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Movies you have watched more than six times. GIFs only. The GIF is wrong. The line is actually: “I don’t want to be withholding.”

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Australian women & young people have been moving to the left when voting. Some hope to brighten your weekend. theconversation.com/i-looked-at-...

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Excellent! The #RevoltingBody has pretty much slept and daydreamed the day away. It’s been a very long and exhausting three weeks. Second half of #Tracker s2 hasn’t dropped here in Australia, but a new season of #Reacher has!! Teeth clean, cosied up and now it’s time for season three.

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“political leaders insist that mining and forestry underwrite Australian prosperity. I will state it plainly. Those who believe this nonsense cannot be trusted with the wellbeing of future generations.” Ken Henry nails why LNP and Labor are on the nose. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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How is it only 10 days to my birthday; to March? This year is zooming!

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“After building a demo for a few friends, she quickly realised it was more likely to be a competitor, offering #readers’ tracking tools & trends – using AI – that could help recommend their next book. #TheStoryGraph has 3.8m active users, many of whom have ditched #Goodreads.”

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When she was a girl, one of Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr-Stubbs’ grandmothers was kidnapped from the coast of #ArnhemLand by foreign traders. #APieceOfRedCloth www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

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Our PhD Placement Scheme is BACK! Call for applications for 3-6 month placements at The British Library. All current PhD students registered with a UK university are eligible. Deadline 21st Feb, 5pm. For more information, & how to apply, please see our temporary website: www.bl.uk/more/researc...

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Measles can be deadly. It is one of the most transmissible and infectious diseases on the planet. Don’t be an idiot. Get vaccinated. Life is an IQ test. We bury the failures.

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I'm hosting a Lesbian SFF Book Bingo challenge in a few weeks and if you've written an SFF book with a prominent lesbian relationship in it, please fill out the form so I can feature it on the blog 🧡🤍💗

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Dutton's policy for first home buyers to access their superannuation to buy property will actually force house prices up while simultaneously robbing buyers of their retirement savings. It's basic economics. One of the dumbest policies I've ever seen. #auspol

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Repost with a pic you’ve saved but haven’t found a use for.

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If you work in the creative industries, please give feedback on this government public consultation on AI and our copyright. ALCS provides help here with answering the questions, and you don’t have to answer every question to submit it. The consultation ends SOON, Feb 25th:

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Now seems like a great time to revive my ongoing Twitter 🧵 about chocolate. Bulk cocoa is inequitable and catastrophic for the planet: paltry remuneration incentivises West African farmers to engage in slash-and-burn agriculture that drives significant deforestation; child labour is rife.

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NHS provider trusts in England are in the midst of the worst deterioration in their financial health in a decade. 💷 Read our new analysis on provider deficits here: https://buff.ly/3Qi1i9f

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All good points; but the reviewer is forgetting that we’re coming into #BridgetJones’ #Widowhood 4 years after Darcy‘s death, so all that stuff women are ‘supposed’ to go through, she has & we’re joining her as she’s ready to move forward. #BridgetJonesMadAboutTheBoy

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Fired: CDC's most recently hired Epidemic Intelligence Services officers – the people who fight disease outbreaks. They are not mere "probationary" staff. They are "Fellows" who are physician-scientists in a globally recognized applied epidemiology training program.

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Word of the Day is ‘quockerwodger’ (19th century): a puppet individual whose strings are pulled entirely by someone else.

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Them: "Covid doesn't infect the brain! Covid doesn't infect the brain!" The brain: (yeah, that's my image showing neurons infected with Covid, as featured on the cover of UC Davis Neurology review of the year) With @1goodtern.bsky.social

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"money would be better spent helping people install solar and batteries, as well as reducing their energy consumption with more efficient appliances... An efficient home is 10 times more effective in reducing costs than the supply side of reducing the cost of energy." www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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"Detailed guidelines stated what stories could or could not be reported and how to report the news."

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Why we couldn't stop a global pandemic becomes clearer by the day.

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Short video from @latingle.bsky.social - how APL & LNP have colluded to crush Community Independents youtube.com/shorts/unSI3... #Auspol @nicboele.bsky.social @abcnewsbot.bsky.social

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Australia is a very racist country, and our public institutions have been a large reason for the growing level of racism in the past few years. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

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Done! Unlovable and unliveable-with according to my family. So I’ve been saving a fortune since my last, and only, #Valentine, how old was I in Grade 2? That long ago. 😜

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The terrific audio documentaries made by students at the University of Newcastle have been added to the Great Australian Pods Podcast! Listen to Hunter Stories via your favourite podcast app.

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The #NLABookshop in #Canberra is freshly stocked with the #DebutNovel by @ronnisalt.bsky.social. #Gunnawah

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13 Feb 1608: d. Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of #Shrewsbury #otd 'Bess of Hardwick'. When she expired she was one of the richest people in #England (National Trust images)

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For those who celebrate Valentine's Day, Galentine's Day or Library Lover's Day on Feb 14, you may enjoy one of my romcoms as a gift to self, or someone else. All published by @simonschusteranz.bsky.social ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ @austlit.bsky.social #valentinesday #galentinesday #romance #romcom #mrright

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Earth is crossing the 1.5°C limit outlined in the Paris Agreement, beyond which scientists predict catastrophic harm to systems supporting life on our planet.

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We don’t need to reinvent the wheel and can dispense with unhelpful terms like ‘climate refugee’. Existing laws, applied correctly, can protect people.

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People want easy access to green spaces and shops and they don’t want to travel more than 20 minutes to get there – but women feel a lot less comfortable after dark.

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Rooftop solar three times cheaper to install in Australia than US, Canada reneweconomy.com.au/rooftop-sola...

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Shit shit bugger. Am reading this & another #COVID19 management chpt on a day when I cannot have a LARGE #MedicinalG&T! And why can I not do that, you ask? Because of the medications I'm on dealing with #LongCOVID & it's lasting gift to me, #RheumatoidArthritis. Again, I exclaim, shit shit bugger.

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This is huge. HUGE. Oral contraceptive pills to be added to PBS for first time in decades. Funding for IUDs, long lasting contraception, and menopause supports. This is one for the history books. Seriously, BIG. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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This is excellent from Laura Tingle. With Dutton campaigning for PM, the media needs to lift its game and smash him on his ever elusive answers to questions on his policies. Wouldn’t that be nice 🙄 #auspol #insiders www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...

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