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@godfly.bsky.social
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Atheist; evolutionary geneticist; mocker of creationists and similar fools. 🇦🇺 Fifteen years old (on Bluesky, anyway). (@Godfly__ on the other platform, formerly known as Twitter)

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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good news. Well done them, for this victory. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... Of course, what this will really mean is that it will be built in someone else's backyard (maybe mine).
abc.net.au
Controversial Sydney data centre project pulled amid community anger
A controversial proposed data centre has been withdrawn by its developer after it became a flashpoint amid growing opposition to the AI infrastructure development across the country.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We do not need, or want, this shit. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Double the height, 160 times the voltage. The latest ugly side effect of the AI revolution
Electricity distributor Jemena has been replacing 7-metre wooden power poles with 15-metre industrial poles rated to carry up to 66,000 volts, but there's been one consistent complaint among the resid...
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
First published in 1976 former SA Premier Don Dunstan published a cookbook about the importance of food & drink in his political & private life that now provides an unexpected window into a conception of democratic socialism that has largely been disappeared from Australian politics...2/
johnmenadue.com
Don Dunstan’s cookbook and the lost ambition of social democracy
One hundred years ago Don Dunstan was born and 50 years ago, in October 1976, the then South Australian premier published a cookbook. It sounds like a charming eccentricity of the era. It was actually...
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Hmm ... Well, fair cop.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Watching it right now, on the telly (SBS). Very good ! 😀
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.
theintercept.com
DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.
In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam
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Imogen @imogenib.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
JobSeeker is confirmed as a causative factor in approximately 3,000 deaths/yr. People cannot survive abject poverty. There is no reason to kill people who we know due to inflation the RBA need unemployed. #auspol #RaiseTheRate @jimchalmers.bsky.social #PovertyKills podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/d...
podcasts.apple.com
A shocking number of Australians on Jobseeker are dying – it doesn’t have to be this way
Podcast Episode · Dollars & Sense · 17 September · 34min
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Yes - especially elon's, and for (what one might think to be) environmentalist causes.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I missed hearing about this one, at the time. This is a reference from the Wikipedia article that you gave a link to. Well done that man ! www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The romance of horses. 🐎 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Winx's $10m daughter starts breeding career, champion mare foals again
Champion racemare Winx welcomes a third healthy foal as her first, $10-million daughter Quinceanera, begins her breeding career this season.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... 😥
abc.net.au
Australian rock legend Angry Anderson dies, aged 79
The ARIA Hall of Fame inductee spent 50 years in the music industry and also became a television presenter and youth advocate.
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Lyle Lewis @race2extinct.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hunters have mistaken people for deer. Other hunters for deer. Cows for deer. Horses for elk. Moose for elk. And, apparently, a llama named Snicker Doodle Silk for a doe. Perhaps “be sure of your target” is not quite as self-explanatory as I had assumed.
nbcnews.com
Hunter charged with fatally shooting a woman he thought was a deer, police say
Walter Moorhead, 74, mistook a woman walking in a field with two children for a deer while he was hunting, according to the Delaware State Police.
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Eric 🇺🇦 🇨🇦 @itus.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
“America isn’t the way it is because Trump is President. Trump is President because America is the way it is.” - David Cochrane | Host CBC’s Power & Politics
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Helping the Terrorists to Win
A Quarter Century after 9/11
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... "Despite the theatrics, most of us are here for the right reasons," he said. "Politicians are unfairly maligned, and for me, politics is the work you do to improve people’s circumstances, not just now but in the future. ...
abc.net.au
Victorian Greens MP Tim Read dies aged 64
Health promotion campaigner and Victorian Greens MP Tim Read has died after a high-profile battle with cancer.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Mother charged over hidden recording device in son's clothing
A Gippsland mother has been charged by police after sewing a recording device into her non-verbal son's school clothes.
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Dr. Mar @boldnewme.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Putting your principles first.
In September 1964, the Beatles refused to play the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Florida, when they learned the crowd would be segregated.
The city backed down.
The show went ahead - integrated.
Bringing that up this week for no reason in particular...
Music has always
been bigger than just music.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09... A reader, who themself has a few miles on the clock, may notice (as I did) that the words "stationwagon" and "ute" refer to quite different kinds of vehicles, than these words did 40 or 50 years ago.
