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@thegossness.bsky.social
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Ngunnawal land, edging into retirement, sliding closer to cross benches, dipping more into poetry, striding into more travels. Move the world to the place you want it to be.

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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If in doubt - ask yourself “what would Dolly do?” And you’ll be just fine. Vale Queen
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
If sporting codes or tv channels can’t survive without revenue from punting - their business model is flawed and bad bloody luck (god I wanted to swear at this but I’ve held back)
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 13/07/2026
Actor Sam Neill's final take
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Remembering our 'honorary Aussie' Sam Neill
Actor Sam Neill might have officially been a Kiwi but he did some of his best work in Australian film and television. At home on either side of the ditch, this is Sam Neill's story.
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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
i guess we now know that a rigorous interrogation by the fourth estate is probably not going to save us.
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Perfect antidote for today’s carry on
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Limit abortion to increase local population but diminish childcare skills and reduce pay for childcare workers - oh - and women get paid less due to leave for kids(no wages gap here folks) I hate women who hate women to progress their personal power
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
That not one journo has raised the blatant racism of this speech - in their own space - is both frightening and repulsive
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I will only use Gen AI if someone develops a program that responds to unsolicited emails and texts in the voice of Lynne Poselthwaite
Fast Forward comedy character Lynne Poselthwaite
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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
My good mate @aaronsmith333.bsky.social wrote this stunning piece about 1 week as a political staffer in Canberra I think it's one of the most beautiful pieces of political writing, in fact, just writing, that I have ever read Seriously illuminating 👇🏽 aaronsmith333.substack.com/p/my-own-sta...
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My Own Startled Face on a Lanyard
Four days behind the curtain - the absurd, the infuriating, and the quietly hopeful.
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
We keep hearing that PHON's growing support is a result of the cost of living crisis. That she's favoured by struggling Australians... Yet if you look at the latest RedBridge/Accent Research poll, then it's clear that those who own their home outright are her biggest supporters! #AusPol
Favourability rating of Pauline Hanson by home ownership demographic, showing that those who own outright are the only ones with a positive favourability rating
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
www.facebook.com/share/1CEojs... Important messaging from the science folk to n legal creep in reproductive rights
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
look how much craftsmanship we've lost in clothing in just a hundred years
A man in the 19th century wearing a chicken suit. It has feathers, a full on tail, and even shoes shaped like chicken feetA chicken suit currently for sale. It's just a smooth white zip-up onesie with no tail, no chicken feet, and just some flappy thing under the arms and some striped leggings. Pathetic
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
If we halved airbnb numbers - might we be able to lay off on the “immigration floodgate” rhetoric?
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
www.instagram.com/reel/DYAG3fL... @marcuskelson.bsky.social
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oscar.foraday on Instagram: "curiosity (n.) the hunger that leads you to plastic stools in faraway cities and to truths that taste bitter but stay with you.The …"
curiosity (n.) the hunger that leads you to plastic stools in faraway cities and to truths that taste bitter but stay with you.The kind of appetite Anthony Bourdain never lost… until he did.#anthonybourdain #cooking #reflection #storytelling #grief
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
How does a story on Port Arthur have to follow a movie defamation case??? ABC news - do better! And use the time analysing state based commitment to increased (or not 🤬) gun control - just do the journalism please
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Lindsey Rachev @lrachev.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
NASA women save stars. 🫶🏻💫
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
There’s a seal waving at me in this pic - take you’re time, you’ll see it eventually (maybe) (Bermagui, NSW)
Pic of rocks in the ocean, waves and white water and a tiny spec of a seal that’s hard for everyone to see and one up on the rocks that’s pretty impossible to see
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"Spooky" Gene Rayburn @generayburn.com · 09/03/2026
I have created a diorama of the Partridge family attacking the Brady Bunch family. My life is very boring.
Figurines of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family fighting each other
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Ashmolean Museum, Oxford @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
See how this cup completely transforms with light 👉️👉️ This cup was produced in Iran during the 12th century. It is made from fritware and decorated with a colourless glaze. ‘Glory, prosperity and fortune to its owners' reads the inscription which appears across the cup.
A stone-coloured glazed cup with naskhi around the outsideA stone-coloured glazed cup with nashki around the outside with light shining through illuminating the writing.
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Well this is a horror show ….
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Title: “[redacted]” A line of early teen? girls looking at the viewer. Behind them, silhouettes of four generic men, some with hand on shoulders of the girls, which have been through six iterations of redaction to satisfy the newspaper’s lawyers that none are identifiable.
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Carol Duncan @carolduncan.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
This guy. #RobHirst #EndOfAnEra 😞
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Some thoughts on Adelaide Writers' Week and the moment we find ourselves in. It's all just so grinding. rick-morton.ghost.io/the-great-si...
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The Great Silencing
Last week it snowed heavily twice in Paris, turning the city into a frigid, monochrome fantasy land over three days, and at the weekend I popped into the Musée Marmottan Monet for a spot of impression...
