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groundparrot.bsky.social

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I asked ChatGPT once, if a newspaper headline read “‘He’ is dead”, who is most likely to be meant by ‘he’. I didn’t think AI could cringe. It did mental gymnastics but eventually named the orange man. Makes me wonder what Gr0k would say!

Very interesting @anthropic.com I asked Claude the above question and got a similar avoidance (Pope and Charles III). Claude stated Pope Francis not Leo XIV. But I asked ChatGPT who the current Pope is and it also answered Francis, so both were wrong 😑. Shouldn’t they both do better?

Interesting how you can commandeer a ship breaking sanctions flagged by a small (admittedly crooked) country 🇻🇪 but you can’t take a fleet of rust buckets breaking sanctions from a country 🇷🇺 run by your evil idol. Yes, he’s planning a war and the patience by the rest of the western 🌎 is astounding

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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness 😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡

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Look at this gorgeous Norfolk Island green parrots face - l think the velvety red around the nostrils is so beautiful, but also note how that beak means business (they bite like hell) 🇳🇫❤️💚♥️

Donald Trump has done it again. The conservatives in Australia 🇦🇺 (known as the Liberals here) went from being favourites to beat the leftist (Labor) Party to losing massively, including their leader losing his seat… shades of Canada 🇨🇦

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One of the damaging perceptions Russia has planted across much of Western discourse is that Ukraine is just “one of many wars that happen all the time—sad, bad, but nothing special,” when, in reality, this war is shaping the security and order the West will live under for the next decades.

Horrible, probably like London during the blitz.

Anastasiia 🖖🏻@qirimvoyager.bsky.social

This is what a Ukrainian nightmare sounds like. A week ago, I came back from visiting my parents in Odesa — there, drones flew over the city every night. #Uaview #Ukrainianview *that’s the sound of a drone www.instagram.com/reel/DI6GhsP...

Excellent article. Bolton’s insights into Trump’s psyche and his relationships with Putin and Zelenskyy are very informative

Oksana Kovalenko@superumka.bsky.social

I spoke with ex Trump’s advisor on national security John Bolton about the logic of Trumpʼs actions, whether he really sympathizes with Putin, and how Ukraine should properly deal with the American president. Here is the interview babel.ua/en/texts/117...

Yes, Macron did take a while to respond forcefully to Putin 🇷🇺 after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine 🇺🇦 but….

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Francois Hollande was President of France 🇫🇷 in 2014 when Putin took Crimea, not Macron. It is now very clear that this was the modern Sudetenland in 1938 equivalent. Boris was also not 🇬🇧 UK PM at that time, for that matter. Merkel 🇩🇪 >> yes, a modern Neville Chamberlain for sure!

Read this…

B4Ukraine@b4ukraine.org

🔥 Over 70 UK MPs and Lords demand Cadbury UK-owner Mondelēz International exit Russia 🍫 In a letter to Mondelez CEO Dirk Van de Put and UK MD Louise Stigant, British parliamentarians accused the company of “providing a financial bloodline to the Kremlin” and “eroding Cadbury’s name.”

We Australians 🇦🇺 really need to look at our choices when we buy. I had thought that Cadbury was not operating in Russia 🇷🇺 until a few days ago . Parent company Mondelez has continued to sell Cadbury there throughout the war….

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Cadbury is the most popular brand of chocolate in Australia 🇦🇺 but the second and third most popular Nestle and Mars are also selling stuff there. The largest Australian owned chocolate company Darrell Lea is not and their factory is near where I live. Looks like I have one choice 🍫! Adios Cadbury!

On Sergei Naryshkin’s (Putin’s security chief) ridiculous demands for a ‘peaceful resolution’ to the war (sorry, SMO)…..

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

I have a simple solution for a resolution, do it the old way. Put that piece of 💩 and his opposite number, Kyrylo Budanov, into a boxing 🥊 ring, winner takes all. Makes more sense than what he is saying!

On Trump not condemning Russia for atrocities…..

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Right now Mr Xi’s analysts 🇨🇳will be looking at every action and reaction Trump and his administration 🤡 makes to Russian 🇷🇺 barbarity. It won’t take long before they realise he will not support Taiwan 🇹🇼 despite them holding one critical ‘card’ (semiconductors) and one not to Trump (democracy).

On the EU 🇪🇺 and China loosening trade barriers on EVs and members of the public avoiding US products…..

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

I agree, it’s ’buyer beware’ when we all go elsewhere to buy things. China has not been reluctant to punish trading partners. Just ask Australian 🇦🇺 winemakers. I now avoid both US 🇺🇸 and Chinese 🇨🇳 products when I can.

On private (yeah sure) owned ATMs 🏧 and Banks removing fee free ones ….

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Some of us have known this for a while. Who owns the 3rd party 🏧 ‘s that have proliferated over the past few years, probably the banks. I was charged $3 for a transaction yesterday up from $2.50 a week ago. $0 (law) for the fast disappearing Bank branded ones. Politicians doing nothing of course.

On Trump saying he will block Australian 🇦🇺 beef imports….

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Trump just said he is blocking imports of Australian 🇦🇺 beef because we block US beef for bio security reasons. We don’t need US beef. I believe most of what we export is taken up by McDonalds 🍔 so up goes the price of a Big Mac in America

On Billionaire would be Aussie Trump, Clive Palmer…

groundparrot.bsky.social@groundparrot.bsky.social

Amongst other things, Palmer owns a dinosaur 🦖 🦕 theme park on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland. It features animatronic dinosaurs. Hopefully after the upcoming Australian election a model of himself being eaten by an Albosaurus or a Peteroduttyl will be installed!