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  luckily, i'd not packed away da uggies n trackydaks someone should blow up weather!

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  https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/29/cartoons-cathy-wilcox-fiona-katauskas-ann-telnaes-kevin-kal-kallaugher-jason-chatfield/ " I was recently thumbing through the latest edition of Inkspot, the club magazine of the Australian Cartoonists’ Association, when I felt a low hum of anxiety. This is the oldest cartooning organisation in the world. I edited Inkspot myself in the early 2000s, back when the scariest thing in its pages was the treasurer’s report. By the back cover, I was needing a m...

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  Former ABC presenter Margaret Throsby injured after being hit by e-bike https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/margaret-throsby-injured-hit-by-e-bike/107204210

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  https://cleantechnica.com/2026/09/28/the-human-cost-of-data-center-pollution/ Fuck Generative AI, coz: largest theft of private IP in human historymassive water + energy demands as climate crisis intensifies authoritative bullshit generation via unsolvable hallucinationswhole-internet continuous DDoS attacks by web-scraping AI-feeding bots #AI #LLMs #FuckGenerativeAI #FuckTechBros #CredulousFools #IPTheft #AntiAI #NoAI #Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis #BiodiversityCrisis #SocialDestruction #FuckC...

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  early this morn, 0300 - 0315, i did my bit https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/28/thrilled-huge-swarms-of-bogong-moths-surprise-nsw-residents-and-may-point-to-species-recovery https://www.smh.com.au/environment/conservation/after-a-catastrophic-decline-bogong-moths-are-back-and-naturalists-are-celebrating-20260928-p610z7.html?ref=rss https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/bogong-moth-migration-australia-2026/p6jdonqa6 woke at three for a wee, when in the ensuite i was startled by a whirr...

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  i always find this topic interesting to read about, but it strongly pulls me in opposite directions when we have liebs, labs, nuts, phonkers, all being dreadful & doing the wrong things, the dream of d/d seems enticing as a correctiveotoh, when i see a disturbing rise in strayans openly wanting to blow everything up & reward The Worst Creatures, who would do terrible things to minorities & Gaia, the nightmare of d/d seems utter anathema https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/...

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  omz omz omz https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-series/70-up i assumed i'd need to "go" to pommyland, ahem, for this, but sbs will have it here in a fortnight! #70up #SBSOnDemand

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  https://www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/andy-burnham-anthony-albanese-zohran-mamdani-uk-politics/ " Anthony Albanese and Andy Burnham met in person for the first time last week, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York. The key topic of discussion, according to the Australian media? Rugby league. Burnham, who happens to be the former president of the league’s UK governing body, was apparently recruited to support the PM’s Rabbitohs. It was the second time th...

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  Hot on the heels of the recent 100% failures to install #Haiku in either QEMU VM or lappy SSD [https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/117335082820301999, https://infosec.space/@MsDropbear42/117333664504154227], today i am simply "delighted" to report a new round of 100% failures... this time with #GhostBSD. After hours of research last night, including watching a few extremely positive videos of the installation & desktop usage UX, i enthusiastically looked forward keenly to trying...

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  @sisterratched@social.vivaldi.net no wukkas... but just terrible, innit! wotta bastard.

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  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/foreign-relations/2026/09/26/tuvalu-criticises-its-good-neighbour " With just days to go before the climate talks that Australia is co-hosting with Pacific Island nations, only a handful of leaders from outside the region have committed to attend. They are mostly from other small islands highly vulnerable to rising sea levels. Tuvalu’s climate and environment minister, Dr Maina Talia, doesn’t mince words in describing his disappointment. “It’s immo...

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  https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2026/09/26/inside-albaneses-factional-dominance-theyve-all-been-executed-except-one " When Anthony Albanese lost his first run for the Labor leadership in 2013, he blamed nine defectors from his own Left faction who had voted for the Right’s candidate, Bill Shorten. “They’ve all been executed, except one,” a Labor source close to Albanese tells The Saturday Paper, referring to Lisa Chesters, who holds the regional Victorian seat of Bendigo...

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  it disturbs me that peeps talk about their pastimes, but rarely mention their futuretimes what are they hiding? 🤨

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  not a d0g peep, not a kat peep, but awareness of a certain pets trope might have just revolutionised my remaining mornings since, basically, forever, i've been a gold medallist at crapness in pills-swallowing really really hopeless embarrassingly bad yesterday, in a flash of 💡️i thought of the alleged d0g-worming trope of hiding their pill/s in their tucker-bowl so i tried it yesterday morn & it worked tried again this morning & it also worked dare i hope i've finally solve...

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@independent/news-a3lhl24rz/-/a-esp4GcrQQ0-2xv3VPaRKMw%3Aa%3A1855170754-%2F0 ...the third one burned down, fell over, then sank into the swamp...

