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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, I doubt it was spontaneous....I am seriously wondering if it's a dogwhistle for PHON types. It can be played off as something else for the mainstream but.... it would make sense, given they are pandering to that demo in other ways currently.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 8h

Yes, but people are circulating old photos like that anyway… and if they weren’t they’d make them up. It just doesn’t seem like a strong reason to me.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 9h

Any connection between right-wingers booing Welcomes to Country and our PM refusing to be welcomed with a floral garland in Tuvalu? I heard he just didn't want to look awkward or be memed but when you really think about it that's...ridiculous?! Is there a more sinister reason?

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Rob Arnol @robertarnol.bsky.social · 10h

Palawa elder here, Kon you are always welcome on my traditional lands. I never give a welcome to country, only an acknowledgement of country. Why would I welcome the 40-60% of people who voted against the Voice. To you my friend, thank you, and welcome. 🙏🏾 🖤💛❤️

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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 12h

I feel so ashamed as a proud Greek Australian to see Greeks booing a Welcome To Country last night. Shame on us. The First Nations community of Melbourne deserves a formal apology for the behaviour of Greek Australians last night. #australiacup #Hellas #SouthMelbourne #MelbourneVictory

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bunyipbones.bsky.social @bunyipbones.bsky.social · 16h

Universities were not traditionally built for profit. They were paid from taxes because we all knew that an educated workforce built a growing economy and strong communities. Once you only value $$, the working poor struggle with housing insecurity, literacy rates tank, and society fails.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 13h

Yes, no one who ever seriously looked at the issue thinks that was the problem.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 13h

Awful. What a shameful thing to treat someone like that.

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Holly Goblin @goblinmode101.bsky.social · 17h

My team just lost a wonderful colleague who’d been here for years, built community not in SYD or MEL & paid a small fortune to study. He went to an immigration appt & was told he couldn’t go to work the next day & to leave in 28 days. It was devastating for him & everyone in his community.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 16h

If Hanson "seems more and more like the de facto opposition leader", it's because legacy media - glosses over the racism - avoids testing her 'policies' - ignores disinformation that drives her support, and - rarely mentions PHON's #FarRight links. In short; keeps giving her an easy ride. #auspol

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Jean Proudman @bluejeans58.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

“That Australia’s nuclear submarine project is a gargantuan Australian subsidy of America’s own defence has been hidden from Australians, deliberately.”

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 19h

The utter, utter stupidity … Cratering our higher education sector, with regional areas hit hardest, to pander to One Nation immigration politics. They pegged uni finances on intl students, and then started attacking the student visa intake.

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Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns

Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 19h

Yeah, there’s a bunch of ways that that character could work, it doesn’t need to be the same. In fact I’m not sure why there would be any point doing another adaptation if that was the goal.

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TyTheFilmAddict @tythefilmaddict.bsky.social · 19h

No film captures what it feels like to wake up and read about the current state of America every single day quite like this one.

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Texas Chainsaw Dinner Scene

ALT: Texas Chainsaw Dinner Scene

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20h

Nice. Thanks for the recommendation.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 20h

Sounds cool… more of an experience rather than a narrative?

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yep, they’re just doing the task as directed. It’s not “stealing” it doesn’t bother the victim in the slightest, it’s cooperative!

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Manjushree Thapa @manjushreethapa.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

For anyone who might be interested—this is a cleaned-up version of the keynote speech I gave last week at the Middle Ground Nepal Literature Festival in Berlin. manjushree.substack.com/p/to-imagine...

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To Imagine a Just Future Again

Keynote speech at the Middle Ground - Nepal Literature Festival, October 2, 2026, at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I agree it would have been useful to delineate between those different uses/types in terms of risks and benefits, we need more from these conversations now. Pretty interesting quote from Professor Shafiabady though: if it were up to them they would ‘ban computers’. Just dropped in there casually!

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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I’m in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.

APA Women’s Leadership Institute event flyer with “keynote speaker” crossed out with a red X

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Every time I hear about Firmus I think of Firepower, Tim Johnston’s ludicrous scam that claimed your car could pop a pill to increase its energy efficiency, which sucked in various rubes like, uh, Australia’s second-longest serving Prime Minister John Howard en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firepow...

