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My themes: Surviving in the 21st century. Regenerative culture. Bioregionalism. Dance, mainly west coast swing. Building Hylo.com (software dev) Former geo-int analyst. Former youth rites of passage facilitator. Melbourne 🇦🇺 Writings at: twicefire.com
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I wish the Democratic Party was alive to see this.

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A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius. This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

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Two years ago, when I arrived at my current employer, I was appointed to a few search committees — one of which included board members. So, I studied the board: composed almost entirely of real estate developers, pharmaceutical execs, private equity mgrs, and management consultants

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The news reports right now are mentioning just that Jonathan Joss was shot and killed "after an argument with a neighbour." The truth is much much worse.

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Opinion | Democrats' failure to recognize that Biden had been replaced by a clone demands deep soul-searching. by Megan McArdle

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This is my general frame; - Everything is fine with "responsible" use - There are some drugs that have no responsible use

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"Australia's housing crisis is also driven largely by a lack of supply. How we build our future is a hotly debated election. The federal government says Australia will need 1.2 million new homes in the next five years, and there is growing recognition of the potential benefits of prefab."

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I fucking love gadgets. I like new things. I set up a gadget savings account ten years ago to restrict myself on gadget purchases because I am a gadget loving freak. Pretty amazing for the tech industry to make someone like me into a tech dethusiast in a matter of five years.

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Hey it's another one of those inevitable things turning out to not be.

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"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

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The boys are back in town just came on in this cafe and by divine custom, I am compelled to share this story www.vice.com/en/article/i...

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My statement on the charges filed against me:

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One of the absolute worst things that Online has done to left-of-center politics is collapse activist organizing and emotional support groups into part of the same parasocial relationship slurry

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Ooo somewhat spicy Australia politics chai

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"I'd crusade if the new Pope asked me to" wow, cool. What if he asked you to love and protect immigrants

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None of the 278 men sent to CECOT have been returned. Meanwhile their lawyer has been arrested and "disappeared" in El Salvador.

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Is this for fucking real????!!!

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AYFKM There is special circle of hell for those who fabricate data Immeasurable harm to all of us who break our backs to collect real data, to brilliant students who deserved that position, to other students who won’t get trust they deserve — just obscene

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One of the responses to my "two truths and a lie" is that a famous war criminal once left their notebook on my desk. Link unrelated.....

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"The cost of the long-running legal proceedings are believed to exceed $25m. Now that Robert-Smith’s appeal has failed, he could be ordered by the court to pay these costs." Pony up Kerry Stokes

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Never eat anything bigger than your head

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Today, our client Rümeysa Öztürk was released on bail from ICE detention in Louisiana, and she will return to New England to continue her studies. 📸 Giancarlo D’Agostaro

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