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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

i am sooooooooo confused. Is it possible the 35% are actually, um, okay? Perfickly okay? Even, uh, helfee?

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Confused Math Lady Meme

ALT: Confused Math Lady Meme

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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Someone on the Today programme said that “China is flexing its muscles and threatening its neighbours like never before” and I think I am going to lie down for a bit in the woods.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ICAC dunno why, but the more this Maheswaran fella squints & frowns, the less convincing he is IMHO. he shoots quick glances to the Commissioner to see if Gleeson is watching, to see if Gleeson will be convinced by eye contact. Of course, tho, body language doesn't count in this forum...

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

#ICAC just sayin' - but - after this, after the final report, after everything has been gone through - in what universe, what state of Australia, what regulator's imagination, would this Mr Maheswaran retain a practising certificate as a lawyer? hmm, let's watch that space...

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

#ICAC Maheswaran appears to have misplaced his British accent over the weekend. These things happen...

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hard to understand the “shock”. Surely we reached that conclusion in 2017…?

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Guys, stay away from the cliffs - and quit with your vanity selfies. A 14-vehicle turnout.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#ICAC so this Maheswaran character is giving me big irrits. As my mum would say, a bit up himself...no? & why don't I believe him either? See, er, I don't get it. I must be a moron. Or it's a stream of slippery eels in this series of hearings.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

@callissclan.bsky.social meant to pass this on, with attention to Shayne. It’s fascinating - on meditation. It’s not anti-. It’s results of an unusual study. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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The Dark Side of Mindfulness

A prominent psychologist and meditation teacher set out to research the benefits of the practice. What she found alarmed her.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Look, just my opinion, but this Barnaby Joyce fella seems like a bit of a drop-kick... #730Report

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Defence officials today tried to prevent the sharing of public evidence on social media at a hearing into Defence land sales. The fact I am posting this should tell you how that went.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

“I’ve accepted where I lied and misled people. That does not make me to be a dishonest person,” Charles Perrottet said. #ICAC Ermmm - actually, Mr Perottet, it does. That is the definition. You deceived (deliberately, knowingly), you misled (deliberately, knowingly). You lied. QED: dishonest

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Of all the images of Nepal right now, this one stopped me cold. It's by Kate Geraghty of The Sydney Morning Herald, on the Trishuli River at Dhunche

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Remember - amidst all else in this modern world - there is still beauty.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#ICAC - I can see a difficult tax audit coming up for the Perottet family. And possibly a few others.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#ICAC fascinated how rich people structure their finances - just always, eternally fascinating.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"It is normal to dial up pressure by starting with economic sanctions before escalating to killing people. Everybody can see that Trump is doing it the other way round because killing has comprehensively failed." www.theage.com.au/business/the...

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Trump is clutching at straws and the world knows it

A desperate Donald Trump is searching for a way out of his pointless war and drawing out the agony for the US and the world.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"The [US] budget deficit was $US432 billion for the single month of July, up 48 per cent from the year before." www.theage.com.au/business/the... Soooo, IF (& I do mean 'if') you trust US govt data sources, here are the figs. Read & weep: fiscaldata.treasury.gov/static-data/...

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

what happened to #icac stream? anyone?

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

"Schlesinger (in 1973) closed with one more prediction, this one more right than wrong. “Around the year 2023,” he wrote, “the American people will be well advised to go on the alert and start nailing down everything in sight.” We can’t say we weren’t warned." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

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The Lesson Watergate Was Supposed to Teach

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. thought Nixon’s downfall would restrain presidents for generations. Instead, Watergate helped write the script for the scandals that followed.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

my skin creeps at what the next generation will discover: The Trump admin "announced that businesses formed in the US would no longer need to disclose their actual owners, and that nearly all the data already gathered on such companies would be destroyed." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

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A Green Light for Crooks

The Treasury has made the American economy a safe space for corruption.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Stefanovic: pure hubris. And Nine wonders how it created such a goon.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 28/05/2026

BREAKING: I'm suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to STOP the $1.8B slush fund. The Justice Department violated the Administrative Procedures Act when it established the fund, and it must be set aside. You can read my complaint here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/breaking-i...

