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Tom Worthington

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Tom Worthington is an independent computer professional, educational design consultant and a part time university lecturer in computing.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Greetings from the Australian National University, where Ivan Ang testing AI in cars. Recently I purchased a low cost car with camera & radar for autonomous breaking, adaptive cruse control & lane keeping. How well are they tested? blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/12/test...

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Testing the Saftey of Smart Cars

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Greetings from the Professional Standards Forum of the Professional Standards Councils. Today's forum is on AI, with Dr Ryan Payne, University of Canberra. It occurred to me that we could use AI to make a safer social media for children. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/12/aust...

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Australian Professional Standards Forum

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Greetings from the last First Wednesday of the year at Canberra Innovation Network. at Ken Kroeger just pitched ACTivate Capital. He is not exactly new to the process. ;-) blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/12/new-...

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New Canberra Innovation Fund

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Greetings from Tasa Cafe at the Australian National University. I wandered over for a coffee. After I am planning to make a training video, then attended a seminar on AI warfare tactics. The teaching year may be over, but there is still much to do. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/12/netw...

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Networking the Old Way

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Greetings from the Australian National University's China Update on China's digital economy, innovation, finance and growth. This has implications for geopolitics. Mass produced AI powered drones come to dominate warfare in the next decade. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/chin...

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China's Digital Economy and Moore's Law

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

I suggest the Australian Government send the world's largest battery powered ship to Türkiye, as a venue for climate change negotiations. During the Sydney Olympics another Incat Tasmania built ship was used as "Business Club Australia". blog.tomw.net.au/2025/11/patc...

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Despatch Australian Made World's Largest Battery Ship to Istanbul as Climate Talk Venue

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Was surprised there was no Wikipedia entry about #asbestos in play sand in Australia, closing 70 schools. So I added a couple of references. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroph...

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Hydrophobic sand - Wikipedia

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Greetings from day two of Singapore Fintech Festival 2025. I am here to look at skills gaps, so this session on "FinTech Talent Blueprint:" looks relevant. However, so far just platitudes from the panel. #SFF2025 blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/sing...

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Singapore Fintech Festival 2025: The FinTech Talent Blueprint: Navigating the New Era of FinTech Workforce Transformation,

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

The most interesting booth at Singapore FinTech Festival was the Talent Pavilion. This has people from the universities, Polytechnics, training companies & accreditation bodies. Perhaps Australia should turn do some of our TAFEs & unis into Singapore style polytechnics.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Greetings from Singapore FinTech Festival. The Bahrain booth has the best free coffee at the show. They even offer a flat white, handy for those in the nearby Australian booth. #TeamBahrain

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Greetings from the Insights Forum roundtable on "AI Governance" in Singapore. I get the impression previous forums would have focused on blockchain and before that whatever tech was trendy. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/ai-g...

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AI Governance for the Global Financial System

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

Greetings from the Singapore Clay Festival, where I bumped into the Present (of Singapore). www.singaporeclayfest.com

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Greetings from EDUtech Asia in Singapore. The conference venus takes some getting used to for those familiar with academic events, as everyone wears light up headphones, silent disco style. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/edut...

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EduTech Asia in Singapore Expo and Silent Disco Conference

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

In Singapore for EDUtech Asia, I came across the EcoTrain Educational Centre for children. Outside I bumped into Associate Professor Adrian Loo, from National University of Singapore, who explained the #Microforest, being established. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/11/ecot...

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EcoTrain Microforest for Sustainable Education

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

Happy to meet up with people around #EDUtechAsia 2025 & Singapore FinTech Festival, over the next 2 weeks. I have no presentations planned, but volunteered to fill in, if needed chairing or speaking & happy to speak elsewhere. #SFF2025 blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/edut...

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EDUtech Asia and Singapore FinTech Festival in November

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Greetings from the INDONESIA AUSTRALIA INVESTMENT FORUM 2025 at the Commonwealth Club in Canberra. In his keynote address the Indonesian Ambassador to Australia suggested the two countries could collaborate on the processing of rare earth minerals.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Greetings from the Boomalli Aboriginal Art Gallery at the opening of the Bronwyn Bancroft retrospective exhibition in Sydney. boomalli.com.au/exhibitions/

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Greetings from The Australian National University, where a lecture theatre has been repurposed as a pitch arena. This form of experiential learning is one way to combat #AIcheating. Teams of students pitch an app they developed. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/hack...

