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Somewhat Michael

@urbanescrumping.bsky.social
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Transport nerd, data geek, philosophy, puns, cats, cricket, cycling and Carlton FC. Podcatcher tuned to 'The Bugle' 🏏🎺, ‘Very Bad Wizards’ and ‘Weirdhouse Cinema”. On Wurundjeri land. Don’t bother DMing unless being ignored excites you.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
They are coming after all our data, all our ideas, all our art, and Labor is paving the way for them. We need to stand up to big tech, stand up to US bullies and billionaires. The Greens know this.
Headline from The Guardian: Australia news
Everything Australians put online could be scraped for AI under proposed new rules. How will you be affected?
The Albanese government is considering reforms that give US big tech unrestricted access to Australian content
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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The cats have declared today to be the perfect weather. Sunny enough for lounging, but cool enough for pouncing.
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Somewhat Michael @urbanescrumping.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
xkcd.com/3290
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Trade
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Albert Camus
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Who knew undoing the CGT discount and negative gearing would work? Oh everyone?? My column. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Isn’t it amazing what a policy that actually tackles the cause of outrageous house prices can do? | Grogonomics
Labor has shown what a government can do to improve housing affordability, exposing how pathetic previous attempts had been
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Looking at the stars @lookingatthestars.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
One of the great joys of the Clacton byelection has been the newspaper & media quite properly juxtaposing images of the two front runners. It has permanently diminished Farage, and tainted him with ridicule. He can never not be the political candidate who stood against Count Binface.
A screengrab from the Guardian featuring side-by-side photographic portraits of Count Binface and Nigel Farage
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The incidence of Catholic & other church leaders' abuse of and vicious attacks on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children, from the first missions to recently: countless cover-ups. If there's a hell, send this vile creature directly there.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.
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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
New Primus just dropped and it is VERY Primus! youtu.be/RE2oERgJkXg
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Primus - The Ol’ Grizz (Official Video)
YouTube video by PrimusVEVO
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Dr. Todd Arrington @btarrington.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
“If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don’t do that, you’re wasting your time on this Earth.” ~Roberto Clemente. Image: MLB via Getty Images.
This color photo shows a man in a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball uniform—Roberto Clemente—standing in a batting stance and holding a baseball bat.
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Sydney EV @sydneyev.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
seems accurate
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Revy but spoopy @catgirlfingies.quest · 23/06/2026
Just sharing this again at a time of what's happening in Australia. In Event Horizon Sam Neill requested that the Australian flag on his character's uniform remove the Union Flag from the corner & for it to be replaced with the Aboriginal flag, the way he thought it should look in 2047
Sam Neill in the movie Event Horizon.
Wearing a flag patch that has the Australian flag but thr union jack is removed to have the Aboriginal flag in its place
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 21/06/2026
Algae are prolific producers of oxygen (and consumers of carbon dioxide), en masse producing a huge proportion of the oxygen we breathe, which means that the greening of the Reflecting Pool might be the most pro-climate thing Trump has ever done.
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garth marenghi's darkcayce @cayce.zone · 21/06/2026
this really is what it's all about
david lynch interviewing harry dean stanton. four panels
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lynch: "and how would you like to be remembered?"
stanton: "doesn't matter."
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Lynch: "How would you describe yourself?"
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Stanton: "As nothing. there is no self."
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both laughing
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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
www.betootaadvocate.com/one-nation-i...
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One Nation In Trouble As Australia Receives Biennial Reminder That Multiculturalism Is Key To Patriotic Sporting Glory
CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | CONTACT Nestory Irankunda is officially the greatest Australian that ever lived, and One Nation has plummeted 15% in opinion polls, it can be confirmed. This comes after th...
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Somewhat Michael @urbanescrumping.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
THIS!
Posters labelled “Aussie” showing old photos of Australians from a range of ethnic backgrounds.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 11/06/2026
Babies are dying because parents, confused by an HHS that deliberately sows distrust, won't give their newborns a vitamin K shot that used to be standard www.propublica.org/article/more...
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Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
A lifesaving injection given at birth to prevent severe bleeding has become collateral damage of the anti-vaccine movement.
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Maggie Wiggin @maggie162.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE
 Page from a book saying:

