investigation found that Meta has been paying prominent neo-Nazi accounts to post on Facebook through its invite-only monetization program.
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TechnicallyRon @technicallyron.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Welcome to our Gander reveal party" "Don't you mean gender reveal party" "No" *Dozens of geese burst out of a cake. Ominous honking fills the air. There are no genders only chaos*
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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
An aircraft passenger oxygen mask: a drop down passenger mask with air bag and yellow plastic mouth and nose cover, oxygen tube has been cut; Demonstration model used by flight attendant crew for passenger instruction. Has text on the side indicating that it's non-functional.
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Indie Book Spotlight @bookspotlight.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
LMFAO
AI User: I'm an artist.
Me: *turns off wifi* Prove it.
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Coast redwoods top 100 meters, and at that height pulling water up from the roots nearly fails. Their fix: absorb fog straight through their needles. That is why they only grow in California's coastal fog belt. The tallest trees on Earth cheat physics with fog. 🧪 #HowToBuildAGiant #plants
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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
For me, AI’s appropriate role model in education is best understood by this question: Does AI promote critical thinking? It doesn’t. We should keep it the hell away from the classroom.
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Jay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
And of course, my friends, a reminder from the ruins of Lindisfarne priory, to always look up.
The rib vault of an archway spans two ruined pillars, with nothing around it but sky.
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