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What a day to be writing about 18th and 19th century views on public executions. Needless to say, 250 years ago, the same European thinkers that conservatives want us to read more of thought it was an archaic, barbaric, tyrannical practice that brutalized its spectators as much as its victims.

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And it was always time out to read. I had a machine in my first flat. Then I was gifted one. Am I getting old or is everything seeming more complicated and processes longer?

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Katherine Alejandra Cross @quinnae.com · 8h

This is a moral atrocity and it needs to be loudly condemned as such. There is a reason that democracies *don't* do publicly televised executions (and why many don't execute people at all): it inculcates and rewards bloodthirst, which corrupts the spirit and corrodes the foundation of the polity.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 5h

Since I was 18 (now 70) I have had an electric washing machine. The process is still the same. The tech has become so overly complicated that the machine has thinking time. It weighs and calculates with the cycle taking twice as long. Sigh.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 8h

Today is Octidi the 18th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate buckwheat. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Buckwheat.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 7h

9 October 1941 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Judit Erdos, was born in Miskolc. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

A vintage black and white photo of a young girl, smiling softly.

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Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social · 12h

Apparently it's #WorldOctopusDay! A jug with an octopus motif, dating ca 1200-1100 BC. On display at National Museum Copenhagen. A lovely weekend to all of you! 📷 me 🏺 #archaeology

A beige pottery with two handles and a narrow neck, decorated with intricate dark brown patterns depicting a stylized octopus. The vessel is displayed on a white pedestal in a museum setting.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 7h

What the hell is wrong with these people? Death as entertainment? Have they regressed to that point now?

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

8 October 1908 | A Polish Jew, Chaskiel Adamsbaum, was born in Warsaw. In #Auschwitz from 12 February 1942. No 21349 He perished in the camp on 7 March 1942. --- Online lesson about Jewish prisoners at KL Auschwitz: lekcja.auschwitz.org/29_zydzi_en

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Helios are especially good. Their despatch dept are brilliant.

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The French Republican Calendar @sansculottid.es · 06/10/2026

Today is Sextidi the 16th of Vendémiaire in the year 235. Vendémiaire is the month of vintage. Today we celebrate four o'clock flowers. #JacobinDay See today's page

An old time-y illustration of a Four o'clock flowers.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

7 October 1889 | A Czech Jewish woman, Anna Freundová, was born in Prague. She was deported to #Auschwitz from #Theresienstadt ghetto on 15 December 1943. She was registered in the family camp for Jews from #Theresienstadt. She did not survive.

Vintage sepia-toned photograph of a woman wearing a bowler hat and a tailored coat, standing among leafy bushes.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Onion stories could be seen as factual reporting when it comes to Trump.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 05/10/2026

With 3.5 million households experiencing food insecurity last year, food banks are struggling to meet demand, while some communities can’t even access them. trib.al/PpDrbYO

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The growth of food insecurity

With 3.5 million households experiencing food insecurity last year, food banks are struggling to meet demand, while some communities can’t even access them.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is one of those little pieces of information that just means nothing in the larger scheme of things, or the start of something world changing.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I have just been informed my two purchases have hit the country. British based publishers are lightening fast at getting book to the Antipodes.

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Age of Revolutions @ageofrevolutions.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What makes a hero on the turbulent frontiers of early North America? This new essay from Age of Revolutions explores the remarkable story of Lawrence the Mohawk, a Native American leader who navigated the complex world of the late 17th-century Iroquois frontier. ageofrevolutions.com/2026/10/05/l...

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Lawrence the Mohawk: A Native American Hero of the Late 17th Century Iroquois Frontier

By Samuel Marquis Like many important Indigenous American historical figures, the young war captain and statesman Lawrence the Mohawk was recognized in his own Age of Revolution for his leadership,…

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Never forget Churchill's tantrums about Curtin wanting to bring Australuan troops home to defend Australia. Then he tried to divert them to the Burma Front to protect India.

