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Syd McGraw

@surreallamb.bsky.social
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She/Her. It/Its. They/Them. 18+. Stolen Wiradjuri/Barkindji Sistergirl living on stolen Dharug & Dharawal country. Holistic Anarchist. Storyteller. Storymaker. Storyenjoyer. Hot Dumb Weirdo. Occasionally horny, angry, and sad. Rarely at the same time.

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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Australia is so different than America, like down here people with conservative views are called liberals so if an American liberal ever moved to Australia you would still call them a liberal
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 01/02/2026
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what was I made for? @jjbbllkk.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Ok this rules: unstream.stream Looking for a way to support a musician directly? Like a way to buy their music or kofi or patreon or anything other than streaming? This app someone made shows places you can do that. Search for an artist, find their platforms, give them love. Really dig this.
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Peggy Sanders @peggysanders.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
John Menadue: “Charles was a very active participant in the dismissal of Gough Whitlam 50 years ago. Don’t make any mistake about that. Charles was up to his royal ears in it. He was not politically neutral. He sided with privilege and aristocracy.” johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
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The Prince and the Dismissal
Anthony Albanese recently told us with bated breath from Balmoral Castle that Charles is someone who is very interested in Australia”. “Interested “would be an understatement.
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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London
Sumo wrestlers enjoying StonehengeSumo wrestlers having fun posing with StonehengeSumo wrestlers having fun posing with StonehengeSumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road
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Danielle Froom 🏳️‍🌈 @danifroom.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Stop whatever you're doing and look at this new picture of Gillian Anderson
Gillian Anderson reclined extremely confidently and dare I say sapphically on a black armchair, wearing black trousers and a red turtleneck. I'm sweating, I can't breathe, someone kill me.
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
I really hate that there are people in my life whomst I love (both online and irl) that I have been unintentionally neglecting because of other people in my life whomst I also love (for better and worse)
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Tilmon Edwards (Dirigo) @tilmonedwards.com · 05/05/2023
I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 24/09/2025
i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't
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feral streep @feralstreeep.bsky.social · 10/08/2024
there’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS “…And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.” from the documentary “Elizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.”
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
“Get Smart” premieres 60 years ago tonight, on NBC. “I was sick of looking at all those nice, sensible situation comedies,” Mel Brooks said. “They were such distortions of life. .. No one had ever done a show about an idiot before. I decided to be the first.”
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Dr Lindsey Fitzharris @drlindseyfitz.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
This is wild! Worth the read 👇 "Olo is not a shade of blue, red, or green — not even a mix of colors we already know. Olo exists completely outside the visible spectrum as we experience it." www.scientificamerican.com/article/rese...
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Only Five People Have Seen This New Impossible Color
Researchers discover a new color outside the range of human color vision, but you have to laser your retinas to see it
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eric @hiver.bsky.social · 01/07/2024
STUDY DATE, a short little comic about a werewolf and her crush (1/2)
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Charles Barouch @hdwp.com · 04/08/2025
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 16/06/2025
Poorer and rural Australians are sicker, yet they get less healthcare. It’s a broken system | Peter Breadon and Elizabeth Baldwin
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Poorer and rural Australians are sicker, yet they get less healthcare. It’s a broken system | Peter Breadon and Elizabeth Baldwin
The unfair gaps in access to healthcare in Australia are deep and longstanding, but they’re not inevitable When it comes to health, Australia is an unfair country. Poorer Australians die about 7.5 years earlier than the wealthiest, and spend more years living with chronic disease. People from some communities, such as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, face an even higher risk of illness. Continue reading...
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Ocean Keltoi @oceankeltoi.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
When a Christian quotes the Bible at me, I’m not sure what its supposed to do. Thats not my religion. Like congrats the book you like says a thing you like. Happy for you ig
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Far be it from me to be topical, here's my love letter to The Last of Us Part 2 (2 weeks after the second season ended but shush, for me that's quick lol) write.as/surreallamb/...
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It Took Me 4 Years to Finish The Last of Us Part II.
It was a hard and gruelling process that dug up so many feelings and traumas I thought were well-buried and settled. It was uncomfortable and I had to drag myself kicking and screaming m...
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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I really loved Star Wars Andor's finale, but I really have an issue with its final treatment of Bix, and I've been trying to articulate it for my video essay - but I'm curious about people's thoughts.
Bix’s entire character is reduced to getting pregnant off-screen, embodying this idyllic image of femininity—standing in an Elysian field that Cassian is denied because he followed his “destiny.” It frames his death in Rogue One as even more tragic, as if his sacrifice meant forfeiting the supposed reward of a heterosexual family in a pastoral paradise—the kind of idealized life that patriarchal culture so often glorifies. Thus, Bix’s pregnancy isn’t portrayed as a symbol of her survival or agency; it’s reduced to a vehicle for continuing Cassian’s biological lineage—a consolation prize meant to reassure the audience with, well, at least his legacy lives on through a child. It reinforces the idea that worth and legacy are only truly meaningful when tied to heterosexual, biological reproduction. And the fandom latched onto it, already eagerly theorizing about how Cassian’s kid might show up in the upcoming Star Wars: Starfighter movie or whatever spin-off Disney drums up next. It’s emblematic of how deeply Star Wars—and broader culture—fetishizes biological legacy as the ultimate measure of someone’s impact. It’s the same mentality that drives Star Trek: Picard Season 3, with its obsession over legacy through children, and the demand for Star Trek: Legacy to be about the next generation of TNG’s offspring. We just broke free of the Skywalker saga, only to rush right back into venerating bloodlines.
I hate that Cassian has a kid—I hate it so much. Not because parenthood is inherently problematic, but because it feels like the show is saying, Hey, it’s okay. He had a kid. His legacy lives on. As if the only way to matter in this universe is through biological reproduction, not through collective action, not through the community he helped build, not through the revolution he inspired. His defiance, his struggle—those things get overshadowed by the comfort of a bloodline.

