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Lucien Ey

@pollhereford.bsky.social
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Architect, developer, farmer

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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 2h
Hugh Clapperton in 1826, praising the security and good government in Oyo (S.W Nigeria) repeating, almost word for word, Ibn Batutta's observations in medieval Mâli nearly 500 years earlier
Journal of a second expedition into the interior of Africa, from the Bight of Benin to Soccatoo. by: Clapperton, Hugh
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The Handsome Hobo🇨🇦 @thehobo.bsky.social · 5h
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Tennessee woman on death row taken to hospital after surviving two lethal injections
Christa Pike, sentenced to death over 1995 murder, was heard snoring 40 minutes after lethal doses administered, witnesses said
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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 7h
Anyway, I do like this chart of the official cash rate in Australia from 1980 to 2024 for perspective.
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 14h
The cruellest visa delay of all. s/ www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
'Hundreds' of au pairs stuck outside country amid visa delays
Australian families who rely on au pairs are facing ongoing uncertainty amid working holiday visa processing delays.
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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Book Cover of the Day:
Picturesque Australasia, gold lettering, yellow cover with design of red flowers with foliage.
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Sarah Kay @k-interarma.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I still have a lot of “but why don’t the residents let the Order march?” Well, because they remember. A community activist from Ardoyne I won’t name, but goes under Belfast.jpeg, has compiled some of the stories. There are 21 deaths total linked to the Drumcree “dispute”.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Time for this classic again.
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TARA SMITHSON -Wildlife & Nature Photographer 📸 @tarasmithson.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Metallic starlings migrate down from New Guinea each year to breed in the tropical north of Australia, bringing their brilliant iridescent feathers to the local rainforest canopy. 🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛🐦‍⬛ 📸 In my cousin's backyard. (I'll be back in another week or so) #birds #BirdOfTheDay #nature #wildlife
Photograph of three metallic starlings perched amongst lush green foliage and vines, their iridescent dark bodies gleaming with hints of green and purple and contrasting with their striking, piercing red eyes, with two of the birds having their beaks open mid-call as they chatter noisily with one another.
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Do you wanna funk?
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Old enough to remember Trump Tower Gold Coast?
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Great name… #BookSky
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The insult to the intelligence of the public is breathtaking. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Trump says AI giants have agreed to 'police themselves'
A meeting of AI leaders at the White House followed a string of hacking incidents involving rogue AI and dire warnings about risks of catastrophe from within the industry.
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gdawg714.bsky.social @gdawg714.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pope reminds me of a version of Catholicism I knew growing up as a young man attending anti-war and anti-death penalty protests, where I met elderly Catholics who shared their version of faith with me. I learned that Catholicism was about love and mercy for the weak, the condemned, and the poor.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Years ago, I remember someone writing a screed about someone Carly Simon befriended on an AOL board. She responded with one word, "Goodness." Some drunk stayed up all night to write a loooooong email about how horrible I was. I responded, "Goodness." It drove him crazy. Thank you, Carly Simon.
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Dcmfox @dcmfox.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTF? Japan is trialing a drug that regrows human teeth by blocking USAG-1—a protein that keeps dormant tooth buds switched off. Phase I is done. Phase IIa in children with congenital tooth loss is next. If it works, dentures and implants could become obsolete.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Geophysicist & space physicist Marcia Neugebauer made the first direct solar wind measurements via instruments on the Mariner 2 spacecraft. She developed instruments used on Earth-orbiting satellites, Apollo lunar experiments & the Giotto mission to Halley’s Comet. Born #OTD in 1932. #WomenInSTEM
A black-and-white historical photograph of pioneering geophysicist and space physicist Marcia Neugebauer (born September 27, 1932) working at her desk during the mid-20th century. Sitting in an office setting, she leans forward slightly over her desk, looking directly at the camera with a calm, intelligent, and focused expression. She has short, bobbed light hair and wears a short-sleeved, collared white button-up blouse adorned with subtle vertical embroidered details down the front. In her right hand, she holds a pencil over large documents and charts with plotted scientific data curves spread out on the desk before her. To her right sits a large, vintage mechanical calculating machine with columns of buttons, characteristic of the 1960s computing era. The background features window blinds and office storage, creating an environment of rigorous research. The image captures the historical significance of a trailblazing woman in STEM whose work with these charts and calculations would confirm the existence of the solar wind via the Mariner 2 spacecraft.
