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Scruffy Aussie Lefty Ratbag. Social Justice Cleric. Swears like a soldier. Unashamed nerd. AuDHD He/They Living on unceded Whadjuk Noongar land
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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Draft to final
November 9, 2025 at 11:54 AM
An excellent, considered and coherent refutation of those that argue against the existence of any art or fiction that contains aspects they find problematic or 'icky'.

Posted particularly for @foxhall.bsky.social , who I know has had trouble with these arrogant and self-absorbed fools.
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Potential biomarker for risk of SIDS!
November 8, 2025 at 2:49 PM
WHY IS SHE NOT AN EX-BUREAUCRAT ALREADY?!

Either she had no idea of what she was ordering the IT department to do over their expert opinions, or she DID know and it was just corruption.

Either way they should be fired. Or at the very least, stood down without pay while there is an investigation.
A senior federal bureaucrat who dismissed her own department's cybersecurity advice and ordered a trove of parliamentary emails be released to a private company previously hacked by Russian criminals says she believed the risk assessment was "overrated" www.9news.com.au/national/jaa...
Bureaucrat who dismissed cybersecurity advice thought risk was 'overrated'
www.9news.com.au
November 6, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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Publication day! The Spinosaur Tales with @markwitton.bsky.social is officially out today! I'll be going a much longer and more detailed thread later on as today is rather manic while I'm hosting 400 school kids to my uni campus, but I wanted to get this early post out.
November 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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Note the ‘British soil’ bit. My uni has plans to open a campus in China. The VC scoffed at me when I expressed concern that staff and students wouldn’t be able to speak freely, and that - as he said - the curriculum would be censored. It’s the price of doing business.
November 6, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Huge sections dedicated to 🌿palaeobotany🌿 love to see it
November 5, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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huh it doesn't seem like it's necessary to run away from supporting marginalized people in order to win at all, it almost seems like it helps you win the support of a polity that hates our supremacist government

we might just have to beat bigots without seeking the approval of bigots
Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."
November 5, 2025 at 12:00 PM
#NoContextTheatre "Relativistic plasma can be arranged at any time, after all. But once that has occurred it is quite difficult to renew the discussion."
November 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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Westin Phipps has enthusiastically endorsed Andrew Cuomo. IYKYK.
November 4, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Welfare payments should never be used as a mechanism of control or surveillance
November 4, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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I didn’t know I needed this until right now
After the AI bubble I hope the next bubble is Laser Tag. Laser tag arenas on every street corner. Blacklight lit battlefields propping up every sector of the economy. A one story building by the side of the highway called “Blast Zone: Pizza & Arcade” valued at $2.7 trillion
November 4, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Spoke to @australia.theguardian.com about what DEWR's job numbers continue to quietly reveal: that the main purpose of employment services is to outsource billions of dollars to punish people, rather than help them into meaningful opportunities
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
November 3, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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messaging suggestion: when people call any social welfare program "corrupt," response should be "its fraud rate is lower than the small business tax fraud rate" because this is inevitably true and then you can follow up with "should we attack small businesses? apparently you seem to think so"
Brooke Rollins calls food stamps "a broken and corrupt program" and says, "guess what? There's a new sheriff in town. His name is Donald Trump."
November 2, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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if our brains weren’t always being cooked by the horrors of real life this place could be Actually Fun and it’s so nice to get a glimpse of what happens when it is

even if you don’t like baseball this shit was fun, right? everyone getting swept up in the same thing? I missed this
The wonderful old-Twitter experience of a global group chat during a live event or breaking news is a thing you can't do on Threads bc of its trash algorithms and you can't do on X bc it's a Nazi propaganda weapon, but it's really happening on Bsky now and I hope more holdouts start to discover that
Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.
November 2, 2025 at 5:16 AM
(Almost!) finished filling up the pill organiser for another week.

Yay. 😒 #ChronisHealthIssues #NotNearlyAsFunAsYoudThink
#Sigh
November 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
A movie you've seen more than seven times, in a gif

I can't recall exactly how many times I've watched this, but I know it was more than a dozen times (forward), and once in reverse.

The VCR never really recovered from that 'in reverse' viewing, either.
November 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Bask in the unfeasible glory that is Aotearoa New Zealand's only locally designed and built Tank.
November 1, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The Cortylorhynchus considers my problems, nods sagely, and says, "have you tried basking in the sun about it? While being as spherical as possible?"
November 1, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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If good little queers leave out cookies and milk on Halloween, Joel Schumacher's ghost appears to bring you an overly muscled saxophone player for no particular reason whatsoever.
October 31, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Today’s advice from your Goth Auntie
-No slouching! Drink some water, take your meds.
-Dance break! Take a few minutes today to flail around to a favorite song.
-Bitey Friend was told it’s not kind to eat people’s jack o’ lanterns.
❤️ Auntie Jilli
October 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM