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Daniel Hurst

@danielhurst.bsky.social
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Freelance writing / journalism. He / him. Ngunnawal / Ngambri Country. Ethical disclosure: I don't use AI for writing or research – any errors and views are entirely my own dominoesunderthemulberry.ghost.io

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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Behind the story: A blog post showing my working on the FOI investigation into health regulator AHPRA's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism after "heightened external pressure" dominoesunderthemulberry.ghost.io/behind-the-s...
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Behind the story: Health body’s shift on antisemitism
Being accountable to my readers by showing you my working
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Behind the story: A blog post showing my working on the FOI investigation into health regulator AHPRA's adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism after "heightened external pressure" dominoesunderthemulberry.ghost.io/behind-the-s...
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Behind the story: Health body’s shift on antisemitism
Being accountable to my readers by showing you my working
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The whole graf is hilarious The film (that I have not seen) “falls short on every dimension”
I haven't seen the film. This means I cannot confidently assess its editing, corroboration, or the full testimony it presents. I would love to live in a world in which I could wait, watch the movie, and have a sober debate about its claims.
Unfortunately, the discourse online is not so patient. That's why it's necessary to examine the argument its makers have published, the reporting on which it builds, and the standards by which its allegations should be judged. The film falls short on every dimension.
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better! In other words: you're right to push back www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better | Nick Evershed
Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threats
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: AHPRA CEO Justin Untersteiner told colleagues in February there was “heightened external pressure ... to adopt the IHRA definition". Internal documents obtained by Deepcut show how the regulator initially resisted adopting the IHRA definition. www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: AHPRA chief reveals ‘heightened external pressure’ over antisemitism definition
A trove of internal documents obtained by Deepcut shows how Australia’s regulator of health workers initially resisted adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, but later changed course
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A new trove of internal docs shows health regulator CEO described "heightened external pressure" to adopt a contentious definition of antisemitism. Board members raised private concerns over the definition. My latest freelance piece for @deepcutnews.bsky.social www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: AHPRA chief reveals ‘heightened external pressure’ over antisemitism definition
A trove of internal documents obtained by Deepcut shows how Australia’s regulator of health workers initially resisted adopting the IHRA definition of antisemitism, but later changed course
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This is NOT a comment on this particular legal case but once again: AI tools are not godlike - they generate plausible-sounding text and often makes mistakes. It's quicker to do the work yourself than to risk such critical errors
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm late to post this but this from @squigglyrick.bsky.social is well worth your time rick-morton.ghost.io/deliver-us-l...
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Deliver Us, Lord, From Ridicule
On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...
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Matt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why I will always do my own writing and my own thinking dominoesunderthemulberry.ghost.io/are-you-sure/
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Are you sure? Welcome to Dominoes Under the Mulberry
Why I will always do my own writing and my own thinking. By Daniel Hurst
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“If journalism wants to remain relevant when a teenager can ask an AI chatbot what happened anywhere in the world and receive an answer in seconds, it needs to offer something better than speed,” writes award-winning journalist Laura Banks.
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When everything is breaking, nothing is important
For years, the media responded to social media by becoming faster, more urgent and more constant, but AI now makes speed almost meaningless.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 01/09/2026
Ahem
Jamelle Bouie: 

the question to ask about this is, okay, he wants to cancel the midterms. how does he get the VA state board of elections to cancel the midterms? how does he get the georgia board of elections to do it? how does he convince republican house members to quit their jobs and give up their paychecks?

Me, quote posting Jamelle Bouie from seven months ago:

