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Kobrind Slnzx
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 19h
Want yourself some history of Gaza? I gots you covered 👇🏼
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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 21h
Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 2d
As I was saying:
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 2d
Eh?
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 2d
1 - pre-Trump this wasn’t an issue
2 - a world without warmongering fuckwits is better than a world with them
3 - yes, it’s better to have multiple independent suppliers
4 - balkanisation is the new thing as the States ease into fascism
5 - we could be so much better than this
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d
China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’ on.ft.com/4nHKoQl
China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’
Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
It surprised the hell out of me to learn that oregano & garlic is as good with lamb as rosemary
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
It’s unbelievably good
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
“How dare you not write the article I wanted you to write!”
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
Tom is replying to Charlotte, who started this by having a whinge that Tom didn’t write the article she would have written, which is indeed ridiculous and unhelpful.
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
There’s something about Tom that brings out the worst in some kinds of people.
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d
Mr. Nichols, use your words. No one is stopping you from contextualizing why profanity merits an essay like this but not the dehumanizing language against trans people used by the GOP all year. You couldn't even bring yourself to mention transphobia in your summary of Hegseth's military briefing.
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d
oh dear God
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d
ANU with big Sideshow-Bob-stepping-on-rakes energy
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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 3d
#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 8d
Anyway for those not keeping track: Hastie has quit the ministry because he’s not allowed to do racisms out loud.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Breaking: Andrew Hastie quits shadow cabinet
Shadow Home Affairs Minister and Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has quit Sussan Ley's shadow ministry.
www.abc.net.au
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 8d
Jesus I really need to check speling before posting
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 8d
Nuclear power! Abandoning Net Zero! IMMIGRANTS!! This is how we get back the teal seats!

Keep it up boys, you’re doing a great job. Uncle Rupert is proud of you
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 8d
The Libs listened to him instead of their electorates u til they were a completely captured far-right circle jerk the was politically unpalatable.

Two elections now and the blokes (to give Ley fair due) still think Naur we gotta go further right!
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 8d
I do love how there’s a straight line between Rupert Murdoch and the death of the Australian right wing as a viable political entity
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10d
I spend my professional career seeing things like this and it never occurs to me to post them. We need more carefree beauty, there’s enough hideousness going on already.
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10d
Windjana Gorge, folks. A Devonian coral reef roaring 80m vertically out of the flat plains, karst and dramatic and very, very speccy.
Windjana gorge, looking upstream. 80m high cliffs cut into a Devonian coral reef, lotsa crocs in the green billabong at their base Looming karst cliffs looking quite unnecessarily dramatic with gum trees looking tiny in the foreground, long golden grasses under the trees.
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10d
1. Felicitations!
2. Commiserations :(
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10d
Oh my
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 10d
Kid just shared his new favourite song.

Genre: Soviet psychedelic funk. Band name: Ариэль. Song title: ‘hey you, porushka paranya’

Wtaf
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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 10d
Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop.

The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump.

But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...
MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why
The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem
www.salon.com
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 17d
“It’s not corruption if you do it in full view of the public”
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18d
“I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”
Trump: I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled! Something happened between then and now because his audience is GONE, and his "talent" was never there. Why would they want someone back who does so poorly, who's not funny, and who puts the Network in jeopardy by playing 99% positive Democrat GARBAGE. He is yet another arm of the DNC and, to the best of my knowledge, that would be a major Illegal Campaign Contribution. I think we're going to test ABC out on this. Let's see how we do. Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative. A true bunch of losers! Let Jimmy Kimmel rot in his bad Ratings. 5 ReTruths 18 Likes 9/23/25, 7:35 PM
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 17d
SMH truly living up to their initials today, godsdamn this is a self-fellatingly stupid thing to write.

Antoinette Lattouf was fired from the godsdamn ABC for *far less than this* so take your smug wannabe Australian exceptionalism and go to hell.
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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 17d
This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.

In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster

www.smh.com.au/national/why...
Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia
We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.
www.smh.com.au
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 17d
Jey is a PhD in genetics and a professional science communicator and I can’t recommend his work highly enough. Read and learn!
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Dr. Jey McCreight 🧬🏳️‍⚧️ @jeymccreight.bsky.social · 18d
Proud to announce the project I've been working on 🏳️‍⚧️🧬

Had hoped to have more ready, but the events of the last week stressed the importance of speaking up against fascism NOW

I'd appreciate your support in spreading the word, esp if you work in life sciences research, healthcare, or biotech
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Beyond X&Y @beyondxandy.bsky.social · 18d
It's the scientific community's duty to fight misinformation, bioessentialism, and eugenics

That's why we're launching Beyond X&Y, an educational campaign combating the rise of unscientific political propaganda used to attack trans and intersex people

Subscribe to our newsletter at beyondxandy.org
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 22d
Rest up and heal Tony, be well.
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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 26d
The party of free speech!
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NPR @npr.org · 26d
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
People are losing jobs due to social media posts about Charlie Kirk
Some GOP officials want to clamp down on perceived expressions of schadenfreude about Charlie Kirk's death. Conservative activists are publicizing social media posts that are "celebrating" his death.
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