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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Stop the chop! Once destroyed, our Parklands will be changed forever and so will our heritage values.
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Possum o’clock.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nature is healing
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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
After processing the rest of my photos of this little guy I found one that I like even more. #birds
Photo of a small, round bird perched on a wooden fence post. It is black, light grey, and brown, with distinctive light blue feathers on its crown, cheeks, and the back of its neck. Its body is facing forward and slightly to the left of the viewer, but its head is turned upwards to the right, emphasising its round, black eye which his a highlight from the sun.
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well gotta hand it to the ol' AI: you can't blame it for not telling us like it is unless we FCKING WAKE UP:
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Look I know ABC is trying their best but if they can't grow up and stop reporting things as total babes in the woods in this day and age of false flags then they are unfortunately likely to be almost as instrumental in the destruction of everything as the perpetrators they parrot.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Huge Congrats to David Shoebridge, he brings the fire, the fury, and accountability our parliament needs right now. I think things are about to get a little bit wild. Parliament won't know what hit it.💥🔥 #auspol
Image showing Senator David Shoebridge in the Senate and text stating his new role of leader of The Greens.
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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
ancient dead white cypress pine ( Callitris glaucophylla ) on a ridge above the trezona campground, ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia #photography #AustralianPhotographers #LandscapePhotography
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Not everybody knows this, and everybody should. On Sept. 26, 1983, a Soviet nuclear warning system alerted Stanislav Yevgrafovich Petrov that the U.S. had launched a missile attack. He did not retaliate, preventing WWIII. This is a post about AI. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisl...
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Stanislav Petrov - Wikipedia
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Kill it with fire. garymarcus.substack.com/p/breaking-o...
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BREAKING: OpenAI’s epic meltdown — and how Sam Altman is blowing up Jensen Huang’s reputation
OpenAI’s software didn’t just attack HuggingFace.
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Barbara Kaskosz @kaskosz.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“In the Donald Trump White House, summits are hazardous excursions during which the interests of the United States are shoved aside by a president whose cringe-inducing admiration of dictators makes these meetings into rituals of American humiliation.”—Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social
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Trump Should Stop Hosting Summits
He’s turned them into a pointless ritual.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You’re right—that plane shouldn’t have gone there. That’s my fault, and I should have made sure there wasn’t a terminal in the landing path. Would you like me to call emergency services, or assist with lining up takeoffs?
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 21/09/2026
Executive Director of The Steady State, Steven Cash, breaks down NSPM-7, which he calls the scariest government document he's ever seen, and how it repurposes the intelligence community to treat Americans as potential domestic terrorists.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
@albomp.bsky.social’s government… “Let’s approve more coal and gas projects and use our oxymoronic safeguard mechanism to pretend it’s all sweet!” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Virginia Murdoch @virginia.alertbutnotalarmed.com · 20/09/2026
Ad I just got served on a Sydney Morning Herald article about the spate of family violence murders we’ve had this weekend. Well done, everybody.
Screen cap of an SMH article with an ad for a t-shirt printed with blood and the slogan “Problem solved”
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
"Tell me you were trained on blokes without telling me."... You ask ai a question and it inevitably provides partially fake info and everytime you call it out about that it promises to do better next time and never ever does. And yes, I had a query about a hot red thing on a log in my garden.
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I have no words to express how perfectly devastating this one panel from FDOM is. And no words to express how devastatingly perfect it is. Thank you for being you and wtf is wrong with our fellow citizens that this is where we are at since John fcking Howard made this a thing to be OK about.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Samuel Alito flew flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the Jan 6 plot. Both ruled in favor of Trump's mail-in ballot sabotage. I don't think I'll ever get over this.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 16/09/2026
The perfection of Ed Sheeran as a metaphor: white, bland, inoffensive neutrality, protesting that "I'm not complicit"...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Australian macro photographer Daniel Meier captured this video of a common blossom bat (Syconycteris australis) eating a meal of banana nectar/pollen. Although they're in the megabats (suborder Megachiroptera), they're tiny, just ~20 grams. Let's look at their tongues! (📷: lepilens on IG)
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If you really cared about the environment you would let animals take over your house! www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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More and more animals are moving into our homes as theirs get chopped down and dug up | First Dog on the Moon
The echidna in the pantry, the koala in the boudoir, the skink in the sink. All true!
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
third time trying to post this video lol my brain is mush
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Abdul El-Sayed on an RNC attendee yelling that he should be shot: "Look, I'm a dad with two daughters. And I hope those daughters get to grow up and live with their dad."
