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Eddie Russett

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Your Internet Friend Tom Tomorrow @tomtomorrow.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
just ran across this cartoon from the year of our lord two thousand and nine, and, welp.
a very wordy cartoon discussing server farms taking over entire states and also journalism being reduced to podcasters scrounging for spare change.
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
GENE KELLY — born 114yrs ago today — and SUGAR RAY ROBINSON doing a tap dance number together on television in 1958. Fantastic stuff.
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Tanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing .
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Feral Millennial Communists of Late Stage Capitalism @feralcommie.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Harrowing, absolutely harrowing.... I've loved this song for about 25 years. This is incredible, i'm in bits 😭 #Socialistsunday #Marxistmonday
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Roger Waters & Mona Miari – Comfortably Numb Re-Imagined (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Roger Waters
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Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
The backlash against Boy George has been huge, even sparkling one of those AI Lego videos, but this from Joseph Tawadros is quite the thing. www.facebook.com/share/r/1Bff...
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vintagehabibi.bsky.social @vintagehabibi.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
The number of registered orphans in Gaza has risen to 65,279 www.taawon.org/en/noor
Sponsor a child in Gaza
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 30/06/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Palantir, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Palantir
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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abby (spooky) @stabbyabby.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Everyone shut up I finally got a video of Jyn doing her cartoon snoring thing
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Looks like Australia has a new queen
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Our short film for Irish Goodbye ft. Kae Tempest is NOW LIVE. ❤️Here is full 12 min video: youtu.be/khXv1RvAZF0 We are so proud of this film by Director Thomas James. We wish to thank everyone who contributed. Special thanks to Liam Cunningham, Deirdre O'Kane and the entire cast of amazing actors.
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KNEECAP ft. KAE TEMPEST - IRISH GOODBYE
YouTube video by KNEECAP
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Nick McKim @nickmckim.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
A disgraceful move by the National Press Club to platform Israel’s ambassador to Australia today after Israel overnight introduced an apartheid death penalty regime for Palestinians.
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Vagina Museum @vaginamuseum.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Since the #Olympics are on, let's repost a classic thread here: a brief history of the practice of "sex verification" in sport. Content warning: This thread will mention anti-intersex discrimination, FGM practices and body shaming.
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W.E.D.em Boyz @leftistwonk.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Neil Postman on 1984 versus Brave New World: "Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism."
Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think. 


	What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one. Orwell feared those who would deprive us of information. Huxley feared those who would give us so much that we would be reduced to passivity and egoism. 


	Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy. 


	As Huxley remarked in Brave New World Revisited, the civil libertarians and rationalists, who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny, "failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions." In 1984, Huxley added, people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure. In short, Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us. This book is about the possibility that Huxley, not Orwell, was right.
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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
2021
Field with war crimes monument
"Lest we find out"
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
make YOUR difference!
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Miriam IRL @miriam.blacksky.app · 13/08/2025
This sounds going viral here’s the original Sinéad O’Connor performance
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Paul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
BOYCOTT ISRAEL This advert is powerful & hits right to the point “Every dollar is a bullet in a Palestinian’s child body” Use the ‘No Thanks’ app - it’s so easy to use. Takes 2 secs to scan the barcode to see if an item is on boycott list Every action makes a difference 🇵🇸
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
If ever there was a time for beef wellington
Donny and Benny breaking bread at the White House
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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Kneecap is not the story. Genocide in Gaza is.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
The one and only Prince would’ve turned 67 today 🙏
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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Albanese’s words are too little, too late. Weak words of condemnation are meaningless without action. His comments on Israel’s latest campaign of forced starvation come 597 days into the genocide in Gaza, while this government continues to supply weapon parts to the IOF.
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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
#StopArmingIsrael, Like Ban Israel from Eurovision, RT
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If Donald Trump puts tariffs on Australian goods we should close Pine Gap. Actually, just close Pine Gap.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 29/03/2025
Have you heard about the anti-fascist dial-a-ninja service in Perth in the 1980s? Top quality stuff: youtu.be/Jfm4SJl3PMU?...
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Aussie AFA History: DIAL-A-NINJA
YouTube video by Tom Tanuki
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🐦‍⬛ @raven.gifts · 05/03/2025
the high-five drown meme but with the paddle that says false instead of the unhelpful hand
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DaveAnthony @daveanthony.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Benito Mussolini with his son on his shoulders and Elon with his son on his shoulders.
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 03/02/2025
Today's NY Times headline pairs perfectly with a 30-year old Simpsons joke about the Democratic Party
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Josh Olson @josholson.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
If you're wondering how we got here, here's 271 hours of I Told You So. If you haven't already, now would be a good time to start (And no, you don't have to watch the TV show to follow along. Most of our listeners didn't.) westwingthing.libsyn.com
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The West Wing Thing
Each week hosts Dave Anthony and Josh Olson watch and then discuss an episode of The West Wing. And when you're done, join us on our new podcast, The Audit on The Lever
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WalkingInAustin @walkinginaustin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
@intifada.bsky.social @aliabunimah.bsky.social cc @lexialex.bsky.social reposting so everyone can see it.
words of @AliAbunimah: "I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit..."  (continued in thread)
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Tor Ekeland @torekeland.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
My dad was tortured by the Gestapo for 4 days and thrown in a concentration camp for being in the Norwegian Resistance. Growing up, he would tell me things he learned in the Resistance. I thought, I'm never going to need this stuff. Here's some of those things #Thread
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𝕲𝖔𝖉𝖎𝖛𝖆 𝕲𝖍𝖔𝖚𝖑 @godivaghoul.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Happy birthday to my compatriot Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” ― Antonio Gramsci this quote sadly is very relevant today
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Ruairi Dubh @ruairidubh.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Downhill, Limavady, Ulster 🇮🇪
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
If I see one more post celebrating Biden for the ceasefire I’m going to vomit. Spare me.
US spends a record $17.9 billion on military aid to Israel since last Oct. 7
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
“In the first 60 days following October 7, the military response in Gaza generated more planet-warming gases than twenty climate-vulnerable nations emit in an entire year. “In a single month Israel dropped 25,000 tons of bombs on Gaza - equivalent to burning 150,000 tonnes of coal.”
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AusPoast @daryltractor.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Massive Palisades fire, as seen from a flight near LAX. Pic credit: Mark Viniello Via: Nahel Belgherze on X
Photo from plane heading towards LAX of huge fire in Pacific Palisades region
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