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Dudley Brown

@thewinerules.bsky.social
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Grower of grapes, maker of wine, regenerator of soil, writer of the gaps between the formal and informal rules of life. Politics tragic. #wine #regenerative

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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Bravo!!
abc.net.au
Former vineyard turned into sanctuary for nationally threatened birds
A regional property previously home to wine grapevines has been transformed into a sanctuary for the nationally threatened regent parrot in South Australia's Riverland.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The adage that "change only happens when the fear of not changing exceeds the fear of change" certainly applies to politicians viewing their campaign funding sources. They simply aren't afraid enough of fossil fuelled extinction. The threat needs to be either/or greater and sooner. Hard to believe.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Naturalized / citizen Muslims in USA are bad. Sunni Muslims who fund terrorism are good. Gave I got this right?
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Don’t Let it Bring You Down, It’s Only Castles Burning Neil Young The castles of the Australian wine industry are visibly alight. After decades of kicking the proverbial can down the road, the inevitable reckoning has become manifest. In a period of just a few days, the heads of AGW and AWRI have…
thewinerules.wordpress.com
Don’t Let it Bring You Down, It’s Only Castles Burning
Neil Young The castles of the Australian wine industry are visibly alight. After decades of kicking the proverbial can down the road, the inevitable reckoning has become manifest. In a period of just a few days, the heads of AGW and AWRI have resigned while Wine Australia has had two new Directors appointed by the government despite being totally out of cycle with standard appointment processes.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Because they are targeting what is driving inflation and what they do not control - a lack of serious competition policy (2 or 3 companies control / dominate most retail sectors and price accordingly), influence over global trade and wars, etc. Instead they punish the public.
theguardian.com
The RBA hoped this year’s three interest rate rises would tame inflation – but nothing is going their way
The breakdown of the US-Iran ceasefire, rising oil prices and the explosion in datacentre investment are making the central bank’s task harder
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
For a million per year, they need to be publicly accountable.
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Jesse Eisinger @jeisinger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
AI, part 1
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Well worth the time to read if you are interested in how wine styles needs to evolve.
napavalleyfocus.substack.com
Wine Chronicles: When Wine Gets Too Perfect
By Dan Berger
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Murdoch’s superpower is knowing when to cut bait.
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Barbara Boxer @realbarbaraboxer.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Senator Cassidy seemed ashamed of his vote for Blanche, who empowers pedophiles every day. In my 24 years in Senate, I never saw a Senator speak about a nominee & cry. Were they tears of shame? Or tears of personal fear? Were the tears for Epstein survivors? Whatever they were, they were useless.
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Everyone should have a hype man like this in their life 🙌🏼 Might change my name to Franklin and play this on loop 😂
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
At what point will we stop thinking of these events as not inter-related or correlated?
theguardian.com
First Australian mass mortality event suspected as deadly bird flu virus rapidly escalates among native birds
Helicopter surveillance finds dead and dying greater crested terns off South Australian coast as H5 virus spreads
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I've been thinking through the challenges faced by the wine industry, particularly in Australia, and propose some pathways for a different and brighter future. I hope reading it sparks conversation and more ideas being shared for our collective benefit.
thewinerules.wordpress.com
Renewing the Australian Wine Industry from the Ground Up
28 July 2026 Australian wine faces a series of challenges in realizing its potential as a “great” wine producing nation. Despite many examples of fine, even great, wine being produced here, they are a vanishingly small percentage of overall wine production with relatively minute amounts being exported to be appreciated for their inherent worth globally. Absent more high-quality brands that express individuality and greater quantities of these wines being exported, the “Australia” wine brand will continue to languish globally due to a perception of Australian wine as a low-value or insufficiently differentiated artefact of industrial farming and winemaking.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Trump makes another unqualified DEI hire.
theguardian.com
Senate confirms Trump ally Jay Clayton as director of national intelligence
At confirmation hearing, Clayton sidestepped questions about 2020 election and declined to say Trump lost
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is the end game. Break trust in public institutions devoted to the common good.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It’s almost like the planet is angry what us. I would be.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Band name this picture. I’ll go first. The Not Happy Jans.
thenewdaily.com.au
Albanese's 'disciplined' Labor risks making a very big mistake
The Australian Labor Party, under Anthony Albanese, has been a model in what political watchers like to call "discipline".
