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Malcolm Gladwell Tipping Point 📖

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Marcus Wareing Simply Provence 🇫🇷 📺

I hate winter!! ❄️
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"Our operating system is malware 😀"
Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data, prompting concern from security researchers (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

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November 20, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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The whole offshore detention regime is a sausage factory for organised crime and corruption. The Commonwealth has basically set up a crime-generating industry.
November 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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A man in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.
Murderer sues for right to eat Vegemite in prison
A convicted murderer in Australia is challenging a state's ban on Vegemite in prisons, claiming that denying him the polarizing spread violates his human rights.
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November 18, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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⭕ UN expert: Security Council’s Gaza resolution violates Palestinian self-determination

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warned that Resolution 2803 “runs counter to the Palestinian right to self-determination” and risks legitimizing “ongoing mass violence.” She said the Council failed...
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese warns that Palestinians are being coerced into leaving Gaza, saying the halt in hostilities without the enforcing of international law risks enabling “ethnic cleansing through other means.”

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UN Rapporteur: Israel 'coercing Palestinians' into displacement
YouTube video by TRT World
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November 19, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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“‘There Is No Ceasefire In Gaza’ Francesca Albanese

UN CEASEFIRE WARNING — Israel has k*lled hundreds since the so-called was declared. It’s a fake ceasefire. #FrancescaAlbanese #UN #Ceasefire #Gaza #Palestine #Israel

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Brussels Briefing: Francesca Albanese Warns “There Is No Ceasefire in Gaza”
YouTube video by Liberty East 1
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November 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
I prefer “that’ll do, pig, that’ll do”
November 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Save the CSIRO

Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott

Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between

www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Is this wolf using a tool to get a seafood snack? Or does it not count, because the animal didn't construct the trap itself? @phiejacobs.bsky.social dives into that debate, plus more of the best from @science.org and science in this edition of #ScienceAdviser: www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one
November 18, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Reading:

Malcolm Gladwell Tipping Point 📖

Watching:

Marcus Wareing Simply Provence 🇫🇷 📺

I hate winter!! ❄️
November 18, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Nestlé accused of ’risking health of babies for profit’ over added sugar in cereals sold in African countries
Campaigners say the company is contributing to rising rates of childhood obesity, while the firm says it is helping to combat malnutrition
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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I’m not going to pretend it’s easy to say something in the moment when you witness the president do this and you’re aboard Air Force One with all the uniformed officers and secret service and fancy wood accents, but this is really an instance where you should. people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:42 AM
The only thing going down more than Donald Trump is Bitcoin
November 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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🚨 It's official: Google wants to scan your Gmail 🚨

Here are the plans: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

Disable Gemini now! We explain

👉️ How to disable Gemini
👉️ How to deinstall Gemini

Stop #Google now: 👉️ tuta.com/blog/how-to-...
November 14, 2025 at 12:34 PM
I was describing turducken to my kid and my wife said “it sounds fowl” 😆
November 16, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Thanks to demon hunters, my 8yo tuga kid now loves k pop 🤣
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM