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Michael Barnes
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I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen. Science is cool. Born in 1966, Whitefella living on the land of the Wurundjeri people. LGBTQIA+ rights are human rights. Refugees are welcome, racists are not.
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Yeah i think Star Trek Lower Decks showed where this is going #badgey #lowerdecks #startrek
cartoon image of large yellow anthropomorphized arrowhead/star shape with eyes, eyebrows, mouth, arms and legs with an expression of happiness at the forfront, behind a cartoon image a of a science fiction room with yellow crisscross batter and a door. (Its a holodeck onboard a star ship in Star Trek).
October 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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Red the blood of angry men

Black the dark of ages past

Red the world about to dawn

Black the night that ends at last
ANTI FASCIST crowd of people hundreds walking down a grey street in Melbourne, in the middle black and red flags waving.
October 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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I prefer
A screenshot from an 8 bit video game.four figures in front of a castle, one figure waving the trans flag. One speech bubble asks "will you stand with us because they mig ht come for you next"? The next speech bubble says "No. I'll stand with you because they're coming for you now".
August 3, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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Joyous Walpurgisnacht to all who celebrate.
Painting of world viewed from a distance of a wide sky above flat land around a winding river with indistinct structures. In front of a background of dark thunderous billowing clouds four young naked women ride four different horses. Each woman looking ecstatic.
April 29, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I can not help thinking about line by the soviet sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko from the 2015 movie Battle for Sevastopol. #ANTFIA #goals
Two stills from the movie Battle for Sevastopol. In the first scene a older woman ( Eleanor Roosevelt) asks 'who are you' a younger woman in a soviet army uniform replies 'Second Lieutennt Lyudmila Pavlichenko' and Roosevelt goes on to ask 'how many men have you killed? Pavlichenko replies 'Not a man ... fascists...309'.
February 20, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Image of a scene from Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Lando Calrissian in centre of frame walking towards us, on our right a member of his team, on the left an Imperial Stormtrooper. The text states "this deal is getting worse all the time".
February 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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and happy 14 Feb or death to colonial kidnappers day to all who celebrate
Image from painting 'death of Captain Cook' showing a man in a blue and white 18th Century British sailors uniform surrounded by 4 brown skinned native men one with a club, another holding spear who is wearing orange robes, and another with a long knife who have raised them up about to strike Cook who has fallen to one knee and holding his rifle. In the background in the sea a man in British redcoats is swinging a rifle towards a unarmed brown skin man, whilst to the left of the picture a British redcoat is raising a rifle to fire.
February 14, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Close up focus on a metallic robot face The eye slits narrowed and the text box below states "That's what a Nazi would say" its image from the animated TV series Creature Commandos of the character G.I Robot whose sole purpose when he was created in World War II is kill Nazis.
February 5, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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I thoroughly enjoyed the DC animated series Creature Commandos, not sure exactly why? perhaps it was a shared feeling with some of the characters #creaturecommandos #deadnazis
Image from animated series Creature Commandos. On a raised stone fence infront of an ornate outside pergola. Two characters GI Robot an android dressed in a World War II GI uniform and a merewoman with a transparent helmet and a white wetsuit with gold trim. GI Robot is speaking to the Merewoman "I do not enjoy landscapes devoid of dead Nazis, Miss Nina".
January 23, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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This book has shot to the top of my books I will constantly recommend. Come for the Scifi mech battles, stay for the inspiring revolutionary theory and clear discussions on sexual consent. POWER TO THE LABORING CLASS. IN SOLIDARITY WE RISE. #Booksky
The cover of Heavenly Tyrant by Xiran Jay Zhao. Colours gold and an orange on a dark background dominate. In the for front a young woman standing tall in a gold half mask looking fierce in yellow sci-fi armour reminiscent of classic Chinese designs. A large serpentine yellow dragon mech's lower torso coils in the background behind her. A gold thread is wrapped around her right wrist and stretches off to the side of the cover.
January 4, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Books 2024 4/4 #Booksky

and whilst the series is yet to publish its final chapter this science fiction gender-swapped Alexander the Great in Space was everything I wanted in my space opera and am looking forward to Lady Chaos next year when it is published.
Front cover of Kate Elliott's Unconquerable Sun Orange Yellow background in the centre is a bright yellow sun. The bottom third is a future cityscape, above these are two angular spacecraft flying toward the center of the image. Around these are a couple of much smaller aircraft/spaceships.
December 22, 2024 at 10:17 PM
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Books read 2024 3/4 #booksky

