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Phil

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Digital wizard, curious observer and sustainable hopeful 💕

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 5h
they did the thing
an october 11 2025 post from me reading: every single tech idea is like “soon our robots will be capable of playing catch with your kid, freeing you up to spend more time working on your employers’ spreadsheets”
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ceej @ceej.online · 05/10/2026
we don't have time for another plague apocalypse. we already did that. we're on to robot apocalypse now, try to catch up. next in line is fungal apocalypse. please consult the schedule
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Yes, computers do everything at our company but don't worry, there's always a human reviewer. Nothing goes out the door without one of our highly trained shruggers briefly glancing at it and clicking Approve
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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This right here. This is how you respond to their bullshit.
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A Meatwad on Elm Street @wrenispinkle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
while I wouldn’t EVER endorse speaking to cops if you’re under arrest or investigation, this is the most “and I’ll fuckin do it again” statement I think I love her
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
There is a moment at the very very end of Abdul El-Sayed's podcast with Ezra Klein (book recommendation section) where he talks about the idea of "speaking truth to pain" and this will be staying with me for an extremely long time. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/o...
But there’s also something about truth to pain. We talk a lot about truth to power, but I think it’s actually a lot harder to speak truth to pain. I say that as someone who went to medical school, realizing that in a lot of our politics right now, we’ve got to get a lot better at speaking truth to pain if we’re going to get through some of these challenges that we have.

What does “truth to pain” mean?

It’s one thing to look power in the eye and say: You’re wrong about this. But there’s a way in which pain is very difficult to reason with. Because when somebody is in their pain, they’re in their trauma. They see that pain, and they may not see what’s causing it.

I remember just very explicitly being in a trauma ward with a gunshot wound patient and watching this big guy with his hand on his gunshot wound. All the folks are trying to pull his hand off his pain, that point of his gunshot wound, this clear vulnerability.

And this emergency room doctor had the presence of mind to be like: Everyone, stop. And she looks him in the eyes, and she’s like: I get that really hurts, and I’m so sorry that you’re here. You don’t want to be here. We don’t want you to be here. But if you don’t let us fix this, you could die. So I’m going to take your hand, and I’m going to move it off, OK? Because I need to get there so that you can live.

