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Dan MacLeod
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Geriatric Millennial, dad bod, likes Vidya Games. Unceded Kaurna Yarta. He/Him

Land back, Free Palestine, punch Nazis, leaning more to the left every year. Raising the wokest woke that ever did woke.
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Look who's back 🤯 Yes, it is Australia's oldest literary journal. Arising from a long hiatus. Cover design by Kerry (Flashblak) Klimm. Edited by new @southerlylitmag.bsky.social editor Roanna Gonsalves. Guest co-edited by moi.
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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✨ We hope you had the BEST time at PyCon AU 2025. And guess what? This year we are truly ON 🔥 F I R E 🔥 — because all the talk videos are now live on our YouTube channel!🙌

Relive your favourite sessions, and keep the PyCon AU vibes going strong.

👉 www.youtube.com/@PyConAU/vid...

#PyConAU #Python
PyCon AU
PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. PyCon Australia brings together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with…
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September 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Pope dunking on you from the Popemobile while he's blessing and waving to the rest of the crowd means you have to convert to Lutheranism it's in the Bible
Someone in the crowd: “Go Cubs!”

Pope Leo XIV: “Han perdido! They lost!”
October 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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myGov code Generator: A device is already registered to your myGov account. Go to your myGov account settings to remove the device...

myGov: To remove the device, enter the code from the myGov Code Generator app.

And then the best bit...
October 14, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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My first time at GCAP was really enlightening. @jesawyer.bsky.social keynote was especially so, here were some of my takeaways.

www.pcgamer.com/games/baldur...
RPG devs stopped making games like Baldur's Gate 'because retailers told us no one wanted to buy them', says New Vegas and Pillars of Eternity director Josh Sawyer
The Infinity Engine wasn't quite so infinite, in the end.
www.pcgamer.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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"”I urge the PM & Peter Malinauskas to not allow this to become their 'We don't hold the hoses, mate' moment," Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said on Friday. Hanson-Young wants PM Albanese to declare the algal bloom a "national disaster" — a move supported by the SA govt”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...
How the federal government could address an 'underwater bushfire'
Calls are ramping up to recognise an algal bloom ravaging South Australian marine life for months as a national emergency. But what difference could such a declaration make?
www.abc.net.au
July 21, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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"My family have been trying to get me to go for years, but this is just too big for me to handle alone."

Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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this is the big news we should be sharing today

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
July 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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We’re hiring! We’re on the lookout for the perfect social media assistant to support our creative team so we can dedicate more time & attention to being salty.

All the details are here - check it out & give us a shout via the applications email if this sounds like you!
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July 1, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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This is a safe space for antifascist Jewish peoples. I will fight for my oomfies.
Just thought I'd throw that out there because I know what it's like being pinched between your own and racists. Together we can all fight the fash.
You cannot be a Zionist and anti fascist.
June 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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June 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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“She started by pointing out the unsecured building tools resting precariously on some scaffolding and went on from there. By the time she got to ‘the melting icecaps releasing deadly prehistoric diseases,’ I had a full-blown anxiety disorder.”
Bystanders traumatised after autistic woman asked “what’s the worst that can happen?”
Bystanders have reportedly been left “traumatised” after overhearing an autistic woman answering the question “what’s the worst that can happen?” The question, which was reportedly intended to be rhet...
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June 29, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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free palestine rally, adelaide, south australia
June 29, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Post your favourite doctor who, wrong answers only.
June 29, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Free Palestine 🇵🇸
June 28, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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LONGFORM LEGENDS: a callout just for you. The Fence is looking for spectacular features – and we’re willing to pay up to four figures for your next bit of narrative non-fiction.

If you’ve got a twisty, thoughtful multi-act magazine piece up your sleeve, let us know at editorial@the-fence.com
June 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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"the decision was made to appease the pro-Israel lobbyists who would inevitably escalate their complaints about the ABC employing a presenter they perceived to have anti-Semitic and anti-Israel opinions in such a public position."

BAM.
June 25, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Cat was clever enough to remove a cushion that was held on with velcro...

Cat is now licking the velcro...
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Pop up Ramen restaurant times
June 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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June 20, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Thank you to my son and his day care for this terrifying Father’s Day gift.
June 15, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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THE WINDS OF WAR IS OUT ON JULY 27, 2025! ⚔️

And here, finally, is the official cover! 🧡

(Made by me. No AI, of course!)

// #Writing #Booksky
June 14, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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ngl this map of scheduled protests for this weekend is *wild*
June 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM