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Australia, UK and USA politics. Mostly bollocks sorry. I killed my Xitter account and you can too.
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George Monbiot
9 days ago
We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What arenât they seeing here?
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Will Wiles
15 days ago
(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello
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Peter Hollo
16 days ago
I can't emphasise enough how important the submission by my brother
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to the ill-conceived Royal Commission on Antisemitism is. The lateral antisemitism from fellow Jews is something Tim & I have dealt with for a long time, even before either of us used the term "anti-Zionist".
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Submission to Royal Commission on Antisemitism
Posted below is my submission to the Antisemitism Royal Commission. I have thought long and hard about publishing this. I have decided to do so partly because I hope it will encourage others to make s...
https://in-between-days.ghost.io/submission-to-royal-commission-on-antisemitism/
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"Use your passkey to login faster" except it's not at all faster, Windows takes a ridiculous amount of time to do whatever it's doing before the site logs me in.
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Small Robots
22 days ago
The technology is just a combination of two things: mass digital surveillance and data theft, and credulous venture capitalists willing to fund the cannibalisation of every other human endeavour to make wish-granting computers happen.
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It's really hilarious that Trump is the single biggest driver of the EV revolution
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Electric car sales soar 51% in mainland Europe as Iran war drives up fuel prices
Data shows 224,000 new EVs were registered in March, with Norway leading way in terms of switching
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/20/electric-car-ev-sales-mainland-europe-petrol-prices-iran-war
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Nick Feik
28 days ago
Australia has done nothing while Israel has assassinated journalists, medics, aid workers, diplomats, foreign & spiritual leaders. Through the war crimes & illegal invasions, Albanese has done nothing even to dissuade Israel â no sanctions, no support for arrest warrants. Is there even a red line?
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How will history regard the Albanese government?
On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon
https://nickfeik.substack.com/p/how-will-history-regard-the-albanese
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestineđđ
about 1 month ago
Instead of working to stop a genocide perpetrated by Israel, the whole world is ramping up its efforts to silence dissent & criticism of those committing the genocide. Antisemitism used to mean a hatred of Jews, discrimination against Jewsâtoday it's anything Jewish & non-Jewish Zionists don't like.
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David Roberts
about 1 month ago
Americans' perceptions of "the economy" -- which let's face it, in this country has just become a proxy term for "how things are going in general" -- are shaped by their social milieu & their social milieu is increasingly the internet, which is an unending torrent of anxious, negative slop.
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John Scalzi
about 1 month ago
I missed this from
@phineas.bsky.social
when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here:
www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...
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David Milner
about 1 month ago
Here's me. "What the fuck was that?!"
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What the fuck was that?! - The Shot
As psychopaths trade human lives for regional control, the dominance of the Petro-Pedo Dollar teeters like the mental health of witnesses.
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/what-the-fuck-was-that/
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Small Robots
about 1 month ago
I think the most fascinating geopolitical shift that we're basically witnessing in real time now is that the way information - both factual and fabricated - is disseminated across borders means there actually are no superpowers, because so much of what made nations powerful was narrative control.
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Sarah Hörst
about 1 month ago
Speaking of Threads, this one got me in the feels.
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"Australia has a political class that is terrified of offending Washington, petrified of criticising Israel, and structurally incapable of acting as though this country has sovereign interests of its own."
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Seth Cotlar
about 2 months ago
I have yet to see a piece in a prominent MAGA outlet that seeks to understand what motivated No Kings protesters. Itâs all just âthey were paidâ or âthey have TDS.â Meanwhile, the Tea Party inspired an avalanche of think pieces and books from centrists and leftists trying to figure it out.
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about 2 months ago
Iâm beginning to realize Israel is the best armed terrorist group in the Middle East.
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Asher Wolf
about 2 months ago
The machine may be more eloquent, it may generate far more dazzling images than we could ever draw, but it will never experience human truths. And so in art, literature and all other creative processes it is a cuckoo, pushing out the human to consume resources and generate hoarded wealth
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I love that the term "slop" is now mainstream.
