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Alex Luke

@alexluke.bsky.social
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Workplace linguistic ethnographer | Socialist & unionist - current USyd NTEU branch committee member | EAP teacher. "Capire. Per meglio colpire" - Tronti. They/he

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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I found out today that Janna, the centre of this story, went to primary school with my son. We're all proud of her, but I am very disappointed that no one did anythin. I'm pretty sure this is one of the buses I get to work
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"There was a lot of men sitting right next to that man and they were just looking up and looking back down at their phones," she said. "No one helped her, which is really, really, really disappointing."
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Months after citing the phrase "Become Ungovernable" as evidence of a vast conspiracy by 15 anti-ICE activists in Minneapolis, the GOP hosted the Trump pardoned head of Silk Road, a darknet marketplace famous for drug trafficking + murder for hire plots, who spoke in front of the same slogan.
Speaker in front of "Become Ungovernable" in yellow on blue brick wall.
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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Periodic reminder that your "concerns" about trans people are being beamed directly into your head by a small cadre of incredibly rich psychopaths.
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just wait till we appropriate Gemma's house
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Dr David S Anderson @dsaarchaeology.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
As an anthropologist, I endorse this message!
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Matthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 07/06/2026
Reminder that The Guardian has a strategic partnership with OpenAI
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Bassano @bassano.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer
A Japanese mascot dressed as Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring in front of a promotional poster for the same at a press conference in Japan
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Lina Who Lina How Lina… (侯詠絮) @linasigns.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Has anyone published about the functions of “lowkey” as an adverb? Want some good references!
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
I had to get something thoughts on repression of pro-Palestine speech on capus out of my head, so I wrote this lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/05/init...
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Initial thoughts on the Palestine exception at work 2023-2026
The upcoming Sydney Staff for Palestine forum on repression of speech on campus (you should attend! more information here ) has got me thin...
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Chrissy Stroop @thebugbeardispatch.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Richard Dawkins: Trans women aren't real Also Richard Dawkins: AIs are conscious and my Claude is a Claudia
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
It's a sad day when you realise 30-50% of your personality is unhealthy coping mechanisms
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Nina Markl 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 @ninamarkl.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🔔 new paper alert 🔔 Justine, Su Lin and I spent the last year and a half trying to understand how LLMs are being sold — what are their supposed ‘capabilities’? how are these measured? etc and, more importantly, what does all of this discursive work *do*? what kinds of world does it presuppose? 1/
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Grey Area @greyarea22.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is very true Unhappy about it? Time to organise...
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
You call it procrastination, but I call it slow scholarship
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
I agree this would be good but it is pure nostalgia. The conditions for such a form of life no longer exist, and never existed for anyone apart from a small number of people in countries like the USA. We need to dismantle capitalism entirely instead
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
idk i think it’s probably a best case scenario at this point that trump’s national law enforcement guy is so incompetent and intoxicated that he can’t even effectively oppress us
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 16/04/2026
I legit think some of the belief and experience that the economy sucks is also sheer exhaustion from shit like this and notification fatigue and every single shitty tech-mediated interaction of which there are hundreds a day
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 07/04/2026
This article highlights something really important: it is absolutely bonkers how many massive, energy + water hungry data centres are being built in Sydney suburbs that are already subject to worsening climate impacts and heat island effects. They'll make both worse
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Public unrest heats up over Western Sydney’s data centres
As the NSW government hastens approvals for large data centres, Western Sydney communities say their concerns about heat and health risks are being sidelined.
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Tim Dunlop @timdunlop.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Took 15-odd years for BRS to be charged, but at least Qld police got right onto that dude wearing a t-shirt
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
honisoit.com/2026/03/staf...
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Staff posts on compulsory antisemitism training removed from university platform – Honi Soit
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
this is truly excellent and important work
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
a reminder that sora, like chatgpt, is a commercial product that can come and go like any other website, which is another reason why a lot of us remain critical of “AI” — and why we focus more on its political economy than its technological mechanisms
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Sat in Academic Board at my Uni yesterday where they congratulated themselves on rushing through a new Bachelor of AI, someone commented that “Marketing has warned us if we don’t get a named A.I. degree, we’ll be left behind by all the other universities”
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I just came out as non-binary on the family group chat
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.
"BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that we affirm the rights of students and teachers to refuse to sign up for, prompt, or otherwise use generative AI in the writing classroom."
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
When your own reference list places your work next to Marx 🥰
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
almost as tho a system of government established by, for and of propertied white males is designed to serve the interests of propertied white males.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
every single time these politicians say “keeping people safe” and “community safety” and “keep Australians safe” the context will tell you that colonised and racialised people are not fully human to them, and nor are women and children.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
the Aust home affairs minister just told the ABC that meetings like one between Israeli President and Aust intelligence boss “happen all around the world” and “they keep people safe”. Which tells you who are considered “people” to our government.
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I'm delivering an online research seminar next Friday 6 March 1-2pm AEDT with WSU. uws.zoom.us/j/8314940900... Meeting ID: 831 4940 9001 Password: 469673
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
espresso machines
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
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“Do I Have To Disclose I Used AI In My Query Letter?”
And other things about which I’m vehement.
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Massive W as a parent when your child sends you stuff like this
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Hagen Blix @hagenblix.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Gosh, who could have seen that coming?!
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consisten...
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I keep seeing all these "Aussie patriots" defending the cops actions at the Herzog rally, and I can't help but think of this artwork
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Caption this
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
I wrote a gonzo thing on my last day or so as a err pro-Palestine activist ('activist' makes me sound better than I am though) lukestransmissionstoo.blogspot.com/2026/02/its-...
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It's like living in the not-too-dystopian future!
I got pepper-sprayed at the anti-Herzog protest yesterday, but it was actually some much less dramatic stuff today that gave me the ick;...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Presented without comment. I just want everyone here to know. I want you to know what you're looking at the next time you see this guy being interviewed or RTed by an Abundance bro. 1/8
Richard Hanania
@RichardHanania • Feb 1
By obsessing over Epstein, they're attacking healthy heterosexuality.
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
This is not Guenther's point exactly but lately I'm fascinated by how just the mention of 'pronoun' indexes a whole political philosophy to those on the right
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Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics @mpi-nl.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Foreign language learners show a kinematic accent in their co-speech hand movements. New paper by Hans Rutger Bosker & al. doi.org/10.1162/OPMI.a.321
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Foreign Language Learners Show a Kinematic Accent in Their Co-Speech Hand Movements
Abstract. Humans typically move and vocalize in a time-synchronized fashion, aligning prominence-lending hand movements to acoustically emphasized syllables. This requires complex coordination. When s...
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Left Voice @leftvoice.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Drawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government.
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2020 Taught Us the National Guard Is Not Our Ally, Whether in the Twin Cities or Elsewhere - Left Voice
Drawing lessons from the 2020 Black Lives Matter struggle, we must clearly understand that the National Guard will never be our ally — their allegiance is to the capitalist government.
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Alex Luke @alexluke.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Fuck the colony, all my homies hate the colony
A number of activists hold a banner at the Invasion Day rally on Gadigal land which reads, The Colony will Fall. I stand with themwith a raised fist
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
If confirmed, this really is a new low, where a state agency is altering image of real events with an intent to deceive the public.
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Charmslot @zaraworkercouncils.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Work and labor are such different things. Work is what you put in even when it won’t benefit you much but just to maintain homeostasis in your living space or in your intellectual zone. Labor is how you are exploited in order to get currency. I don’t dream of labor either but of happy works for love
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