My hypothesis is that Trump will demand the Postmaster General to refuse delivering and collecting mail ballots, which would make free and fair elections practically impossible in the Western states
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Why I will always do my own writing and my own thinking dominoesunderthemulberry.ghost.io/are-you-sure/
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Are you sure? Welcome to Dominoes Under the Mulberry
Why I will always do my own writing and my own thinking. By Daniel Hurst
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Checking in on the international rules-based order ™
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Just one in a long list of ways our information environment is being actively polluted. We'll be dealing with the clean up for years to come
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Many in the migrants' rights sector have been warning about exactly this. AI is absolutely not suitable for being used in asylum cases. Not only because of the risk of "hallucination", but also because it is unable to deal with the nuance and complexity. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Home Office used ‘AI hallucinated’ information to refuse asylum claim, judge suggests
Upper tribunal unable to find document cited in case and claims it is ‘analogous to relying on bogus evidence’
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
NEW: A large trove of Claude-generated documents have been exposed to the web and indexed by Google. We reviewed what appear to be real medical records, the full names and phone numbers of school-aged children, and company documents marked for internal use only. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in There
A trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal has been accused of misleading the Royal Commission after claiming the Palestinian death toll in Gaza was “grossly inflated”, reports @deepcutnews.bsky.social (IDF accepted in January the health ministry figure largely accurate) www.deepcutnews.com/p/jillian-se...
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Jillian Segal claimed Gaza death toll is 'grossly inflated'. Here are the facts.
Legal expert warns Segal could be in breach of Royal Commission Act over 'misleading' claims
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Congratulations!!!!
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
"But perhaps more troubling is that Google, the proprietor of the world’s primary research tool, has rolled out AI Overviews that can indiscriminately take in fake material and authoritatively spit it back out as real."
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A quick thread on my latest #FOI story for Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/01/i...
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'Legitimate criticism' of Israel is fine, internal governments docs say. It's unclear what this means
Documents obtained by Crikey paint an ambiguous picture of what counts as antisemitic in the government's eyes, as it continues to apply a controversial definition.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A quick thread on my latest #FOI story for Crikey www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/01/i...
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'Legitimate criticism' of Israel is fine, internal governments docs say. It's unclear what this means
Documents obtained by Crikey paint an ambiguous picture of what counts as antisemitic in the government's eyes, as it continues to apply a controversial definition.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Australian govt docs say contentious definition of antisemitism "does not prevent legitimate criticism of the actions of Israel" - but officials won’t clarify if ok to accuse it of apartheid/racial segregation as per ICJ ruling New freelance piece @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/01/i...
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'Legitimate criticism' of Israel is fine, internal governments docs say. It's unclear what this means
Documents obtained by Crikey paint an ambiguous picture of what counts as antisemitic in the government's eyes, as it continues to apply a controversial definition.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
The cost of tokens is not taken into account. Let alone the increasing reports of people having to clean up AI slop code affecting productivity. www.cio.com/article/4189...
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AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll
Growing use of coding agents and consumption-based pricing models could push per-developer AI spending to unprecedented levels over the next two years, says Gartner.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
When people read about this era in 200 years they're going to be convinced most of it was an allegory and not real
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Reminder: you can oppose oppressive rulers AND be aware that illegal regime-change wars rarely end well
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sarah Martin is an incredible journalist and Hanson personally attacking her for very standard questions shows just how down the Trump normalisation we are. And it will come to all journalists who do their job.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Sarah Martin and I both have the honour to have been called "trashy" from the national press council podium. Her from Pauline Hanson, me from Peter Dutton
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Raf is right to call out double standards. Universal human rights matter
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/06/2026
I have a genAI non-use statement on my site+ make point of making this clear for new clients I cannot state strongly enough how much this benefits me in finding work, and specifically finding GOOD work All the best outlets love it, and all the worst outlets hate it www.cityam.com/there-should...
I currently write for outlets like Crikey and RenewEconomy, and have previously contributed to outlets like Foreign Policy, The New Republic, The Age and the Guardian.

For all of my work, I don’t use generative tools for text, images or videos, or as a reference point or for knowledge retrieval, due to the stack of ethical, environmental and inaccuracy issues that plague them.

I contribute to The Australia Institute as a Senior Research Associate, alongside working with various Europe-based NGOs, contributing to and sharing their analytical work on climate and energy. 

I am a committee member for Comms Declare, a brilliant organisation that is fighting hard to ensure PR and marketing aren’t used to worsen the climate crisis or expand fossil fuels. Thursday 04 June 2026 5:01 am  |  Updated:  Wednesday 03 June 2026 4:14 pm
There should have been an op-ed here but you filed AI slop

By:Anna Moloney

Deputy Comment and Features Editor

Add as a preferredCity AM’s inbox is drowning in AI-written pitches. Anna Moloney, who now spends her days copy and pasting them into detection software, has had enough

In this slot there should have been an op-ed. A punchy one from a high-flying lawyer on the ever raging debate around inheritance tax, perfectly attuned to the interests of City AM readers. However, as is now happening at an alarming regularity, what said lawyer filed was not an insightful piece drawing on their many years of experience and expertise, but 600 words of AI-generated slop. 

I will not name, but I will shame. 

Unfortunately, this is no longer a rare occurrence. In the last few weeks, running copy filed by those I thought were reputable contacts through AI detection software has become a core, and unloved, part of my job. This week alone, I have gone back to three ‘writers’ asking why their copy has been flagged as 100 per cent AI-generated with high confidence, per our software’s rating. Some feign shock – “how strange!” – though most, I’ve been surprised, fess up immediately, usually with caveats they think absolve them. 