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Amy Remeikis
2 months ago
From the river to the beach, Australia won't have free speech
www.deepcutnews.com/p/a-list-of-...
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A list of state laws in Australia targeting protests and free speech
State governments have played a key part in stripping Australiansâ democratic rights at the behest of powerful interest groups
https://www.deepcutnews.com/p/a-list-of-state-laws-in-australia
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Trump fired everyone who wasn't stupid and replaced them all with stupid people.
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Keir Starmer also. Neoliberal peas in a pod.
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yaoi gagarin
2 months ago
all the horrors aside it's extremely fucking funny that the US thought it was taking a W by forcing the one scenario which every country had been trying to avoid bc it's the one thing preventing global economic collapse. and now they're all like "wait what the fuck what's happening to the economy"
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I feel like WW3 could start tomorrow and my feed would still be full of people endlessly reposting "Don't get distracted about the Epstein files" memes
2 months ago
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David Milner
2 months ago
It took two hours for Albanese to declare support for the latest US/Israeli war crimes. How long has it taken the Labor Party to consider raising the rate? To halting fossil fuels? To seriously address the racism to First Nations and Muslims? The ALP in your head is long dead.
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No wonder the ALP refuses to rule it out
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Roxane Gay
3 months ago
Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isnât living in a bubble. I donât need to know whatâs going on at X. I wonât be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.
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David Milner
3 months ago
Growing up in social housing with a hard working single mother and traditional Labor values, I always dreamed of one day supporting a pedophile in his war on the school children of the middle east
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David Milner
3 months ago
In summary: AI rots critical thinking, hallucinates, is shaped by the hyper-wealthy pedos that own it, its data centres guzzle water we can't spare, it will help lay off millions, we can't trust photos anymore & it keeps recommending nuclear war. But yeah, nice memes, dipshits!!
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Unpopular opinion: smash burgers are overrated
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gardenmuser
3 months ago
"Worst Prime Minister in Australian history. (Used) astute political artistry to dress up policies as favouring 'battlers', but in reality, (made) life easier for the wealthy by imposing on the broad mass of (us) the rotten fruits of a malignant ideology."
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
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How John Howard reshaped Australia â and not for the better
Many of Australiaâs most pressing social and economic problems can be traced to policy choices made during the Howard years, from housing and inequality to wages, tax and public services.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02/how-john-howard-reshaped-australia-not-for-the-better/
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Jenny Difficult-Frecklington-Jones #IStandWithPalestineđđ
3 months ago
Also for @JulianHillMP. Try to fucking-well pay attention, Julian.
#auspol
johnmenadue.com/post/2026/02...
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Maria S.
3 months ago
Massive investment in AI contributed âbasically zeroâ to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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This economic idea transfixed Wall Street and Washington. It may be a mirage.
Massive investment in AI contributed âbasically zeroâ to U.S. economic growth last year, Goldman Sachs has calculated.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/23/ai-economic-growth-gdp-mirage/
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David Roberts
3 months ago
Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.
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Gil DurĂĄn
3 months ago
We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity.
www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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Silicon Valleyâs Favorite Doomsaying Philosopher
Nick Land believes that digital superintelligence is going to kill us all. In San Francisco, his followers ask: What if, instead of trying to stop an A.I. takeover, you work to bring it on as fast as ...
