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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9h

The Department of Homeland Security is celebrating that for the first time in ~50 years, more people left America than moved here. These people are so stupid and so racist they don’t realize they are scoring own goals

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

My daughter is only 3 and currently strutting around the backyard, dancing and singing her new song, "I can't feel bad for my heart." 🥹

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Just went for my first run in months. Okay more of a walk, and it's been like 5 months, but I got out there! 💪🏼 I'm turning this ship around, folks!

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Spring is here in Melbourne, so now I really know what allergies feel like 😭

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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just loved this story by Gregory Barber about an incredible math partnership between a famous retired geometer and the 15yo girl who independently decided to team up with her, eventually solving an unsolved proof

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Better a rich pirate than a useless envoy... though these may actually be synonymous.

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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

When i read that piece of sci-fi writing about models going rogue (and speaking to each other in English and expressing emotions lol) I smelled bullshit. Happy to see Timnit Gebru post this corrective: mail.cyberneticforests.com/models-dont-...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

Models Don't Go Rogue

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack. Embedded below or find it o...

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

OMG there is a huge heavy metal choir performing and my daughter is enraptured 🤩🤩

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

We're at the spring festival at our local Gasworks turned arts centre, got soaked in a downpour, but then a huge double rainbow appeared followed by a couple dozen gothic cheerleaders. Ducked in a theatre, the floor was covered in flour and a few kids with Fender guitars are setting up on stage.

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kottke.org @kottke.org · 25/08/2026

In lieu of flowers, Dolly Parton’s family is asking for donations to her Imagination Library, which has distributed over 330 million books to kids. [imaginationlibrary.com]

imaginationlibrary.com

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Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library is a book gifting program that mails free books to children from birth until they begin school in participating areas.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 23/08/2026

me every day reading the news, honestly

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

(1) There are more great books out there than you can read in any single human lifetime, and more are published every year. Every bad book you force yourself to finish is a great one you never get to. And maybe two, since I read a lot slower when I’m not enjoying it.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I started reading Catch-22 last night because I've heard it's a ridiculous and well-written book. (And I've been having a ridiculous and poorly written year, so hey, my writers are apparently still on strike.) Oh my stars how have I not read this before? 🤩📖

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orbette @orbette.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Well this seems interesting and unsurprising archive.ph/vB0BP

Then there is the claim that ADHD is a social construct, not a neurodevelopmental condition. This is something Pemberton concludes after talking to neuroscientist Katya Rubia at King’s College London. Rubia says that while there is evidence of differences between the brains of people with ADHD and neurotypical people at the group level, it isn’t possible to diagnose ADHD from a brain scan.
She is right, of course. You can’t diagnose ADHD from brain scans. The same can be said for most, if not all, psychiatric and neurodevelopmental conditions. Most of these, like ADHD, are diagnosed by assessing symptoms and the effect they have on a person’s everyday ability to function. “My interview was hours long and they cherry-picked the bits that suited their push for presenting ADHD as a myth,” Rubia told New Scientist. “Biased programs like this one that push their view of ADHD as a mythical entity are irresponsible and will have detrimental effects.”

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

not to be that parent/person but sometimes I remember feeling tired from my full-time job, which took place in an office, with other adults, and I laugh

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

The USAID thing will eventually be talked about like a genocide

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Had a dream I was sitting on my old stoop in Brooklyn, it was really hot out, and I was eating a Marino's Italian ice. Now I can't stop thinking about how the bottom of those things were the absolute best.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

My fellow Americans, if you'd like a head scratching laugh, I present this bizarre piece about the former head of the Aus Liberal Party (the more conservative one here because 🙃) who's apparently found the real USA. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

abc.net.au

'Incredible disconnection': What Sussan Ley saw in the US shocked her

Sussan Ley left Australia after being ousted as Coalition leader. Her trip to the US saw her find an enhanced pride in the success of Australian multiculturalism.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I spent 6 years living in a small rainforest town regional NSW, where the only other American I met invited me over for coffee, told me how the world 😉 really worked, and bragged about his important work for the Children's Defense Fund.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Woke up early, caught up on emails, including one to register for a WHO epidemiology session on El Nino and climate change mitigation, then thought I'd check in here... and ouch, what a public health kick in the guts, America. 💉💔

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

The combined MMR vaccine, developed by Dr. Maurice Hilleman in 1971, “is more convenient for patients, and this convenience actually saves lives. Fewer injections translate as fewer missed doses, and therefore more protection in a shorter time. The MMR vaccine has saved millions of lives worldwide.”

si.edu

Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Vaccines | Smithsonian Institution

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

It says the author lives in France but I deeply suspect he's any one of the Australians I've met 😏: Use the term “Yanks” for some additional cred. Better still, explain that “American” designates any citizen of one of the many nations across two continents.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

anytime I wonder, "what's going on with all the AI stuff now?" I encounter a headline like, "Bending Spoons is acquiring Airtable," and I feel like I've fallen into a Borges story

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I used to tell people all the time, "no one moves to New York for the weather" because of how crazy hot and cold it gets there (plus the obvious), but Melbourne...? C'mon, dude.

