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Ignoble Jim R Houghton @jimrhoughton.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

If your aim was to destroy academia in Australia this is precisely how you'd to it. Force unis over 3-4 decades into relying on foreign students as the only business model for survival, and then pull the rug from under them on the pretext of racism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Falling international student numbers create ‘massive problems’ for Australian universities, expert warns

Immigration debate and visa uncertainty are putting students off and increasing pressure on budgets

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Bridget O’Brien @bridgetemob.bsky.social · 5h

YOU GUYS. Even future popes have to do foolish teambuilding activities at work: Bob Prevost with a painting he made to represent himself. (From AMERICAN POPE us.macmillan.com/books/978125... )

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 7h

Nest is now defunct. 🩶 Youngster is spending Day 1 as a big, brave fledging (alongside Mum and Dad of course) in the tree next to the back deck.

From left to right, female adult tawny frogmouth facing left, then fledgling in in middle looking at the camera, and then dad on the right facing right with eyes partly open.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 4h

Shall we call this the reverse Nietzsche?

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 4h

For culture war reasons rather opaque to me, a good section of Australians who follow cricket do not recognise the rather obvious truth that Cummins is one of the best Australian captains (second in win percentage only to Steve Waugh, and arguably has a harder job).

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🎃GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE🎃 @golikehellmachine.com · 15/10/2026

this is not the first time i have said this, but there’s a strain of extreme consumerism in a lot of young(ish) american leftism that’s genuinely unrecognizable to me compared to the crustier old anarchists and communists i have known well

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Urban Land Rent 🇸🇴🚰 @urbanlandrent.bsky.social · 13h

The global left needs to be clear eyed about this. Comfortable middle class people don’t vote for far right parties because of material deprivation. Germans have more economic prosperity now than they ever have. Same is true for Americans.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 7h

Said a day after a white supremacist sought to kill people at a Hindu temple. Not a word about the anti-Indian rhetoric within his own party that has put South Asians and his own family members in danger. Instead continues to play footsie with people who see non-white citizens as guests, at best.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

By contrast, when they moved the Egyptian mummies to the new location at Sydney University, the local indigenous had a ceremony, as a recognition that these were indeed human remains.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

"He said he initially thought what he found was an Aboriginal person's remains. ""Who else's skull would it be?" Mr Breadsell said. ""I had it at the shed there [at my home] for at least a fortnight or three weeks."" That makes it okay, then.

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

you're absolutely right! it's unfair and mean to be a dick about dario's hypothetical child-killing moral calculus. here's an interview where he talks about claude actually helping to kill children and the logic he uses to continue with the contract for doing that

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

it turns out -- hear me out here -- people's moral hypotheticals tend to be put into practice IN THE REAL WORLD LATER. people who go out of their way to entertain and accept horrifying moral hypotheticals will actually do those things, a good portion of the time!

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

just sitting here thinking about my most humiliating social interaction again

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

At this moment in history, I see a lot of people using criticism of Israel as a way to launder antisemitism into mainstream discourse, and I also see a lot of people use antisemitism to dismiss truly necessary criticisms of Israel. I see far too few people connect the dots between these two trends.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Reading Jane Eyre and shaking my head the entire time, so everyone knows I don't support locking women in attics

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

Also the case for universal healthcare can be made both on the basis that healthcare to the extent that a society can afford it is an acknowledgement of human dignity, and on the basis that diseases don't give a rat's arse whether you are legal or illegal as they spread.

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Kenny Campbell @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have never seen coverage of a live trial, one involving allegations of multiple sex attacks on multiple women, framed in a more distasteful way. It's not 'Fame under fire' it's a rape trial. And it involves actual women. And this from the *checks notes* BBC

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

I stopped following BBC over its coverage of the leadup to the Australian election in 2025. It was so transparently right-wing.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

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Nicole Noren: “I’m not going to have blood on my hands.”

Why Nicole Noren, a decorated ESPN producer, quit in protest.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

I want one (1) statue put up that looks like that Forrest statue, the one they should have left up.

