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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
the lower section of the mount ohlssen bagge hike, ikara - flinders ranges national park, south australia #photography #AustralianPhotographers #landscapephotography
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Happy Friday. Got this one from the back veranda.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
How do you get fired in this White House? Get caught pathetically trying to cadge money - and being a woman. Guilfoyle just didn't get it: All she had to do was stay under the radar. My latest: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
theatlantic.com
Kimberly Guilfoyle Broke Trump’s Most Important Rule
The president doesn’t seem to care about corruption; he cares about embarrassment.
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The Steady State @thesteadystate.org · 14/10/2026
Read his article here: buff.ly/W4Hlw8Q
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The Politics of Distrust
How disinformation turns Americans against the institutions that protect them.
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Emey the (redacted) @meyerson.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Don't spy on Palantir, that would violate their rights
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 14/10/2026
Mindless malice.
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Exclusive: pro-Israel extremists launch campaign to cancel Randa Abdel-Fattah from Adelaide Writers’ Week
Pen Power Australia’s AI-generated email campaign targets the Palestinian-Australian academic
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A splendid fairywren at Gluepot Reserve. Happy Wrensday Wednesday!
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026
I think it's important to interact with AI in a very carefully controlled way: specifically to understand exactly how toxic and terrible it is I only get it to return text in two conditions: (a) a topic I know well and (b) a question I **already answered**. You learn v quick how bad the answers are
newrepublic.com
Does Generative AI “Work”? That’s a Misleading Question.
Generative AI works a lot like fossil fuels “work”—narrowly, intermittently, and with a lot of nasty side effects.
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
cancer
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mr dog @firstdogonthemoon.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
The internet is too awful so... fax machines are back! Yeah! woo www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Is the internet finally unusable? Time to go back to faxes and landlines | First Dog on the Moon
We embraced the internet and then forgot how to do things in the real world
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John Sipher @johnsipher.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
“But there is a perfectly legitimate question about how long America’s democratic system can withstand a foreign policy that is wrecking the country’s international standing and damaging relations with its most important allies.” www.kyivpost.com/opinion/86928
kyivpost.com
Putin’s Protector in the White House
The world is astounded by how Trump’s worship of Putin has led him to renounce America’s noblest ideals.
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Another day of regent parrot nest checks - look at this gorgeous thing 🧡
Olive green parrot with a bright orange beak and big adorable eyes with a backdrop of the Murray river bank
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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Deloitte used automation for Australian grant contract worth $2.2M --why are we letting a consultancy clip ticket for something as simple as a portal for childcare providers to get grants? CPSU and Greens raise alarm about inappropriate outsourcing www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
politico.com
Deloitte used automation for Australian grant contract worth $2.2M
Greens and public sector union blast expensive outsourcing for ‘core work’ on childcare grants
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 13/10/2026
If you're head of the business lobby and you want the Labor Party to do something for you, simply text Anthony Albanese personally and he'll get onto it right away! 🫡
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026
who could have possibly predicted this
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Bill Bateman @acanthoplus.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Living his best life in the veggie patch
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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Day one of regent parrot nest checks! At Euston today and processed 9 nests worth of babies!! So adorable (plus we got branded work shirts now!)
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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
looking south towards the devil’s peak from a ridge above warren gorge, flinders ranges, south australia
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
'Anthropic is warning that some of its AI models could soon become “self-replicating” and find ways to infiltrate internet-connected devices, such as smart fridges and automatic vacuum cleaners.' Gosh, Anthropic. Maybe you should just stop making this crap then. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI in your oven? Anthropic warns models ‘months away’ from self-replication on smart devices
Researchers say ‘AI worms’ could soon infiltrate internet-connected devices amid calls for increased guardrails
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Willie wagtail. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.
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Dr Sally @drsally.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
What a great idea!
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Wanderfound @wanderfound.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Eastern barred bandicootery.
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Yesterday afternoon a beautiful one of those I had been admiring behind my screen door flew out when I opened the door and... straight into the beak of a resident maggie... Life...
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David C. Simon @davidcsimon.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
MOON MOTH!!! #invertebrates
Photo of a Southern Moon Moth (Dasypodia selenophora) on a bright red Callistemon flower. It is a large moth, dwarfing the Bogong Moths behind it. It has light brown wings with dark waves, and two large spots (one on each wing) which loosely resemble  a shining crescent moon with an orange outline in a black circle.Macro photo of the moth's wing focusing on one of the moon-like spots. Individual scales are discernible. While the iridescent blue/purple of the moon is obvious, there are also subtler "veins" of similar iridescence running perpendicular to the brown waves.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A lovely avenue of trees at the Adelaide Botanic Garden yesterday.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Great Gas Giveaway just hit $78billon. And look, tbf, the gas companies are doing it tough. The government choosing to not do a 25% tax on gas exports is only fair - not like there are any needs currently being unmet... health, education, care, poverty, disability... live.thepoint.com.au
Screenshot of The Aus Institute's Great Gas Giveaway tracker:

$78,001,671,884

Revenue missed by not implementing a 25% tax on gas exports
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Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Fascinating account showing how a false claim can become widely accepted (and propagated by multiple independent sources) as a result of a common academic shortcut: citing a source you haven't actually read after seeing it cited by another source: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Academic urban legends - Ole Bjørn Rekdal, 2014
Many of the messages presented in respectable scientific publications are, in fact, based on various forms of rumors. Some of these rumors appear so frequently,...
