Dominic Meagher

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I'm an @ecosiasearch.bsky.social fan!

What I love most: it links to primary sources instead of infinite low quality news reports about primary sources.

Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees Ecosia uses 100% of its profits for the planet and produces enough renewable energy to power all searches twice over.

Discovered that www.ecosia.org search gives results that are more like the mid-2000s when the internet still worked. I've started using it as my main search, not for the tree planting thing but because it's the best search.

Singapore PM gives condolences to families impacted by Optus outage deaths Singapore's Prime Minister, Lawrence Wong, offers his condolences to the families of four Australians who died during an Optus network technical failure last month, which impacted hundreds of triple-0...

Gracious of Lawrance Wong to offer condolences, but I think it’s a pretty tall ask to expect Singapore to be somehow responsible. I don’t think anyone would suggesting the fault is with Singapore or its government.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

YouTube video by Mrmansderni123 Man punches kangaroo in the face to rescue his dog

I do think the average person could take the average kangaroo in a fight if they had to.
Not sure about the average Brit 🤷‍♂️

youtu.be/z-hXkQpDxMI?...

Alternatively, anything that might weaken Trump is default the most important thing in the world.

The absolute state of the US…

A little too much diversity for ICE, but yeah

'Our nearest neighbour is our newest ally': Albanese, Marape sign new defence treaty PNG and Australia formally sign a landmark new defence treaty, elevating the bilateral relationship between the two countries to an alliance and agreeing to "act to meet the common danger" if the othe...

As an Australian, I’m especially proud to be in PNG today. 50 years ago, demonstrating how interdependent and close our countries are, Gough Whitlam said something like, “Australia can only be fully free when PNG is fully free”. This announcement is in that spirit.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Iranian parliament approves currency redenomination Iran has gained parliamentary approval for a monetary overhaul to remove four zeros from its national currency over the next few years to simplify transactions after years of inflation.

Iran revaluing its currency by cutting four zeros off… maybe trying to drop nuclear bombs on Israel hasn’t been the best use of their resources 🤦‍♂️

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Come to Australia & you can add gratuitous stochasticity to that torture since we usually can’t make up our minds between UK & US English.

Phantasy Star 2 OST - YouTube Fuck yeah, 8 bit!

Well I could’ve sworn that was going to be the Phantasy Star 2 theme song when it started 😂

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How do we let them sell themselves as “anti-colonialists” while they’re in the midst of empial conquest?

Ah, you’re right. 16-bit. I forgot.

Thanks for the book recommendation in there, too. Have just downloaded the audio edition.

What you're not hearing about Taiwan A guest post from Melissa Chan

Delighted to have a guest post from @melissakchan.bsky.social in Proximities today. She has written an explainer about Taiwan with a level of depth and insight you rarely see elsewhere. Please give it your time.

www.proximities.news/p/what-youre...

“At least I didn’t get the vax”
- common last words

Optimistic of you to assume they’ll be allowed to teach that in 50 years.

YouTube video by Genshin Impact Nod-Krai Main Theme Live Performance | Genshin Impact #GenshinImpact #NodKrai

Compare the above to the London Symphony Orchestra recording the latest soundtrack of a free mobile game from China (they’ve released 30+ albums of music from that game at this quality):

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YouTube video by TASVideosChannel [TAS] Genesis Might and Magic II: Gates to Another World by Dammit in 06:15.33

Biggest improvement in RPG’s since the 80s has got to be music though.

I mean, compare this 8-bit hell: youtu.be/Sejg3zeUuk8?...
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That makes sense. I can understand if she was looking at political tenacity, too.

Oh, you said “she is open about wanting to be Japan’s answer to Margaret Thatcher”
Sorry - I read it too quickly the first time. It was her, not you, making the comparison.

Still, any idea what she means if not economic policy (which is what Thatcher is mainly known for)?

You described her as Japan’s answer to Thatcher the other day, but she seems to be backing economic stimulus in the form of government investment. Thatcher was really the dean of austerity, so can I assume you meant it in terms of something other than economic policy?

Is the other problem ‘how to bank cash in the modern economy’?

100%

Is Russia testing NATO with aerial incursions in Europe? Poland, Ukraine and NATO claim recent Russian drone incursions into their airspace were deliberate.

So, a few distracting bits of nothing amidst a broader war? I think I’d focus on the signal rather than the noise

www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/...

What indications?

Sounds like a job for the coast guard. Those missiles could be doing something useful in Ukraine.

It’s definitely easier to get shit done if you don’t have to worry about Donald having a sook.

Howard won reelection on ‘boat people’ in 2001 & it was an issue for 15 years.
Any party that wants to win election has to accept that countries have a right to require orderly immigration. In Europe, that means at the EU level.