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Chrononaut @chrononaut.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

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Chris @leftychris.bsky.social · 22h

Ms Tawny offering us all a free relaxation masterclass today.

Front on pic from earlier in the day. She is fully asleep.

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I can't believe he'd do this. This is the second time now he's called for his VP to be executed.

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brent 🌹🗽 @therealbrent.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

It’s cool that the fate of our country and world depends on gas prices at any given moment, super awesome citizenry

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 21h

He wishes. De Gaulle had his share of bêtises (Sending both Leclerc and D'Argenlieu to Vietnam), and his moments of Machiavellian cynicism (e.g. using "Vive l'Algérie française !" as a way to get back into power), but can one ever see Vance embracing socialists and communists as De Gaulle did?

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

By this logic, Jim Crow in the American South was no big deal, because in other parts of the US at the time, Black Americans could vote. I don’t think someone this well educated and intelligent really believes that.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I am not particularly worried. Nothing else about him suggests that he is in particularly bad health, and they say they have caught it early and that the prognosis is good. I trust in providence and prayer.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I now use Quant and duckduckgo as my search engines, or udm14 if I have to use google.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It was an extremely odd choice for the Likudniks to throw in their lot with *checks notes* the heirs of Lindbergh and Le Pen.

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Apparently Ted Cruz is having trouble filling entry-level openings in his office, because he is insistent that all applicants be pro-Israel, and almost no young American on the right is anymore. www.wsj.com/opinion/free...

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Opinion | Republicans Have a ‘Groyper’ Problem

A cohort of disturbed young men is playing an ever bigger role in GOP politics. Some in the party want to pretend it isn’t happening.

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gregorian rants @gregorianrants.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

my wife has been very hard on herself over our financial decisions month to month and i had to remind her that she didn’t choose to go to war with iran, and that was oddly comforting to her

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soonergrunt @soonergrunt.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Has Miller ever considered NOT being a criminal shitbird?

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

>we’ve reached the worrying about prison phase of the Trump Presidency

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I never considered converting (I only properly encountered Jewish texts as a Christian), but Judaism seems far less alien to me than, say, Protestantism.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

But I think this essay by @professormusgrave.bsky.social is on point. We are living in a very literal world when everything is expected to be telegraphed. People get genuinely upset, even on social media, when they are not told one is making a joke or being sarcastic.

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A Post-Literate Society is a Too-Literal Society

Directness is a virtue and subtlety is lost

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Libby @ancientprawns.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

*melancholic* there used to be different crustaceans.

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

On the one hand, I have encountered amongst the young an astonishingly lack of knowledge even of the accessible end of the literature I grew up with. On the other, apparently the youf are reading East of Eden because of the tv series about it. So, I am not sure what to think.

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Behemoth & Leviathan, LP 🎃 @harkov311.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I dunno man, I think if Russia doesn't wanna fight the rest of Europe, it should probably avoid attacking the rest of Europe. That is how it got into the war it's fighting now, you recall

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fatherblob.bsky.social @fatherblob.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

I have a fondness for Judaism, and Jews in general, which owes something to the fact that my PhD supervisor is a secular Israeli Jew, and several of his friends are also mine. And that my PhD thesis was a footnote on/riff off the historical work of Amos Funkenstein.

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1st Minnesota Volunteers Stan Account @himdogson.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Aside from how disgusting it is to use your own children as a shield like this, this seems like a horrible strategy- you’re amplifying the attack out of hope that swing voters will what, pity you?

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The Great Pumpkin Papers 🎃🎃🎃 @professormusgrave.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Why is it only ever students, radicals, and dirtbags who get the “civility” police sent for them, when we all know who is doing more to coarsen the public square than any other factor?

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

The latest from YouGov (n~5.5k). Americans support Ukraine, support sanctions against Russia, and believe Trump is making deals with Russia for domestic political gain. Sanctions: +46 D: +54 I: +38 R: +48 Ukraine/Russia/Neither: 57/4/24 D: 74/2/12 I: 53/4/25 R: 46/6/33 yougov.com/en-us/daily-...

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