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Natasha Taylor
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
Shit, it's "approximately" 70,000 users. The Australians might be literally all of them
joshtaylor.bsky.social Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 12d
One month out from the under-16s ban and almost all of the users caught up in the Discord data breach caused by age assurance appeals were based in Australia, OAIC has finally confirmed. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Discord age-assurance data breach includes 68,000 Australian users Almost all of the users of video game chat platform Discord who were caught up in October’s data breach are located in Australia, making up 68,122 of the disclosed 70,000 users, Guardian Australia has confirmed. Discord informed in October that a third-party customer service provider that the company was using for age verification had been compromised, with approximately 70,000 users affected, and usernames, email, billing information, IP addresses, and a small number of government ID images. Discord began using facial age assurance to check the age for users in the UK and Australia earlier this year. The company said facial images and ID images “are deleted directly after” ages are confirmed, but Discord’s website noted that if verification fails, users can contact the trust and safety team for a manual review. Ahead of the introduction of age assurance measures on social media in Australia as part of the under-16s social media ban, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner confirmed 68,122 Australians were affected by the breach. Discord had previously refused to break down the number of Australians caught up in the breach, when asked by Guardian Australia.
November 3, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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rhapsodysblues.bsky.social
Our resident Great Egret affectionately named Henry, preening at the bottom of my yard after fishing. 📸🪶
Our resident Great Egret named Henry is preening after fishing at the bottom of my yard. He does this almost every day.
October 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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eigenvectrix.myatproto.social
NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro (CLP) is doing this either out of reckless negligence toward, or with the intention of, procuring trans women inmates for the purpose of having them raped.

This is what sending trans women to men's prisons does. This is all it ever does. This is what it is for.
alastairlawrie.bsky.social Alastair Lawrie @alastairlawrie.bsky.social · Oct 13
The NT Government is importing culture wars, and putting the safety and welfare of trans women prisoners at serious risk, by announcing they will send trans women to men's prisons. #auslaw #trans #transphobia
www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/polit...
www.theaustralian.com.au
October 14, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
Troy Hunt: “Court injunctions are the “thoughts and prayers” of data breach response” www.troyhunt.com/court-injunc...
October 11, 2025 at 9:32 AM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
Requiescat in pace, Jane Goodall

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Breaking: Renowned conservationist Jane Goodall dies aged 91
The conservationist was renowned for her groundbreaking chimpanzee field research and globe-spanning environmental advocacy.
www.abc.net.au
October 1, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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amandawtwong.bsky.social
There's a thread on AskReddit asking, "People who have had to drain their life’s savings on a single event, what happened?"

99% of the answers are depressing American stories about medical bills, 1% is an Australian who found a wombat burrowing under their house.
A wombat undermined our house to build his burrow. Nearly $50k in foundation repairs, plus $200 in chicken wire to keep him out. Now he’s done the same thing to the shed, so $5k to build a new shed on the other side of the property. Here he is, old Fat Bastard himself.. Edit: it’s wild how many people are suggesting we “get rid” him... Apart from it being very much illegal, the idea would just never even cross my mind. It’s his home too. He’s now settled in his new burrow, and our house is wombat-proofed. The worst he does now is dig up my potatoes.
June 16, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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nambroth.bsky.social
"My Favorite Mornings" Digital painting (CSP)
I painted two different backgrounds for this as I enjoyed both skies for different reasons. A gift for my wonderful partner @eldarath.bsky.social
A digital painting of a fantasy scene. Two phoenix fantasy birds perch close together, facing one another. The one on the left, Nambroth, whomst is my phoenix fursona, is green with cream undersides, long ornamental tail feathers, grey legs, a grey beak with soft rictal feathers, and a cyan and purple eye. This bird is preening the forehead of the other bird, and has one wing lightly wrapped around the other bird's back. On the left is Eldarath, with yellow and brown markings against white feathers, a grey beak with soft rictal feathers, a green eye, a brown eye mask, grey legs, and long ornamental feathers on the tail and eyebrows. He also has a wing open and lightly draped over the back of the other bird. They are sitting on a dead black cherry tree branch that is absolutely covered in patches of blue grey lichens and little clumps of moss, and the bark is peeling and hanging from the branch here and there. Three non-fantasy birds are on the branch with them: a red-breasted nuthatch, a black-capped chickadee, and a ruby-crowned kinglet. A black and yellow bumblebee is flying below the branch, and a brownish banded tussock moth is clinging to the bark. In the backround, a flock of three crows is flying against a painterly cloudy sky, aglow in sunrise colors. The artist watermark reads Copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com A digital painting of a fantasy scene, identical to the prior image, but with a different sky. This sky is painterly with the warm blue of morning, faint wispy clouds to the right, and a low bank of clouds in sunrise colors at the bottom. A crescent moon is peeking through in the upper left. The artist watermark reads Copyright 2025 Jennifer Miller "Nambroth" featherdust dot com
March 19, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
The "winners and losers" frame every single year pushes these outlets into publishing wild, blatantly incorrect over-simplifications and falsehoods. But they are just going to keep doing it for the rest of eternity
Winner Icon drawing of sun, mountains and river. Conservation $250 million over five years will be put towards Labor's target of ensuring 30 per cent of Australia's landmass is a protected conservation area by 2030. The funding will go towards establishing another 30 million hectares of bushland as a protected area, in partnership with state and territory governments, private landholders and First Nations groups. The most recent records indicate about 22 per cent of Australia's landmass is protected. And $3 million will be spent on a captive breeding program for Maugean skates over four years. The ancient ray only lives in one Tasmanian harbour, a fact that has put its ongoing existence under threat — especially because it shares that water with commercial salmon farms, which the government has recently moved to protect.
March 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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4kitsake.bsky.social
Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.
March 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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adambvary.bsky.social
At some point, and probably soon, a lot of people are going to die in some horrific and obviously preventable way because of this miserable idiot and the opportunistic cretins who enable him.
keithedwards.bsky.social Keith Edwards @keithedwards.bsky.social · Mar 7
BREAKING: Elon Musk's rocket explosion nearly hit a commercial flight.

