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Moved from the other place after the otter feed became "compromised". Feeling incredibly confused about what constitutes an "otter" nowadays.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 28/08/2026
Opinion | Sami Shah has a new name for the Festival of Dangerous Ideas: the Festival of Ideas This Particular Sydney Audience Already Finds Agreeable. www.crikey.com.au/2026/08/28/f...
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Australia has dangerous ideas but no meaningful way to confront them
Audiences are going to places they trust less because those places provide a format trusted institutions often refuse to offer.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Instead of waiting until 2027 for "advice", maybe Labor could follow advice from its own 2020 Senate report that rejected the anti-intellectual & inequitable scheme as creating an "Americanised education system characterised by high levels of private debt". And get rid of it. As promised. In 2022.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Shifting. Geopolitics. There is opportunity. Where is the will? #auspol www.aljazeera.com/features/202...
A post from Sam Bentley about the surge in solar panel use in Pakistan, using imported Chinese panels.  "The fastest distributed solar rollout anywhere, built almost entirely with private money"
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 05/07/2026
Is Australia ready for a right-wing, algorithm-driven, YouTube-led new media empire? trib.al/cB7hw6J
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The rise of right-wing media’s ‘creator economy’
The model of the mainstream media is being rapidly overtaken by a ‘creator economy’, where angertainment and right-wing content prove the ultimate money-spinner.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Learn from history. Or the opportunists who repeat verbatim the American talking points will unleash the same self destruction in Aus. Be aware. Be alert. Be ready. This is not the US. #auspol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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America is destroying itself. It’s no surprise | Stephen Marche
Scholars will someday wonder how the richest country in history chose to throw it all away. But the crisis has been there since the beginning
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Grifters are gonna grift. #auspol
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This is what I’ve been saying to people who say “I just don’t get how so many people have suddenly decided to support Pauline.” It’s not her policies. It’s not what we hear in the mainstream media. There’s an entire ecosystem funded by Gina/Advance, modelled on mAgA. Direct marketing. Foreign op.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
I have seen quite a bit of commentary about Gina Rinehart’s looks. Don’t do it. Go after her because she is a sociopath, an economic predator, a fascist, a right wing lunatic, a nepo baby, she’s ignorant and mean spirited, she’s small minded and small hearted, attack her personality and character.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
We really do not need to treat this racist shit with any deference of “we talked to academics about what it might mean” type articles. Fricken hell.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Starting to hear/read/be aware of a growing movement. Particularly in the younger generation: New Luddites. Imagine it, human interaction in person #Luddite #NewLuddites #auspol www.npr.org/2026/06/19/n...
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Get with the times — here's what a 'Luddite' means today
It's often a derogatory term used to describe digital dinosaurs and technophobes. That wasn't always the case. NPR's Word of the Week looks back at the not so backwards-looking Luddites.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
"Hanson is a neoliberal populist hammering racially charged grievances and preying on fear, and her willingness to impress the ideologically aligned donor class will be more ravenous than the major parties’. She offers no broad coalitions, no detailed policies" #auspol theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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One Nation's ascendancy is a result of duopoly party failures - The Shot
Pauline Hanson addressed the National Press Club this week amid significant shifts in Australia’s political landscape. Recent polls have shown...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If I was a conspiracy theorist..... I'm sure I could come up with something about this war being a deliberate attempt to disrupt fossil fuel hegemony. But opportunists really should be "opportuning" right now. Cos, this really is the moment. #auspol #GreenEnergy #ShiftingGeopolitics
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 17/06/2026
Australian TV used to be the go-to money-making tool for media oligarchs. It's spent the last few years circling the drain. www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/17/s...
