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29. This is a 3200-year old attendance sheet found in Deir el-Medina, Egypt. Reasons for workers being absent include "brewing beer", "embalming brother", "drinking with Khonsu" and "bitten by a scorpion".

Vale @Participant - you changed film, and the world thank you @jeffskoll for stepping outside your comfort zone to make this real. https://t.co/aPQMTqF6y2

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Also first #climate scientist president anywhere in the world! Go Mexico! Double celebration. ⭐️ 🎉

It’s exhausting being a scientist these days. You have no idea how taxing it is to keep all these conspiracies secret: Climate change, vaccines, cancer cures…

Today is National Sorry Day. I want to say sorry for the Stolen Generations. Sorry for the record numbers of First Nations children in out of home care today. We need to understand this is not the past, the injustices and trauma continue. We must Listen. Learn. Act #SorryDay

Thank you so much @Elex_Michaelson for the amazing piece. I have to admit, I cried while watching it.

EV cars “Over its lifetime, an average fossil-fuel car burns the equivalent of a stack of oil barrels 25 storeys high. If you take into account the recycling of battery materials, only around 30kg of metals would be lost – roughly the size of a football.”

How big was the Taylor Swift effect on February #retail sales? Population growth is more likely to have bolstered current results. I spoke to @Kieran_Gilbert @SkyNewsAust about our subdued 2024 retail performance for @retailaustralia Full video https://t.co/JKlFewyYaR

🩷 "A Princeton professor of psychology created a CV of Failures that recounts the rejections of his academic career. His motivation? That our successes are often obvious, but failures arent; an attempt to balance the record / give perspective.” https://t.co/R1fSv86hmU

How good is #AI at poetry in 2024? English experts noticed rhyming, overused literary devices, clichés, logical flaws. "I thought those pieces may have been trying to create the ‘idea’ of a poem.” 33.8% mistakenly thought AI poems were human. https://t.co/KIg5zyrH1Q

.niceaunties.com is an ongoing art project that challenges concepts of ageing and freedom but - in this case - also pollution 🩵💜

Powerful.

For those on @StanAustralia, look out for a really important release tomorrow night, Sunday. ‘Freedom is Beautiful’, the story of my friends, two extraordinary Kurdish artists, filmmakers, humans and their path back from the living hell of Manus Island.

Today's Poetry Thread: OPTIMISM "For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird." Feel free to add poems.

Do something - don’t be paralysed says ⁦@SupplyNation⁩ CEO Kate Russell talking to retail leaders about First Nations business collaboration at #ARALeadersForum ⁦@retailaustralia⁩

We need more courage - There’s been a national collective pause since The Voice says ⁦⁦@SupplyNation⁩ CEO Kate Russell We’re seeing First Nations people walking away from boards + roles where organisation isn’t walking the talk #ARALeadersForum ⁦@retailaustralia⁩

The data is really clear around the productivity,innovation and risk reduction impact of inclusion says ⁦@DivCouncilAus⁩ CEO. We need to be more forgiving if leaders get it wrong - so people are willing to try again. #ARALeadersForum