Triskeltic
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Just hanging out. No automatic follows. Follower harvesters will be blocked on sight.
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The Barmy Army spending longer in a plane to watch the first test than they did actually watching the first test will never not be funny
November 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
The Barmy Army spending longer in a plane to watch the first test than they did actually watching the first test will never not be funny
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Category 3, projected to intensify to Cat 4. Tracy was a 4.
Credit to the BoM here. They've been warning of this possibility for a week, even back when it didn't look like much. It takes balls to forecast the earliest ever cyclone in a season, and it's not summer yet.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Credit to the BoM here. They've been warning of this possibility for a week, even back when it didn't look like much. It takes balls to forecast the earliest ever cyclone in a season, and it's not summer yet.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
'It will get worse': Darwin weather expected to deterioriate from 6pm
The Bureau of Meteorology is warning Darwin residents are in for a "long night" with weather conditions set to deteriorate "quickly" and "significantly" this evening due to Severe Tropical Cyclone Fin...
www.abc.net.au
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Category 3, projected to intensify to Cat 4. Tracy was a 4.
Credit to the BoM here. They've been warning of this possibility for a week, even back when it didn't look like much. It takes balls to forecast the earliest ever cyclone in a season, and it's not summer yet.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Credit to the BoM here. They've been warning of this possibility for a week, even back when it didn't look like much. It takes balls to forecast the earliest ever cyclone in a season, and it's not summer yet.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Paco was giving me a good sniff today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #nature
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #nature
November 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Paco was giving me a good sniff today at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #nature
#tapiroftheday #tapirs #nature
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i don't think your loan is getting approved
November 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
i don't think your loan is getting approved
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"Tehran now faces 'catastrophe' as land in parts of the capital sinks by up to 30 centimeters a year and water supplies shrink."
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
www.iranintl.com
November 21, 2025 at 8:15 PM
"Tehran now faces 'catastrophe' as land in parts of the capital sinks by up to 30 centimeters a year and water supplies shrink."
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
www.iranintl.com/en/202511209...
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We really ought to stop being so cocky about our health care system as it is slowly privatised by stealth
I just paid $870 in medical bills (after Medicare) in six weeks. My faith in Australia’s public health is crushed
I just paid $870 in medical bills (after Medicare) in six weeks. My faith in Australia’s public health is crushed
It is incredibly isolating haemorrhaging cash to healthcare – while literally haemorrhaging with endometriosis. And I know I’m not alone
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That’ll be $400, the receptionist says coolly at the gynaecologist.
My card hits the machine with a dull clack.
GP long consultation fee: $198; $84.90 Medicare rebate.
Gynaecologist: $350; $78.05 Medicare rebate.
Ultrasound: $350; $90.50 Medicare rebate.
Psychiatrist: $340 for half-hour checkin; $130.85 benefit.
Dietician: $222.95; and they insisted I buy two supplements for $100.
Pelvic physio (two visits): $95 per half-hour session ($190) and pelvic floor exercise product for $68.
CBD oil: $155 out of pocket, not covered by the pharmaceutical benefits scheme (PBS). Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
We really ought to stop being so cocky about our health care system as it is slowly privatised by stealth
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Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach
Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach
The enormous, serpentine fish, regarded in Japanese folklore as a herald of disaster, usually live deep below the surface and are only sighted when sick or dying
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It was a beautiful warm day in north-west Tasmania when a fish with a reputation as a harbinger of doom washed ashore.
Tony Cheesman, who lives in the seaside town of Penguin, was walking his two dogs, Ronan and Custard, along the beach at Preservation Bay on Friday morning when something silvery and surrounded by gulls grabbed his attention. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Three-metre giant oarfish, ‘palace messenger’ of doom, washes up on Tasmanian beach
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As we note in the blog post, we’re not planning to force AI onto our users or products. We try to build useful and optional tools because we think they’ll empower the humans that use them. More about our AI integration philosophy here:
help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kag...
help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kag...
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 AM
As we note in the blog post, we’re not planning to force AI onto our users or products. We try to build useful and optional tools because we think they’ll empower the humans that use them. More about our AI integration philosophy here:
help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kag...
help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kag...
