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Beth

@autbb.bsky.social
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I like to read She/her I asked my kid to draw me a profile picture that would upset people that get angry about gay rainbows. A person is wearing a rainbow hat with little ears and eyes. It says LGBTQ+ rights are human rights. Pride flags in background

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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 16h
These stories are shitting me. Card fees are just a business cost. You add up all your business costs, fixed and variable. You decide on a fair profit margin and set your prices accordingly. The customer pays the price on the price list. 1/2
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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 10/10/2026
It's not that this country has never had state sanctioned murder for mass comsumption, it's just that at some point it became taboo to say that you wanted to actually see a lynching, but our current government is trying to get rid of that taboo and take America back to its roots.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A more interesting bit of journalism might have included how many people were actually there in the audience. A valuable piece of journalism might have been who are they are and who paid for their ticket.......... (all tens of them.)
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 09/10/2026
One of the handful of articles telling it like it is instead of misinforming the public. By @saragoud.bsky.social for @thebulletin.org Yes. Its bad science based on numbers out of various behinds, but that's not how most of the rest of the media is discussing it. thebulletin.org/2026/09/how-...
thebulletin.org
How the bad science of AI doomerism is good for big business
There is no clear path showing that today’s AI systems will lead to superintelligence, much less a basis for calculating the probability of doom.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Bowen appears to be mulling his life choices But Albo looks like he's still preoccupied with post-politics fossil fuel career opportunities & resentment at being made to consider a Pacific island teenager's existential concerns
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Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick @shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026
Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf
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Climate Defenders Australia @climatedefendersau.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🎉 WIN: Four defenders found not guilty in NSW! 🎉 Today, a local court determined that four of our clients were not guilty and their matters were dismissed. These four clients are the last of the 2024 Rising Tide arrestees to have their cases resolved.
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Formal beer @ferfuxache.com · 07/10/2026
This is not something you apologise for. This is something that lands you in the pokey and you get banned from touching a keyboard without a cop present. There are people in jail right now for this exact thing.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 04/10/2026
Oh wow. This is proper fucked. That list of folks eligible for a free vaccine is *narrow*. So anyway, we gave BHP $600m in diesel rebates this past year. You know they really needed them because in the same year the company booked a $14b profit.
australianpharmacist.com.au
Fewer Australians will qualify for free COVID-19 vaccines from October - Australian Pharmacist
COVID-19 vaccines move onto the NIP this week. Who is now eligible for a funded vaccine and what should pharmacists tell patients who aren’t?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The latest corporate tax data just dropped. And congrats to Santos Ltd - 11yrs in a row of no company tax.
Table of Santos ltd company tax 2014-15 to 2024-25

