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Gerard Gill

@gerardagill.bsky.social
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Extremism researcher, AVERT Research Network member, professional dilettante, bringing nonsense, tinsel and dirt.

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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Big if true.
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Briiiiiiaaaaannnnnssss!! @spocksbrian.worstpossible.world · 13/10/2026
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Except Byron. We don't want Byron.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I tried to understand that feeling you get when your love of a cute animal video turns to sick realisation you're watching AI slop.
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Welcome to the Ersatzenttäuschung: the melancholy of the unreal
As Freud mused, the more we are oriented in the world of real things, the less purchase the uncanny has on us. In the era of AI, we are slipping evermore into the unheimlich.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Still funny and true.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 10/10/2026
If you want to support a cool independent video game project, look no further! Creatures like us is a 'radical queer video game about squatting, mutual aid and system change' 🐈‍⬛ The demo is available now and it's brilliant! www.kickstarter.com/projects/cir...
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Creatures Like Us - Be Gay, Do Anarchy!
A radical queer video game about squatting, mutual aid, and system change. Balance individual & community needs to smash capitalism!
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When you realise how history will judge you
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Yeah in Australia the drinking age is 18 which I think is about right - I was drinking earlier like most of my peers but once I could go to pubs it was immediately a better environment for it overall tbh
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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 07/10/2026
What does the inequality crisis look like? This 👇 98% of public schools are underfunded – that’s 2.6 million kids without the resources they need for the education they deserve. Yet the richest private schools are charging massive fees while banking billions of public dollars.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Some of Australia’s biggest data centre operators paid no tax in the 2024-25 financial year, despite reporting hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars in income as construction of new facilities accelerates across the country. Read more: ia.acs.org.au/article/2026...
ia.acs.org.au
The data centre giants paying no tax in Australia
ATO scrutinises the rapidly growing industry.
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Tyler, from the Internet (Haunted) @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 07/10/2026
fucking wild conversation. corporations just don't have to be accountable anymore, they are allowed to corporate speak to a standstill and just wait out the clock, and then keep doing whatever the fuck it is they want that'll make them money, and fuck you anyway
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
We used to have a culture
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 05/10/2026
There are so many climate policy conversations in so many places around the world on "pragmatism", "realism", "compromise" etc How many of them include this end of the equation?
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What's Gun Waifu up to these days did she save Israel or no
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Love these little fuckers, got one in my backyard....
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Dr Jeremy Walker @jeremywalker.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
RBA has been giving the Santos-founded fossil fuel funded #AtlasNetwork propaganda unit Centre of Independent Studies $20,000 a year, also Gerard Henderson's Sydney office of the IPA (rebranded the 'Sydney Institute' in 1989). www.getup.org.au/campaigns/ec...
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No public funds for right-wing think tanks!
The Centre for Independent Studies and The Sydney Institute are being paid by the Reserve Bank. Say no to public funds going to hard-right think tanks.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics, @amyremeikis.bsky.social writes. "On every issue, Labor has done the least it can do." www.deepcutnews.com/p/this-labor...
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This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis
There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
FWIW, just putting it out there that the RBA governor Michele Bullock makes over $1M a year.
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autumn coded @hoovybaby.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
finally, a good threads post
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Coochimudlo Island, Queensland.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Guy who takes yearly fall vacations into the woods, everyone thinks he is going hunting but he actually spends the entire time naked in a cave gnawing on fish and muttering to himself. He returns refreshed and recharged, everyone's like man that fresh air does you good
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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A tweet from @hagfail

It was removed from Tubu. Heebee sold the IP. Poodee won't play it in your region. It's not on Dippy. You can't find it on Weeno. Gumpy lost the rights to Pheebo. Poob was removed from the app store. The FBI have issued a warning to Poob. 3 Poob executives were arrested today.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Science.
Dept fined after child's hands caught fire at Questacon
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Also Australia. Hang on we hardly even share awake hours with the British. Thank fuck.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Eventually we find out there are basically no actual sticks in Queensland. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Two new stick insect species emerge from Queensland forests
The two new species are in the same genus and are both winged and more than 10cm long.
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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem this week released a report that concluded Israeli policies in the West Bank were "eliminating Palestinian collective existence"." 👇This is all of 2 days ago‼️ But sure, "Australia has never stood on the sidelines" 'We listen. We partner. We protect' 🙄
abc.net.au
Diplomats reveal how Australia withdrew from sanctions talks at 11th hour
European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
And that Lars von trier one that's close enough
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Skeletor in the new Masters of the Universe is bangin'.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/09/2026
If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
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If you really hate it when music and film stars do politics, here’s the answer: give us politics that works | Nesrine Malik
The problem is not famous people speaking out, as they always have. It is the feeling that leaders have failed, obliging celebrities to fill the vacuum, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Though maybe it depends on the subject being captured and their natural shininess..
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Oh wow. Those things look like shit in person I'm surprised.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How the fuck haven't they aged in like 30 years? I'm catching up to them FFS
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In another universe this sounds like a fun time ngl
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
How did I know this was the Israel people...
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I mean yeah why wouldn't that be like Task #1
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Lucy @lucyxiv.boontavista.com · 19/09/2026
at the o’hare lounge and babes is serving mimosas at 530am in domestic. they don’t let us have that in Australia. we can’t be trusted
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Pathetic. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Diplomats reveal how Australia withdrew from sanctions talks at 11th hour
European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.
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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's time. Time to write about this style of writing. Which I've done here. substack.com/home/post/p-...
substack.com
What is LinkedIn?
The rise of mindful slop
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 18/09/2026
It's a mystery why people no longer trust politicians...
Former Labour deputy leader Tom Watson joins Palantir

Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's weird, they have this very well-known rep but I'm around lapwings all the time and have never been bothered by them...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📣New working paper📣 @gerardagill.bsky.social discusses the structural mismatch between complex societies and democratic capacity, along with how this mismatch helps to explain the appeal of reactionary politics. reacpol.net/workingpaper... Check it out below!
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Working paper: Complexity and Democratic Crisis - Reactionary Politics Research Network
Complexity and Democratic Crisis (Gerard Gill)
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Big if true.
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Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Still amused about him doing a cameo on Game of Thrones and everyone hated it so much they had his completely inconsequential character violently killed offscreen.
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry...
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Frozen: Elsa Sings 'Let It Go'
Alt: Frozen: Elsa Sings 'Let It Go'
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I applaud Wilkie but we know how this'll go with Penny and Tony...
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Memento (spooky) Morty 🌙 @mementomorty.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
healing is cool but have you considered becoming worse
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Gerard Gill @gerardagill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Is anyone using AI to put the giant vagina subplot from The Godfather novel into the film? Seems like a slam dunk tbh.
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Training an AI on my workflow for paper reviewing
A flow chart starting with "Does the paper accept me?" if "yes" you get taken to a box saying Accept and if "no" you get taken to a box saying Revise and Resubmit.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I need you all to promise me that when this all happens, you never stop clowning them. Never ever. no matter how much they plead for understanding or try to pretend they were never into it, don't ever let them fucking forget
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