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Craig X

@cxxix.bsky.social
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Public policy, public spaces, public bars 🇦🇺

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 13h
Irresponsible company continues to not experience consequences, will not change behaviour.
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Chert @chert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
please help… my son…
photo of a forklift w/ a pallet jack sitting on its forks like it was an adult carrying a child across its arms
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 14h
and x is for nazis and facebook is for antivaxxers and bluesky is for autistics and reddit is for gooners and threads is for lobotomy patients and
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Museum Bums @museumbums.bsky.social · 15h
When you can't find your glasses so you're just hoping the shapes and colours are your friends and colleagues 🤷‍♂️ 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Badeliv", 1934, by Hans Øllgard, from the Oluf Høst Museet in Denmark
A surrealist painting showing a bathing scene
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Wire Report @wirereport.bsky.social · 18h
Shesterkin scores first goalie goal in Rangers history — The strike came in New York's home opener 🎥 via @espn (X) wire.report/article/shesterkin-scor…
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Republican incompetence has now reached the point where it's impacting the few parts of the job they truly love, like executing people.
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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Labor cannot be expected to work with the greens to do things the greens want when they are busy working with the LNP to do things the LNP want.
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Solomon @solomonrmissouri.com · 29/09/2026
What an amazing build
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NPR @npr.org · 10/09/2026
Newly released text messages from Elon Musk show the billionaire bragging about using "lasers from space" to elect Donald Trump president in 2024. The question-raising remark comes as Musk spends millions on November's midterms.
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Elon Musk brags about using "lasers from space" to elect Trump in 2024, texts show
Newly released text messages from Elon Musk show the billionaire bragging about using "lasers from space" to elect Donald Trump president in 2024. The question-raising remark comes as Musk spends millions on November's midterms.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i saw a samara kite at berlin kite festival a couple weeks ago
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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Leaving the Saudis blowing in the wind is both justified, because they suck, but also just tremendous statecraft (derogatory)
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 21/09/2026
this is sincerely better data than whatever the democrats are using
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
people who choose to sit facing backwards on a nearly empty train
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
So this week we've learned: 1) The AI goons CONFESSED they were committing the biggest theft in history. 2) The data centers really are sucking up all the energy during an energy shock. 3) AI almost caused a World War.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
circle jerks are mandatory for team bondage in the Military Porno Complex
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This amazing little tool simply draws all streets in any city you want. As examples here are the town I grew up in (20k residents) and the city I live in (5M residents). Have a play with it. The exported screenshots make great desktop backgrounds. Source: buff.ly/2uht4vJ
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Caroleeena @caroleeena.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a long, long, long, long, long time Converse buyer, I will never buy a Converse product ever again. I am sick of the virtue signalling to racists. I see this and I see a man hanged, a white robe that could be a klansman's robe and light shaped like a KKK hat. What the actual hell!?!
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Skip, the Online New Yorker (terrifying, i know) @badposter.lol · 17/09/2026
we’re tearing apart walls in a house that was built in the early 1900’s, i offered my coworker a mask. he said “haha no thanks i’m not a fucking liberal” lmao. bro. there is shit that forms new types of cancer in these walls, but by all means, go ahead. thin your heard, playboy.
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 17/09/2026
New: Trump called crypto "thin air." Last year, he reported $1.4 billion in income from it. Buyers of his crypto? They're an estimated $4.7 billion underwater. I made an 8-bit game out of it— 📈 Play as Trump: you cannot lose money. 📉 Play as an investor: you cannot win.
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‘THIN AIR,’ REAL MONEY — The Trump Crypto Game
An 8-bit game about real money. Play as Trump: you only make money. Play as an investor: you only lose. Every figure is drawn from Public Citizen's report and the sources it cites.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
from eisenhower‘s military industrial complex to hegseth‘s military porn complex heavy shooters wanted
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
some chud interviewing for patel’s FBI: “if anything the goat fucked *me*”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
When they eventually make a movie about this time, please don't put the male politicians in good suits. IMO, the ugly, low rent tailoring should be part of the story.
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
He is a 73-year personalist dictator who has purged his senior military staff & is committing genocide in Xinjiang & speaks with Putin about living until he is 150 & I really don't know why people continue to believe this.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 10/09/2026
A man who claims that nobody had autism “in his day” is reportedly unaware that he both had autism in his day and that the sun has not yet set on his day.
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They didn’t have autism in my day, says man unaware he had autism in his day
A man who claims that nobody had autism “in his day” is reportedly unaware that he both had autism in his day and that the sun has not yet set on his day.  Gavin Monks, 65 - who books his car in for…
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Netanyahu was warned by UAE's president, 10 days before Oct 7, of a major Hamas attack. But Bibi "reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario."
But this time, the call initiated by bin Zayed was unusual. A week and a half before October 7, 2023 the Emirati ruler called Netanyahu from the Presidential Palace in Abu Dhabi and spoke with him for 45 minutes.

