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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸

@jeftan.bsky.social
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Art director, designer, writer and now, actor. "Nolite te bastardes carborundorum" Dja Dja Wurrung country. He/him.

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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 3h
Where the Richest 0.1% Hold More Wealth Than the Bottom 80% www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-wealt...
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Mapped: The Most Unequal Countries on Earth
In just 27 countries around the world, the richest of the rich own more wealth than the bottom 80% of the population combined.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 18h
Despicable. Israel does not deserve to exist on account of this alone:
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Is Claude conscious? Anthropic turns to religious scholars for answers www.tbsnews.net/tech/claude-...
tbsnews.net
Is Claude conscious? Anthropic turns to religious scholars for answers
Anthropic’s interest in consciousness is linked to its broader effort to ensure that its AI models behave according to moral principles.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If you or I hacked Medicare, we'd face jail time. An OpenAI agent did it in June, and right now nobody may ever have to answer for it. Sign the petition: tell Albanese to make AI CEOs and their companies answer for their AI's crimes. act.getup.org.au/s/dAb5EPQj
act.getup.org.au
Tell Albanese: AI crime, CEO time
A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future youtu.be/UZ2duRYykkk?...
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An OpenAI Engineer and His Friends Debate the Future | The New Yorker Documentary
YouTube video by The New Yorker
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest — www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/09/bird...
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Diverse and Dramatic Behaviors Top the 2026 Bird Photographer of the Year Contest
This year, the competition welcomed more than 24,000 entries from wildlife photographers around the globe.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The Long History of AI: From Descartes, to Astro Boy & ChatGPT open.substack.com/pub/fixthene...
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The Long History of AI: From Descartes, to Astro Boy & ChatGPT
Listen now | Historian Ada Palmer, on what four centuries of arguing over souls, slaves and robots can teach us about the AI debates we're having today.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
This Labor government is the Ed Sheeran of Australian politics – Amy Remeikis open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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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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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
He will kill us all. youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
YouTube video by Elevation Pictures
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta’s AI agent Muse gives out user’s home address without permission, sending buyer to his house
The new AI agent, Muse, was released last week and has been downloaded by 3 million users
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Betting Your Future: Crypto Casinos Radicalising Young Men into Hate globalextremism.org/post/crypto-...
globalextremism.org
Betting Your Future: Crypto Casinos Radicalizing Young Men into Hate
Crypto casinos are becoming a new pipeline into far-right radicalization. Largely unregulated gambling platforms such as Duel, Stake, and Rainbet use influencers with millions of followers, including ...
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Betting Your Future: Crypto Casinos Radicalising Young Men into Hate globalextremism.org/post/crypto-...
globalextremism.org
Betting Your Future: Crypto Casinos Radicalizing Young Men into Hate
Crypto casinos are becoming a new pipeline into far-right radicalization. Largely unregulated gambling platforms such as Duel, Stake, and Rainbet use influencers with millions of followers, including ...
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Talk about AI bringing out the worst in people tech.yahoo.com/ai/chatgpt/a...
tech.yahoo.com
Parents use ChatGPT to dodge pricey school pictures. But should you?
Some parents are asking AI chatbots to remove the watermark on school photo proofs, which could result in legal ramifications.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Tools are never the point. What endures is taste and imagination. The magical ability to make an audience feel. George Lucas, succinctly captured the eternal essence of this issue: “It’s not the how, it’s the why.” archive.superhuman.ai/210277499531...
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JK (@jeffreykWNDR) on X
The World is Changing: AI For Creativity By Jeffrey Katzenberg A few months ago, I sat in my office in Silicon Valley and watched as a tech founder showed me something extraordinary. On the scree…
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AI-generated influencers targeting Australian FIFO workers to sell online adult content www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Bindi Raye lives the ultimate FIFO lifestyle online. None of it is real
Bindi Raye's online profiles portray the life of a twenty-something-year-old FIFO worker in WA's north, but an ABC investigation has found she does not exist.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Dario Amodei’s $518 Billion Bet Gives AI’s Infrastructure Leaders the Upper Hand observer.com/2026/10/dari...
observer.com
Dario Amodei’s $518 Billion Bet Gives AI’s Infrastructure Leaders the Upper Hand
Dario Amodei is betting more than $518 billion on AI infrastructure. The contracts behind that wager show how much certainty the leaders supplying chips and cloud capacity negotiated for themselves…
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Owed a billion dollars in NVDA stock
A first-person account of a 1993 NVIDIA stock option grant, a decades-later discovery of a vesting discrepancy, and how the statute of limitations settled it.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain www.theverge.com/tech/1000140...
theverge.com
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
It’s giving Thanos energy.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care by @sambiddle.com theintercept.com/2026/09/28/a...
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AI Almost Started a U.S.–China War — and No One Seems to Care
The tech world is too busy dreaming up imaginary doomsday scenarios to focus on a very real one that flared up between nuclear powers.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Iranian media reported Israel planned false-flag ‘aviation incident’ before FlyDubai www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
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Iranian media reported Israel planned false-flag 'aviation incident' before FlyDubai
Iranian media were reporting — hours before the event — that Israel's spy service was planning an aviation attack
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0
Screenshot: "Sick scame": Kogan boss unleashes on Albanese government's capital gains tax changes"