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  https://aeon.co/videos/before-the-hindenburg-there-was-r101-britains-ill-fated-airship

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  https://www.betootaadvocate.com/in-effort-to-save-humanity-from-itself-first-t-800-to-be-sent-back-in-time-to-bash-the-kids-who-bullied-these-ai-tech-bros/ " A radical, covert plan is being hatched inside the halls of artificial intelligence buildings this week. With a distinct lack of a cohesive global plan to tackle the completely unregulated artificial intelligence industry, a couple of altruistic and noble computer scientists have decided to try and save humanity from itself. Speakin...

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  https://newatlas.com/science/quantum-computing/quantum-computer-chip-vibrating/ Quantum computer chip crams more info into less volume – by vibrating makes sense to me coz my own experience also proves i fit more in when using the vibrate setting i reckon those hard working little quanta also deserve a bit of afternoon delight to take the edge off #CrossPorpoises #WilfulDensity #TooMuchInfo ?

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  many have already commented on this my only remark is that i lost interest in the veracity & utility of this article once they began citing RFM 🤢🤮 https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/sep/24/anthony-albanese-says-openai-agent-hacked-medicare-extreme-concern-sam-altman #auspol #FuckGenAI

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  https://michaelwest.com.au/little-incentive-to-have-kids-and-no-way-to-move-out/

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  https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/albanese-is-all-talk-no-action-on-climate-20260922-p60zet.html?ref=rss " Albanese is all talk, no action on climate Anthony Albanese opens Climate Week in New York with a clarion call about climate action. “We need to meet the problem head on” and “unfortunately, without strong action” climate disasters will get worse (“Albanese takes climate warning to New York, but fossil fuel experts test credibility”, September 22). Yet his actions at home are anythi...

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  any strayans here who use :firefox:, dark reader, & sbs? anyone able to guide me pls how to tickle the #DarkReader addon settings so that it does not apply itself to https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/ [coz it seems to have its own inherent dark mode] yet does auto-apply itself to https://www.sbs.com.au/news/ ? 🤔🤷‍♀️ ta #DarkMode #SBS

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  i decry the many MSM cretins today writing propaganda that putin won the election you could at least have the decency & moral fibre, if you really do feel you have to use such pathetic language, to plainly indicate it's all bullshit, viz putin "won" the "election" do you seriously wonder why readers have fled you? 🙄🤦‍♀️ #MSM #capture #servile #FuckPutin

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  several months ago supplanted archlinux kde plasma with kdelinux as my daily penguin last night supplanted https://dev.phanpy.social/#/ with https://phanpy.social/#/ as my daily fedi supplanted firefox nightly with firefox as my daily browser seems that as i plunge ever deeper into my decrepitude i lose more & more of the erstwhile delights of bleeding edge 🤔🤷‍♀️🥺 #DropbearPooterising #Linux #LinuxWomen #FOSS :kde: :linux: #KDELinux | :archlinux: :kde: :plasma: #ArchLinux #KDEPlasma :opensu...

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  https://chaser.com.au/general-news/woman-saves-home-deposit/ " A 31-year-old Canberra woman, Hannah Sheded, has revealed a hack for saving up for her first home deposit, giving hope to the millions of young people vying for a piece of the Australian Dream. “Look, it’s not for everyone, but I managed to scrape together a deposit by not eating, living, or breathing air,” the former Belconnen resident shared. “I’m actually not alive at the moment, I’ve been dead for several years. But this...

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  https://theshovel.com.au/2026/09/21/ed-sheeran-gives-touching-heartfelt-legally-approved-statement-from-the-heart/ " Singer Ed Sheeran has delivered an emotional PR statement at his concert at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, apologising to fans for the situation he found himself in and over which he had no control. Sheeren’s support act Macklemore was cancelled by billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft for speaking about Palestine. Speaking from the heart, and a teleprompter, Sh...

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  did my latest big online groceries shop this arvo. has woolies dropped their hitherto long-term slots straddling midday? i always picked either 1000-1300 or 1100-1400, for years, but today, for each day in the forward slots of the coming week, they were all only sparrows-fart or avo into evening. sad. #woolies #OnlineShopping

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  1/2 https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/2026/09/19/who-gets-be-traitor " When Pauline Hanson labelled SAS veteran and Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie a “traitor” eight times, then animated the insult and pinned it to the top of her social media feed, she did more than provoke outrage. She exposed the conditional nature of Australia’s reverence for military service and revealed how brittle our nationalist mythology becomes when it collides with powerful, wealthy political inter...

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  @KR4EJY@kr4ejy.masto.host ha, yes! tbh though, atm i still can't decide if i feel more sad or relieved at this latest attitudinal change... 🤷‍♀️ 🥺

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  https://theconversation.com/australias-vast-nullarbor-plain-hides-deep-caves-that-can-teach-us-about-alien-worlds-290637 #straya #nullarbor #caves #geology