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@skua@mastodon.social
Am overwhelmed by the number of Posts in my Timeline.
Looking be Following only ~120 accounts. If I Unfollow you this'll be why.
Bon voyage.
Civil responses to my posts sought.
Watching, wrestling, working, dreaming and sleeping in Australia.
Not always clear which is which. #CommercialisedAgedCare #WhatHappensAfterYouDie #TheColorOfDistance #ContactImprovisation #SeaKayaking #RePurposeMyEducation #HellScapeTheBioSphere #DawnOfEverything
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Joined October 21, 2022
Interest 1:
The purposes of commercialised aged care. And the cultural pressures against humane alternatives.
Interest 2:
Abundance/scarcity tension and how that relates to purpose and meaning.
Interest 3:
Ritual, spectacle and consuming.
Interest 4:
Grounded science / junk science. No-holds-barred science and rational, collegial science as well.
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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social
I want to know if the guy is adaptable enough.
And what he's like when he gets angry.
What's a play we could read together with him reading the part of the angry violent character?
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
Nice to see that the EU is trading with Palestine.
Though without effective action by the EU to uphold international law then Palestine will soon all be Israel.
Must be difficult being complicit, by inaction, in crimes against humanity.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/13/what-is-the-eus-plan-to-cut-trade-with-illegal-israeli-settlements
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@QasimRashid@mastodon.social
I see in the Replies that one group of people seem to be thinking that labelling one way of approaching voting as "idiotic" will be of nett benefit to their aim.
Personally I'm more swayed by current and recent expressions and demonstrations of solidarity.
But I'm not a USA voter living with leader Trump destroying and perverting government functions and national security after years of breathing in American exceptionalism. I can only imagine how fraught things must be.
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Just watched Dave Milner on today's Sunday Shot.
The ABC are censoring one of the four demands by the Arrendte Aboriginal women about Pine Gap.
The slaughter in Gaza is censored.
Below is the letter.
There are four demands.
The ABC article, attributed to Emma McMasters, has only 3 demands. (Next post.)
Left out is any reference to
"4. That the families in Gaza be compensated for all the lives lost there."
#EmmaMasters #ABC #Gaza #DaveMilner #SundayShot #PineGap g
https://closepinegap.org.au/familyletter/
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@randahl@mastodon.social
Needing the video of the clappers and their names.
Clearly anti-Americans. Just like Trump.
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I'm seeing Linus Torvalds support for AI as a possible sign of cognitive impairment.
Even if so it might AIUI take another 20 years before his functioning is clearly inadequate.
But it's something worth considering about every aging human. And with old age beginning at 60 Linus is on the edge of that now.
#LinusTorvalds #Linux #OldAge
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@Sheep_Overboard@infosec.exchange
Will be watching to see how this is responded to by other public-facing senior academics and holders of positions with authority and responsibilities.
I think we're at the point where silence is complicity and where complicity brings responsibility for Trump's reavings, rupturings and death toll. Such responsibility will need to have harsh consequences imposed.
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@maddad@mastodon.world
"loss of confidence"
LOL LOL LOL....... [stopped to prevent lapse into hysteria]
These lying fascists never had confidence that Hegseth would be adequate in the first place.
They just don't like being so publically linked with Hegseth's stupidity and incompetence.
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@lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com
When considering How Much you need to be paid include:
Low job security.
Stupid senior level management.
Venal and cruel middle management.
Company's low respect for your expertise.
Company's low value for your expertise.
Company's future viability (you'll need to find another job soon as they're gullible fools).
Your inside knowledge that naive candidates lack.
The accessibility of client lists.
The likelihood of the server-people being convinced to wipe all storage.
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@AMonkeyInSilk@social.vivaldi.net
Of course the public do not deserve to know if the government's judgement in appointing Brereton to that position, in which honesty is critical, was sound.
Keep us in the dark #GailFurness.
Please let #AnthonyAlbanese's fake "anti corruption" commission continue to ignore, avoid, downplay and lie its way forward.
We'll continue to hold the APS, Commissioners and the government in high regard and see that poor people do need to abide by standards and laws.
/s
#AusPol
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@davidaugust@mastodon.online
We already see how Trump and Trumpists are censoring the deaths of US military in the Iran War.
There has been no update on the "15 deaths" for over 6 weeks.
They're not keeping the American public informed.
They want to conduct their actions without having to worry about public opinion.
The Nazis tried to keep their mass murdering factories secret too.
Using domestic crematoria would prevent secrecy.
#HumanBodiesAsMedicalWaste #ICECrematoria #CensorshipByTrump #CensorshipUSA
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@nwbt@social.nearerandfarther.com
To make tzatziki you really need to add yoghurt to the cucumbers.
