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In the running for greatest giveaway of all time
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"Former ANU vice-chancellor Genevieve Bell has been suspended from the university and accused of serious misconduct after allegedly making a close friend a full professor despite him having no university qualifications."
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/education/2026/04/11/exclusive-former-anu-vc-accused-serious-misconduct
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I will personally sponsor any player that chooses John Cage's 4'33" as their goal song #aflhawksdogs
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Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-baseless-reports-linking-her-to-wrong-wealthy-pedophile/
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Does NASA use the metric system? There's a second ground control in the Netherlands - surely they're don't use two separate systems? Especially when they're a part of the ISS?
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The University of Michigan has been measuring consumer sentiment since 1952. We just got the first Iran-afflicted measure for April, and it's at the lowest level ever recorded.
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Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.
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Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/pope-leo-criticism-iran-war
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/10/pope-leo-criticism-iran-war
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Great stuff, this. An analysis of data 1981–2025 suggests Melbourne is best understood to have seven seasons. seasons.lotlsoft.com
Wurundjeri and other Kulin Nation peoples have long recognised seven seasons.
Via the Guardian’s The Crunch newsletter. www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/08/sign-up-for-the-crunch-newsletter-our-free-email-with-the-best-charts-graphs-and-dataviz
Wurundjeri and other Kulin Nation peoples have long recognised seven seasons.
Via the Guardian’s The Crunch newsletter. www.theguardian.com/news/2023/nov/08/sign-up-for-the-crunch-newsletter-our-free-email-with-the-best-charts-graphs-and-dataviz
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Dear person who left their AirPods Pro at East Balmain wharf last night, please turn them onto list mode so that I can get them back to you.
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Not good.
“.. if payments accompanying 20% of the world’s oil and gas can move through a digital pipe that the US Treasury cannot see, then America’s dominance of global finance has effectively been handed an expiry date.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-09/the-iran-war-is-china-s-global-payments-debut
“.. if payments accompanying 20% of the world’s oil and gas can move through a digital pipe that the US Treasury cannot see, then America’s dominance of global finance has effectively been handed an expiry date.”
@opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-04-09/the-iran-war-is-china-s-global-payments-debut
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As Jewish Australians, we are devastated to learn of the Israeli assault on Lebanon yesterday. We urge @albomp.bsky.social and Foreign Minister Wong to speak out against Israel's violent escalation and call on the Government to take decisive action by demanding an immediate ceasefire.
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"Hey buddy, listen, war crimes are not on. Ok?" chaser.com.au/world/world-to-continue-trying-to-gentle-parent-israel-into-not-massacring-civilians/
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Just waiting for all those free speech absolutists who railed against cancel culture to speak out about this
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Fun fact: every five months, the world builds as much solar power generation as all the nuclear power that has ever been built. And still some people dream of a ”nuclear renaissance”. That train has left the station long ago…
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This bloke went to the key locations from the original Mad Max and it’s the most nerds fkn rule video I’ve seen in ages.
youtu.be/uiRd5Kcl2GU?si=HVmFHMDtIyuMXwGk
youtu.be/uiRd5Kcl2GU?si=HVmFHMDtIyuMXwGk
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Vital advocacy and support for survivors obliterated because “difficult” autistic woman won’t make herself smaller or compromise her principles. As I keep saying, this is not just a feminist issue. It’s a disability justice issue.
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A French coder estimates that using Claude Code will account for 1 tonne of CO2 over a year - 10% of the average French individual carbon footprint.
We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)
www.linkedin.com/posts/gwittebolle_1-tonne-de-co%E2%82%82-cest-ma-projection-annuelle-activity-7447171247601356800-4-dB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABBbg1kBL4bGVwJOur529vIonS7OTt82ADg
We have never encountered emissions-intensive software like this, ever before (with the sole exception of Bitcoin)
www.linkedin.com/posts/gwittebolle_1-tonne-de-co%E2%82%82-cest-ma-projection-annuelle-activity-7447171247601356800-4-dB?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAABBbg1kBL4bGVwJOur529vIonS7OTt82ADg
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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant
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