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@latestarter99.bsky.social
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Antipodean, hockey-playing (not the one on ice), gen-x, tree-hugging, scientist. Sarcastic news junkie, who has been around enough to know that the people who want to lead us are the last people we need to lead us.

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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is the stance required from politicians across the globe. AI might have good uses, but its malicious capabilities are on display to the world and frankly companies cannot be trusted to act ethically. #ai #uspol #auspol
Criticism of OpenAI agents behaviour.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's probably anecdotal, but it seems to me that for every use of AI to benefit mankind, there are many more AI use cases for sheer intellectual laziness and malevolence. AI will result in the dumbing down of society not seen since the Dark Ages. #auspol #ai www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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She was convicted of a murder she says she didn’t commit. Then AI hallucinations stopped her speaking out
Tasmania’s Parole Board used a document citing legal authorities that do not exist to stop Susan Neill-Fraser proclaiming her innocence
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On brand for this prick
Macklemore is 2 weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon <satire>
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey @albomp.bsky.social , if I hacked the Medicare website, would you be "concerned", or would you throw me in jail. Standards matter. #auspol #ai
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Surprise, surprise. Now, how about someone use AI for a useful purpose and get it to expose the unredacted Epstein files. #epstein #ai
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two of my favourite finds from this morning. #auspol #uspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This will be #PHON voters if Poorline gets anywhere near government. #auspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A tool....
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Where is Australia's Mamdani? Can David Pocock inspire a nationwide legion of followers? God knows we need it. #auspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
If my vote landed with the ALP in the next election (thats a big "if"), will they have any comprehension that they got that vote only as the least worst option to govern Australia? #auspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every politician of the last 30 years should hang their heads in shame. This is on them.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Hahahahaha..... yeah, nah. Why should they change now? www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
Labor vows to listen to voters after One Nation's historic WA upset
The WA state by-election in the previously safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour was seen as a test of One Nation's popularity.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Why does the ALP have a national conference if Albanese can just ignore the wishes of the delegates? #auspol #gastax #immigraton
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The Government last week approved $2.5 billion in taxpayer funds to bail out the mining giant’s aluminium smelter near Newcastle. When the Government this week received an application from a women’s shelter for $2,500 in assistance, there was a mix-up. theshovel.com.au/2026/08/17/w...
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Women’s Shelter Accidentally Receives $2.5B After Government Misreads It As “Smelter” — The Shovel
A women’s shelter in NSW has received an unlikely injection of funds, after the Albanese Government mistook it for an aluminium smelter run by Rio Tinto.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
MAGA in a nutshell. Cruelty is the whole point, as long as it happens to someone else. There is no violin small enough for these selfish assholes. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/16/u...
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Years of Trump Support Came Undone in 15 Minutes in an Airport. (Gift Article)
The case represents a new front in President Trump’s mass deportation drive: arrests at airports of people who have active immigration cases and no criminal history.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
They have take kakistocracy to a whole new level. Mind-blowing incompetence. #uspol www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference
State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/r For anyone living in NSW, this petition to parliament is to force debate on "truth in political advertising". It already has 20,000 signatures, but always needs more.
nb.australiainstitute.org.au
Sign ePetition
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#auspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Oh, cool. So now we're meant to use AI to protect us from *checks notes" AI. #ai #ffs www.bbc.com/news/article...
bbc.com
Warning shot or publicity stunt - how worried should we be about the OpenAI hack?
Hugging Face said the hack was done at superhuman speed by an AI with little or no human guidance.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Has America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?
Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
#uspol #drumpf open.substack.com/pub/ifloz/p/...
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TARIFFING THE SKY: THE DUMBEST FUCKING INVOICE EVER WRITTEN
The man who calls coal clean is now invoicing a burning country for smoke
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oh yes....
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
When someone says it's raining outside, and another says not, the job of a journalist is to look out the window and report who is correct, not to give equal column inches to the person who is demonstrably wrong. nb.australiainstitute.org.au/r
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It’s the ABC’s job to be accurate and fair, not to chase the dangerous fallacy of ‘balance'
One of the oldest tropes in journalism is that it should be balanced; that journalists have a responsibility to present all sides of a given issue with equal weight. This view also holds that appearin...
