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Scoop: the pro-teen social media ban lobby group 36 Months was funded & co-staffed by its co-founder's ad production firm that was simultaneously making gambling ads

The federal government has ignored calls for a gambling ad ban while pursuing the social media ban.

www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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aerezoloh.bsky.social
I believe this would be of assistance. gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...
Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it.
Bluesky's age assurance sucks, here's how to work around it. - bluesky-osa.md
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December 10, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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December 7, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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jenmsft.bsky.social
I don't know who needs to hear this, but if you press and hold the space bar on your phone keyboard, sliding your finger will control the position of the cursor when you're editing text
December 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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planet4589.bsky.social
Great thread on the Shenzhou crisis by @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social
andrewjonesspace.bsky.social Andrew Jones @andrewjonesspace.bsky.social · 18d
Nov 5, 2025: During routine pre-return checks, the Shenzhou-20 crew spots an abnormal mark on the return capsule portview window. Images from inside and via the space station’s robotic arm are sent to Earth for assessment. content-static.cctvnews.cctv.com/snow-book/in...
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December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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jathansadowski.com
Call for PhD Student!

I'm recruiting a PhD student to work with me on a project related to my Future Fellowship at Monash University on the political economy of insurance, risk technology, climate governance, and the crisis of uninsurability. Here's the overview of my fellowship.
A necessary analysis of polycrisis and its consequences must account for the industries, technologies, and policies that govern risks-and, crucially, how they engage in socio-technical processes of defining, predicting, and valuing risks. By synthesising the following objectives into a cohesive research program, this Future Fellowship aims to create essential empirical knowledge about urgent problems of insurability, which will inform new policy solutions and critical theories, all for the purpose of understanding and tackling the complex polycrisis at the nexus of insurance markets, risk technologies, and climate governance regimes. • Objective 1: Examine the design and construction of climate risk models by insurance industry and risk analytics firms to identify the assumptions, trade-offs, values, and goals built into these systems. • Objective 2: Engage directly with governments and communities at the frontlines of risk vulnerability to understand how abstract computational models and simulations connect to lived experiences and ground truth. • Objective 3: Develop new policies and frameworks for climate risk justice, which are informed by original empirical work and contribute to greater equity and security in risk governance. • Objective 4: Generate critical theoretical contributions that guide analytical and applied work about the techno-politics of risk governance in an age of global polycrisis. This fellowship advances our understanding of climate risk governance across three Workstreams. Workstream 1 will conduct ethnography at insurance industry conferences and with companies building climate risk models. Workstream 2 will engage in research with governments and communities who are managing the risks and realities of uninsurability from natural disasters. Workstream 3 will collaborate with a climate policy think tank to develop innovative policies grounded in original empirical research and conceptual analysis-that advance climate justice.
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
tqft.bsky.social
I should write a novel with this video as inspiration
November 23, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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invisiblespiders.com
"Two very rectangular gentlemen walked into the room. Their uniforms were a fusion of tactical gear and anti-concussive plate armour. Machado felt that he may not be capable of such a blast but took the compliment anyway."
invisiblespiders.com
Everything you ever wanted. A novel by Dan Beeston.
November 22, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
November 21, 2025 at 11:57 AM
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jeremypoxon.bsky.social
You can read the full report I pulled out under FOI here - it starts at page 36. The intent of the unlawful mutual obligations scheme stripped bare: www.dewr.gov.au/download/171...
www.dewr.gov.au
November 17, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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dpaulangel.com
I'm not saying it was foggy at the Museum this morning, but it's usually pretty hard to hide a 747. "Usually."

