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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20h

ICYMI, essential listening with @carolecadwalla.bsky.social on the Tony Blair and his secretive institute, his hard right billionaire backers and Israeli business links.

Palestinians have strong grounds to be concerned about any role he has in Gaza.
As do we all.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Why Tony Blair might end up "Governor of Gaza" - ABC listen

Since resigning as UK Prime Minister in 2007, Tony Blair has maintained an active interest in the Middle East through his think tank The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. Carole Cadwalladr has b...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 20h

‘The message is clear: 20th-century colonialism created the conditions for a 21st-century tragedy.’

@josephinequinn.bsky.social on an exhibition of Gazan antiquities: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Josephine Quinn · At the Institut du monde arabe: ‘Trésors sauvés de Gaza’

This show has excited controversy: should we even be talking about damage to antiquities in the context of so much...

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 11h

geologist Patrick Nunn and linguist Nick Reid on Aboriginal oral histories verified by white science.

www.usc.edu.au/about/unisc-...

Evidence the oral stories of Australia’s First Nations might be 10,000 years old

Stories from Australia's First Nations tell of a time when the islands and reefs that dot the coastline were connected to the mainland. By analysing ancient sea levels, Professor Patrick Nunn believes...

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kcarruthers @kcar.me · 21h

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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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 21h

I guess that's one way of putting it

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 21h

Tell him the mosquitoes won't care if he's fit or not...

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 21h

Exciting! I haven't seen one for ages and ages.

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 22h

You've seen some?

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 22h

Aha

Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 22h

So you were what…?

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 22h

So farking depressing

Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

No sorry but I've just got online sort of now today

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

I did!

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Jenna Price @jennaprice.bsky.social · 1d

How is everyone not sharing this?😍

Jeremy Conescu @conescu.bsky.social · 1d

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you for the recipe, Giovanni!
I'll track some sourdough starter down.

Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

Aah...it dawns on me that this is the wrong Newtown for me to enquire about the sourdough starter...

Aah.it

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

Recipe please

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Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 1d

Preliminary data suggests that today's
42.5C at Telfer ,Australia might be the world's highest temperature,since maximums in Iran,Senegal,Mauritania and Mexico have dropped.

This would mark the first day of the season with the Southern Hemisphere recording the hottest spot.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World @extremetemps.bsky.social · 3d

Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA

In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.

Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

She's refurbing a caravan for $$$ and it's important to consider functionality as well as aesthetics.
Besides: #juxtaposition

Overlapping skeets:
Crowbar @crowbar.wtf • 1m
Ha!
Pete Cabanna @petecaban... • 2m
In a caravan and the living space is great but my god, the bedroom.
This is the only space to stand up in, get dried/dressed, turn around in. Feel like I'm just ricocheting about and going to put an elbow or knee through a wall at any moment. Plus photo of man's shoes in tiny beige space

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 1d

@crowbar.wtf warning

Pete Cabanna @petecabanna.bsky.social · 1d

In a caravan and the living space is great but my god, the bedroom. This is the only space to stand up in, get dried/dressed, turn around in. Feel like I’m just ricocheting about and going to put an elbow or knee through a wall at any moment.

Small patch of floor space with a pair of slippers in the middle.

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 2d

Can you help me out by signing this petition? www.change.org/p/save-austr...

Sign the Petition

Save Australian Stories

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Keren Lavelle @kerenlavelle.bsky.social · 2d

Sympathy

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Peter Butler @peter-butler.bsky.social · 5d

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring

Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

www.bloomberg.com

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Sue Barrett - Onward We Press @suebarrett.bsky.social · 2d

Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection. A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it.

#auspol
@lucyham.bsky.social
@deniseshrivell.bsky.social
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Decoding Peter Thiel: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of Power, Prophecy, and Projection

A tech billionaire warns of dystopian centralised control whilst building the surveillance technology to enable it

open.substack.com

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 2d

From the 2012 vault:

The Hurricane vs the Wizard of Wannon proudly presented by Virgin Australia

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