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
F*ck AI. #AI
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In the ongoing series of @albomp.bsky.social 's spectacular inability to read a room (gas tax, anyone?), this time he rolls out the shortcut red carpet to AI data centres. Are all mainstream pollies in the pocket of the AI industry? #ffs #ai #auspol www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Anthony Albanese promises fast-track approvals for datacentres to shore up AI investment
PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Has anyone seen any snarky, nasty, vindictive posts about Sam Neill's death? No, because he was a great and caring man. Maybe the MAGA nuts complaining about the comments about Lindsey Graham's death should consider why reactions to the two passings are so different.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Pretty much the case in any country these days...
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
That explains a lot...
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Heads up. This fellow is to give evidence at the Anti-semitism Royal Commission. The analysis, or not, of this recent tweet will tell us everything we need to know about the motives of the RC commissioners. #auspol #Gaza
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Jillian Segal, Zionist apologist extraordinaire, complaining that actual reporting of the Gaza war makes Israel look bad. And by the way, look at that war over there.... How @albomp.bsky.social ever thought that giving her a megaphone was a good idea is beyond me. #auspol #Gaza #theGuardian
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
According to reports on the internet, there are not enough hours in the day for everyone to have spoken with Mitch McConnell for 20 minutes... 🤣🤣🤣 #uspol #McConnell
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I agree... crikey.us22.list-manage.com/track/click?... #auspol
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Sorry Spender and Steggall, 'sensible' centrism just isn’t going to cut it
Allegra Spender and Zali Steggall's new Community Strong party promises 'sensible economic management'. It won't be enough in this moment of political disruption.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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ajsaxx.bsky.social @ajsaxx.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
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Antfarmer @antfarmer.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Remember when the tobacco lobby and its apologists said sports like the NRL would collapse when you take their sponsorship out of the game? Bullshit Albo. #insiders
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I just bought an electric car, so my FB feed is full of EV stuff. A post I read about the longevity of EV batteries and their post-EV life had lots of likes, but also lots of laughing emoji reactions. Who were they? All male, bar one. All GenX and Boomer - your PHON voter base in a nutshell. #auspol
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
If only there was an additional requirement for schools and unis to teach the entire history of the Middle East, you know, from Crusades all the way to the f%kery of the Allies after the world wars, and all the conflicts up to the present day.. #auspol campaigns.schwartzmedia.com.au/t/i-l-vlyhyh...
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'No place for the poison of antisemitism': New warning for universities
The government's Antisemitism Education Taskforce, led by David Gonski, has equipped teachers with new resources to tackle antisemitism and promote "Australian values".
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Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
*Spits coffee out…. 🤣 #BookSky
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I am a bit discombobulated. Amanda Vanstone speaking truth... #auspol iview.abc.net.au/show/insider...
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Insiders: 'She doesn't give a rats about you': Amanda Vanstone on Pauline Hanson
While Pauline Hanson struggled to define what she meant by a 'monoculture', Angus Taylor hesitated to back in the long held liberal party policy of a multiculturalism.  Former Multicultural Affairs a...
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Watching a Fox reporter cut and run when his tactics are used back at him. Gold.
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Maggie From The Commonwealth (God save it!) @5thkid.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
I’ll respect Massie AFTER he reads the names of the rapists in the Epstein records on the floor of the House.
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Jen 🐦‍🔥 @jen4man.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Yes, it does. 🤨 #jokesters
They say ‘the machines of the future’ will be as smart as people…Oak, but WHICH people? Because it kinda matters quite a bit.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Hanson is clueless. Doesn't even realise that, in her bluster and indignation, she is advocating for a parental leave system that the ALP is already implementing. #auspol #phon
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I always thought FIFA was corrupt, but this World Cup, its collusion with the Trump regime is next level. #FIFA needs to be destroyed and a completely new governing body established with a 100% clean out of all management and delegates.
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wow. Just wow. 🤯
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🇨🇦 l.faraday 🇨🇦 @mizati.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I always wonder how much science would have advanced if it wasn’t held back by religion. #Atheist
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Anyone who has gone through transitioning a mentally declining parent into care can identify with Iranian negotiators right now. #Iran #uspol
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
The Strait is open, or closed, or ..... #Iran #uspol #hormuz
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latestarter99.bsky.social @latestarter99.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
#auspol thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
The great Australian tax grumble is getting old
Complaining about paying tax has long been a favourite Australian hobby, but perhaps it's time to change our tune – one can't have champagne tastes for government-funded services if you only grant the...
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