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Hackerthon for Learning at ANU

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network where Ashley Marsh-Croft is running an Industrial Design Capacity Building and PVP Info Session. There is about $100,000 available in vouchers for startups to get help with their prototypes. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/indu...

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Industrial Design Capacity Building

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I find only about one in twenty BlueSky posts of interest. Many others seem to be about sport, or politics, in the USA. At least that is what I assume they are about, as there is so little context it is hard to tell. There is criticism of people I have never heard of & acronyms I don't know.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Greetings from RegNet AI Series, with Deborah Lupton at The Australian National University. Earlier Ethan Smith talked on AI image generation at Leonardo.Ai. The theme emerging is the nature of creativity and what is seen as a worthwhile human skill. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/ai-a...

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AI and Creative Work

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Greetings from Canberra Innovation Network where I taking part in the Pearcey Foundation awards night. The ACT Chief Minister is arriving shortly. AI CoLab are going to help us prepare advice for the minister on homelessness. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/10/impr...

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

In shock announcement, JIMMY BARNES proposed as next ANU Vice Chancellor." ;-) lnkd.in/p/gKK74Net

The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here: https://lnkd.in/e6x8byd5 Edited: can I ask ANU people to share the…...

The ANU governance project has a media release about the presentation by the Interim Vice Chancellor's speech on Thursday here: https://lnkd.in/e6x8byd5 Edited: can I ask ANU people to share the medi...

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

Greetings from the Australian National University, where Dr. Katy Gero, is speaking on "How do we get the benefits of LLMs without causing long-term harm?". They found a human marker graded AI generated essays higher than those from humans. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/can-...

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Can we get the benefits of AI without harm?

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

The Australian Government yesterday announced it will spend $1.7bn on a fleet of several dozen Ghost Shark robot submarines, to be made in Sydney by US company Anduril Industries. I talked about this on ABC Radio Nightlife with Philip Clark this morning. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/09/desi...

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Designing Large Drone Weapons Systems in Australia

Tips on technology, travel and lifestyle, by Tom Worthington, the Net Traveler.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Greetings from Dr Fiona Scotney's Advanced LinkedIn Workshop at #ATEM2025 hosted by ANU, this week. Fiona is providing useful tips, such as writing as you talk and keep in mind you are promoting your team and organisation, not just yourself. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/adva...

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Advanced LinkedIn Workshop at ANU

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

In webinar on Instructure's #IgniteAI. Today's topic is how to use AI to improve student discussions and feedback. They are being modest in the claims for what AI can do for education, rather than saying this can replace the teacher. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/ai-f...

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AI for Student Discuissions

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Greetings from the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE), hosting Canberra Innovation Network's First Wednesday pitch night. There is a theme of enterprises supporting social connection this evening. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/tech...

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Tech for Social Support

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Greetings from the inaugural IDEATE Summit at the Australian National University. The VC opened with a St Crispin's Day type speech. She talked passionately about the difficulties of opening university up to a more diverse range of students & staff. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/09/idea...

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IDEATE Summit 2025

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Greetings from the Australian National University , where Dr. Nils Herrmann is talking on diamond microchips for quantum computers, doing #QuantumAI. The aim is a computer rugged enough to be used in an aircraft, with obvious military applications. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/quan...

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Quantum AI for Defence at ANU

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Thanks to Canberra Institute of Technology for a tour of their new building. I studied Audio-Visual Video for Training, at the then ACT TAFE,in 1989. We used tape & monochrome studio cameras, so It was a revelation to see the new digital studios. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/new-...

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New Canberra Institute of Technology Building

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Greetings from the ANU McCusker Institute in Canberra. Dr Katherine Trebeck is speaking on Shared Prosperity. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/mccu...

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McCusker Institute

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Greetings from the Canberra Bowling Club, where I am attending an author talk by Catherine McCullagh. The event is hosted by Fearless Women for book week. Catherine writes alternate history novels about strong women around WWII. blog.tomw.net.au

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Adelaide University, formed from the universities of South Australia & Adelaide, is promoting it's #elearning in Sydney, near USydney, UTS & Notre Dame. Would those a short bus ride from established universities choose to study online a 1,000km away? blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/08/new-...

