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Ashley Riddell🇦🇺(the one in Norway🇳🇴)
@ashleyriddell.bsky.social
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Educator, journalism media tech guru, tragic board game addict.
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More relevant than ever

#ausnews
June 12, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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Over 35 million registered users on Bluesky now. Why would anyone stay with that other place anymore? #bluesky #trending
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April 28, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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It’s getting out of hand already. Too much ice water dunks!!
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March 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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This made me giggle unreasonably. Going the full Tarantino!
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 24
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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The Once and Future King -
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February 10, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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jamieloftus.bsky.social
nominated for an ambie 🙂
February 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Repost this everywhere. We won't see this in a Murdoch owned outlet, thats for sure.
#auspol #ausnews
February 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Julie Gray, wife of Holocaust survivor Gidon Lev, who joined Musk in his visit to Auschwitz speaks out. She says that Musk felt nothing during the tour & only "cared about how he looked."

She shared this with me privately shortly after the tour, and I'm grateful she made her thoughts public.
I see people posting that Elon was at Auschwitz this time last year - therefore, his recent "gesture" is not antisemitic. I was there, too. Last year. With Elon. I am embarrassed that I have photos of this on my phone. My love, Gidon Lev, was the "special guest" of this photo-op event. We thought, at the time, that it would be good publicity. But I would not share the photo today. I chatted with Elon Musk. I spent hours with him and walked with him through Auschwitz. I stood with him, looking at the nauseating heaps of hair, luggage, and shoes flooded with violet light meant to preserve it. Is Musk an antisemite? People, actually, it's worse - he doesn't care whatsoever. Elon, father of "little X" as he described his freezing cold son to me, literally does not care. He was unmoved by the experience. For Gidon, to be in the place where his father, Ernst, died on a death march - whether shot by the side of the road or having simply collapsed - was a huge deal. Elon did not care. He was about his press junket and his bodyguards. I was ten feet from him as he posed for the cameras of his entourage. He was utterly detached. He cared about how he looked. When he placed a wreath at Auschwitz and Gidon was overlooked, he walked away with the cameras whirring. This is Elon Musk. A sociopath, if ever there was one. To deduce, from this visit, that he is a friend of the Jews is desperately naive.
January 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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You don't see that every day.

French ballerina Victoria Dauberville's performance on the bow of an icebreaker in Antarctica captured by Mathieu Forget
January 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
i sent an email to DOGE and suggested replacing the entire Department of Defense with Warhammer 40,000 miniatures but they actually did the math and it turns out that would be much more expensive
January 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
ashleyriddell.bsky.social
From 1919. A world gone mad with the advent of "pocket telephones".
Pocket telephone cartoon from 1919
January 23, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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From one of the most under appreciated commentators on the rise of the right wing and white supremacy in the USA. Robert remains a beacon of calm hope and pragmatism.
We failed to stop the rise of fascism. What comes next?
How to navigate the future without a map.
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January 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
ashleyriddell.bsky.social
Bugger these guys, they made me snort my morning coffee.
January 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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This is why non-Australians look at us with fear and suspicion.
Dream come true for Australian funnel-web spider enthusiast after he discovers a new species
Newcastle funnel-web spider’s last shared common ancestor with the Sydney funnel-web was 17 million years ago, experts say
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Just a reminder at how inhumane and broken Oz immigration policy and admin is. It's little more than a scam at this point. If this sort of shit happened to a ranking polly...
Nearly 2,300 applicants died waiting for a parent visa to Australia with processing times of up to 31 years
‘Providing an opportunity for people to apply for a visa that will probably never come seems both cruel and unnecessary’, review says
www.theguardian.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:21 AM
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The Dog gets it. #auspol
And what do you want from Santa this Christmas? | First Dog on the Moon
An incurable illness that turns billionaires into owls
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December 18, 2024 at 6:38 AM
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Beyond disgraceful. Craven, cowardly polies and bureaucrats actively denying essential health care. Bravo, Guardian, they deserve to be dragged without mercy until they do their jobs.
Push to stop NSW hospitals opting out of abortions as healthcare ‘deserts’ exposed
Greens MP Dr Amanda Cohn says ‘far too little has changed’ since abortion was decriminalised in NSW five years ago
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2024 at 9:07 PM
ashleyriddell.bsky.social
It's only a lie if you get caught.
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December 13, 2024 at 10:09 AM
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@skynewsau.bsky.social Keep up the good work whilst you can! There be a shitstorm ahead when they get wind of this.
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December 13, 2024 at 10:03 AM
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I'm beginning to think that skynewsau.bsky.social might not be owned by the mothership. (Hint: Sky News oz does not have a Bluesky account, because slow, dull witted and complacent)

Enjoy it while you can!
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December 13, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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Again, why is anyone buying this, when it is just a naked attempt to extend coal as fuel for another 40 years?? This is straight from the Elon Musk playbook, the hyperloop scam to prevent investment in metro and train networks.
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December 13, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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@monicalewinsky.bsky.social I saw you in Norway some years ago, when you were just starting to trial what would become your TED talk. I want you to know the joy and pride I take in seeing what you have become, the obstacles you have got through and the compassion (and sass) you give. You rock!
December 12, 2024 at 9:52 AM
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Easily the best analysis of the CEO shooting so far. Robert Evan’s is wildly under appreciated!
Alleged CEO Shooter Luigi Mangione Was Radicalized by Pain
A journey through his online footprint and influences
open.substack.com
December 11, 2024 at 6:48 AM
ashleyriddell.bsky.social
@blairsocci.bsky.social woo! You are finally visible in the search results! Validation that you exist! Maybe not the most positive message for self esteem challenged folks, but you know, baby steps.
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December 10, 2024 at 12:36 PM
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#thedailyzeitgeist scrapes in for the win! Get Robert on as a guest @milesofgray.bsky.social and @jackob1.bsky.social it’s been too long!
December 7, 2024 at 6:45 AM