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🌐 Australian Genealogist - DipFH | 🧑🏻‍🎓 Studying | 🔎 Family History Researcher | Artifical Intelligence
Aug 30 9 tweets 2 min read
🚨Educate yourself on the housing crisis. Read the articles written by scholars and experts.🚨
“The ancient Greeks and Romans grappled with housing crises, too.” By @ConversationEDU theconversation.com/the-ancient-gr… “The rich began to offer larger rents and drove out the poor.” That single line explains the global housing crisis.
Aug 4 24 tweets 16 min read
Grok, what’s the ancient borders of Israel and Palestine?

The historical timeline of the borders of Israel and Palestine is complex, shaped by ancient history, empires, wars, and modern political developments. Below, I’ll summarize key periods and border changes based on available historical and archaeological knowledge as of 2025, with a focus on significant shifts in territorial control. Where possible, I’ll describe the regions as they were understood at the time, referencing maps or territorial configurations. Since I cannot display images directly, I’ll provide detailed descriptions of the territorial boundaries and changes, and I’ll cite sources where relevant. For visual maps, I recommend consulting resources like those from Al Jazeera, the BBC, or the United Nations, which offer detailed cartographic timelines.

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(washingtonpost.com/world/interact…) ### Ancient History (Pre-1200 BCE to 135 CE)
The region known as Canaan, later called Palestine or the Land of Israel, has a long history of shifting control due to its strategic location. Here’s a summary of key periods based on ancient records and archaeological evidence:

1. **Canaan (Before c. 1200 BCE)**:
- **Description**: The region, roughly encompassing modern-day Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and parts of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan, was inhabited by Canaanite city-states. No unified state existed, but key cities like Jericho, Megiddo, and Hazor were prominent.
- **Borders**: No fixed borders; the region was a patchwork of city-states under Egyptian influence (New Kingdom, c. 1550–1070 BCE). Egyptian records, like the Amarna Letters, describe Canaan as extending from Gaza to southern Lebanon.
- **Map Note**: Maps of this period show a fragmented region with Egyptian hegemony, often marked as "Canaan" or "Retjenu" in Egyptian texts.
May 20 7 tweets 3 min read
Earlier in the year my Cousin told me about people on Find A Grave - taking control of others digital memorials - by scraping data and refusing to hand over the official Find A Grave digital entry to manage by their own families.

Today, I went for look on Find A Grave to see who holds my Fathers digital entry. I discovered exactly what my cousin had warned me about months ago.

Some low life calling themselves - woo woo, has scraped 17 million records of peoples family members digital entries. That is, woo woo controls 17 million peoples grave records.

The internet needs to show woo woo - what happens to people who try and ransom people over their loved ones digital Find A Grave entry.

Woo woo you are a low life and if the internet or @FindaGrave doesn’t hold you to account, I hope the justice system does.Image
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How to take down woo woo control of your family members digital Find A Grave.

STEP 1: Request Memorial Transfer from Find A Grave
Even though "woowoo" doesn’t accept direct messages, you can formally request control of your father's memorialusing Find A Grave’s tools.
✅ How to do this:
1Go to the memorial page for (your family members) (Memorial ID: …………).
2Click “Suggest Edits” under the SHARE/SAVE TO buttons.
3Then select “Suggest other corrections” → choose “Transfer Memorial”.
4Include a message like:
“I am (insert deceased name) biological daughter and next of kin. I respectfully request transfer of this memorial to me under Find A Grave’s direct relatives transfer policy. My username is [insert your Find A Grave username here]. Thank you.”
Find A Grave’s transfer policy gives preference to immediate family members, and this request should meet their guidelines.
Aug 10, 2024 42 tweets 10 min read
I am chatting with ChatGPT about 2023 Referendum, Reconciliation and Closing The Gap. Here is Chat GPT 4.0 conclusion:

“While there has been progress in recognizing and protecting Indigenous rights, much work remains to achieve true reconciliation and close the gap in socio-economic outcomes. A multifaceted approach that includes strengthening Indigenous leadership, increasing public awareness, promoting economic empowerment, and providing culturally appropriate services is essential for making meaningful strides toward these goals. Continued advocacy, education, and collaboration between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians are key to ensuring a more equitable and just future for all.” Analysis of Indigenous Australians' Rights Protection, Reconciliation, and Closing the Gap
Current Status and Challenges
1Rights Protection
◦Legal Frameworks: Indigenous Australians have seen progress in legal recognition of their rights, such as through the Native Title Act 1993 and various land rights legislations. However, there are ongoing challenges in fully realizing these rights due to complex legal processes and opposition from various stakeholders (Wikipedia).
May 27, 2024 16 tweets 2 min read
Does anyone else have this? If you open a post and flick up the posts change to a number of different posts behind the post you have open. It’s as if the algorithm is like a cog and each post has a multiple different posts aimed at others preferences. Is this a thing I’m just learning today? Visualise, a pokie machine. The cog spins and the algorithm decides what you are interested in and shows those posts. But behind the post is a possibility of very different posts on a very different topic. 👇🏼