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING
Choose your Leaders with wisdom and forethought.
To be led by a coward is to be controlled
by all that the coward fears.
To be led by a fool is to be led
by the opportunists who control the fool.
To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen.
To be led by a liar
is to ask to be told lies.
To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.
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Francesco Francavilla @ffrancavilla.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Remember these two HORROR LEGENDS, CHRISTOPHER LEE and VINCENT PRICE on their shared birthday! 🖤🖤🖤
My movie posters for Horror of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Masque of the Red Death with Vincent Price
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Science bytes @dnascience.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
"In the lexicon of human migration there are still hierarchical words, created with the purpose of putting white people above everyone else. One of those remnants is the word “expat”."
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Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?
Surely any person going to work outside their country is an expatriate? But no, the word exclusively applies to white people
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🍀🩵Cindy💙🍀 @cindyandrewsmcgraw.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
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wheelyweb 🇨🇦🇮🇹🇦🇺 @wheelyweb.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
as it fucking should be
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Science Friday @scifri.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
A newborn sperm whale is held up by its family as it takes its first breath in our #PictureOfTheWeek. The entire birth was captured on camera off the coast of Dominica, giving researchers new insight into sperm whale behavior. Photo credit: © Project CETI
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
THE DALAI LAMA IS WEAK ON MONETARY POLICY.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/04/2026
Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
[alt text by NASA] The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA
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Terre-Strial @terre-strial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
@hcrichardson.bsky.social 💯🎯 @nasawebb.extwitter.link
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Zax @zaxman.ca · 07/04/2026
hadn't seen this one on bsky yet so I'm posting it myself. the faint glow you can see on the moon is Earthshine, light reflecting up from the Earths surface and onto the moon, illuminating the dark side during the eclipse. the dot on the left of the image is Venus. just insane.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
🎯🎯
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Somewhat Michael @urbanescrumping.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Damn… Vale Rob
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Who Was Rob Grant? Red Dwarf Co-Creator Dies at 70 Just After Announcing New Prequel Novel 'Titan' | Here's How 'Funny Man' Shaped British Comedy
Rob Grant, the visionary co-creator of the cult sci-fi sitcom Red Dwarf, has died suddenly at 70. His family confirmed the loss just days after he announced a new prequel novel.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... drumroll ... Scott Morrison! Vics get $1k, we pick up Scomo's $461k legal bill although *he knew* @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social FOIs are back. #MerryChristmas #auspol michaelwest.com.au/biggest-comp...
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And the biggest compo payout for Robodebt victims is ... Scott Morrison! - Michael West
Compare Robodebt victims' compo to the quantum of Scott Morrison's publicly funded legal fees. It's shameful, reports Rex Patrick.
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who up nu scaring they weeb? 𖤐 @numetalweeb.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
This is the most Australian thing I have seen all week and it's a mood
Amy from Australian punk rock band, 'Amyl and the Sniffers' flipping off Anthony, the blue wiggle from The Wiggles.
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C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.
Exactly what it says on the label: The Pope in 1982. He's wearing a black hat, dark RayBans, and looks like he's a member of the Blues Brothers.
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🇬🇱CarlaExotic🏳️‍🌈NAFO🇺🇦Fellania🏳️‍⚧️🦄🦘 @carlaexotic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
#Auspol rather hypocritical since Sussssan was probably into the Dead Kennedys
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.
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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
*cracks knuckles* okay so you know how the media has a problem with taking snippets of scientific studies out of context and writing articles which mislead the public? now imagine a computer program is doing that when you ask it questions about scientific literature but also it makes stuff up.
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Somewhat Michael @urbanescrumping.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
It's true. I was *sure* everyone would realise when we introduced the platypus, but no. We're just that convincing.
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Time for some good news! The human world can work together to solve environmental challenges, just like the Montreal Protocol & elimination of CFCs started in the 1980s. By 2035, the ozone “hole” may be completely closed all year long! This Government thanks you all! news.mit.edu/2025/study-h...
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Study: The ozone hole is healing, thanks to global reduction of CFCs
An MIT-led study confirms the Antarctic ozone layer is healing as a direct result of global efforts to reduce ozone-depleting substances.
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Opal @opalescentopal.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The deeply shitty people running the country now are nothing new; there have always been deeply shitty people like them in America. Although in the past the media, academia, and even Congress were slower to surrender to them.
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Al Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Photo of Tom Lehrer
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🪷MsGrumpyBunny🪷 @msgrumpybunny.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Bright orange and pink peony flowers with green leaves over blue in the background. Beige box with black text in center 

“May life treat you exactly the same way you treat servers, store clerks, senior citizens, children, and
farm workers.”
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Pyramid Chad @pyrameadhead.wifeguy.online · 14/07/2025
Skeet from me. Image of a mole coming up from ground. Text: HEAD LIKE A MOLE
NOSE IS A CONE
HE HAS NO EYES
HE LIVES IN A HOLE
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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Jillian Segal and hubby John Roth fund the far-right "Advance" group, who opposed the Aboriginal voice on grounds it’s divisive to treat one group differently. www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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Funding threats for unis, school curriculum changes in bid to change ‘dangerous trajectory’
Australia has faced rising antisemitism since Hamas’ October 7, 2023 attack on Israel and the resulting conflict in the region. Not everyone is happy with the plan released to combat it.
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Silver Fox @longjimsilver.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
This could actually be the Express lolz
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Obscene ideas are injected into public life with "humour" ... and then enacted. My column this week is pegged to the recent calls in the Spectator to murder people at Glastonbury, and on GB News to starve and shoot disabled people. You could call it wink murder. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot
Whether it’s bloodshed at Glastonbury or starving people on benefits, their ‘irony poisoning’ seeps obscene ideas into the range of the possible, says Guasrdian columnist George Monbiot
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 09/07/2025
Inequality has meant Australia collects less GST. There are better ways to collect more revenue than just raising the GST, which would hurt poorer people more. ✅ Apply GST to private school fees and private health insurance ✅Tax the gas industry properly @grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
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The Onion @theonion.com · 01/07/2025
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
Tesla Robotaxi Keeps Changing Subject To White Genocide
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 18/03/2025
Australia collects more revenue from HECS than from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax. It’s time to increase the PRRT so that gas companies pay their fair share. Sign and share > theaus.in/increasePRRT
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