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Simon Chapman AO

@simonchapman.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof. Public Health Former Australian Skeptic/Year. Author, blogger. Bovine excrement detective. EV driver, doting 5x grandpa, Sydney Swans tragic. simonchapman6.com/about

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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Pure evil. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Texas Republican called for public execution of Democratic leaders – report
Bo French, who is running to lead a state agency, has in the past posted controversial and racist statements online
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hearing that tests on Oz illegal cigs have found #pesticide residue -- news to break NewsCorp soon. Guessing they did not test those nice clean chemical free legal cigs as well ... www.tobaccoinaustralia.org.au/chapter-12-t...
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12.3 Chemicals and contaminants in tobacco products - Tobacco in Australia
Many people who use tobacco products may be surprised to learn that they contain thousands of chemicals. The processing of tobacco plants and manufacture of cigarettes and other tobacco products involves multiple steps in which chemicals are added or formed anew in chemical reactions. Raw tobacco plants themselves contain naturally occurring chemicals, some of which are highly toxic. The tobacco products made from these plants contains thousands of natural and synthetic chemicals, many of which are toxic and are known causes of cancer and other diseases.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm always amazed at those who unhestitatingly use "woke" as a self-evident shorthand for everything wrong in their world. The opposite of being woke is being asleep: suckered, ignorant, gullible, non-sceptical. Curious why those us who are woke haven't embraced "asleep" as the obvious retort.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Watching #AFLGradFinal at Cradle Mountain Tas. Ads on @7Sport for small businesses in Mt Isa, Port Lincoln SA, Roma Qld, Katherine NT. How do they explain such "reach" to the advertisers who would be paying top $?
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Be still my beating heart! I posted a clip of Mick moving on stage in response to one of Trump doing his daggy dad dancing in front of his zombies. And look what I got!
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Political psychiatrists now analysing the Liberals' collective death wish as they elect "vote losing machine" Alex Antic as SA state president www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Alex Antic’s rise in SA Liberals has coincided with a collapse in the party’s vote. Is there further to fall?
Election of rightwing senator – once called a ‘vote-losing machine’ – as state president in South Australia takes party further from the centre
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If only the Australian media had a blueprint for what could happen if the banning of journalists is normalised...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
NSW Opposition leader Kellie Sloane claims farmers and sporting shooters "not the problem" with guns. Let's look at that argument ... simonchapman6.com/2026/09/21/n...
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NSW Opposition leader Kellie Sloane claims “farmers and sporting shooters” not risks for committing gun violence.
Cartoon: Lindsay Foyle NSW Opposition leader, Kellie Sloane was on the news hustings over the weekend explaining why her party has backtracked and changed its full support for the Labor government’…
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pharmacies stock narcotics; bottle shops expensive taxed alcohol; gun shops, firearms. None of these are (yet) being firebombed/extorted by criminal gangs.There must be critical lessons in the governance of these by regulatory agencies for the tobacco shop firebombing problem.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Thinking Trisha's credibility might now be a little thin ...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NSW Coalition wilting on support for Minns' gun buyback after rural pressure. Buyback all about reducing likelihood of massacres. Here's list of 5+ gun fatalities. ALL hitherto "law abiding". Why assume no farmers at risk here? www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's often observed that people can look like their dogs. So too can people come to look like their vile beliefs and values. David Rowe's recent portrait of Pauline Hanson
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
In 50 years of a public health career, trolling and abuse is part of the landscape. Here's a case study of one serial pest who steps over the mark simonchapman6.com/2026/09/17/d...
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Dealing with a serial defamatory vaping advocate
The roll call of groups promoting vaping in Australia which have slipped quietly into oblivion is impressive. We’ve seen Legalise Vaping Australia, the Australian Tobacco Harm Reduction ive Public …
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The full box & dice of the Trump dynasty's corruption www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlYf...
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THE VIDEO TRUMP WANTS TO BAN: Lowkey Exposes The Trump Crime Family
YouTube video by Double Down News
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Study finds NZ MPs ignorant about their obligations to protect protect policy from BigTobacco interference. www.scimex.org/newsfeed/nz-... Here's how we try to do it in Australia, although some Coalition MPs ignore it www.health.gov.au/resources/pu... @predwards.bsky.social @janethoek.bsky.social
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EXPERT REACTION: NZ falls short on protections against tobacco industr
EXPERT REACTION: NZ falls short on protections against tobacco industry lobbying NZ has failed to fully implement World Health Organisation treaty safeguards designed to keep tobacco
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Check this US Neanderthal's take on the Welcome to Country speech before last week's NFL game in Melbourne: "gibberish" www.foxnews.com/outkick-spor...
