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wadholloway

@billlegend.bsky.social
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Old white guy Lit.blogger at TheAustralianLegend.wordpress.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
Many people are asking.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man? - The American Prospect
OpenAI’s models aren’t “going rogue” from their creators as much as they are mimicking them.
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Rhel’ir Kahnuunsa @oomf.eurosky.social · 27/09/2026
NewsCorp talking to Faux NewsCorp in a Publicly-funded overcoat #auspol
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Always a Difficult Earth Girl🐬🐨🐋🦘🦈 @scuttlebutter1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
330,000 French children over 7 decades? That's about 90 children per week, for 70 years, abused by clergy & lay leaders? Why tf hasn't the catholic church been shut down ... or at least 'deconsecrated'? They'd pay their fair share of tax that way.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'm sorry, it's easier to write an overview of all I've read than to write an actual review theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/27/b...
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Babysitting
I might as well babysit, I’m not doing much work in the truck
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
More than 900 wheelchairs donated by two Australian charities for wounded and amputee Palestinian children in Gaza have been blocked by Israel from entering the enclave. The shipments have been stuck in storage in Jordan since 2025
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AnarchoTerran @anarchoterran.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Trump hit with WAR CRIMES FINDING Issue arrest warrants for Trump and Hegseth! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nz4s...
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🚨Trump hit with WAR CRIMES FINDING…
YouTube video by MeidasTouch
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“Israel” is tightening its grip on the occupied West Bank: settlers attack Palestinians, bulldozers erase homes, and IOF raids terrorize entire cities. Each attack serves the same goal—seize more land and force Palestinians out.
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Shortlisted for both the Booker and the UK Le Guin prizes (2021/22) it must be good. Musn't it? theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/17/t...
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The Employees, Olga Ravn
a co-worker told them “A person is more than just their work.. Something like that. But what else could a person be?
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#Auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social We are meant to be ok with Israel's Lebensraum (land theft) and Genocide. Why?
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Rhel’ir Kahnuunsa @oomf.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026
#auspol #welfare #employment
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#marxism #marxist #marx #communist #classwar #auspol #USPOL #USA #us #uspoli #poli #politics #cdnpoli #canada #MeidasMighty #history #SocialJustice #LongerTables #DemocraticSocialist #Socialist #socialism #LeftIsBest #ClassConsciousness #FalseConsciousness #abolishcapitalism #HumanRights
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Yes, it is.
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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"The documentary ... paints Musk as an emotionally unstable grifter with more power and influence than perhaps any other human who has ever lived." Whatever you do - don't watch or get the word around this bc Musk is not happy about it.
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‘Musk’ film is almost four hours long, engrossing and terrifying. What to know.
The documentary paints the tech trillionaire as a power-hungry megalomaniacal conman with a god complex. Musk accuses filmmaker Alex Gibney of compiling "hit list" against him.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Every now and again one of the shortlistees for the Ursula K Le Guin Prize for fiction is straight SF. So far none of them has been the winner and I don't think this one will be either. But that's no reason not to read it. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/09/s...
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Slow Gods, Claire North
a modern – and very well written – ‘pew-pew’ space opera, with goodies and baddies, spaceships and gunfights.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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John Holmes @jhaue.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Australia cannot assume it will have any control over what US submarines do in its waters or while docked at facilities near Perth, an independent inquiry into the AUKUS deal has heard. thepoint.com.au/new/260904-a...
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Australia cannot control what US submarines do in our waters, inquiry hears
Australia cannot assume it will have any control over what US submarines do in its waters or while docked at facilities near Perth, an independent inquiry into the AUKUS deal has heard.
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Michael Caruso, Trumpist Republican congressman in Florida, caught sexually abusing his own 12yr old grandson, forced to perform oral sex on him Caruso advocated for Death Penalty for pedophiles. But, now that it's him, he was released on bail. Despite 5 charges, inc kidnapping & child sexual abuse
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Gil Durán: "We can have billionaires, or we can have democracy. We cannot have both" Excellent article by Gareth Hutchens
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Two more Independent Women from the Sydney arts scene in the early twentieth century theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/09/02/d...
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Double Act, Sylvia Martin
Eirene arrived back in Sydney at an opportune time when interest in the Arts and Craft movement and applied arts was beginning to take hold
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
This novel is as much American as it is African, but Adichie is a fine writer so you have to read her. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/27/d...
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Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
the story of three single, well-off, 40 something, Nigerian-American women – very Sex and the City.
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Home Affairs’ Stephanie Foster reveals Jillian Segal is pushing her to expand the National Hate Crimes Register to track non-criminal incidents. With IHRA as a framework, criticising Israel would go on the books & turn it into a backdoor mechanism to police political speech.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"The report accuses Israeli authorities of arming, funding and granting impunity to settlers to carry out the attacks. Israeli settler violence has been growing since the current government took office in Dec 2022." The west pretends this is a few rogue elements. It is systematic #EthnicCleansing.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
“It’s beyond time for Australia to expel the Israeli ambassador. Every day that Israel’s ambassador remains on Australian soil is another day of tacit approval of Israeli war crimes, genocide and apartheid.“ @australianlabor.bsky.social complicit We vote 🗳️ #ExpelTheIsraelAmbassador #Auspol
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Zomi Frankcom the day before she entered Gaza. 