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Firepower International - Wikipedia

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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

In this week's Better Offline monologue, @edzitron.com talks about the brittle state of Australian AI data center company Firmus’ IPO, its dodgy underlying numbers, and how the Australian media has set an example of how you should actually cover an AI company. linktr.ee/betteroffline

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks for sharing. Much to consider in this.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

’We can even focus on doing nothing at all. We can tune out all the noise and distraction. We can be still. We can observe the world. We can notice its impermanence. And we can feel how precious it is.‘

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Disturbing but enlightening thread re fascists and their peculiarities. Their impact on culture is not always a reflection of their power, it can go the other way too… they seek to undermine norms and popularise certain aesthetics so as to take/consolidate power more easily. Pay attention, #auspol.

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fascism is also about the pleasure of seeing unwanted bodies mutilated, tortured, killed. This has nothing to do with Hasan's crimes. It has to do with bringing back public lynchings. They're signaling to their base that they can now rejoice in the the death of undesirables.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026

I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

*when we were told. The first version of that had more mistakes, so that's near enough. And I'll take all my embarrassing typos over the perfectly executed soulless speculations of the fascist X bros.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Thanks! I'm still in Clark, but only just. Any idea what kind of difference this will make?

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is there a science fiction author who predicted the simultaneous elevation and degredation of the written word that we're now witnessing? I certainly didn't see it coming. Very strange times indeed.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Remember when were told text was becoming obsolete? Then X removed character limits and LLMs were made widely available and now we have some of the least literate and most hateful people in the world posting massive great essays all the time...that they barely wrote and that no one will really read.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Is there a science fiction author who predicted the simultaneous elevation and degredation of the written word that we're now witnessing? I certainly didn't see it coming. Strange times indeed.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

So much ambition! So many dreams for humanity!

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

No need to have an account on X. If you want to keep an eye on something there, nitter.cf is working. I recommend not visiting often though, it's disgusting. (And verbose! So many horrible words).

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Yes, having taken a peek on X recently, I don't think this is going to do anything but send the culture into an even darker place.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

As shocking as it is for the US to announce a public execution, I’m almost as shocked that there is an expert, law prof Deborah Denno, saying it could be a good idea for transparency and to educate etc. If someone was not disgusted by what happened with Pike, how will seeing a man shot change that?!

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Polly Schattel @pollyschattel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

A young boy wrote to CS Lewis and asked him for advice on writing well. For me, learning not only to write well, but to (more importantly) communicate well, has been my secret weapon. I cultivated it also in my son—the ability to communicate effectively. Such a crucial and oft overlooked skill.

It is very hard to give any general advice about writing.
Here's my attempt.
December 14, 1959
(r) Turn off the Radio.
(2) Read all the good books you can, and avoid nearly all maga-zines.
(3) Always write (and read) with the ear, not the eye. You shd. hear every sentence you write as if it was being read aloud or spoken. If it does not sound nice, try again.
(4) Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else. (Notice this means that if you are interested only in writing you will never be a writer, because you will have nothing to write about...)
(5) Take great pains to be clear. Remember that though you start by knowing what you mean, the reader doesn't, and a single ill-chosen word may lead him to a total misunderstanding. In a story it is terribly easy just to forget that you have not told the reader something that he wants to know-the whole picture is so clear in your own mind that you forget that it isn't the same in his.
(6) When you give up a bit of work don't (unless it is hopelessly bad) throw it away. Put it in a drawer. It may come in useful later. Much of my best work, or what I think my best, is the rewriting of things begun and abandoned years earlier.
(7) Don't use a typewriter. The noise will destroy your sense of rhythm, which still needs years of training
(8) Be sure you know the meaning (or meanings) of every word you use.

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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Just when you think things can't get more dystopian

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

You mean the National Medal of “Science”?

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It really is. On top of what happened with the execution, for the hospital to declare her dead and then she’s talking? Extraordinary.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Speaking for myself as a single parent, finances and not having the mental energy/time. And the less I do stuff like that the more difficult they start to seem.

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

’”There’s still a lot of cognitive confusion… She’s asked about her team. She’s asked about the victim’s family … I think she is angry and confused about everything right now.”’ She has pneumonia, a blood clot and is unable to move because shackled. I’m angry and confused just reading about it.

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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

‘She was declared brain dead on Monday, her attorneys said, and her team was informed of plans to remove her from life support the next day. “But on Tuesday, to the shock of everyone … Christa woke up and began talking“…. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Christa Pike ‘angry, confused’ and unable to move arms after failed execution, lawyers say

Attorneys say Pike was set to be taken off life support before she woke up, as judge orders officials to preserve evidence

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the Curb @thecurbau.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't it strange that the guilds and cinema groups pushed for a set number of films released each year, but nothing about ensuring workforces weren't impacted. Mergers always end up with mass layoffs. Shame on these greedy organisations.

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