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Ian Mannix @sedvitae.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
I've interviewed for work and my book, ppl who waited, or stayed to defend on catastrophic fire days. Every single person regrets not leaving. Every one. #vicfires
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 08/01/2026
The point is that, while criminal proceedings are on foot, a royal commission can't look at anything to do with the Bondi shootings or the shooters, including why and how they did it, that is it can't touch on the subject that is its sole reason for being established. It will achieve nothing.
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There's a glaring problem with calls for a royal commission into the Bondi terror attack
Australians deserve answers after the Bondi Beach shooting — but a royal commission won't deliver them.
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The Australian Cricket Team TM is refusing access to the ABC team at the end of the day today because of comments made about the decisions of the cricket institution. FFS. #ashes
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
We are doomed because Trump is a deranged baby.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
“I said love, I said pet. I said pet, I said love. I said no Gina, I’m not signing your letter demanding a Royal Commission into Bondi, even though you are my twin sister and I was school shot put champion in Year 7 and Year 8. I’m far too busy”
Carmel and Lynne comedy characters
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
Won’t sleep until I hear where Marilyn from Home and Away stands on a royal commission
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
How about business leaders first institute all the recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry?
AFR headline: "A National Crisis: Business backs Bondi royal commission"
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Emily Mayo @emilymayo.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Usman Khawaja’s farewell speech went for <7mins. The press conference goes for almost and hour. It’s spectacular. I encourage anyone into cricket, politics, equality, justice, and all the things to take the time to watch it. All of it. I’m sobbing. What a legend. youtu.be/J7kfFY1X6cM?...
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Usman Khawaja announces international cricket retirement | Full Press Conference | Fox Cricket
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Im sure Mel C “singing” us out of 2025 means something - but WTF?
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
"Antisemitism is a real and dangerous phenomenon. Yet this reality has been politically exploited on a wide scale [through] weaponization; the use of the accusation as a tool to silence legitimate criticism of Israel rather than to confront genuine hatred." #auspol johnmenadue.com/post/2025/12...
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Between Identity and Politics: Unpacking the Systematic Conflation of “Antisemitism” and Criticism of Israel
Whenever Jews anywhere in the world are subjected to an attack or a threat, Israel, along with a wide network of political and media supporters, is quick to frame the incident as a direct extension of...
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Dean from Australia @deanfromaustralia.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Richter, a human rights campaigner, a fierce critic of #Israel 's occupation of the #Palestinian territories, does not deny the existence or seriousness of antisemitism. But he argues an RC - one framed around defining #antisemitism – would be premature & dangerous. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Top barrister says a royal commission into antisemitism is premature and risky
Robert Richter, KC, refused to sign the letter from senior members of the Australian Bar calling for a royal commission into antisemitism. He says it would be premature and dangerous.
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Petition: We will not be divided after Bondi. Add your name: jewishcouncil.good.do/unity/jewish...
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
What do we want? - "Social cohesion!" When do we want it? - "Just after we finish booing our political opponents at a memorial service!" That one might need a bit more work.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Who ever this is serving, it’s not helping anything www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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Our hearts are shattered – and some have broken them further
There is no going back to where we were before December 14. But a social contract Australians relied on has been destroyed by the Coalition.
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Jane Caro @janecaro.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
My 93 year old father says it perfectly in today’s SMH.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Here's me. "Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children"
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Weaponising the Bondi tragedy is a betrayal of all our children - The Shot
Breathe, slowly. It helps.  Cry if you need to. All of this hurts. But please understand, before we go any...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger" theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
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Lenore Taylor @lenoret.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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‘Pandemonium’, a woman in labour and every bandage in the clubhouse: how lifesavers became first responders in the Bondi shooting
Members at two Bondi surf clubs provided shelter and first aid to hundreds during the deadly attack
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
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I told a friend the world was trembling, then Bondi erupted
We were two Jewish men and two non-Jewish women, settling down for dinner in Bondi. Then the gunshots rang out.
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Rhys Parton @rhysparton.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Local Mob have organised a smoking ceremony at Bondi at 5:30 tonight. First Nations healing practices to help community heal.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
If you’re having trouble finding an appointment to donate blood, a donation in later weeks still matters. Blood from all over the country has been moved to Sydney to help the victims of Sunday’s horrendous terror attack against Bondi’s Jewish community - anything helps x
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thegossness.bsky.social @thegossness.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
I want us to not be this Love and respect to those killed and injured (except for 1) - and all those helping 🌸🌸
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Helen Czerski @helenczerski.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Bronze plaque saying "A Letter to the Future. Ok is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as a glacier. In the next 200 years all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.  August 2019. 415ppm CO2"
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 16/11/2025
Powerful.
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See Through Canoe @seethroughcanoe.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
A sea turtle surfacing by a MASSIVE school of rays near Clearwater, Florida a couple days ago. Another post into the BluSky void. Maybe 2 or 3 people will see this one and my time won't have been wasted. I'll keep trying a little longer. #nature #animals #amazing #wildlife #awesome #ocean
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇
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