Photograph: Frankcom family
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
The US used to pretend it supported the ‘international rules based order’ and Australia pretended alongside like a well-trained poodle. Now there is no pretending. Lawless bullying is how they operate and the world needs to resist. At least bark.
Headline from the guardian which says US sanctions international criminal court president and prosecutor 


Marco Rubio targets ICC’s Tomoko Akane and Abdoulaye Seye, who was investigating Israeli war crimes in Gaza
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is a fine novel in itself but also an important reflection on how and even if whites should have been involved in the anti-apartheid struggle theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/19/b...
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Burger’s Daughter, Nadine Gordimer
Whites have nothing to give Blacks, it is up to the Blacks to seize what is theirs
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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 13/08/2026
In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize anti-Zionism and to further settler colonialism. mondoweiss.net/2026/08/aust...
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Australia’s plan to adopt definitions of racism amounts to enforcing Zionism
In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize…
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Israeli Bulldozes Farmland, Water Systems in West Bank and Gaza
Farmers say indirect damage by bulldozers, ie. destroyed wells, irrigation lines, and access roads is leaving large agricultural zones dry and inaccessible.
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Charles Keener @charleskeener.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Israel’s siege cripples transport system in Gaza toward famine
Israel persists in maintaining its illegal siege on Gaza, intentionally disrupting transportation and freight by destroying warehouses of transport companies.
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The Israeli occupation is holding the bodies of approximately 1,700 Palestinians, even though Palestinian factions currently hold no Israeli prisoners. Shin Bet chief David Zini seeks to retain them for use as leverage in future crises.
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Two anti-war SF novels trans. from French. One contemporary, one from 50 years ago theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/11/t...
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Two (French) SF Novellas
DOWN WITH UNLIMITED GROWTH, DOWN FROM NATIONAL STATES TO INTERDEPENDENT CULTURAL UNITS
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Christopher Mootham @chrismootham.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This was the first novel of the Native American Renaissance following WWII, and it's a great book in its own right theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/08/05/h...
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House Made of Dawn, N Scott Momaday
There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting.
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tanya/таня @tanyavolt.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
it was in the public interest to know that a group of people were mass-targeting pro-palestinian people to be fired, de-funded, and stripped of their livelihoods. their names were released - no phone numbers, addresses iirc. it was not because they were jewish, it was because of the group's actions.
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Sue Tremain @suetremain.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
My intention is to read widely in Africa, but I keep returning to Nigeria. Here's another theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/07/30/u...
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Under the Udala Trees, Chinelo Okparanta
Ijeoma is subjected to a great deal of Christian lecturing which only ends when she starts boarding school.
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SeaEagle @seaeagle.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Agree. I don't want an "Albanese Labor government". I want a real Labor government. #auspol
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Ricky Davila @therickydavila.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Minnesota Democrats recently passed a bill banning AI-generated child pornography. Nazi Musk and his AI company are suing to block the passage of this bill. Says it all.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Should be a bigger story— “Alexandra Bravo, prosecutor investigating 🇺🇸 strikes on 3 Ecuadorian boats and survivor accounts of torture/kidnapping, shot dead… hitman on a black motorcycle opened fire… Bravo’s sister jumped to protect her, also killed…” www.dropsitenews.com/p/prosecutor...
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
BREAKING: In my lawsuit against Todd Blanche for the Epstein Files, Judge Sullivan has just ordered Blanche to produce, in camera (in chambers), the UNREDACTED emails & documents, and Blanche must bring documentation supporting his representations the DOJ’s redactions are what he claims they are.
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Sahat English @sahatenglish.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The headlines may have faded, but the genocide of Palestinians has not. Across Palestine, families continue to endure bombardment, settler attacks, home demolitions, forced displacement, and the daily destruction of their lives. This is not over.
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Cross-Posted News #TheyLiedToYou @crosspostnews.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
video via Palinfo. #Palestine
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wadholloway @billlegend.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
In all her works Jessica White has thought and written about being aware: of whose land it is, and of the flora and fauna which is native to it. And so it is with this collection of autobiographical essays. theaustralianlegend.wordpress.com/2026/07/21/s...
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Silence is my Habitat, Jessica White
Jess “attempts to work out who I am in a world without [my mother]”
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1EarthMedia @1earthmedia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Court case starts today in Melbourne. Raelene Cooper begins her battle in court to #SaveBurrup, home to Murujuga, the greatest petroglyph & rock art site in the world, threatened by acidic fallout from Woodside's #LNG gas plants nearby. #auspol 1earthmedia.com/murujuga-roc...
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Murujuga Rock Art Threatened by Woodside Gas Hub
Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project is next to Murujuga’s rock art, one of earth’s oldest continuous records of human culture with carvings 50,000 years old
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
If you don’t let us steal everything we’re not going to build our massive theft-recycling machines in your backyard
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Anthropic tells Chalmers: $21b investment hinges on copyright
Chief executive Dario Amodei met with Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese when AI giant Anthropic launched in Australia in April.
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coupdegraz7.bsky.social @coupdegraz7.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
“The 94-page #report documented children being shot by snipers, targeted by drones…,& detained in conditions involving torture, sexual violence & severe abuse. The #Commission concluded that the deliberate targeting of children was 1 of the key elements establishing #genocidalintent.” #auspol #media
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