#AvGeek #EASM #planespotting
A head-on view of a 747 on top of a Waterpark, that's really hard to see because of thick fog. There's grapevine in the foreground that are brown and trimmed back for the winter. A side-view view of the same 747 on top of a Waterpark, that's even harder to see because of thick fog and extra distance. There's more grapevines in the foreground that are brown and trimmed back for the winter.
November 16, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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chiefgyk3d.com
SolarStorm Scout is live! A bot posting NOAA space-weather updates every 1.5 hours: HF propagation, D-Region absorption, aurora forecasts, and GOES X-ray flux.
Follow: @solarstormscout.bsky.social
#HamRadio #SpaceWeather #Propagation #NOAA #Radio #AmateurRadio
GitHub - ChiefGyk3D/solarstorm_scout: Automated space-weather bot for Bluesky and Mastodon. SolarStorm Scout posts NOAA HF propagation, D-Region absorption, aurora forecasts, and GOES X-ray flux to he...
Automated space-weather bot for Bluesky and Mastodon. SolarStorm Scout posts NOAA HF propagation, D-Region absorption, aurora forecasts, and GOES X-ray flux to help ham radio operators track changi...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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#Space #Weather, #Solar #Activity #and #Aurora

Origin | Interest | Match
X4.0 solar flare
A X4.0 (R3-strong) solar flare peaked at 08:30 UTC this morning. It was of course departing sunspot region 4274 which has been the source of so many solar flares and even geomagnetic storms this past week that provided the fireworks.
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November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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ccanonne.github.io
The SACT group at #USyd 🇦🇺 has a number of postdoc positions available (2+ years) in all areas of TCS, with one focusing on streaming and one on planning and synthesis. Expected start mid- or end 2026.

Excellent candidates are encouraged to contact us by email, or during #FOCS2025 #TCSSky
Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory (SACT)
usyd-sact.github.io
November 11, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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bodleian.ox.ac.uk
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚

The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...

This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Illustration of the Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford, featuring an intricate architectural drawing of the historic building with detailed facade, numerous windows, and figures dressed in academic robes seated in the foreground. Engraving of the interior of the Bodleian Library at Oxford, featuring detailed architecture with arched ceilings, rows of books, and figures walking between the bookshelves. Aerial view of the Radcliffe Camera surrounded by Oxford University's historic buildings, with a cloudy sky above. Aerial view of the historic University of Oxford, showcasing intricate architecture and a person walking across the courtyard.
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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carnyxpress.co.uk
Exciting news! We're open to queries for novellas and works of collected short fiction, for our 2026-2027 publishing schedule. We want to receive strange and literary fantasy, horror, sci-fi, and weird fiction from writers living in the North of England.

Find out more: carnyxpress.co.uk/submissions
We're now open to publishing enquiries for novellas and short fiction collections, from writers living in the North of England. We're seeking works of strange and literary speculative fiction, of 15,000 to 40,000 words.
November 1, 2025 at 10:04 AM
tqft.bsky.social
Where am I?
A cityscape at might with lots of lights with water in the foreground
November 1, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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Make a movie food:
Starship Soupers
mspraxis.bsky.social MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · Oct 24
Make a movie food:

Sundae Bloody Sundae
davehooper.com Dave Hooper @davehooper.com · Oct 24
Make a movie food:

This is Spinal Tapioca
October 24, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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ostrichson.bsky.social
For every 5 Likes or Reposts, I'll give you a cool-ass Godzilla Fact. I'll try to keep it to lesser-known stuff but I won't be posting any inside baseball. I just want to share my love for the King.
Godzilla from the original 1954 movie.
October 23, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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racheljourno.bsky.social
Two coal power units in Victoria tripped on Thursday and nobody realised, because a gigawatt of wind and solar was available to step into the breach.

Six of the state's 10 coal units were out neatly replaced by batteries, renewables, and a bit of gas.
#energy #climate
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October 19, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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msannettemc.bsky.social
There is a long-standing helium shortage. Helium is needed in hospitals (for MRI machines, respiratory therapy, some medical procedures) and should therefore not be wasted blowing up balloons.
zachweinersmith.bsky.social Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · Oct 16
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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Troy Hunt: “Court injunctions are the “thoughts and prayers” of data breach response” www.troyhunt.com/court-injunc...
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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matthighton.bsky.social
You know what, it’s one of those days, have Cookie Monster kaiju again.
October 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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fotofacade.bsky.social
🚴John Betjeman said that it was worth cycling 40 miles in a headwind to see them.
🪽The early C16th Angel Roof at St Wendreda in Cambs is adorned with over 100 oaken angels.
View along the nave of St. Wendreda’s Church, March, showing the magnificent medieval angel roof with carved wooden angels soaring above the slender stone arcades.
October 7, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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At BNE
October 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM