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House House @househouse.com · 19h
An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox
Regarding Xbox

In June 2026 we announced that the release of Big Walk would be limited to computers, Switch 2 and PS5. Since then, we have received many messages and comments, asking about a future Xbox release. We would like to address those questions here:

We have made the decision not to release Big Walk on Xbox, in accordance with the Palestinian-led BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s call to boycott Microsoft, and their designation of Microsoft Games (and Xbox) as a priority boycott target. If you need help understanding our motives, we would recommend reading about why Microsoft is a BDS priority target, the successes this kind of pressure has already had on Microsoft, and especially, watching this great introductory piece by People Make Games.

It has always been our intention for Big Walk to be played by groups of friends, and we know that keeping the game off Xbox runs counter to those intentions. This decision means that some people will miss out on playing Big Walk with their friends, and we understand the disappointment we’re causing. We are disappointed too.

We would love for people to be able to play the game on Xbox, but not until Microsoft and/or Xbox have been removed as BDS boycott targets.

We’ve made this decision with the belief that meaningful change can be made in the world, that coordinated collective action can confront even the most powerful interests, and that one day, Palestine will be free.

Thank you for your understanding.

Sincerely,
House House

(see bigwalk.game/xbox for links)
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Love to save for some desperately needed furniture only to find that the price has gone up 18% since July. :/
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Worth signing www.sophiescamps.com.au/support_the_...
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Support the Red Lines Package to ensure Australia does not profit from genocide
Dr Sophie Scamps is Mackellar's independent MP. Driving a clean bill of health for climate, integrity and the economy.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Wonderful news. May uptake stall out entirely. Generative AI is just eroding the distinctive institutional memory that defines and distinguishes your business. It fades in your existing staff, and it’s never established in the new.
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World Central Kitchen @wck.org · 19/08/2026
We strongly condemn the Israeli military prosecutor’s account of the deaths of our 7 colleagues on April 1, 2024. And we fundamentally disagree with their decision about criminal investigations into the IDF airstrikes that killed our team. Read more: world-central-kitchen.visitlink.me/QTJyJZ
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World Central Kitchen Condemns Israeli Account of April 1, 2024 | WCK
We strongly condemn the Israeli military prosecutor’s account of the deaths of our seven colleagues on April 1, 2024. And we fundamentally disagree with their decision about criminal investigations into the IDF airstrikes that killed our team.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The only thing this Labor government loves more than gambling is databases linking your online activity to your identity.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Oooh, this seems to fill a nice little niche. Read later presented directly as an OPDS server for KOReader / Xteink Crosspoint etc.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
FRESH PO3S!
Dave Grohl requesting new coffee
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Quick Xteink X4 Pro first impressions from an X4 owner. - The front light is a massive improvement to usability. - Touchscreen could be a little more responsive, not bad. - Still has nice side buttons for page turning. - Pogo pins can fuck off into the sun. It's a good thing the battery lasts ages.
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
#BREAKING 🚨 Labor in their draft 2026 platform have replaced their previous statement of belief 'that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia' with a 'recognition' the social security system should support 'better health and wellbeing'.
A fair social security system

91. Labor believes in a strong, adequate and fair social safety net and that there should not be poverty in a country like Australia. Labor is committed to a social security system that keeps people out of poverty, whether they are unemployed, working age, escaping family or domestic violence or in retirement.A fair social security system

90. Labor recognises that a strong social security system supports not only economic security but also better health and wellbeing, and that when people have the means to meet their basic needs and make choices about their lives they experience stronger social and health outcomes.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
There is no more surefire way of ensuring you have absolutely no time to work on a personal project than disclosing that project to others.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
And the Coalition has the gall to lecture people about “Australian values”.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Waiting for Gonzo
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Missed opportunity by Apple in not making the already sinister new Siri reflective so it could be a literal black mirror.
A horizontally elongated bubble, half of inky black separated from its transparent bottom by a wavy surface of white light split into a spectrum at its edges, sits central at the top of an iPhone lock screen.