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NFL allows stolen land acknowledgement disguised as a welcoming ceremony before Australia game
Aunty Joy Murphy Wandin's leaf ritual and 60,000-year indigenous stolen land acknowledgement preceded the NFL's first Melbourne game at the MCG.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Well before RUOK day was thought of, AA Milne on how we can all look out for those who may be lonely. We all know Eyores
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Richard Edwards @predwards.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Philip Morris International's data reveal it is dismally failing to 'unsmoke the world'. Decline in shipments of smoked tobacco products was minimal from 2020-2025 & key target missed by a wide margin. @janethoek.bsky.social @bmjtobacco-control.bsky.social tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/toba...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I've finally joined Linked In. Finding they have very narrow limits on those you can follow (1-200/week). But unlimited ability for me to follow those who first follow me. Please do & I'll follow back www.linkedin.com/in/simon-cha...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
One of the very unfortunate legacies of Trump loathing may be that many will feel it fine to mock and ridicule those with dementia and the overweight. Trump has given license to open season on this. His awfulness gives us so many targets without resorting to these simonchapman6.com/2026/08/20/d...
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Demented, incontinent, fat, orange and balding: should there be limits on attacks on the vile Trump?
With Trump’s peerless history of lies, convicted sexual assault, impeachments, war mongering, racism, mocking the disabled, galactic self-absorption and self-aggrandisement,  wrecking the Amer…
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Amid the gloom about illegal tobacco, always remember these two graphs that stamp tobacco control in Australia as the poster child of chronic disease control. We may be near to seeing smoking all but vanish in kids simonchapman6.com/2026/07/17/a...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Imbecile Trump appoints a pastor with no public health experience as advisor on tobacco to CDC. God save us. www.generationsanstabac.org/en/actualite...
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Trump nomme un pasteur inexpérimenté en santé comme conseiller sur le tabac auprès des CDC
Donald Trump a annoncé la nomination du pasteur Darrell Scott, allié politique de longue date sans expérience en santé publique, comme conseiller sur les questions de santé liées au tabac auprès du co...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Thankfully Australian neo-Nazis are not very good at politics. This will be a kiss of death for Hanson.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Self portraits by grandson's 4yo preschool mates. I could look at these fr ages. Really fascinating the range of self images. As a 40yr teacher, my wife often talks at length about how wonderful it is to be with little kids all day long as they express themselves & play. @cathywilcox.bsky.social
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
In 2024, the @pharmacyguildqld.bsky.social warned selling vapes risked making pharmacies crime targets, despite long stocking many drugs sold by drug dealers. 2 years years on, no vape related incidents. Can we expect a more positive embrace from Guild leadership? www.guild.org.au/news-events/...
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Weighing up the insurance risks
From 1 October 2024, community pharmacies in Australia will have the option to sell nicotine-containing vapes to adults without a doctor’s prescription. These regulatory changes bring significant risk...
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts suggested the September 11 terror attack was a hoax” One Nation is a hoax of a political party. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Embattled One Nation senator raises 9/11 conspiracy theory in resurfaced podcast
Malcolm Roberts has turned into an ongoing headache for Pauline Hanson, who has herself questioned the Port Arthur massacre in 2019.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“Australia remains the only wealthy country that still clears native forests for agriculture, and the extent of the clearing is even greater than the amount of land cleared in Indonesia for palm oil, said the lead author of the study, Nathaniel Pelle.”
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Prof Deborah Lupton, MPH PhD @dalupton.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Latest PISA results show a direct correlation between students using GenAI for learning science and failing to learn science #sociology #education
Graph of PISA results
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Excellent podcast by @australia.theguardian.com's @henrybelot.bsky.social on the illicit tobacco "cut the tax" political brain farts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Why the tobacco tax is lighting up Australian politics - podcast
With the potential for tobacco tax reform on the table, Matilda Boseley speaks to senior reporter Henry Belot about why the tobacco lobby are keen to influence debate
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Albanese has hon membership of Marrickville Golf Club. So how often does he go there & does he get free drinks, meals? Likely absolutely trivial benefit if yes. Anyone who signs into a licensed club as a non-member is effectively an honorary member each time they are there. Do we all declare that?
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Trump posted over 100 times over the long weekend, including AI slop videos touting his supposed greatness, proposing to rename New Mexico, and a map claiming the entire Western Hemisphere as the U.S. Has he lost his mind for good?
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Has Donald Trump Finally Lost It?
Donald Trump’s mental decline has gotten worse.Why is the media only barely starting to report on it?And why won’t they
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Little Marco & all the other Trump lickspittles. This is SO good. youtu.be/E-L-pSbtUcs?...