I am a fan of Mira Grant since her Newsflesh series a great entry in the Zombie apocalypse genre She is a terrifying writing machine both series and stand-alone novels. This brilliant combination of science, and mermaids is razor sharp satire of Discovery Channel.
Front cover of Mira Grant's 'Into the Drowning Deep' black background partial to half figure of a woman, her arms floating upwards. She appears sinking down completely submerged in clear water. A red swath of blood floating up from around her arms.
December 22, 2024 at 10:11 PM
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Books I read in 2024 2/4
H.G Parry joins T Kingfisher as an authors I haven't disappointed in a book of theirs. This Shadow Histories duology weaves history/fantasy. The climax is the abolition of slavery in the British parliament. hadn't known how much I needed to read an unalloyed good outcome.
Front cover of H.G.Parry's 'A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians' dark background white stand red text. In the centre a wax seal with a magical handprint.
December 22, 2024 at 10:03 PM
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Noteworthy Novels I read in 2024 1/4
I had put off reading the first in this 'The Burning Kingdoms' trilogy until final was published Nov 24. Had read glowing reviews and concerned it couldn't be as remarkable as claimed. After reading The Jasmine Throne I am happy to join this chorus.
Front cover of novel 'The Jasmine Throne' by Tasha Suri Orange yellow background. In the centre a young dark-skinned woman wearing a dark red sari with orange scarf sitting on the side of stone steps. Over her shoulder, she carries a long thin pole.
December 22, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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A notable point they made during a conversation with Iker Seisdedos on the same day House Speaker Mike Johnson announced he would ban Sarah McBride from using the women’s bathrooms in the Capitol.
Headshot light background amazing feminist philosopher Judith Butler in dark clothing. White text at the bottom of frame “Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic”.
December 20, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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This is Major Shlong to ground control.
A grey stone gravestone inscribed with The expedition of Major S H along passed this point June 8, 1820.
December 13, 2024 at 2:07 AM
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For anyone at Disney who is reading this (and honestly, why wouldn't you be) I would watch the hell out of a live-action and or animated StarWars Doctor Aphra series #Starwars #DoctorAphra
White background with orange circuit overlaid, In front young woman white T-shirt leather flight jacket, pants, and gloves rising pair of flight goggles in one hand other on the pistol being drawn from hip holster. Behind in the middle distance a black furred wookie with a scar over the left eye, in the bottom left corner two dark colour droids who look like evil mirror universe versions of C-3PO and R2-D2.
December 4, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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You can never borrow to many library books, unless you forget your bag. Good thing #Monashlibraries sell such stylish ones
White background, cartoon marsupial in rainbow scarf holding book aloft, skipping over grass.
November 29, 2024 at 10:27 PM
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November 27, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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"Evil is just a measure of how much your choices take away other people’s". -Dr Aphra
Front page of Star Wars Doctor Aphra comix #1 Young woman dressed in leather flight suit, raising her goggles, behind her stands a wookie and in the bottom left two droids that look like evil clones of R2D2 and C3PO
November 19, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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Where is her big budget blockbuster series (insert streaming service name) ?
Painting of a red headed woman holding a rapier with Text "Julie D'Aubigny was a famous 17th Century French Opera signer who once took holy vows so she could enter a convent have sex with her girlfriend who was there. She seduced women at parties which saw husbands challenging her to a duel. She was an expert swordsman and killed 10 men this way".
October 25, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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I knew it.
Cartoon picture of Coffee Shop. Server saying "but how did you know it was a-" man holding a gun and a severed head saying "Hazelnut". The caption reads Fun fact: flavour coffee only exists to detect androids. by smbc comics
October 1, 2024 at 8:48 AM
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"To deny the existence of intersex [and transgender] people to make a polemical point about “facts” is, indeed, to deny the facts in the service of a political agenda to conserve the binary."- Judith Butler theconversation.com/gender-is-no...
Judith Butler in dark jacket from front cover of New York Times Article with white text "Judith Butler Thinks You're Overreacting".
April 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM
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"O brave new world. That has such people in't" - Miranda www.simplemost.com/skull-toilet...
A white ceramic toilet in the shape of a human skull with glowing blue LED lights in the eye socket.
March 29, 2024 at 2:15 AM
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To my Australian colleagues today is International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. My personal thoughts on Harmony Day introduced by our racist government,... I leave you to draw your own conclusions.
Poster with an image of a multiple vertically coloured human face on the left hand and the words International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination down the right hand side.
March 21, 2024 at 5:34 AM