A T Tate
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Then: Journo stuff, news-sport 1984-2021 (ABC/BBC/TheAge). Now: Zombie apocalypse prep, Fitzroy by the sea, SWVic🦞🐋
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The dead sperm whale had washed ashore on 9 November, attracting “curious onlookers until about the third day, when it began to decay and emit a rancid odor”. Enter stage left, George Thornton, highway engineer with the Oregon Department of Transportation
Exploding-whale engineer George Thornton has died at age 84
It all started on Nov. 9, 1970, when the 45-foot whale (initially thought to be a gray whale, but later identified as a sperm whale) washed ashore a mile south of Siuslaw River near Florence.
www.oregonlive.com
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The dead sperm whale had washed ashore on 9 November, attracting “curious onlookers until about the third day, when it began to decay and emit a rancid odor”. Enter stage left, George Thornton, highway engineer with the Oregon Department of Transportation
Whatevs. Gough never conceded that ground pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/tran...
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 AM
Whatevs. Gough never conceded that ground pmtranscripts.pmc.gov.au/release/tran...
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...