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Mark Prior
@markrprior.mrp.net
Network architect and trainer, traveller, and photographer.

Mastodon: @[email protected]

Banner: Iguaçu Falls from the Brazilian side.

Pro Cycling tragic, runner of the #CouchPeloton #TrollTips game
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A starter pack for #CouchPeloton and others interested in professional cycling.

go.bsky.app/2SsAiS4
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In Lebanon. Can hear the Israeli drone constantly now. I’ve only been back for a day but folks here deal with it 24/7, for months. It’s psychological torture. You can even see it, just flying around. The Israelis want to let everyone know that they can kill whoever they want whenever they want.
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Battery storage takes unprecedented 40 pct share of evening demand in South Australia, a world-record for the country’s most advanced renewable grid.
reneweconomy.com.au
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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Today’s xkcd made me cry.

In a good way.

xkcd.com/3172/
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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Comedy is legal again
Holy shit. So Elon decides it would be nice to know what region of the world people are posting from. So they add that little feature.
2 hours later they figure out that many Trump supporters with millions of followers are posting from other countries. Surprise!
That "feature" is now gone.
November 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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November 24, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Australian politics’ rich vein of irony
Hilarious that we have a govt captured by fossil fuel companies and an opposition declaring they will not deliver on our legal obligations under the Paris Agreement and we are gunning to host the next COP meeting.
I'm on the ground here in Belem at COP30. Here is a quick video of part of the performance by Wiradjuri man Benjamin Thomson and Germaine Paulson gave after a press conference yesterday morning by civil society groups pressing the case for Australia to host the conference next year.
November 15, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Here's an interesting question:
If 153 Palestinians arrived in Australia from Gaza by plane, what would our Australian Labor Govt do?!

To complicate the issue, it seems Israel engineered the planeload of Gazans that arrived in South Africa, as an act of ethnic cleansing. 🤔 #auspol #FreePalestine
November 15, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests
Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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You can tell the US is confusing church and state because the state is protecting rapists.
November 15, 2025 at 2:11 AM
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."
November 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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November 7, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run
OVER A MILLION USERS

DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT

EVERY *WEEK*

what the fuck are we DOING here
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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"The Palace had put out a statement soon after the Dismissal saying that they had no part to play in the decision that the Governor-General made. We now know that that is completely false."
Meantime here's my scintillating interview with @palaceletters.bsky.social meanjin.com.au/interviews/j...
November 6, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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Pulled a muscle chasing after ICE today lol
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going!

Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists.

We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.
November 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#MarkDoesJapan not a new train as I’ve already counted a JR East E5 Shinkansen but I’m doing a longer trip today so …
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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The richest man on the planet starved 600K people to death simple because he could. No other reason.
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Matt Golding is the funniest, sharpest cartoonist on the block.
Moderate Liberals breeding program.
The Age
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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I wonder why so many people are feeling aggrieved and becoming radicalised.
Could it be the breathtaking wholesale betrayal of our values, while lying about it, on a daily basis?
November 4, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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tim wilson, will you stand up for the voters of goldstein for once?

…or will you switch support from sussanley
to angus taylor in exchange for promotion?

👇 my op-ed in the oz 👇

www.theaustralian.com.au/commentary/l...
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
Lina Khan to co-chair NYC mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's transition team | TechCrunch
Khan's appointment sends a message to the tech industry, whose most powerful players have already been critical of Mamdani, a Democratic socialist.
techcrunch.com
November 5, 2025 at 7:00 PM