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  ABC rewriting history from a conservative view: "The 2025 loss of three lower house seats — including Bandt's — showed the limits of a strategy that had produced spectacular gains, even as the party's national vote barely moved." No, wrong - that showed the limits of being the third party in a preferential voting system. The same electoral processes could just as easily rip seats away from Labor and Liberal in future.

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  You look out your window at the cold grey dawn It's seven (or is it six) o'clock on a Monday morn Pour a cup of coffee, better make it a strong one farkin #daylightsaving ugh Apologies to Redgum

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  I have some respect for Alan Kohler's economic journalism. He should probably stick to that. "New life form" "other intelligence" blah blah https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-05/is-artificial-intelligence-a-new-lifeform/107226762

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  Last week one of my workmates half(?) jokingly addressed me as "boss". I feel dirty. Is this what I have become?

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  "Dead internet theory" is all very dramatic and sci-fi but I have a theory of my own which is more a description of the present than prediction of the future. It's called "boring internet theory". Present company excluded, of course. #deadinternettheory

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  Might be time to empty & turn over the bird baths, don't want to be a local disease spreader https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-07/victoria-h5n1-bird-flu-poultry-lockdown/107010162 #h5n1 #birdflu

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  I am not sure that people still reading supermarket magazines are the most likely uptake for LLMs... #AI

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  Mob of locals protested against giant proposed #datacentre at Plumpton outside the Melton council meeting before going in to lobby the council to call on state government for #datacentremoratorium #datacenters #ai

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  Cockroaches of the world unite! https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/7/23/in-india-fear-has-switched-sides #cockroachjantaparty

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  Today I met some people from the other end of the world... suffering many of the same problems as Australia like internal colonialism, extractivism, climate denial, repeated climate disasters, growing authoritarianism, disregard for international law (admittedly much worse than us in some regards) https://www.freeyakutiafoundation.org/ #FreeYakutia #indigenousrights #solidarity

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  "In 2010, Mossad operatives carrying forged Australian passports entered Dubai, a country with which Australia maintained cordial diplomatic relations, and assassinated Palestinian leader Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh." I remember this, but many others would not. This is the country who may not be publicly questioned? When Mossad tell our government that antisemitic attacks were carried out by Iran, our government and media accepts that without a shred of evidence. #auspol #israel https...

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  goddammit the husky has a foot fetish as well as her ear fetish. Is there anywhere she won't stick her tongue... no actually best I don't find out the answer

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  Blast beat and D-beat drumming is so fun to hear. like I just can't help but think of the Muppets' Animal. Quite different to death metal double-kick drumming, which is more like cool jazz by comparison. The double-kick death metal drummer may appear to be calm and suave even, above the kit, even though their legs are going crazy below the visible level. #Grindcore #deathmetal

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  Sixth day of the autumn #burningseason. This grassland was really interesting. We had burnt patches of it in late winter. In this pic you can see one such area area we deliberately excluded fire by wetting down (the big unburnt island at front). Plenty of unburnt areas behind it though which (mostly) didn't burn simply because of lack of fuel connectivity- the grasses hadn't yet grown back to an unbroken sward. More habitat islands for fauna post-burn. Great result.

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  Autumn river scene - Werribee River, Bacchus Marsh. Taken from the footbridge.

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  Today's #BurningSeason pic. I ran burns on 3 small sites today. Quite the marathon of moving, setting up, briefing, lighting, smoke inhalation, blacking out, packing up and repeat (I have been catatonic on the couch most of the evening). Most of these sites have been burnt infrequently to never so hopefully we're promoting the native plants to germinate, regenerate and increase generally.

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  @Lats A lot of petrol stations apparently make their best profit rate selling food and drink, the margins on selling petrol are actually not great for the retailer. Or so I heard some years ago.

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  @InternetEh @jpm it is giving my schadenfreude a great run with all the juicy stories like this, though

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  "Judge Tran said she found there was likely to be a very strong association between the use of the words "all Zionists" and Jewish people in the minds of ordinary rally participants." These legal morons are living in a carefully protected fantasy. Just talk to some of the many Jewish people who regularly attend Palestine rallies in support. Everyone else loves them for being there because we know they have to stand against mainstream (Zionist) opinion within...