Year	Total income	Company Tax
2014-15	$3,389,399,798	$0
2015-16	$3,476,002,729	$0
2016-17	$3,715,263,715	$0
2017-18	$3,498,043,596	$0
2018-19	$4,360,612,850	$0
2019-20	$5,013,931,702	$0
2020-21	$4,070,327,153	$0
2021-22	$4,746,037,784	$0
2022-23	$6,257,384,778	$0
2023-24	$8,210,276,022	$0
2024-25	$5,117,008,013	$0
Total	$51,854,288,140	$0
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Every college in this country decided that expelling and/or sending the police to beat the shit out of their own students for the crime of being opposed to genocide was their top priority. That and giving Trump complete control of what they teach. Contrast that with how they treat rapists.
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dan solomon @dansolomon.com · 30/09/2026
idk maybe a lot of companies could do just fine with an ai ceo? somebody should probably fire himself to try it
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
No notes.
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Anton van Walraven @avwraven.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good news. Climate litigation is moving ahead against federal government. That government has a legal responsibility to protect the safety of their citizens. That includes the threats caused by climate change. Therefore they most do everything to not aggravate climate change further.
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Aarne Granlund @aarnegranlund.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026
European climate heating is increasingly capable of carrying out macroeconomic restructuring. It would be prudent to reduce our 95 % oil and 70 % gas import dependency as a defence strategy alone. Centrists do not understand these developments while the far-right seeks to dismantle democracy.
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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The only effective & equitable control of our excessive emissions has been the Gillard Labor Govt’s 2012 price on carbon, enacted with the Greens. Erased by Abbott in 2014, returning to sham ‘carbon credits’ ever since, doing nothing to curb our global pollution, enabling greedy miners
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
make the John Brown season of Reacher you cowards
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you need to "check everything" that an LLM spits out in peer review, aren't you just making MORE work for yourself? What is even happening, and why is adding more steps and labor somehow considered the "better" way to do peer review???
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
if you don't think humanistic learning has value in its own right, no amount of instrumentalization is going to save it that epochal decline coincided with the hegemony of the "employable skills" pitch, including earnings data and all the trimmings, ought to have taught us that
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Karla Pacheco! @thekarlapacheco.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
"Everything reminds me of her" I whisper, as I walk past a tree shaped like a bitch
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they forgot to mention the massive productivity displacement caused by forcing pretty much everyone who uses a computer to test and verify and fix and re-do all the slop pouring into our work spaces instead of doing something useful. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
AI companies would need to report 'rogue' incidents under proposed laws
AI companies could be legally required to report rogue incidents such as the hacking of another company, under a proposal from the Albanese government as part of its plans for new safety, environmenta...
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🇵🇸Tim Henke (tɪm 'ɦɛŋ.kə) @timhenke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
And again with the empty promises
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Tell me why you didn’t implement safeguards on automated decision making in public governance when you were an MP, Shorten?
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The Integers, PhD @theintegers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I have solved my trade deficit with the grocery store by deciding to starve to death
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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Newly-released analysis from Roy Morgan shows One Nation's support at the federal level is the highest among those born in South Africa at 36%, followed by Italy at 30% 24% and 23% of those born in New Zealand and the United Kingdom respectively also back Pauline Hanson's party
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
"I work in tech! AI will replace us all!" No, AI will replace you and generate slop that you *think* replaces the output of people in the social sciences and humanities because you do not have the ability to discern quality work in those fields
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 12/09/2026
A trans man in the UK has been banned in the workplace restrooms after he was forced to use the women's restrooms to comply with the new EHRC guidance. The women complained because he is visibly male and so they told him he can't use any bathroom.
A screenshot of a Reddit post from the r/LegalAdviceUK subreddit by user Dijstraanon, titled "FtM transgender facing two different issues at work? England."
The post text reads:
"Brother in law is trans FtM and presents fully as a man. He's now facing an impossible situation at work with his employer telling him that due to recent legislation he must use the toilet of his birth gender. BUT several female colleagues have raised a grievance about him using their gendered toilet.
His employer has told him that he cannot use the toilet while he is at work until they sort it out and cannot give him a timeframe to do so. They do [cut off] have disabled separate toilets.
In the mean time one of his female colleagues has accused him of sexual harassment because he was used their gendered toilet. His menstrual cycle meant he needed to use the toilet.
He's been with the employer for just over 5 years but only in this location for 18 months. The location is mainly male with just a handful of females, and his workshop only has male toilets.
I do not know how to support him and as he's not in a union there is no one to turn too right now."
The post has an orange "Comments Moderated" tag, 169 upvotes, and 134 comments.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
An Onion article titled “Talking to your child about the WTC attack,” which is filled with real good info.
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รℓσαɳε ℓყรɓεƭɦ @sloanelysbeth.northsky.social · 11/09/2026
the dems saying that talarico, newsom, buttigieg are doing the right thing to counter transphobia id like to say two things 1) agree’ing with fascists is not fighting fascism. it’s jus agree’ing with it 2) the uk labour party is more transphobic than trump and the far right still call them ‘woke’
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Jason Scott-Warren @jes1003.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This story is on page **24** of today's Express. sign+share petition.parliament.uk/petitions/76...
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Looks like time to reup this old cartoon again for those irrepressible TERFs out there.
Scene is a public bathroom with a row of sinks and a row of stalls. A woman in a "Terf Patrol" hat and tshirt is standing on a ladder looking into a locked stall. She's saying "Just checking your genitalia to make sure you're not one of those creepy perverts who lurk in women's toilets"
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
the truly funny thing to me is that this is meant to be child abuse, and don't get me wrong, it is, and it's meant to have a big side of "eugenicist drive to treat deviance from desired industrial standard as subhuman", but among rich kids it's selecting for asthmatic depressives
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tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"people are anthropomorphizing LLMs because they are so astonishingly good at processing human thought and language" people will anthropomorphize a chair if you put the stitches in the right place.
chair with a "face"
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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
What do they think is happening now because of fossil fuels? 1/
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Global move away from oil could lead to conflict and migration, experts say
Researchers urge governments to help worst afflicted countries, such as Nigeria and Algeria, which rely on oil revenues for public services
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 07/09/2026
Yelling "stop the boats!" as I charge in to rob this NatWest at gun point so that I can later call the Home Secretary as a character witness and the BBC will spend two weeks telling all my potential future jurors how legitimate my concerns were.
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 07/09/2026
This story is doing the rounds today so here’s some credit to the Oxford Clarion, who have been reporting on this org, in depth, for a lot longer than the BBC has been.
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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
A wide range of serious accusations from ex-partner about One Nation Vic state leader Warren Pickering. #springst archive.md/hyhF1
archive.md
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
"Harrison Rindfleish" a youthful ziplock bag full of custard who seems to have lied about having a law degree, is my local One Nation candidate in the Victorian Election.
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Beth @autbb.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They always prefer regular household junk. It's an often unappreciated answer to posts requesting toy ideas
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 03/09/2026
Something very funny is that he looks at climate disasters on a warming planet and he's like no way, no chance, that's absurd and then he looks at grainy photos of blurs and he's like HOLY SHIT ALIENS RIGHT THERE Please watch the video to enjoy in full www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExT1...
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"If the Senate doesn’t take a principled stand, state climate policy will become nothing but a giant ACCU-generating machine, fuelling the fossil fuel industry’s ceaseless expansion." thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Allowing states to generate carbon offsets would set a dangerous precedent
On 15 September, the federal Senate will vote on a Coalition motion to disallow a wonky-sounding regulation known as the Improved Native Forest Management Method, or ‘INFM Method’.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 03/09/2026
Come, come, no more of this unprofitable chat.
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Eize Basa @eizebasa.baby · 01/09/2026
Welcome to Bluesky.
Thanks for being patient. A team member is coming to cancel you.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
come take it, you sclerotic old pedophile
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
The forgotten masses yearn for the appointment of overseas trade attachés by their sub-national governments.
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Properly understood, the Trishuli Valley is now a crime scene — the site of catastrophic tortious harm resulting from criminal negligence with respect to efforts to mitigate climate change.
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Greybeard @greybeard.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Exactly. @albomp.bsky.social never saw a fossil fuel donor he didn't like.
Cartoon. Penny Wong, "We are standing by prepared to provide assistance to this climate disaster."
Albanese, "We are standing by unprepared to do anything to mitigate these climate disasters."
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