Brooks Smith
@brookssmith.bsky.social
🇦🇺 Melbourne, Australia / 🗽grew up northeast USA
🏗️ Structural engineer & 🧑💻 Python FOSS developer
🪧🌡️Climate change & 🇵🇸 human rights activism
🖖Sci-fi & fantasy: Star Trek, Firefly, Cosmere, Commonwealth Saga
🚴Bicycling, 🥾hiking, raising a 🐾greyhound & 🧑🍼baby
🏗️ Structural engineer & 🧑💻 Python FOSS developer
🪧🌡️Climate change & 🇵🇸 human rights activism
🖖Sci-fi & fantasy: Star Trek, Firefly, Cosmere, Commonwealth Saga
🚴Bicycling, 🥾hiking, raising a 🐾greyhound & 🧑🍼baby
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My first book is officially out!
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
March 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
My first book is officially out!
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
If you like gay archeologists, horny superheroes, giant, ancient, Indian robots, or tonnes of footnotes, check it out!
Get it from @neonhemlock.bsky.social!
www.neonhemlock.com/books/iron-b...
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Migrants to Australia have displayed an inability to assimilate with local values and refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, a study covering the last 237 years has found.
Migrants Failing to Assimilate, 200-Year Study Finds — The Shovel
"They refuse to fit in or speak anything but their native tongue"
theshovel.com.au
September 1, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Migrants to Australia have displayed an inability to assimilate with local values and refuse to speak anything but their native tongue, a study covering the last 237 years has found.
I'm proud to have today officially become an Australian citizen! I grew up in the US, but have found Australia to have so much more sense of the good of the community - not just the individual - and is both an easier and happier place to live. Now to go plant our Yam Daisies!
August 31, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I'm proud to have today officially become an Australian citizen! I grew up in the US, but have found Australia to have so much more sense of the good of the community - not just the individual - and is both an easier and happier place to live. Now to go plant our Yam Daisies!
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Ripped out the ATM. Not strong enough to lift it onto Hilux
#AusNews #VicNews #police #VKC #theft #atm #Craigieburn
#AusNews #VicNews #police #VKC #theft #atm #Craigieburn
Ripped out the ATM. Not strong enough to lift it onto Hilux
Detectives are appealing for public assistance following a burglary at a licensed premises in Craigieburn on Sunday, July 13.
www.victoriannews.com.au
July 28, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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Republicans thought Barack Obama wearing a tan suit was disrespectful of the office. Now @GOP Presidents drop F-bombs and no one blinks. Sell crypto, gold painted cellphones in office for personal enrichment and takes free luxury jets from influence-seeking foreign leaders. I miss the tan suit.
June 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Republicans thought Barack Obama wearing a tan suit was disrespectful of the office. Now @GOP Presidents drop F-bombs and no one blinks. Sell crypto, gold painted cellphones in office for personal enrichment and takes free luxury jets from influence-seeking foreign leaders. I miss the tan suit.
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What the _hell_ are these people talking about?
Since when can you just execute a quickie war against a neighbor in which you take out all their military capabilities and then act like it was just a brief housecleaning operation?
Could Russia now do this to Israel's Iron Dome and nuclear program?
Since when can you just execute a quickie war against a neighbor in which you take out all their military capabilities and then act like it was just a brief housecleaning operation?
Could Russia now do this to Israel's Iron Dome and nuclear program?
June 22, 2025 at 9:46 PM
What the _hell_ are these people talking about?
Since when can you just execute a quickie war against a neighbor in which you take out all their military capabilities and then act like it was just a brief housecleaning operation?
Could Russia now do this to Israel's Iron Dome and nuclear program?
Since when can you just execute a quickie war against a neighbor in which you take out all their military capabilities and then act like it was just a brief housecleaning operation?
Could Russia now do this to Israel's Iron Dome and nuclear program?
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The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.
Really? We’re Fucking Doing This Again? — The Shovel
The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to claims it has no fucking idea what it...
theshovel.com.au
June 22, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The US entered yet another war in the Middle East without any clear motive, strategy, objectives, popular support, succession plan or exit arrangement, leading to suspicions it has no fucking idea what it is doing.
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“Bombing for peace is like fucking for chastity.”
- a bumper sticker I had in high school
- a bumper sticker I had in high school
June 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
“Bombing for peace is like fucking for chastity.”
