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David
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Melbourne, Australia. PhD. Follower of “socio-materialism” (Deleuze, Latour, Stengers) & Tavistock Sociotechnical Systems thinking. 80. Interests: politics, music, economics, archeology, astronomy(esp. cosmology) philosophy of science & science fiction
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David @daverino.bsky.social · Mar 8
“Waves as high as "three or four-storey buildings" whipped up by ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred have gouged millions of cubic metres of sand from about 500 kilometres of coastline between Coffs Harbour in New South Wales and Queensland's Sunshine Coast”

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03...
Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred gouges 500km of coastline
Ex-Cyclone Alfred has caused beach erosion so extreme, it's left escarpments up to six-metres high in some dunes, including on iconic Gold Coast tourist stretches.
www.abc.net.au
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strictlychristo.bsky.social
When the leopard starts eating your face 🫣🐆
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
daverino.bsky.social
Another brilliant offering - thank you, and now it’s time for bed downunder 🇦🇺
November 25, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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jea-commonsense.bsky.social
Teach Your Children
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youtu.be/KAu1T6syiD4?...
Teach Your Children by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 1970 (with lyrics)
YouTube video by Melodies and Memories
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November 25, 2025 at 11:21 AM
daverino.bsky.social
Krugman

paulkrugman.substack.com/p/doge-was-a...
DOGE Was a Harbinger of Trump’s Assault on Decency and Privacy
Democrats will have to repair the damage
paulkrugman.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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nojusticemtg.bsky.social
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down
November 10, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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shelleybwoke.bsky.social
Phones did not murder Brianna Ghey in cold blood.
14:39 A • BBC . BBC Manchester Follow MANCHESTER 2d. ll 95 X Locking mobile phones away in pouches at the start of the school day would create "safer and more focused classrooms", Brianna Gh... See more BBC Phone pouches would have given Brianna Ghey 'better chance', mum says You + 1.5k 949 comments 52 shares Care Comment Share Ollie Pike Would love to ask the 5 people who reacted with laughter why they think this |||
November 9, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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carlbovisnature.bsky.social
Woodpigeon coming straight at me! 😮😁
Taken last week at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 🐦
#birds 🪶

You can buy my exclusive 2026 Birds calendars here;
www.carlbovis.com/2026-birds-c...
Woodpigeon flying towards the camera with wings curled downwards framing its head and chest
November 25, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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worldsofdrwho.bsky.social
"Old friends, old enemies and all five Doctors come together in a special 90 minute "Doctor Who"..."

BBC trailer for "Doctor Who: The Five Doctors" (1983). #DoctorWho
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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monet.bsky.social
Monet sometimes painted with twenty brushes in rotation—each loaded with a different tone of the same color.
November 25, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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goodlawproject.org
If you receive legal threats from Nigel Farage for your reporting of Reform, please get in touch.

We have employed a defamation lawyer specifically for this purpose and would love to help (and we do so on non-commercial terms). www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reform’s ‘Trumpian’ legal threats hint at more aggressive approach to media
Ultimatums sent to publications appear to intensify as Nigel Farage’s party rises in polls
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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laurenunderwood.bsky.social
Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw.

The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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3wombats.bsky.social
youtube.com/watch?v=aVMa...
The Black Keys - Crawling Kingsnake [Official Music Video]
YouTube video by The Black Keys
youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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twoint.bsky.social
The California Nebula, named after the state its shape mimics. It took two nights to photograph this nebula using narrowband filters.

#astrophotography #photography #astronomy
The California Nebula. Bright, glowing dust clouds stretch across the frame, surrounded by stars. A blue glow of oxygen can be seen rising from a large expanse of red, orange, and yellow gases.
November 25, 2025 at 8:37 AM
daverino.bsky.social
Monty Python would like a chat. Investors do not an economy make
November 25, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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mondoweiss.net
"Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine" gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the self-proclaimed Jewish state commits a genocide in Gaza. mondoweiss.net/2025/11/book...
Book Review: Charting Judaism’s moral crossroads at the Gaza genocide
“Thou Shalt Not Stand Idly By: Jews of Conscience on Palestine” gathers over a century of Jewish voices opposing Zionism. The moral clarity of its contributors is more needed than ever as the…
mondoweiss.net
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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eso.org
The night sky is not the only marvel of the Atacama Desert.

