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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Peter Thiel: Your evil is my good. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good.

B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

wow they really were getting mad about how we were calling everything AI touched AI slop and to cope they want us to call it super intelligence instead

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

let me hazard a guess, about 90% of the 100 best TV shows of the 21st Century are American shows right?

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

By chance bumped into someone I had a uni class with the other day & one of the first questions I got was 'do you still write' so it seems as if I have a Brand(tm)

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

saw this on Instagram and it so perfectly encapsulated my rage

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being so fr when I say that transmisogyny has put feminism back like 50 years

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what i thought we had distanced ourselves from was the reduction of women to vaginas and wombs and the ability to bear children. i thought we had progressed past 'dresses are for women and pants are for men. i thought we progressed past the idea that someone is less of a woman if she does not adhere strictly to beauty standards. i thought we progressed past the idea that naturally being comfortable adhering to highly feminine standards is vulgar. but i (sarcastically) guess no one could have predicted that trans-exclusive feminism would be the downfall of all the progress we've made

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

This is the secret to the Australian model of immigrant detention camps: set them up on an island far away from voters so they never have to face the human consequences of their choices.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Europe is a vaguely defined continent that is mostly just vibes, but also Ukraine is in Europe - the war has been well beyond the doorstep for years now

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

shockingly, blaming immigrants and non-white people for the US becoming poorer leads to people calling you racist. after all, *other* people noticed that the US was getting poorer and vance etc called *those* people communists, not racists

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

on the one hand, it clearly seems ridiculous for One Nation to go from 1 MP to suddenly forming government in their own right on the other, there is an increasingly organised, well-funded and ambitious far-right movement in this country with its eyes on nothing less than winning power.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I think the lack of the more artistic & crafted option comes down to two things: a) taste. not everyone wants the fish, which limits your market b) mass production. if your focus is on function rather than aesthetics, just. make something that works, on scale, and it will sell regardless of taste.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

maybe graham’s head just did that

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

We will enter a new era of necropolitics. Ghost politicians. The President will be an AI reconstruction of the dead incumbent. Pastors will occupy Senate seats and vote according to what their prayers tell them the dead incumbent would've wanted.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

guy* who has only read umberto eco's essay on ur-fascism seeing politics happen: getting a lot of ur-fascist vibes from this *me i'm the guy

The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. - Umberto Eco

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I don't go here but this doesn't seem great. Really awful hearing that the removal of PiP from chair positions was *cheered*

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

oops i *maybe* accidentally have binged a podcast over the past couple of days very easy when there are only like five episodes i guess but oops

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Having fun on Instagram

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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Clement Attlee making a timeless observation in 1934: "No one believes that when Sir Oswald Mosley talks about preserving the right to free speech he is really genuine in the matter. He preserves free speech just as long as it suits him."

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themboy insomniac @riotliturgist.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

as always one must understand that when they say "women's safety" or "children's safety," they mean "protecting cis men's property from contamination or property damage." they mean "asset safety."

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Idk if it's a basic girlypop opinion but "Charm" by Clairo is just a really great album

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

This is basically what's happened in Australia too - it's a playbook at this point. The right loses the battle on queer rights, pivots to attacking trans people before going after everyone else

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/06/2026

Look at the image, and then read the headline. There needs to be massive global reckoning within the entire media industry on why they're trying to promote deadly fossil-fuelled disasters as fun in the sun, good times had by all

a photograph of two people sititng in a pool in the sun next to the eiffel tower, with the text:

At least 18 dead in France, including two children in hot car, as Europe
bakes
As schools in France closed or modified timetables, forecasters in Britain predicted
temperatures could break records for June this week.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

the democratic party has spent the last decade failing to counter the rise of trumpism. it took exceptional circumstances in 2020 for them to beat trump, & in the years since trump has only strengthened his grip on the republican party. the democrats *need* to change to meet the moment

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

The thing is, she's now voiced it. We know this is an idea that she's been turning over in her mind. She can offer all the support for paid parental leave that she wants (& it's telling that it's being framed primarily as *maternity* leave), but the idea is now out there.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If patriotism is a love of and devotion to country, then what is that country? It's easy to say 'oh, well love and celebrate the good things about your country!' but in many countries facing far-right takeovers the 'patriots' are actively embracing ignorance, erasing inconvenient histories

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · 19/06/2026

The most dangerous thing about AI is not that the machines might one day think. It is that we are being trained, by men with enormous financial gains riding on our acquiescence, to stop thinking for ourselves.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

holy fucking christ. not a big sports guy but *come the fuck on* this is incredibly gross behaviour from a country hosting an international sports tournament. pure nazi shit.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

What's the point then in having elections every few years then? Why not just respect the vote & not re-run those arguments from the last election? Respect democracy after all 🙃

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

One of the worst things about how entwined Australia is with the US is that the US, in many ways, becomes a laboratory from which cruel, regressive politics are manufactured and then exported to Australia. Hanson's platform is basically 'Trumpism but make it AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE'

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strigix @sovereignbeast.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Brianna Ghey was killed by a pair of teenagers who did it because they had observed that if you murder a trans girl, 9 out of 10 people will blame the trans girl, and so figured they could get away with it. Do you know who Esther Ghey blames for Brianna's murder? Because it's not the killers.

