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Robyn Mc
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Returned Aussie expat
Boon Wurrung / Bunurong land
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Here's @ronnisalt. "Don't look back in anger"
theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
Don’t look back in anger - The Shot
I’m angry. We’re all angry. Perhaps that’s part of the problem. At the moment, we’re angry at two twisted individuals...
theshot.net.au
December 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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The Ukrainians have just taken out a $400 million Russian submarine with underwater drones. (Slava Ukraini!) This does not bode well for the expensive nuclear targets Australia is paying the Brits and Yanks squillions of dollars to acquire. Fish in a barrel.
December 15, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Have spent the day resolutely focused on all the people who helped, who risked their own safety to ensure the safety of others. It’s no small thing in all that horror. Hate is a sickness.
December 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!
The Majority AI View - Anil Dash
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
anildash.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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It is unconscionable and unfathomable that life saving aid continues to be denied to the people of Gaza. Image: Oliver Jeffers
May 7, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Vaccinating boys and girls. It works bitches.
November 26, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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It’s been over 2 years since the late Peta Murphy’s inquiry into online gambling advertising & how it affects problem gamblers. Since then, Australians have lost $60 billion to gambling.

Australians need a government with the will and the courage to protect them from gambling harms.
November 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Oh hey! Over @thepointau.bsky.social, I’m writing a regular column on what the heck is happening in America (tl;dr: it’s bad). @amyremeikis.bsky.social is live blogging parliament and there’s heaps of great analysis from the likes of @grogsgamut.bsky.social and others!
October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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The Live Blog is up and going full-stem.
@amyremeikis.bsky.social is across everything.
@browne90.bsky.social has the good info on talks about electoral laws
I have a bit of coverage of Michele Bullock's chat from last night

Get on it!
live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Coalition net zero fight looming
The Coalition will hold its first joint party room meeting since the Barnaby Joyce blow up, as it pretends there is a way through its net zero war. Labor to focus on environmental law legislation, bu...
live.thepoint.com.au
October 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.
Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change.
Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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stellan skarsgård seems like a good dude
October 27, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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History shows us what happens when corrupt Kings destroy palaces and temples to rebuild for their golden visions and it often ends in flames and looting and razing when they die, just speaking as an archaeologist here, nothing whatsoever to do with anything modern *clutches pearls*
October 20, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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How it started:

Albanese - “we will ban gambling ads and take on the gambling industry”

How it’s going:
October 10, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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Both harm & participation are ⬆️ - especially in younger Australians.

Yet the Albanese Govt continues to ignore the work of their late colleague, Peta Murphy, by not implementing the Murphy Review recommendations in full - including a full ban on gambling advertising.
aifs.gov.au/media/nation...
National Gambling study finds More Australians harmed amid rising participation
New research reveals gambling participation and harm is rising in Australia and is linked to other serious issues including suicidal thoughts, intimate partner violence and financial stress.
aifs.gov.au
September 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube.

It would be a shame for you to share it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...
Jimmy Kimmel is Back!
YouTube video by Jimmy Kimmel Live
www.youtube.com
September 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Today, the Academy is leading global change as co-convener of the landmark ‘Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action’ at the UN General Assembly alongside
@burnetinstitute.bsky.social Brown University & The OSLUV Project – building on the WHO's 2021 declaration clean air is a basic human right.
September 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... No studies showing paracetamol use in pregnancy causes autism. Some studies showing association between paracetamol use & autism, there’s also really large studies showing there’s no association. & it’s important to remember association doesn’t mean cause
Australia news live: AMA president says ‘no studies’ support Trump claim about paracetamol; PM remembers Zomi Frankcom in UN speech
Follow live
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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🇦🇺 AUSTRALIAN DOCS IN GAZA: “70-80% of our patients are kids and pregnant women… It’s a nightmare… bombing after bombing… We’re making this video because we could die at any moment… Can someone please stop this terror and horror?”

Full: www.tiktok.com/t/ZTMRReCVY/
September 21, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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If you’re interested in the strength of our democracy, this is worth a read.

Labor & the Coalition rammed electoral reform laws through parliament to make it harder for minor parties & indies.

Now there's a bill to reduce transparency in the FOI system.
theconversation.com/why-the-rise...
September 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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Intranasal vaccine stops infection at the source.

In 2022, Australian researchers secured nearly $1M in grants to develop an intranasal COVID vaccine.

New findings show it blocks the virus in the nose, stopping it from spreading in the body and preventing transmission to others.

archive.md/iaSKv
September 16, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Today's final approval of the North West Shelf is a climate, economic, and energy security disaster.

Australia Institute analysis shows the 45-year expansion is equivalent to building 12 new coal power stations.

@grogsgamut.bsky.social #auspol
September 12, 2025 at 6:40 AM