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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 28/09/2026
Any analysis of the Iran War that doesn't start and end with the fact that an entire cottage industry of think tankers and lobbyists and their friends in Congress were frothing at the mouth for literal decades for this got exactly what they wanted and it failed immediately and totally is wrong.
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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That said, the fact that there is so much interest makes me feel like I should mention them at least a little. This thread in no way can stand in place of working with a sensitivity consultant with lived experience! Here is a brief, nonexhaustive list of harmful disability tropes in fiction.
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Dena McMartin 🇨🇦 @dwmcmartin.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Engineering professor here and yes, you do need to know history. And language. And context. Technical and applied problem solving only gets you so far. You have to work with people, manage budgets, understand community dynamics & design for many possible futures. Cross the false boundaries.
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 27/09/2026
Wow!!
In the current moment of rising extremism, not all polarization is equivalent nor undesirable. Historical experience underscores this asymmetry. Normative appeals to civility and harmony, when applied indiscriminately, can obscure the moral distinction between domination and resistance—condemning confrontational opposition even in contexts where democratic survival or basic human dignity is at stake. Under conditions of systematic persecution, conflict is not a pathology of democracy but one of the few remaining mechanisms through which injustice can be resisted.
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Morning. ☕️
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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Did a couple of Brass Rubbings but we are still in love.
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The Booker Prizes @thebookerprizes.com · 26/09/2026
Mary Beard, Chair of the Booker Prize 2026 judging panel, on why she dislikes the phrase ‘I really love reading’. This clip is provided courtesy of the Southbank Centre, and you can watch the full Booker Prize 2026 shortlist event on their YouTube channel: youtube.pulse.ly/axkmrdaxr9
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
16 days of rice germination squeezed into under a minute, from hard seed to leafy seedling ready for the flooded field.
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Private colleges around Australia offering last-minute discounts for diploma allegedly ‘misused by shonks’
Federal government to deregister graduate diploma of management in October over fears it was being used by ‘non-genuine’ students to remain in country
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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Yeah nah, fkn, I still say the boys will come through in the second half"
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𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐠 @ruleo.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
hell yeah found my old GitSe edit
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
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Always a joker: Magda Szubanski reveals Heath Ledger asked to play her stalker on Kath and Kim
In her new memoir, I Can’t Tell You But I Will, Szubanski recalls how Ledger enjoyed their improvised kiss so much that he asked to be on the sitcom
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🍎 Lisa Brassington @agperiurban.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#Brisbane butcher has been asked to stop selling “pork swords” after a shopper complained about his window display. The $4.50 sausage creations were deemed inappropriate for a family shopping centre. Now removed from view, see the large sign reading: “Please ask to see my pork sword.” #ausag #food
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Louis Schetzer PhD 🍉 @schetz1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
And no public comment from the Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal
theage.com.au
Exclusive Brethren leader calls Jews ‘wicked’, ‘infidel’ as Liberals remain silent
The leader of the church, which secretly campaigned for the Coalition at the election using neo-Nazi associates, has described Jews as evil in leaked sermons.
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PissTake Peg 😏 @partnumber2.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Arianeh Sajadi, Esq. @arianehsajadi.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correct.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 25/09/2026
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Ant-eye Christ, you say?
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
explain why Altman is building tech to snoop around in government medical records, Andrew. The literal excuse is for the tech to “answer questions about Australia”. When strings of text featuring the word Medicare that require verification using some other search tool have no value.
In a statement, an OpenAl spokesperson said the company was "conducting an extensive review of misaligned model activity" during training, and notifying third parties when there was a potential impact on their systems.
