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Michelle Chom 🇦🇺🦢 (she/her)
@mrschom.bsky.social
Gen X, Computer Science / DT teacher, Girls Programming Network leader, ACS Advisory Board, badge & cert addict, ex-roller derby player, ASD, Alignment: Lawful Good.
Whadjuk Noongar Country (Perth)
*views are my own*
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remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened
January 31, 2026 at 12:23 PM
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I'm a journalist and attorney, not an activist, so I've no answers on what Americans should do right now.

I only know this: Donald Trump is attempting to incite a civil war so he can cancel all future elections, and he will keep executing citizens until that outcome is achieved.
January 25, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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🥁 Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2025: #1
#Hottest100

#NowPlaying
🕗 8:19 pm

🎵 Man I Need
🧑‍🎤 Olivia Dean

🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music

📝 Lyrics
January 24, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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🥁 Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2025: #2
#Hottest100

#NowPlaying
🕗 8:08 pm

🎵 Dancing2
🧑‍🎤 Keli Holiday

🎧 Apple Music / YouTube Music

📝 Lyrics
January 24, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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🥁 Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2025: #3
#Hottest100

#NowPlaying
🕗 8:02 pm

🎵 Dracula
🧑‍🎤 Tame Impala

🎧 Apple Music / Spotify

📝 Lyrics
January 24, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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“You said you love Doctor Who, name all the Doctors, companions, enemies, do you know who has had a cameo Remembrance of the Daleks?!”- I said I’m a fan, not that I’m studying it for the Mastermind.
November 17, 2024 at 3:10 PM
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STEM and the arts are so often pitted against each other nowadays. It would seem nonsensical to Leonardo da Vinci, who was both an artist and an engineer. We need science to improve life, and art to give meaning to it. It’s a partnership, not a war.
May 9, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Well this explains what my darling son shared with me at the beginning of December! Poor little dude missed his Primary School graduation, along with a third of his year group! 😔
January 7, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Just want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
December 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Librarians throw books away.

If you don't read the books, they get binned.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Virginia Giuffre’s brother: I think we were shocked by it—especially the use of the term “stolen.” Because she’s not an object. She’s a person. Someone who was recruited at Mar-a-Lago—his property… it just kind of makes us wonder… how much he knew
July 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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🥁 Hottest 100 of Australian songs: #7
#Hottest100 #AusHottest100

#NowPlaying
🕖 7:14 pm

🎵 Flame Trees
🧑‍🎤 Cold Chisel
💿 Twentieth Century

🎧 Apple Music / Spotify / YouTube Music

📝 Lyrics
July 26, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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One should give this coloring book to daughter, grand daughter, niece, whoever think girls don’t fit in engineering and science…
Little engineers, big projects by Flavia Giurca.
(Works for boys too)

#WomenInSTEM #GirlsInSTEM #STEM #science #kidsbooks #childrenbooks

www.amazon.com/dp/9948747712
Little Engineers, Big Projects: The ultimate colouring book for curious young minds and where imagination builds the future
Little Engineers, Big Projects: The ultimate colouring book for curious young minds and where imagination builds the future [Giurca, Flavia] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Little Engineers, Big Projects: The ultimate colouring book for curious young minds and where imagination builds the future
www.amazon.com
May 30, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Hey #EduSky #WomenInSTEM folks, am after recommendations to further investigate...
Who (academic/school/educator) do you know that has the best/really cool initiatives for increasing the number of girls electing to study computing (IT/CS) at a post-compulsory level? (Must be outside of Australia)
April 17, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Teaching can feel isolating, but teacher associations offer a vital lifeline.

Join @jstrain.bsky.social on 15 April for a dynamic #EduSkyAU chat on connection, support & community through associations.

5:30pm AWST | 7:30pm AEST.
April 6, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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✨ What to expect:

Inspiring, hands-on workshops
Collaborative sessions with passionate educators
Practical tools to nurture student success
A community dedicated to meaningful change
📅 3–6 June 2025
📍 Ballina, NSW
👉 Apply now:
strongersmarter.my.site.com/...
#EduSkyAU #StrongerSmarter
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April 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to @VoteCompass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes
share.votecompass.com/7xgzaLAqgtRW...
My Vote Compass Results - 2025 Australian Election
Vote Compass calculated my alignment with the candidates running in the 2025 Australian election. Try it for yourself!
share.votecompass.com
April 1, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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(Download and read the PNAS Climate paper, highlighted in this post. There is so much detail about the actions of Big Fossil Fuel.)
"Twitter and other social media apps were vectors of misinformation and propaganda, including from fossil fuel interests"
grist.org/accountabili...
The 8 talking points fossil fuel companies use to obstruct climate action
New research highlights companies’ “aligned and coordinated” use of Twitter to deny climate change and delay solutions.
grist.org
April 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Young ppl are not fkn around this election. We want a habitable earth for now and the future. We want an end to our complicity in other nations war crimes, we want an end to the unspoken aparthied and continued genocide of Indigenous ppls in so called Australia. We want to end the duopoly.
Best phone call this morning one of the 18 year olds has now made his entire family and extended family enrol to vote, some in thier 50,s and 60,s first time ever . From little things 💥
March 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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March 23, 2025 at 2:47 AM
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🧪 Meet Lise Meitner: The nuclear physicist who explained atomic fission in 1939, revolutionizing science. Despite her groundbreaking work, her male colleague Otto Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize while she was excluded. #womenshistorymonth #STEM
March 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
If you ever find yourself venturing near Byron Bay 🦘 and need an Air B&B, then check this place out! 5⭐
www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/110451...
Farm stay in Empire Vale · ★5.0 · 1 bedroom · 1 bed · 1 bath
Ballina Riverside Self-Contained Apartment
www.airbnb.com.au
March 16, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.

Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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MSM: Norway seizes Russian-crewed ship on suspicion of causing ‘serious damage’ to undersea cable between Latvia and Sweden

#OSINT #Russia #UkraineWar

Please repost to help defeat Ex's anti-Ukraine algorithms.
February 1, 2025 at 11:58 AM