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BREAKING: I’m Suing Todd Blanche and the DOJ to stop the $1.8B Slush Fund

In establishing the “anti-weaponization” fund, the government failed to follow the Administrative Procedures Act (APA), so I'm suing to set the fund aside.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

NewsCorp News.com proving its teeny minds have NO idea how oil price shock works.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Fascinating. The bastards who steal antiquities deserve life imprisonment, IMHO. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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The Tomb Raiders of the Upper East Side

Inside the Manhattan DA’s Antiquities Trafficking Unit

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Plumb bloody stupid "But our [Melbourne's] history with the humble noodle is actually less than 200 years old" Bugger me! Melb was founded 1834. Before that, it was First Nations. So, yep, no noodles. @theageaustralia.bsky.social showing gross naivety & ignorance. www.theage.com.au/goodfood/mel...

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A brief history of noodles in Melbourne (plus 11 top spots to slurp them)

Our nationʼs history with the long strips of dough is young and surprisingly vast.

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

On 26 Jan 1788 the British invaded lands of a couple of First Nations. There's over 300 Nations on this continent, so 100s of invasions occurred over many decades. There were Martu people in 1964 who'd never heard of white people. Invasion was not a single day. Colonisation is not a single event

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Hey @shaynecalliss.bsky.social FYI article below. Any time you've pix of them while roaming, I'm in- not a geek, but saw extraordinary ones in Sarawak in '94 while travelling with specialist from Bonn BotGardens- including sand orchids the size of newborn fingernails www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

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Native orchids captivate photographers in search of undiscovered bush treasure

Two centuries after orchids were first documented in South Australia, photographers are still discovering new plants.

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Michael Murphy @michaelmurphy.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

The change is coming, Melbourne. Geelong (red line) just dropped 13 degrees in 10 minutes.

Graph showing temperatures during the day in two locations, Melbourne corresponding to the blue line, and Geelong the red line.

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Shayne Calliss @shaynecalliss.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

How long since a human hand has picked up this rock? The area around here is full of sink holes and caves.

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Shayne Calliss @shaynecalliss.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

2 metres of sugar and potential seed

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

No hurry. My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Left side: Storm clouds, lightening, house on fire among trees also burning, “HELP” coming from house. To the right, David Littleproud, behind him a huge wave. He says: “No point in us doing anything until the rest of the world is on board.”

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Someone at The Age has had a long day …. Or some such sumfink, y’know.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

THE best piece I have read on this issue. Bang on. Every word. Kirk did not ‘debate’; he belittled, vilified, and based his opinions on vile moral prejudices. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan

In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous

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Shayne Calliss @shaynecalliss.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Before each full moon first it must get fully charged at one of its strategically placed docking stations

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Toby Nangle @tobyn.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Private Eye, 6-18 Sept edition

NUMBER CRUNCHING
"Yvette Cooper and Labour thought they could dump immigrants into communities and turn a blind eye... empty hotels are being filled overnight with young foreign men."
- Shadow home secretary Chris Philp, Daily Express, 20 August

56,042 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in September 2023, when Philp was a Home Office minister

32,059 Asylum seekers being housed in hotels in June 2025, the most recent month for which data is available

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Good god. Count the spelling mistakes. You might miss a couple at first blush…

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Even NewsCorp subs think some “news” is plain shit. I kid you not: you might never see that headline again.

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Dear Jeff Bezos …

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

JFC! See the Wall Street Journal - Boston Consulting was considered the elite of the elite in business and risk consulting. Its ‘aid’ involvement in Gaza and a plan to restructure Gaza are horrendous. See the questions to be asked - last line of the article.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

@shaynecalliss.bsky.social Thanks for putting me on to Jesse Welles. There is hope. Domestic Error and Red are on high rotation in my car - every word, every dripping sanction.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Tillis: What do I tell 663,000 people in two years, three years, when President Trump breaks his promise by pushing them off of medicaid because the funding's not there anymore, guys?

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 29/06/2025

"The whole thing is just a disgrace. A policy disgrace. A moral disgrace. Rural hospitals will close, and working-class people will die so that Trump’s golf buddies can get tax cuts of tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars." trib.al/bBYxuas

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How Can the Democrats Be Losing to These Cruel, Stupid, Inept People?

You may have noticed: While Republicans debate Medicaid and other cuts, there’s one aspect of Trump’s big ugly bill that absolutely cannot be discussed.

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Leonie Wood @leoniewood.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Lovely grad speech on the importance of doubt, how philosophy embeds the challenge of questioning, and what to do with all that. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Opinion | I just graduated with a philosophy degree. Here’s my message to the Class of 2025.

Why it’s better to doubt than to hold steadfast in a belief.

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