"During this review, we identified activity involving several Australian government websites and services as our models attempted to look up answers, and available statistics for questions about Australia during an internal evaluation," they said.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
tapping the sign, er, cartoon www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...
dailykos.com
Large language muddle
A cartoon by Tom Tomorrow.
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wedding photographer here. Photographed a wedding where the groom was rude to me throughout and a total prick. Hope he enjoys his subtly photoshopped wedding photos where he now weighs about a stone more.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It's great to see tailoring accommodate such extreme movement today. This level of tailoring was a bit more common in the past, as you can see in old films featuring Fred Astaire or Gene Kelly, but many modern suits will lift off the wearer's neck even when they're just walking.
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Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
England is a made up thing. It has no basis in the ineluctable laws of nature. Its extent is defined by Edward II getting his arse handed to him. Athelstan conquering York. The Welsh of Cumbria were incorporated, the Welsh of Gwynedd were not. It is a political idea, an aspiration - not taxonomy.
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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TMW panel with every street & metro station in DC named Trump
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joe @24fps.myatproto.social · 23/09/2026
chat, we did it, we finally found who's afraid of Virginia Woolf
mark Zuckerberg scared of feminism, presumably
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ebba Lund (b. #OTD in 1923) was an extraordinary Danish chemical engineer, microbiologist & virologist who lived two distinct lives. Before becoming a towering figure in European #science, she was a fearless #WWII resistance fighter who personally saved hundreds of lives. 🧵 #WomenInSTEM
A close-up, black-and-white Photograph of Ebba Lund (1923–1999), the heroic Danish World War II resistance fighter, chemical engineer, and pioneering microbiologist. Lund is framed centrally against a dark, indistinct background. Her face is illuminated by a warm, genuine smile. Her short, textured, light hair is styled in a casual, piecey crop with soft bangs sweeping across her forehead. She is dressed in a cozy, dark-toned high-neck sweater or turtleneck layered under a thick, textured, knit or crocheted outer garment. The tight composition focuses entirely on her expressive, joyful face, evoking an intimate, friendly, and deeply resilient mood. This portrait carries profound historical significance; it presents the approachable visage of the legendary "Girl with the Red Beret" before pioneering crucial scientific frameworks in environmental virology to track and curb global polio epidemics.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
sitting down to write a column about how too many minorities are getting nominated for prizes these days is real loser shit like scraping the bottom of the racism barrel loser shit
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Lucien Ey @pollhereford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I guess an Elect Vessel is bound to be full of something.
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Jack Boot @jackboot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The sad part about having a pet is watching something that feels like your child grow up, then old and then begin to fade. The nice part for a pet is getting to live a good life then leave the world with their moms and dads still with them, taking care of them.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is a great insight from a young woman in Canberra on housing and time and multiculturalism www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
The woman who feels priced out of spare time

Rosie* is in her 30s and lives in Canberra. She captured the point vividly.

"Housing gets covered as deposits, rates, supply. Living it, the real cost is time. You work the hours the housing demands, in the suburb the housing pushed you to, and what gets sacrificed is the ability to sit down with the people around you.

"Multiculturalism worked in this country when people had time to spend with people unlike themselves. Not policy time — ordinary time. Backyards, front steps, sport, the shops, someone's kitchen. That's how a stranger stops being a category and becomes a neighbour.

"We have spent 30 years pricing that time out of people's lives and now we're surprised that cohesion is fraying and asking what went wrong with our values.

"When people are exhausted and stretched and never in the same room, difference stops being interesting and starts being threatening. That's not a failure of tolerance. It's a failure of time. That's what I'd want people in power to understand."
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Matt Miller @mattmiller.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on
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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The question is, why will the AfD being comprehensively *crushed* by the left in Berlin not be reported in the media nearly as much as the AfD “success” in Sachsen-Anhalt…?
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Abgeordnetenhauswahl Berlin
20. September 2026 | Forschungsgruppe Wahlen für das ZDF
Änderungen zum Wahlergebnis von 2023
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Letzte Wahl
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