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  #Ukraine is still not in a winning position with advances like this from #Russia...

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  Quite a collection of cartoons in this thread on the BSK site. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:i3wu53ofvdsgpjazvmhg5npl/post/3mwgw32cm7k2t

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  I was blessed in life by not having to go to work each day and pronounce a reality that did not exist. #Media #USPolitics

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  Things change yet everything stays the same. Local Priceline Chemist sold to some Discount !!DIScouNTDiscOU!!!!NTdisco!!utTDISCOUNT!! "Compounding Chemist" (whatever or why ever they think that phrase will attract customers). Why do they even bother? Everything inside is moved around, and prices are the same. Rows and rows of cosmetics that I've never seen anyone buy. Sigh.

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  Maybe I could see Australia cheap by sending myself parcel post. Picked up from Sender DIWAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 12.13pm Picked up from Sender,at DIWAN QLD,on Mon 21 Sep, 12.13pm Current milestone: It's on its way In transit MOSSMAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 1.45pm In transit,at MOSSMAN QLD,on Mon 21 Sep, 1.45pm Received by Australia Post MOSSMAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 1.53pm Received by Australia Post,at MOSSMAN QLD,on Mon 21 Sep, 1.53pm Shipping information approved by Australia Post MOSSMAN QLD...

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  We are definitely living in some surreal kabuki theatre production. "Alan Jones’ butler tells a court his duties included delivering weekly flowers to a man allegedly indecently assaulted by the then-broadcaster." #Straya

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  @MarkAsser@beige.party - Re your recent adventure watching an item pass through APost's bowels... now I'm having that pleasure... :blobsad: --------------------------- We've got it Picked up from Sender DIWAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 12.13pm Picked up from Sender,at DIWAN QLD,on Mon 21 Sep, 12.13pm Current milestone: It's on its way In transit MOSSMAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 1.45pm In transit,at MOSSMAN QLD,on Mon 21 Sep, 1.45pm Received by Australia Post MOSSMAN QLD • Mon 21 Sep, 1.5...

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  True Then, True Now Department --------------------------------------- Management and IT ~2001 email: A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realizes he is completely lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts: "Excuse me, I was wondering if can you tell me where I am? I seem to be lost." The man below is surprised for a moment, and then replies "Yes, that's easy, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering about 25 feet a...

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  The old sayings about computers: "garbage in, garbage out" and "they do what you tell them to do, not what you want them to." For #AI it's... "Today they do what we tell them to do. Tomorrow they will do what they tell themselves to do." Also, of all the talking heads, I always learn something from Fareed, and enjoy listening to the end. https://youtu.be/worlFWRU3X4

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  Of the few advantages of old age is, having never heard of upcoming famous people like #EdSheeran, can skip their mention with nary a thought. Bonus: extra time for living 🙂

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  Not Medical Advice... just something else to worry about. FYI, oldies. --------------------------------- I've long had irregular (skipped) heartbeats and high rate (over 100). After an operation was prescribed Metoprolol (Minax) and now it sits around 75. When I forget, it rises well above 100 and I've learned to recognise the effects. Similar to the article linked. My dear old sister in her late 80s has a pacemaker for skipped beats. She recently was having symptoms similar to those...

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  Breaking News ------------------------- White House Correspondents' Association reaches Susan Collins level of concern. Lashes to President Trump with a severe Tweeting. #MAGA #Project2025 #Trump #Media #USPol

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  Your daily spelling lesson from the dummest person on the planet. #Trump

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  Local flyboys at Williamtown RAAF are dog-fighting over Newcastle all week. Don't know if I should be comforted or concerned. First 40 years of my life were spent during the Cold War, particularly terrified as a child in the 1950s by constant talk of nuclear Armageddon. Every goddam high-flying aircraft might be from Russia and Newcastle was an obvious industrial target. A 19yo me was somewhat traumatised when, as I walked up Bolton Street Newcastle one night, a jet screamed above in low...