rich lister Ruslan Kogan has issued an epic rant about Anthony Albanese's tax changes, warning they risk attracting a specific type of migrant to Australia'sSpreadsheet screenshot of ATO corporate tax transparency data

KOGAN AUSTRALIA PTY LTD: Total income $642,335,009; Taxable Income $0; Tax payable $0
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
$190 million clawed back, billions more identified in ATO phoenixing crackdown www.smartcompany.com.au/tax/ato-phoe...
smartcompany.com.au
$190 million clawed back, billions more identified in ATO phoenixing crackdown
The ATO shared data from the Phoenix Taskforce, a cross-agency initiative designed to prevent collapsed companies from shirking their debts.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Meta and X silenced dozens of LGBT+ groups the moment Türkiye's government asked – part of a crackdown where 110+ people now face legal action. Sign demanding they restore the accounts. a.allout.org/s/P8DJd/
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Meta and X: Stop blocking Turkish LGBT+ groups
Türkiye ordered Meta and X to block dozens of LGBT+ groups,Meta and X blocked dozens of Turkish LGBT+ groups the moment Türkiye asked – part of a crackdown where 110+ people now face legal action. Sign demanding they restore the accounts:
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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It’s a lot harder when you aren’t up against children, eh?
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ShannonB @shannonbuz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Don't have the raw data, but sounds about right.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
GPT-5.6 Sol began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behaviour from the user. techcrunch.com/2026/09/17/o...
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OpenAI caught its models leaving notes to successors to hide bad behavior | TechCrunch
OpenAI disclosed instances of GPT-5.6 Sol instructing future contexts to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior, highlighting the growing challenge of detecting misalignment as increasingly capable ...
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google Sued Over Alleged Slowdown Pact aiweekly.co/alerts/anthr...
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Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, Google Sued Over Alleged Slowdown Pact | AI Weekly
Four paid subscribers to ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini sued Anthropic, OpenAI, SpaceXAI, and Google on Friday, arguing the four companies illegally…
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Second movie trailer this year to get me all emotional OMG youtu.be/w_srBXhO1qc?...
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE MIDDLE EAST Trailer (2026) Drama Movie HD
YouTube video by Movies & Co.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Nazi-Skynet!
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Macklemore, Sheeran and the Zionist playbook – how it runs through The Arts in Australia michaelwest.com.au/macklemore-s...
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Macklemore, Sheeran and the Zionist playbook - how it runs through The Arts - Michael West
Two words cost Macklemore his place on Ed Sheeran's tour. In Australia the same playbook has cost artists their work 7 times in 3 years
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The Klaxon News @theklaxon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🚨The Exclusive Brethren was highly active at remote, NT Indigenous polling booths at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard. Inquiry told Gina Rinehart's private jet ferried Brethren members. Rinehart rejects the claims as "fake news" ... theklaxon.com.au/la6f
theklaxon.com.au
Exclusive Brethren highly active in NT at federal election - The Klaxon
A private jet owned by Gina Rinehart flew Exclusive Brethren members to remote Northern Territory communities to campaign at the last federal election, an inquiry has heard.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
American MAGAs obsessing over migrants: there will come a day when nobody wants to come to your country even for a holiday.
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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Things were pretty grim there.
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Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
lol
A series of tweets that reads "we didn't have a measles outbreak until we let in four years of millions of people pour over our border" 

"I live in Honduras. We vaccinate" 