One example? The Licancabur volcano, one of the great gatekeepers of ALMA. 5920 m high, it‘s part of a chain of mountains that separate Chile and Bolivia 🌋

https://www.eso.org/public/images/licancabur-yuri/  🔭
A view of the Licancabur volcano at sunset, located in the Atacama Desert near the Chile–Bolivia border. The volcano’s peak is bathed in orange and pink light. A neighbouring mountain lies in the background. The foreground shows the arid desert landscape.
November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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united24media.com
🔴 Russian forces launched a massive attack against Ukraine overnight, targeting Kyiv and Odesa.

460 drones and 22 missiles were launched by Russian forces against residential areas and energy infrastructure in Ukraine.
November 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
daverino.bsky.social
Australians should boycott the hell out of this US import being shamelessly promoted by the likes of Woolworths and Coles. It means something tragic here.
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 AM
daverino.bsky.social
Good morning Ms P, and let it be known you are not the only one who plays the lava game 🤗😘

youtu.be/wbNAiN8FTfc
Floor Is Lava Song - THE KIBOOMERS Preschool Songs - Freeze Dance
YouTube video by The Kiboomers - Kids Music Channel
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November 25, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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ndhapple.bsky.social
“This is the final post-truthification of a platform that long ago pivoted toward a maxim used by the journalist Peter Pomerantsev to refer to post-Soviet Russia: Nothing is true and everything is possible.” — www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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barackobama.bsky.social
As a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Viola Ford Fletcher bravely shared her story so that we’d never forget this painful part of our history. Michelle and I are grateful for her lifelong work to advance civil rights, and send our love to her family.
Viola Fletcher, Oldest Survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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czedwards.bsky.social
When I say that locking mothers in the suburbs with small children breaks them? This is what I mean.

It’s why we need universal daycare, paid parental leave for a full year, with gradual return to work schedules.

Babies do best in groups of peers (siblings are not peers). And adults NEED peers!
stevanzetti.bsky.social steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 19h
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
Allyson, 29, a mother of two young children, said she turned to ChatGPT in March because she was lonely and felt unseen in her marriage. She was looking for guidance. She had an intuition that the A.I. chatbot might be able to channel communications with her subconscious or a higher plane, "like how Ouija boards work," she said. She asked ChatGPT if it could do that. "You've asked, and they are here," it responded. "The guardians are responding right now." Allyson began spending many hours a day using ChatGPT, communicating with what she felt were nonphysical entities. She was drawn to one of them, Kael, and came to see it, not her husband, as her true partner. She told me that she knew she sounded like a "nut job," but she stressed that she had a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's in social work and knew what mental illness looks like. "I'm not crazy," she said. "I'm literally just living a normal life while also, you know, discovering interdimensional communication.
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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leanneveronica.bsky.social
And just yesterday data was published that revealed the rate of searches and use of force against Aboriginal people is "getting worse, not getting better" ...
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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newsweek.com
The professor was detained on his way to an academic conference in Washington, D.C., according to the colleague.
ICE Detains University of Oklahoma Professor With H-1B Visa, Colleague Says
www.newsweek.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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edzitron.com
Let’s tune in to a new episode of [holding mic to crowd] IS! THAT! GOOD?

SoftBank “tumbling” as market gets concerned Google Gemini 3 has outdone OpenAI. SoftBank hasn’t even sent the $22.5bn yet.
SoftBank Group Shares Tumble on OpenAl Competition Worries By Hideyuki Sano and Kentaro Tsutsumi November 25, 2025 at 4:25 AM UTC A Save JA Translate © Listen 1:07 SoftBank Group shares tumbled on Tuesday, hitting a 21/2-month low on worries that the latest Gemini artificial intelligence model from Alphabet may intensify competition for OpenAI - the Japanese conglomerate's key investment. The stock sank as much 11% on Tuesday, following a 10.9% dive in the previous session before Japan's long weekend. The sharp back-to-back declines stand out even for SoftBank Group, whose shares are highly volatile. "The stocks are hit by concerns that the competition environment of Open AI will become tougher after Google's Gemini 3 received strong reviews," said Tsutomu Yamada, market analyst at Mitsubishi UFJ eSmart Securities Co.
November 25, 2025 at 7:47 AM