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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

According to the officer, each runner was assigned between four and six police, dressed as competitors, running the 42 kilometres beside them. michaelwest.com.au/sydney-marathon-…

Sydney Marathon. Who told NSW Police to run bodyguard for Israel’s army?

The point is bigger than six runners. Up to 40 current and former IDF soldiers were admitted to Australia without any apparent screening, for a fun run, in the face of public anger at who they were and what they had reportedly done in Gaza.

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

“The United Nations’ food agency said Tuesday it is halving food assistance in the Israeli-occupied West Bank because of severe funding shortages and warned it may be forced to make further cuts in Gaza” Giada Zampano & Silvia Stellacci, @apnews.com: apnews.com/article/un-p...

apnews.com

UN food agency halves West Bank aid because of funding shortages, warns new cuts may be needed

The United Nations' food agency is halving food aid in the Israeli-occupied West Bank because of severe funding shortages. The U.N.

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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I wrote a thesis on how H5N1 could spillovet into other animals. It consists of a title that is, coincidentally, also the content. "Birds crap everywhere" The End

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

2/ Deltares, the Dutch government's water research institute, calculated in 2019 that a 2018-scale event would hit roughly once every 60 years, rising to once every 10–20 years by 2050. It has now happened in 2018, 2022 and 2026. www.h2owaternetwerk.nl/vakartikelen...

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Speaking on his podcast What’s the Point, @richarddenniss.bsky.social said over the past 30 years, the RBA has convinced itself and Canberra that using interest rates was the best way to address inflation. Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260805-i...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2026

🇱🇧 Israel’s Def. Min. publicly boasted that Israel had destroyed 24 Shi'ite villages in southern Lebanon. "We destroyed all the buildings, not house by house, no incrimination. All these villages have been completely destroyed, 15,000-20,000 homes.” 🔹Haaretz reports... 🔗 Full report linked below.

🇱🇧 Israel’s Defense Minister publicly boasted that Israel had destroyed 24 Shi'ite villages in southern Lebanon. "We destroyed all the buildings, not house by house, no incrimination. All these villages have been completely destroyed, 15,000-20,000 homes.”

🔹Haaretz reports, citing Planet Labs imagery, that Israel has seized roughly 600 square kilometers (230 square miles) of southern Lebanon, extending as far as 12 kilometers inside the country, while razing villages and entrenching its military presence, similar to its actions in Gaza.

🔹Israeli forces have built at least 7 new bases and 32 kilometers of logistical roads across the occupied area, also seizing strategic positions such as Beaufort Castle and Christofani Ridge, and destroying the overwhelming majority of buildings in major population centers like Khiam and Maroun al-Ras.

🔹Defense minister Katz has declared that 200,000 Lebanese would not return home. A senior defense official described the objective as creating a “scorched earth mindset.”

🔹A senior officer said troops were ordered to prepare to remain for up to a year, while Defense Minister Katz instructed the military to build outposts “as if we would stay there for 50 years.”

🔗 Full report linked below.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 08/08/2026

⭕️ Israel is holding at least 191 Palestinian children w/o charge or trial under admin. detention, up from 103 in Jan. 2025, according to data from Parents Against Child Detention reported by the Times of Israel. The March 2026 figure represents an 85% increase in just over a year. Under admin...

⭕️ Israel is holding at least 191 Palestinian children without charge or trial under administrative detention, up from 103 in January 2025, according to data from Parents Against Child Detention reported by the Times of Israel.

The March 2026 figure represents an 85% increase in just over a year.

Under administrative detention, Palestinians can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial. They are generally not told the full allegations against them, while evidence used to justify their detention is routinely classified and withheld from them and their attorneys.

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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026

I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it to her. No Parliament ratified it .. Nobody asked you." Andrew Brown #auspol #antisemitism michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-st...

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The Segal State: the office Australia never voted for - Michael West

Antisemitism Envoy Jillian Segal holds power over what Australians may say, teach, report and believe. No election gave it her. Andrew Brown

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Bruce Webber @drbrucewebber.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

A #newpaper reveals that feral cats in Australia likely kill far more Australian native animals than previously thought. DNA analysis picked up more small and soft bodied prey compared to traditional gut content assessments. theconversation.com/feral-cats-l... #bioinvasions

theconversation.com

Feral cats likely kill far more Australian native animals than we thought: first DNA analysis

We cannot fence the whole of Australia. Therefore, we need to know which species are most at risk from cats.

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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

Apparently we've got 162 gen ai data centres in Australia, & "90 in the pipeline, including some of the largest in the world." Here's a petition to pause them, for anyone concerned about the fossil fuel & water guzzling, climate change acceleration, noise pollution & long term health impacts, etc.

getup.org.au

Stop the Data Drain

An independent movement to build a progressive Australia and bring participation back into our democracy.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Kmart is selling home-brand pervert goggles for $89. (Pretty urgent we do something about all this eh?)

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RandyLand @randyland65.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Global warming is real .... just slow

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Edwin Heathcote @edwinheathcote.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

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Michelle Fahy @michellefahy.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Yup, along with 9 other weapons multinationals and 11 other corporations working for arms industry. More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf See my investigation from November undueinfluence.substack.com/p/arms-indus...

