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Dr Nathan Kilah
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Research Chemist, Assoc. Prof., Science Communicator, Edible Gardener, Beekeeper, Anti-authoritarian, Husband, Dad. I will ❤️ your gardening posts. www.nathankilah.com/science-communication nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania
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What's your preferred method to wash your clothes? In this piece for The Conversation I outline the differences between washing with powder and liquid by looking at the underlying chemistry. #ChemSky #OzChem
What’s the difference between liquid and powder laundry detergent? It’s not just the obvious
The chemistry of laundry detergents is fundamental to their performance. Knowing more about these ingredients will help inform your choices.
theconversation.com
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This interview, that CBS management & the FCC refused to air, is fascinating. If only from the perspective that a simple, lucid conversation like it, could be considered a threat.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ...
Rep. James Talarico On Confronting Christian Nationalism, And Strange Days In The Texas Legislature
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
February 18, 2026 at 2:07 AM
February 18, 2026 at 12:07 AM
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February 17, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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it's hard to see someone else live your dream
Just watched the Weiner-mobile pick up someone from the airport
February 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM
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I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.
February 17, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.
before antibiotics did people just die all the time from everything?
February 17, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Home insurance renewal quote up 35% and contents insurance quote up 39% this year. It's almost as if the insurance industry knows something our politicians aren't telling us. (And yes, they're likely loyalty/lazy gouging too.)
February 16, 2026 at 11:51 PM
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So when thousands of women (and children) were being duplicated--including in non-consensual AI porn--it was no big deal. But it took "only a 15-sec clip" of these two famous white men to draw outrage and fear. Gotcha. Cool cool.
It took only a 15-second clip of Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt duking it out on a crumbling rooftop — made by A.I. with a two-sentence prompt and the click of a button — to draw swift outrage, and sizable fear, from Hollywood.

"It’s nothing short of terrifying," one scriptwriter said.
Why an A.I. Video of Tom Cruise Battling Brad Pitt Spooked Hollywood
A 15-second clip created by an artificial intelligence tool owned by the Chinese technology company ByteDance appears more cinematic than anything so far.
nyti.ms
February 16, 2026 at 8:36 PM
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Staying informed these days is a form of self harm.
February 16, 2026 at 8:51 AM
Started singing the chorus to my kids the other day. I had no idea the film clip was shot in #Hobart.
February 16, 2026 at 6:55 AM
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Hobart Airport has a bathroom for assistance dogs and it's awesome #Hobart
February 15, 2026 at 3:30 AM
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Bugger...Varroa mites have finally found my home hives. Clear last month, 24 mites in the test chamber today.
Immediately put in Formic acid strips - they use a component of #bee venom that the bees can tolerate, but is lethal for the mites.
February 15, 2026 at 9:11 AM
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Roses are red.

Valentine’s Day is bad.

Married couples ignore it

and it makes lonely people sad.
February 13, 2026 at 9:48 PM
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Resist narratives of inevitability.
February 14, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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When your dad is a chemist
February 14, 2026 at 1:08 PM
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Oh my god France developed the anti Richie Benaud.
February 13, 2026 at 7:48 PM
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Here is my cartoon about Mr Jon Kudelka www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
My friend Jon has died | First Dog on the Moon
Jon Kudelka loved his beautiful family and was fiercely intolerant of greed and hypocrisy
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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Do we really need this much reporting on the internal machinations of a fringe party that has like 3 MPs?
February 12, 2026 at 11:08 PM
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February 12, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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"Myrtle oranges" are a really striking #fungus (Cyttaria gunnii). The myrtles (Nothofagus cunninhamii) at a roadside stop on the #Tasmanian west coast were being hammered by these.
February 12, 2026 at 5:44 AM
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for no reason whatsoever, I am bringing out my favorite 12th-century illumination today, which depicts

1) a Thracesian woman killing a Varangian Guard who tried to assault her

and

2) his comrades praising her and giving her all of his stuff for her very understandable and justifiable actions 🙏
February 11, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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Australian Census on University Staff Wellbeing results are out. Every uni recorded scores indicating high/very high psych risk.

And in news surprising no one, "only senior execs and deans rated their workplaces as medium or low risk while all other staff groups reported high-risk conditions."
February 12, 2026 at 3:50 AM
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smol watermelon
February 11, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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February 11, 2026 at 5:37 AM
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"The Police chose violence". Veteran journo and sports broadcaster Peter Lalor was at the Sydney Herzog protest, got pepper sprayed. His account
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/peter-lalor-...
Peter Lalor, pepper-sprayed, debunks the Herzog propaganda - Michael West
Sports journalist Peter Lalor was pepper-sprayed by NSW Police at the Herzog protest in Sydney. He debunks the propaganda.
michaelwest.com.au
February 10, 2026 at 10:07 PM