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Bronya

@waterdragons4.bsky.social
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Educator, arts tragic. Soft tread - Gadigal, Awabakal, Worimi, Biripi, Wonnarura lands.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Had this to say about Josh Frydenberg today and I think I may have been a bit too kind to him. #pfffft
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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
All smiles for the cameras as Amanda Camm & Deb Frecklington celebrated 15 less children in the Queensland residential care system. The real concern is safety officers are unable to get to 90% of children in need of help by the 72hr response target. No answers on the 91 deceased children. #qldpol
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Hitchhiker @42inabook.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Earlier this evening as the sky reflects the moisture ,of the storm that’s passed , in all the shades of Springs pinks and reds #MyHome Canberra #CBR Australia
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 13/10/2026
🌍 Antarctic warming hugs the coast >From 1979 to 2025, clear warming on the Antarctic Peninsula appears only at northern coastal stations. The trend follows sea ice, so coastal readings run higher. 🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #Antarctica #ClimateScience 🧪
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Interpreting Air Temperature Trends Across the Antarctic Peninsula Between 1979 and 2025
The Antarctic Peninsula shows highly variable temperature trends in space and time between 1979 and 2025, but on average no significant warming Air temperature trends strongly correlate with sea-...
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Dr Alessio Veneziano @aveneziano.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
A new ancient Egyptian dog name (a cynonome) found using image processing on a 3500 years old tomb! The good boy's name was "He of the underworld"! Very metal vibes! 🧪 #science 🏺 #archaeology #anthropology #zooarch #dogs #DogSky 🦮🐾 archaeologymag.com/2026/10/egyp...
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A 3,500-year-old Egyptian dog had a unique name linked to the underworld god Anubis | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A newly identified dog name in an 18th Dynasty Egyptian tomb may refer to Anubis, the god of the underworld.
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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Delightful news! Shellybanks is shortlisted for 2026 Booktopia Book Awards. If you’re one of the many people who told me you loved it, I’d be so grateful for your vote. You’ll be in running for $250 prize. Thanks for supporting my writing, means the world. ❤️📚 www.booktopia.com.au/booktopia-bo...
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Nannas, Lock the Gate and 150+ outside NSW Parliament today to tell MP’s that time for more coal and gas is up! Around 150 people & 🙏🏻 many speakers including Jeremy Buckingham Chair of the NSW Joint Standing Committee on Net Zero Future, Dr Kim Loo Chair of Drs for the Environment, Green MP’s.
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Brilliant work by @mackinnonart.bsky.social
A reimagining of/homage to M. C. Escher's "Drawing Hands" showing a realistic human hand emerging from the paper drawing a robotic/AI hand which is also emerging from the paper... and that robotic hand, having turned the pencil around, is erasing the human hand. By Bruce MacKinnon
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Lilly @lillyull.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Climate | Scientists are coming under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global report on the climate, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that postponement could spell disaster for them. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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IPCC is under pressure to delay publication of key global climate report
AR7 report was scheduled for 2028 in time for Cop33 summit but some petro-states and major developing countries want to postpone it
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Why not just go the whole hog and call Earth America? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump suggests ‘Ocean of Americas’ as new name for Atlantic or Pacific
The president also floated the idea of naming an ocean after himself.
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Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The prince across the water …
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
We went to the wisteria arbour today. We just missed the best display (gotta be quick) and yesterday's huge storm probably didn't help. But it was still very pretty. The Adelaide Botanic Garden is so nice to visit.
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angry-goddess.bsky.social @angry-goddess.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Just FO Gina!
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s quite extraordinary Angus Taylor was critical of Mike Pezzullo being stripped of his Order of Australia. Perhaps Angus hasn’t read Lynelle Briggs’ report into his conduct that I obtained under #FOI … or he lacks judgement. #insiders #auspol
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The mandarin who got caught. Mike Pezzullo inquiry details revealed - Michael West
The secret inquiry into Mike Pezzullo's conduct reveals just how serious his misconduct was, and his sacking was inevitable.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Agree 💯% With Joe Walsh.......
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
🇮🇹🇵🇸 Tens of Thousands protest against Israel in Italy, marking 3 years for Gaza Genocide. Marches reported in Rome, Turin, and Milan.
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Gordon Wark 🤬💥😡🔥🕗🕕🕓🕖 @1stwark.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
An elegant Maya ceramic figurine from Campeche depicts a kneeling noblewoman holding a lidded jar. Made between 600 and 800 CE, the object shows artificial cranial deformation and facial paint. Archeologists associate this vessel with elite rituals involving beverages or fluids for ceremonies.