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Arms industry infiltrates National Press Club

More than a quarter of the National Press Club’s sponsors are part of the global arms industry or working on its behalf

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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This might be one of the funniest chart about energy scenarios I’ve seen. You can hardly see “actual” for gas

Winners and Losers
The IEA overestimated gas growth in Asia and underestimated solar

Gas
• Forecast 547 TWh
• Actual 17 TWh

Solar
• Forecast 465 TWh
• Actual 1,333 TWh

Note: Shows expected growth in Asian power generation between 2018 and 2025, based on actual 2018 generation, actual 2025 generation, and the 2018 World Energy Outlook's Current Policies Scenario estimates for 2025. Actual 2025 generation figures are from Ember.
Source: International Energy Agency, Ember, Bloomberg Opinion calculations

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

SA Labor politicians voting to restrict access to abortion - absolutely atrocious. These people are demonstrating in real time that they will not challenge the far right, but will instead take up their positions if and when it suits them.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

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Kelsey Johnson @profkelsey.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

FYI #SpaceX is leading an uncontrolled global-scale experiment in the upper atmosphere as satellites are vaporized in the upper atmosphere on reentry. The impact on atmospheric chemistry, aerosol microphysics, cloud formation, and radiative effects are not currently well understood. ✨🔭🧪🛰️

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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

There are plants flowering in my local area now, in June, that normally flower in November, and this article from the national broadcaster uses words like “enjoy” and “rejoice” to describe weather which is frankly terrifying, and doesn’t even mention climate change: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

abc.net.au

Parts of Australia on track for warmest start to winter on record

An influx of humid, tropical air has resulted in a remarkably warm and relatively wet start to winter across Australia.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/06/2026

I Excel'd the power cons of Google's deal with Elon Musk's fossil-fuelled data centre. Took me ~10 seconds Claude returned a similar answer, but consumed as much energy as **fully discharging** two smartphones, to do it This is why the shift to reliance on LLMs bloats energy consumption so badly

“We believe our compute infrastructure and related strategy provide us with substantial flexibility in how we allocate and monetise capacity,” SpaceX wrote in its IPO filing inside the section of “compute service agreements with third parties.”

Over a hundred thousand dedicated processors
According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, processors and memory components deployed in SpaceX’s data centres.

The utilisation window will be between October 2026 and June 2029.

The regulatory filing of SpaceX

111000 units

700 watts

77700000 watts
77.7 MW

Here's a breakdown of the power consumption for 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, using the H100 as the reference (the most common high-end AI GPU):

Power Consumption: 110,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs
Per-GPU specs
The H100 PCIe model has a TDP of 350W, while the SXM5 (data center) variant supports up to 700W TDP. Hyperstack

Total power at scale
ScenarioWatts per GPUTotal PowerH100 PCIe (350W)350 W38.5 MWH100 SXM5 peak (700W)700 W77 MWAvg operational (500W)500 W55 MW
On average during operations, an H100 draws around 500W, so a realistic cluster of 110,000 would consume roughly 55 megawatts under typical load. LinkedIn

To put 55–77 MW in perspective:

⚡ ~45,000–65,000 average homes — a small city's worth of residential electricity
🏭 Comparable to a mid-sized industrial facility or large data center campus
🌍 About the power output of a small hydroelectric dam
📅 Annually (~61% utilization): roughly 290,000–410,000 MWh/year

Annual energy cost (at $0.07/kWh data center rates)
ScenarioAnnual kWhEst. Cost/year350W / 61% util~207M kWh~$14.5M700W / 61% util~414M kWh~$29M

Context: 110,000 H100s is roughly the scale of a large hyperscaler AI cluster — similar to what Microsoft, Google, or Meta deploy for frontier model training. The cooling and power infrastructure alone for such a cluster is a significant engineering challenge, typically requiring dedicated substations and often liquid cooling systems.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My latest article in The Shot After spending obscene amounts of taxpayer's money on luxury travel, office refurbishments and airfares from their homes to their Canberra office, I examine the high price Australians have paid so far for an impotent NACC #auspol #NACC theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

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The NACC: The high price you pay for corruption - The Shot

Let’s all cast our minds back three years to July, 2023, when the much-anticipated National Anti-Corruption Commission officially started life…...

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

It's closer to 220 staff, most of whom travel around telling everyone about their job And the Commissioner, the 3 Deputy Commissioners and the CEO have all been paid over $11 million since it opened in July 2023 Yes, $11 million One conviction. No public hearings

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Jommy Tee @jommytee.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

In March 2025, I put in an FOI request: Segal's secret US trip. The request was denied, but I did get 70 pages of completely redacted docs. A question was asked at a subsequent Senate Estimates. Last week Tony Bourke lodged a Public Interest Immunity claim #transparencyfail

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Antoinette Lattouf @antoinettelattouf.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Past 24hrs: Penny Wong sanctioned West Bank Israeli settlers & entities for horrific violence against Palestinians. Charlie Pickering also gave an interview to a DV offender/former IDF soldier scolding Grace Tame's new ABC autism podcast. Guess which story got dozens of writeups & which barely any?