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Sarah Clarke - Not your doll @damselindystopia.northsky.social · 17/06/2026

All of cis society had a hand in Brianna's murder. She was made vulnerable and isolated by people and institutions who treated her as less than because she was a trans girl. She was killed by people who were taught to see trans girls as less than human, as unnatural things who can be harmed for fun.

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Ian Duhig @ianduhig.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today is the tenth anniversary of Jo Cox's murder by a white supremacist on her way to a surgery in Birstall in her constituency whose ethnic diversity she praised in her maiden speech to the Commons. Her murderer shouted "Britain first" as he shot and stabbed her to death.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

V bleak looking at the Wikipedia article for The World’s Billionaires & scrolling down to 2019 (pre-COVID). Bezos, with $131B, was the only billionaire with over $100B & the richest man. Now Musk (nowhere on the 2019 top 10) is a *trillionaire* & the top 10 all have over $100B.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

i wonder what else might have happened over the past two decades i wonder if economic crisis after economic crisis & the rising cost of living & housing in the west might be more relevant but no it’s the phones apparently

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

dunno about *wildest*, but lean into the doctor as this homeless bohemian trash goblin who just. drifts through time and space with an itch to incite revolution and topple empires wherever they arrive.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 10/06/2026

no other way to say it, this thing in the uk where every single time a non-white person is in the news being accused of a crime we have full on race riots is very very bad

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

not to be all 'this is fascist shit' but also. surely this is fascist shit. the frog is well and truly boiled. the UK can't act like fascism is just an American problem: the past 10 years has shown the descent of the US *and* UK into fascism is linked. *Musk* is egging this on. just. fuck.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

People like asking where all the good male role models are, & if what might a positive form of masculinity look like? Yes he's fictional, he's flawed and imperfect, but I think Giles offers a model. & a lot of that comes down to how Anthony Head played him. Fuck this sucks.

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Scott Gray @scott1gray.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I feel properly sad about this. He was really good in a lot of really good things.

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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Oh man, this one really hurts. Thank you for Giles, and then for decades of playing oily bastards who were nothing like Giles and clearly having a ball with that. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72

The 72-year-old British actor also had roles in shows including Merlin and Little Britain.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Kind of feel like I'm starting to reach the end of a well in terms of new music 😭 so just curious what people are listening to and what artists people are excited about! Latest artist I've gotten into is probs Last Dinner Party

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind? It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP. It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

There are guardrails & checks on our democracy (compared to the US or UK) which have so far held mostly ok. But we can't be complacent. It *can* happen here, and One Nation wants to inject Australia with full-blooded Trumpism.

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luna stargays 🏳️‍⚧️ @stargays.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Happy Pride! A few facts: 1) on average, trans men and non-binary people make 70% of what the average cis person does, and trans women make 60% 2) the trans unemployment rate is 2-3x that of cis people, with higher rates of underemployment & disability give money to trans people today!

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Was thinking about 'Power of the Daleks' - a 60 year old piece of (mostly missing) television - and was struck by how Lesterson is 100% an AI bro, Daleks the AI he imposes on the people of Vulcan without even considering the consequences, and the end result is slaughter. He also loses his mind.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

By the time I was 12, I was reading Michael Crichton books. I had already read some Wells & had a copy of The Iliad (which I think I read? I might have started it & struggled tho). If kids want to read they will read something they can really sink their teeth into

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

It is always worth remembering that after they were defeated in the same-sex marriage plebiscite, one of the biggest Australian organisations pushing against same-sex marriage rebranded & relaunched as an anti-trans outfit.

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Mic Wright @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.

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B J O'Shea @b-j-oshea.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

This is evil. There is no other word for it except for evil. Yes, it's an obvious point but still: the point of this is to make existing in public as a trans person so hostile & difficult that it forces people back into the closet. This will impact non-conforming cis people too. This is evil.

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Jack Graham @timescarcass.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This drive to rehabilitate the foul racist pig Enoch Powell has been going on literally my entire life. It's ironic because the 'rivers of blood' speech was clearly recognised as racist, and widely condemned as such, including by Tories, at the time. We're being asked to misremember clear history.

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