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Lara

@thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social
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Agricultural Climate Science of sorts. Your favourite political analyst’s favourite idiot. My views are my own. On Kaurna Land - Australia | 28 | 🏳️‍⚧️

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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I’m really proud of this episode - Richard Tanter has done some outstanding research on the extent of the US military footprint in Aus, and as he says, it’s pretty shocking. All of his research is publicly available too:
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Australian defence facilities and US access
Public evidence and analysis of US access to Australian defence and intelligence facilities.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I lowkey hate the new Ted Lasso season. It’s saccharine, spends too much time on fan service and underdevelops the new characters that this season is ostensibly about. Also I hate the cringe girlboss feminism thing they keep leaning on
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Truly iconic comment on @emmavigeland.bsky.social’s interview of McMorrow with Matt Bernstein. This made me laugh for way longer then it should have
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Excellent companion pieces in @australiainstitute.org.au's The Point thepoint.com.au/opinions/260... - Louise Morris thepoint.com.au/news/260418-... - Tegan George
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The federal budget is clear, nature is not a government priority
Budgets are not communications exercises. They are statements of priorities, the most literal answer a government can give to the question: what do we value? Ask that of the 2026–27 federal budget, an...
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Watched devil wears prada 2 - a film that gestures at the idea of having something to say and then ignores it’s own message in lieu of actually writing a story that criticises the power structures that led to the plot of the film.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
I stg if we have another pandemic right after I’ve moved to Melbourne with no friends and I’m locked down in my apartment by myself I’m gonna be real salty
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Having watched all of folding idea’s vids on Mr Beast, it’s comical and heartbreaking that Jimmy clearly wants to make stories but is incapable of knowing what good stories are because he doesn’t watch or read any.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
As an autistic child/teen Terry Pratchett’s writing was a shining light in the darkness - his books taught me so much about people, our idiosyncrasies and how we often don’t make sense, and that’s ok. His writing shaped my early sense of justice and humour. GNU Sir Terry Pratchett
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Great piece by @amyremeikis.bsky.social on the Point that gets to the heart of what is so endlessly infuriating about Labor politics today. thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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NDIS falls victim to familiar scare tactics – while untouchables roll on
It’s never the time to consider having the fossil fuel industry pay for itself, but it’s never not the time to have Australians pay the price.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
My god the labor party are truly the party of cowards now, clearly signaling they’re not going to consider a gas tax. The political will from the public is there and yet they’d rather save money by cutting ndis
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I swear every episode of After America I can hear a bit more of @emmashortis.bsky.social soul leave her body 🥲 It’s very relatable
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Last week at the Press Club the Prime Minister said (again) that the US is Australia’s most important security ally. We’d better hope his office is doing everything they can to leverage that right now. If Trump follows through and gives the order, there’s every likelihood it comes through here.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Watching Ponies and I mean this in the best way - I LOVE how expressive Emilia Clarke’s face is. She’s so beautiful and has such expressiveness
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Wouldn’t it be nice if the labor party used this crisis as a push to build electrified train and tram infrastructure nationally
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
@australiainstitute.org.au would love a search function on the Point website!! Or am I stupid and missing it… And slightly nerdier request but an RSS feed link would be great
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
We cool with this fam? thenightly.com.au/politics/woo...
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US is secretly testing new hypersonic missile on Aussie soil
Secretive testing of an advanced hypersonic weapon capable of travelling at five times the speed of sound is believed to be underway in remote South Australia.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Watched one battle last night and my conclusion coming out is gd I really gotta learn how to make a radio I guess, the surveillance state is only getting worse
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I just discovered someone I studied at uni with works at Anthropic now???? I’m crashing out - Do I know someone who went on to help develop the warcrime generator 10000
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Israel and America rediscovering in real time that laws of war weren’t created from some sort of hippy good will but out lessons learnt that when you do terrible things to your enemy, they do them back to you.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dude trump probably HATES the guy who collapsed behind him. Way to upstage him
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Dude what is Trump’s obsession with stairs LMAO
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Omfg the liberal and national party leaders is the most cursed blunt rotation you could imagine
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
And there it is. Actually insane given how overwhelming the evidence is in support of care for trans people.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Omg y’all everyone watch this queer short film starring Vic Michaelis and Ava Lalezarzadeh. It’s achingly beautiful and was exactly what I needed right now to feel hope that we will always have community youtu.be/Z2rObPKVqm8?...