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I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
November 21, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I literally could not stop myself from inappropriately laughing out loud for real
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My tour group spent some time with an extended family of six Australian King Parrots in Royal National Park yesterday morning. This is an adult male and immature male. They're somewhat like doves and pigeons in that one feels a sense of peace in their gentle and trusting company . . . #birds #nature
November 21, 2025 at 8:05 AM
My tour group spent some time with an extended family of six Australian King Parrots in Royal National Park yesterday morning. This is an adult male and immature male. They're somewhat like doves and pigeons in that one feels a sense of peace in their gentle and trusting company . . . #birds #nature
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I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1712
November 21, 2025 at 6:50 AM
I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1712
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Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
It’s one of Australia’s worst underwater environmental catastrophes. What’s going to happen to South Australia’s vast algal bloom as summer heat warms the ocean?
theconversation.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Australia’s algal bloom catastrophe has left more than 87,000 animals dead. What will happen this summer?
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
Six researchers in this space, including myself, have lost their positions at Flinders University in a restructure. theconversation.com/australias-a...
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Periodic reminder we should have called it "epostcard" and not "email" ...
Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."
Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."
Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'
Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.
www.latimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Periodic reminder we should have called it "epostcard" and not "email" ...
Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."
Lawsuit: "Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider 'backdoor' to Google servers... the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information."
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This was an IQ test.
November 20, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This was an IQ test.
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Elon Musk and his cronies turning up Grok's flatter-Elon-dial to 11 and then mass deleting a bunch of posts from Grok that say things like "Elon drinks piss/bottoms better than anyone on Earth" is the sort of poetic comedy that makes X the place to be
November 20, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Elon Musk and his cronies turning up Grok's flatter-Elon-dial to 11 and then mass deleting a bunch of posts from Grok that say things like "Elon drinks piss/bottoms better than anyone on Earth" is the sort of poetic comedy that makes X the place to be
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A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
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COP30 Is on Fire
Flames have erupted in the “Blue Zone” at the United Nations Climate Conference in Brazil.
heatmap.news
November 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
A literal fire has erupted in the middle of the United Nations conference devoted to stopping the planet from burning.
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
heatmap.news/sparks/cop30...
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Country Fire Service volunteer Shaun Arnold says verbal abuse from the public is causing some volunteers to quit, a reality he does not want this fire danger season.
Country firies receiving 'a lot of abuse' from motorists plead for respect
Country Fire Service volunteer Shaun Arnold says verbal abuse from the public is causing some volunteers to quit, a reality he does not want this fire danger season.
www.abc.net.au
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Country Fire Service volunteer Shaun Arnold says verbal abuse from the public is causing some volunteers to quit, a reality he does not want this fire danger season.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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the fact that turning AI scraping off in gmail also turns off the sorting feature and makes everything one big inbox…. ooohhhhhhhh that’s evil
November 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
the fact that turning AI scraping off in gmail also turns off the sorting feature and makes everything one big inbox…. ooohhhhhhhh that’s evil
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This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
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Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
The CSIRO cuts are just the tip of the iceberg for Australia's science funding
Australia is known as a country of innovators, but with a combination of brain drain, continuous cuts, and a loss of critical science projects, is Australia losing its edge?
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 7:01 AM
This is why for a long time I've found the Prime Minister's Prizes for Science a rather insulting propaganda exercise
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
CSIRO funding as a percentage of GDP:
1982-83 = 0.17
2024-25 = 0.03
...
Scientific extinction event imminent?
This thread is absolutely bonkers.
I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.
a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing .
Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.
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November 20, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This thread is absolutely bonkers.
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Some more botany.
More beautiful peas ...
More beautiful peas ...
November 20, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Some more botany.
More beautiful peas ...
More beautiful peas ...
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when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
November 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor
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Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...
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November 19, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Royce Kurmelovs is one of our best indie journalists. He is on the ground in Belem reporting on Australia’s reasonably pathetic efforts at COP reneweconomy.com.au/after-a-delu...