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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 1h

Welcoming Jerry to Ausposting with a Milton Mango as a (cruel) joke.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

We'll have to ask the BBC for merchandising rights.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I can think of a few. Could be to muddy the waters. If they're thinking about another IP, they don't just want to ask about just that one. A few extra well known IPs to round out the list is useful. It's also a useful yardstick for the IPs they're actually asking about. But this is all speculation.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Slaan style humanoid frog-people has been my mental image of them, but straight up magic frogs is also cool.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Okay, but an alternative: we know a bunch of humanoid races are similar because Old Ones. If the Old Ones and Necrontyr are both humanoid, the simplest explanation is that it's because of another, even older race of aliens making humanoids. I call it the Even Older Ones theory.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

(Also, the whfb banner of evil reference to Maggie is much stronger than any 40k ref, but that's it's own topic.)

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

It's a continuation of the themes already present and was contemporary. It probably wasn't a comment on the law specifically, but it definitely applies to the general case.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Dark Angel poem as a reference is pretty obvious. Like, it's about the secret shame of queerness. Given the context of the rest of the work, a pro-queer reading of the reference is the only one you can come to. Extending it to a law specifically is an extension, but

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

But you'd have to be obtuse to not see any points the creators made.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The young ones is a great example. It has a pretty explicit spiel about racism in the police force. Sure, it's not a central theme, but you have to go out of your way to ignore it. There's another about the role of activism, about a bunch of contemporary politics. The series doesn't have one point,

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Lesbian Amazons have been canon since before 40k, in an explicitly anti-colonial narrative. Yeah, it doesn't have the signs and flags of today, but the politics aren't subtle nor mistakable.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

People can overfit, but, fundamentally, they're in line with the original themes and thoughts more than those of us nitpicking. Gabs and Jayne weren't female space marines, but they were sculpted to be.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

But Warhammer had topical activism all along. Een McWrecka wasn't a coincidence, core themes are still relevant. People talk about how 40k is a pastiche but not about how the media it chose to absorb speaks to a message.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The pit does the same thing for the psyche as church or a good football chant. Your soul needs a way to feel community, but it doesn't have to be deep. It can be shoving other idiots around as someone sings about not being a cunt.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Does an office job make your taste in music worse?

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My friends who don't work hospo have terrible taste in music. Had a last minute ticket for free to a local punk institution's final gig, couldn't find any takers who aren't working. Loads of people who were keen but rostered on. (Ignoring friends who don't want to be in a crowded room, fair enough.)

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Killian's Curse from Helpful God-Alien?

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

100%. Dismissing cartoons as not art is stupid, but never let it be said I won't be stupid in pursuit of a punchline.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Imagine trying to evoke this with subtlety ad grace for a decade to an audience who doesn't give a shit, then the seppo dingo holds a blank sign with a text edit and it blows your masterwork out of the water. I too would become a loon rather than deal with those ramifications. 😅

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

This is art. People have struggled for decades with oil on canvas to wring 10% of the emotion out an audience that this cartoon coyote did with a 30sec screenshot edit. This is also why artists are fucking insane:

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I should say not Nether tonight, there's at least two regulars.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Live band: "Where's my statisticians at?" Not Nether, but if that was gonna hit, here's the bar.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Learn to code, weld, stitch, be a good conversationalist, a caring and compassionate lover, and have the ability to run a meeting.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Given that GW also has gotten caught deleting artist names from artwork, I am suspicious of their stated motivation.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Dunno, we'll find out eventually. 😅 Always something misplaced tho.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(Somehow this is not a complaint about the 40k fandom.)

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

(I can complain about complaints, I was pro-complaints all along.)

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I get why people might want to avoid engaging with complaints in fandom. There's always going to be good and bad faith criticisms about anything in a big fandom. I don't get the people who see that and respond to complaints is by adding yet more complaints, solely about there being complaints.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I'm glad you survived / sorry for our loss.

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caitbsky.bsky.social @caitbsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

#AusPol Disappearing children from the streets and keeping them isolated away from their trusted adults. Sounds like an #Epstein agenda.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

AI is a useless term because it either means LLMs, or anything Machine Learning, or Everything A Computer Does Without Direct User Input (and sometimes Computer Stuff We Want To Sell).

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

C3P0 can't ethically do art because he is spending the time learning to shoot the baster to join John Brownbot.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Pretending it's the same because it is called the same thing isn't a philosophical premise, it's just word games. What if the thief was a urinal cake inspector? That doesn't really have anything to do with him taking my Black Forest Cake, except for a bit of etymological connection.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

It's not a person so training an AI isn't the same thing as a person learning. What if fictional robot is a person? What if I could have my cake and they could take it too? C3P0 isn't a machine learning algorithm, he's an actual artificial person. That's not the same thing.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Sure but that's like saying that I can't object to people stealing my cake on principle, just because I wanted my cake. Yeah, you've knocked it on the head, that is the principle. The reason we can object to AI training on people's art is because it's not a person.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I don't know why. I think I try and pin Brave New World on like four or five different people, no idea why. My brain hears some names and just decides "ahh, yes. They wrote this book."

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Me too. But in my case it's mixing him up with Aldous Huxley.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

What, like some sort of article? Some sort of article he could link in the original post, where the headline would be followed by more sentences giving context to that core point? Merely by clicking this link one could access this full article. A marvellous idea, sadly it'll never catch on.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Surely American politics and fascism are related topics at this stage. When the Sec Def is inked as a Christian Nationalist, it's at least a serious conversation on the table, no?

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Need to read more of his stuff. It's all on 'the list' bit any personal reccos for where go start?

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I'm gald journalistic integrity was upheld.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

What's the name of god? Sorry I'm bad at names.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Yeah, but also, we chose to associate with you after we've heard the shit you say out loud. <3

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

It's also conflating novel with valuable. Everyone learns basic maths, and that is pretty valuable. On topic, travelling almost anywhere abroad gives you experiences that you can't get at home and many of those are valuable because they challenge the assumptions of home.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Don't panic too much, the editions are shorter. They've settled into 3 years per edition, so they're more like half editions compared to what you'd be used to. 6th didn't even make 2 years.

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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 30/05/2026

"While they have been self-represented for almost all of the legal matters, information released under FoI shows the NDIA has spent more than $330,000 on legal fees and expenses to fight the family on the most recent matter alone, briefing barristers and a King’s Counsel to represent them."

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Six-year-old Sienna’s parents have fought the NDIS every year of her life for funding that keeps her alive

Sienna has cerebral palsy, cannot talk and needs her lungs suctioned every few minutes. Her mother June ‘can tell you exactly what every cent’ in her NDIS plan is for

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Inflicting upsetting acronyms on people? It's a sport and I'm medium okay at it.

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LeftBower ⚒️ @leftbower.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Millennial Adult Lego Fan (MALF)

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