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Still sad that I didn’t grow to 5’7” so that I had the opportunity to join the Rockettes. Book trade chica. Trying to understand this world and how to make things better for people. Maybe making Kate Bush and Dolly Parton world leaders would work
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My company just laid off a huge number of people based on their job titles - none of it was consulted with people who actually knew what they did

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For the love of duck, don’t use google anymore. Duck Duck Go is more reliable

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Regular reminder, if you want to watch something purely good, Midnight Diner on Netflix is outstanding, and like wrapping yourself in an eiderdown

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Okay, Alan’s lentil, fennel and sausage stew is in the oven. Smells delicious. Forgot the dry white wine, so substituted with a some rose (lord forgive me)

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It’s not ‘uneconomic’ to build houses in Australia. Builders & developers are doing very nicely. High income earners are spending a fortune on extensions & holiday homes What’s ‘uneconomic’ is thinking builders will ever build small houses for the poor instead of big ones for the rich

submitted 6 hours ago • 28 comments

I caused a semi-riot in a training session yesterday when a learning technologist suggested that we should be excited that AI takes away the cognitive labour from our jobs. Mate, it may have escaped your attention but you literally work in a University.

submitted 19 hours ago • 24 comments

the fun version of this is when you’re posting about some nerd shit and someone pops up in the comments like “actually I am a world renowned expert in this field and here’s how this works” easily the best thing that happens on social media

submitted 13 hours ago • 84 comments

Normalise little electric cars with baguette holders instead of hideously oversized, fossil fuel-guzzling, pollution-spewing, cyclist & pedestrian-endangering road hog SUVs

submitted 8 hours ago • 7 comments

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Fuck you Amazon. It’s MELBOURNE YOU DRONGOS!

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Unbound co-founder John Mitchinson said he left Boundless because he "could not countenance taking another penny from a business that no longer prioritised paying its authors" 👇

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They really are saying the quiet bit out loud now, fucking hell

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as if during your 'punk phase' you'd choose the spelling of the straightest clothes brand in the country over Souixsie

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Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Weird they're showing Swan Lake on Fox right now

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this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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The ICC can't stop Israel, the ICJ can't stop Israel, the UN can't stop Israel, nobody else who could stop them will stop them. So we have to watch Gaza get ethnically cleansed live on our screens...just remember...someone is always next.

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Just saw someone describe Australian Huntsman spiders as “Wall Kittens”. 👀😂

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the Inhuman League

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Children’s book people! If you have a blog or a podcast or some other sort of platform where you review books / interview authors etc., let me know if you’d like an advance copy of “About Time”, my new co-authored book about the history and science of time. #kidlituk

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

Incandescent with rage at Andy Lee monestising his rip off of the Sesame Street book There’s A Monster At the End Of This Book on the ABC

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It will go down as one of the most reckless and destructive environmental decisions of a generation. And Aust will barely profit, so it's even harder to defend/understand Given Labor has done this with nary a blush nor a stutter, what odds do you now give for Albo cancelling AUKUS? 1 in ...... ?

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Fast fashion, however you define it, gets an F. By definition they are awful.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

😂 Fontana upmarket???!!!! Effing hilarious that they don’t know their own history

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