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New Australian University Promoting On-line Degrees

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

If you are going to remote areas where you could become lost or stranded, don't depend on your cell phone working. Take sensible precautions: tell someone where you are going & will be back, don't go alone, take food, clothing & shelter. Consider a radio beacon. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergen...

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Emergency position-indicating radiobeacon - Wikipedia

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Greetings from the AI Colab at the ANU College of Systems & Society in Canberra, for "From red tape to algorithm: Reimagining the public service in an AI age". In the first group activity we imagined interplanetary travel with a punk ascetic. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/rebu...

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Rebuilding the public service with AI

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Last night I attended the Sydney #Linux User Group (SLUG) at Google Sydney. I haven't been to Slug for years, but nothing changed. The same pizza & soda, same talk topic made entirely of acronyms and attendees who look like extras from Big Bang Theory. ;-) blog.tomw.net.au/2025/07/user...

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User Group Alive and Well in Sydney

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Greetings from the Canberra Innovation Network (CBRIN) where Tim Turner, is running a meeting on "How can the ACT Government use #AI to improve #government services?" organised by the Pearcey Foundation. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/how-...

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How can Local Government use AI to improve services?

Tips on course design, teaching and research, for university and colleges, by Tom Worthington, the Higher Education Whisperer.

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

HIR at the New Theatre in Sydney is hard work for the audience but worthwhile. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/07/hir-...

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HIR, a play about what?

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Greetings from the 10th anniversary Canberra Innovation Network, First Wednesday Connect. One of the entrepreneurs is "bin chicken" who has an instrumented bin here. The system has just been purchased by Canberra Institute of Technology. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/07/ten-...

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Ten years of Innovation Connection in Canberra: trash & tea

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Looking forward to Tech in Gov 2025, 12 & 13 August in Canberra. i.snoball.it/p/a5GzJ/f/3 Not speaking, just wandering around, to make sense of cybersecurity, AI, & digital transformation. Previously I talked on Sustainable Computing. #TechinGov blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

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DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION FOR GOVERNMENT TECH PROFESSIONALS AND PARTNERS

Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

The former Estonian ambassador has called for joint industry government cyber exercises in Australia & capture the flag exercises for children. She was the keynote speaker at the #ACSTechUplift25 this morning in Canberra. #CyberSecurity blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

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Australian Cyber Resilience in a High Threat World Learning from Estonia

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Greetings from Launch on Northbourne, UNSW's startup centre in Canberra. They are hosting a Canberra Cyber Hub panel on research collaboration s with industry. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/cybe...

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Cyber security industry

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Greetings from University of Canberra, where I am attending WIL Australia's "Creative, Modern and Celebrating #WIL". . Taking us through the reality behind the hype about AI and jobs. #WorkIntegratedLearning blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/ai-a...

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AI and Work Integrated Learning

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I just registered for #TechUplift25: Empowering #CyberSecurity through #AI-driven Capability, by Australian Computer Society, in Canberra, 26 June. Ironically, this morning #Facebook blocked my access, requiring me to prove I was human. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/tech...

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TechUplift25: Empowering Cyber Security through AI-driven Capability

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Greetings from day 2 of "The Evolving University" stream of EDUtech Australia. Hot topics are international students &AI. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/inte...

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International Education and the Australian Economy

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Greetings from the exhibition floor of EDUtech Australia 2025 at the Sydney Convention Center. I dropped into the Australian Computer Society stand. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/06/educ...

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Educating Computer Professionals

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Greetings from #WorldProductDay, Canberra. This is the second time today I turned up to an event having no idea what it was. This one is about #accessibility. There is pizza and post it notes, so I feel at home. blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/2025/05/worl...

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World Product Day

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

"Bluesky is Twitter for Democrats". That is how I explained it in a family discussion recently. That encapsulates what is good, & bad about it. ;-)

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Tom Worthington @tom-worthington.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

On a whim today, I went along to the matinee of "In the next room, or the Vibrator Play" at the New Theatre in Sydney. The play, witten in 2009 by Sarah Ruhl was surprisingly thought provoking, as well as very amusing. blog.tomw.net.au/2025/05/turn...

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Turned on to the Vibrator Play

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