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Tim Coronel

@timcoronel.bsky.social

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Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 7d

in furious agreement www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower

For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt

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[B]olosse aux pieds d'argile (Fulken McFlinkflonk OFFICIAL PAGE) @foulk.bsky.social · 26m

My "Bigfoot is hiding behind the giant squids" theory is getting klout

Jean-François Cudennec @jfcudennec.bsky.social · 39m

Just sayin

Chart comparing the number of camera, the number of giant squid footages and the number of bigfoot footages.

Number of giant squids rises as the number of camera increase, but not the number of bigfoot.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 6m

I've been taking them for years but recently discontinued one because my BP was occasionally dipping too low (probably because I've also lost a fair bit of weight)

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Sam Missingham @samatlounge.bsky.social · 10m

Politicians seem to blame the 'algorithm' when they actually mean people with a different opinion to theirs.

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 25m

Anyone else remember the last time this famous German brand “got into the defence industry”?

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 14m

or Kissinger

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C20 Society @c20society.bsky.social · 27m

NEWS: Permission has been granted for a major retrofit project by @collectivearch.bsky.social at Edinburgh's brutalist 'Banana Flats', immortalised in the film Trainspotting. Designed by Alison, Hutchison & Partners, Cables Wynd House (1963-5) was inspired by Le Corbusier's Unité d'Habitation model.

Cables Wynd House, Leith, Edinburgh - Alison & Hutchison & Partners (1963-65), Category A listed
Image credit: Woolver

Visualisation of Cables Wynd House after rennovation.
Image credit: Collective Architecture

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 26m

Breaking News: The Israeli military said a cease-fire had come into effect and its soldiers were repositioning themselves within Gaza.

Israel Says Cease-Fire Is in Effect in Gaza

The statement came after Israel approved a deal between Israel and Hamas to pave the way for the release of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners.

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 59m

Some excellent SovCit-adjacent work from Port Augusta.

“Court throws out man's attempt to charge government officials using archaic practice” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Court throws out SA man's attempt to charge council using archaic process

A Port Augusta resident's attempt to charge several government officials and his local council with more than 350 criminal offences using an archaic concept of common law is tossed out by court.

www.abc.net.au

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Ria Kapoor @riakapoor.bsky.social · 16h

I have a new article out.

TLDR: Actively courting deportation by air is a way to claim rights as a stateless person and even as a refugee.

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Air Travel, Statelessness, and the Rights Claims of Ugandan Asians, c.1973*

Abstract. In the aftermath of Idi Amin’s expulsion of Uganda’s South Asians in 1972, some of those made technically stateless arrived in India unsupported

academic.oup.com

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 1h

this is a great museum experience -- if it's ever safe to visit the US again, I recommend it

NPR @npr.org · 1h

At New York City's Tenement Museum, high schoolers explore the American experience through the eyes of one 1860s-era Black family. n.pr/47eu5ol

This museum immerses students in U.S. history: 'You can smell it, touch it, see it'

At New York City's Tenement Museum, high schoolers explore the American experience through the eyes of one 1860s-era Black family.

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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 6h

Reporting live from Chicago, there’s no “hellscape” I’d rather be in.

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WIRED @wired.com · 1h

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers. www.wired.com/story/north-...

North Korean Scammers Are Doing Architectural Design Now

New research shows that North Koreans appear to be trying to trick US companies into hiring them to develop architectural designs using fake profiles, résumés, and Social Security numbers.

www.wired.com

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 1h

5am in Washington DC. What time does Trump get up?

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James Aylett @james.tartarus.org · 1h

It would take a worldwide coordinated effort, but I believe that if we as a species put our minds to it we can eliminate AI use in the general population by 2030.

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Naomi Smith @pimlicat.bsky.social · 1h

Nobel Peace Prize 2025 won by a woman - Maria Corina Machado

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 10h

ACNC Commr Sue Woodward confirms charities found promoting political parties are disqualified, but after investigating 18 charities during election campaign none met the threshold & won’t spk on the Brethren-Liberal alliance
Deborah O’Neill “can I express some concern about that?”🚩 #Estimates

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Dan @danxduran.bsky.social · 2h

Sentences that wouldn't have made sense a decade ago

Alex @shakingstick.bsky.social · 4h

Portland reclaiming frogs for the forces of light in meme semiotics is a delight

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Mark MonroOoOoOoOo (Like a ghost, you see) - He/Him 🌈 @thatidiotmonro.bsky.social · 1h

"Oof" - Oswald Mosley's speech in Liverpool

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

Ah, happy 88th anniversary of the day Oswald Mosley tried to sell fascism to Liverpudlians – and someone concussed him with a brick

A man in a suit stands at a microphone which has been mounted on the roof of a van. There are loudspeakers at his feet, and a building behind him. He has an arm raised, and is flinching as projectiles are hurled at him, because he's a fucking Nazi

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 3h

I guess we know where he got off.

Pervert caught performing sex act on himself at train station

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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 1h

This is what the internet is for

Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 1d

oh hell yeah youtu.be/nGZOFyLrCwk?...

Slug Eating Spaghetti Time Lapse (With Stopwatch Timer)

YouTube video by Nature's Fantastic

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 8h

Fleabag season 3 writes itself

Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 9h

Of all the clerics they could have popped, those ICE idiots had to hit Hot Priest.

Presbyterian minister David Black on CNN, who was shot with pepper balls while praying outside an ICE facility.

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Tim Coronel @timcoronel.bsky.social · 2h

all part of the programme

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Nihilistic Wrong Hordak 🏳️‍⚧️ @shadow27.bsky.social · 14h

The next couple questions are just as good with Simon tearing into Shapiro and holding fast:

SHAPIRO: You would rather put a gun in your mouth?

SIMON: I mean, what you're saying to me, effectively, is there's no original way to do anything and...

SHAPIRO: No.

SIMON: Yes, you are.

SHAPIRO: That seems like a kind of absolutist take.

SIMON: Not only I think is it a fundamental violation of the integrity of writers and also of copyright to - you know, when I sold all the scripts I sold, you know, 150 to HBO and, you know, maybe another 50 to NBC, I didn't sell them so that they could be thrown into a computer with other people's and be used again by a corporation. So...

SHAPIRO: So would you ever agree to a contract that saw any role for AI at all?

SIMON: No. I would not.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Siobhán McElduff @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social · 5h

The person who wrote this is chief culture editor for the Economist, and I have so many questions about what he does in that job and how he got it.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 12h

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, country-music legend Johnny Cash can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength, writes Jon Fasman.

Essay | Can We Finally Give Johnny Cash His Due?

Compared to Dylan and Springsteen, the country-music legend can seem deeply uncool. It took time for me to appreciate his profound, plainspoken strength.

on.wsj.com

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