Joe Slater
@joeinaustralia.bsky.social
Interests: human rights,
Judaism and SF.
Pronouns are he/him.
Judaism and SF.
Pronouns are he/him.
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Joe Slater
@joeinaustralia.bsky.social
· Jan 27
History is tragedy. And we just keep making more of it.
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A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
December 2, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance.
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
@MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury
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Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, almost a decade after reforms were first promised.
WA's surrogacy, IVF laws overhauled as legislation passes parliament
Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, almost a decade after reforms were first promised.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Same-sex couples, single people, transgender and intersex West Australians will be able to access assisted reproductive technology and surrogacy, almost a decade after reforms were first promised.
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Tomorrow Dr Amir Banbaji will give our final #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah'.
Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#lecture #oxford
Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#lecture #oxford
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Tomorrow Dr Amir Banbaji will give our final #davidpattersonlecture of the term: 'Beyond Ornament: The Shifting Role of Melitsah in Hebrew Thought from the Middle Ages to the Haskalah'.
Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#lecture #oxford
Join us online or in person at 6pm tomorrow!
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#lecture #oxford
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“Rather than struggle to convince the German people to let them do their worst, it would be more historically accurate to say that Hitler and his band of true believers rode a populist wave of homicidal ideation straight to power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-devils-b...
The Devil's Bargain
Nazism and the moral collapse of German Christendom.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:08 AM
“Rather than struggle to convince the German people to let them do their worst, it would be more historically accurate to say that Hitler and his band of true believers rode a populist wave of homicidal ideation straight to power.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-devils-b...
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December 3, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sometimes, no matter how much you want it too, a book doesn’t work for you.
Books Read: Moderation by Elaine Castillo
Your mileage will definitely vary.
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Sometimes, no matter how much you want it too, a book doesn’t work for you.
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Pawzymandias
Somewhere in a Roman brickyard, around 1800 years ago, a fresh tile was drying ahead of firing - until a dog trotted straight across it.
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
Centuries later, the tile has made it into a museum: not because of an emperor, but thanks to one dog who accidentally walked his way into history.🧵1/2
📷me
December 3, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Pawzymandias
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New Zealand man charged with theft over claims he swallowed $19k Fabergé egg
New Zealand man charged with theft over claims he swallowed $19k Fabergé egg
The egg, which is set with 60 white diamonds and 15 blue sapphires, has not yet been recovered.
www.bbc.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
New Zealand man charged with theft over claims he swallowed $19k Fabergé egg
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Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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I found this on Youtube. Brilliant! And even seasonal 🤣
I have a theory that it takes more talent to be funny than it does to be serious.
youtu.be/55naW-yGPqs?...
I have a theory that it takes more talent to be funny than it does to be serious.
youtu.be/55naW-yGPqs?...
Barron Knights Top Of The Pops 1964
YouTube video by william bramham
youtu.be
December 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
I found this on Youtube. Brilliant! And even seasonal 🤣
I have a theory that it takes more talent to be funny than it does to be serious.
youtu.be/55naW-yGPqs?...
I have a theory that it takes more talent to be funny than it does to be serious.
youtu.be/55naW-yGPqs?...
Bonus: a woman born in 1834 speaking one of these languages
The labour of love breathing life back into palawa kani – the lost language of Lutruwita
Aboriginal children are being born in Tasmania today knowing the sounds of their ancient tongue. They are the first to do so for 150 years
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Bonus: a woman born in 1834 speaking one of these languages
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A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
It's almost never OK for psychologists to date their clients
A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
A new code of conduct for for Australian psychologists provides updated guidance that it's almost never OK to date someone who is or has been a client, even if that was years ago.
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never been prouder of @scottcollette.bsky.social
slop not from the humans, for the humans slop also into you
slop not from the humans, for the humans slop also into you
Man Realizes He Can Feed Poison Pills to Facebook AI Slop Page, Driving Its Followers Berserk
After noticing an AI Facebook paging was ripping off his posts, one man found a clever way of getting revenge.
futurism.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 AM
never been prouder of @scottcollette.bsky.social
slop not from the humans, for the humans slop also into you
slop not from the humans, for the humans slop also into you
Ooh, what a giveaway.
December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Ooh, what a giveaway.
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Because we're doing this again tonight, I am going to tell you a story about identity and faces and trauma.
One side of my family were German Jews and the secular, aristocratic, international kind. They lived in Manheim and Baden-Baden and had connections across the world. They felt secular. (1/?)
One side of my family were German Jews and the secular, aristocratic, international kind. They lived in Manheim and Baden-Baden and had connections across the world. They felt secular. (1/?)
"peak white"
Yeah, that whiteness enjoyed by some (not all) Jews is transactional, tentative, not well seated.
Yeah, that whiteness enjoyed by some (not all) Jews is transactional, tentative, not well seated.