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"Little Marco" (Sitcom Edition) (from the record "MAGA Country")
YouTube video by MAGA Country
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The "cut the tobacco tax" cult feeding the One Nation & Coalition's commercially illiterate Tweedle Dum & Dumber policies like to quote a 35yo story of Canada. Well, that one just went full belly-up with a detailed paper by 2 Canadians. ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Rigobert Starr Bamundele (aka Rigo Starr) was a Congolese guitarist (1955-2023). He performed with musicians like Papa Wemba, Koffi Olomide, Mbilia Bel, Madilu System. I saw him back Mbilia Bel at Birkenhead Tavern,Sydney in the early 90s.Here's what he could do www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rJf...
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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
THIS.IS.BRILLIANT. Should be released on streaming platforms. Will go wild globally x.com/joncoopertwe...
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Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 (@joncoopertweets) on X
👀 MUST WATCH: This video is so well done — and absolutely hilarious! 🤣🤣
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
One Nation has banned the ABC .. so what was the squirming, dissolute Barnaby Joyce doing on ABC-730 last night?
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I've always loved the late David Hockney's art (major exhibition now on in Australia) but the heavy smoker dumped hard on plain tobacco packing in 2012 & I returned serve. www.theguardian.com/society/2012...
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Letters: David Hockney should stick to painting
Letters: He apparently cannot see past his own longevity as evidence that the case against smoking is exaggerated
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Coalition & One Nation want to put #vapes well beyond pharmacies. UK does just that. Does it end illegal vape trade? Naaahh www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Inside the crackdown on illegal vapes in north-west England
More than 30 stores have been closed over their links to the sale of illegal vapes and cigarettes.
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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#Anonymous (@TheStripesGirl) on X
#Anonymous (@TheStripesGirl) on X
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
I couldn't have put it better myself
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Serial political loser Matt Canavan says the tobacco tax issue is "one of the greatest policy failures in history" not mentioning that smoking rates are now the lowest EVER recorded. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Get a grip Matt
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Big tobacco is back in town as cigarette tax fight lights up Australian politics
The industry has been pushing for cuts to excise for decades. With the explosion in illegal cigarette sales, those calls have grown louder
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
What exactly is the argument that we need to open up sales of vapes to help smokers quit when they are available now cheap in every high suburb & town, vaping use is flat and smoking has fallen to lowest ever level? See simonchapman6.com/2026/07/03/v...
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Vaping theology 27: “Vapes are 100% more effective than nicotine replacement therapy”: where do such comparisons come from and how do they conceal far more than they reveal?
Vaping hyperbole maestro Prof David Nutt The two giant pillars underpinning vaping advocacy are that (1) vapes are essentially all but as safe as breathing clean air and that (2) vaping is now fina…
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Enough sawdust between her ears to bed an elephant
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Anyone else find the incessant pronunciation of auction as "awrk-shon" on Antiques Roadshow really grating when we in Ors-stray-liah pronounce it "ox-shon"?
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Marshall Peron pioneered voluntary assisted dying in the NT in the 1990s, only to be rolled by the Christian right in Canberra. But now it has finally passed legislation. All Australian gvts now have it as law. legislation.nt.gov.au/LegislationP...
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Northern Territory Legislation
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Smart and sane response by @publichealthaus.bsky.social to the inane, staggering commercial illiteracy & simplistic ignorance of the global dynamics of illegal tobacco trade by Coalition & One Nation www.phaa.net.au/Web/News/Med...
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Coalition walks away after decades of bipartisanship in tobacco control policy
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Australia's Liberals reach into their hairy-chested lucky dip & pick a magic big number excise reduction that will ruin illegal tobacco trade. Except it will do nothing. Zero modelling simonchapman6.com/2026/08/26/l...
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Lowering tobacco tax for dummies
One Nation is throwing election promises around like a drunken sailor. It says it will reduce tobacco excise by 75% to make legal, taxed cigarettes competitive with cheap illegal tobacco. Not to be…
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Only 5.6% (1.3m) of Australians now smoke daily. The die-hards still at it often insist it's "pleasurable". But what is the root of the pleasure? And do our 5.4m 18yrs+ ex-smokers & 15.9m never-smokers now have no pleasure in their lives? From 2016: theconversation.com/on-the-pleas...
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
One of life's mysteries .... why has KD Lang never released this amazing 1999 song digitally? www.youtube.com/watch?v=djKh...
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k.d. lang - Anywhere But Here
YouTube video by langsense
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Simon Chapman AO @simonchapman.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The government's pathetic reforms of gambling advertising is like the owners of the the White Star Line insisting they had diligently removed all the splinters from the Titanic's handrails @docsamantha.bsky.social @davidpocock.bsky.social @allegraspender.bsky.social @mon4kooyong.bsky.social
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