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Avery @averyofbirds.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It happened again

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Isaac (he/him) @exhaustedisaac.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I've been enjoying Cocteau Twins' music for about 20 years and only just realised they're not speaking Scots Gaelic 😅 almost every song is glossolalia ("speaking tongues") and somehow I didn't figure it out, LOL.

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Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · 04/03/2025

Tropical Cyclone #Alfred will bring damaging winds, heavy rainfall, and hazardous surf conditions to southeast Queensland, Australia 🇦🇺🌀 Flash flooding, storm surge, and power outages are likely as the cyclone nears the coast. Landfall is expected near Brisbane late Thursday or early Friday.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Ukrainian ambassador now just has her head in her hands in the Oval Office. A global embarassment. (📸 Kaitlin Collins, CNN)

In the middle of the frame the ambassador has her head in her hand while Pete Hegseth and others look on

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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

on this week's aftermath hours, the industry's obsession with fewer, bigger games and franchises – as exemplified by WB's post-wonder woman pivot – is a dead end aftermath.site/aftermath-ho...

Nathan: There’s that meme of “I want smaller games with worse graphics blah blah blah.” It’s not even that. I want mid-sized games that are scaled to a relatively sane degree – that are not trying to be everything for everyone because a) nothing can be everything for everyone, and b) the games that are functionally that already exist. You’re never going to supplant League of Legends and Counter-Strike and Valorant and Fortnite.

But these big companies believe that if you just pump enough money into something, you can overcome all of life’s problems. And time and time again, they fail, and the money’s no longer imaginary; there are real, tangible repercussions in terms of how it affects the people who worked on those projects. They don’t have jobs anymore. The only people who were unaffected, as ever, were the fucking executives, and they get to keep making these stupid mistakes.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

The Trump-Vance State Department just approved $3.01 billion in arms & equipment sales to Israel $2.04 billion in bombs $675.7 million in bombs & weapon guidance kits $295 million in bulldozers Administration said "an emergency exists that requires the immediate sale," waiving congressional review

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Isaac (he/him) @exhaustedisaac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Had a great time at @knotfestofficial.bsky.social Melbourne yesterday. I met cool people, saw amazing bands & nobody gave two shits seeing a trans guy in just a binder. Shout out to Alex (Slaughter to Prevail) and Corey (Slipknot) for both pausing their sets to help people get out of the mosh pit.

A photo of the poster. He is white with brown hair and blue eyes, wearing corrective glasses and a surgical mask. He is wearing a skin-colour chest binder and has a black t-shirt draped over one shoulder. He is quite sweaty and flushed. He's in a packed crowd, and some people have their hands up doing the "horns" gesture.

The set list for Knotfest Melbourne 2025. From earliest in the day to latest (latest is the headliner). The list is: Sunami, Vended, Miss May I, Health, In Hearts Wake, Hatebreed, Enter Shikari, Within Temptation, Slaughter to Prevail, Polaris, Babymetal, A Day To Remember, Slipknot.

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Isaac (he/him) @exhaustedisaac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Watching this set now and the vocals are incredible 🤩

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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Australian authorities aren't learning the tragic lessons of their counterparts in the UK: the AFP grooming and further radicalising children or police prosecuting radicalised children instead of intervening...a similar tragedy here is just waiting to happen. www.bbc.com/news/article...

bbc.com

Rhianan Rudd: Groomed girl under MI5 probe was 'fixated on Hitler' before death

Rhianan Rudd was the UK's youngest female terror suspect before charges were dropped and she was found dead.

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 27/02/2025

Finally. A major media outlet has finally reported on Trump’s total travel ban for transgender visa applicants seeking the United States. I had to scream for two days to get someone else to report on it. It is NOT just for athletes. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

the-independent.com

State Department visa policy could bar trans people from traveling to U.S.

Violations could result in travel bans beyond just athletes

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/02/2025

there really ought to be more discussion about the fact that virtually every promise (or denial) trump made during the campaign was a total lie

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

This is an astonishing story. Trump's personal lawyers, now in government, are trying to find any prosecutor take on a case to stop payment of $20 billion in funds by claiming there is fraud. The fact that career prosecutors are resigning rather than do so tells you how weak the case is.

Interim U.S. attorney Ed Martin then personally submitted a seizure warrant application without any other prosecutors in his office that was rejected by a U.S. magistrate judge in D.C., who found that the request and accompanying FBI agent affidavit failed to establish a reasonable belief that a crime occurred, three of the people said.

Meanwhile, acting deputy attorney general Emil Bove’s office approached at least one other U.S. attorney’s office in the southeastern United States to launch a grand jury investigation and seek a court-ordered bank freeze, but prosecutors in the office again refused the warrant request, two of the people said. It is not clear if more evidence has since been obtained or if a warrant was granted elsewhere. But at least three groups that had been awarded money said their accounts have been frozen, and the bank won’t tell them why.

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Maggie Mae Fish 🐟 @maggiemaefish.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

After 33 years of research I have concluded Steve Job's "Reality Distortion Field" could also just have been called "being a straight white man" but other white people didn't have those words yet

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Megan Carpentier @megancarpentier.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Banging on this drum yet again, both men and women up to age 45 are eligible for this vaccine (and I’ve *heard* you can pay out of pocket if you are out of eligibility) and the amount of cancers it prevents: This is the cancer moonshot you heard about.

