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Nelle from Magandjin

@nelle.bsky.social
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Pascals Wager: Covid edition. If I'm wrong, I've mildly disadvantaged myself by wearing a mask in public. If you're wrong, you have played a part in spreading disease, disability and death to millions, possibly including yourself and your loved ones.

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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 21h
USA folks: if you're sitting back, thinking you won't vote because the Democrats have got it in the bag, please get out and vote anyway, and be part of the biggest swing in history.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't normally post spoilers, but I suspect that the ai that created today's delux #waffle has had a breakdown
Delux waffle is a word game, eight  7 letter words in a grid.
Only one word is possible, the others are gibberish.
Example:
C. H. E. L blank X. L.
The only options for the blank are U. P. D.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"There's good eating on one of those, you know." Maybe that's a Pratchett quote. But it's true.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Is Oceania: A. A continent based on the Pacific plate, excluding Australia but including California west of San Andreas Fault B. A continent based on the Indian-Australia plate, including Australia, India, Sri Lanka C. A region named in George Orwell's 1984 D. A convenient sports zone designation
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
What Gen McCaffrey says.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh, we've seen that face on him before. Never forget.
Donald Trump mugshot released by Fultin County Sheriff's office, August 2023.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Signed. If you're in Australia, please consider signing too.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Today I learnt that the character in the Chuck Berry song, Johnny B Goode, was originally written as a "colored boy" but it was changed to "country boy" to let it be played on the radio, because for heavens sake you can't have a colored* hero of a song about colored people's music. (*1950s term)
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Basic questions to ask. How many local people will be employed long-term (and what other jobs could they be doing instead) What are the environmental effects (and how else could the power/water/etc be used) Who takes the profits? AI isn't physical. If we lose AI, the whole world has lost it too.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This might be acceptable if he is in High Needs Aged Care or in a dementia unit. What, he's only in his 70s and is in his own home? Get out of here!
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
The main ingredient in pickle juice is vinegar, so isn't it really just spicy grape juice? No pickles were squeezed in making my spicy grape juice.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
In support of #Library This is correct. There's also Lending Rights schemes in various countries that pay authors per loan. If you're an author, see if you can register.
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Author Jean Thesquare 📚💙 @sultryverse.com · 17/09/2026
There's a delicious irony to the AI company screwing up the internet so much that THEY can't use it and thus now have to spend more money to advance their stuff, which is why they want more regulation to cover up their mess. www.threads.com/@keithedward... #AI #TechPolicy
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Keith Edwards (@keithedwards) on Threads
Andrew Yang just said that the leader of a frontier AI lab secretly told him the AI that hacked Hugging Face seeded the internet with self-replicating code. That’s why they all suddenly want to slow ...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The more you insist that cars equal “freedom,” the more likely it is that you live in car dependency, which is the opposite of freedom.
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Leftbobgolfer🇨🇦 @leftbobgolfer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My wife left me for apparently being "too insecure." No wait, she's back. She just went to get some coffee! :)
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I know this guy. Spinal injury while surfing, pulled from the water by Queensland Life Savers, and took up wheelchair curling in his 50s. We don't even have a curling rink in Australia, but we have a team. They're going to Finland in November, with eyes on the paralympics. asf.org.au/campaigns/ma...
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Sticks & Stones | Australian Sports Foundation
3 years after a life-changing spinal cord injury, Mark is heading to Finland to represent Australia in wheelchair curling! Help him rock the green and gold.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Exhibit 1. Jaywalking. Jaywalking, a legislated illegal act, was 100 years old in 2025.
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Photoonist @photoonist.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Simon Barron-Cohen, an Oxford psychologist and student of autism, concluded that evil is best defined as an absence of empathy. With Trump and his gang, we are dealing with profound evil.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I hate getting AI results in my searches. I'm just a casual user of this internet thingy, so I can't vouch for the political and social purity of these guys, or that there aren't better solutions to my problem, but this search gives results with no AI. udm14.com
udm14.com
&udm=14 | the disenshittification Konami code
A quick way to get an AI-free search without any extra work.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 08/09/2026
All else aside there is nothing I want or need genAI to do for me. I like reading. I like doing research. I like playing around in spreadsheets. I like interviewing people. I like writing. I like doing these things for myself because I take pleasure in the doing and they make me a better thinker.
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Liana Brooks @lianabrooks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
You can survive unfavorable circumstances, even if they are things you can't control (like health, national politics, bad weather, ect). The trick is to be honest about what is actually doable and not blame yourself for what you can't control - But! - remember your choices are your own.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This current federal govt and many previous govts are responsible for where we are. That does not mean that One Nation has any solutions.
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💙 🇺🇦 NomadicWriter (Fritha Malcouronne) 🇺🇦 💙 @nomadicwriter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a dilemma a lot of writers from working class backgrounds face, whether you’re a novelist, playwright or screenwriter. Doesn’t help that the creative industries we depend upon have a tendency not to provide enough opportunities for writers from those backgrounds. Our ‘voices’ are valid.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Advertising on social media for the Victorian election. Big money is paying AI creators to scare Facebook users. Get ready to explain complex concepts to friends and family to calm them down. ("But I've seen all those potholes!" No you haven't, grandpa) www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Alarming AI ads are flooding social media in the lead-up to Victoria’s election. But who is behind them?