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Nick Raschke @nickraschke.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Good morning. One from last week, male Superb Fairy Wren.
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
morning mountain update: SNOW ⛄️
a photo of kunanyi/mt wellington in the background, she’s covered in snow with blue sky and clouds behind her. in the foreground are the buildings of west hobart
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Rosie de Difficult Kat 🌱🍉🍉 @rosiedekat.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Australia MIA yet again 🤬
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Hang it in the Louvre.
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bill doyle @billjondoyle.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
global day of action for palestine, tarntanya / adelaide, south australia #auspol #FreePalestine #Adelaide #GlobalDayForGaza
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Immediately after Ukraine took out two of the five data centers run by the Russian tech giant Yandex, pro-Trump and pro-MAGA posts on American social media sites plummeted. The same happened to posts boosting Germany's far-right AfD. Russia is engaged in MASSIVE election interference.
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A Russian asset. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Zelenskyy furious as Trump announces deal to buy Russian diesel
President says deal essential to lower US fuel prices but move set to create fresh crisis with Ukraine and Nato allies
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 10/10/2026
Oracle is sending 30 TRUCKS OF GAS A DAY to one of its data centres due to delayed gas pipeline 🩻 still waiting for AI to solve climate change🩻 www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hey guess what everybody? We’re doing a climate cartoon award again and we’re naming it in our dear, late friend Jon Kudelka’s honour!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI • AI •
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Ambassador Ken Fairfax (ret) @portlandken.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump: "Under my leadership, America is the most respected country on earth." EU Parliament: "Here's a token of our esteem."
Gold-gilt statue of an obese Trump holding a long golf club riding on the shoulders of an emaciated man.
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Sal Vadacchino 🇨🇦 @sal-vadacchino.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How Russia Won youtu.be/Et56Xw1m1qk
youtu.be
How Russia Won
YouTube video by To the Contrary With Charlie Sykes
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look dont be too hard as it's possible he had genuine beliefs back then and now his brain's been taken over by a minichip inserted into his ear canal by (CIA/Mossad/Aliens...?) that is putting thoughts in his head making him think he's thinking things he doesnt actually think but now thinks he does.
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Benedict #FBPE 🇬🇧 🇪🇺FBR💙 #NAFO #FELLAS @cosmogalaxy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🤣🤣🤣
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marsupial76.bsky.social @marsupial76.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Dead/gone. And in circs where the fates have given rise to too many septo/octogenarian psycho/socio paths in charge of things than bare chance accounts for, my ask is said fwit psychopaths be disappeared. All of them. Reckon as a species we'd get our act together & actually do Ok were that to happen
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Shooti @bambooshooti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#ResistanceRoots Henrietta Lacks died on this day in 1951 in Baltimore, Md. She only became well-known for what she contributed after her death. However, she deserves to be remembered as a beautiful young mother who was much more than her immortalized human cell line used in medical research. /1
Henrietta Lacks, ca. late 1940s. Lacks is the unwitting mother of modern medical research whose exploitation forced the world to reinvent medical ethics. As the source of the HeLa cell line, she unknowingly gave humanity its first “immortal” human cells, enabling medical advances that have touched millions of lives worldwide. The dark side of these medical breakthroughs is the stark reality of paternalistic, Jim Crow-era medicine, where a poor Black woman’s body could be harvested without her knowledge or informed consent. For decades, Henrietta was reduced to an anonymous laboratory code. Today, her descendants, artists and global communities have fought to ensure she is remembered as a person. Her final resting place is marked with a granite headstone honoring her not just as a medical miracle, but as a mother who loved to cook, wear bright red lipstick, and take care of her family.
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mariewalsh18.bsky.social @mariewalsh18.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Same here.
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Jon Hawke @archaeohawke.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#MosaicMonday The #Lion and stag mosaic from room 4, south west wing, Building XXI 2, Verulamium (late 2nd Century AD. Verulamium museum). #Archaeology #RomanBritain #artwork #art #History
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Andrea (I have friends everywhere) @ninedragons99.eurosky.social · 05/10/2026
Another #MosaicMonday. This is the changing room in the baths of Herculaneum.
Ancient changing room, around the walls are still benches and shelves for clothes, on the floor in the middle is a black and white mosaic with a triton and various sea creatures.
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Jim 🔥 @jim.chat · 05/10/2026
We used to worry about the Russians interfering in American (and British, European) elections... Now the Russians have captured the American administration they're firmly on the list of sketchy adversaries. Oh isn't the 21st century turning out to be a peach. 🤦‍♂️
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This is damning. www.science.org/content/arti...
science.org
How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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