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Joanna Mendelssohn

@oldlillipilli.bsky.social
1.1K followers 848 following 3.6K posts

First lived in Sydney’s inner west when it was called a “slum”. Writes about art, sometimes. Owned by 2 dogs. Strangers who dm me will be blocked

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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 16h
Strands #949 “A star is born” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 19h
No. I just assumed I’d fall for it
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20h
Connections Puzzle #1215 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 thought it might be a red herring – but it was blue
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 20h
Wordle 1,937 5/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟨 🟩⬜⬜🟩🟨 🟩⬜🟩🟩⬜ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 a delightful archaic word
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
www.smh.com.au/national/my-... About time! Finally someone stands up for the rich legacy of generous multicultural immigration & the way it continues to benefit Australia
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My grandfather built Myer from nothing. The bile of this debate harms all of us
By giving comfort to anti-immigration rhetoric we are turning our backs on a wealthy legacy of eminent Australians who have brought a tireless entrepreneurial energy.
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Strands #948 “Color for the cure” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1214 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wordle 1,936 3/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... This is being attacked by the usual (Newscorp) culprits as Soviet style communism, but it reminds me of the co-op I joined in Chicago in when on sabattical in 1999. The food was better, the prices lower + workshops for surrounding southside community #Co-ops
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Max Chandler-Mather pitches Mamdani-style $25bn plan to nationalise 200 Coles and Woolworths supermarkets
Former MP and Green Institute head says proposal for publicly owned supermarket chain will ease grocery prices
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
this time the spangram came last Strands #947 “Changing course” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🔵🟡
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1213 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Wordle 1,935 5/6* ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 almost a phewdle. I’d half-considered this word earlier but used another funky one instead
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The first word I fluked helped give it a shape. Then I remembered to think in US idiom
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strands #946 “Oh well, too bad, such a shame ” 🔵🟡🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1212 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Wordle 1,934 4/6* 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Peter Relph ᴀᴜ @peterrelph.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
If their "agents" are going rogue already, just imagine what they will be doing to the surviving humans in 100 years or so
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They've sold our faces. Big banks sell our biometric data to Israel tech firm Biocatch. Plus inflation, Shoebridge, false flags, Westpac, BHP, Firmus float and Apple #auspol #scamoftheweek youtu.be/hlurBUly0aQ?...
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Westpac's Palantir Deal, the Fairford Terror Panic and Shoebridge's Greens | Scam of the Week
YouTube video by The West Report
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I hope Bruce Baird is given a State Funeral. Howard, the grub, denied this talented honorable man a place in his cabinet, which was our nation’s loss #auspol
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Strands #945 “Grab your tokens” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵 took ages I had to remember my son’s childhood obsessions, but US is much more vanilla than the rest of the world
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1211 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Wordle 1,933 3/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 a good start on Daylight Savings Sunday
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
His name is “Ian Mollusk” & the #Phantom is on his trail
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Strands #944 “A figment of your imagination” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Wordle 1,932 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 a tricky word
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.
Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@julesbaird.bsky.social I’m so sorry to hear the news about your father. He was one of the good ones, who left the state of NSW in a far better way than he found it.
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
At last Elon Musk has achieved a genuine form of immortality – he’s been defined as a comic book villain www.phantomtrail.com/comics/phant...
“The Phantom stole my rocket!” image looking remarkably like Musk
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Strands #943 “On the sly ...” 🔵🔵🔵🔵 🟡🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Verily I say unto you; these be the rulers of our lands (and lives)
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Connections Puzzle #1209 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟩🟦🟦 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
one of my favourites, so seized on the chance to use it
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Wordle 1,931 3/6* ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Verily a word for our times!
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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 30/09/2026
From 2023 to 2026, Google Earth's updated satellite imagery shows what's left of Gaza. The images reflect what Human Rights Watch has already found: Israel has caused deliberate, widespread destruction throughout Gaza ⤵️
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Strands #942 “Things fall apart” 🔵🔵🟡🔵 🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1208 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wordle 1,930 4/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟩🟨🟨⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Not especially fond of this word
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1207 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟦🟦🟦🟦 I managed to skip the 007 trap
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,929 4/6* ⬜🟨🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 I thought of the right word for 3, but made the wrong choice
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
www.bbc.com/news/live/c6... This is starting to sound like an episode of #SlowHorses. I blame Lady Di
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RAF Fairford incident 'clearly involves' foreign actor, says US secretary of state
The secretary of state, who did not provide further details, was speaking to US media after five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences were released on bail.
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The last time he said “out of an abundance of caution” he’d give me a monitor for 3 days, I saw him a week later, in casualty, on my way to a pacemaker after a heart-stopping emergency
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This reminds me that I have my annual cardiology checkup next week Strands #940 “Have a heart” 🟡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
blue was a guess, purple definitely leftovers
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1206 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟨🟦🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟪🟪🟪🟪
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Wordle 1,928 4/6* 🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜🟨 🟩🟨🟩🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Strands #939 “A form of art” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵🔵
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Connections Puzzle #1205 🟪🟦🟪🟪 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 blue was definitely a “leftover” I tried for what I guessed was purple as it was going to be a word game
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I was surprise do get this in 4 Wordle 1,927 4/6* ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟩⬜🟩⬜ ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
To quote Mandy Rice Davies: “They would say that, wouldn’t they” #AI
Story in The Guardian claiming US AI CEOs say that Australians objecting to energy crunching AI data centres are just copying the US
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Joanna Mendelssohn @oldlillipilli.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
One interpretation of this is Mike Myers’ Dr Evil going “Oopsie!” the other is Dr Who’s Cybermen on the march. Neither is good for humanity #AI www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Heads of OpenAI and Anthropic called to face Senate inquiry after rogue agent incidents
Sam Altman and Dario Amodei have been invited to appear before the Greens-led inquiry into AI and datacentres
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