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Job cuts, takeovers and mergers can’t fix the mess that is Australian TV
From job cuts at Seven, to the Murdoch's streamer acquisition, to Nine offloading regional station assets, it's clear Australian TV is circling the drain.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
ICYMI. Meanwhile, the Canberra press gallery largely fails to join the dots on international trends towards fascism that are now clearly impacting Australia. And treats One Nation as a genuine grassroots political party. Rather than the toxic tip of a global spear. #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And palantir has access to Australian data. The most horrifying thing is that few people following our sleepwalk into fascism will be surprised. But tell me again about Chinese surveillance. Queue articles that seek to misdirect us. #auspol
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Tony Cartledge @decentral21.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Albo criticised the Morrison government for its “government by deception, government in secret” "According to the Centre for Public Integrity, the Albanese government is less transparent than its predecessor" #Auspol pearlsandirritations.com/post/2026/06...
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The Albanese government and the lobbying scourge
Declining trust in government is helping fuel One Nation’s rise, and the failure to properly regulate lobbying has left powerful insiders in gambling, defence and fossil fuels with too much influence ...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Well, isn't this interesting #ai the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
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Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators ...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Shifting. GeoPolitics. #auspol
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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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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Will yellow Clive disrupt Australian politics... again? Or will this time around impact all the fascists on the right, instead? My letterbox is already soiled by his bullshit junk mail #auspol I'm exhausted by it already. Oh, and Clive pay your fucking employees
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Wait! There's a tea towel with Julia's misogyny speech? That is SO Australian. Where can I find this most outstanding tribute? #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Well this makes me very nervous. This isn't as simple lawmakers want to believe. It will be copied by government in places like Australia. This will get messy. #auspol au.pcmag.com/security/117...
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Your Computer May Soon Require an Age Check. And It Might Not Take ‘No’ for an Answer
Age verification laws are moving beyond porn sites and social media. Soon, your operating system could be required to know how old you are.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My summary of how I would give this speech were I Minister for Employment. Mutual obligations are bullshit. Privatized employment services are cruel. Jobseeker payments are cruel magnified.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
"... public discourse often treats them as extensions of their parents’ choices rather than individuals shaped by years of trauma, instability and exposure to violence." #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The children of IS-linked families must not be treated as extensions of their parents – but individuals shaped by years of trauma | Peta Lowe
Islamic State committed extraordinary brutality. But how Australia treats the children returning from Syria is a test of our humanity
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
China is a large country. It will be interesting to see how quickly long haul e-trucks become more accessible and more common. Windows of opportunity and all that. #auspol www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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Iran war to accelerate China's shift to electric trucks from diesel
The jump in diesel prices triggered by the Iran war is expected to accelerate ​electrification of China’s heavy truck fleet this year, analysts and automakers say, and speed a decline in fuel demand i...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Shifting. Geo-politics. A window of time and opportunity for Australia to position itself as a renewable superpower. Anyone? No? #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
See previous discussion re changing geo-politics. #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
25 years ago I was living in Norway. Even then Govt policy existed to incentivise EVs and, significantly, dis-incentivise big motor/big fuel cars. This is long term and strategic planning. #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
This development is part of the bigger picture of shifting geo-politics. Countries free from oil dependency. Free from any dependence on fossil fuels. Seize the day and all that. #auspol interestingengineering.com/energy/panel...
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New panels produce hydrogen fuel using only water and sunlight
Photreon aims to boost the hydrogen economy with photoreactor panels that produce fuel directly from sunlight and water.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Until Aus voters get really fucking angry & really fucking vocal nowt will happen except fossil industry outrage that its status as untouchable is being challenged. Supported in turn by Aus media outrage at the audacity of "those types" forgetting their place. Call your MP Call your senator #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
But cunts like mining companies get subsidies. Elite private schools get funded more than public schools. Our fucking taxes. Our fucking money pays for rich people to keep their snouts in the trough while we as a society continue to fuck over the vulnerable and powerless. #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
This shit is an attempt to scare people away from protesting. It's just so fucking wrong.
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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There are only two types of people who love war. Those who don’t have to fight in them and those who profit from them. And they are very often the same people.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
"Here’s the bleak connective tissue between Epstein, Pelicot, and the Syria camps: the world is saturated with systems where men believe they are entitled to women’s bodies, and where institutions quietly agree." www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/27/i...
