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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · Sep 11

After months of pressure, Australian National University vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has resigned. This creates a unique opportunity for the federal government.

The ANU was set up to be a ‘national asset’. Here are 3 ways it can return to its original mission

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Aug 27

The thing about THC-infused drinks, just as with alcopops and RTDs, is that they're basically soda with flavourings and an intoxicant dunked in. No synergy between ingredients, no craft, no heritage, just a drug in a new form—zero human- or bio-magic

Big Alcohol prepares to fight back as buzzy cannabis drinks steal sales

Top alcohol makers have been sitting on the sidelines of a cannabis beverage boom, watching brands in the fast-growing category like Cann and Wynk make deals with beer and booze distributors, and gain valuable space on liquor store shelves.

www.reuters.com

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jul 29

Following with another Thai story: beer is no substitute for a balanced diet.

Man in Thailand dies after drinking only beer for a month, hundreds of empty bottles found in room

A man in Thailand has passed away after reportedly refusing to eat anything except beer for more than a month.

mustsharenews.com

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jul 9

Be careful out there

Drunk Chinese man swallows spoon, thinks it was a dream, learns 5 months later

Medical experts say spoon was precariously lodged, with even minor movements posing a risk of intestinal perforation or severe bleeding.

www.scmp.com

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jul 1

You're not wrong, it's pretty weird 🤷‍♂️

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jul 1

I'd never heard of them. www.facebook.com/melbournesake/ Doesn't seem active

Melbourne Sake

Melbourne Sake. 281 likes. Melbourne Sake is Australia’s first craft sake brewery. Our mission is simple, to craft distinctly Australian sake, with Australian ingredients, for Australia. First...

www.facebook.com

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jun 30

Great initiative, well-organised, and guaranteed to be heaps of fun. Morning and afternoon sessions available, with cultural demonstrations, music, food pairing, and plenty of knowledgeable sake masters in attendance. I'll be bringing a big backpack for all those namazakes! #sake #sakefestival

MELBOURNE - Sake Festival

sake-festival.com.au

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jun 25

Store crown seal caps separately if possible and always clean and rinse them before capping glass bottles; crown caps put far more microplastics into beer than if you packaged with plastic-lined cans or PET, due to the sharp undersides cutting the soft topsides in mass storage @craftypint.com

Glass bottles found to contain more microplastics than plastic bottles

Drinks including water, soda, beer and wine sold in glass bottles contain more microplastics than those in plastic bottles, according to a surprising study released by France's food safety agency Frid...

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jun 24

Good advocacy in this, happy to have RR in Melbourne. Albo with beer and red tape masker for prosperity, the East is Red, to Reach the East is Red Tape

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

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Frontier Myanmar @frontiermyanmar.bsky.social · Jun 16

အေအေ၏ထိုးစစ်ကြောင့် ရခိုင်နှင့်နယ်ချင်းထိ ဒေသများသို့ စစ်မီးပျံ့နှံ့လာပြီး ၎င်းတို့သည် အဓိကကျသည့် စစ်လက်နက်စက်ရုံများအနီးသို့ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်သည်။

ရခိုင်ကိုလွန်၍ - မျှော်လင့်ချက်နဲ့ စိုးထိတ်မှုတွေကို သယ်ဆောင်လာတဲ့ အေအေရဲ့ ထိုးစစ်

အေအေ၏ထိုးစစ်ကြောင့် ရခိုင်နှင့်နယ်ချင်းထိ ဒေသများသို့ စစ်မီးပျံ့နှံ့လာပြီး ၎င်းတို့သည် အဓိကကျသည့် စစ်လက်နက်စက်ရုံများအနီးသို့ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်သည်။

www.frontiermyanmar.net

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jun 15

Hard to see coming when I lived in Shanghai in 2010. The factors identified seem spot on. But I wonder if this and other takes are missing a trick about the universality of Gen Z drinking less. The common factor intuitively seems to be changing technology habits... But deeper than that... ?

China’s booze business looks smashed

First terrified officials went off the lash; now young people are going dry

www.economist.com

Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Jun 6

Exciting new product from Northeast India, the brainchild of an anthropologist and musician

www.livemint.com/mint-lounge/...

Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 30

"Tappers are now equipped with special insulated containers that maintain sub-zero temperatures, preserving the sap in its fresh form during transportation to urban centres."

And of course, urbanites drink it at 0°C, nobody would even think of taking it home to let it warm up a little... 😂🌴

Swig super drink ‘Neera’ with gusto to beat the summer heat

This traditional drink is seeing a modern revival with govt support, improved harvesting methods and urban availability

www.thehansindia.com

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 30

Not an ideal outcome but the best hoped for.