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
It seems like this should be much bigger news. This is what all the distractions are for - to keep us ftom seeing this.
theguardian.com
‘Complete shock and dismay’: scientists unite against Trump’s $1tn grant attack
OMB proposal would upend entire grant-making system – and put vast sums into hands of political appointees
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Conor @ernekid.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Mbappe’s 10 goals is all the motivation Messi needs for a giant game tomorrow.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fixed it - Pauline Hanson Talks up White Australia Policy and Laments Daughter's Leadership Potential.
theguardian.com
Pauline Hanson laments end of White Australia policy and talks up daughter’s leadership potential
Appearing on a podcast with the far-right UK activist who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, Hanson makes evidence-free claims about migrants
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Of my many fond memories of his performances, I love this as a final memory.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Leopards. Faces. Etc. Time to wake up from your slumber NYT.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Boom
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August J. Pollak @augustjpollak.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spoke to my friend Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes today
Jack Nicholson in "The Shining" sitting at a bar talking to the ghost of a bartender
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Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Don’t be sad. 35% of Americans believe we won the World Cup
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Absolutely everything Trump touches dies. Now soccer.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
He’s right of course. And if they selectively don’t do it, that is selective enforcement of thee law. These guys really don’t get what the rule of law means.
theguardian.com
Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’
‘Haiti is a failed state’, says Carlos Giménez, congressman and Miami Cuban exile, after controversial court ruling
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
When the Red Sox got fogged out in Cleveland, the sportswriter asked scheduled starter Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd what he thought of this. Boyd said, "what do you expect when you put a stadium beside the ocean?"
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Cabo Verde, population 620,000 is in the World Cup. Washington DC, population 700,000, isn’t even in the Senate.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Outlier opinion - Pretty sure that MAGA would have forgotten Obama was black if he made a billion dollars a year as President.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
To be fair, 10% of all college students are in metro Boston….
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Jane Natoli 🥑🚲🍍 @wafoli.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It’s weird how of people spend a few years in awesome college towns and then we are like “under no circumstances can we recreate that anywhere else”
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 26/06/2026
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Bingo. Stand for something.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
As colossal a fuck up as attacking a nation that has withstood everything and everyone for 2500 years is (and will continue to be as long as they wish given existing players), pulling the pin after 4 months instead of 8 or 10 years is probably the best option open to us as long as MAGA is in power.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
This is what a generational politician sounds like.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Gordon Woods popular moment - youtu.be/6ZI1vgJwUP0?...
youtu.be
Good Will Hunting (Education vs. Intelligence)
YouTube video by TheFightinAnalyst
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Is it improbable that Netanyahu has Epstein’s kompromat on Trump? Trump acts like he does.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Strongly recommend watching Groundswell. It demonstrates our best ground up non- government, non-policy way to save the land surface of the earth and us while making our food and wine taste better. www.primevideo.com/detail/0SK0I...
primevideo.com
Watch Groundswell online – Prime Video
Groundswell is the stirring final chapter of a groundbreaking documentary trilogy following Kiss the Ground and Common Ground, a cinematic journey across 5 continents showcasing regenerative agricultu...
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Most times it is impossible to identify that one person who implements enshitification. This is deliberate I. Order to protect the guilty. Bari Weiss is so dumb she exposes the entire food chain of enshitification.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Elect clowns. Expect circus.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
We agree definitionally on the utility model. Now, regulate it and tax it like one.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
AI is built on a civilisation level of theft. Paying the creators of that wealth is impossible to do fairly. As such, two remedies exist. Regulate it like a utility through regulated price setting. Or, tax AI companies income at extremely high rates and spend the tax on health, education etc.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Since AI’s LLMs are built on the sum of individual and collective knowledge that was not negotiated for (it was stolen), we should move to classify AI providers as utilities and set utility type pricing and / or tax their profits heavily to fund the needs of the society it parasitised.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
This kind of “fair” Mike?
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Welcome to the world of 59 day non-wars.
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Good on them. Mining profits with zero externality costs just aren’t a thing. It’s theft from everyone let alone those most directly affected.
theguardian.com
WA’s Yindjibarndi traditional owners consider appeal against Fortescue’s $150m record native title payout
Yindjibarndi Ngurra Aboriginal Corporation label federal court ruling against mining giant’s Solomon Hub iron ore operation ‘unsatisfactory’
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"i've got a pool guy we can use" "does he have any experience painting pools?" "what pool"
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Dudley Brown @thewinerules.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
And this is how they do us folks. We pay taxes so they don't have to. Someone is going to win a lot of votes correcting this. Which party / leader has the appetite to not look like a corporate stooge to pissed off voters?
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