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Melbourne / wurundjeri country. Artwork on stone by BokBok and Iya. Born at 314.3 ppm CO2 in the atmosphere. Currently at 425 ppm (Mauna Loa Observatory via Scripps Institution).

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · Jun 25

Want to donate but don’t who to or how? Check out PANZMA. Your money will help anyone who needs it. #Gaza #Palestine

PANZMA – Palestinian Australian New Zealand Medical Association

panzma.org

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 7h

I’m out of CBR now. I spent quite a bit of time in the cultural zone and it’s not like I could pop around the corner to the local Indian or whatever. That whole area is designed differently, I guess, not like the burbs or maybe the city. But I’ll remember this for next time. Thank you! 👍🏻

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Mister Bailey OAM @misterbailey.bsky.social · 7h

“ the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 8h

Good luck and strength, Asher.

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 8h

Is he feeling any better about not going on his OS solo trek?

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 9h

Thanks Chris. I’ll bookmark it. 👍🏻

In exchange, I‘ve found this curious, funny series there called “1670”. It reminds me a bit of “Upstart crow” but is set in Poland (and is in Polish with very reasonable dubbing).

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 9h

These neighbours are having fun. #Epping3076

A large and fearsome black and orange dragon with one paw resting on a snarling pumpkin. An inflatable.

The entrance way to the house includes a standing skeleton, a frightening black-clad figure on the front door and a small stack of skulls to greet you. #TinyJoys

The front lawn has hands reaching up from the ground, surrounded by small headstones and a few skulls peering up from the greenery.

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 9h

Granite Hills Park meander this afternoon. #SouthMorang3752

A group of granite boulders nestling together. #TinyJoys

Looking across a green, sunlit hill sprinkled with trees, under a blue sky with pretty clouds.

A tall, grey, streaky dead tree with its fallen branches keeping its feet warm. #glimmer

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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 10h

A pox on all politicians who upheld this genocide. May your withered souls never know peace. May the images of the horrors visited upon the Palestinians people haunt you day and night, infest your dreams. May you never know peace and joy ever again

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 9h

Is it…is it a horror movie? I can’t manage horror.

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 14h

It took me years to figure out that every spring I was surprised by how damn windy it was. Every year! So, eventually I realised that Melbs is usually windy in the spring time.

I mean, I grew up here and don’t remember it like that, but maybe as a kid I didn’t notice.

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 14h

The IDF have used / stolen illustrations and assets created by artists and animators to invent stories of their incursions. Thread in quoted post.

Jack Sapoch @jacksapoch.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is now unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 15h

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 17h

But we don’t have to follow HTV cards. I know some people couldn’t be faffed, but a lot of us know our own preferences.

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 17h

Yikes, David. Sounds like you’ve got it sorted for now, anyway. Phew!

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 17h

Grrrrr…. 😆

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Sheldrick Wildlife Trust @sheldricktrust.bsky.social · 20h

Nyambeni has discovered that partitions are merely suggestions, not boundaries!

Our budding mini-matriarch scales the low fence with determination, desperate to reach the other side where her precious charges await. No barrier is too tall when there are babies to protect and comfort.

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 20h

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 17h

Hugs to you, Mary.

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 17h

I’m hoping it’s a solution.

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 19h

If enough tiny, extreme, overlapping parties compete with each other, will that mean none of them will garner enough votes to get someone elected? 🤞🏻 #AusPol

Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 1d

Party registration watch: because there is less than zero actual voter demand for yet another paranoid minor right party with a manifesto assembled from Ralph Babet's lost belly fluff, here is "Power 2 People" applying for registration, avoid.

aec.gov.au/Parties_and_...

aec.gov.au

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, madam, for the nonce.

a woman in a white dress is standing in front of a fireplace with the words " your grace " on the bottom

Alt: A young woman in a white dress is curtsying and saying "Your grace”.

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fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 1d

Ah, so off-shore. That makes sense.

Yeah the cops would be mighty motivated to capture this one.

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 1d

So what are your theories about this killer-on-the-run? Is he still around Porepunkah? Is he dead in some prepper cave? Does he have friends with tight lips? Is he living large in Cairns?

fladdle.bsky.social @fladdle.bsky.social · 1d

It only seems that way. 😬

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Ron Coleman @arecoleman.bsky.social · 1d

I once helped a researcher confirm that Igor Stravinsky was an avid "Mad Magazine" reader.

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