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HellOEarth

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Still sad that I didn’t grow to 5’7” so that I had the opportunity to join the Rockettes. Book trade chica. Trying to understand this world and how to make things better for people. Maybe making Kate Bush and Dolly Parton world leaders would work

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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 7h
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 15h
Lord only knows the damage that this will do for kids
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Texas as sci fi novel setting. On Amazon’s delivery drones “raining boxes” in a Dallas suburb: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/u...
Screenshot of text: "Before the drones arrived, Richardson was a suburb known as a hub for tech and telecom, and its residents were already living with technology’s intrusions. A massive new A.I. data center sits across the street from one neighborhood, and as recently as last month, 20 Flock cameras, which read license plates and track vehicles, were used at 14 major intersections.

But for those people living closest to the Amazon flight paths, the ever-droning deliveries pose the most serious threat to their private and peaceful life."
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 20h
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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Satellite images show Gaza in ruins three years into Israel's genocidal war
Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 16h
Did I ever tell you about being hit by a car
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 17h
Australia was there first. Shame on everyone
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 18h
Something that blows my mind - in the 80s we had “genres”, only we never called them that and certainly didn’t tell our customers. Some that I can remember: Lust and bust - Avon romance Hat Books - Barbara Taylor Bradford S&F - Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Shirley Conran
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Simon Jones @simonjones.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
The info panel has this hilarious artwork.
Info panel for Wideford Hill Chambered Cairn.
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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 19h
quick! Get yours free before 1 Oct. So, err, tomorrow!
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Damion Schubert @zenofdesign.com · 28/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20h
Knew it
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Australian Government gonna use AI to write legislation? Have some self-respect.
screenshot of a contract notice listed on AusTender that shows Office of Parliamentary Counsel paying $44,000 to Larrison Pty Ltd for "in-house Legislative Drafting Tool Proof of Concept"
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Moist
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
They don’t. Also they’ll never experience shoving a cabbage leaf in their bra because of mastitis
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_... The Battle of Holbeck Moor in 1936. Oswald Mosley (whose grandson runs Palantir UK) tried to start nazi shit in the Jewish quarter of Leeds. *30,000* antifascists showed up to tell him to eat shit and die, pelting him and his buddies with rocks til they fled.
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Battle of Holbeck Moor - Wikipedia
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Well at least we will always know Lachie Neal is a complete bastard
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m glad I only watch ch7 once a year, it’s very blonde
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not sure the footy is going to top Kylie today
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Sidney Phatberg Esq. @ernmalleyscat.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
joint norm smith to kylie and whoever produced that
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Mel Campbell @incrediblemelk.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Maybe this is well known and I just missed it, but TIL that the publisher WW Norton is wholly owned by its employees Its post-Nortonian presidents sound like minor Simpsons characters: Storer D. Lunt George Brockway Donald S. Lamm W. Drake McFeely Julia A. Reidhead
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
When I started working you could retire at 50 and get a pension. Now I’m expected to work for 50 years before I get to retire on a measly pension and with a super that because I’m a woman and had kids and took a break to raise them, is not nearly enough, because I’m now expected to live til I’m 90
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Imagine the thousands of years of storytellers, who created the stories, only to have them stolen for some chud’s stupid idea that 20 years ago they would’ve had self-published and spent the next 20 years trying to offload the stock in their garage
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 25/09/2026
poor fucker
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Andrew Hickey @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 24/09/2026
DVDs aren't low-tech. They're just things you can actually own, that won't disappear overnight, that don't require a monthly subscription, that won't suddenly get reedited, that won't start putting adverts in the middle and that won't sell your data to the worst people in the world.
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Dave Hall 🌻 @skwashd.wtf · 24/09/2026
Has anyone noticed that’s it’s no longer the sophisticated state actors doing all the hacking? It’s always AI. Maybe, just maybe, none of this was ever very hard. Could it be organisations have always been bad at security?
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Louie Stowell @louiestowell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And, as someone whose labour (all my books published pre 2021) was stolen, I took that personally
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Absolute nonsense
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Rates set to rise as RBA governor says 'heat' needs to be taken out of job market
All four major banks and the bulk of money market traders believe the Reserve Bank will raise interest rates next week and governor Michele Bullock did nothing to dissuade them during a speech in Sydn...
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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it’s worse than that. We just saw research (last week?) showing the increased mortality rate arising from poverty. What she’s advocating for will kill people.
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Stupidest administration ever. Also we need to fight for opt in
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Oh this is so sad. He drew a picture of my son as a baby
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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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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As social commentary his books are witty, vivid and accessible, providing the kind of nuggets that do well at dinner parties so long as nobody there is remotely impacted by the topic at hand
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I cannot tell you how quickly I ordered this
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Absolutely worth reading this conversation. My personal view is encourage kids to read widely, and trust that they will come to their own conclusions as they grow up (and especially when they reread books when they have more maturity)
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Honestly he’s like a kid playing with plastic soldiers. And then we’re going to go boom from the arch and then and then and then
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
This dance routine will always give me life! The first time I saw this movie was in the 80s. Regular customers of my bookshop told me they had a movie theatre in their garage
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Which means there’s about 30 years where people could’ve been lost. Why has no one reported this (heavy sarcasm font)
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Victorian Socialists knocked on my door today, & seriously props as I’ve not had any other political party knock on my door since I started living in Brunswick 10 years ago. Had a great convo especially about the travesty that is Labor’s public housing policy that is more about private investment
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Foreign interference using AI
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Dr Kat Day (she/her) 🌖 @chronicleflask.katday.com · 20/09/2026
e-books and audiobooks as well as physical copies. Whatever it is, it’s very, very bad.
Harper Collins has now confirmed that it has dropped Walliams's backlist, according to The Bookseller. The publication reported that the publisher will gradually phase out stock of Walliams's books in shops as well as e-book and audio versions available online.

The Independent has contacted Walliams and HarperCollins for comment.
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HellOEarth @helodare.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Has anyone been lost in the Bermuda Triangle lately?
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