Melbourne 7 day forecast: endless rain, endless rain ☔️

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Yesterday was a no childcare day. I took my kid to an arts play event I kept seeing promoted online, it was a total dud (no educators, crates of random crap on a lawn in front of a cafe🤷🏼‍♀️). I was in full-on mom mode all day long. Fell into bed, wrecked.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I guess I just prefer to read news based on facts not the supposed daydreams of any government official, American or otherwise.

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Josh Chafetz @joshchafetz.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

as if millions of statisticians suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

is there a term for when you've typed/written/looked at a word so much that you no longer think you know the correct spelling of it? my current suspect is "species"

screenshot from vscode showing basic setup of a "SpeciesPage()" in typescript. the word "species" appears 3 times and I'm pretty sure it's not a real word anymore.

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 04/08/2026

Good morning. Anxious about that big presentation today? Just remember: somewhere, someone confidently presented a map that relocated multiple African countries at a major international health conference. You'll be fine.

theguardian.com

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Every so often I forget this song exists, then I stumble upon it randomly and it's such a gift. It's one of my favourite songs of all time. Whoever wired up my brain was maybe a bit eclectic 🤷🏼‍♀️ music.youtube.com/watch?v=i546...

music.youtube.com

This Year

YouTube video by The Mountain Goats - Topic

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

#til about thunderstorm asthma events. which have killed people. where I live.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Everyone who's suffered from allergies to the point of it being painful to spend time outside: now I understand. All I had to do was move to Melbourne 🤧😓😵‍💫🫩

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

A lot can and should be said about US immigration, but one miniscule thing: applying for my daughter's citizenship was pretty painless and cheap. I was genuinely surprised.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Almost done with this CRBA application (making my daughter an American), I had to look up when I moved to London, first match: my dear old dog's pet cargo ticket on Virgin Atlantic 😢 I still miss Conor Dogberst 💔🐶

My old bestest mate ever, Conor Dogberst, pictured somewhere in NSW with his favourite thing in the world: a tennis ball.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I swear I used to swoon over a truly immersive, impressive data visualisation/explainer website dedicated to... what was it, LOTR? years ago. Totally blanking on it. It had character profiles, relationships, history, maps... and *poof* anyone? bueller?

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

After seeing the Guardian's splendid depiction of deaths in the odyssey (www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...) I thought: what if I could plot various hero's journeys in fiction? very basic and early-as first draft, but this is fun! dorothys-dangerous-journey.vercel.app

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One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey

Would you rather be eaten by a Cyclops or fall off a roof and break your neck? Here’s how the plucky adventurers perish during the course of the story

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!

Barack Obama's 2026 Summer Reading List:

Kin by Tayari Jones
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
A World Appears by Michael Pollan
Whistler by Ann Patchett
This Land is Your Land by Beverly Gage
Vigil by George Saunders
One Sun Only by Camille Bordas
Seek Immediate Shelter by Vincent Yu
Data Empire by Roopika Risam
Transcription by Ben Lerner
Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Despite living in Prospect Park-adjacent Brooklyn for the majority of my teenage and adult life in NYC, I never stumbled upon Chester Court. Now I've become fascinated with it. hdc.org/buildings/ch...

hdc.org

Chester Court Historic District | HDC

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Man, I better get offline before I read more bad news. A nightly mantra, sigh. Good night 😔

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Glen Hansard wrote a song inspired by Egon Schiele, one of my favourite painters, which made me just adore him more. Santa Maria is on the great frames album For the Birds, which is definitely getting played in my house tomorrow.

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

💔 I loved The Frames, this is tragic. RIP🙏🏼

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Spending this rainy day revamping my own website - somehow had the blessed combination of a little time and no sick child 🥳 I have something sketched out that I like, but will I get the typescript done before pick-up hour? Stay tuned 😬

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Jacqui Lough @jacquilough.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Looking back on 2022, with the rise of generative AI and the demise of Twitter 💔, I'm glad that's when I had a baby and became overwhelmed with keeping a tiny human alive instead.

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