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eerie dickgirl @eigenvectrix.northsky.social · 22/05/2025
Please consider helping me — eat — pay for today's psychiatrist appointment Ko-fi: ko-fi.com/epistemophagy PayPal: paypal.me/epistemophagy
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
Now the art-lovers of Baltimore can water their johns in peace
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ivory1.bsky.social @ivory1.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD
John Waters standing beside a wall with a sign that says: The John Waters Restrooms. All Gender. 
Not my photo.
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
SUCK SHIT, COLEMAN!!!
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I wrote about being sick of rich people tv www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I am sick of seeing the rich and powerful on my screen. Where are all the TV shows about normal people? | Rebecca Shaw
I personally don’t really want to watch another movie about a billionaire – unless he is in some sort of trap
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Man I hope Gina Rinehart is really hurting tonight.
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Nobody has said “also a factor was how incredibly fucked Dutton’s head is and how evil his vibe and aura is”
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Dutton losing his seat 😀 Coalition losing 😀 ALP winning 😐 but not a hang parliament 😩 Progressive Indies & parties didn't pick up more seat 😢 Now, can we get back to pressuring ALP to stop supporting a violent genocidal apartheid regime. Free Palestine!
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dr mo and mr normal @redactedquirk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
If I lost not only the election but my own safe seat because I was the most unlikeable man on the planet there would simply be only one thing left for me to do
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I'm Dirt Mother Fucker @aynrandy.boontavista.com · 03/05/2025
Update: Peter Dutton has blown his brains out. Liberal staffers are desperately trying to stomp the pieces down the drain but it's making a huge mess and now building services are involved.
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Can’t wait to hear the first #WelcomeToCountry in #Dickson #AusVotes
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
SUCK SHIT, DUTTON!!!
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/04/2025
A gender critical activist turns out to be a pedophile who physically and sexually abused four children. www.edinburghlive.co.uk/news/edinbur...
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West Lothian woman carried out shocking campaign of abuse against four children
Nicola Murray sexually assaulted two victims by forcing her tongue into their mouths and freely talked about her sex life to another child including describing the size of her lover’s penis
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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
If Japan of all nations cannot guarantee safety of #NuclearPower plants then Australia under a Dutton plan has no hope. #Fukushima #AusPol
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
For #worldpenguinday, if you've never heard a penguin being tickled before, here's a penguin being tickled.🔊🆙
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Kirsti Miller @kirstimiller30.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee’s commentaries confirm ‘woman’ includes trans women & that states parties should take steps to ensure their protection. www.fedcourt.gov.au/__data/asset...
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tandigi @tandigi.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Lest we forget that when these brave soldiers returned to Australia they were denied all the benefits given to white soldiers. These included pensions, RSL membership and access to the Soldier Settlement Scheme.
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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Being a museum dedicated to vaginas, we get more than our fair share of weird FAQs. One of the weirder ones is this: "Do I need to have a vagina to visit?" The answer is no!!! We're open to all genders and genital configurations! Here's why...
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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A statement from the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum regarding trans inclusion.
The Vagina Museum Board of Trustees response to the UK Supreme Court ruling 

