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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes. 💛💙🌻♥️💚🍉🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 Aussie 🦘 https://katecarruthers.com/

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · May 3

It’s how I deal with my existential dread katecarruthers.com/2025/01/09/2...

2025 BingoCard | Aide Mémoire

In something of a tradition for me, at the start of each new year, I deal with my existential dread by creating a BingoCard. Here is my 2025 BingoCard: Here is a link to the pdf version

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 2h

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David Henig @davidheniguk.bsky.social · 4h

With regard to the latest instalment of the US-China trade war, the simple truth is that every country is struggling to understand how modern global markets affect them, and the largest are the most frustrated (same applies to the EU) in wanting "sovereignty" www.ft.com/content/caf2...

Technological sovereignty with American characteristics

The US has decided it can no longer afford to outsource its chipmaking future

www.ft.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 8h

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas

Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

www.newscientist.com

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Gary Gilligan #FBPE #KTTO @garygilligan.bsky.social · 1d

www.thenewworld.co.uk/rats-in-a-sa...

Reform, Farage and Tice: it’s all about the money

The leaders of the hard right party are raking it in. Do any of them have any time left over for the boring stuff in life – like representing their constituents?

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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F.L. Everett @fliceverett.bsky.social · 1d

I didn't know it was black cat awareness month! Well in that case, here's Kit Marlowe, aged 2 and 3/4. She's the light of our lives, 4am nose-licker, kindly mouse-deliverer, Dreamies addict and bed-lover. ❤️

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 5h

Grimly fascinated by these people’s maniacal commitment to utterly, abjectly humiliating everyone who has ever spoken a kind word in their favour

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.s... • 20m
I think the McSweeney strategy is the right one, because most marginal seats are
Labour-Reform contests
McSweeney sees the current political battlefield as a fight between Labour and Reform. He does not believe that moving to the "left", which includes these days moving to a more pro-EU position, is the way to keep voters who are tempted to abandon Labour for the Lib Dems, Greens and the Corbyn-Sultana party.
McSweeney's view is that Labour should focus on voters who are tempted to defect to Reform, and that presenting the next election as a choice of prime minister between Starmer and Farage will also keep enough of the left onside.

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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 7h

9-yr-old Ukrainian Sasha Paskal has won gold&bronze medals at the All-Ukrainian Rhythmic Gymnastics Competition "Black Sea Cup"

In the summer of 2022she was seriously injured by a Russian strike and underwent a leg amputation

Sasha didn’t give up.She went through rehabilitation
📹bokareva.solovey.m

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onion person @junlper.beer · 8h

we need to abolish this shit

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Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 5h

The world is being unkind to many. Do as we do and fight back with kindness where you can.

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

it is better than starving in the desert I expect

kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

A Cooks Tour of interesting stuff about AI in 2025 - including AI psychosis & some emergent properties

datarevolution.tech/2025/10/what...

#DataRevolution #podcast #ai

What’s new in AI in 2025 (so far) - Data Revolution Podcast

Kate talks about the pivotal changes and some AI innovations, and she offers a glimpse into the future of AI and its implications for business and society.

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 5h

But JD Vance says I'll be arrested for praying in a Scottish hospital (something I've done thousands of times, as the National Health Service has always acknowledged the value of spiritual care)

David August ❌👑 @davidaugust.bsky.social · 8h

Father Larry Dowling's account of leading Eucharistic Procession ice #prisoners in Broadview (near Chicago) and being stopped.

"No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. #Evil is repelled…"

#USpol #Catholic #ice #religion #good #dhs #Christian

Larry Dowling

I had…privilege…of leading…Eucharistic Procession… to…ICE Detention Center in Broadview…to pray…bring Holy Communion…to…men & women detained…under inhumane conditions.

Over 1,000 Catholics…marched in peaceful prayer & song, facilitated by…Police Departments &…State Police. I cannot speak more highly of…public safety officers in providing us safe passage.

Upon arrival…was…different…no ICE or Federal representatives…When requesting to talk w/…representative…over…phone, After…brief wait…answer came back…clearly:

NO, YOU CANNOT BRING A HINT OF COMPASSION & PRAYER INTO THIS PLACE!
NO, YOU CANNOT OFFER…SOLACE TO…MEN & WOMEN FEARFUL & SUFFERING INSIDE!
NO, YOU CANNOT BRING JESUS…SON OF GOD…LOVE OF GOD, INTO THIS PLACE!

No one had…courage to speak…to us. No one from [DHS] could stand in…presence of…Monstrance holding…Blessed Sacrament. No wonder. Evil is repelled, recoils in…presence of Christ.

…been able to do for detainees for…past…written into…law, was refused…

"Father, forgive…ones who do not know what they are doing."
"Have mercy on…souls of those who know exactly what they're doing. Touch their hearts & transform them from stony…into fleshy, life-giving…"
"Only through, w/& in God will hearts be changed!"

…battle for hearts…minds, compassion…mercy, continues...

Please pray especially for…children…mothers & fathers…being treated inhumanely…Silence is supporting this abuse of these members of God's family.

Peace! Fr. Larry Dowling

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach www.bbc.com/future/artic...

'Their resilience is a lesson to us all': The maritime lions hunting seals on the beach

In Namibia, a group of desert lions have left their traditional hunting grounds for the Atlantic coast and are now thriving as the world's only maritime lions.

www.bbc.com

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

Cardiologist Peter MacDonald Can’t Save Lives as the Zionist Lobby Has Seen Him Suspended www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au/blog/cardiol...

Cardiologist Peter MacDonald Can’t Save Lives as the Zionist Lobby Has Seen Him Suspended

Renowned Sydney cardiologist Peter MacDonald has been suspended over making a remark about Mossad potentially being behind two local arson attacks.

www.sydneycriminallawyers.com.au

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

sorry to hear this - sending hugs

kcarruthers @kcar.me · 5h

sadly I now have data that shows nobody is interested in AI governance - everyone is very interested in AI psychosis

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 22h

If this was happening in any other country you'd have journalists and analysts discussing risks of state failure

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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 7h

The Knitting Nannas have gone global ... led by Aunt Tifa.

#AuntTifa #KnittingNannas #GrandmasUnite #UmbrellaSquad #IamAuntTifa

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 6h

it's a proud day for many a lapsed Catholic in the US I suspect

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 6h

Regent parrot chicks getting weighed are just so absurdly adorable and undignified 😂😭😇

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 6h

#ResolvePM ALP 34 L-NP 28 Green 11 ON 12 IND 9 other 7

Their 2PP 55.0 to ALP (respondent prefs)
My 2025 prefs estimate 55.5 to ALP

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Lawrence Freedman @ldfreedman.bsky.social · 6h

With Farage’s former colleague Nathan Gill guilty of taking money from Russia to promote its propaganda Sam looks at the wider connections between the radical right and Russia. (£/free trial), samf.substack.com/p/russia-and...

Russia and the rise of the radical right

Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

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Snarky Platypus @snarkyplatypus.com · 8h

Very few people in Australia understand the importance of migration to Australia’s economy so whatever.

6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 8h

🚨 NEW: 58% of people support a "significant reduction in Australia's immigration numbers", according to a new Resolve poll

A cut is supported by a majority of Labor, Coalition and One Nation voters, while Greens voters (35% support, 32% oppose, 33% unsure) are split

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blogdebart.bsky.social @blogdebart.bsky.social · 17h

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spooky mental haunted house @jesseltaylor.bsky.social · 2d

donning the armor of god to face the forces of hell

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