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Gail Sanderson

@gailsanderson.bsky.social
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Polite yet opinionated do-gooder, living on unceded Jarowair and Giabal land. Smartarse. Proud member of the global #UglyDogs team. She/her/comrade.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
If today’s New York Times editors had been working in London in 1888, they would’ve said Jack the Ripper was “testing societal norms“ and “straining the bounds of propriety.”
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
You got this #HumpDay
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Fabulous episode on the history, genetics, social and mating behaviour, species classification and Indigenous significance of the wonderful dingo. [Features @euanritchie.bsky.social. h/t @margbell.bsky.social. Thank you!] www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Dogs in Australia: What is a dingo? - ABC listen
This is the story of the domesticated animal that feralised itself. Where did dingoes come from and when? Where does a wild dog stop and a dingo begin? How much can genetics really tell us about Au...
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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?" 99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
A wombat undermined our house to build his burrow.

Nearly $50k in foundation repairs, plus $200 in chicken wire to keep him out.

Now he’s done the same thing to the shed, so $5k to build a new shed on the other side of the property.

Here he is, old Fat Bastard himself..

Edit: it’s wild how many people are suggesting we “get rid” him... Apart from it being very much illegal, the idea would just never even cross my mind. It’s his home too.

He’s now settled in his new burrow, and our house is wombat-proofed. The worst he does now is dig up my potatoes.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
hearing ABC correspondent Allyson Horne on the Very Important News that there are Israelis at the Jordan crossing who want to go “home” and and are in queues <with babies and without food apparently for hours> we are hearing. The Israelis are starting fistfights and police were called.
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Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
#booksky
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Paul Meek @paulmeekperth.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
German Film Festival today and me and friend went to see Reifenstahl, doco on the director of Triumph of the Will and Olympia. Absolutely fascinating, and she spent the sixty years she had after the war defending that she knew nothing that happened until 1945. And so many parallels to today.
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I knew it!
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Friday night in Toowoomba. I'm updating my 'What to do when Gail dies' doc. I go to this track when I need comfort. Hope it soothes and uplifts. Ryuichi Sakamoto and David Sylvian. Rest in eternal peace Ryuichi. You are missed www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtvT...
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Ryuichi Sakamoto feat David Sylvian and Ingrid Chavez - Heartbeat (Tainai Kaiki II) (1992)
YouTube video by ambient30
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Friday the 14th of February is my dearly parted heavenly dog's birthday. Hamish MacFluff came racing into our hearts after being dumped by his original parents. Took me weeks to teach him how to play. The simplest things, hey. He absolutely, totally got it in the end
A picture of Hamish MacFfluff, rescued poodle extraordinaire. Mostly milk chocolate, with big chocolate eyes looking upward. He's sitting close to his dad and trying to work out how to steal his dad's socks
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Sharing one of my favourite Bob Fosse choreographies, this time from Sweet Charity, 1969. Dear lord, it's 56 years old. Introducing The Aloof. Please excuse me while I stretch for a few weeks before attempting this www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Db...
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Sweet Charity. The Aloof [HD]
YouTube video by Валентин «Merlin» Мирошниченко
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Bridie (EBK) @emergencybk.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Most women have been told (athlete or not) we're not enough, or too much, too ambitious, too emotional, too competitive, too outspoken etc. Nike Super Bowl add (their first in 27 yrs) nails this frustrating & discriminative double standard, many women still face. Fuckem, do it anyway!✊😎
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Sam. Kerr. Not. Guilty. It's a hallelujah from me and all my female friends
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Reading lots of posts from ppl talking about how they talk to their pets when shite happens. I've done it myself. To my pup 'don't be a dickhead all your life' or 'really?' As a new grad in suburban Toowoomba I believed that the kid next door was called Jesus Leanne
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Kellaweena @kellalena.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Emotionally, I am the corner of a fitted sheet that keeps popping up.
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David Ingram @davidingram.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
DOGE "Fork in the Road" emails went out to federal judges, who have lifetime appointments www.newsweek.com/doge-emails-...
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DOGE emails went out to federal judges by mistake
U.S. District Judge Randolph Daniel Moss said judges across the country received emails from Elon Musk's DOGE.
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Love Murdoch media. Courtesy of taste dot com, the latest fashion goes beyond charcuterie plates, or butter plates The new trend is to pile up one type of food on a plate, followed by another and ppl help themselves Looks like A FUCKING BUFFET TO ME JANELLE. Move over Sizzler, coming thru
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
New profile pic. Not that I'm obsessed with chooks. I want a beauty who will sit on my head and pretend to be a living hat. Together we would be ungovernable
Pic of an exotic black and white chicken, with its right foot in the air, held very elegantlyPic of an exotic ginger coloured chicken, in the style of a classical painting. Maybe painted by Rembrandt?A close up of an exotic chicken, with deep ginger and white feathers framing a regal face. Definitely looks like royalty, so maybe a Duke or Duchess of Chookness?
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Pandemics do not begin with official announcements. They start with quiet deletions, missing reports, and assurances that there is "no cause for concern." Pay attention.
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Henry J Fate @henryjfate.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I did not know And I could not see Who was waiting there, Who was hunting me. By the rivers dark, Where it all goes on; By the rivers dark In Babylon. -Leonard Cohen #lyrics #poem #poetry #writingcommunity #photography #abstract #photoart
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Introducing Maz Jovanovich. Most senior female pilot in the RAAF. Commanded 10 Squadron and now a Group Captain. Former test pilot. First Australian in 25 years to attend and graduate from the US Air Force Test Pilot School. Oh and she and her partner have an adorable baby named Angus
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"
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Andy @alreadytaken74.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Guys, I’ve just seen the worst job advert in the world. Absolute state of this.