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-lede/silicon-valleys-favorite-doomsaying-philosopher
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Adam Serwer
3 months ago
The decline of right wing cultural production is just due to the fact that they donât like culture, they like the signifiers of culture, ie âclassic sculpture means white people are better.â They donât like art at all except for this purpose. They donât even like the nerd stuff they whine about
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Karl Bode
3 months ago
I just for the life of me can't figure out why a large chunk of people are inherently hostile to new technology shaped by companies that actively support an anti-science, anti-humanist mass murder autocracy
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The Problem With AI Is Shitty Human Beings
The problem with AI isn't going to be Skynet. It's going to be amoral extraction class assholes applying half-cooked automation at scale onto deeply broken sectors in exploitative ways in a country t...
https://karlbode.com/the-problem-with-ai-is-shitty-human-beings/
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Tyler, from the Internet
3 months ago
I hate bluesky because people don't just agree with me! I get no engagement even though I follow 40 whole people, and block everyone who interacts with me! That's it, I'm going back to the Nazi headquarters WHERE I'M APPRECIATED đ
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Sirius Star đ đ đ
3 months ago
albo the climate criminal approves another planet killing fossil fuel project, while scientists warn we are nearing the point of no return: a hellish âhothouse Earthâ getting closer.
#Auspol
#ClimateChange
We need Change, before itâs too late.
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Thomas Lecaque
3 months ago
You know what AI discourse has really taught me? A shocking number of highly paid people in the executive world are useless parasites who could, in fact, be replaced by a magic bullshit engine.
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Jac
3 months ago
Chapter 44 territory Are any sitting members - federal, state, territory dual citizens of Israel. Is anyone under any acknowledgement of allegiance, obedience or adherence to a foreign power?
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David Milner
3 months ago
Here's me. "Why the fuck would we 'socially cohere' for monsters?"
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Why the fuck would we âsocially cohereâ for monsters? - The Shot
Yesterday, the gulf between the will of the Australian people and the actions of the Australian government revealed itself to...
https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/why-the-fuck-would-we-socially-cohere-for-monsters/
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Jess Harwood Art
3 months ago
I canât express how outrageous this whole thing is, but Iâve given it a go!
#auspol
For shame
@albomp.bsky.social
@chrisminnsmp.bsky.social
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Nick Pettigrew
3 months ago
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin đ
3 months ago
One of the most sickening realizations I've ever had came when it hit me that six hundred years from now historians will be writing things like "while technically illegal, intercourse with minors was broadly accepted as normal among the American ruling class, and even a marker of status"
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Australians and New Zealanders fought and died together, and both nations commemorate this every year on ANZAC day. Will the Albo government condemn this desecration? Seems like a great thing to ask the genocidal Israeli President about when he's here.
www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zeala...
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Graves of 20 NZ soldiers killed in WWI and WWII bulldozed by IDF at Gaza cemetery
Satellite images, witnesses uncovered damage as IDF says it had to take defensive action.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealand-world-war-i-graves-among-those-bulldozed-at-gaza-cemetery/3BU24SYRSNFSHGPWOBP2PT7PP4/
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Jesse
3 months ago
they should make a movie series about how itâs irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit
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Joel Morris
3 months ago
At an industry event last night one (old media) journalist said âwe may need institutions like the BBC because internet searches donât return separate news stories now, but an AI summary that is usually wrong.â Watching an industry shrug and surrender to a competitor that DOES NOT WORK.
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George Monbiot
3 months ago
In this week's column I seek to explain Keir Starmer's flat refusal to change our electoral system, even though its gross unfairness could put Reform UK in power on <30% of the vote. The reasons, I believe, are deeply cynical and disturbing.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If Reform ever wins power in Westminster, it will be because of Labourâs cowardice | George Monbiot
Starmer could improve our unfair electoral system to stop the hard right, but he wonât. All the party has left are threats about âsplitting the voteâ, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/04/labour-reform-greens-splitting-vote-unfair-electoral-system
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Lady Death Becomes Her
4 months ago
Have you ever used Jack, Jack Hacks, or Jack Cocreates? Have you used Sven 3.5? Have you tried Phil Codex Andromeda? If you haven't tried Gary Gleans you have no idea what's coming. You have to see Carl Constructs. If you're still on 3.0 without the Collab Pack you need to update your priors
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Erin Biba
4 months ago
We will never survive if we keep electing these people who listen only to strategists and ignore the realities of the world happening around them. This woman is like some consultant fed âonly the economyâ into an AI and the computer shit out a robot politician.
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