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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 3h

They can put on fish suits and dance

Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 21h

Estimates questions tonight will be interesting.

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 1d

I want an unprecedented meltdown on the right so I want Greta Thunberg to get the Nobel Peace Prize this year

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 1d

Anyway, the whole thing really brings home how badly we are just ceding this large space of interest and public attention to enthusiastic but often unskilled and untrained (and sometimes ideologically dodgy) amateurs, when it ought to be trained classicists in that space, swinging dolabrae.

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 1d

“If the new leadership wants to rebuild trust … they need to explain why they think the audited accounts are so misleading … and what future plans they have that are so beneficial they are willing to take an axe to … students, … staff, and … reputation…”

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/908473...

A closer look at the ANU books reveals a hard truth about these job cuts

The phantom deficit and a series of cuts by choice, not necessity.

www.canberratimes.com.au

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2d

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

apnews.com

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Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 2d

#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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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 2d

I feel somebody in South Gippsland would’ve purchased this book

Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 2d

Nature book challenge. A book per day in no particular order, until you've shared ALL of the best nature books in your personal library. No explanations, no reviews.
#Books #Nature #Naturewriting #naturebooks #conservation #naturebookchallenge #booksky
#MycoBookClub

Collins Guide to MUSHROOMS & TOADSTOOLS

By Morten Lange & F. Bayard Hora

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 3d

Pete Hegseth paging frantically through a Europe from 1500 textbook trying to find where they make the ancien regime great again.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3d

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated.

or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Chicago Sun-Times @chicago.suntimes.com · 4d

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 4d

The plight of most academics looking at government, even in good times.

"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4d

You spend all this time, reading Clausewitz and Mahan and Thucydides, studying campaigns and thinking hard about the roots of victory and defeat, the experience of war and what that means for policy and then you look over and the policy movers are strategy cheese and infantrydork.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 4d

You spend all this time, reading Clausewitz and Mahan and Thucydides, studying campaigns and thinking hard about the roots of victory and defeat, the experience of war and what that means for policy and then you look over and the policy movers are strategy cheese and infantrydork.

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 4d

Do you remember encarta?

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Our ANU @ouranu.bsky.social · 4d

“The terms of reference limit Thom to investigating only the allegations raised during the August 12 Senate hearing. She will not look into broader issues of culture, governance and leadership at the university.”

www.afr.com/work-and-car...

Canberra’s go-to investigator looks at Julie Bishop bullying claims

A major 12-month probe will examine allegations of threats, bullying and intimidation made against the ANU chancellor.

www.afr.com

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 4d

With my Quaker hat in, some of this non violent resistance footage being shown from the United States is amazing.

competentposter @competentposter.bsky.social · 6d

wizard frog is insane

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 5d

Yes they can be noisy creatures. Mine has made its toilet next to the bbq. Thankfully not above it.

Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 5d

Brush-tail possums are migrating to urban areas and becoming rarer in the bush. Like cats they might self domesticate. This Possum was watching us have our dinner in the garden.

Possum watching me have my dinner in tge garden

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 5d

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Deborah Lee-Talbot @colourfulhistories.bsky.social · 7d

Two pilot projects get their grand "reveals" this week.

I've been working with Uni of Melbourne and Deakin Uni to understand & utilise AI in research.

The projects used different approaches to creating transcripts from 1800s handwritten materials, from Aus & Europe.

Key takeaway from both?

a woman is standing in a doorway with the words `` ta-da '' written on the screen .

ALT: a woman is standing in a doorway with the words `` ta-da '' written on the screen .

media.tenor.com

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 7d

Can you send a link to the presentation?

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, but Presidential pardons will have to be challenged if you guys return to the rule of law. Because the last thing Trump will do is pardon all his thugs.

Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 7d

I would like to know who would work in Hastie’s manufacturing, if he wants low migration. We are at close to full employment. Clearly he failed Economics 101.

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 7d

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...

Similar to the US, it appears basic economic logic is not the OZ-MAGA strong point. We have close to full employment. So if you end migration, who does Hasty think will fill the manufacturing jobs! He needs to get the dumb arse award

Andrew Hastie quits Sussan Ley’s frontbench

The West Australian had staked out his own nationalist policy agenda on everything from migration to manufacturing.

www.smh.com.au

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Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 7d

🤣😂

Gareth Knapman @garethknapman.bsky.social · 8d

A friend of mine nicked one from the military college in Aust. And then lent it back to them when they couldn’t find it.

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