Jews are both a religion and a people.
They are racially diverse.
To categorize them as one race is not only inaccurate but dangerous.
They are racially diverse.
To categorize them as one race is not only inaccurate but dangerous.
December 3, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Because we're doing this again tonight, I am going to tell you a story about identity and faces and trauma.
One side of my family were German Jews and the secular, aristocratic, international kind. They lived in Manheim and Baden-Baden and had connections across the world. They felt secular. (1/?)
One side of my family were German Jews and the secular, aristocratic, international kind. They lived in Manheim and Baden-Baden and had connections across the world. They felt secular. (1/?)
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Tech billionaires Michael and Susan Dell have pledged $US6.25 billion ($9.5 billion) to new investment accounts for children, known as "Trump accounts". Here's how the donation will work.
Michael and Susan Dell donate nearly $10b to 'Trump accounts'
Tech billionaires Michael and Susan Dell have pledged $US6.25 billion ($9.5 billion) to new investment accounts for children, known as "Trump accounts". Here's how the donation will work.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Tech billionaires Michael and Susan Dell have pledged $US6.25 billion ($9.5 billion) to new investment accounts for children, known as "Trump accounts". Here's how the donation will work.
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A wedge-tailed eagle's nest was moved in an operation costing about $100,000 involving a 60-tonne crane, a specialist arborist and a carefully engineered basket.
Hopes remain for return of eagles to nest moved from Queensland hospital site
A wedge-tailed eagle's nest was moved in an operation costing about $100,000 involving a 60-tonne crane, a specialist arborist and a carefully engineered basket.
www.abc.net.au
December 3, 2025 at 1:08 AM
A wedge-tailed eagle's nest was moved in an operation costing about $100,000 involving a 60-tonne crane, a specialist arborist and a carefully engineered basket.
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The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25/
Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me.
I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me.
I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins
Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.
clarkesworldmagazine.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:10 AM
The Cold Burns by Anne Wilkins clarkesworldmagazine.com/wilkins_12_25/
Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me.
I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
Big, big news!!! It's here! My sci-fi story, "The Cold Burns" is out in Clarkesworld. This is a dream come true for me.
I hope you enjoy reading it!☺️
@clarkesworldmagazine.com
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This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
"the issue isn’t that we need more 'boy-friendly' reforms. It’s that boys are socialized to compete only with boys and to read girls’ success as illegitimate or emasculating. The result is dissonance, resentment, and disengagement for boys—and hostile climates for girls."
time.com/7335723/auto...
time.com/7335723/auto...
The Real Way Schools are Failing Boys
“If we really want boys to succeed, we need to ensure that they know how to both beat—and lose— to girls."
time.com
December 2, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This piece hit hard for me, as it tracks with why my daughter stopped playing soccer at recess. The boys wouldn't let the girls play with them--only against them and with fewer players. But when girls scored anyway, some boys would cheat and play to hurt the girls, to the point where it wasn't fun.
Was The Economist ever a serious magazine, or did I just imagine it?
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Was The Economist ever a serious magazine, or did I just imagine it?
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Are these “reasonable concerns” in the room with us right now?
Donald Trump had reasonable concerns about how Joe Biden’s relatives enriched themselves through his service. Yet his own family is making the “Biden crime family” look small-time
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
econ.st
December 2, 2025 at 10:14 AM
Are these “reasonable concerns” in the room with us right now?
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When we hit puberty I discovered girls. Jack discovered both girls and boys, and really, girls were just a passing phase for him. After that we drifted apart -- not just because of that, but because we were following different paths in school and had developed different interests.
After reading some of the powerful posts about World AIDS Day I find myself wanting to post my own feeble contribution.
When I was four I met a kid named Jack who lived across the street from me, and who was just two months younger than me. We quickly became best friends.
When I was four I met a kid named Jack who lived across the street from me, and who was just two months younger than me. We quickly became best friends.
December 2, 2025 at 6:40 AM
When we hit puberty I discovered girls. Jack discovered both girls and boys, and really, girls were just a passing phase for him. After that we drifted apart -- not just because of that, but because we were following different paths in school and had developed different interests.
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Guilty secret: I have never seen a Tom Stoppard play. Even if you haven't either, read this, because Patrick Marber is a fantastic writer.
www.theguardian.com/stage/202...
www.theguardian.com/stage/202...
‘There was rage and pain and iron in him’: Patrick Marber on the great hits – and fond smokes – he had with Tom Stoppard
The director worked with theatre colossus Tom Stoppard on two smash hits. Here, he remembers their heated rehearsals, the night they stayed up watching Jaws – and the last four cigarettes they smoked together
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Guilty secret: I have never seen a Tom Stoppard play. Even if you haven't either, read this, because Patrick Marber is a fantastic writer.
www.theguardian.com/stage/202...
www.theguardian.com/stage/202...