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Dandelion | Award-Winning Queer Short Film
YouTube video by Dandelion
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Amongst all the other terrible news, there’s some pretty fucked anti-trans laws being passed in various US states. Along with terf actions getting increasingly violent in the UK. Not a fun time to be gender diverse
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
I don’t know if it’s just the internet I’m being exposed to but it feels like people are more mad about the Iranian sailors being killed than the school girls.
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Is Australia already involved in the US and Israel's illegal war on Iran? This morning, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth announced that a US submarine sunk an Iranian ship in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Crazy how Israel and the US seem to have carte Blanche to commit war crimes and Australian outlets won’t even consider a shred of criticism. Our media so beholden to US interests
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
NATURE IS HEALING
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If Zverev gets through because Carlos is injured I’m going to have an aneurysm
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
After America is back (early, because everything is terrible, obviously). @angusrb.bsky.social and I talk Venezuela, Greenland, and imperial revival. With apologies for the distressing amount of Stephen Miller content. australiainstitute.org.au/post/us-inva...
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US invades Venezuela, threatens Greenland while ICE wreaks havoc
The Trump administration’s imperial march is gathering pace.
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Following the decision from the Board of the Adelaide Festival, The Australia Institute is withdrawing its support from this year’s literary festival. Here is our statement, and a personal one from me.
Statement from the Australia Institute withdrawing from Adelaide festival. Personal statement withdrawing from the Festival.
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Americans have the brains of medieval peasants when it comes to the state killing citizens. Half the country is so ready to start throwing tomatoes no matter the circumstances
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
"The Australian government cannot just sit on its hands, issuing a kind of global get-well card hoping that everything ends as best it can." My excellent colleague Allan Behm in @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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The Venezuela Crisis: Australia needs to do much more than issue a general “Get-Well” card
The abduction and subsequent arrest of the President of Venezuela is a dramatic re-statement of America’s dominance of the western hemisphere and its willingness to do whatever it takes – including de...
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Patel is so obviously a fan of Hong Kong cinema and action, Monkey Man has the best action choreography I’ve seen in a long while
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
Was not expecting so much gender diverse rep in Monkey Man, what a pleasant surprise. Based Dev Patel
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
White nation kills brown people for ‘science’. Continuing to destroy trust in life saving medicines in the most vulnerable places
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
If I was a fisherman south of the US I would simply retire at this point. The fish aren’t worth it
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Holy what a crazy thing to write and then publish
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Deeply troubled that the last bastion of hand wavers when you let someone drive down a narrow street are the guys in giant utes and yank tanks. What has our culture become smh
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Got into my masters degreeeeeeee!!! 🎉🎉🎉
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Taking a break from roller blading next to the path and this family fully daggered me in unison as they walked past for genuinely no reason istg
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Cassie’s content is both hilarious and so politically poignant. Goated creator
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Genuinely devastated we don’t have raccoons in Australia. Obsessed with their grabby lil hands
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I had a dream that @mattbevan.bsky.social was doing an if you’re listening about my high school trombone career. He discussed my style and influences and how it changed and had some strong opinions about where I went wrong. I’m honoured tbh
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Will Hell to pay be returning at some point? I need my fix of crazy stories and great politics @ellehardy.bsky.social
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
NL playing Road to Empress has been pure cinema start to end
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Lara @thefrollickingnerd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I need to know the secret behind home cooking with bob. Is he like an aristocrat with a family who owns a castle or something. Where does he find the time. Someone expose the dark underbelly of this wholesome TikTok channel
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 02/10/2025
You absolutely should not dismiss the AT Protocol technology that runs this place as boring nerd stuff, because that is the exact technology we are going to need to ensure that usable social media that isn’t controlled by Nazis continues to exist.
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