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nancyfriel.bsky.social @nancyfriel.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I'm going to show this pic to my doctor the next time she asks me if she can use AI to write my notes.

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Andrea Is Sick of Long Covid @andreastudiescovid.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Isn't there some way to get respirators to these areas? It's not like we're trying to get them MRI machines or ventilators. JFC, people don't need to die for lack of PPE in 2026. 🤬

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Cash for access. Property developer David Trask, who owns land in a special state development area, has bid $50k for lunch with Jarrod Bleijie. The Crisafulli government removed the donation ban recommended by the CCC in March after being in place for 8yrs. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05...

abc.net.au

Property developer bids $50,000 donation for lunch with deputy premier

The developer, David Trask, made the successful bid as a donation at lunch on Friday for the ruling LNP, held at the Brisbane Convention Centre and dubbed "Delivering for Queensland Industry Update".

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Madhusudan 🦉 Katti @leafwarbler.myatproto.social · 09/05/2026

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

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A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure — POLITICO

Residents in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed low water pressure last year. The utility discovered two unaccounted-for water connections at one of the nation’s largest data center campuses.

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norman emailer @maximumchips.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Apply yourself to the degree that Aussie journalists are applying themselves to the task of putting together takes about One Nation’s popularity that don’t involve making the observation that a large number of racist people want a racist to represent their racist views racistly

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Laurel Bristow @laurelbristow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

There’s a lot of bad, wrong, social media posts on hantavirus happening right now but the funniest one I’ve seen was a woman who said she had really bad news: while it’d previously been reported the incubation period could be as long as 8 weeks…she learned it could actually be up to 45 days!

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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

young people see footage of Israelis committing genocide posted to social media by Israelis committing genocide, Jillian. The footage is not fashionable, it is utterly depraved.

Jillian Segal, the government's special envoy to combat antisemitism, said young Australians had become especially hostile to Jewish people.
Conflation of the Israeli government with Jewish people was Australia's "fastest-growing" form of antisemitism, she said.
"It's almost fashionable, so if someone that they follow online, an influencer, is of that view, they adopt that view," Segal said.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Treasury modelling shows Morrison's job-ready graduates program means one in four humanities students will take more than 25 years to fully repay their student loans. It also increased the amount of debt held by the gov that will never be repaid www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Chart showing HELP debt payback times for various degree categories under the job-ready graduate scheme and pre-JRG. Under the JRG arts students now face much higher payback times, with a quarter having a payback time over 25 years

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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Psychologists are screaming internally about this

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/04/2026

CMEWA were the organisation that, when South Australia suffered a state-wide blackout in 2016, immediately paid for fake social media posts www.buzzfeed.com/markdistefan...

Gemma Rubensohn
@rubensohn_gemma
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Bring back coal to SA! - this is bloody unacceptable to have a whole state sitting around in the dark. Aren't we a developed country?
11:18 AM-29 Sep 2016

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

A 'populist campaign' unlike the under 16 social media ban that was driven by a media outlet, and the bans on phrases driven by the Zionist lobby, which you were very quick to support. OK fuckwit

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Long Covid Linked to Brain Changes, Cognitive Decline. New imaging research on 200+ people suggests post-COVID brain changes contribute to cognitive decline similar to early neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and may be predictive of future dementia risk. Source: archive.md/0TDTt

An article preview from Medscape titled "Long Covid Linked to Brain Changes, Cognitive Decline," written by Heidi Splete.
The headline is accompanied by a 3D medical illustration of several SARS-CoV-2 (coronavirus) particles. The primary virus in focus is a dark blue sphere covered in prominent, textured orange spike proteins. Similar viral particles are visible in the blurred background against a dark, speckled blue environment that suggests a microscopic or biological space.
Below the title, a timestamp indicates the article was posted 24 hours ago.

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Esther @elhopkins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It’s worth thinking that this was a known fact, four years ago. Well done to Forbes for publishing it. Now consider why Covid has never entered the debate on mental health?

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

You mean the superannuation tax breaks? No? You mean the CGT discount? No? You mean the fossil fuel subsidies? No? You mean the free gas for multinationals? No? You mean the failure of the PRRT? No? You mean the tax dodging trusts? No? You mean the lack of a wealth tax? No? No you mean the NDIS FFS

Headline from the AFR
"Time to end welfare for the wealthy, says big business"

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Australia has done nothing while Israel has assassinated journalists, medics, aid workers, diplomats, foreign & spiritual leaders. Through the war crimes & illegal invasions, Albanese has done nothing even to dissuade Israel – no sanctions, no support for arrest warrants. Is there even a red line?

nickfeik.substack.com

How will history regard the Albanese government?

On turning a blind eye to war crimes in Iran, Gaza and Lebanon

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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Found this to be informative video, that puts things into perspective. Via Max Fisher on Instagram www.instagram.com/reel/DWrsUcU...

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