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Sarah E. Bond @sarahebond.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Since it is International Literacy Day, 📕 📚 here is an ostracon from Deir el-Gizaz showing a Coptic monk practicing the alphabet to write in ‘Bible Majuscule’ style script. (P. L. Bat. 25.11, 550-650 CE, image via the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University). sarahemilybond.com/2016/02/18/a...
Ostracon from Deir el-Gizaz showing a Coptic monk practicing the alphabet to write in ‘Bible Majuscule’ style script. (P. L. Bat. 25.11. Image via the Papyrological Institute at Leiden University).
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fabulous Ice Age spear thrower handle carved in the form of an animal. Known as the ‘Creeping Hyena’ it was carved from mammoth ivory around 15,000 years ago. The shaft is missing, but the hook to propel the spear is still visible. From La Madeleine rock shelter, France. 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an Upper Paleolithic spear-thrower (also known as an atlatl) carved in the form of a crouching animal, viewed in profile with head to left. Its head and neck are extended forward, low to the ground, and its legs are tucked beneath its body. It has a long downward curved tail, the pointed lower end of which ends beneath the body at lower right, forming the hook against which the tail end of the spear rests. The shaft of the spear thrower is missing. The ivory is a warm beige colour and is cracked with age in places. The sculpture is mounted on a thin metal support in a museum display case. It was found in La Madeleine rock shelter, Tursac, Dordogne, France. I saw this spear thrower on display at the Pompidou Centre, on loan from the National Prehistory Museum in Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...
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Dr Jo Ball @drjeball.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Three #Roman leather shoes, for (l-r) a man, woman, & child. Found in an ancient well at Bar Hill fort on the Antonine Wall (Scotland), they're beautifully crafted pieces of footwear, & show that the military communities had access to a bit of luxury even on the frontiers... #AncientBlueSky
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Olivier de Saint-Aubin du Pressoir @chrisoligh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Winged victory. Ancient Roman frescos from Pompeii in the 4th Pompeian style, Italy, 64 BC
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Europe can respond. In the Cold War Khrushchev said, “Berlin is the testicles of the West. Every time I want the West to scream, I squeeze on Berlin.” The place to squeeze now for Putin is Ukraine. For every Russian “hybrid” attack, send support to Ukraine. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/w...
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The Risk of Russian Sabotage in Europe: A Fight That Spirals Out of Control
Europe’s options are limited in responding to an unnerving series of plots and provocations. But the odds of unpredictable consequences are rising.
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
tawnys! at the dog park!
two tawny frogmouths are sitting in a tree, one on a branch above the other
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If this is not the time to talk about climate change then when is? If this is not the time to talk about climate change then when is? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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A glacier collapsed in Nepal but this is not the time to talk about climate change | First Dog on the Moon
It’s always thoughts and prayers and please don’t politicise this horrible disaster
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Finding sturt desert peas 😀
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've always thought that offsets are largely an accounting sham; as an ecologist they make little sense to me on a finite planet and where most habitats and ecosystems can't be recovered quickly. This video rams it home. National parks and koalas are not there to help polluters to keep polluting.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/09/2026
There’s a word for this… www.theguardian.com/world/2026/s...
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Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’
Defence minister says he believes US backing could tip regional balance in favour of forced resettlement
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
that feeling when once again you are left wondering whether the abc you thought you clicked on was in fact a spam site
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
this etc
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Also quote posting it just for shits and giggles
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Also quote posting it just for shits and giggles
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
one advantage humans have over ai is they dont have to pretend to be humans in order to manipulate humans
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
trying to screw the algorithm by blindly clicking on the "home" button in time to the earworm in my head and maybe that is all it would take for all of us to be better off?
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
All the schadenfreude in the world will not compensate for the world that could have been that we lost. Sadly. But I guess it is at least something you utter fecking useless so and so's
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
mindblowingly this:
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Mehdi Hasan to CBS, CBS News and Bari Weiss - "Do you think it's super offensive and disgusting and Islamophobic to do a tweet about the potential first ever Muslim Democratic senator which begins by referencing 9/11?"
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
For millenia women were kept at home and the pinnacle of human development was, well, the lightbulb and internal combustion engine. The 100 odd yrs since they've been allowed out we've had phenomenal technological advances. And the blokes' response? Wimmins too scary me need neonazism and tradwives.
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Linda @luvgoldnz.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Good Morning from Lake ONTARIO! 🇺🇸💙🇨🇦
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
I don't agree with some of the statements in this article. We could have developed a mammal vaccine (which has been trialled in Hawaiian monk seals) & implemented it for some species & locations. Surveillance is _not_ the most important thing to do; it's one of several things we can and should do.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Angus: He has said on multiple occasions that he thinks he should be able to arbitrarily move the border… That's the Great Lakes. So you arbitrarily move the border, that's an invasion.
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