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Rob Richards

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Retired Professor of Genetics. Mid-century modern. Interest in an autoinflammatory mechanism for neurodegenerative diseases https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/27/R2/R108/4976601

created December 2, 2023

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Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Leadership comes first n various forms. Example is one of the most powerful. @albomp.bsky.social ???

3/9/2025, 12:53:38 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

It’s all about managing the ‘brand’

2/9/2025, 9:51:37 AM | 3 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Gotan Project St Germain Augie March Zoe Keating Wailin’ Jennys Norah Jones

2/9/2025, 9:21:30 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

When facts are clearly ignored, it’s never because of incompetence.

2/9/2025, 8:44:01 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social)

Will a Whitehouse journalist please ask the POTUS “If the first soul that you encounter after your departure is Mohammed Ali, do you think that you will be on your way to heaven or on your way to hell?”

2/9/2025, 6:55:20 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Michelle Suiter (@michellesuiter.bsky.social) reposted

C’mon now @albomp.bsky.social It’s time to say the G word you’ve been putting off for almost two years Or do you disagree with 86% of the worlds experts on genocide? (See it’s easy to say/write) Waiting patiently for a PM with integrity (this may take a while) #auspol

2/9/2025, 6:37:56 AM | 5 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

When facts are clearly ignored, it’s never because of incompetence.

2/9/2025, 6:46:09 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

The selective implementation of the law is the downfall of civilization @albomp.bsky.social

2/9/2025, 1:45:35 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture marque lawyers (@marquelawyers.com.au) reposted

Apparently Vic Police are having difficulty identifying and finding this guy

2/9/2025, 1:18:59 AM | 115 30 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

What is the law for, if not protecting the public?

2/9/2025, 1:23:18 AM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Some of us think that there are rules. Do you folks ever consider whether a mutation can interfere with “self” / “non-self” recognition and bring about activation of the innate inflammatory response? academic.oup.com/hmg/article/...

2/9/2025, 1:16:19 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Do you folks ever consider whether a mutation can interfere with “self” / “non-self” recognition and bring about activation of the innate inflammatory response? academic.oup.com/hmg/article/...

2/9/2025, 1:09:08 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Ah. Dynamic mutations come with their own rules.

2/9/2025, 1:05:03 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Wasn’t there a big court case recently about the sacking of a journalist who MIGHT bring the ABC brand in to disrepute?

2/9/2025, 12:51:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Perhaps disinterest is the appropriate response.

1/9/2025, 6:41:31 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

“On March 25, with the help of Professor Murray, authorities confirmed the algal bloom was Karenia mikimotoi. The blame was placed on an “ongoing marine heatwave” which had seen water temperatures 2.5 degrees Celsius warmer than usual.”

31/8/2025, 1:11:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Oisín McGann (@oisinmcgann.bsky.social) reposted

Beaches littered with dead bodies, from shellfish, through rays and octopuses, to a three-metre white shark. This reads like a disaster novel, but it's just the result of a change in the environment that's too big and slow for us to see until it really hits us. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

30/8/2025, 7:30:14 PM | 124 72 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

If only @latingle.bsky.social had her own program

31/8/2025, 12:09:12 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Edward Elderman (@elderman.bsky.social) reposted

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30/8/2025, 9:04:31 PM | 43 12 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Every day of his life is spent in his own company. Almost enough to feel sorry for him and hope that his suffering ends soon.

30/8/2025, 9:54:36 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

The entire electorate feels neglected by Labor.

30/8/2025, 9:43:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, (@autismsupsoc.bsky.social) reposted

Bluesky right now ...

30/8/2025, 5:11:07 AM | 12045 2031 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Feline for Q: “I can’t see the grabber anymore, do you think that he might be swimming with the fishes?” A: “Thoughts and purrs”

30/8/2025, 6:47:04 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Incredulous

30/8/2025, 12:34:01 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Are these both public entities? Won’t this just amount to the movement of taxpayers money minus the legal costs?? “Justice” system is a dysfunctional farce.

29/8/2025, 4:57:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Far out

29/8/2025, 12:07:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Current Biology (@currentbiology.bsky.social) reposted

Feeling mitochondrially challenged lately? Here are two classic reviews on #mitochondria that should help. www.cell.com/current-biol... www.cell.com/current-biol...

28/8/2025, 10:28:53 PM | 119 43 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

When facts are clearly ignored, it’s never because of incompetence.

26/8/2025, 3:34:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

More than just words, thank you

26/8/2025, 1:45:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Jacob (@markjacob.bsky.social) reposted

I was in the news business for only 4 decades, so maybe I don't know much. But it seems like the transformation of the U.S. into a police state would be worth a headline and a few paragraphs.