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Isaac (he/him) @exhaustedisaac.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Genuine question: is there a social script for how to interact on Bluesky? I see people say things like "I hate reply guys". Don't people want replies? Or just likes/shares? Atm, I browse topics I'm interested in & try to interact positively with people's posts, but is that a faux pas? #ADHD #ND

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Jenn Skinner @bigbillsgirl.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

"If one person says it’s raining and another insists it’s sunny, the media’s job isn’t to give them equal airtime—it’s to check the facts and tell us what’s actually happening." Source Unknown, but I liked the sentiment so I wanted to share.

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Michael Tino @revmtino.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Transyphus learned to love themself and got the rock up the hill centuries ago.

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg @theradr.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

We were talking about Sisyphus and kid made a cis / cisgenderphus joke and y’all are welcome to take this in whatever directions would be most entertaining

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

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alexis simpson is confused by display name changes @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

a glory hole, but you look through it to watch the 1989 civil war film Glory (starring Matthew Broderick and Denzel Washington)

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Jenny @raleighwoodjenny.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I’m in agreement with Dave Portnoy and Ron DeSantis? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills

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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

BREAKING The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Our Deputy PM handed over $800m to the US for a dodgy submarine deal that: - won't deliver - gives up what remains of Australia's sovereignty - makes us less safe, and - Trump has no idea about. #AUKUS is cactus. And the govt needs to stop pretending otherwise. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Australia news live: Trump replies ‘what does that mean?’ when asked if he will discuss Aukus with Keir Starmer

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Marl @marlebean.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

{marriage counseling} I guess it all started when I saw him put the toothpaste on before the water... *therapist scribbles furiously*

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happyknittingpod @happyknittingpod.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

A tiny bid of lunchtime stitching means I finished my February portion of my embroidery journal 😍 🪡 #embroidery #embroideryjournal

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

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Isaac (he/him) @exhaustedisaac.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Brian Tyler Cohen explains how Musk is trying to award Starlink government contracts and why that's causing a scandal: youtu.be/czhj3L4y5hw?...

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Trump asked about AUKUS. Response is "What does that mean?" 🤡🙃

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/02/2025

Folks, I have been *REALLY* getting value from the reporting at @wired.com ... they are covering shit from all over current affairs in the US real good. But on top of this, their long-form Big Story articles are my fav. Very, very good writing. You can subscribe for $5 right for 12 months now.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

1000 person Columbia University Alumni for Israel WhatsApp group, including current and former professors, is working to get students deported. A compete abdication and betrayal of the university’s mission in every respect. theintercept.com/2025/02/15/c...

people on a large WhatsApp group, Columbia Alumni for Israel — which counts over 1,000 members, including parents, at least one current student, and Columbia professors — welcomed Trump’s plan.

Deporting Gaza protesters was already a topic of conversation in the Columbia Alumni for Israel group before Trump’s order came down. On the president’s first day in office, group members shared flyers advertising a pro-Palestine January 21 walkout to push the school to drop disciplinary actions against anti-war protesters.

“Identifying the Columbia student-Hamas-sympathizers who show up is key to deporting those with student visas,” former Columbia’s Teachers College assistant professor Lynne Bursky-Tammam said in the chat, according to screenshots from the WhatsApp group obtained by The Intercept.

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Florence Ashley @floralashes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

“We just have legitimate concerns about children, we’re not transphobic.” 🙃

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GLAAD @glaad.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🚨 The Iowa House and Senate passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act. ☎️ Call Governor Reynolds at 515-281-5211 and tell her to veto this bill.

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Iowa lawmakers pass bill removing trans civil rights protections, sending it to governor

Protesters filled the Iowa Capitol on Thursday as lawmakers passed a bill removing gender identity from the Iowa Civil Rights Act.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Gee I wonder why there’s a shortage of air traffic controllers

Elon Musk tweet: There is a shortage of top notch air traffic controllers. If you have retired, but are open to returning to work, please consider doing so.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

*cw violence* New: An "error" suddenly turned people's Reels feeds into neverending scrolls of murder, death, animal abuse, and violence. Truly horrifying stuff, one of the worst things I've seen happen to random consumers of the internet. www.404media.co/instagram-er...

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Instagram 'Error' Turned Reels Into Neverending Scroll of Murder, Gore, and Violence

“Today’s algorithm showed me around 70 murders, 100+ accidents, and around 115 violence videos, is anyone on Instagram noticing it?”

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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 27/02/2025

Lol. All the anti-trans, reflexively contrarian, “anti-woke” scientists have contributed to a book about how science is under attack. Somehow, there are no chapters dedicated to how Republicans are decimating research and firing experts.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I think about this map a lot. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...

This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.

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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

But younger people are lazy and shouldn’t buy avocado toast:

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CosmicRami 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @rami.spaceaustralia.com · 27/02/2025

Bigots, terfs, homophobes and transphobes are obsessed with Trans+ folks using bathrooms. Their hypocrisy is never more on show, than their lack of dedication to apply the same rigour to churches instead. The numbers don’t lie. It’s not Trans+ folks that bring harm to children.

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jess @messyjess.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

“Why do you care about an ongoing genocide” is a really strange question. You shouldn’t need to ask if you’re not a sociopath.

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