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Benno @benno.au · 27/05/2025
Want to present at the nicest, funnest conference ever in the history of everything*? The PyCon AU 2025 call for proposals is open! Help us put on an amazing program! 2025.pycon.org.au/program/ * Apart from all the other really awesome ones, that is.
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
If you were going to put a biblical quote on a shirt, what would it be. Mark 10:25 is obvious. Mathew 10:35 reminds me of the letter from Birmingham jail.
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Cats of Yore @catsofyore.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Some kids made adoption signs to hang up around the shelter. Most of them were cute and sweet but I greatly enjoy this straight up threat.
Slightly misspelled sign written by a child in green marker that says “adopt me or else!” But else is spelled e l e s.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 26/05/2025
crabs in a bucket | patreon.com/lubchansky
PANEL 1:  MATTIE sitting on the floor in front of a bucket.
MATTIE: Man, I put all these crabs in this bucket to watch them fight to the top for my amusement…

PANEL 2: MATTIE peering in close to the bucket. One claw is raised, holding a little piece of paper folded over.
MATTIE: …But it looks like they all just started trading ZINES in there!
MATTIE: Kind of annoying.

PANEL 3: MATTIE grabs the zine.
MATTIE: Hm?

PANEL 4: Close up of the zine in MATTIE's hands. The title is STEVEN, THE CRAB DIRECTLY BELOW ME, IS A PIECE OF SHIT!
MATTIE: Haha okay this is pretty good
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MC Squared @mcsquared.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 26/05/2025
Well, shit, I wouldn't have made it into the University of Chicago under this policy, and considering that I became the editor of the school newspaper and then the student ombudsperson for the university, maybe that would have been their loss.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Kittens, as far as I can tell, contain explosive devices that launch them into the air seemingly randomly. Little paws flailing out in all directions. Launching multiple heights taller than them. Who hit the detonator on Trevor the kitten? Why is he attacking my shoe? We just don't know.
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Anyone want to find me other treatments that ~700 people a year get in the UK and many people can name that treatment.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
In fact, we may never know the origins of SARSCoV2, but the preponderance of the evidence suggests a natural origin. But the lab leak is now embraced by many in the mainstream media. Immerwahr gets on the bandwagon in this piece. 9/ www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covid
A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.
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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 26/05/2025
When our descendants unearth our devices and work out how to power them up, they're going to construct entire visions of how 21st-century humans lived in a world dominated by cats
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Some people do not fully recover from an acute viral infection and experience persistent symptoms or incomplete recovery for months or even years. This is not unique to the SARS-CoV-2 virus and history shows that post-viral conditions like post COVID-19 condition, referred to as LC, are not new 1/7
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
No, it is just another variant. We do not panic, just as we do not for variants and mutations in OC43, 229E, HKU.1, NL63, RSV, seasonalç Influenza strains, etc. These are panic accounts that spread fear for clicks.
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apheliotropism.bsky.social @apheliotropism.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
I've worked in the Australian health system, which is nowhere near as fucked & charity dependent as the US, but none of our major public hospitals would function without charitable giving. That is a *policy failure*. Public institutions shouldn't be dependent on individual whims & generosity.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 25/05/2025
The fact that we are debating things like 'is preventative dental care good' is a truly dismal state of affairs.
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I’m a dentist from India. The fluoride debate in the U.S. horrifies me
While debates in the U.S. rage about potential overexposure to fluoride, people worldwide still lack basic access to it.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Julión Álvarez was due to play at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, in the middle of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex, for a sold-out concert (50,000 tickets sold), cancelled because Trump revoked visas—he has now revoked 100s of visas of Mexican singers, actors, artists and politicians... just out of spite
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Mexican singer Julion Alvarez postpones Texas show after US visa allegedly revoked
Julión Álvarez said he had to cancel a show in Texas after his visa to enter the United States had been revoked.
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rahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
I spent 72 hours checking the posting times of every Gazan account I saw fundraising. More than 2/3 of them were inconsistent with Gaza but consistent with Myanmar or Cambodia, where hundreds of thousands of people are trafficked into doing scam work under threat of violence or death.
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Oliver Darkshire @deathbybadger.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
bringing my piss license to the portaloo having my groin card scanned by the wang bouncer going through the genome scanner to access the segregated wee stations all part of the extremely normal utopia we strive towards
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Just blocked somebody for antisemitism, which I hate. Being against the Israeli government's genocide against Palestinians is no excuse for it. Many Jewish people worldwide are working against the genocide.
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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 21/05/2025
New limited edition Clapton CFC trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt is available to pre-order now 🔥 All profits go to the Trans Legal Clinic ✊ The one-off window to buy closes on May 30 then they will be manufactured. www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/05/20/c...
