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Kylie Walker

@kjwx

Explorer and drainer by day, Stuff production editor by night. Working to pay my travel bills and buy dog food. Cyborg V2.0 now online | Слава Україні 🇺🇦

 Wellington, NZ
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Joined April 2009
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Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
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Tiny children’s books from 1980s
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“Don’t leave [the gas stove] unattended”. A Soviet wall mosaic in Novorossiysk, Russia.
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Nice one @FlyAirNZ. I finally receive an envelope with my Koru luggage tags (which I had to beg for after my membership pack didn’t arrive) only to find they weren’t included. I appreciate that your team is very busy right now but this is becoming a joke. – at Lower Hutt City, New Zealand
An extraordinary collection of old Japanese cassette card inserts. Huge. tapefan.exblog.jp/
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What are all these scribbles on your keyboard? A brief history of punctuation marks:
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A poster of printers marks. 2008. Fanette Mellier. collection.cooperhewitt.org/…
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From the "Hobbit's Hole" to giant fossilised crabs - there's a lot to discover if you go deep into the hills. stuff.co.nz/travel/destinati…
New Zealand's weird and wonderful tunnels

New Zealand's weird and wonderful tunnels

From the "Hobbit's Hole" to giant fossilised crabs - there's a lot to discover if you go deep into the hills.

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The Humiliating History of the TSA

The Humiliating History of the TSA

Two decades of pat-downs, and there is little evidence that we are any safer.

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Didn’t spot any otters in #Singapore but I did find all the #Pokemon. #pokemoncenter
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Today’s goal is to stalk an otter … #gardensbythebay
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Squirrel! #namiisland
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Failing miserably in my bid to spot a platypus in the Goulburn River. #shepparton
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The Future Folklore of #Chernobyl' by @DarmonRichter for #FolkloreThursday buff.ly/3okH927
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When the media reported that Russian soldiers in #Chernobyl were suffering acute radiation sickness, I found it hard to believe. It's not *impossible* – but those levels are v rare in the Zone these days. The story didn't make sense. Well, now we know the source of that claim...
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What to do after a nuclear explosion. Slides from a 1968 Soviet filmstrip commissioned by the department of civil defence.
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Ex Utopia@ex_utopia20 Jul 2022
The Ventspils International Radio Astronomy Centre in Latvia – once a top secret communications centre during the Soviet period, used to intercept and decode communications between Europe and the United States.
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Russian troops engaged in “nuclear terrorism” during their occupation of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in February-March 2022. english.nv.ua/nation/russian…

Ukraine’s security service accuses Russia of conducting “nuclear terrorism” during their occupation...

Russian troops engaged in “nuclear terrorism” during their occupation of the Chornobyl nuclear power plant in February-March 2022, Ukraine’s SBU security service said in a YouTube video on July 19.

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The Post@the_postnz8 Jul 2022
It's two decades since the Evening Post and The Dominion merged into one newspaper – here are some of the things we've been through together since. dlvr.it/STXPY9
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Chernobyl: The challenging return to daily operations after the Russian takeover f24.my/8kUx.T via @FRANCE24
Focus - Chernobyl: The challenging return to daily operations after the Russian takeover

Focus - Chernobyl: The challenging return to daily operations after the Russian takeover

On February 24, the first day of Russia's war in Ukraine, Moscow's troops took over Chernobyl, the scene of the world's worst ever nuclear accident. Following a 35-day occupation, Ukraine regained...

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