It is 12:58
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Littledigits @littledigits.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
you said it snufkin #sketchbook
snufkin from moomin lighting a Molotov cocktail saying 'lets destroy data centers'
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
the anti-trans bathroom ban is very bad—it's also a sign uk democracy is failing my latest with @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...
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The End of Trans Rights In the UK Is the Start Of Democratic Collapse
It's never just one minority.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Either Apple are having CDN issues, or Microsoft just pushed a broken version of OneDrive to the Mac App Store. Consistently broken across multiple machines.
macOS error dialog box reading "OneDrive can't start. There's a problem with the application files. Please download the application on this computer and try again." with a single button to Quit OneDrive
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
You love to see it.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
1/2 The wonderful Loud Jew Collective has been designated not Jewish enough to speak at the Royal Commission, so it’s on us to spread their media release. The RC is promoting the establishment messaging and silencing dissent. Please share this. #Auspol
Media Release
Loud Jew Collective condemns the anti-Palestinian racism on show at the Royal CommissionOn 1st May Loud Jew Collective (LJC) was told by the Royal Commission that "the Commissioner is not satisfied that LJC has a direct and substantial interest in the scope of the hearing and has refused LJC leave to appear at Hearing Block 1."
This rejection is evidence of the irredeemably flawed state of the Royal Commission. A flaw confirmed by the relentless anti-Palestinian racism and Islamophobia that we have heard since the Royal Commission commenced this Hearing Block.
Hearing Block 1 has been purportedly examining "the nature and prevalence of antisemitism in Australia" and hearing from "witnesses about their lived experience of antisemitism."LJC's submission focuses on the most prevalent forms of antisemitism that Collective members have experienced - that perpetrated by the far-right and by zionist Jews.
It incorporates a witness statement by Collective member Anny Mokotow and attached expert evidence by historian
Dr Jordana Silverstein.
Anny Mokotow's statement explained that "As LJC, we have always resisted our identity being subsumed by the idolatry of Israel. The myth of the 'Jew' as 'special' has become a political reality even if it is based on the notion of victimhood. We, as anti-Zionists, who refuse to use victimhood as a right to superiority are now othered by our own 'people'."LJC's submission outlines many Collective members' lived experiences of antisemitism and situates this antisemitism within its appropriate contexts, demonstrating that in Australia it must be seen as a marginal form of racism.
Proper focus must instead be placed on the founding racism - that faced by First Nations people - as well as on the racism faced by Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs, and other significantly marginalised groups.
The Royal Commission's assertion that LJC's testimony is not relevant to their work in this Hearing Block is thus evidence of the anti-Palestinian racism at the core of both the Commission and Australian politics and media more generally.
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regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
watched this on repeat losing my shit for two nights now
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
“The people we work with are on government payments, so they’re on the jobseeker or on the disability support pension, so $736 at the lowest point. Now the lowest rent in Wagga today is $380 a week. So that prices them out of the market completely.” Keeping people in poverty is a bipartisan policy.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Apple Reader. ePaper display, does only Music, Podcasts, Books (with school, uni and public library integrations), iCloud Documents, Notes, Journal. No App Store model. No notifications. 2 sizes. Small, single page, iPod with reading. Large, double page, 1:1 representations of graphical textbooks
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
What if instead of vibe coding the social media app, they simply coded the social media app?
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
The National Press Club platforming advocacy for murdering the press, and excusing the murder of Australians, is a catastrophic new low.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
If anyone with a Xteink X4 running Crosspoint finds this post, how does the OPDS work? I see it's a feature but can find no further information about how it's presented on the device.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Good god Booklore is a mess at the moment.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A serious response to this issue would be to introduce a moped licence like the UK, and bring these things up to a standard. Mirror, indicators etc For kids pushed further and further out onto urban fringes and hemmed by highways ebikes are becoming essential transport Of course, this is Australia
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
One might imagine the response were any other real estate event to advertise “the best Anglo neighbourhoods”…
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Some news, and a further embarrassment to Melbourne University.
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Naveen Razik @naveenjrazik.com · 10/02/2026
#EXCLUSIVE: The brother of an Australian aid worker who was killed in an Israeli drone strike in Gaza is urging the prime minister to press for more action on her case during the Israeli President Isaac Herzog's state visit. #auspol www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
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Zomi Frankcom's brother seeks answers from Israel's president after she was killed in Gaza
Mal Frankcom says "missing puzzle pieces" remain in the investigation into the killing of his sister, aid worker Zomi Frankcom.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Whenever I wanna look at a picture of the world that bears some resemblance to reality, I first turn to cartoonists like Jon Kudelka. theconversation.com/as-beautiful...
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As beautiful as they were powerful: Jon Kudelka’s political cartoons were made with true conviction
The award-winning cartoonist Jon Kudelka died in Hobart on Sunday, aged 53. Over 30 years, his work resisted the polarisation of the contemporary Australian media.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Shared with us from Sydney happening now. He had his hands up.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
A GOTV effort is not possible if those voters feel unsafe attending polling places. Dems have to act to remove both the threat and the perception of a threat.
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Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Submission from Anne Twomey on the Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill now up - it’s a must read for journalists and policy makers Quite the burn here too 🔥 www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 15/01/2026
the greens should have the spine to call this out for what it is. follow the lead of palestinian + jewish voices like @apan4palestine.bsky.social @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social who competently articulate why enabling genocide supporters to capitalise on grief to increase repression is bad, actually.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Good to see The Greens not backing this draft. The haste is unwarranted and dangerous. Labor needs to come back and do it properly, over reasonable timescales. The legislation's own explanatory memo clearly states that advocacy of terrorism and genocide are already covered under the Criminal Code
Greens won’t support hate speech bill ‘in its current form’
The Greens deputy leader, Mehreen Faruqi, said the party will not support the government’s hate speech bill.

