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weatherboard.bsky.social @weatherboard.bsky.social · 7m

Anyone know why these cloud images are so weird on the BOM satellite image?

Bureau of Meteorology cloud satellite image Australia Sunday 12 October with clouds looking strange.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

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Ika Willis @ikax.bsky.social · 56m

Nance is the third or forth person to appear in in this clip saying she doesn’t want to be a shrivelled old prune and that “it was all on”, waving her arms around. The memorial will be significantly less fabulous but a lot of her friends scattered and I’d like them to be able to see it

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 2d

Michael Wolff: I've seen the pictures of Trump with Epstein's girls. Here's what's in them.

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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d

The Queensland 'Resources Council' cheers the that LNP government says it'll run the state's 10 little Hitachi coal-fired geriatric generators for another 20 years. That'd be 62 years for the oldest, Tarong unit 1.

Good luck with that, not.

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Linotype Pilgrim @symbo1ics.bsky.social · 1h

#auspol
Centrism loves its closed doors

David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 4h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 4h

The Albanese govt’s first term was the second most secretive on record.

Rather than changing their ways, they’re doubling down and tightening our FOI system to make it even harder to get information. Not a single expert or member of parliament outside of the Labor party has backed their new bill.

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Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 58m

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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Honor Laois 🦘📎🍉 #auspol @honorlaoiss.bsky.social · 54m

This is a better investment in our future than a couple of pie-in-the-sky Aukus subs

Dr Desirée Kozlowski @pleasurelab.bsky.social · 58m

I call on the Australian government to #RaiseTheRate of all support payments to a living wage.
This would be the single most effective way to lift the productivity, quality of life, and well-being of the whole country.
#CommitToALivingWage

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Kimberly @kimbasgarden.bsky.social · 1h

Garden friend 💚
Tiliqua scincoides
Eastern bluetongue lizard. This one is at least 30cm long.
#AustralianNativeLizards
#Lizard

An Australian bluetongue lizard is sunning itself on a bed of eucalyptus mulch. There are rocks to its right, a young Vanilla lily to its left and a young Pattersonia (native iris) just behind it.
It's at least 30cms long.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 2h

AI has lost the dunce vote. It’s over

Nate Silver
@NateSilver538 • 5h
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I'm just one person, and my programming needs are somewhat unusual (building various kinds of statistical forecasting models). But I'm just not seeing the consistent productivity gains from LLMs that I would have expected if you'd asked me 6 months ago.

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weatherboard.bsky.social @weatherboard.bsky.social · 1h

Share a picture from your device with no explanation.

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Kara @karalambo.bsky.social · 1h

A Perth wwe crowd viciously booed the American National anthem.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 2h

A massive shout-out and thanks and much love to the woman juggling things behind the scenes today on this, @deniseshrivell.bsky.social

Denise helps our democracy in so many ways, every day. She is there helping behind the scenes on so many issues

She is a quiet, impactful giant

Thanks Denise 🙏🏽

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 3h

The #SundayShot is on in about 10-15 minutes time at the link below, on the old youtube machine

Hosted by journalists Dave Milner with co-host Joel Jenkins, and guests Greg Jericho of the Australia Institute, and some bird called Ronni Salt

👉🏽 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcYU...

The Sunday Shot - October 12

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 3h

“No killing for now is good, but we’ve seen that Israel has got some shitty form on observing ceasefires.”
@grogsgamut.bsky.social on just very first phase of the so-called Gaza peace plan. #SundayShot

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Overshoot Podcast @overshootpod.bsky.social · 16h

Great to be featured in this weekend’s @theguardian.com as one of their podcast picks of the week

Listen on overshootpod.com

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BrooklynDad_Defiant! @mmpadellan.bsky.social · 16h

FACT CHECK: STILL TRUE😎

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 16h

Number of wild bee species at risk of extinction in Europe doubles in 10 years

Number of endangered butterfly species also surging amid habitat destruction and global heating, finds study The number of wild bee species in Europe at risk of extinction has more than doubled over the past decade, while the number of endangered butterfly species has almost doubled. The jeopardy facing crucial pollinators was revealed by scientific studies for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) red list of threatened species, which found that at least 172 bee species out of 1,928 were at risk of extinction in Europe. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Lisa Reyna Loe @lisaloe.bsky.social · 21h

Sorry, is there a question here?

27 children died.

Close the goddam camps if you can’t comply with safety measures.

This isn’t the first time flash flooding in this zone has killed campers, just the most well known with the highest death toll.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/10/t...

Texas youth camps say cost of implementing new safety requirements will force them to close

During a Friday state hearing, parents of July 4 flood victims said camps should prioritize the safety even if costs are high.

www.texastribune.org

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 16h

Someone made a lot of money through insider trading. On the international betting site Polymarket, the eventual winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Maria Corina Machado went from rank outsider to 70% favourite in the early hours of Friday before the award was announced.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 16h

After the heyday of Ottoman rule in the 16th & 17thC local autonomy became a reality. Economic growth, driven by exports of cotton, wheat & citrus fruits boosted the population. Farmers in Gaza grew barley for the breweries of Europe &their counterparts in the Galilee grew rich on cotton.

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 16h

In 1516, the Ottomans under Selim the Grim defeated the mighty Mamluk Empire in the Middle East, taking control of Gaza. How was Gaza and Palestine ruled from Istanbul? What was the status of Palestinian Arabs under Turkish rule?
linktr.ee/empirepoduk

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William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 16h

Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

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Clio2 @clio2.bsky.social · 21h

Can confirm this is AI. Did a little search on the TikTok account @dontbeonline and they specialize in AI videos, I think most of them intended to be funny. This one was not; all too believable given what else is happening out there. :-/

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