25/8/2025, 8:49:28 PM | 5708 1701 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leonard Pierce (@leonardpierce.bsky.social) reposted

I know this is not a unique observation but public health was basically created to deal with the Spanish flu, and then a century later COVID hit and killed twice as many people and our response was to destroy public health

25/8/2025, 4:32:53 PM | 7052 1877 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

@wong is a phenomenal disappointment

25/8/2025, 11:57:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture News Eye (@newseye.bsky.social) reposted

Israel double tap strike. It murders journalists then sends a drone in to kill the paramedics trying to retrieve their bodies. A war crime, broadcast live and sponsored by the US and Europe. 🚨Boycott EVERY news channel that doesn’t show this footage today🚨

25/8/2025, 12:44:28 PM | 989 700 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture ABC News Bot (unofficial) (@abcnewsbot.bsky.social) reposted

A government minister describes a strike on a Gaza hospital as a breach of international law and an outrage. Follow live.

25/8/2025, 9:38:29 PM | 7 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

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25/8/2025, 9:52:05 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

In the post-truth era all of history has been rewritten. Did you know that the oval orifice negotiations ended the one hundred years war, the Spanish Inquisition and has brought peace and harmony to the Middle East?

25/8/2025, 6:31:06 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Andrew Wilkie MP (@andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social) reposted

It’s 2yrs since the Robodebt Royal Commission & we are yet to see the Fed Gov legislate to stop it happening again. Well, I’ve now done the work for them & urge the Gov to come to the table on these reforms. We cannot allow a repeat of this shameful part of Aus history #auspol

25/8/2025, 4:07:18 AM | 166 74 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture stranger (@strangerous.bsky.social) reposted

March for Palestine rally over Brisbane's Victoria Bridge is absolutely huge. Thank you to all Australians in Brisbane & around the country marching today against Israel’s genocide. Anyone not standing with Palestine at this point in time is clearly on the fringe. #FreePalestine

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24/8/2025, 5:22:49 AM | 793 268 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Hey @albomp.bsky.social @senatorwong.bsky.social most of these people vote.

24/8/2025, 5:58:51 AM | 8 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

We marched peacefully against going to war in Iraq. It is difficult to know what @albomp.bsky.social will respect. Maybe we should raise money to pay for a lobbyist in Canberra to represent the views of the electorate.

24/8/2025, 3:28:15 AM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

The Oval Orifice is the new Kitsch.

24/8/2025, 3:24:49 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Disinterest is the correct response.

24/8/2025, 3:23:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

A human being read the report? Why?? Are these reports meant to be read or simply filed under “action taken”???

23/8/2025, 6:55:58 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Indeed. Follow the money, everything else is just a distraction from the scam.

23/8/2025, 2:57:47 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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USA

23/8/2025, 2:54:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Just like the guardrails of democracy.

23/8/2025, 12:40:55 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

University of Deloittes.

22/8/2025, 11:51:37 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Follow the money. Everything else is just a distraction from the scam.

22/8/2025, 11:49:24 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Sponsorship and lobbying $s

22/8/2025, 11:22:56 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture It's ME(Jaime) (@exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social) reposted

A grim but important read. In those who die ages 25-44, 62% of those deaths are BECAUSE we're Americans, in ways that both are and aren't related to #COVID. Rather, our shoddy HC infrastructure means a young person's first adverse health event can be their last. slate.com/technology/2...

21/8/2025, 12:32:01 PM | 155 64 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Eugenics is insidious.

19/8/2025, 12:30:23 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Reagan’s and Thatcher’s speeches are now exemplars of the “good old days”

19/8/2025, 9:32:35 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Sponsored

19/8/2025, 9:26:49 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

“Corporate contrition” is just another oxymoron. Brand value is the holy grail.

19/8/2025, 8:11:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Chaser (@chaser.com.au) reposted

We, like many around the country, are saddened by the passing of legend David Stratton. His enormous impact on the arts in Australia truly can’t be measured. We had the privilege of working with him and Margaret to make this sketch in 2020. Vale David. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLxq...

15/8/2025, 6:31:18 AM | 300 71 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Looking to secure the legacy of not being a minister of any government?

19/8/2025, 12:14:24 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social)

Whoever thought that our current times would look back on Thatcher and Reagan with admiration? www.facebook.com/share/r/1Lp4...

19/8/2025, 12:06:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

“First they came for….”

18/8/2025, 11:57:35 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture STAT (@statnews.com) reposted

“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege. www.statnews.com/2025/08/18/r...

18/8/2025, 6:42:25 PM | 1295 525 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

The entertainment industry has a lot to answer for.