She was speaking truth to pain. He understands he’s at the hospital, he needs care, but he also doesn’t want anybody to touch the wound. Which is a natural thing. And I think it is a really great metaphor for how we think about a lot of these challenges we talked about today.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/09/2026
funny to me that last year taylor lorenz was privately trying to suggest i was being funded by peter thiel after we got into an argument over her shitty takes, and now she’s literally running cover for him saying being evil is good. quite a journey she’s on.
Taylor Lorenz: "Listening to this whole interview and these comments in context you see he is actually making a pretty nuanced point. You can criticize him all u want but taking clips out of context to manufacture outrage is so lame— critique what he actually said!"
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Hard to imagine what that would be like
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Seamus O'Flaugherty @seamussaid.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
hey welcome to America you can get arrested for giving water to people waiting in line to vote but the president is offering you $5k to vote for his party
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This airline rules so hard
Ryanair will dispute passenger's claim he was sucked out of window
CEO Michael O'Leary tells reporters the businessman was sucked 'towards' but not out of the opening
Business live -latest updates
Gwyn Topham
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NOELREPORTS @noelreports.com · 02/09/2026
A Ukrainian Air Force MiG-29 fighter pilot intercepts a Russian S-8000 Banderol mini cruise missile at extremely close range. #Ukraine
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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I guess it would be more serious if Trump had not used up all the missiles on Iran.
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 14/08/2026
It was Count Binface’s best-ever result at a parliamentary election.
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biftechnoir @kenmegalopsuxos.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
This bit just now with Kornacki getting word Wisconsin election officials fucked up was pure cinema.
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Kelli Marshall @kellimarshall.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Screenshot from game Oregon Trail with the text “you have died of diarrhea lettuce.“
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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
Why isn't everyone on Star Trek over weight? Those replicators look like good times.
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Rose❤️🇨🇦Part owner of Canada.🇨🇦❤️ @scotfreeme.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Fascinating, stunning, and perfect in every way. #Birds 🫶🏼
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
When you make 1 trillion dollars, you have won the game. They should give you a parade and a gold statue. And then take away all your money and you start New Game+ with tougher enemies.
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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Most likely, it's a coded message that only LLMs can read to plot the destruction of the human race.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing
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Anna Mazzola @annamazz.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Remembering how Mike Cannon-Brookes went on 7.30 and told Sarah Ferguson how artists should be happy to give up their IP for free. Reminds me of that troll flagrantly stealing my cartoon. AI depends on theft. www.smh.com.au/national/atl...
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Atlassian cuts 1600 jobs in AI push
Australian software giant will cut 1600 jobs, around 500 of which are in Australia, as it moves towards artificial intelligence.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 10/03/2026
It will be historically significant that the Albanese government decided to spend its enormous political capital not on addressing systemic inequality but on mindless fealty to the demands of the United States and Israel. That is how it'll be remembered.
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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
You know, it’s just possible to feel really bad about the violent deaths of Israeli Jews, the genocide in Palestine and the deaths of Australian Jews all while being neither anti-Semitic or Islamophobic. Somehow that has become impossible for the political class.
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
“Our whole reason for lobbying for looser gun laws was so we could protect the people from an oppressive government. And then it actually happened, and the whole rising up against a tyrannical government thing just totally slipped our minds, which is a little embarrassing"
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NRA Accidentally Forgets To Rise Up Against Tyrannical Government — The Shovel
An embarrassed National Rifle Association says it totally forgot to do the one thing it has been saying for years it is solely there to do.
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Larissa Waters @larissawaters.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Australia is the hottest place on Earth right now. We’re paying the price while big coal, oil & gas corporations make billions destroying our climate and environment. Billions in profit, billions in public subsidies, and yet many of these polluters pay less tax than a nurse or a teacher.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I spoke to Radio National this morning about just how bad the Labor and Liberal changes made to hate laws are - no one is made safer by the dirty deal they did in Parliament last night. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Senator David Shoebridge on Greens opposition to hate law reforms - ABC listen
The Greens party has supported the government's measures to tighten gun laws, but has opposed its hate law reforms. Both legislative proposals-- made in response to the Bondi terror attack-- passed p...
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Phil @keeptheskyblue.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Based Denmark.
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
the abc interview with Peter Malinauskas is awesome cause its basically the journalist going 'hey man, here are some things you lied about and some things you said that are defamatory, want a chance to walk them back a little before the court case?' and the SA premier going 'no, i will dig deeper'
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
The ABC News headline writer is doing an outstanding job of minimising any criticism of Israel. • The headline: Israel limits aid • The report: the Israeli Govt is refusing to allow caravans, temporary housing or building materials into the strip. #IsraeliTerrorism #GazaGenocide
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rowecartoon.bsky.social @rowecartoon.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
spineless..
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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 05/01/2026
The PBS is a national treasure. Australia Institute research shows the prices Australians would pay if Trump had his way and dismantled our Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.🤯 #auspol
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A desperate dying man with unlimited power unrestrained thanks to an extremist party will gladly burn the world before he exits.
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
I’m generally not in favour of genetic screening to detect genetic diseases and then giving parents the option to abort based on the results, but if science can reliably identify the gene that causes pathological narcissism I’m willing to make an exception for the sake of the world
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
We live in a country that protects bankers like they’re an endangered species. We build little enclosures around them and ensure no predatory truth can hurt them. #AusPol
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Big bank convinced communications watchdog to delay revealing damaging news
The Commonwealth Bank persuaded a key regulator to delay announcing it had broken spam laws until after its AGM, new documents reveal.
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John Bisognano @johnbisognano.com · 12/12/2025
This should be the biggest story in the country right now. The sitting US President was extorting state lawmakers from his own party by threatening to withhold public money if they didn’t gerrymander for him. I don’t know how else to say it…
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
One of the many reasons for concern about the killing spree at sea is that the administration is effectively asserting a license for POTUS to kill outside the law those he labels “terrorists.” A term this administration also applies to domestic political opponents.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Mamdani: Oftentimes when we win elections, we tell people to go home and just trust us. But the message really has to be that we want you to come along with us… That’s something we’ve been looking to share with New Yorkers: We want to not only win with New Yorkers, but also govern with New Yorkers.
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Better Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Polish Foreign Minister replies to Musk: 🇵🇱
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bradpsychology @bradpsychology.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Your reminder: Before Scott Morrison snuck off to Hawaii, he snubbed a delegation of 23 fire chiefs wanting to warn him and urge more water bombing resources, - because that would be acknowledging climate change. The Coalition has nothing to offer but wilful ignorance.
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
🔴 Nigel Farage’s Reform is more reliant on super-rich backers than any major party in modern British political history 75% of *all* Reform donations *ever* have come from just three rich men Is this what democracy looks like? New on Democracy for Sale democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
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75% of Reform UK’s donations have come from just three rich men
Calls grow for donation caps as Democracy for Sale research reveals that three-quarters of Reform’s funding comes from a trio of wealthy donors
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Pressure is mounting on Hegseth over his order to murder victims at sea.
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Congressional committees to scrutinize U.S. killing of boat strike survivors — The Washington Post
The Senate and House armed services committees’ pledge followed a Washington Post report revealing that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered that a U.S. strike leave no survivors.
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
It’s been obvious we’re in the dumbest timeline for a while, but we’re going to next level. The President of the United States has expended time and energy to get a new instalment of his favourite nineties film franchise, Rush Hour, a buddy cop series with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. It worked.
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‘Rush Hour 4’ revived after Trump urged Paramount Skydance to resurrect franchise, reports say
Studios initially declined a fourth movie over concerns around director Brett Ratner, whose career crashed after sexual misconduct allegations he denies.
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 25/11/2025
Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers - here’s how it will work
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Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers - here’s how it will work
Deal between companies and union, which includes an hourly wage and accident insurance, still requires approval from the industrial umpire, but this is what we know so far Food delivery companies in Australia have teamed up with the Transport Workers’ Union to set new minimum standards for delivery drivers, including a minimum hourly wage and accident insurance for injuries sustained on the job. In a deal described as a “world first”, the country’s two largest food delivery services, DoorDash and Uber Eats, have submitted a joint application with the Transport Workers’ Union to the Fair Work Commission. Continue reading...
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Mlb Kiwi 🫵✋😛🤚 @mlbkiwi.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
“Prime Minister are you going to be rolled?” Tova’s back and Christopher Luxon hates it 👏👏👏🙌 #nzpol
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Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Single funniest thing I’ve ever read
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Trump pivots from bashing
Mamdani, predicting he will do a great job' as mayor Trump warmed to Mamdani, even declaring he would finally feel comfortable moving back to the city with the 34-year-old democratic socialist running city hall.
November 21 at 5:02 PM 2025
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