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Cats, books, politics Ballarat, Wadda Wurrung land, Australia

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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I hope her first words on awakening were, “fuck you”.
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US death row inmate Christa Pike awake and speaking after failed execution
Experts and lawyers called the apparent recovery unprecedented, noting she is believed to be the only known person to survive a lethal injection.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 05/10/2026
Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon
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Is Anthony Albanese destined to be the most disappointing prime minister ever? | First Dog on the Moon
How could this happen? * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Flying is officially on course to account for *almost all* the UK's carbon dioxide emissions by 2050. Heathrow expansion alone would cause more carbon emissions by 2054 than *any other sector of the economy*. So why is it being contemplated? My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The expansion of Heathrow would be an expensive disaster for Britain and the world. Burnham needs to block it | George Monbiot
A third runway would fly in the face of reason. If we are to prioritise human life over short-term ‘growth’, we need to use planes less, not more, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@kentparkskeet.bsky.social I was looking for something and accidentally unfollowed you. Immediately rectified. Sorry! Clumsy fingers
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
youtu.be/GzG_4e8yGew?... #BuffySainteMarie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie - The War Racket
YouTube video by The Indie Folk Music Channel
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
An independent politician in the Northern Territory is taking on some of Australia’s biggest betting companies, after accusing the Albanese government of squandering its chance to tackle the powerful sector. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260921-n...
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This sounds bloody marvellous.
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'You're not to think you're anything special': Why Swedes hate standing out
Swedes prize equality, dislike boasting and often prefer to blend in. The century-old idea of Jantelagen helps explain why – and offers visitors a key to decoding Swedish culture.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@bylinebelife.bsky.social www.recipetineats.com/zucchini-sli...
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Zucchini Slice
The great Australian Zucchini Slice! High protein and veggie loaded made with eggs, grated zucchini, cheese and bacon. Totally delicious!
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 28/08/2026
Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died
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Dolly Parton’s sister reveals singer offered to test experimental cancer drugs before she died
‘My sister was always thinking of others,’ Parton’s younger sister Stella wrote in a Facebook tribute Dolly Parton’s younger sister Stella Parton has shared a moving tribute to the late country music singer on Thursday, revealing that Dolly offered to receive experimental cancer drugs “in the hope of helping others in the future” – an act of kindness and generosity that extended until the end of her life. “My sister was one of the most generous, thoughtful and kind people I’ve ever known,” Stella wrote in a tribute shared on Facebook on Thursday. “What the world saw is exactly who she was.” Continue reading...
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We loved you. Rest in peace Dolly Parton. 💔 youtu.be/5cyVdC8dXqE?...
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Dolly Parton - Here You Come Again (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Dolly Parton
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Bibi Andersson @bylinebelife.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
FYI TikTok har börjat med reklam för juldekorationer, juldryck och julinspirerade smycken. Idag dök de alla upp helt plötsligt. Kollar almanackan.. 24:e augusti.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
youtu.be/0PHhi-oilok?... #BuffySainteMarie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie | The War Racket | CBC Music Festival
YouTube video by CBC Music
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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Rest In Peace. Johnny Young. Ian
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Agri Ismaïl @agri.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Har gått på mässa www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/a/Exz...
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Vi är uppklädda kossor som gaslightas i realtid
AGRI ISMAÏL går på techmässa och ser AI-framtiden
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Mango sighting! Expensive and green (no, I didn't buy one) but light at the end of the tunnel
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
”Mer än 500 000 barn beräknas ha dött och både barnäktenskapen och våldet mot kvinnor har ökat.” www.dn.se/ledare/elon-...
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Ledare: Elon Musks facit hittills – 500 000 döda barn
Ett år efter nedläggningen av USAID är siffrorna brutala. Mer än 500 000 barn beräknas ha dött och både barnäktenskapen och våldet mot kvinnor har ökat.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
youtu.be/qvbaovnOYyg?... #BuffySainteMarie
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Buffy Sainte Marie - "Mister Can't You See"
YouTube video by NativeAmerican4Life
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
I never knew about chalking windows. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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Why the French are painting their windows with chalk to beat the heat
Europe is in the grip of a record-breaking heatwave. To help stay cool, people in France have been turning to an unusual solution – chalk. Here's the science behind the trend.
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
My latest article on trash talking - Pauline Hanson at the NPC @theshot.net.au "Pauline's moving into the second stage of her Sick & Tired Tour, riding the attention wave created by Satan’s greatest duo - commercial pollsters and the mainstream media." #auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Trash talking: Pauline at the Press Club - The Shot
Won’t somebody spare a thought for the new patron saint of the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson? She’s there to...
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
youtu.be/Y9a49oFalZE?...
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Sister Rosetta Tharpe- "Didn't It Rain?" Live 1964 (Reelin' In The Years Archive)
YouTube video by ReelinInTheYears66
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/06/2026
✍️ Add your name to the petition! ⤵️ gas-plebiscite.australiainstitute.org.au?utm_campaign...
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A National Plebiscite for a 25% Gas Export Tax
Voters across the political spectrum support a 25% tax on gas exports. So, let's put it to the people. Join the call for a national plebiscite and let Australians decide.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Soooo....has there been a recent spike in duck shooting? Or is Australia providing explosives to Israel to rain down on Gaza via the US and Singapore? Great scoop from @davemilbo.bsky.social for @theshot.net.au. This is why we need independent media. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Australia is manufacturing explosives for Israel’s atrocities - The Shot
Australia’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities has many ugly layers. It’s worse than the bomb release mechanism on the F-35 death...
