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Podcast & media content producer, Casual Academic UoN, Newcastle Councillor 2017-2024. Founder @lostnewcastle. http://linktr.ee/carol.duncan

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This is what happens when politicians take over cultural centres operawire.com/kennedy-cent...

submitted 5 days ago • 16 comments

Proud mum alert. Son’s band has a new video out … with cameo from #KeithUrban who really should take them on tour. youtu.be/1s63FbUrWdU?... 🤣🌵❤️🎂

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

submitted 22 days ago • 182 comments

Mediocre white men are the new DEI hire. In case you missed the last hundreds and thousands of years, they’ve been doing it tough.

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Pete’s here.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Naka Noodle spicy steamed chicken (cold) 💯❤️🔥 every time

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Now playing: Nile Rodgers and CHIC in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Outstanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRER...

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Australian's have been gaslit for three decades since Howard, into believing we're too poor to raise social security payments well above the poverty level It's 🐴 💩 We're the 9th richest country among advanced economies & have one of the highest poverty levels www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

The kid’s first Tamworth Country Music Festival gig!

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

#GenAI development and use requires a lot of energy and water, putting even more strain on our environment in a time of serious #climate concerns. This @mitpress.bsky.social article explores the causes and impacts of this in more detail 👇🏼 news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

The landlord and the LA fires: how my friend’s loss revealed a new hierarchy of who gets help

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

The marginal details of the David Lynch memorial at the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy are what make it.

submitted 36 days ago • 178 comments

Well, if there's one thing we can do to honour the memory of David Lynch it's to make sure we stay as weird as fucking possible and embrace the deepest strangeness possible in our art. And then use that to shine a light on human darkness at every turn.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

submitted 41 days ago • 10 comments

Back in the office for 2025

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

This guy. Bold as brass.

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Yep. The LA fires have made it abundantly clear the response will always be: 1) Blame environmentalists 2) Try to buy their way out of it. Tbh Australia has now had a 20 years of so of bushfires being blamed on Green groups.

This is what happens when politicians take over cultural centres operawire.com/kennedy-cent...

Proud mum alert. Son’s band has a new video out … with cameo from #KeithUrban who really should take them on tour. youtu.be/1s63FbUrWdU?... 🤣🌵❤️🎂

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵 Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

Mediocre white men are the new DEI hire. In case you missed the last hundreds and thousands of years, they’ve been doing it tough.

Pete’s here.

Naka Noodle spicy steamed chicken (cold) 💯❤️🔥 every time

Now playing: Nile Rodgers and CHIC in an NPR Tiny Desk Concert. Outstanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRER...

The kid’s first Tamworth Country Music Festival gig!

#GenAI development and use requires a lot of energy and water, putting even more strain on our environment in a time of serious #climate concerns. This @mitpress.bsky.social article explores the causes and impacts of this in more detail 👇🏼 news.mit.edu/2025/explain...

The landlord and the LA fires: how my friend’s loss revealed a new hierarchy of who gets help

The marginal details of the David Lynch memorial at the Burbank Bob’s Big Boy are what make it.

Well, if there's one thing we can do to honour the memory of David Lynch it's to make sure we stay as weird as fucking possible and embrace the deepest strangeness possible in our art. And then use that to shine a light on human darkness at every turn.

"The US is on the cusp of a natural gas power plant construction boom, as Big Tech turns to fossil fuels to meet the huge electricity needs of the artificial intelligence revolution — putting climate targets in peril" www.ft.com/content/63c3...

Back in the office for 2025

This guy. Bold as brass.

Yep. The LA fires have made it abundantly clear the response will always be: 1) Blame environmentalists 2) Try to buy their way out of it. Tbh Australia has now had a 20 years of so of bushfires being blamed on Green groups.

Polite. Kinda. #Boris

Morning. ☕️

Classic!

It’s the dog’s bed … 👀🤦‍♀️

Vale, President Carter. www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12...

Sunday! I think.

It was a time.