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Kevin Wilbraham @kpw1453.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The ‘rainbow arch’ and the remains of the 12th century church at Lindisfarne Priory on Holy Island in Northumberland. 📸 My own. #MedievalMonday #LindisfarnePriory #HolyIsland #Northumberland

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

How I have grown from 3 to 6 commander decks in 6 months is beyond me. I play primarily Friday Night. I will admit that the urge to create a deck of bunnies that reproduce themselves at terrifying speed was too good to pass up. I called it Mixxie.

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The cognitive dissonance and hypocrisy are staggering. This feels like cigarette producers touring oncology wards www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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Live: Albanese heads to pre-COP in Fiji, Tuvalu

Anthony Albanese will attend a pre-COP meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu today with Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen. Follow live.

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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

😂 Democracy, russian style. Communists in Moscow held an officially approved rally. Then they started chanting “Down with the Tsar!” And suddenly the “approved rally” wasn’t so approved anymore - police beat them and dispersed the crowd.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A big day in Australian culinary history. The anniversary of the first sale of a Chiko Roll by Francis McEnroe at the Wagga Wagga Agricultural Show - 4th Oct 1951. Talking Ag Shows Toodyay Show is on this coming Saturday.

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Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Mali's school year began on 1 October with more than 2,400 of the country's 11,860 schools, over 20%, closed due to worsening insecurity and expanding jihadist control....

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Mali: plus de 2400 écoles fermées pour la rentrée scolaire

Au Mali, ce jeudi 1er octobre est jour de rentrée scolaire alors que 2026-2027 a été décrétée « Année de l'éducation et de la culture » par le président de la Transition, le général Assimi Goïta. Pour...

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Defence Minister Richard Marles is oblivious to that which is obvious to everybody else: Britain cannot deliver our future #AUKUS subs on schedule (if at all). Luckily for Richard, it’s only our money and national security that’s at stake. #auspol

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Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule

Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...

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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

" Long ago, a Labor elder told me something that has remained in my mind. The mob, he said, expect “something more” from Labor – more than they expect from the Coalition." www.quarterlyessay.com.au/essay/2025/1...

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The Good Fight: What Does Labor Stand For?

In this subtle and brilliant essay, Kelly explores whether Labor is still up for the good fight.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 03/10/2026

Michele Bullock’s comment on unemployment is politically very significant, writes John Hewson. It broadens the potential impact of the inflation-fighting campaign to not only borrowers but also those who lose their jobs. trib.al/WG1lqFw

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Economic myth management

Does the Coalition really want to cut back on initiatives to ease the cost of living? This is a complex area with complex trade-offs that are hard to ‘explain’ to the public.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Our AUKUS partner with our “shared values” Our defence strategy is making us less safe.

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Dr Tom Horne @hornesupremacy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

⛪️ Lost Early Medieval Monastery Found on Scottish Island 📰 Dr Tom's Early Medieval Newsletter Read the paper in @antiquity.ac.uk from 10am, UK time! drtomhornearchaeology.substack.com/p/lost-early...

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Lost Early Medieval Monastery Found on Scottish Island

A community volunteer project has unearthed a high-status monastery on Lismore dating back to the 6th century AD

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The absurdity of this decision pretty well defines the US right now.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 01/10/2026

"An ambulance was seen arriving at the prison where Pike was to be executed and then leaving. Medical aid was being administered, according to online federal court records." The utter absurdity of the state trying twice to kill someone and then calling an ambulance. We must end the death penalty.

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Tennessee inmate still alive after being administered two lethal injections, her lawyer says

Christa Pike, 50, was 18 when she murdered a classmate. She would be the first woman the state has executed in more than 200 years.

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Rob Coughlan 🇦🇺🇺🇦🇲🇫🇪🇺🇱🇦🇬🇪 @landofrob.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I saw this chameleon today. Stunning hardly begins to describe this creature.

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