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Reverend Genes @reverendgenes.com.au · 10/10/2026
Sublime. Detail. Expression. Composition. Light. Solidty. Style. 🇦🇺 🎨
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Fiona O'Byrne wins 2026 Lester Prize with painting of daughter
The Melbourne-based artist, who has been painting her children for more than a decade, has won $50,000 for the artwork.
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Happy weekend! Here’s a 3,500 year-old Minoan clay flask decorated with a wide-eyed octopus! 🐙❤️ From Palaikastro, Crete. Heraklion Archaeological Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows a frontal view of a clay flask with warm-yellow coloured slip with black hand painted decoration depicting an octopus. The octopus is swimming diagonally with eight writhing, sucker-lined arms covering the surface of the flask. It stares out at the viewer with wide, almost cartoon-like eyes. Additional black painted motifs include sea urchins, tritons, small rocks and seaweed. Minoan decoration depicting sea motifs is known by scholars as the 'Marine Style'. The flask measures 27 cm (about 10.5 inches) in height. It has a short spout at the top with a small loop handle at either side and a small base so that it can stand upright.

“Its shape is somewhat unusual, constructed by slipping together, while still leather hard (clay that is not quite dry), two shallow plates which had been made on a fast spinning potter’s wheel and with highly refined clay. The circular bases of these shallow plates are still visible in the center of both sides of the flask” (Smart History article “Octopus Vase” by Dr Senta German https://smarthistory.org/octopus-vase/)

The flask was excavated in 1903 at a Bronze Age settlement site at Palaikastro. The excavations between 1902 and 1906, were run by R. Bosanquet and R.M. Dawkins from the British School of Athens. The flask is part of the collections at Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Heraklion, Crete.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/10/2026
Buying oil from the enemy, that’ll teach’em
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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good one, Jimmy Barnes ... Respect! We're at that stage where we need working class men like Jimmy to speak up against the ugly racism that's creeping into our politics. @jimmybarnes.com #auspol
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Annie Parker @annieparker.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Just my bestest Cathy duck doing some feet slaps and zoomies with me. He’s such a good boy. #duck #farmlife #littlefarm
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Craig's Late Night Douche Bag Patrol🦘🦘🦘 @vincentsworkisdone.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
He conveniently forgets. No one who has a brain would read his biased garbage.
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This article is rich with the hopefulness and enthusiasm of young university students, but by god it’s depressing to know that should they venture into careers that involve environmental conservation and management, they’re in for a lifetime of frustration.
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Botswana's UNESCO wetlands offer lessons for Australia
What Botswana's pristine wetlands and waterways are teaching Australians about climate change, over-extraction and conservation.
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Australian Writer, Richard Flannagan on the possibilities of life. “Whatever the answer is to the great questions, it doesn't exist within yourself. It exists within others. And your relationship with others.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k5b...
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Writer Richard Flanagan: The Possibilities of Life
YouTube video by Louisiana Channel
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DrArchivalGenomics @ehekkala.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Please continue to celebrate the often unsung and, in this case, truly extraordinary #WomenInSTEM who have alway been there, working to expand knowledge behind the veil of science #MargaretHamilton 🧪👩‍💻 . www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/o...
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Margaret Hamilton, Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions, Has Died (Gift Article)
Margaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired to work on the space project at M.I.T., was 90.
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Dr Andrew Mahon @andyantarctica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton empowered women and girls in science. 🧪 She made a tremendous impact on the world.
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Dr. Judith Hubbard @judithgeology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It has been a quiet six weeks on the earthquake front. Is that normal? Our new tool will tell you, live-updated every fifteen minutes using the USGS earthquake feed. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/weeks-and-... ⚒️ 🧪
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Weeks and weeks of quiet: is that normal?
Yes.
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
October 8th is World Octopus Day! Octopuses are a subject I regularly return to. Enjoy these octopus linocuts, woodcut and screen print. 🧪🐡🐙 This is my hand-carved and hand-pulled Lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods
As described this is my hand-carved and hand-pulled Lino block print of a charming Grimpoteuthis octopus, one of a genus of pelagic cirrate (finned) octopods known as the dumbo octopuses. The water looks black and the octopus has its brown tentacles curled in to its indigo body with reddish fins. Each print is 9.25” by 12.5” on delicate Japanese washi paper.