She just said:

The legacy of the horrific and appalling violence in Bondi cannot be the undermining of political, civil and human rights or a law that can be weaponised against people who use their conscience to speak out against human rights abuses and atrocities in this country, or overseas.
This bill is broad, it is vast, and it is really complex. And we need to make sure that it is scrutinised and we do our due diligence on this bill.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Sharing my submission to the committee overseeing the rushed hate speech bill. I encourage you to submit by 4pm today(!). www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 14/01/2026
Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again? | Anne Twomey
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Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again? | Anne Twomey
As the government brings its new hate laws to parliament, it’s worth remembering past attempts suggest legislation used to outlaw political groups have been neither wise nor necessary Australia’s history of banning political groups gives pause for thought as to whether we really want to go down this route again. During the first world war, the Unlawful Associations Act 1916 was enacted and used to ban a group called Industrial Workers of the World. Membership was made a criminal offence. Members could also be deported if they were not British subjects born in Australia. Anne Twomey is a Professor emerita in constitutional law at the University of Sydney Continue reading...
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
One has to wonder how Herzog’s incitement of the commission of genocide squares with the ”Aggravated offence for preachers and leaders“ provisions in the Albanese government’s draft Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I write about the Adelaide Writers' Week debacle for @theshot.net.au. theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Why is a Labor Premier silencing a writer?  - The Shot
For many Adelaideans, Adelaide Writers’ Week (AWW) is the highlight of their year. A glorious six days when the Pioneer...
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
A good reminder that cultural power - like all power in any area - is exercised by those who do it if they choose to, and not by those who presume to police and administer it.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
@helen-karakulak.bsky.social a question about your Adelaide Fesitival reporting if I may. Who is the “Dr Thomas Freedman” Malinauskas refers to? The report repeatedly uses that title and spelling, and mentions InDaily sighted the correspondence.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The responsibility to refuse an illegal order extends to every individual.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
@graysky.app a suggestion, though not entirely sure it’s a good one. Would it make sense to be able to swipe left and right on the My Feeds pill to flick through favourite feeds? Retaining the current tap to get the full list.
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Oh yeah, that'll lower the temperature...
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Australia invites Israeli President Herzog for official visit
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday he called Israeli President Isaac Herzog and invited him to visit Australia, expressing his shock and dismay over the attack at the Jewish co...
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 22/12/2025
The censored 60 Minutes' segment, Inside CECOT, is now available. Download from @ddosecrets.org: data.ddosecrets.org/Inside%20CEC... Download/stream from @archive.org: archive.org/details/insi... The original video was recorded by @jasonparis.bsky.social, and cleaned up by @emma.best
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Bill Standen @billstanden.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Starlink can be a destructive orbiting cloud of shrapnel just fine on its own.
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A Starlink satellite seems to have exploded
An anomaly caused a sudden drop in altitude and a debris field.
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