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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I sneezed in a meeting with a government minister and something solid, wet, and chunky flew out my nose. I hadn't a clue where it went, spent 20mins in fear. Found it in my hair afterwards.
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Kant’s famous formulation of the Categorical Imperative: “Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law—except for the Federal Reserve.”
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Jefe de Máquinas @chiefofengines.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Ancient Irish proverb.
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
OK, but what does this say about Nutbush City Limits? Was that CIA?
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Col. Boozy Badger @boozybadger.lawyersandliquor.com · 24/05/2025
Next con I’m gonna have to room with someone who has an orange cat fursona so they can attack my feet and paw at my elbow at five in the goddamn morning so I don’t get homesick.
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Malkintrash @malkintrash.eurosky.social · 24/05/2025
Amazing work from the ship's crew here 🤗
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Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
A bunch of historically unassailable Labour councils are going to go Green and Number 10 is going to blink furiously.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 24/05/2025
causing diplomatic incidents and destroying US influence around the world to own the libs
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Remember boys, to avoid looking gay, open wide, really fucking wide, show me your tonsils boy.
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The era of slowly and painfully entering a 16 digit string to "load" your game. Using a Megadrive/Genesis controller.
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
The Israeli government is depraved. It's deliberately starving and murdering children. The world, and Australia, must make a stronger stand with sanctions. The people of Australia demand it.
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Anne M. Carpenter @catholickungfu.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
(singing) The tyranny of common sense, got me making such a mess! (the tyranny!) (of common sense!) Daily living blinds the shining light (shining liiiiight) of human intelligence! (tyranny!) (common sense!) (blinding shining liiiiight!) General bias, brave path of the everyday idiot!
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
The daily TISM? sweet, does this mean there will be a new album out.
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PyCon AU @pyconau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🔥 We’ve got something extra cool this year! Our Specialist Tracks at PyCon are here—and they’re: ✨ Education 🔬 Scientific Python 🤖 Data & AI We want YOU to be our speaker! 🎤 Apply now: pycon.org.au/program 🗓 Close Date: June 15 #PyConAU2025 #Data #AI #Education #Python
Education, Scientific Python, Data and AI, Apply to be our specialist tracks speaker https://2025.pycon.org.au/program
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Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"why doesn't Bluesky have its own Grok" well because the human users already bring up completely unrelated human rights atrocities in your mentions for no reason
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
He missed the deadline to submit a single form 10 years ago, amidst family grief when his wife suffered a stillbirth. He did nothing illegal. Paid his taxes, completed citizenship documentation. But once you activate a police state, they don't care about individual circumstances.
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
happy world goth day to those who celebrate 🖤
photo of various types of fishnets with the text "I don't care about your astrological sign. Where are you on the fishnet spectrum?"
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Rhys Pockett @rhyspockett.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Yes but also I suspect don't even know enough history to name some socialist crimes.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has demanded to know why school kids continued to get gunned down in America, and nothing is done about it.
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Ramaphosa Asks Trump Why Americans Slaughter School Kids and Nothing Happens — The Shovel
“We have thousands of stories talking about it, we have documentaries, we have news stories".
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 22/05/2025
I am delighted that among all the horrors that trend on this site, “World Goth Day” nevertheless made it on the list. You have all made Robert Smith very happy. Never change, Bluesky.
“World Goth Day” up there with plane crashes and shootings.
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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · 22/05/2025
Let the record show that my book WOLF WORM (coming next year!) was written BEFORE this all happened, so I’m not ambulance chasing, I’m just Cassandra.
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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 22/05/2025
re-upping this regarding the opsec and "upping the ante" factor of choosing to use cryptography for grey market or illicit transactions.
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PyCon AU @pyconau.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
🎤 CALL FOR PROPOSALS IS OPEN! Want to speak at PyCon? Now’s your chance! Submit your talk and share your knowledge with the Python community 💚 🗓 AoE: June 15 👉 Apply now: 2025.pycon.org.au/program Let your voice be heard! #PyConAU2025 #PyConAU #Python
PyConAU, BE OUR SPEAKER pycon.org.au/program apply before 15TH JUNE
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jj skolnik @supremenothing.myatproto.social · 22/05/2025
please, cis friends, call yr senators. this is very very important. 11th hr stuff
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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The US is a violent place with huge number of people on the margins. It's not surprising to see lone wolf attacks on Jewish figures/institutions, motivated, at least to some extent, by the cause of Palestine. The attack last night, and the arson attack on Josh Shapiro, are worrying examples. 1/
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