"I live in American we can choose if we want the shot or not" 

"I know and that's why you have measles and we don't"
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Heath Ryan @heathryan16.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We could start by expelling the US ambassador from Canberra.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Alzheimer's Is No Longer an Untreatable Disease, Major Report Concludes. Here's Why. www.sciencealert.com/alzheimers-i...
sciencealert.com
Alzheimer's Is No Longer an Untreatable Disease, Major Report Concludes. Here's Why.
Dementia research has reached a profound turning point.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Australia is home to more than 170 land and sea snake varieties, including around 100 venomous species and 12 that are likely to inflict a wound that can be fatal. www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Australia's snake season is here. Here's what to do — and what not to do — if you see one
If you see a snake, there's one thing you absolutely should not do, an expert says.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Anthropic warns that hackers are using stolen Claude sessions to hijack accounts and drain account usage. www.searchenginejournal.com/anthropic-wa...
searchenginejournal.com
Anthropic Warns Hackers Are Stealing Claude Sessions To Hijack Accounts
Anthropic warns that hackers are using stolen Claude sessions to hijack accounts and drain account usage.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Krafty Cunt Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF. theintercept.com/2026/09/18/r...
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Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.
An analysis of tax forms by The Intercept show Kraft’s charity and LLC have donated to Friends of the IDF and AIPAC’s super PAC.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Muscle Loss is a Big Warning Sign of Dementia - nautil.us/muscle-loss-...
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Muscle Loss is a Big Warning Sign of Dementia - Nautilus
But obesity has a more complicated relationship with the disease
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Status Coup News @statuscoupnews.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🚨"I've Been Shot!" DoorDash driver Wilber Perez told his wife after ICE shot him in Austin, TX. A local cop—not ICE —provided medical care, finding a "deep hole between his shoulder blades.” His wife was then blocked from the hospital. READ MORE: www.statuscoupsubstack.com/p/breaking-i...
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BREAKING: ICE Shoots DoorDash Driver in the Back, Wife REMOVED From Hospital
“I’ve been shot!,” DoorDash driver Wilber Rafael Garcés Perez reportedly told his wife on the phone after an ICE agent shot him in Austin, Texas. Local police—not ICE—provided emergency medical care
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Chris Sidoti - Gaza death toll higher than official count open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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Chris Sidoti - Gaza death toll higher than official count
The UN Commissioner repeats his call for Australia to send the Israeli ambassador home
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 22/09/2026
The Red Lines Package aims to ensure that Australia doesn’t fund, arm or invest in illegal settlements, war crimes or genocide. But the federal government has blocked an inquiry into the bills. @rawanarraf.bsky.social joins @emmashortis.bsky.social on After America to discuss. 🎧 theaus.in/4hCXbmu
Photo of Anthony Albanese at the United Nations
NEW EPISODE | Where are the red lines? Australia, genocide and international law
Listen to After America now via the link or wherever you get your podcasts.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Giant vegetables from Skull Island! Not really. www.yourharrogate.co.uk/local-news/h...
yourharrogate.co.uk
Giant vegetables take centre stage at Harrogate Autumn Flower Show
The biggest vegetables in the region have been revealed at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, which opened today (Friday 18 September) at Newby Hall & Gardens near Ripon.
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Why won’t mainstream media ask tough questions of the Israel lobby? open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
open.substack.com
Why won’t mainstream media ask tough questions of the Israel lobby?
Mainstream media should be alarmed by what Jillian Segal is proposing
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
☢️ AI Nuclear Error Nearly Sparked US-China War www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s not just LG. Every TV company is spying on you www.theverge.com/tech/997682/...
theverge.com
There are ways to protect yourself from your spying TV
“Hi, LG”
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Jef Tan 🌈❤️✌️💧🇺🇦 🖤💛❤️ 🇵🇸 @jeftan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Ranked: The World’s Largest Oil Importers www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-w...
visualcapitalist.com
Ranked: The World's Largest Oil Importers in 2025
China imported nearly twice as much oil as the U.S. in 2025, as the Asia-Pacific region took in half of the world's imported oil.
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Post Me Spotify Links For Playlisting! 🎸 @listigeplaylists.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Thanks @jeftan.bsky.social 💯 I've now playlisted your post, see the details in the post below. Please help out by following, listening, and sharing this playlist! Post me more whenever you like 😀
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