Rob Smith

Rob Smith

@rcss67.bsky.social

Not from The Cure. Lives in Western Australia, currently studying to be a High School History teacher. Love history, sport, road trips and sunshine. Also have eclectic musical taste.

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B. A. Friedman
@bafriedman.bsky.social

We used to be a seapower.

ABC 10News@abc10news.bsky.social

The Maritime Museum of San Diego will permanently close its 18th century replica frigate the HMS Surprise on Aug. 1, 2027, following an assessment that keeping the ship at the museum is no longer financially viable.

10news.comMaritime Museum announces permanent closure of HMS Surprise on Aug. 1, 2027The Maritime Museum of San Diego says it will close its historical replica, the HMS Surprise, on Aug. 1, 2027.
Rob Smith
@rcss67.bsky.social

And the main street. If you follow it one way you end up in Esperance, on the south coast of WA and home to beautiful beaches and big sharks. Gnowangerup itself is the centre of one of the world's finest wool growing areas, fine Merino wool.

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Glen
@gergyl.bsky.social

Originally an Australian invention -- Ian Frazer and Jian Zhou at UQ -- though you'd never guess from global reporting.

Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist@princess-vimentin.bsky.social

Twenty years ago, this June marks the when the first HPV vaccine was FDA approved. The data is strong. A recent UK study showed that: Children vaccinated at age 12–13 against HPV have close to ZERO risk of dying from cervical cancer before the age of 30. 🧪 www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.comHPV vaccine means young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer deathA new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.

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John Bistline
@bistline.bsky.social

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

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Boo-face Sicko
@rufus-hickok.bsky.social

As much as it pains me, I'm leaning the same way these days.

Pew Research Center@pewresearch.org

We asked people around the world to rate the morality and ethics of others in their country. The U.S. is the only place we surveyed where more adults describe the morality and ethics of others living in the country as bad than good. See our full morality report here: www.pewresearch.org/...

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Sven-Erik Volberg
@volberg.bsky.social

is Trump first Ottoman president? >gilded everything >retarded, constantly scheming sons >a harem of slavic wives >elaborate headgear >at war with Persia

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Odd This Day
@oddthisday.bsky.social

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify, it may be 39 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

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Brian Tyler Cohen
@briantylercohen.bsky.social

More than 200,000 Danish citizens have signed a petition to buy California as a response to Trump’s attempt to take Greenland. They say they will provide Californians with “rule of law, universal health care, fact-based politics, and a lifetime supply of Danish pastries.”

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Paige Madison
@fossilhistory.bsky.social

This morning I've been writing about the 1.5 million-year-old footprints from Koobi Fora, Kenya. What do you MEAN two species walked along a lakeshore within hours of each other? Breathtakingly cool. 📸Kevin Hatala/Chatham University

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Jay Hulme
@jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up. I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.

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Sanho Tree
@sanho.bsky.social

Replying to @sanho.bsky.social

You know how Trump gets stupid ideas stuck in his head forever? “In a July 2017 private briefing with intelligence officials, President Donald Trump apparently asked why the US wasn’t at war with Venezuela, noting that “they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.”

Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social

“Andrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because ‘they have all that oil’” 2/20/19 … 2/ www.vox.com/world/2019/2...

vox.comAndrew McCabe claims Trump wanted war in Venezuela because “they have all that oil”It’s a surprisingly overlooked passage of the former FBI acting director’s new book.

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Yashar Ali 🐘
@yasharali.bsky.social

1. Heartbreaking news: the largest big tusker elephant in Kenya has died. I feel so fortunate that I got to see Craig in the wild. He was 54 years old and, thankfully, died of natural causes. It’s safe to assume that Kenyan authorities have already removed his tusks to keep them from poachers.