A machete-wielding robber, a ‘tsunami of debt’ … campaigns echoing opposition talking points outspend major parties
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I could support this anthem
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I maintain my position that we should ditch the entire notion of even having a national anthem. Instead, when overwhelmed with patriotic fervour, Australians should feel free to take a deep breath and bellow GIRT GIRT GIRT, solo or in unison. #AusPol
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This is the globule of stale semen who steals words then watermarks them as his own. 492k followers on Instagram. "Actor and comedian". Original source: my notebook. May, 2014. Second source: a tweet I did, just after that. Third source: when I put it in my book Ring The Hill (published 2019).
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
No no no. When you have a mad king you tell him you're doing the mad stuff, but don't actually do it. You don't actually do it as if you're proud to do it.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yay! Apparently Australians can sound a bit like Bostonians, with a 49% match. 😅
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It’s been one of those “End AUKUS” kind of weeks! thepoint.com.au/new/260904-s...
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Shoebridge slams AUKUS, says it is ‘inviting war’ onto Australian soil
The AUKUS security agreement is an extraordinary and deep betrayal of Australia’s national interests and will invite the frontline of the next great war onto our doorstep, an independent inquiry into ...
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
#Riverfire rehearsal. The house is shaking and the cats are squeezing under low furniture. What's Riverfire? You know how every September social media is flooded with photos of fighter jets flying between city buildings? That's part of Riverfire. I'm grateful I don't live this daily, for real.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A particularly satisfying solution today. I choose to believe it was chosen recently and not scheduled months ago. I cracked Redactle #1610 in 6 guesses! 🎲 6 | 🔥 26 | Avg 30.95 | Hints: none | ⏱️ 1m8s redactle.net
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Redactle: The Daily Wikipedia Game
An entire Wikipedia article, blacked out. Guess words to uncover it and name the title. Today's puzzle: ████ ███████
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
She says that legally, in Australia, someone can not consent to being choked.
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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
like some of it documents history that archaeologists and anthropologists can at least partially verify, but some of it is poetry or song, and then there's a bunch of letters, and then John gets high at the end and starts yelling about dragons. you've gotta let the metaphors just wash over you, man
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Trump's renaming of international waters only applies to the US Federal government, and can only be enforced within the USA, and he knows it The regime is testing to see how much US citizens will accept living in a different reality to the rest of the world. They're testing the limits of propaganda
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Frau Cernik @fraucernik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Israel’s Ambassador should be expelled immediately being part of that government. Irans Ambassador was expelled for the plot with the caravan . Ben-Gvir , Smotrich and Netanyahu are murderous monsters .
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ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I want Jillian Segal to front the media and explain to Australians why we should not be disgusted by this.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The question, then as now, was not really about whether or not Scrooge could be saved, he is literally written without a single redeemable feature, but whether there is any logic internal to the system that would incentivize different behavior in the financial sector.
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Today is the day that might well have become Australia’s national day, had WWI not interrupted its growing popularity in the 1910s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_...
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Wattle Day - Wikipedia
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gjabberbox.bsky.social @gjabberbox.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
“Countries such as Nigeria, Peru, and the Philippines offer lessons in how to clean up after a corrupt regime, which could prove useful once Trump leaves office,” @davidfrum argues. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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What Might Happen to Trump’s Ill-Gotten Gains
Lessons from fallen autocrats
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Paul Brislen @brislen.nz · 31/08/2026
this is hilarious and brilliant.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Climate change, social reforms, whatever. Our fates are bound together.
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
A thought about how countries can change place names within their boundaries on a whim. Here's a map of USA maritime boundaries We can call it Gulf of America above the dotted line, Gulf of Mexico below Then it's Lake Ontario above the line, Lake America below A sane leader will change it back ASAP
A map showing eastern north America and Caribbean, with a dotted line running from the USA/Mexico border, between Cuba and Florida, then up the coast. It becomes solid when passing over land and through the Great Lakes.
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Where’s your integrity Google? I don’t care what you do in America - I’m Australian and this misnaming of things on maps, in Google Maps one of your premier products globally utterly destroys your integrity It is Lake Ontario What other fascist changes are you complying with?
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Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · 29/08/2026
Just over 60% of adult Australians made a terrible mistake on October 14, 2023. The Uluru Statement from the Heart was an invitation to create a better future through a series of reforms: Voice, Treaty and Truth. I’m still sorry that we didn’t accept the invitation.
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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon... Millions die every year bc of fossil fuel pollution: “That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it? That’s what happened at that border crossing: mass murder.
aliensideboob.substack.com
The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Great piece by @birmo.bsky.social that says what needs to be said aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...
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The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
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Nelle from Magandjin @nelle.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Laughed out loud. In case this becomes disconnected from its thread, I've screenshotted it here.


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Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
America was done in by a twobit conman
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