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I've been v quiet watching events in the US unfold. Two observations. One, it seems clear that the citizenry of South Korea knows why it's important to take immediate action rather than schedule a meeting. Two, all it takes is an idiot with a match to blow up everything just for fun
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The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Over 50 million years oak trees (Genus: Quercus) have evolved into 500 species on 5 continents Due to variable conditions these include deciduous & evergreen varieties 90 are in North America, but only 2 in Britain because there are not weather extremes to trigger variations
Massive English Oak tree
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Ann Olivarius @annolivarius.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
She was 12. He was 36. Adele Haenel has been fighting for justice for 24 years. #MeToo is a marathon, not a sprint and it's definitely not "over". www.reuters.com/world/europe...
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French film director Ruggia found guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel
A French court on Monday found French film director Christophe Ruggia guilty of sexually abusing actress Adele Haenel when she was underage and handed him a four-year sentence, two of which are suspended.
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𝔸𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝔻𝕒𝕨𝕟 @amberdawn1116.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Game of Thrones, Idaho version
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Had a chat w an acquaintance today who provides NDIS services. From a shopfront in a major shopping centre. Has big targets for staff but doesn't understand the difference between throughputs and outcomes. Knows how to upsell tho cos she's a beautician. Fills me w so much confidence
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
I saw Marianne Faithfull at the Tivoli Theatre in Brisbane. January 2010. Intimate show, great sound, brilliant performance, generous playlist. I've had Broken English on full blast all day. Think the neighbours are a tad perplexed by this one www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmK...
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Marianne Faithfull - Why D'ya Do It?
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lrushfeldt @lrushfeldt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
For anyone looking to dotwatch… this is #ITIalaska Tim Hewitt. Tim Hewitt walks to Nome. He’s walked the southern route. He’s walked the northern route. He’s walked UNSUPPORTED (carrying all his gear and food from the start in Knik). He holds the 1000foot race record that some say will never fall.
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
26 thoughts I had watching Gina Rinehart’s National Mining Day conference  theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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26 thoughts I had watching Gina Rinehart’s National Mining Day conference  - The Shot
Queen Gina Of The Iron Ore Deposits And Arch Enemy Of Rose Hancock’s Lawyers, recorded her day of celebrating planet destroying emissions, and then uploaded it to the intertubes so we could all point ...
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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
We've often thought that one way of shortening Tests to 2 days is just to play the 15 sessions back to back during our summers when it doesn't get dark. Other solutions appear to be available.
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Fun fact - the parrots we study vary a lot in how they sit when we take photos! Some (regent, superb and swift parrots) sit up nicely looking like perky little birds🫡 Others (gang gang and OBP) just kind of flop over onto your hand and look like a puddle 🫠 very cute, very silly 🪶🧪🐣🦜🌿🌏
Two Regent parrots sitting nice and upright on a finger An orange-bellied parrot hunched over and looking terrible for its photoPerky swift parrots sitting up straight on a fingerA gang-gang cockatoo reclining into the palm of a hand cutely but not photogenically
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
good day to be wearing my @handsomemurri.bsky.social tshirt
a grey tshirt with a cartoon echidna with spikes in black, red and yellow with “don’t be a racist prick” underneath
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Word of the day is ‘catch-fart’ (17th century: an obsequious individual who will always follow the political wind.
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I'm definitely going with Flawsome. Bite me
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The Global Shorelines project @comshorelines.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Reposting some favourite coastal shots shared with the Global Shorelines Project over the last 5 years. All image rights remain the property of the owner/artist. @catherinemmunro.bsky.social Author, anthropologist. Shetland
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Catherine Munro @catherinemmunro.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
I love when Shetland ponies smile #Shetland
Grey shetland pony against blue sky and pony looks like it is smiling
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Have you never seen a baby Lumpfish? Well, today is your lucky day!
a tiny teeny green baby lumpfish on top of a finger
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Katie Didn’t @porkchophair.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
When no one is around, the trees ask me to read their palms by softly laying roots in my lap. “How long will I live?” asks a pine, hopeful. “Tell me again about love”, says a willow. “No,” I reply. “You tell me.”
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Susan Faludi talks about this in "Backlash" too: In the '80s tons of men were told 'we can't hire you because we have to hire a woman' even though companies weren't hiring very many women. Managers were just too chickenshit to tell men they weren't qualified.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 12/01/2025
Say if you get an urge and you like our content give us a follow, If you're really bored and getting tired of doom scrolling retweet and repeat. Thank you thank you thank you 😇
Wolves playing up by Old Faithful. 
Standing on a sinter bed with long grass behind them
Fall.
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Lorraine Turner calicohorses @lorraineturnerart.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
#Januarty #Artshare Day 12| pink I love experimenting with various fabrics, beads & threads. This textile illustration was created entirely by hand. I cut out tiny scraps & hand embroidered them into place. Please share. #fabriccollage #embroidery #birdart #flamingo @bsky.art #sewing #quilt #art
Pink flamingo fabric collage on a blue background. Pink threads and fabrics surround the art which is on a wooden embroidery hoop
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Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Beach cricket isn't for everyone
Icelandic icy black beach
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galaxylover.bsky.social @galaxylover.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The Milky Way in the skies of Western Australia photographed by Trevor Dobson🌌
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Gail Sanderson @gailsanderson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
8675309 So, it's taken a while, but Jenny has something to say. You go girl www.youtube.com/watch?v=qi2R...
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Jenny's Answer (867 5309) Music Video
YouTube video by Jenny Pruitt
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 03/01/2025
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2025. May the odds be ever in your favor.
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