Cheryl
@aggerchez.bsky.social
Interested in law, Oceania/Pacific, agriculture, food, libraries, books, plants.
Fuelled by coffee. She/her ☕️🌈
Fuelled by coffee. She/her ☕️🌈
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
This was a fascinating listen. Intriguing to hear from a person on the inside about how defending someone at the International Criminal Court works.
What’s it like to defend the accused at The Hague? ⚖️ @drnajimagi.bsky.social & @pagingdrpaige.bsky.social talk with veteran defence lawyer Kate Gibson about funding, fairness, and the ethics of trials in absentia. #CalledToTheBar
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55. Defending the Defence: Life on the Other Side of the Courtroom
In this episode of Called to the Bar: International Law Over Drinks, host Dr Juliette McIntyre (University of South Australia) is joined by A/Prof Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Law School) and special
soundcloud.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This was a fascinating listen. Intriguing to hear from a person on the inside about how defending someone at the International Criminal Court works.
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🐧 SUPER SPECIAL PIN DROP: I've partnered with World Wide Fund For Nature NZ...bringing you the cutest Kororā pin just in time for the holidays! Celebrating 50 years in Aotearoa <3
25% of sales donated to WWF NZ to support their work advocating for our wildlife!
DIVE IN: pepperraccoon.com #birds
25% of sales donated to WWF NZ to support their work advocating for our wildlife!
DIVE IN: pepperraccoon.com #birds
November 3, 2025 at 12:05 AM
🐧 SUPER SPECIAL PIN DROP: I've partnered with World Wide Fund For Nature NZ...bringing you the cutest Kororā pin just in time for the holidays! Celebrating 50 years in Aotearoa <3
25% of sales donated to WWF NZ to support their work advocating for our wildlife!
DIVE IN: pepperraccoon.com #birds
25% of sales donated to WWF NZ to support their work advocating for our wildlife!
DIVE IN: pepperraccoon.com #birds
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It's endlessly incredible campaigning. What a team he must have!
Juntos vamos a construir la ciudad que merecemos!
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
Y con tu ayuda, voy a seguir aprendiendo español 😉
November 1, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It's endlessly incredible campaigning. What a team he must have!
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The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.
أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك
November 1, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The absolutely brilliant pitch perfect troll of getting targeted by your opponent with virulent Islamophobia and then immediately releasing an ad in all Arabic.
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Promoting @pepperraccoon.com because it is nearly the festive part of the year, their range of goodies is very cool, and I am obsessed with the raven pins they sell. I must purchase more as I keep giving them away.
November 1, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Promoting @pepperraccoon.com because it is nearly the festive part of the year, their range of goodies is very cool, and I am obsessed with the raven pins they sell. I must purchase more as I keep giving them away.
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Today, Saturday 1 November, is World Numbat Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/numbat-...
Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...
And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...
And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
World Numbat Day
Pint-sized critters with adorable stripes — get ready to fall head over heels for these cute little tree-dwelling wonders!
www.daysoftheyear.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Today, Saturday 1 November, is World Numbat Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/numbat-...
Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...
And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
Also, Pâté Day. www.daysoftheyear.com/days/nationa...
And it’s happy 65th birthday to Tim Apple. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook
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Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
October 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.
😒
Qld Health Minister just reinstated it
Queensland puberty blocker ban reinstated by health minister hours after supreme court overturned it
Move comes after parent successfully challenged LNP’s previous ban on new patients under 18 accessing hormone treatments for gender dysphoria
www.theguardian.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:51 AM
😒
This link should get you past the paywall - archive.li/rdK2i
October 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
This link should get you past the paywall - archive.li/rdK2i
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Spectacular good news. A victory for the family who sued; for the local trans activists; & for anyone who pushes back against Australia falling into the western Trumphole of non-peer-reviewed, JFK-brain , Project 2025 nonsense 😍✊
The decision to indefinitely ban the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for children with gender dysphoria was unlawful and did not follow proper procedures, a court has ruled. Read more: tinyurl.com/43wz9s62
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Spectacular good news. A victory for the family who sued; for the local trans activists; & for anyone who pushes back against Australia falling into the western Trumphole of non-peer-reviewed, JFK-brain , Project 2025 nonsense 😍✊
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This young male Satin Bowerbird has developed some of his first mature black satin feathers... around his eyes so it looks like he's wearing eyeliner or mascara XD
#birds
#birds
October 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
This young male Satin Bowerbird has developed some of his first mature black satin feathers... around his eyes so it looks like he's wearing eyeliner or mascara XD
#birds
#birds
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👀😬 Bulging eyes and razor-sharp teeth. The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne - sits atop a ghostly doorway near to Amen Corner 🙏 at St. Nicholas Churchyard. 🧛♂️🐰👻
Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces
Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 AM
👀😬 Bulging eyes and razor-sharp teeth. The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle Upon Tyne - sits atop a ghostly doorway near to Amen Corner 🙏 at St. Nicholas Churchyard. 🧛♂️🐰👻
Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces
Look closely and the door itself has a ghostly countenance...😱 #iseefaces
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This is currently my top advice for using the NZ medical system.
Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.
Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.
October 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This is currently my top advice for using the NZ medical system.
Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.
Ask your practitioner if they're using AI to transcribe your patient notes, whether to transcribe their dictation (bad) or to generate a transcription from listening to the consult (appalling). If they say yes, ask them not to.
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"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
October 25, 2025 at 11:29 PM
"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)
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So in a rare moment of blatant self promotion who wore it better, me or the Australian PM?
October 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
So in a rare moment of blatant self promotion who wore it better, me or the Australian PM?
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AI is part of the fascist political project
"embrace datacenters or face federal intervention"
fucking called it
fucking called it
Former US Sen. Kyrsten Sinema lobbies for data center developer at Chandler AZ Plan Commission. Says she's working "hand in glove" w Trump Admin & warns city to embrace DCs or face federal intervention. City Council vote on Sinema's DC scheduled for Nov. 13.
October 25, 2025 at 1:54 AM
AI is part of the fascist political project
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First flying duck (Caleana major - large duck orchid) of the spring near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Only a few scattered plants out in flower here but quite a few more of these very distinctive orchids in bud nearby - despite the recent dry conditions. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants
October 24, 2025 at 6:46 AM
First flying duck (Caleana major - large duck orchid) of the spring near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC. Only a few scattered plants out in flower here but quite a few more of these very distinctive orchids in bud nearby - despite the recent dry conditions. #orchids #inthefield #ozplants
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#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
Bara Brith
I have a particular fondness for Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread. My late sister Thomasina lived and worked in Wales, and my first taste of it came courtesy of her next door...
www.nigella.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:34 AM
#RecipeOfTheDay is Bara Brith, that wonderful Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, which I recommend eating so thickly spread with butter you can see your teeth marks in it when you take a bite (what the Danes refer to as tandsmør)! www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...
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This is a great piece from Mel Saward on some of the First Nations books that should have appeared on RN's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
The ABC’s Top 100 books poll lacks diversity. Here are my 10 First Nations ‘books of the 21st century’
Just three Aboriginal writers appeared in Radio National’s poll. There was little sense of the breadth and creativity of our First Nations writing scene.
theconversation.com
October 22, 2025 at 8:33 AM
This is a great piece from Mel Saward on some of the First Nations books that should have appeared on RN's Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
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Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn.
#AberfanDisaster
#AberfanDisaster
October 21, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Two surviving children stand at the top of the hill overlooking the miners digging to find children still buried in the slag, Aberfan Coal Slip Disaster, 21 October 1966 by David Hurn.
#AberfanDisaster
#AberfanDisaster
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incredible article
October 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
incredible article
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okay, it’s Ace Week (formerly Asexuality Awareness Week), there are some new folks here, I’ll be a designated Asexual Answering Questions if y’all stay cool about it. I don’t have infinity time today but l will get to what I can get to thoughtfully
ngl.link/handsrm1
ngl.link/handsrm1
Anonymous messages!
Anonymous messages!
ngl.link
October 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM
okay, it’s Ace Week (formerly Asexuality Awareness Week), there are some new folks here, I’ll be a designated Asexual Answering Questions if y’all stay cool about it. I don’t have infinity time today but l will get to what I can get to thoughtfully
ngl.link/handsrm1
ngl.link/handsrm1
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if you showed this to anyone at the crimethinc house in 2002 they would call the cops themselves
October 19, 2025 at 2:00 AM
if you showed this to anyone at the crimethinc house in 2002 they would call the cops themselves
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Canberra types, it’s the last day to register for this event. I was going to go, but the flights were diabolically expensive so I sent an old pair of boots instead. btaa.org.au/events/head-... . Otherwise you can help get the quolls up kunanyi pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...
October 19, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Canberra types, it’s the last day to register for this event. I was going to go, but the flights were diabolically expensive so I sent an old pair of boots instead. btaa.org.au/events/head-... . Otherwise you can help get the quolls up kunanyi pointtopinnacle2025.grassrootz.com/menzies-inst...