18/8/2025, 10:47:42 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Independent Australia (@independentaus.bsky.social) reposted

A censorship row over La Trobe University’s definition of "antisemitism" has triggered mass withdrawals and left the Festival in disarray. Antisemitism censorship hits Bendigo Writers Festival ~ Dr Rosemary Sorensen buff.ly/fnc9dqq

18/8/2025, 2:00:15 AM | 22 6 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Just who benefits from this “sponsorship”?

18/8/2025, 2:10:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Might be quite some time before this happens again.

17/8/2025, 2:35:47 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Follow the money - everything else is just a distraction from the scam

16/8/2025, 1:46:10 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Sponsorship

15/8/2025, 11:43:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Sponsorship

14/8/2025, 8:22:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Just needs to change its name to the University of Deloittes.

13/8/2025, 11:58:03 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disinterest is an effective response bsky.app/profile/phil...

13/8/2025, 11:05:37 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Phil Lewis (@phillewis.bsky.social) reposted

FBI, DEA and other law enforcement recorded in Georgetown walking around “There’s not much going on around here… maybe they’re practicing”

13/8/2025, 4:35:37 AM | 4414 1364 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Banal

13/8/2025, 10:47:28 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Not lost, simply revealed.

13/8/2025, 10:37:01 AM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe the Member for Sponsorship has confused the label for a message in a bottle.

13/8/2025, 10:22:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Not sure what happened to “neighbors” in Australia. I grew up in a small community of people who mostly cared about one another. Now we have “renovators” who had a diesel generator on the street starting at 7am for a year. Why do people want to live next to others that they don’t respect?

13/8/2025, 10:12:13 AM | 4 1 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Just who do University Councils answer to?

13/8/2025, 10:02:17 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Australia has an unspoken class system. People from its upper class are not subject to the same laws as those of us in the lower classes.

13/8/2025, 7:01:15 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sponsored

13/8/2025, 6:52:03 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Sponsored

13/8/2025, 5:49:58 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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The Beatless

13/8/2025, 3:31:02 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Hey @senatorwong.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social anything “non-lethal” to add?

13/8/2025, 3:11:40 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Disinterest is the correct response.

13/8/2025, 3:06:26 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The New York Times (@nytimes.com) reposted

Australia announced it would recognize Palestinian statehood during the UN General Assembly’s annual session in September, echoing similar announcements by France, Britain and Canada.

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Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

“Non-lethal” recognition by the @albomp.bsky.social government. Way too little, way too late.

11/8/2025, 9:30:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kelly (@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social) reposted

Seeing an awful lot of people sick with Covid right now. Many saying “Covid is back”. It never left. That’s why some of us are still advocating for mitigations. Every infection is a dice roll with disability. Wear a mask. Clean the air. Stay home when sick.

10/8/2025, 3:13:49 AM | 4132 1221 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Woulda, coulda, shoulda. The “non-lethal” @albomp.bsky.social government remains on the wrong side of history.

10/8/2025, 11:49:41 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

@senatorwong.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social was this an F35 strike?

10/8/2025, 11:19:23 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/8/2025, 10:00:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/8/2025, 9:53:32 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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10/8/2025, 9:53:02 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Shame wears a uniform.

10/8/2025, 11:36:49 AM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Western” politics has been reduced to a team spectator sport where the “winners” take all and the voters are merely an audience that cheers and jeers for their respective teams.

10/8/2025, 11:35:41 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

Australia needs a new political party. The current major parties are not fit to govern in the interests of the country. @simonahac.bsky.social @turnbullmalcolm.bsky.social

10/8/2025, 11:27:43 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Tennessee Holler (@thetnholler.bsky.social) reposted

BETO TO DEMS: “We don’t wait for the punch thrown by these would-be fascists to land. We punch first, and punch harder… CA, NJ, IL, MD — redraw your lines now. Don’t wait for Texas to move first.”

10/8/2025, 4:43:30 AM | 4202 1380 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

There are no guardrails any more.

10/8/2025, 10:53:55 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Let them play golf in the parklands

10/8/2025, 7:48:09 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ignoble Jim R Houghton (@jimrhoughton.bsky.social) reposted

Labor's seriously flogging a dead horse with this embarrassingly ludicrous argument, and also buying into alternative reality Trumpism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

10/8/2025, 5:25:17 AM | 22 11 | View on Bluesky | view

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“Non-lethal” is the legacy epithet of the @albomp.bsky.social government.

10/8/2025, 5:34:07 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Rob Richards (@robrichards.bsky.social) reply parent

The Weekend Australian and the Saturday Age were once obligatory weekend reading, but that was a long, long time ago in a distant land.

9/8/2025, 5:55:02 AM | 12 1 | View on Bluesky | view

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8/8/2025, 11:37:00 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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Do we have laws against vexatious litigation in Australia?

8/8/2025, 2:59:33 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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@senatorwong.bsky.social how is your soft diplomacy going?

8/8/2025, 2:57:32 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view