Larry Buttrose
@LarryButtrose
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Writer living in Sydney. Opinions expressed are my own only. No one else would want them.
Australia
Joined August 2009
Breathing life into ten masterpieces of art history through Grok Imagine The result is nothing short of spectacular! A Thread 🧵 1. Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci (1503-1506)
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Venice as seen from the top of St. Mark’s Bell Tower, where a golden statue of the Archangel Gabriel rises above the city Absolutely breathtaking Italy 🇮🇹✨ https://t.co/HrrJuvb8Tf
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Fab bio of Philip White… Blood on The Typewriter by Robbie Brechin.
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Four graphs that help explain the 2025 election result and Labor's landslide victory. https://t.co/41yKWiCbBW
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I'm delighted to be reading among a showcase of fab fellow poets at the Poetry Salon at the Newcastle Writers Festival next month.
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Journalism. Ever more under threat from vested interest, lobby groups, megalomaniacal billionaires, SM keyboard warriors & legions of politicians uncomfortable with fact and truth. All strength to my professional colleagues everywhere. Resistance is fair and balanced reporting.
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Pope Francis dismantles the lie that is trickle down economics in just 37 words.
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In the new hard world of Trump, everything is about what a country has to offer. Australia has 2 things the US wants: Pine Gap spy facility & proximity to China. As Trump upends geopolitics what happens to 5-Eyes and AUKUS? My new column https://t.co/PENhJEiAB2 via @ABCaustralia
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Experts say Australia matters less to Trump than it did to Biden which has consequences for vital intelligence-sharing alliance Five Eyes as well as the AUKUS deal.
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james-lucas.com
Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Click to read Beauty is truth, by James Lucas, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
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In 732 AD, a Muslim army swept into France. Nothing had stopped them before. Kingdoms had fallen. Cities had burned. Then, at Tours, one man stood in their way—Charles Martel. What happened next decided the fate of Europe:
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Have we talked about the advantages of extremism lately? What did I miss?
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Simply and eternally one of the greatest lyric poems ever created.
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Such a good line. from Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
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‘But we feel very lucky that these two books are all of those things."
pinkshortspress.com.au
Publishing books. Running Wordshops and events. Loudly independent and proudly South Australian, based on Kaurna Yerta. Reading is revolutionary. Pink Short Press publishes fantastically readable,...
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The Divine Comedy has a wild origin story: Dante spent 20 years in exile — facing heartbreak, death threats, and homelessness — to write it His story teaches you how to conquer Hell itself, and why your greatest pains can lead you to ultimate happiness…🧵
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