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Literally an NPC. Brown, Ngāi Tahu/Ngāti Whakaue/Tainui, on Kaurna land. Abnzg. Beach bum, history nerd, gamer, grower of chilli peppers, rescuer of bees, occasional writer. Apparently I also compose music for podcasts. Slava Ukraini.
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"On Monday, court documents revealed that AI company Anthropic spent millions of dollars physically scanning print books to build Claude. In the process, the company cut millions of print books from their bindings, scanned them into digital files, and threw away the originals" 🤬

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Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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BREAKING: US Director of Federal Housing Pulte: Today I ordered the Great Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to prepare their businesses to count cryptocurrency as an asset for a mortgage.

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Feminine lean. Hips angled submissively. This is thetamaxxing

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I like David! (Spotted in the Kingborough Chronicle) #taspol #auspol

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Stick a fork in it, Jerry…

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Antoinette Lattouf has won her unfair dismissal case against the ABC. A hard won justice that came at great personal cost for Antoinette

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The most predictable thing in the world

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I had never even heard of this movie until today.

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“I don’t know anything about how medical guidelines are established.” —Chase Strangio @chasestrangio.bsky.social, top ACLU @aclu.org litigator

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Australian government tech spending in one sentence: "Someone has conned someone who has purchasing power with public money and not enough technical understanding to see that it's completely invalid." #auspol

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Democratic Party

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People Being Replaced by AI Are Suffering a Deep Sense of Worthlessness flip.it/CYha9y

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Sitting outside in the dark in the rain, no desire to move

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If you invest in our environment, nature fights back! From one breeding pair, to almost 300 pairs today, now enough Kōkako in Hūnua the recovery project is can share with others!! 20 Kōkako are moving to Sanctuary Mountain Maungatautari! Story: ourauckland.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/news/2025/06...

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Sydney is Tracer Melbourne is Symmetra Brisbane is Junkrat Perth is Widowmaker Adelaide is Torbjörn Hobart is Mei Darwin is Roadhog Canberra is Winston

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🌻This’s in regards to The Uniting Church of Australia & it’s sale of some properties in Queensland & property developments 😡 @jimchalmers.bsky.social #TaxChurchesNow #auspol

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What a time to have eyes and the ability to read

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Phytoplankton, key to ocean life, falling 2% per year in North Atlantic Phytoplankton are the base of the ocean food web www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them theonion.com/democra...

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Allow me to depict the Supreme Court ruling in visual form

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This can't be real Tell me it's not real

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The Greek word for womb is hystera

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Old man yells at market

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An expert advising Australia's teen social media ban tech trial has resigned. "I think there’s been some questions raised everywhere about the way that this trial was constructed and the process of it,” Qoria managing director Tim Levy told Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/20...

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scrawny 18-year-old about to fall out of an army helicopter over tehran: this is so epic. this is totally sigma, right babe? AI e-girl operated by a balding intelligence officer in virginia: that's right baby, Iran is totally cringe

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