This kind of content is being downranked on X. Please share it here. This is so dangerous.
March 7, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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erininthemorning.com
1. Major exclusive breaking news: Marco Rubio may have just banned trans foreigners seeking visas with correct gender markers from US Entry.

A new cable, effective immediately, says visas must contain assigned sex at birth and should be rejected if they don't.

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Marco Rubio May Have Just Banned Trans Foreigners Seeking Visas From US Entry
A new state department cable, meant to target transgender athletes, indicates a potential broader application to all transgender visas, which it states must contain "sex at birth."
www.erininthemorning.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:47 PM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
“Movies you’ve watched more than six times, GIFs only”
February 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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iwriteok.bsky.social
this is not universal but it is distressingly common among legacy media people. the idea that they have any duty to society or responsibility beyond getting clicks and clout is abhorrent to a sizable number of people at the top of this industry
goldwagnathan.bsky.social Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · Feb 20
This whole saga has, I think, demonstrated very well my contention that American political journalists believe that they deserve all of the respect and deference that comes with filling a vital societal role, while rejecting the idea that holding such a position also entails duties and obligations.
brianstelter.bsky.social Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · Feb 19
Trump is blacklisting a news outlet for using a name he doesn't like.

It's that simple.

So why aren't more reporters and media outlets speaking out more vehemently to help The AP? In part, I'm told, it's because the WH Correspondents' Association is trying to work out a solution behind the scenes.
February 20, 2025 at 8:08 AM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
Not ready for humans yet, but:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#Trans #Medicine #TransHealthcare #ReproductiveHealthcare
Functional assessment of autologous tissue expansion grafts for vaginal reconstruction in a rabbit model - npj Women's Health
npj Women's Health - Functional assessment of autologous tissue expansion grafts for vaginal reconstruction in a rabbit model
www.nature.com
February 19, 2025 at 11:34 PM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
Someone needs to spend a very long time in a very small room for this. But as it affects only the poor and helpless, I imagine there will be no consequences.
#AusPol #Welfare #Centrelink

Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
Exclusive: Ten dead after welfare glitch ignored by government
The government was informed of a glitch that caused more than a thousand people to be cut off from welfare payments but ignored it for more than three years because halting it would harm private provi...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 15, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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natacha.bsky.social
Unison is the largest women’s organization in the UK. It has a million women members.

The Unison women’s conference just voted for a motion that said;

“trans women are women and trans men are men”

with no-one speaking against it.

Transphobia is a top-down, elite practice.
February 14, 2025 at 10:20 AM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
Don't know how many people here this will effect, but since pets are family:

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

#Pets #Australia
Microchip data for tens of thousands of Australian pets at risk
One of Australia's five microchip and registry companies has stopped operations, warning its website is "likely to go offline".
www.abc.net.au
February 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Pinned. I'm a doctor in palaeontology 🦕 specialising in pterosaurs, with years of museum experience in 🇬🇧 & 🇵🇱 Currently starting a postdoc at the Chinese University of Hong Kong 🇭🇰

I also work on initiatives for social mobility & migration, draw dinosaurs and consult for TV & games 📺
Natalia with a stuffed Palaeo Plushies pterosaur on her shoulder Natalia and her Jack Russell Terrier An illustration of a grey pterosaur in a forest
February 10, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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catastro-v.bsky.social
trans girl who becomes a paladin but when her goddess doesnt transform her enters a warlock pact with a patron who does and must balance her oath and contract

she doesnt know her patron is her goddess’s gray market side hustle for circumventing the post-Godswar treaty banning divine transformations
February 5, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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jeremyfaust.bsky.social
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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johnnykcage.bsky.social
Quetzalcoatlus in traditional Vietnamese art style
#paleoart #quetzalcoatlus
January 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
tashtaylor.bsky.social
This is what the people of my state voted for. #AusPol #QLDPol #TransRights

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01...
Queensland government halts hormone treatment for new trans patients under 18
Health Minister Tim Nicholls unveiled the pause on Tuesday as he also announced a review into the evidence for stage one and two hormone therapies for children with gender dysphoria.
www.abc.net.au
January 28, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
Dearc sgiathanach, one of the largest well-preserved pterosaurs from the Jurassic, now fully analysed! The description of this toothy Scottish fella, hot off the press, hit BMC E&E. But what does it tell us about pterosaurs? 🤔

bmcecolevol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Dearc and Ceoptera drawing Dearc skeleton photograph by Greg Funston
January 24, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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nataliajagielska.bsky.social
NEW PAPER! Fossils are usually associated with bones, but soft tissues, such as skin, can be preserved. In this study, we use lasers to recover invisible, mysterious 150-million-year-old tissue decorating the tails of the first flying vertebrates, the pterosaurs. 🧵
rhamphorhynchus reconstruction with raging sea background Laser scanned pterosaur from ROM
December 18, 2024 at 11:02 PM
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fraserjfstewart.bsky.social
🔌NEW PAPER ⚖️

Shared ownership presents a major opportunity for communities to own part of the UK's energy transition while supporting faster, fairer rollout of clean power projects. But we need clear action from Labour to unlock this across the country.

www.regen.co.uk/reinvigorati...
Reinvigorating shared ownership for a fast and fair transition - Regen
www.regen.co.uk
October 31, 2024 at 8:36 AM