In light of the UK Supreme Court ruling, the Board of Trustees of the Vagina Museum wish to express their unequivocal support of and solidarity with their trans staff, volunteers, community partners, visitors and wider audience. 

From the outset, the Vagina Museum has always been trans inclusive. An important part of its mission around spreading knowledge and raising awareness of gynaecological anatomy and health has been to challenge normative assumptions around our bodies and how they may or may not be connected to experiences of gender, gender expression and broader sexuality. 

In doing so, we highlight that sex, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation and other characteristics related to sexual identity exist in various different combinations and their relationship to one another is never clear cut. What is clear to us is that everyone, regardless of their body parts, are deserving of human rights, dignity and the power to identity as they wish to. 
Just as we act as a forum for women’s reproductive health and rights from a feminist, inclusive and intersectional perspective; we will continue to advocate for trans+, non-binary and queer communities and rights. 

We cannot talk about feminism unless our feminism includes trans folks. 
We cannot talk about reproductive rights without trans rights. 
We cannot advocate for human rights without trans rights.

The ruling comes amidst an increasingly frightening climate for trans people in the UK and globally. We will continue to abide by our values, and ensure that the Vagina Museum remains a space in which trans people are included, welcomed and celebrated. 

In solidarity.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Syd McGraw @surreallamb.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Every time I return to this site, I am reminded why I left It's great! Imagine if you could solve addiction like that. Just show an recovering alcoholic how awful pro-alcohol culture is and it magically cures them of the "just one more" itch!
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Agui!🌻 @aguichart.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Fuck Rowling, fuck Harry Potter and fuck all you that still support this piece of shit
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Michael Norman Jessop, Trumpet of Patriots candidate for Brisbane seat Dickson.. "during a further search of the vehicle officers located a shovel (bet it was a spade), axe, gloves, duct tape, ropes and a cadaver bag" .. able to think ahead
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Saly "and more" @salylockheart.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Supergirl
Quick sketch of Supergirl. She’s wearing a red and blue full body suit with yellow accent. Her red cape is flowing.
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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
I write a lot of stupid sci fi but this is something else lmao
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
The loss of will to live is a clinical symptom of cancer as a disease, not a psychological failure of personal stoicism theconversation.com/cancer-hijac...
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Cancer hijacks your brain and steals your motivation − new research in mice reveals how, offering potential avenues for treatment
Cachexia, or wasting syndrome, causes around 80% of patients with advanced cancer to withdraw from life.
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Mx Maddison Stoff @thedescenters.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
my new theory i'm building atm is that cis people are sort of like omnicidal cattle that insist on dragging both you & themselves onto the slaughterhouse conveyer belt repeatedly & you have to pull them off & keep your :) face on the whole time otherwise they get real spooked and do it *even faster*
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