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jamesjdominguez.bsky.social
50-year-old teenager. Writer, thinker, video game fan, obsessive cat dad. Creates things when ADHD goblins allow. He/him, proud poly bisexual, living on stolen Woiwurrung country in Naarm (Melbourne). Avatar by Hien Pham, kitty photo by me.
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Prague. An ancient city, steeped in culture, with historical and architectural wonders awaiting you around every street corner.

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This is why DOGE existed: to get access to every American's personal data, harvested from every government agency. The fascism will be able to accelerate much faster now.

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Always showing the skeptical eyebrows - Portrait of a willie wagtail, Cairns QLD #ausbirds #wildoz

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This little monster has been with us for two whole months now. I would take a bullet for her.

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Timeline cleanse today 😭

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Apparently states’ rights stop the moment women board a plane with autonomy in their carry-on.

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The story of Alma Bowman, a disabled woman and US citizen detained by ICE, keeps getting worse She’s been in the country for 50 years. They took her wheelchair, denied her medications & threw her in a detention facility in Georgia Did you know she was a whistle blower against forced sterilization?

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www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05... Remember, it took just 72 years from the beginning of the colonisation of Tasmania to the death of Truganini.

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Australia’s emissions up slightly in 2024 as Labor faces heat over ‘climate-wrecking’ gas project www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Maybe making elderly boomers their core demo wasn't the best long term strategy...

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A sociopathic member of a sociopathic party.

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Facebook reminded me today that I made and posted this image three years ago after Dutton was elected the new opposition leader. Feeling pretty smug right now...

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Gilead is already here.

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Missed this last year when it went around social media, but it's fantastic news that's worthy of being re-shared. A Japanese medical university has completed animal trials and is well into initial human trials of an artificial blood made from expired donor blood: www.science.org/content/arti...

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Sending Magda all the good vibes. She's a living treasure.

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The political editor for 7.30 signs off saying ‘there’s no correlation between what News Corp says and what voters do’. Plus: Mail’s headline highlight: www.theguardian.com/media/commen....

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When asked to confirm the current year, Google’s AI-generated top result confidently answers, “No, it is not 2025.” www.wired.com/story/google...

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The first time my son saw an ice cream truck I told him it was the music truck, it played music to make people happy. He bought this for several years. One day though when he was 5 or 6 he came home from a friend's and slammed the door. "THE MUSIC TRUCK HAS ICE CREAM!" he shouted. "AND YOU KNEW!"

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22 years ago I pivoted from working on antibiotic resistance to pandemic viruses. Since then, I've argued that if we care about saving US lives in expectation, advance capacity for producing bird flu vaccine offers by far the greatest expected return on investment. ... We were so goddamn close.

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How to recognise the artist in classic TTRPG cover art: Everyone is a supermodel with perfect makeup and blow-dried hair = Larry Elmore Everything is gritty and textured and covered in fiddly little bits = Jeff Easley The scene has perfect studio lighting and everything is shiny: Clyde Caldwell

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Has anyone ever gone through each episode of House MD and calculated roughly how much medical debt each patient would have ended up in? I would wince every time he'd say "run another set of blood tests" or "do another MRI", thinking to myself, "Well, there's another ten grand..."

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The volleyball minigame in Clair Obscur Expedition 33 is the most infuritating and badly-designed bullshit since that fucking skipping minigame in Mario Odyssey. Just wasted an hour on it and finally ragequit. It's one of those minigames that makes you feel like the game devs hate their players.

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People who go to live music gigs and then talk loudly and persistently during the performance are the absolute worst.

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I hadn’t realised that Leo XIV was even eligible to play for England

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The office supervisor has clocked on for duty today. Staff will be closely monitored for pats, scritches and treats

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#auswildlife #ausmammals 🧪 cosmosmagazine.com/nature/anima...

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I think I have finally found my social media niche: spilling the tea! Here’s the latest gossip about Sussan and David’s split and reconciliation and the involvement of Bridget and Barnaby and an ensemble cast. #auspol #liberalparty #spillthetea

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