Kate Lance
@katelance.com
Once an astronomer, then an Internet techie, then award-winning maritime-history author, now an infrequently read novelist. My books are at https://seabooks.net. Mastodon: https://aus.social/@katela. Glass art avatar by Annie Rie.
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Anyway, just a reminder that the median Sydney house price is roughly $1.5m so…
Pack it up folks, we’re done, the worst take has been found
December 15, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Anyway, just a reminder that the median Sydney house price is roughly $1.5m so…
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Of course people of Jewish faith have the right to live without fear, George. This has my FULL support.
Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach
Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach
December 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Of course people of Jewish faith have the right to live without fear, George. This has my FULL support.
Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach
Exactly like people of Muslim faith have the right to live without fear as well as without settler-colonial violence, apartheid, illegal occupation of their lands & genocide. #auspol #BondiBeach
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The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
December 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
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Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
December 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Teeny orange #toadlet found in #Brazil. A unique mating call led biologists to this newly discovered pint-sized #amphibian. #frog
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
Link for more photos and information of this 1 cm long beauty: www.popsci.com/environment/...
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We support gun laws, don’t understand why anyone in a city needs guns or why anyone anywhere needs lots of guns. If you’re pro-gun you’re pro-killing things and therefore you’re a weirdo.
December 15, 2025 at 7:33 AM
We support gun laws, don’t understand why anyone in a city needs guns or why anyone anywhere needs lots of guns. If you’re pro-gun you’re pro-killing things and therefore you’re a weirdo.
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Australia Doesn't WANT or NEED these Groups sprouting HATE.
Its destroying our Society & Country.
Its destroying our Society & Country.
December 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Australia Doesn't WANT or NEED these Groups sprouting HATE.
Its destroying our Society & Country.
Its destroying our Society & Country.
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As I understand it, legal gun ownership requires a licencee to demonstrate a "genuine reason" for such ownership. But a 50'ish suburban man can have 6?!!
The 50-year-old Bondi beach terror suspect who died was a licensed firearms holder, and had six firearms, NSW police say. Police have the six firearms from the scene yesterday. His 24yo son is in police custody in hospital in a critical but stable condition.
December 14, 2025 at 9:16 PM
As I understand it, legal gun ownership requires a licencee to demonstrate a "genuine reason" for such ownership. But a 50'ish suburban man can have 6?!!
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So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.
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Food for thought:
Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older than Stonehenge is being ignored, writes Melanie McCartney.
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older than Stonehenge is being ignored, writes Melanie McCartney.
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
Australia has lost its cultural identity
Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older than Stonehenge is being ignored.
independentaustralia.net
December 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Food for thought:
Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older than Stonehenge is being ignored, writes Melanie McCartney.
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
Australia's rich Indigenous heritage, including astronomy, superfoods and even a monument older than Stonehenge is being ignored, writes Melanie McCartney.
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
independentaustralia.net/life/life-di...
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I wonder if this will be the lead story or if it will feature at all on Melbourne’s 7 News this evening? 🤔
Seven Group’s gas well is leaking methane into ocean off Victoria
An offshore gas well, majority owned by billionaire businessman Kerry Stokes’ family, is leaking off Victoria’s coastline
www.smh.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 3:40 AM
I wonder if this will be the lead story or if it will feature at all on Melbourne’s 7 News this evening? 🤔
'What my colleagues are experiencing at SLV, and what I experienced there, is profound moral injury: injury that goes to the core of our identities, of being tasked with, but ultimately unable to protect, something irreplaceable. It is excruciating.'
The definitive stories of some of the astonishing travesties at the State Library of Victoria in recent years, from its former Chief Curator. I witnessed some of it first hand. Rally 12.30 today at the Library. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi...
The trashing of State Library Victoria
My 17-year career at State Library Victoria ended two years ago, after months of white-anting by management and the most miserable time of my working life. When news of the library’s most recent restr...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 12:15 AM
'What my colleagues are experiencing at SLV, and what I experienced there, is profound moral injury: injury that goes to the core of our identities, of being tasked with, but ultimately unable to protect, something irreplaceable. It is excruciating.'
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Who invented non-reflective glass?
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
December 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Who invented non-reflective glass?
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
American physicist & chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett in 1938.
It revolutionized optics--& led to the coatings used today in everything from eyeglasses to phone screens. She was the first woman to earn a PhD in #physics from Cambridge, 1926. #WomenInSTEM #inventor
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Thank you James Arsola and MSN in general for confecting a ‘scandal’ then fanning the flames. This is what it creates
And how the F does one get bail for threatening to kill a politician? I don’t care what your political party they’re from.
It’s wrong and they shouldn’t be bailed
And how the F does one get bail for threatening to kill a politician? I don’t care what your political party they’re from.
It’s wrong and they shouldn’t be bailed
December 12, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Thank you James Arsola and MSN in general for confecting a ‘scandal’ then fanning the flames. This is what it creates
And how the F does one get bail for threatening to kill a politician? I don’t care what your political party they’re from.
