Wombat
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National parks and disasters
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Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Mulligan has been drinking out of the people water all afternoon and we just found out
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Deee-Lite’s SUPA DJ DMITRY is here to celebrate the RSD Black Friday release of The Very Best Of Deee-Lite, and share tales of the group’s funkadelic encounters with Bootsy Collins, Q-Tip, and the JB horns.
The Record Store Day Podcast,
Wherever you get your podcasts or:
bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
The Record Store Day Podcast,
Wherever you get your podcasts or:
bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
November 27, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Deee-Lite’s SUPA DJ DMITRY is here to celebrate the RSD Black Friday release of The Very Best Of Deee-Lite, and share tales of the group’s funkadelic encounters with Bootsy Collins, Q-Tip, and the JB horns.
The Record Store Day Podcast,
Wherever you get your podcasts or:
bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
The Record Store Day Podcast,
Wherever you get your podcasts or:
bit.ly/RSDPODCAST
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One of three Tawny Frogmouths I encountered on a short walk down the Darwin esplanade last night. They were rather chill, allowing me to get this photo with my phone.
#WildOz #UrbanBirds
#WildOz #UrbanBirds
November 26, 2025 at 9:35 PM
One of three Tawny Frogmouths I encountered on a short walk down the Darwin esplanade last night. They were rather chill, allowing me to get this photo with my phone.
#WildOz #UrbanBirds
#WildOz #UrbanBirds
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Good morning! Today’s cat is Spaghetti The Cat. He’s 9 years old, gigantic, and his brain is a mini meatball. He loves eating strings and drooling when you pet him. He’s jealous of his cat siblings and wants all the attentions. And I love him dearly.
November 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Good morning! Today’s cat is Spaghetti The Cat. He’s 9 years old, gigantic, and his brain is a mini meatball. He loves eating strings and drooling when you pet him. He’s jealous of his cat siblings and wants all the attentions. And I love him dearly.
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I took this a few weeks ago.
I’ve seen White Bellied Sea Eagles take sea birds before. I think this is a Black Cormorant. Possibly a Muttonbird. They can become exhausted during migration.
I’ve seen White Bellied Sea Eagles take sea birds before. I think this is a Black Cormorant. Possibly a Muttonbird. They can become exhausted during migration.
November 26, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I took this a few weeks ago.
I’ve seen White Bellied Sea Eagles take sea birds before. I think this is a Black Cormorant. Possibly a Muttonbird. They can become exhausted during migration.
I’ve seen White Bellied Sea Eagles take sea birds before. I think this is a Black Cormorant. Possibly a Muttonbird. They can become exhausted during migration.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Marjorie Taylor Greene has been hated by the left for years and never feared for her life. She’s been hated by the right for two days and had to hire security.
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Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
November 19, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Ok BlueSky: what are your favorite history books in terms of sheer page-turning, narrative propulsion? Thinking along the line of Killers of the Flower Moon, etc. Nonfiction chronicles that read like novels or movies.
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one piece of advice I wish I listened to when I was younger is WEAR EAR PROTECTION if you're gonna be exposed to loud noises 🔊
I wasn't turbo stupid about it, but it honestly didn't take too many big booms without having earpro on that exposure to loud music/crowd cheers gets my ears actin' up 🐶🔔
I wasn't turbo stupid about it, but it honestly didn't take too many big booms without having earpro on that exposure to loud music/crowd cheers gets my ears actin' up 🐶🔔
November 19, 2025 at 8:54 PM
one piece of advice I wish I listened to when I was younger is WEAR EAR PROTECTION if you're gonna be exposed to loud noises 🔊
I wasn't turbo stupid about it, but it honestly didn't take too many big booms without having earpro on that exposure to loud music/crowd cheers gets my ears actin' up 🐶🔔
I wasn't turbo stupid about it, but it honestly didn't take too many big booms without having earpro on that exposure to loud music/crowd cheers gets my ears actin' up 🐶🔔
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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A Russian airstrike on apartment buildings in west Ukraine left at least 26 people dead and missing.
26 killed, many missing in Russian strike on apartment buildings in west Ukraine
The strikes also hit energy and transport infrastructure and forced emergency power cuts in a number of regions in frigid temperatures.
ebx.sh
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 AM
A Russian airstrike on apartment buildings in west Ukraine left at least 26 people dead and missing.
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The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933
🎬 Paramount Pictures
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“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 18, 2025 at 6:15 AM
“CSIRO has announced it will slash up to 350 jobs as the national science agency grapples with long-term financial challenges … with current funding failing to keep pace with the rising costs of running a modern science agency.”
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
Not “challenges”. They’re choices. 😡
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I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
November 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.
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how can i trust that you have adhd if you don’t have 7 beverages open simultaneously
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 AM
how can i trust that you have adhd if you don’t have 7 beverages open simultaneously
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I just realized that WICKED is almost totally ripped-off from The Wizard of Oz and I can’t believe people aren’t talking about it.
November 17, 2025 at 1:23 AM
I just realized that WICKED is almost totally ripped-off from The Wizard of Oz and I can’t believe people aren’t talking about it.
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
November 16, 2025 at 9:35 PM
(spending 9 billion dollars to make a robot say "i have always loved you") hard times create strong men
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‘you know if you’re not actually dead you have to feed me’
November 15, 2025 at 2:12 PM
‘you know if you’re not actually dead you have to feed me’
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Sunset at wetland, sound on you can hear the frogs
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Sunset at wetland, sound on you can hear the frogs
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Every bit of news this week as me making this face
November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Every bit of news this week as me making this face
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Very important news everyone
November 11, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Very important news everyone
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This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
This seems like good news... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art
November 6, 2025 at 4:22 AM
A thing that I think is good is when a human creates a piece of art