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Don Sinnamon (he/him)

@donsinnamon.bsky.social
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Writer/editor from Brisbane. 20+ years in progressive politics. Former music journo, campaigner for refugees, public broadcasting & environment. FOD Tripped over a robot apocalypse and started writing historical fiction that's looking for a home

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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The chilling malevolence seeps from the frame
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is an extraordinary act of direct foreign interference by the US embassy in domestic Australian politics. The Australian government should publicly respond by rejecting efforts by the US embassy to dictate how Australia legislates for a digital duty of care.
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Earl Grey Screams Club @earlgreymemes.club · 18/09/2026
curated illustration by Niell Cameron from his Parks and Trek series; Ron Swanson dressed in command red Starfleet uniform and Rikering (putting his foot up) on a finely crafted wooden chair
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
She’ll be off to university soon enough. No time for her grandad and his wilted vegetables anymore
A mother brush-tailed possum with a baby on her back, sitting in a birdfeeder
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 15/09/2026
AI companies could use creators' work without paying them under leaked government copyright proposal
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Government documents reveal AI can train on data without paying creators
Leaked government documents reveal AI companies would be allowed to train their models on online content without paying its creators as long as they struck deals with enough rights holders.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
OpenAI won't even consider renewable investments in Australia until the country agrees to kill its copyright laws so they can freely train on creative work. When Albanese caves and agrees to this, OpenAI will just run on fossil fuels anyway: guaranteed. archive.ph/mzSVj
OpenAI’s ultimatum: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables
The ChatGPT creator threatens to walk away from local training facilities unless Labor backs down on creative industry protections.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 15/09/2026
“We need to be honest about what we are doing" - Australia Institute co-CEO Dr Richard Denniss. "We are rapidly subsidising the expansion of fossil fuels in Australia… we are not transitioning away from fossil fuels.” Follow along here: #ClimateIntegritySummit26
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The Chaser @chaser.com.au · 11/09/2026
Read more: chaser.com.au/general-news...
Albo purchases new iPhone after hearing it also folds under pressure - The Chaser
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Confirmed. It is a bub in this possum’s pouch. I’m a grandad.
A brush tailed possum sitting in a bird feeder looking for the half carrot she is sitting on.
A joey is visible in her pouch
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 07/09/2026
“Defending offsets makes absolutely no sense, unless your strategy is to just not have fights anymore.” – co-CEO Richard Denniss was on 7am breakfast this morning, talking about the Greens and their upcoming chance to vote against carbon offsets for the Great Koala National Park. #auspol
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
“Rupert Murdoch has done more than any living person, I’ve come to believe, to prevent governments from acting on the emissions that are heating the planet.” So true. Murdoch has poisoned climate policy for decades in Australia and globally. www.smh.com.au/national/how...
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How Murdoch the Sun King sold out the planet
Telling his audience the truth has not suited the media titan’s business model.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 05/09/2026
Good news: he lost.
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Can’t actually tell from this angle if she’s just very pregnant or has a kid in her pouch, but it’s definitely one or the other.
A brushtailed possum is munching on half a carrot and eyeing up the photographer while sitting in a birdfeeder on a suburban verandah.
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The Orion @gettheorion.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
JKR is on record as saying supporting Harry Potter is supporting her politics. She literally told her legion of followers to take pictures of women in public bathrooms *in case they might be trans. JK Rowling is an unremorseful, hateful PREDATOR, and needs to face criminal charges.
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 02/09/2026
"I am firmly convinced, that the evidence is there for everyone to look at today, that it (AUKUS) is undeliverable" - Retired Admiral Peter Briggs at the AUKUS public inquiry today. Tune in to the livestream for tomorrow's session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sr5IRK5N-DQ #auspol
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Joshua Eaton @joshuaeaton.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“There’s a new Mr. Beast book.” You bolt awake in your workshop in Mainz. It’s 1450. You’re Johannes Gutenberg, and you’ve changed your mind. The future cannot come to pass. Your printing press must burn.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Former Israeli Generals are calling out the ethnic cleansing by Israeli settlers in the West Bank, and the complicity of the Israeli government, and comparing it to the strategy behind the Holocaust. Sanctions now. For literally everyone’s sake.
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This email I just got from Netflix feels like an invitation to rethink some core choices I've made in my life: Reminder: Anacondas: Trail of Blood is now on Netflix
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Kieran Kelly - TOITŪ TE TIRITI @krkelly.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The IDF has admitted that Lt Roy Oryon of the Golani Brigade fired on a convoy of ambulances killing 15 medics & rescue workers, they then bulldozed the bodies & the crushed vehicles into the sand. On Sunday he will be given @nswpolice protection to run the Sydney Marathon. #AusPol
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Bird flu is not a particularly useful name at this point…about as useful as the responses by Australian governments to protect wildlife www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Breaking: First H5N1 bird flu detection confirmed in Australian dolphin
South Australian authorities confirm the country's first H5N1 bird flu in a common dolphin, which was found dead on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Lol, the government just divided the ask by 10. They really are showing us who they are and what they stand for. Disgusted. Here's what we asked for, as a start! 👉 biodiversitycouncil.org.au/news/200-mil...
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Everywhere. My @smh @theage cartoon.