And Mint.
#Tsatziki
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@paninid@mastodon.world
Having explored changing the content of the meme, I'm now changing the context of it.
The article below strips the cuddliness from the meme. And leaves slaves being toyed with.
#WarCrimes #GazaGenocide #EthnicCleansing #Pinkwashing #Palestine #Israel
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/pride-month-and-the-rainbow-flag-of-colonialism/
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@killick@dmv.community @Nonilex@masto.ai
That Florida Man also had other boxes of secret materials - they went to his Bedminister golf course and disappeared.
So good that justice for this has caught up with that grifter, even if only on one count out of hundreds of secret documents.
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@nixCraft@mastodon.social
Reminded of the disgusting poster from the 70s:
"Eat shit.
5,000,000,000 flys can't be wrong."
#GoogleIsEvil #Google
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@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
No gods, less women-speak?
The Graceful Ones may not be appreciative.
Without Athena what will be done to Orestes?
#Eumenides
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@tinker@infosec.exchange
I saw a comedy skit about DIY wallpaper.
It won't help if I reveal where it went.
"I'm so tired of millennial gray. I need aesthetics. "
"Aesthetics" - is that a battleship blue-gray tone or a porridge beige? 🐒
Good luck in your aesthetic project.
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@maddad@mastodon.world
"threat level off the charts" will (if my guess is right) be included in the reasons for Trump (mis)using presidential emergency powers to prevent Congress getting out of his control.
Let's hope I'm wrong, wrong, wring.
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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de @paul@whisper.tf @cdarwin@c.im
Wow, impressed - the Australian government is ... words failing ... grossly negligent in this area.
(They did seem temporarily motivated to make some efforts when increasing murders of Indian workers and students put strain onto the Australia-India trade relationship. [grimace] What ghastly people we have and have had in government.)
#Australia #AusPol #NotJustTheWildlife #GhastlyAustralia
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@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
Expecting something will appear at the below site eventually.
https://www.redtail.com.au/news.html
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@azonenberg@ioc.exchange
I'm experimenting with grape plasma at the moment but as soon as I've got spare money I'll be buying a gamma spectrometer.
#GrapePlasma
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUreeOcisbk
The Sci Guys: Science at Home - SE1 - EP11: Grape Plasma - Making Plasma in a Microwave with Grapes
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@dusk@todon.eu @billgoats@bitbang.social
So if we'd all copied that floppie, downloaded a car and stolen the tv set then Musk/Zuck/Gates/Thiele/Techbros/Trump/Brexit/Let It Rip/Vaccine Skeptics/AI Slop might never have happened?
Phewww.
But Race For The Flag sure made up for the Gaza Genocide. Right? It did didn't it.
/s
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@locha@fediscience.org @amydiehl@mstdn.social
Not becoming clear that there is a journal article after searches.
May be very much "a study by Zehra Chatoo".
Zehra Chatoo; "most recently in leadership roles at Meta, culminated in the founding of Code For Good Now, a values-led consultancy helping brands and agencies grow responsibly in the age of AI."
I don't doubt accuracy of the study.
I have got concerns about the specific values embodied and promoted by former Meta-leaders and brand builders.
#ZehraChatoo #AISlop
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@futurebird@sauropods.win
Maybe worse in a bank for one mother with her children and their little friends?
"Daddy puts his penis in mummy's mouth", one child told another.
AIUI the priority of banking was quickly lowered.
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@adamantichrist@mastodon.social @bendaubney@social.lol
First it'll just be Ratty, Mole, Badger and His Lordship that you'll be tagging along with.
But bigger things await. Bigger things.
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@bsdphk @Lazarou @pluralistic
I'm assured that within the narrow section of biology in which he was adequately trained & experienced he could be taken seriously.
Then there are those who liked how they felt when Dawkins made proclamations in his role as a voluminous celebrity opinionator on things that he is not adequately trained in.
Rationality shot through by the feeling of knowing. 😱 Both speaker & listener.
The hagiographies devoted to Dick at WP are yet sans his chatbot love affair.
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@hart@norden.social
Alt alt text
Photo of streetscape with multiple text-boxes showing the temperature in Celcius of various surfaces in the photo.
Format of data extracted from photo and listed below is Surface Type - numerical value of temperature in degrees Celcius
Data:
Grass in sunshine - 32.8
Grass in shade - 27.9
Grey gravel - 50.5
Road surface - 48.9
Sunny side wall of house - 47.8
Boot of car in sunshine - 76.1
Concrete footpath in sun - 50.6
Concrete footpath in shade - 27.9
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@cathywilcox@theblower.au
What a vile little state Israel has become.
Though a perfect partner for Trump's corruption, lies and killings.
smh
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@gulffire1@mastodon.ie
Forget the polygon cards.