It’s wrong and they shouldn’t be bailed
And how the F does one get bail for threatening to kill a politician? I don’t care what your political party they’re from.
It’s wrong and they shouldn’t be bailed
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USA visa requirements
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
December 12, 2025 at 3:55 AM
USA visa requirements
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
If you think you can just delete social media before visiting the USA read this 👇🏼 from Arnaud Bertrand
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American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
December 11, 2025 at 10:37 PM
American astronomer Annie Jump Cannon was born #OTD in 1863.
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
Co-credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme that organizes/classifies stars by their temperature & spectral type. She classified >300,000 stars & her system is still used today.
#WomenInSTEM #astronomy
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December 11, 2025 at 11:10 PM
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Earlier that day the barista at my local café had been playing Fleetwood Mac's Landslide and, unbidden, I began singing in my head as I walked 'and I toooore my men-iscus' to the same tune. Also I’m officially a French resident now. rick-morton.ghost.io/in-which-i-a...
In Which I Am Very Silly
I deliberately booked the MRI for my knee in the late afternoon on the other side of Paris because I thought it would be fun to turn it into a walking tour and take some photos with my new camera.
Th...
rick-morton.ghost.io
December 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Earlier that day the barista at my local café had been playing Fleetwood Mac's Landslide and, unbidden, I began singing in my head as I walked 'and I toooore my men-iscus' to the same tune. Also I’m officially a French resident now. rick-morton.ghost.io/in-which-i-a...
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related : i was planning on putting the plates up on the website for sale tonight but now i am sitting in the emergency department so that will have to wait until tomorrow
(everyone is going to be ok don’t worry)
(everyone is going to be ok don’t worry)
every pro-stadium chud should have to come and sit in the royal hobart emergency department for the night and then tell me if a fucking stadium should be a priority
December 11, 2025 at 9:45 AM
related : i was planning on putting the plates up on the website for sale tonight but now i am sitting in the emergency department so that will have to wait until tomorrow
(everyone is going to be ok don’t worry)
(everyone is going to be ok don’t worry)
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Ugh. Discordant message on the Sydney Harbour bridge photographed for the NYTimes story on social media ban for under-16s. Not just Lego green & ick flouro yellow but sanctimonious 'Let Them Be Kids' from a country which jails Indigenous kids & hasn't held the childcare industry to account.
December 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Ugh. Discordant message on the Sydney Harbour bridge photographed for the NYTimes story on social media ban for under-16s. Not just Lego green & ick flouro yellow but sanctimonious 'Let Them Be Kids' from a country which jails Indigenous kids & hasn't held the childcare industry to account.
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I have the very same question for you, @albomp.bsky.social.
Why are we not seeing MEANINGFUL action from your government to protect children from the many evils within organised religious groups eg CHURCHES? #auspol #SocialMediaAgeBan
Why are we not seeing MEANINGFUL action from your government to protect children from the many evils within organised religious groups eg CHURCHES? #auspol #SocialMediaAgeBan
December 9, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I have the very same question for you, @albomp.bsky.social.
Why are we not seeing MEANINGFUL action from your government to protect children from the many evils within organised religious groups eg CHURCHES? #auspol #SocialMediaAgeBan
Why are we not seeing MEANINGFUL action from your government to protect children from the many evils within organised religious groups eg CHURCHES? #auspol #SocialMediaAgeBan
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Short article by Dr Cilla Kinross on the #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons from CSU's "Green Threat" magazine. #AustralianWildlife
December 8, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Short article by Dr Cilla Kinross on the #OrangeNSW #PeregrineFalcons from CSU's "Green Threat" magazine. #AustralianWildlife
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It is apparently impossible to take photos of this guy without it being framed like Raphael.
December 8, 2025 at 5:38 AM
It is apparently impossible to take photos of this guy without it being framed like Raphael.
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Today’s hot tip! 👻
Heads up.
Aldi has Peace Prizes in the middle aisle today.
Grab one while you can
Aldi has Peace Prizes in the middle aisle today.
Grab one while you can
December 7, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Today’s hot tip! 👻
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Chart shows mind-boggling $ spent on Defence v other govt depts.
And here @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social unpacks Marles' new plan and shows what's wrong #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/marles-new-d...
And here @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social unpacks Marles' new plan and shows what's wrong #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/marles-new-d...
December 6, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Chart shows mind-boggling $ spent on Defence v other govt depts.
And here @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social unpacks Marles' new plan and shows what's wrong #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/marles-new-d...
And here @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social unpacks Marles' new plan and shows what's wrong #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/marles-new-d...
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Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia refuses to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us’
US offers to get Australians out of camps if they are issued with travel documents, but Labor has said ‘this is not something the government is considering’
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Labor is failing to meet even Scott Morrison’s moral benchmark here. He brought Australian children home.
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Albanese is refusing to repatriate citizens from Syrian camps despite US warning leaving them there ‘compounds risk to all of us.’ Utterly shameful. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...