Four frames. 1. “Three Israeli hostages waving white flags were shot and killed  by the IDF. They said, “We thought they were Hamas.””Image of three dead, with flags. 2. “The IDF shot and killed 14 Palestinian paramedics and a UN worker then buried them in a mass grave. They thought Hamas were among them.” Image of bulldozer and rows of body bags. 3. “Present and former Israeli politicians have claimed there are no innocents in Gaza and that even children and babies are the enemy.” Image of a child sitting, a dead adult behind, a sniper drone buzzing nearby. 4. “So when they say the IDF killed Zomi Frankcom and her colleagues because they thought they contained Hamas operatives. It’s understandable, as they see Hamas everywhere.” Image of photo of Zomi with bouquet of flowers beside.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Comedian banned from Australia, war crimes suspects cheered on Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/comedian-banned-…
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
15-20 years ago I had a chance to cover Dolly for Rave magazine on my birthday. Didn’t go to the concert and ended up not doing anything for my birthday either. Regretted it ever since.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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yaoi gagarin @mel.bzky.team · 25/08/2026
in Spiderman 1 you can tell Norman Osborn is evil because he's a tech CEO with a big media presence and no technical qualifications claiming to be a scientist to impress gormless teenagers
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Make a band bigger. The Police State.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
parents in ancient mesopotamia 🤝parents in contemporary america "damn these kids playing with their tablets"
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Outrage from Labor doesn't move the dial. Australia is still supplying weapons to Israel. F35 fighter jet parts are still being sent. We need action, end the arms trade with Israel.
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Supporting genocide, banning protests, fuelling climate change, kicking people with disabilities, while mouthing platitudes, Labor’s not the lesser evil, it’s the less showy evil. How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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How the Labor Party sold out to vampiric oligarchs and authoritarian Zionist dickheads - The Shot
This week, the Albanese government, in goose-stepping sync with the Liberals and One Nation, will push into law the “ASIO...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Why won't Labor pass a Human Rights Act? Because they care more about protecting the state's power to surveil you than your right to privacy. I say enough.
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/08/2026
Labor is firing back up its cooked welfare penalties system despite multiple findings of illegality and dysfunction and no evidence those problems have been fixed. And who's administering these penalties? The profiteering providers generating investor returns from human misery.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
When Labor tells you the $8 billion nuclear submarine base they are building just off Fremantle in WA is not a US base, it’s useful to see what the US thinks. The US thinks Labor has built them a new, permanent, US nuclear submarine base.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
There is just an amazing desperation to paint lower house prices as awful
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Politics of falling house prices will get uglier as downturn builds
Labor wants to have a bet each way on house price falls. But if price declines continue – and they will – the political pain will build as the economy slows.
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🎃Autopsy of Ashley Lynch 🔪🎞️ @ashleylynch.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
sploosh
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So #TheOdyssey was great but Nolan clearly chickened out by not having the Furies appear during the credits to recruit Circe for the first iteration of The Avengers, right?
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
@heroesforhire.bsky.social ´The outfit doesn’t matter?’ How dare you. Next time you’re dressed as Raven.
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Don Sinnamon (he/him) @donsinnamon.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This reads like maybe JD is more than a century and a half old, and that tracks given how long it takes to become *that* creepy, even if you made it your day job and hobby as he's done.
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Matt McDaniel @themattmcd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"Yeah, Christopher Nolan made a billion dollars with a film about a scientist being sad, but I really think I can get people to skip his movie where Matt Damon fights monsters with a sword," - the finest minds on the internet.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Starving refugees who came to Australia seeking safety. This is Labor's legacy on refugee rights, they cannot take on One Nation when they share its politics. If the majors treat people seeking safety this way, they will treat anyone this way given the chance.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
E. Jean Carroll spent nearly a decade in court fighting one of the most powerful men in the world. She fought with tenacity and grace — and she won. She is one of my personal heroes. We all owe her a debt of gratitude.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
The @ausmammals.bsky.social's statement to governments regarding their responses to H5N1 (bird flu) in Australia. 'AMS calls for governments to release wildlife risk assessments and response plans for H5N1 avian influenza' australianmammals.org.au/files/1608_b...
Media Release regarding a response to H5N1 from the Australian Mammal Society
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Bishop Steiner @bishopsteiner.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
The recent heatwave in England and Wales, exacerbated by climate change, killed ~2,700 people, with 440 deaths per day at its peak. If we don’t quickly reduce CO₂ emissions and protect people from extreme heat, it will get worse.
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June heatwave killed up to 440 people a day in England and Wales, data suggests
Extreme temperatures in May and June led to about 2,700 lost lives in total with climate crisis adding 3C to 4C
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
“But I want to tell you what he was like to hang out with in private when there were no stakes” is a very common response to the death of a person who had immense power in situations with high stakes.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
You can speak ill of the dead when, while alive, they spoke and caused ill, of so many others. You don’t have to mourn monsters.
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Bill McKay @mckay4senate.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
At long last, Mitch McCo—wait, what?
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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling. 🧵
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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
*angrily, bitterly*: "you can't even be a rapist anymore, because of woke"
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
No institution should be able to move assets beyond survivors' reach and call it good governance. I've referred these Christian Brothers asset transfers to the AFP and ACNC for investigation. Survivors have waited long enough.
‘We expect decency’: Christian Brothers accused of shielding millions in assets from abuse survivors
An institution built on truth and justice has allegedly moved assets beyond survivors’ reach – while telling victims there is not enough money left for them.

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