Fluffy needs to tell you the exact price at closing for tomorrow's S&P 500.
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@sinjut@aus.social
Colonial troublemaker demonstrating a complete absence of a civilised acceptance of lies, corruption and incompetence.
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@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
Cardiology at RPH tell me that a GP's referral is OK.
RPH: Once received the request is triaged.
Could be 6 months depending on the urgency.
I suggest telling your GP about the triaging.
(I like getting little successes happening.)
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@tobi82@swiss.social
Good to see that the lessons from what Covid could have been were learnt by Spain's government.
Oh wait, under Spanish law, carriers of a deadly disease would be free to wander around spreading the infection to many others?
Can only begin to imagine how it would be to live in a nation where people can do whatever they want even when the chance of them killing many is high.
No speeding fines, no food or explosives safety laws, just walk around causing deaths?
#HantaVirus
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@Yehuda
Removing bison would add to the connative case for protecting and upholding the Constitution (as US military officers have sworn to do) by removing the Trumpists and their funders from being able to continue with the serious violations of the Constitution.
Trump is still trying to distract from being heavily involved with the Epstein paedophile sex cult. It must be difficult having the best friend of a pedophile billionaire as your Commander in Chief too.
#EpsteinFile
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@HG
If some vision remains, a large (TV sized screen) has advantages.
Large font.
Large cursor.
Context created by page layout is clearer. (This last is contrasted with the result of using a small screen with high magnification.)
The biggest disadvantages were:
Getting "touch" happening.
Finding a physical workspace for a large screen.
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@msbellows@c.im @GottaLaff@mstdn.social
Lots of light shed on bad actors/treacherous actors by sections of the article.
Not currently convinced by the synthesis.
Not seeing Mossad/CIA etc leaving a computer drive with their blackmail material which gives them control over the members of a global pedophile billionaire network lying around unsecured.
And I want to see some criminal/terrorist cases where identification via a Tamil tooth is critical.
Though maybe other uses involving foreign teeth & ID exist?
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@neuronakaya
There have been a few asbestos, tobacco, fossil fuels emissions and by-products, teflon, nano-materials, thalidomide, oxycodone, cancer researcher, respiratory masking, & respiratory disease transmission vector scientists who seem to have wanted some things not shared or known.
#HeLa #CassReview #CochraneReviewOfMasking #ItsAirborne
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
Peace in our time, a chicken in every pot, the war to end all wars, an effective morning sickness drug, our robust lung cell line, Covid is transmitted by surface contact, and masks don't work.
Return at midday for the next reality-based news release.
#WelcomeOurTechBroOverlords
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@davidgerard@circumstances.run
LLMs
Home automation
Privatisation of utilities
Private equity buy-ups
Algorithmed social media
Surveillance capitalism
Planned obsolescence
Billionaires
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Looking for an Android app that will create binaural beats in audio streamed to the device by other apps - audiobooks via Audible, audio via YT etc.
(Search engines return a morass of binaural beat app but nothing that works on the fly.
I know I can download the streams then use Audicity or similar to change the frequency in one of the channels. I do not want to do this. 😉 )
#AndroidApps #BinauralBeats #Audiobooks #AgedCare #MemoryTherapy #Dementia #Alzheimers #LifeAsAnExperiment
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@Nonilex@masto.ai
Retired US general on the Cheney-Bush mismanagement of the US Army post-9/11:
"They've taken the army back 30 years".
Secretary of High-T War, Pete Hegseth 2026:
"Get me more liquor, we're off to Daffy Duck Land!"
Xi, Putin and Rutter's faces remain impassive.
#DucksBalls #PeteHegseth #USMilitary
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@nocontexttrek@mastodon.social
Consent (by others) was never a big thing for Quark.
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@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
Here's one take. Though in these times the words might be misleading.
"You need a referral from your GP or specialist for all cardiology services other than HeartRisk scanning (coronary calcium scan)."
https:// www.westerncardiology.com.au/for-patients/cardiac-testing/
If it was business hours I'd now phone Western Cardiology and ask if my GP can refer me for a tilt table test with them and then post their answer here. Will try on Monday.
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@3TomatoesShort@disabled.social
I'll ask RPH tomorrow. (I had Thurs and Fri mixed up - hoh boy, what a week.)
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@Jeremiah@alpaca.gold
Yeah, a city council here in Perth, Western Australia uses FB to distribute citizenship ceremony photos.
Some of the new citizens are from places where FB allowed itself to be used to progress genocide.
But council staff say "No one is forced to use FB." 🤮
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@Tupp_ed@mastodon.ie
The fucking diaspora spreading their Nazi delusions by the look of that.
#Trump
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