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Aussie rules. Writes about pepper. Sls dad 🙄Whadjuk noongar country.
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Australian government successfully lobbies UNESCO to ignore scientist concerns about gas emissions damaging ancient rock art
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · Jul 11
WA Murujuga rock art placed on Unesco world heritage list
WA Murujuga rock art placed on Unesco world heritage list
Aboriginal delegation ‘elated’ after 20-year effort to have the ‘genius’ inscribed despite threat of emissions from nearby gas facility * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Western Australian Murujuga landscape of more than a million pieces of indigenous rock art, some as old as 50,000 years, was inscribed on the world heritage list on Friday after a lobbying campaign by the Australian government persuaded a 21-country committee that nearby industrial emissions were not eroding the rocks. At a meeting of the world heritage committee in Paris, the Murujuga cultural landscape was acknowledged as a “manifestation of creative genius, inscribed in the landscape since deep time”. Continue reading...
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July 12, 2025 at 5:50 AM
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sasanianshah.bsky.social
The interesting thing is that you find the same thing in modern studies of ancient history. Rome “liberates”, while Parthians/Sasanians “occupy”. Rome “attacks”, Sasanians “raid”. Rome pays “subsidies”, Sasanians pay “reparations”.
June 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Something less ancient,
Islamic pottery from ( the quite overwhelming) museum of Islamic art in KL
Yes, I'm pretending to do some research...
#ancientbluesky
April 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Went looking at sea gypsies rock art today ... shamen, aliens, lobsters ...
#ancientbluesky
Fair old paddle tho...
April 23, 2025 at 1:24 PM
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
@pollbludger.bsky.social any idea who the yellow branded independents are ? I have one at home in Moore and am in qld at the moment and there's another over here.. rise up?
April 1, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I'm not pleased to see you , I'm just doing up my cloak..
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sapinuwa.bsky.social Sapinuwa @sapinuwa.bsky.social · Mar 16
And of course a visit to the museum with friends helps you notice some gems which remained unnoticed in many single visits for years.🙃😆
(From Juliopolis near Ankara, Roman, 1st-4th century AD)🏺
Two pea sized bronze items shaped like phalloi & scrotums in a museum display case Label "a pair of phallus shaped bronze buttons or appliqués"
March 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

This is rather good...
It is time to move the UN and international law out of the West
Israel’s impunity has brought us to a tipping point where the current international system is no longer viable.
www.aljazeera.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. day 5

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
January 24, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think my problem with Albo is that he's Jim Hacker without the great writing
January 24, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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jamescoverley.com James Coverley @jamescoverley.com · Dec 19
#PhallusThursday #AncientBluesky

This rather proud looking little chap is probably the god Harpokrates. Whoever he is, he is certainly pleased to see us. Egyptian 600-300 BC.

Pic - The Met, NY
December 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Have to say I reckon Peter Norman would be pretty happy with this..
Teen sprint star Gout Gout breaks Peter Norman's 56-year national 200m record
At just 16, Gout Gout removes Peter Norman's national mark that had stood since 1968, producing a faster time than what Usain Bolt ran at the same age.
www.abc.net.au
December 7, 2024 at 9:09 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. day 4

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
December 1, 2024 at 2:35 PM
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matthewhodson.bsky.social
I was diagnosed with HIV in 1998, when I was 30.
Many of my friends had died but I was told, with the new drugs available, I could expect to live another 20 years.
That was 27 years ago.

Honour those we lost.
Celebrate that we can now treat and prevent HIV.
Make HIV stigma history.

#WorldAIDSDay
Me aged 30. I was in LA and dressed up to go to a posh do (hired tux). My hair is slicked back and, in black and white under bright Californian sun, my skin looks impeccable. I’m looking directly into the camera with a closed mouth smile. I look like a movie star. Selfie. I’ve got very freshly cut hair and I’m looking directly at the camera with a similar smile. I’m wearing a vest. My lines are deeper, my eyes heavier, but I’m still in pretty good shape for a 57 year old.
December 1, 2024 at 9:17 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. day 3

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
November 30, 2024 at 8:50 AM
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colley.bsky.social
Love being seated near a company’s end of year drinks - it’s like getting a preview screening of a HR meeting
November 29, 2024 at 7:03 AM
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thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social
Life hack: use the abc announcing a new Fran Kelly show as reminder to change the battery in your smoke detector
November 21, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
People really don’t grasp how big these coal mines are.
australiainstitute.org.au The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · Nov 18
While Australia talks about climate action at COP29, at home the Australian Government is approving NEW coal mines.

This one, Narrabri Underground Mine, is so big that it covers nearly the entire area of the electorates of Sydney and Grayndler.

Add your name: theaus.in/stop_new_fos...
November 19, 2024 at 12:03 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. day 2

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 AM
Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. day 1

#booksky
#books
#bookchallenge
November 17, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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The lastest from Led by Donkeys
November 14, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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nameshiv.bsky.social
Day 2 of me demanding that they leak the Gaetz cut
November 15, 2024 at 11:52 AM
I'm off to the archaeology feed , have fun peeps #jeezlouise
November 6, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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Serendipitous wot?
www.threads.net/@tableofgods...
Uncovering the World’s Oldest Recipes (@tableofgods) on Threads
What’s the earliest evidence of fish sauce? It’s not Roman Garum, neither does it come from Greece, where fish sauce dates back to the mid-first millennium BC. The earliest mention is from the early.....
www.threads.net
September 13, 2024 at 3:54 AM
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carausius286.bsky.social
In this Roman frieze from the mid-1st century, we see a merchant selling a new laptop to a customer while he dries the world’s largest ravioli from a rail.

🏛️📷 Uffizi, Florence
September 12, 2024 at 4:45 AM