In that conversation, bin Zayed warned that Hamas' leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, was planning a major operation against Israel. Bin Zayed expressed concern that the event in question would not only lead to bloodshed but also destabilize the entire region and undermine the Abraham Accords. Three foreign senior sources are familiar with the contents of the conversation, the existence of which is revealed here for the first time. Its disclosure is the result of extensive research based on dozens of sources in Israel and worldwide, including very senior officials, as well as recordings, internal documents and correspondence. The research was conducted for the new book "Hostages: 843 Days of Abandonment" (Kinneret Zmora Publishing, in Hebrew) by the authors of this article.Also present during the call was a close adviser to bin Zayed, a Palestinian who had emigrated years ago from Gaza to Abu Dhabi and maintained strong ties in the Strip. According to the adviser, the Emirati ruler impressed upon Netanyahu the need to prepare for the threat. "The emir explained that, in his assessment, Sinwar was preparing for a major event," the adviser says. "He told Netanyahu that Israel should be ready. Concurrently, he recommended trying to find an economic solution for the Strip and calming the West Bank to prevent escalation." Bin Zayed urged Netanyahu to take the situation seriously. To his surprise, however, the prime minister reacted with relative calm. Netanyahu said that, in his assessment, Hamas intended to operate in the West Bank area, and he reassured bin Zayed that Israel was prepared for any scenario.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/09/2026
The first item on a typical Amazon search results page is 29% more expensive than the best match for your search. The top row is 25% more expensive. The best result is usually on the second screen, somewhere around the 17th position: pluralistic.net/2023/11/03/s... 34/
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Pluralistic: Big Tech’s “attention rents” (03 Nov 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Feminist theory remains undefeated in explaining the weirdest parts of the Trump administration. I'm just going to keep posting this skeleton-key-to-MAGA passage, written over 40 years ago, until everyone gets it.
"To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking exclusively with the other sex, i.e., women). All or almost all of that which pertains to love, most straight men reserve exclusively for other men. The people whom they admire, respect, adore, revere, honor, whom they imitate, idolize, and form profound attachments to, whom they are willing to teach and from whom they are willing to learn, and whose respect, admiration, recognition, honor, reverence and love they desire… those are, overwhelmingly, other men. In their relations with women, what passes for respect is kindness, generosity or paternalism; what passes for honor is removal to the pedestal. From women they want devotion, service and sex.

Heterosexual male culture is homoerotic; it is man-loving.”
― Marilyn Frye, The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory
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slate @pleasebegneiss.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
he got him. he finally fucking got him
real-life coyote and roadrunner encounter captured in southern california
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Digital Warrior - Combat Disinfo @digitalwarrior.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
1/ Brazil's spy agency didn't just spy. Bolsonaro's team took government surveillance databases and turned them into a disinformation machine aimed at the courts, the press, and the vote. A new academic study just mapped exactly how. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Because of course.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
normalise world leaders whose legacies don’t depend on what they do and how they react while in a cloud of dementia
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
dame edna.. “I'm not racist. I love all races, particularly white people. You know, I even like Roman Catholics”
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Tim Curry taught me it was okay to hang out in sewers waiting for children
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
BBC gets gnarled moldy hate troll JK Rowling to eulogize beloved feminist icon and queer ally Dolly Parton. I guess Harvey Weinstein and Louis CK were unavailable or whatever.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
shiny disco balls
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 05/05/2025
i fucking love science
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World’s Tallest and Smallest Dogs Meet up in Idaho Falls for a Playdate

The fact that Reginald is the size of a small horse and Pearl is as small as an apple didn’t stop them from getting along famously.

Science
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Patrick Cosmos @veryimportant.lawyer · 18/08/2026
Zack Budryk @BudrykZack

Funniest joke I've heard about Adam Levine is still that he looks like he went to a tattoo artist and just went "give me tattoos"
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more mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
responding to a diss track with a song called Genuinely Thought We Were On Good Terms
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Here’s the thing about Christ’s return. Christ said specifically that he would return as the naked, the hungry, the thirsty, the prisoner, the immigrant. Jesus has never stopped coming back. American Christians have never stopped killing him.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
sorry to everyone’s dog but bluesky gonna start using AI to fact check who’s a good boy and no one gonna like it
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
a nicolas cage movie was filmed outside the building in melbourne i was living in at the time for a week it was pretty annoying, the car park door was blocked the whole time and i still haven’t watched the movie even though me n a mate binged so many nicolas cage movies a little while ago
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A.Ghost Pasquella 👻🎃 @agpasquella.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
It Takes A Nation of Millions To Form A Subcommittee To Look Into The Possibility Of Determining The Feasibility Of Holding Us Back
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
be more grapefruit that we already live in abundance
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
the package..
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
sydney is full of old and really shit quality housing but what people really want is new really shit housing
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DotDotDotDash @dotdotdotdash.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
"Bitchat, launched by the Twitter co-founder in 2025, allows nearby phones to communicate over Bluetooth even when mobile networks or internet access are unavailable. Last month, the app had its biggest real-world test after authorities shut down internet access during student protests in New Delhi.
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Craig X @cxxix.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
the fantastical delusions of someone whose brain is melting from constantly chasing modafinil with ambien
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
STUNNING: Trump left the White House press corps in Turkey as a decoy to be attacked by Iran—and instead flew out on a secret plane: wapo.st/4i1OByh
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Contradicting public statements, Trump took secret flight from Turkey amid Iranian threat
The White House said the president was aboard Air Force One as he left a NATO summit. Instead, his departure included an elaborate ruse that concealed his travel.
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