- a bumper sticker I had in high school
- a bumper sticker I had in high school
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"They just don't make the fear campaigns like they used to."
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
June 20, 2025 at 5:06 AM
"They just don't make the fear campaigns like they used to."
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
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This isn't aid.
It's a trap.
It's gathering people together just so it's easier to murder them.
Every day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a trap.
It's gathering people together just so it's easier to murder them.
Every day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say
It is potentially the deadliest of the almost daily shootings that have been taking place recently near aid distribution sites.
www.bbc.co.uk
June 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
This isn't aid.
It's a trap.
It's gathering people together just so it's easier to murder them.
Every day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It's a trap.
It's gathering people together just so it's easier to murder them.
Every day.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
theshovel.com.au
June 11, 2025 at 10:36 PM
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
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Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
April 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Dear Canada-
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
Please accept our deepest apologies from all decent Americans embarrassed by the obnoxious trolling from our man-baby-in-chief who is lacking in both intelligence & any impulse-control whatsoever.
❤️ from your neighbors below, 🇺🇸
#MakeAmericaNormalAgain
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Briiliant writing.
Premature Obit? Headline: “The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old.” #USpol #EconSky www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
The American democratic republic has died. It was 236 years old
The U.S. is survived by a country of the same name, the United States of America, now a presidential dictatorship.
www.sfchronicle.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Briiliant writing.
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“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November - not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values. We need to knock off the rust of poll-tested language, decades of stale decorum. It’s obscured our better instincts.” - Pritzker
April 28, 2025 at 4:04 AM
“Voters didn’t turn out for Democrats last November - not because they don’t want us to fight for our values, but because they think we don’t want to fight for our values. We need to knock off the rust of poll-tested language, decades of stale decorum. It’s obscured our better instincts.” - Pritzker
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"No State, no party to a conflict... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing"
She means you Israel.
For the ICRC to say this publicly is a really big deal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
She means you Israel.
For the ICRC to say this publicly is a really big deal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Red Cross chief says Gaza is 'hell on earth' as Israeli assault continues
"No state... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing," Mirjana Spoljaric tells the BBC.
www.bbc.com
April 11, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"No State, no party to a conflict... can be exempt from the obligation not to commit war crimes, not to commit genocide, not to commit ethnic cleansing"
She means you Israel.
For the ICRC to say this publicly is a really big deal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
She means you Israel.
For the ICRC to say this publicly is a really big deal.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
XKCD may have the most straightforward (and amusing) refute of Trump tariffs.
xkcd.com/3073
xkcd.com/3073
April 8, 2025 at 12:42 AM
XKCD may have the most straightforward (and amusing) refute of Trump tariffs.
xkcd.com/3073
xkcd.com/3073
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Bessy says we should hear Trump out on this one.
Read more: chaser.com.au/world/local-...
Read more: chaser.com.au/world/local-...
April 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Bessy says we should hear Trump out on this one.
Read more: chaser.com.au/world/local-...
Read more: chaser.com.au/world/local-...
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The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
US officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit US manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters reut.rs/4jjPyj7
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
reut.rs
April 2, 2025 at 9:51 AM
The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed.
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Worst. Episode. EVER.
February 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Worst. Episode. EVER.
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What I imagine the White House looks like right now
January 21, 2025 at 1:05 PM
What I imagine the White House looks like right now
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Last time I visited back to NYC, I do have to say that the only good coffee I found was from Australian-run coffee shops!
"It seemed that many were convinced they had invented the concept of eating food with coffee, as well as the idea that coffee should be good, and they wanted to evangelize us."
"It seemed that many were convinced they had invented the concept of eating food with coffee, as well as the idea that coffee should be good, and they wanted to evangelize us."
Bogans in Brooklyn | Chris Crowley
Australia’s willingness to join the Global War on Terror led to a flat white-swilling, coked-up invasion of Williamsburg from down under.
thebaffler.com
January 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Last time I visited back to NYC, I do have to say that the only good coffee I found was from Australian-run coffee shops!
"It seemed that many were convinced they had invented the concept of eating food with coffee, as well as the idea that coffee should be good, and they wanted to evangelize us."
"It seemed that many were convinced they had invented the concept of eating food with coffee, as well as the idea that coffee should be good, and they wanted to evangelize us."