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Svante Thunberg @svantethunberg.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
”Benjamin Netanyahu has said he has given orders to the Israeli army to seize control of 70% of the Gaza Strip.” ”Lets start with that” säger han vidare i samma samtal. ”We will deal with what is left.” Vågar vi hoppas på en notis i svensk media? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
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Netanyahu orders Israeli army to seize ‘70% of Gaza Strip’, violating ceasefire deal
Speaking in West Bank settlement, Israeli PM, who is fighting for political survival before elections, says ‘we are squeezing Hamas’
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
A group of Australian citizens were kidnapped on international waters and beaten on camera by their captors - Israel Jillian Segal, the most prominent Israel advocate in Australia, has so far said *nothing* about the welfare of her fellow Australian citizens, nor condemned Israel's brutal actions .
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Our ABC employing the terms “detained” and “intercepted” when accurate reporting would say kidnapped and hijacked or state sanctioned piracy, or blatant illegal fuckery.
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Israeli forces have detained 11 Australians after intercepting Gaza-bound flotilla
Israeli forces detain 11 Australians after its navy intercepts ships seeking to break Israel's maritime blockade of Gaza, flotilla organisers say.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
@booksandjohn.bsky.social Testing - can I DM you or is that blocked too?
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
So the University of Toronto awards degrees on the basis of ethnicity? Strip them of their university status #BuffySainteMarie
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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Live: NT Police find body believed to be missing 5yo Alice Springs girl
Northern Territory Police have found a body believed to be that of a missing five-year-old Alice Springs girl, five days after she disappeared from a town camp.
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Naseer Alkhouri @naseer.eu · 08/04/2026
Min son fick mig att lyssna på officiella VM-låten och jag måste dra er ner i fallet. youtu.be/n5LixsSFMTg?...
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Jelly Roll, Carín León, FIFA Sound - Lighter (FIFA World Cup 2026™) [Official Lyric Video]
YouTube video by FIFA
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Buffy Sainte-Marie - The War Racket youtu.be/GzG_4e8yGew?... #buffysaintemarie
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Buffy Sainte-Marie - The War Racket
YouTube video by The Indie Folk Music Channel
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
When your party is unsure if the Nazi sympathiser or the pedophile sympathiser is the best option, the shit is very deep indeed. #VicPol #AusPol
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19/03/2026
‘Eerily silent’: Cape York residents batten down the hatches ahead of Tropical Cyclone Narelle’s arrival
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‘Eerily silent’: Cape York residents batten down the hatches ahead of Tropical Cyclone Narelle’s arrival
Residents of Coen and surrounding towns in far north Queensland spent Thursday sandbagging, stockpiling food and preparing for power outages ahead of possible category 5 storm * Cyclone Narelle path tracker map * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast In some ways, it seemed a pleasant, wet season morning in the remote Aboriginal community of Coen in tropical far north Queensland on Thursday – and Sara Watkins was preparing for a sausage sizzle. “It’s a day that you’d spend going fishing,” she said. Continue reading...
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Cyclone Narelle sounds verrry scary. Good luck, everyone in FNQ
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@emgeekay.bsky.social youtube.com/watch?v=5c_U...
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Rebranding Scott Morrison
YouTube video by ABC iview
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Black swan crossing the road on a pedestrian crossing near Lake Wendouree, Ballarat
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 23/02/2026
A group of Hindu students were seen forming a human chain to protect Muslim students praying at India’s Lucknow University after authorities locked the campus mosque.
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Mary Grace Scary Face 🎃👻👹😈💀 @emgeekay.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
“…ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.” Do not travel to the USA! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
The protest in Ballarat was pretty well-attended by local standards. Local member Catherine King had locked her doors early for the occasion, as I noticed when I passed her office on the way to the protest. We marched there anyway, lights were on in the office but no response #Ballarat
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
the police presence at Town Hall is unfuckingbelievable. They are deep inside the station, stopping and searching people at the top of the stairs from the platform. Absolutely off the charts I have never seen anything like it and I have protested for over 40 years.
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
I don’t have a disorder, I’m just medieval.
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The forgotten medieval habit of 'two sleeps'
For millennia, people slept in two shifts – once in the evening, and once in the morning. But why? And how did the habit disappear?
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 03/02/2026
This is quite a yarn! Happy ending, too. It feels like those are rare in 2026.
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Boy swims four hours to shore to save family swept out to sea
A 13-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after swimming four hours through rough seas to get help for his mother and two siblings, who were swept out to sea on an inflatable paddleboard in WA's South ...
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
What has happened to Jane Barnes' account?
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 26/01/2026
It really is fucking unbelievable how big the evacuation zone is for the Otways fire is. For those not familiar with Victoria, the map below shows about a third (...?) of the Western Vic's whole coastline. The "evacuate immediately" region in the middle is about 60km x 40km. 😟
Bushfire map showing an enormous evacuation zone for the Otways fire, centred just above Cape Otway and with the "evacuate immediately" region extending almost to Lorne, the best part of 40km away.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@emgeekay.bsky.social www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
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High country landmarks wrapped in 'foil' as fire burns nearby
A number of historic landmarks across Victoria's east have been given protective cover in case a nearby bushfire breaks containment lines.
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Anyone know what this is? My mother has a plague of them (in #Ballarat) and they come into the house. She has quite a bad skin allergy happening, and we suspect this is the culprit
Photo of a caterpillar about 0.5 cm, slightly hairy, brownish in colour
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Margaret @marg-d.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
@emgeekay.bsky.social Your PM came across well at Davos. Hope he'll follow up
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
January 26th is not a date to celebrate and the majority of Australians agree.
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