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Once described in HuffPost as “one of the brightest minds on the planet”… (true) but I’m pretty sure that journo was high. (also true). Democracy | Speaker | Poet | Author | Archer | Dilettante Polymath | ANTIFA 📍Bunurong, Turrbal and Yuggera Country.

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 1h
ATO shows that 30% of large companies paid NO TAX in 24/25 None. Our systems are broken.
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Trillian’s Dad @macklesmn.bsky.social · 9h
I’m ready. open.spotify.com/playlist/0M8...
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when THE headline finally drops
on standby for the day IT happens
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ebisback.bsky.social @ebisback.bsky.social · 12h
Go Jack 💥
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The Sgt Joker @thesgtjoker.bsky.social · 17h
When a Nation elects a rapist, that Nation is teaching its children that raping women, children, or animals in Kash Patel’s case is not abhorrent behavior.
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Derek @derekianrobinson.bsky.social · 10h
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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · 13h
Italian photographer Valerio Minato spent 6 years trying to capture one perfect shot near Turin, Italy, where the Basilica of Superga, the Monviso mountain, and the Moon lined up in a single frame. Good Morning Blue Sky
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 10h
The AI bubble is even more precarious than you knew.
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes (Gift Article)
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 17h
I just got mail from the Greens “We’re not here to push Labor to be a little better. We are here to replace them.”
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 10h
Every young person in the country should sue them and the NSW Govt.
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 14h
Today, the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the largest coal project in the state's history, in a move Lock The Gate called "catastrophic system failure". That's the context in which @davidshoebridge.bsky.social takes on the leadership of the Australian Greens. Some thoughts here
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The Greens change leaders amid catastrophic system failure
Shoebridge over troubled Waters? A huge earthquake in environmental politics happened in Australia today. And no, I don't mean the change in Greens leadership. Important as this event is - and I wi...
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MrLiquid @mrliquid.bsky.social · 11h
Time to shift our Overton Window regarding the #Greens and their ability to be the primary party of choice for a majority of Aussies. 35% Greens for under 25s Hey GenX give up on Labor, put the Greens 1st in both houses #auspol
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 10h
Yes, yes it is.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 10h
Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...
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Jenny Schwartz @jennyschwartz.bsky.social · 11h
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10h
Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman is now working with Republican fundraisers.
apple.news
Right-Wing Groups Are Making Money Off John Fetterman — The Atlantic
After losing his Democratic fundraisers, the Pennsylvania senator found a new firm with MAGA-world ties.
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Tony Abbott (Not the onion eater) @tonyabb.bsky.social · 23h
FMD. How quickly we have progressed from LLMs just being giant word associations to our New Robot Overlords. Scary to watch two intelligent men say we have to find ways to appease what we have created. I fear for my grandchildren.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 29/09/2026
Weapons makers, SpaceX and semiconductors feature in Australia's Future Fund portfolio
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ANALYSIS: Weapons makers and SpaceX in government's key investment fund portfolio
The federal government has quietly published the Future Fund's half-yearly report and it reveals a portfolio that includes weapons makers and SpaceX.
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An Angry Asshole @anangryasshole.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I mean... Pro/Con is right there. Progressive / Conservative When have we ever gotten better by going backwards?
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trump has dropped his $10bn charge against the BBC after he was told he would have to give the BBC his Financial Records. Not suspicious at all...
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So then what deal does he keep saying is imminent if he offered them nothing? What exactly are they going to agree to? Every moment reveals bullshit from the moments before.
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Miaganga @miaganga.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 29/09/2026
☠️☠️☠️
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
An orange potter wasp (Delta bicinctum) floating on the surface tension of the water at Picnic Dam, Gluepot Reserve.
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cha0s @anatolkirichenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Personal physics. It is impossible to stop an object with mass and velocity. Gravitas is gravity, inertia is AI lazy.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In a world that never stops evolving and changing, Conservatism is such an idiotic ideology. It is literally a commitment to irrelevance.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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cha0s @anatolkirichenko.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$32bn Claude in QLD. DEI hire.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Must watch
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Tim Wilson is currently in what can only be described as a car wreck of an interview on ABC
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Obsessive Compulsive @0b5essed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
RE agents offered previous tenant a now cheaper place further from school that she could afford, as she was a good tenant. Our new tenants paid more, let half the garden die, and we were furious cos we would have preferred OG tenant stay and pay less. But we weren't asked. Bastards.
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Obsessive Compulsive @0b5essed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
20 years ago father in law died and we rented out his house. Single mum, young kids, close to school, tended the garden, we were happy. A year or two later the RE agents advise us of new tenants moving in as former tenant unable to afford rent increase applied without consultation with us. (1/2)
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DoubleTrouble @badboybill69.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
"I'm still punk as fuck" I whisper to myself as I put in my hearing aids.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
To be clear, Australia is being bullied by America into a war with China in which we would be fired upon by American arms. Our politicians say nothing, do nothing. Make it make sense.
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Gnome De Plume (Sista Cate Ruth) ♿🎃👻💀🧛🏽‍♂️ @sistacatruthpurry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
My bank has discovered that I have no home insurance and has sent me a letter pointing out that it's a condition of my mortgage that my house is insured at replacement value. That's all very well and fine but, living in a cyclone zone, I can't afford both mortgage and insurance anymore.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Pentagon never disclosed that eight US Marines were injured when an Iranian cruise missile hit their vessel in the Strait of Hormuz on September 14, NBC reports. Injuries were eventually added to the casualty record with no announcement ten days later.
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In a normal administration counterintelligence agents at the FBI would be investigating this photo. In this administration, the FBI director is in the photo.
Michael Weiss: Why, that’s Ali Abdelaziz is on the far left. Manages a lot of Russian, Belarusian and Chechen MMA fighters including Khamzat Chimaev, who is close to Kadyrov. Abdelaziz was an FBI informant until the Bureau dropped him because they suspected he was a double agent. Looks like Ka$h (far right) has forgiven and forgotten. These MAGA weddings are Mos Eisley cantinas for counterintelligence.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Our landlord in Brisbane decided to jack up the rent without even a chat or warning - previously a good relationship Today I signed for a new house with twice the # of bedrooms in an even better location - for the same $ as the raised price It was never about the money, it was the lack of respect
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In short: willing to receive all the benefit and none of the responsibility
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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 24/09/2026
“I would be a voice that speaks up on so many of the issues that I know young people care about.” Zack Polanski on what he would do for young people if elected as the MP for Holborn and St Pancras.
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First Among Equals @pyncster.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Whistler’s Mama @alphagal007.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Deb McCann AU ✊ @dam55.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Indeed, “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
That’s a Capitalism problem
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Russia has carried out a massive terrorist attack on the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv. Rescue crews are battling the fire and searching for survivors who may be trapped inside. People have been killed. Others took to the windows to escape the fire.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Education is expensive but stupidity is free
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
“The two stolen vehicles are used by the ASRC’s catering social enterprise, which provides employment opportunities for refugees and people seeking asylum.” Read more here: www.news.com.au/national/mel...
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Joe Walsh @walshfreedom.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Of course this is what Trump wants. Because Trump works for Putin.
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