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Husband, father, #cyclist, #swimmer, amateur #cosmologist, #podcast addict, political tragic. Living on Ngunnawal Country. I voted YES in the Referendum. #fedi23 […] 🌉 bridged from https://aus.social/@Devorppa on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · Jun 19

A list of my current favourite Podcasts (and are all recommended)

History:
Age of Napoleon - an excellent coverage of European history from mid-1700s onwards
Revolutions - covers many of the revolutions starting with the English Revolutions
History of Rome - a great podcast from Romulus and […]

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 1d

A small poster in an obscure corner of a window at my local #palestinian bakery. #gaza #palestine

The Butcher if Gaza is the title, and the pic is an unsmiling Netanyahu in butcher's apron, his hands bloodied, handling a knife and bits of meat.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Just got my official letter for the fellowship to New Zealand! And I have a possible lead on a local farm sitter, but nothing is set yet.

So I'm just going to put this out onto the Fediverse again, in case someone who knows how take care of goats in Real Canadian Winter (down to -40C temps) […]

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Ok people, I know you like voting and today the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo needs your help today in The Guardian’s Bird of the Year vote.

If you don’t have another favourite that you have voted for today then get cracking and vote for the Sulphur Crested Cockatoo […]

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Jude🇵🇸 @sister-ratched.toot.community.ap.brid.gy · 2d

Wall to wall October 7th coverage which of course overwhelmingly favours the Zionist view. 'Commemorations' is the WOTD 😡. This is predictable but distressing, especially in light of the genocide and what we're now hearing are the *real* facts of that day 2 years ago. #gaza #palestine #auspol

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 2d

Australian citizens have the right to return to Australia. Calling them 'Isis brides' does not change the law. They are Australian.

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d

The attached article (the website is back up again and the link works now) is a detailed account of what happened on 7 October 2023. The account differs substantially from what Western media has been reporting ever since.

I don’t know what happened and it is hard to remove the automatic […]

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Marius Fortuna_3 @marius-gs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28d

#usa #russia #ukraine #gaza #europe #worldnews #usnews

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 3d

Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #mondayrandom10

My ten random songs are:

1. Common People by William Shatner (yes, that William Shatner)
2. Fields of Innocence by Evanescence
3. Never Before by Cold Chisel
4. Save The Best For Last […]

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Dr. Flowers @alliflowers.talkedabout.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I want to live in a world where the
flags are lowered for Jane Goodall.

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d

This live performance is definitionally Australian and perhaps my favourite.

It was recorded in 1988 at the Royal Melbourne Showgrounds as part of a celebration of the Bicentenary of Captain Cook sailing around the Indian and Pacific oceans and accidentally ‘finding’ Australia when it had never […]

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Scott Hamilton @sdhamiltonvic.bsky.social · 5d

Golding #Nuclear #auspol #LNPSplits

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I made a loaf of bread today - I must have mucked up the balance between the sides as one side rose higher than the other. Oh well, at least it didn’t have air bubbles in the loaf (unlike some recent Baker’s Delight loaves I have bought).

#baking #bread #thisbakinglife

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pmcneil, nerd @pmcneil.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

via Crickey worm:
Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar wrote on social media on Thursday: “We expect more than words from the Starmer government. We expect and demand a change of course, effective action, and enforcement against the rampant antisemitic and anti-Israeli incitement in Britain.” […]

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

This week, Amy Remeikis is (correctly) linking the housing crisis facing #australia with the #howard Government, quite susinctly.

I have said before that every major challenge facing Australia goes back to the Howard Government.

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And just like Howard, who was told by the […]

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pmcneil, nerd @pmcneil.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Who are the worst companies? So many to choose from.

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/01/award-for-corporate-misconduct-australias-worst-company/?utm_campaign=daily&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

The Alan Bond Award for Corporate Misconduct: What is Australia's worst company?

Everyone has an opinion about which company is the most loathsome in the country — and Crikey has figured out how to objectively determine the worst of the worst.

www.crikey.com.au

Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

An Audit of the #anu accounts show … surprise, surprise … that there is no black hole and the ANU in fact made a $90m profit in 2023-24.

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To be clear, as a government owned, not-for-profit entity, the ANU is under no pressure to maximise its profits so that it can maximise […]

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@pmcneil

I switched over to a streaming service the moment she introduced Teahan.

IMO, there will never again be a PM from the Liberal Party as they are on a death spiral to the right. Whatshername will be dumped before April 2026 and that numpty from WA and SideShowBob will fight it out for […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d

A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering […]

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Christian Peach @chpietsch.fedifreu.de.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Cory Doctorow @pluralistic on #ai:

> [T]he AI bubble is driven by monopolists who've conquered their markets and have no more growth potential, who are desperate to convince investors that they can continue to grow by moving into some other sector, e.g. "pivot to video," crypto, blockchain […]

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

Set your music player of choice to random play, share the first 10 #songs and add the hashtag #mondayrandom10

My ten random songs are:

1. Country by Empire Of The Sun
2. Conquest by The White Stripes
3. Back On The Boarderline by Midnight Oil
4. I See Red by Split Enz
5. Sorry Seems To Be The […]

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Wot’s going on here?

We left some stuff wrapped up in a *blue* tarp on the back paved area for a bit over a year. We have some medium sized back birds who live in our garden and spend most of their time digging up the mulch and making a general mess of the garden […]

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Photo of a bird’s next on the ground with an assortment of blue things they have collected and flown in.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 14d

It's time our politicians kicked their US habit

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

It's well beyond time our politicians kicked their US habit

So Anthony Albanese has secured his one on one meeting with Donald Trump and we are all supposed to pretend this is a good outcome.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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Heather Evans @feather1952.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Amy nails it again - she certainly has a wonderful way with words #auspol

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2025/09/24/trump-albanese-us-meeting

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

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Devorppa @devorppa.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Apparently the Rapture is supposed to be happening today.

If we are really lucky, all the right wing religious loonies will leave the planet.

If you are wondering what this would be like … imagine you lived in the UK and Europe around the 1600s and all the religious loonies that no one wanted […]

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