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Anathema Device (Brisbane)

@iamanathemadevice.bsky.social

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Married cat lady, extremely boring retired web developer, pro-choice ATHEIST and feminist. #Australian on unceded First Nations territory (Brisbane / Meanjin) #ActuallyAutistic. She/her. My cats are Shula (black) and Jana (tortie)

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · Aug 4

All these are accounts I follow for wonderful photography and art of nature ❤️ 1/5‪
@jonathanfoodie.bsky.social
@jocelynanderson.bsky.social
@wa-orchids.bsky.social
@norwichbirder.bsky.social
@gnomieshobbycorner.bsky.social
@sussextangerine.bsky.social
@streetbiologist.bsky.social

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ItsFlanoy @itsflanoy.bsky.social · 2h

Idt babey deerpolooza owt dere! Dey all owt fur de acorns frum de oaks! #oranjtober

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 2h

Covid booster and MMR shots! My 5g reception will be amazing 😀

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 3h

This bit of thinking by Kos Samaras makes a lot of sense to me.
Link to his original post here: www.facebook.com/share/p/1BLz...
#auspol

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 3h

Clever kitty❤️

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ItsFlanoy @itsflanoy.bsky.social · 3h

Howe To Cate - Chabter elebben. Sum of mine #flanatics alreddy noe dis, but not menny Cates noe howe to get into an hammock #catsoforanjtober
#catsofbluesky

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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3h

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 3h

Marylebone

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 3h

Oh for fuck’s sake. These things are a dangerous distraction and five years is more than enough

ABC News (Unofficial) @abc-news.bsky.social · 3h

Family outraged over plan to remove roadside memorial after five years: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-10/outrage-over-tyler-hastie-memorial-removal-plan/105854208

Family outraged over plan to remove roadside memorial after five years

Five years ago, 16-year-old Tyler Hastie was hit by a car and killed while crossing the Bussell Highway. Now WA's biggest road transport authority wants to remove his memorial, citing safety concerns.

www.abc.net.au

Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 4h

I hope the toddler tantrum he throws is the end of him.

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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 14h

Microbes > RFK Jr

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 14h

New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

These Bacteria Invented Their Own Vaccines—Using Viruses

New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

www.scientificamerican.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 14h

From a several-decades-old NYT review of Manon Lescaut: "It is not easy to make an audience care deeply about Manon, in spite of Puccini's sympathetic music. She is at first a silly innocent girl and becomes at last a silly experienced one."

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 4h

a 'gentleman' didn't send that email 😡

Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 4h

bsky.app/profile/lang...

Langdon Grant @langdongrant.bsky.social · 9h

YOLO Marge has entered the chat.

To answer your question, what's happening is she wanted to run for the Senate and wanted Trump's endorsement, but GOP leadership told the White House not to let Trump endorse her because she couldn't win, so now she's decided to make their lives hell.

Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h

antisemite too :(

Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h

I love cephalopods!

Coral City Camera @coralcitycamera.bsky.social · 9h

We love our shape-shifting, color-changing squid wizards in Coral City 🧙‍♂️🦑🔮🦑🧙 #reefsquid #caribbeanreefsquid #squid #cephalopodsofcoralcity #cephalopod #chromatophores #colorchange #coral #coralhead #coralcitycamera #miami #portmiami #biscaynebay #coralcity

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Nicola @gardennicola.bsky.social · 7h

👀 this is amazing I love it!

Felicity Keefe @felicitykeefe.bsky.social · 14h

Another large painting from the studio this week - wild winter lakes and misty hillsides.

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h

not a doctor, not a scientist. Not even smart.

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Derek Lowe @dereklowe.bsky.social · 6h

It just makes you want to scream and throw things.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 9h

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h

🤦‍♀️😡

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Glen Ryan @silverdory.bsky.social · 6h

Pink cap orchid - Caladenia clarkiae - near Genoa, East Gippsland, VIC.

This is probably the pinkest form of this small cap orchid I have seen in East Gippsland - although plants with almost entirely reddish/pink flowers are found in some locations.

#orchids #inthefield #Caladenia #ozplants

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Anathema Device (Brisbane) @iamanathemadevice.bsky.social · 5h

💔🫂 so sad for you losing such a sweet little guy

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Cheryl Rofer @cherylrofer.bsky.social · 5h

Here's the explanation for the radioactive shrimp. Makes sense. Not the first time a cesium-137 source has made it into steel production.

@funranium.bsky.social
@nuclearanthro.bsky.social
@nuclearkatie.com

paris martineau @paris.nyc · 7h

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging

little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia
www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...