They “just” used it to edit down a piece to the word count. They “only” used it to “refine” a draft. They “don’t know” if their client used AI to write the piece, but “rest assured” they edited it afterwards. In one case, I received a follow up, saying they were very disappointed to see the piece hadn’t run, and that “it would be a shame for it to go to waste”.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 04/06/2026
Neo-Nazi hecklers found guilty over Anzac Day booing during Welcome to Country
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Neo-Nazi hecklers found guilty over Anzac Day booing
Three Neo-Nazis who loudly booed during a Welcome to Country ceremony at a Melbourne Anzac Day dawn last year have been found guilty of offensive behaviour.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The uni's defence of this is extraordinary, saying the author "uploaded 40,000 words" of their own original materials into an LLM in order to write the op-ed, and the model summarised that "extensive base of knowledge". An alternative is to - you know - just write from your own experience directly
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 28/01/2026
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
This is what impunity looks like
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Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
After a wet day of walking and talking yesterday, the National #WalkForTruth arrives at Parliament House in Canberra today, ending a momentous journey across multiple First Nations with calls for a national truth telling process
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Rudd to Nine papers today: "I have a high degree of confidence – beyond the normal political chutzpah and the normal defence-of-record stuff – that, by the time we hit 2032, you’re going to have the first Virginia-class boat delivered” by the US to Australia on time. www.smh.com.au/national/kev...
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Kevin Rudd lifts lid on AUKUS, China and Trump-era tensions
In his first interview since leaving his role, former Australian ambassador to the US Kevin Rudd has opened up about AUKUS tensions, China’s growing power and diplomacy under Donald Trump.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Amazing that someone actually put this down in writing
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
This is peak AI mania: identify a task that has long been well- and cheaply-handled by human beings, pay to use an LLM (which is ill-suited for the task), and be completely shocked when it goes disastrously.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Did Australia agree with the UK national security adviser that Iran's Feb offer had been significant enough to prevent a rush to war? DFAT told us: "We do not comment on negotiations to which Australia was not a party, nor on other countries’ assessment of them." www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
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Exclusive: Australia’s secret diplomatic cable on Iran on the eve of war
Heavy redactions raise concerns Albanese government may have known there were no legitimate grounds for war
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
FOI reveals that just a day before the US and Israel started bombing Iran, Australian diplomats in Vienna sent a cable to Canberra containing an update on "the US-Iran talks". Did it match suggestions from UK and Oman that diplomacy could prevent war? New freelance piece @deepcutnews.bsky.social
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Exclusive: Australia’s secret diplomatic cable on Iran on the eve of war
Heavy redactions raise concerns Albanese government may have known there were no legitimate grounds for war
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
My university administrators censored a student who put “environmental justice” and “communities disproportionately affected by climate change” on an Earth Day flyer. I really have no words to express my anger and disappointment anymore
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In rare move, University of Utah faculty say school leaders should apologize to student over Earth Day flyers
The student was told to remove phrases including “environmental justice” from the flyers.
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Elise Thomas @elisethomas.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Truly incredible that we, as the country with the most to lose if AUKUS goes awry, are also the country applying the least scrutiny to how it’s going www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...
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UK inquiry finds signs AUKUS investment has 'already faltered'
The House of Commons Defence Committee releases the findings of its yearlong review into the trilateral defence partnership.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
My friend @amyremeikis.bsky.social has made waves with her book "Where it all went wrong: The case against John Howard". It's a terrific read and sets out how the Howard government put its stamp on Australia. Unsurprisingly, it has irked some people heavily invested in upholding the Howard mythology
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
A reminder to check out alternative media outfits like We Used to Be Journos, Deepcut and Lamestream who are all putting in the work to bring you news analysis and the stories/perspectives the mainstream sometimes misses. They need subscribers, to exist. Feel free to add your own recommendations.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Despicable
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Emma Shortis @emmashortis.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Been thinking about this headline all day (and for obvious reasons, feels extra relevant this afternoon). It's not a "dilemma". The law is clear.
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Trump threats cause dilemma for US officers: disobey orders or commit war crimes
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Turns out we actually needed renewables to firm fossil fuels for when the ship doesn't sail and the pipeline doesn't flow.
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UK to receive last tanker of jet fuel from Middle East this week
Industry warnings of disruption contrast with government calls for calm
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The thing to remember is his residual strategy is to commit war crimes as leverage attempt. Attacking Iran’s electrical grid will unambiguously be the deliberate bombing of a civilian target.
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
The strait 'will just open up naturally' he says. Problem solved
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Daniel Hurst @danielhurst.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The emperor has no clothes
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