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  Discovered a new word. Only 100 thousand or more to go. Satisficing: Decide on and pursue a course of action satisfying the minimum requirements to achieve a goal. Not an adjective, but a verb. A portmanteau of "satisfy" and "suffice." The noun is "satsificer" 🤯

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  @neoluddite@aus.social @Heliograph@mastodon.au I got these two posts together... 🙂

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  Anyone else fail to get Aus MyGov SMS code trying to login? They stress you out by SMS-ing that there's a new message in your MyGov inbox (oh no what can it be!!!). Then stress you out more by NOT sending the SMS 2FA when you try to login to read it. Then stress you out by not having a "resend SMS" link. Then yet more by suggesting - as if this is how you want to spend the rest of your short miserable life - you waste it on the ever so not-simple task of creating a digital ID or...

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  Went looking for a floor-standing lamp to illuminate the ceiling. The fancy light shop "oh, we don't sell those any more because yadayada... but maybe this one, which can be turned upwards would work." "Oh, yeah, a bit feeble as it's really a reading lamp. But how much, maybe ok." "It's our cheaper model. Only $399." me: 🤢 Off to eBay...

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  Not All Bad News Dept --------------------------------- #Space #Astronomy https://www.space.com/astronomy/from-spy-satellite-to-space-telescope-the-unlikely-origins-of-nasas-roman-space-telescope

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  @VWDasher@mymasto.com He said something a few months ago that I agreed with. Guess that was his mistake 🙂

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  People in the US and around the world are increasingly telling #Trump to eat shit and die. #USPol #GiftArticle https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/us/politics/trump-polls-tariffs-carney.html?unlocked_article_code=1.8VA.exVw.QirxYr5IC-Qt&smid=url-share

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  Bessent, the supercilious prick, is a serial-bankrupter like his boss, #Trump. Wall Street analyst Gordon Johnson: “Every market has a fellow who is certain the prices are wrong and that he alone knows the right ones. Usually the market charges him tuition for this belief. Occasionally, it hands him the Treasury.” … “Consider the record. In 2000, Scott Bessent left George Soros to run $1 billion of his own fund. Five years later, the fund no longer existed. In 2015 he tried again with Key Sq...

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  Things to be happy about #ual1345 That Coles will - for the princely sum of $2 - have someone dash about their shop collecting my grocery order while also potentially collecting all known air-borne viruses, load it into a refrigerated truck and drive across town to kindly deposit at my front door.

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  Economist and Columbia University professor Jeffrey Sachs ~ "We don't have a word of honesty from the United States government... Everything is propaganda morning till night. "Also any statement by Donald Trump contradicts itself before the end of the sentence. He's absolutely impossible to even understand on his own terms much less on geopolitical terms. "So the situation is very strange, very dangerous." #Trump #Geopolitics https://youtu.be/AJUr7YiHfsM

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  Just a wild guess, but why did hundred/thousands/who-knows of Blogger sites get canned by Google for "malware" when most had done nothing to their sites or themes? Yours sincerely included? Betcha this little newbie #AI gadget was the culprit. Just guessing. #Google #Malware #Blogger

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  Double up-you from "The Grauniad" Dumping the staff cartoonist and, after nagging me to death about how free it is, finally paywalled me (only visit it like 6 times a year). #Media #News

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  #POTUS doing advertorials now. #USPolitics #Trump

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  @MarkAsser@beige.party I do believe this is what is going on in your street...

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  Fuckety fuck. Anonymity and insignificance was a considerable defence against money-hungry human hackers. These fuckers are like ants. They'll overcome by mindless persistence. --------------------------------- Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Import AI 467: Self-sustaining AI viruses; pacing AI progress; confusion about AI and creativity When do we build the moon arcology? Jack Clark Aug 3 READ IN APP Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Im...

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  Tones still doesn't get it. It's these zealots who have white-anted and destroyed the #LNP in their quest for power. "Abbott acknowledged the Reformers, whose key members provided evidence in last week’s initial hearings of Operation Rosny, “might have let their enthusiasm get the better of their judgment”. Yet, he told the Herald, they were young Christians with a strong sense of mission and argued there was no suggestion of self-enriching corruption in the case." #AusPol...