Thailand drops royal insult case against American academic

A royal insult prosecution against an American scholar in Thailand that raised concerns in the U.S. government has been dropped, his lawyer said on Thursday, as authorities confirmed the academic had left the country.

www.reuters.com

Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 29

How to compete with proprietary yeast... It would be ace if more Melbourne breweries went to these lengths with their lagers. craftypint.com/news/3784/fr...

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 21

A Zomia HIT, but self-censored live. Whyyy?! 🙊

🎶🎤
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘵 𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘱𝘶𝘴⁣
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘪𝘵
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦, 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺'𝘳𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘺 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘮𝘺⁣
𝘍𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭⁣
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘥𝘪𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘰𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦, 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘮𝘦
𝘉𝘶𝘵 𝘐 𝘣𝘶𝘺 𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘸𝘯 𝘥𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘯𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵
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Imphal Talkies - I Want to Go to Moscow

YouTube video by Seven Sisters Music

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 20

People are ants

Dr. Octagon - Ants

YouTube video by pooninaki

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 15

Shame and sadness

On a pristine Australian island the birds are so full of plastic they crunch

It's an exclusive tourist destination and one of the most pristine places on the planet. It's the last place you would expect to find birds with bellies so full of plastic that they crunch if you sque...

www.abc.net.au

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 13

Amid much misleading reporting on India's latest methanol poisoning, this gem notes that "spurious liquor" is not the same as regulated country liquor, nor traditional village drinks—methanol poisonings are usually caused by adulterants: urea, oxytocin, ammonium chloride, and industrial solvents

Amritsar Hooch Tragedy: The Poison That Makes Fake Liquor So Deadly | Explained - News18

The term "country liquor", also known as Indian Made Indian Liquor (IMIL) or Desi Daru, often carries a cloud of suspicion, but there is a crucial distinction.

www.news18.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · May 11

Not only is this true, there are 33 whole-ass mentions of this in the script and each one is freaking hilarious

whills.nu/4/sw4.html#h...

She hands him a dish, and he grunts an embarrassed reply.
BERU (CONT'D)
Luke, you've hardly touched
your dinner. Have some bum-bum
extract. It's very mild.
OWEN
(to Luke)
The force of the Bogan is strong,
and if you don't feel you can
make it, you probably won't.
LUKE
I've never even been past this
planet...and I never thought I'd
be going alone.
Suddenly I feel very small --
and well...desperate.

LUKE
Because a terrible thing happened.
During one of his lessons a young
PADAWAN-JEDI, a boy named Darklighter,
came to know the evil half of the
force, and fell victim to the spell
of the dreaded Bogan. He ran away
from his instructor and taught the
evil ways of the Bogan Force to a
clan of Sith pirates, who then
spread untold misery throughout
the systems. They became the per-
sonal bodyguards of the Emperor.
The Jedi were hunted down by these
deadly Sith knights. With every
Jedi death, contact with the Ashla
grows weaker, and the force of the
Bogan grows more powerful.

LUKE
No, no, there's a debris chute.
It's the Bogan force making you
feel that way. Don't give up
hope...fight it!
HAN
It's no use, it's no use.
The giant hinge bolts on the blast-shield door begin to pop
as the force of the Sith knights grows stronger. Luke fires
off a rapid series of shots and half-drags Han to the small
grate in the wall.
LUKE
Well, we're going anyway. Think
of good things. Drive the Bogan
from your mind.

18. INT. REBEL SPACEFIGHTER - COCKPIT CORRIDOR
Deak Starkiller cuts down several troops who make a fren-
zied, suicidal charge with laser swords.
TROOPS
The Bogan! The Bogan!
They are no match for the incredibly agile young Jedi. For
an eerie moment, all is deathly quiet as a huge darker figure
appears in the sub-hallway. The remaining stormtroopers bow
low toward the doorway. An awesome, seven-foot BLACK KNIGHT
OF THE SITH makes his way into the blinding light of the cock-
pit area. This is LORD DARTH VADER, right hand to the MASTER
OF THE SITH. His sinister face is partially obscured by his
flowing black robes and grotesque breath mask, which are in
sharp contrast to the fascist white armored suits of the
Imperial stormtroopers. The troops instinctively back away
from the imposing warrior.

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 8

This is an AI post thread tree and I am the only human in it

or ... am I?

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 7

A "Burma Ale" wins 2nd place at the 2025 World Beer Cup in Cat. #7: Herb & Spice Beer. From a Cali brewery I'm unfamiliar with. Used pagoda & peacock iconography too.

Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · May 5

Wedding season is coming to a close in Victoria but there was time for one more

Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Apr 30

Getting major Love Lies Bleeding vibes from that poster

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Luke Corbin @lukecorbin.org · Apr 29

A salient reminder for those currently in Tasmania.