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American Physiological Society @apsphysiology.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The heart runs on a 24-hour clock. New research in APS-Function suggests #Type1Diabetes can disrupt its daily rhythms differently in the right and left ventricles—possibly adding to cardiovascular risk: ow.ly/VVLb50ZThRG APS Publications #ArticlesInPress #APSselect 🧪 📷: iStock
Detailed 3D rendering of a human heart showing arteries and veins against a swirling red and purple abstract background.
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
It’s 2026 and people believe that ivermectin and fenbendazole treat cancer. They don't. Many drugs exhibit cancer cell toxicity in a petri dish. But the game changes when you move to animal models or humans. Mel Gibson is not a good source of factual information. 🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Undercover reporter offered fenbendazole and ivermectin as cancer treatment
A terminally ill patient was offered the drugs by a stair lift salesman claiming they could shrink tumours.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 08/10/2026
We don’t think the case for this has been made. One constant in the global history of policing is that every weapon given to cops, they will eventually use. Therefore, every force escalation requires compelling justification.
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 07/10/2026
Many assumed they had already been deported due to their absence in polling results. chaser.com.au/national/aus...
Image of Angus Taylor. 

“Australia only needs skilled workers”: Coalition calls for mass deportation of Coalition MPs - The Chaser
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Miree - one day everyone will have always been against this @miree.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you or I hacked Govt systems, saying we were sorry probably wouldn’t keep us out of jail. The govt response to this has been bullshit. #auspol act.getup.org.au/s/75ah3SRz
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Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time
A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Biochemist Dr. Florence Seibert developed the Purified Protein Derivative in the 1930s that standardized tuberculosis testing worldwide by 1952. Before her work, TB skin tests were inconsistent/unreliable.It remains the basis for the TB skin test used today. Born #OTD in 1897. #WomenInSTEM
A vintage black-and-white studio portrait features biochemist Dr. Florence Seibert (1900–1991), famed for developing the Purified Protein Derivative (PPD) that standardized tuberculosis testing worldwide. Captured from the chest up, she poses in a three-quarter turn while looking directly at the camera with a subtle, intelligent smile, establishing a serene, professional, and historically significant mood. Her dark hair is styled in a classic 1920s short bob featuring prominent finger waves framing her forehead. She wears delicate, rimless spectacles and a light-colored blouse designed with a prominent collar and soft ruffled detailing along the edges. The composition employs soft-focus lighting typical of early 20th-century photography, casting gentle highlights across her face against a smooth, dark, non-descript studio backdrop. In the bottom right corner, a faint, embossed photographer's stamp adds an authentic period touch to this archival image celebrating a foundational figure in medicine.
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Tony and Wendy from Denman Aberdeen Muswellbrook Scone Healthy Environment Group (Dams Heg) respond to todays High Court of Australia decision that “Australia can no longer dig up coal, ship it overseas, watch it drive climate change, and then pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us.”
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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
After waiting a month for a callback regarding a mammogram booking as woman with a disability (wheelchair user) I followed up + now have a booking for next week. No matter how many times I hear about social inclusion’, I never quite feel equal. End of rant.
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Sydney Knitting Nannas and Friends @knitnannassyd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Happy Nannas and friends outside court today (see comments for why).
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Chilli 🥀 @chillileu.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Seriously considering screenshotting every single page of this course I'm taking, correcting the dozens of grammatical errors per page and then sending it all back to the course coordinator why am I paying $40k for this when we STILL don't know the difference between illicit and elicit
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DianeD 🇦🇺 @rogueytwinkles.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Just finished watching 70Up.. Cried my eyes out. Where the hell have MY 62 years gone? No regrets but just wish I could take back 20 of those years, just to have more time …… #70Up
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Matt @swirlyball.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This is sad, I remember in primary school the teachers would wheel out the tv set and we'd all watch him present "Behind the News"
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Lisa 🍉🍉🍉🍉🍉🦘 @makingmeals.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This makes me very sad. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Veteran news anchor Richard Morecroft dies, aged 70
Morecroft was a regular presence on television screens for more than 30 years.
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Tom Walsh @tewalsh340.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Brilliant stuff Everald and a very happy 95th birthday! 🎂🎉 A man who celebrates by lifting others with him. #auspol
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matthew green @mrgtwentythree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
RIP
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Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
#Poetry #Woodcut1930 #Autumn Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me The Carriage held but just Ourselves And Immortality. - Emily Dickinson 🎨 Krasnodębska-Gardowska
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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