abc.net.au
Researchers who analysed 10,000 crashes say car size does matter
A study of 13 years of crashes in Australia finds a link between car height and risk of pedestrian death, particularly for women and children.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
They'll be out, before in they're as old as the bloke they killed. Little bastards. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Teens charged with murder over Sydney shooting 'lured by the thrill'
Two boys, aged 14 and 16, are charged with murder over the alleged mistaken-identity shooting of a university student in Sydney's south-west.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
abc.net.au
Tiny cells and creatures dazzle in microscopic video competition
Stunning scenes of the world through microscopes have been put on display by the Nikon Small World In Motion competition winners.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
'Strewth, Bruce ! Stone the bloody crows ! www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Foreign YouTuber fakes Australian accent with AI to promote One Nation
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals exactly how a YouTube political commentator from overseas is using AI to pretend to be Australian and promote One Nation to thousands of people.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
"Staunch" means "put a plug in it", as I understand the word. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Car insurance is evil - and has been, long before AI. (so are debt collectors) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Suncorp's debt collector engaging in 'worst kind' of bullying, former ACCC chair says
Insurance giant Suncorp's debt collector spent months using AI to harass an 81-year-old woman into paying a claim she was not responsible for.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Thank you Senator Shoebridge, for taking up this issue ! As I see it, it is the moral equivalent - or a lot worse - of a student using ChatGPT to write their essay, or to take their exam. Big, big shame job, Sydney University and UNSW. 😡
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
ABC 7:30 report right now - property developers & politicians. 💞
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
After skipping the NYC 9/11 service because they wouldn’t let him give a partisan political speech, and falling asleep again in the middle of the day at the Pentagon ceremony, Trump will be in Ireland this weekend promoting his own golf resort at our expense.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Interesting bit of history, that I hadn't known before now: news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/...
news.bbc.co.uk
BBC NEWS | Europe | Paris liberation made 'whites only'
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
"In the absence of a moratorium on building and approving new data centres, then these rules must be retrospective because otherwise they're worthless." (Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Bigger and hungrier: What we know about 25 proposed new data centres
Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government's proposed restrictions around energy and water use because the new rules are not expected to be retro...
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
First home buyer scores historic cottage despite $60,000 higher bid
In a red-hot property market where cash is usually king, Karli Bryant was outbid by $60,000 on a 116-year-old railway cottage. Then the owner read her letter.
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GasMaNZ: Fully Accredited & Bored Certified Boring Old Fart. 🇳🇿 @gasmanz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Perfect!
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
There's money in antimoney. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Price booms for little-known critical mineral needed for solar panels
Antimony production resumes at a Northern Tablelands mine site after more than a decade of the facility sitting idle.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
There have been so many impeachable offenses, but lying about how you were a hero on a day that 2,753 people died in NYC in the 9/11 disaster—when you were on the other side of town, safely calling local media to brag about how you now had the tallest downtown building—is such a despicable one
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A closer look at a Sturt desert pea (Swainsona formosa) flower. It is the floral emblem of the state of South Australia and a dramatic pop of colour out in the desert.
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com
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Massimo (mirror) @rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Possibly the most incredible Beethoven Ode to Joy flashmob by the Philharmonic Orchestra of Nuremberg and the Hans-Sachs-Choir in front of the St. Lorenz Church in Nuremberg, Germany. [📹 Evenord-Bank eG-KG] Original post
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Like Healthcare, Maybe........?
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Pacific Observation Post @carldownunder.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Go you good thang!
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
A little bit - just the right amount - of (obvious) pseudoscience, is not necessarily a bad thing. It can have a "vaccinating" effect, on the public perception of medical treatment, and help promote the right balance between trust and caution. 😐
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Spotted this at an op shop just now.
Urn, with label
"Funary urn, never used, empty - with satin bag"
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Three years in a Chinese jail changed Cheng Lei. So has freedom
Finally free after 1,154 days in a Chinese prison, wrongfully accused of spilling state secrets, Australian journalist Cheng Lei was overjoyed to see her children again. But back home freedom brought ...
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Twitter Exile @twitter-exile.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
@davidshoebridge.bsky.social : #Coles just dropped #Palantir after 85000 Australians signed a petition & years of community organising to demand they cut ties. This was pure people power! If we can force a $40 billion supermarket to back down, imagine what we can do to the rest of big tech #AUSPOL
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"A Bill that strips 240k disabled Australians from a scheme they depend on, gives automated decision-making powers to a computer program, & removes the right of appeal passed both houses of Parliament last week. 28 yes. 12 no. 36 did not vote. Every one of those 36 is paid by Australian taxpayers."
michaelwest.com.au
Robodebt encore? Palantir lurks as MPs shirk vote, NDIS Bill passes - Michael West
Politicians went AWOL from Parliament by the dozen on the NDIS vote amid denials about automation and Palantir's role. Is this Robobdebt II?
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Gladys forgives man who burnt her husband and sons, even as he may walk free
The murder of Graham Staines and his two young sons — burnt alive in their car — made headlines around the world. Now the man who did it may walk free.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Two corellas cohabiting in a cosy hollow of a gum tree.
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Kathy Mortensen 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇦🇺🇸 💙 @kathyswords.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Good morning. Amidst the intentional chaos, find joy today! It's there. #Blues #ProudBlue
A yellow tintedbackground.  A handdrawn stick figure chasing yellowflowers
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Horrible story. 🤬 I knew someone who was flying from Australia to Mexico (this was nearly 40 years ago). He had to change planes at LAX. They (US immigration - although he was just transitting) didn't like the look of him (he was 1/16th part Aboriginal). Sent him straight back here.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Second case of mistaken identity killing in two days ! Fucking idiots ! Have they no pride ? www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Police investigating if fatal Sydney shooting a case of mistaken identity
Police say it is "tragically" possible that a man who was shot dead on a Western Sydney street was another case of mistaken identity.
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Godfly @godfly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Bastards, bastards, bastards. 🤬
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