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Epstein, the Pelicot case and the ISIS brides are the same story in different fonts
This isn't a 'not all men' piece. That’s a separate genre, usually published in the comments section beneath a news story about murdered women, by a man named 'Dave' whose profile picture is a flag.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
iPod to iPhone seemed like a natural evolution. Tech people building cool shit becoming tech people developing fuck off EVs seems logical to me www.euronews.com/next/2026/01... #EV
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This electric car lets you fix it yourself - no mechanic needed
What if your electric car didn’t need a mechanic? Built by students in the Netherlands, a new electric car is designed to be easily dismantled and repaired by its owner.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Experiencing the consequences of her choices would be nice. But manipulation is her superpower and the media just plays along. #auspol
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Whatever words one prefers to describe Pauline Hanson, too many self aggrandising, self important, middle aged white men all think they can put her in her place and take over One Nation. All, without fail, underestimate her. #auspol
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The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 29/01/2026
A term to know in this world with AI: Cultural stagnation. It’s the slow flattening of creativity into polished sameness. The algorithm just doesn’t know how to be weird and creative like humans do. tcnv.link/pJci63b
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 02/01/2026
There's a global solar energy revolution happening led by China and it should have been one of the biggest stories of 2025. While the US is committing to a suicide pact with fossil fuels, the rest of the world is leapfrogging into cheap nearly limitless energy. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/c...
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Cheap Solar Is Transforming Lives and Economies Across Africa
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What's going to happen to the power dynamics of the world when the "global south" buys affordable solar panels from China? When people in those countries can then explore business opportunities because electricity is easy and cheap. #auspol #renewables
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Several Australian retailers have kept facial recognition technology (FRT) on despite the Australian Privacy Commissioner ruling Kmart and Bunnings’s use of the technology illegal, sparking concerns from computer scientists, unions and privacy advocates ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Retailers still using facial recognition tech
Sparks workplace and consumer rights concerns.
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
In the halcyon days of digital people used to just use BitTorrent to get to content because all the powers that be tried to deny digital. They're all still fucking about. People just want the content. BitTorrent will re-emerge as "the way" #BitTorrent
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
"deliberately ignorant". DELIBERATELY
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Little Tim Wilson" doesn't seem to have learned that using all those US name calling tactics doesn't work in Australia quite the way they expect. And Punter's Politics laughs back so well "we don't want a culture war" #auspol www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD31...
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The Moment a YouTuber Became a Threat to the Liberal Party | Punters Politics
YouTube video by Punter's Politics
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Decarbonisation represents a massive opportunity for Australia. China gets this and is making the transition. Well beyond time for Australia to embrace the change. #renewables #auspol share.transistor.fm/s/372cf290
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Matt Kean on staying the course to net zero | The Energy Connection | Episode 1
Australia's energy transition is at a tipping point. Clean energy records are being broken every month. Australia is being held up as an example of a fossil fuel nation successfully turning towards re...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Money talks. The conversations have begun www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/c...
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
"The technology of generative AI on its own isn’t inherently bad. But the rush to embrace it at the cost of people’s lives, the environment and the concept of truth in the modern world, certainly fits all the parameters of evil." theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
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Writing has nothing to fear from AI - just from those who support it - The Shot
“We’re seeing a year-on-year decline on text,” said Facebook VP for Europe, Middle East and Africa, Nicola Mendelsohn, in a...
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A/Prof Narrelle Morris @narrellemorris.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
My article “Current Approaches to the Use of Generative AI in Australian Courts and Tribunals: Should Australian Judges Have Guidelines Too?” is now out in the Journal of Judicial Administration! Short answer: yes. Slightly longer answer: nobody should be using it for legal research or writing.
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 24/09/2025
Roblox, Whatsapp and many other tech platforms will need to ‘self-assess’ and ask to be excused from Australia’s looming social media restrictions for under-16s.
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Social media age restrictions may go further than you thought. Here’s how
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Kvinnen @kvinnen.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
There is not enough discussion about the China that is emerging. A China that is not dependent on, nor beholden to ..... oil. Australia could be a wind/solar super power. China seems to understand the opportunity. #auspol
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