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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026

40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...

Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The sad and frustrating thing is that I'm sure we all know people who believe them.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The way that LA's improv scene has become enmeshed into local DSA politics needs to be studied Also Anna Garcia as Creepy Haunted Child is brilliant casting

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I concur when observing how some of my students display an increasing inability to focus. I recall an MIT study that found permanent cognitive decline in their subjects when exposed to frequent use of chatbots, what they described as "residual negative effect".

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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

ZELENSKYY: At this very moment, when we are talking about peace, America gives Russia the opportunity to export diesel — that's millions, billions. It all goes toward the war against people, against Ukraine, against all of us.

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Three Scary Rogue Agents in a Trenchcoat @alexhanna.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Why isn't this on every TV screen and not the fairy tale of killer robots

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Indeed! I was just reminded of another cluster of memories your book evoked, that of summers we won't see again, summers my 12 year old granddaughter will never know, memories she won't ever have other than The words of Australian authors and poets and Opa's stories to stir the imagination.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yet another fine example of what @squigglyrick.bsky.social described the other day as “The Boast in the Machine”.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I read Gunnawah by @ronnisalt.bsky.social last year. I still think of it. Why? Somewhere in my past resonates the kind of landscape described in the book, from corrupt officials to rural, road stop cafes, lumps of dried milk baked onto the end of steamers, scorching cappuccinos and welcoming Greeks.

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Horatio Hornblower 🇭🇲 🇨🇦 🇳🇿 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 @horatio-hornblower.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This is the THICK edge of the wedge! And it all depends on fracking GAS! If the NT government allows this monstrosity to proceed, crucial aquifers will be polluted & billions of tonnes of CO2 will cook our planet. Please sign the petition 🙏! 🇭🇲🦘🤠 #auspol #NTpol

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Protect Our Water: Say No to New Data Centre Near Darwin

Beetaloo Energy are proposing a massive $40bn data centre on Kungarakan Country near the border of Larrakia Country.  The NT government has promised 185 hectares of stolen land for a gas-fired p...

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I began reading @mollycrabapple.bsky.social Drawing Blood after completing, Here Where We Live Is Our Country, which lingers still. I realised Molly's words would be better read, at this time, by my dear friend Mirranda Burton, whose most recent book has just been published. See you in Melbourne!

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I hear this from my bro-in-law. He's smart, on the ball. Pretty much devotes his time to gardening and helping folks out in Rosebery, where he and my sister live. He talks about the old families that run the state. Keep yer head down, he says. The big picture is his backyard where change does happen

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

That is a sizeable number of drafts, my friend! I'm working on my second book, a historical fiction set between 1591 and 1964. I'm anticipating significant editorial culling. I'm three years in and not even half-way through!

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I'm already getting LambdaMOO vibes :)

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

LOL!!! Do you remember the brand? I think ours was Sharp, it was white with round, black keys that could have been designed for the series, Space: 1999.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Gosh! My first foray takes us back to 1975!

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Harry and a Vic Socialist stick up for my favourite bookshop who are tremendous supporters of local authors including local chapters of the Tough Guy Book Club.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excellent word! BTW, I have a copy of Lunar Lander on a punch card I’d copied from a Granville Boys High School maths class. We had access to a very early, portable punch card computer which looked more like a large calculator with a numerical display strip.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Congratulations on getting it done! I found it on Kobo. Looking forward to reading it, Dave. Good on you!

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Given @karenhao.bsky.social insights described in her book, Empire of AI, they may well be skating close to criminal negligence. They are reckless, negligent and arrogant to the extent they believe they can get away with anything. They are not of this world.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So much more uplifting than the John Laws poems my mother had. I have her book of his impossible limricks, pressed flowers included. I've kept it for the flowers she adored and the rare fondue party should the vibe dip ever so.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politically alive cinema in Japan at 87 years old." @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2026/09/adac...

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The Last Revolutionary Filmmaker

Japanese filmmaker Masao Adachi spent nearly three decades in Lebanon alongside the Palestinian resistance. Today, stripped of his passport and largely ignored at home, he’s making the most politicall...

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I've just remembered my mother whisper singing pitch perfect harmony in her Austrian accent along with Colleen, hovering over a stove with green aluminium pans, garish orange wallpaper and a pull down orange plastic lampshade above the dining table, John Laws back announcing the song on 2UW.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Let us not forget the catastrophe that was internet.org / Free Basics, and their bold pitch to revive Facebook in Myanmar whose Junta had it shut it down in 2011.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hilarious! So instinctual, blithely unaware of his audience.

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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

main arguments to avoid useless use of AI: exploitation of data workers in low salery countries (Kenya, Philippnes). water resource abuse, data centers & land abuse, surveillance and shrinking brains aka verdummung

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

How long has it taken the NACC to come up with such a candid timeframe for their investigations? It has been operational for, how many years? Perhaps it has hired impressive investigators with years of institutional expertise.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026

I don't think there's a better illustration of the incredible danger of people credulously and irresponsibly over-adopting generative AI than the use of it by DOCTORS to note vital information. This should be as illegal as fabricating notes by hand. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...

Error by AI scribe during medical appointment leaves patient devastated

But that decision would cause her a lot of stress, with the AI scribe making up the serious but false claim that Ms Green was taking illegal drugs.

"I was gobsmacked and in tears … it made up that I take [psychedelic] mushrooms. I have never done mushrooms in my life," she said.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After todays revelation that ChatGPT prompts are being read by a legion of humans to ensure responses are accurate and not sycophantic, who would ever want to use an AI agent again, least of all for one's personal tax?

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Straight talk time: Doomerism is BORING. It's the same fantasties rehashed over and over again, just louder each time. And with each iteration it seems that new audiences are being reached, and a new group of people needs to be talked down from unnecessary fear. >>

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What was all the fuss about 'social cohesion'? I cannot understand why anyone in Labor would want to ferment hate. So many opportunities to step up but it appears their sense of what it truly means to lead as representatives of a broad, complex society is neutered.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

the ska oohm papah version. history in the making!

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

With all this talk about human extinction right now, I am BEGGING people to understand the difference between TERMINAL and FINAL extinction. TESCREALists *only* care about final extinction, but nearly the entire public *misinterprets* them as warning about terminal extinction.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Their decision was largely predicated, from the best of my knowledge, on the work of David Lindenmayer. I am backing away from my statement earlier about a lack of courage. They don't lack courage, nor integrity, but their story does not reach us. johnmenadue.com/post/2026/08...

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Why I support a carbon method for limiting the emissions from native forest logging

Carbon offsets have rightly earned distrust, but the new Improved Native Forest Management method could protect native forests, store carbon and penalise future logging rather than delay decarbonisati...

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's a complex story here, in this issue specifically, but overall I wonder whether we are tougher on the Greens (I know I have been over many years) and deeper scrutiny than Labour who are clearly on the wrong side of history.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I have a lot to say about this but will keep the proverbial powder dry for later in the day when I meet with a handful of people whose opinion on the matter I may sway. The paucity of courage and clear thinking on these issues does not bode well for us all.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

our elected reps are such dumb fks.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've never really known Matt but have run Wordpress on my server since the making of fire.

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Andrew Garton @andrewgarton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What's Anthropic really up to? They claim to be the good guys? None of them are. They are not interested in improving the well being of us all. They want to track and kettle us for the benefit of an increasingly freakish, fascistic, out of their minds few. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists - The American Prospect

New hires and comments in interviews show that the AI giant is using its capabilities against dissenters.

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