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Manda Stewart

@placidscout

Reader, ex-teacher, traveller, photographer, animal-lover. History, film & literature. Appreciating reading “Am I Black Enough For You” & “Birnam Wood”. 🧭Far South Coast, NSW, Oz

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Excellent. I really liked it & Kate. 😊 Hope it’s on some other site too.

10.03.2026 04:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

And they’re fighting over who will ‘end’ the war now!

10.03.2026 00:32 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Clueless! 🙄

10.03.2026 00:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My concern is …what comes next?!

08.03.2026 03:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

What are you making?

07.03.2026 00:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Carney calls on middle powers to band together in address to Australia’s parliament YouTube video by Global News

www.youtube.com/live/kXYqbuV...

05.03.2026 06:10 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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What you need to know about Iran today, with Laura Tingle The ABC's global affairs editor, Laura Tingle, is in Dubai and will bring daily updates from the Middle East war.

Couldn’t have a better commentator in Dubai! Feel sorry for her that she’s stuck there though!

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

03.03.2026 23:13 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cool with this, @albomp.bsky.social? No problems there? #auspol

03.03.2026 03:42 👍 72 🔁 27 💬 10 📌 1

Clearly relying on an algorithm/AI is not what’s needed in this area!

28.02.2026 07:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This sounds like an appalling system!! 😳

28.02.2026 04:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Algorithm denies high level care for Melbourne man with advanced MND Graham Crossan cannot eat, talk or breathe unassisted but he's been denied funding for high-level care due to a new way of assessing aged care funding.

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

28.02.2026 04:17 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Safe!

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27.02.2026 01:55 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That’s what mine looked like yesterday! Haven’t tried today’s yet.

27.02.2026 01:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Well done! You continually amaze! 🙂👏

27.02.2026 01:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oops! *have*

25.02.2026 23:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Your longest streak is 109 and yet you gave 99%. I know who work this out! 🤣

25.02.2026 23:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Guess those are his own figures, huh? 😁

25.02.2026 23:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

One Nation's migrant attacks are peak stupidity: In rural/remote Australia, 40-50% of doctors are international grads, recruited to fill dire shortages. Bash them, and watch healthcare crumble. And 17-40% of nurses nationwide are born overseas, vital to our health system. #auspol #OneNation

24.02.2026 08:29 👍 123 🔁 51 💬 10 📌 2

I’m with you. My worst fear as a driver is hitting a child!

24.02.2026 10:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

She looks content with her mattress…& being inside! 😁

24.02.2026 08:52 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think you’re right! 🤣

19.02.2026 06:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The Albanese lullaby Naming and resisting the anti-democratic effects of the prime minister's calls for "social cohesion" and "lowering the temperature"

very interesting essay here from @timdunlop.bsky.social on Albo and social cohesion...
substack.com/inbox/post/1...

19.02.2026 02:52 👍 24 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 3

Very disturbing! And go Dr Karl 👏
“I feel like I'm talking to a school child who says seven times two is not 14, but instead seven times two is a bicycle divided by the square root of a banana.” 🤣

19.02.2026 03:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Climate disinformation, the Atlas Network and Dr Karl The scourge of AI-slopaganda, viral disinformation campaigns and online attacks against individuals and institutions is going to get far worse before it gets better, if the latest public hearings on t...

Fascinating and disturbing and thats even before yiu get to the exchange between Dr Karl and Malcolm Roberts (Australia’s dimmest politician) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

18.02.2026 23:07 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

Well done! And you got blue & purple before the easy ones! 👏

18.02.2026 03:02 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

America will defeat Trump in a million brilliant ways...

17.02.2026 06:11 👍 69 🔁 36 💬 4 📌 1

He was! 👍 I posted this morning too. Such a loss to the acting world!

17.02.2026 03:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Robert Duvall, star of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, dies at 95 Oscar winner Robert Duvall, known for films such as The Godfather and Apocalypse Now, has died at the age of 95.

Vale Robert Duvall

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

16.02.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Oh yes, let’s tell our “friends” what they “must” do! 🙄

15.02.2026 03:17 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🤣🤣

14.02.2026 04:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0