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Elissa 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈

@libris55.bsky.social
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Interested lots of things - medieval history, politics, tv shows - but mainly fairness and equality for all

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
When you realise how history will judge you
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t eat the salmon! #Toxic #Tasmania
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Jessica D. M. 🇺🇦 🇦🇺 🇨🇦 🇵🇦 🇬🇱 🪃 🟧 @jessicaperthwa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#auspol @laboraus.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
honestly most be dope to be so rich you don’t even need to know where you are
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j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social @j0yj0yj0y.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yes. The more people are unable to perform basic critical thinking tasks for themselves the more dependent they will be on the product he is selling.
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Elissa 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @libris55.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A reminder that Musk is also besties with Gina Rinehart who is besties with Pauline Hanson
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Just gonna light this bag of dogshit on fire and walk away from the doorstep, but the people in media I hear saying AI has made them "more productive" appear to be producing less than ever, and worse things than ever. I wonder if they can even tell.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
They are trying to blame AI for these kinds of mistakes in the way that you put googly eyes on a rock and then pretend it's a scapegoat.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEWS: I don’t like transphobes and here is a short list of why. 1) They are full of shit.
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Bix @bixiecup.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Prepare to sing Disney songs, my fellow women... because they're more protected by society than we are.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK then. Fuck off.
Screenshot from The Australian

“OpenAI’s ultimatum to PM: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables”
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livesarah @livesarah.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
UK Lawyers for Israel- whose representatives were recently welcomed into Australia- have apparently been emboldened to the extent that they are trying to mount a campaign to *ban Medecins Sans Frontiers*. Let the absolute fucking cheek of that sink in for a minute. Don’t give an *inch* to Zionists.
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3wombats @3wombats.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
theaimn.net/a-toxic-reci...
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A toxic recipe for social disconnect and disaffection
Australians were less engaged in their communities, lonelier, unhappier and less satisfied with life, even before the present turmoil. But there is cause for hope, writes Dr James O’Donnell… Look arou...
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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Academic freedom is when a foreign government dictates how and even whether a university investigates misconduct
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Arbaz Kakkar5 @arbazkakkar5.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If Dolly Parton can gift 20million books a year to children, why can’t Amazon, Apple and Microsoft do something like this??
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️
Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Police to have right to seize mobile phones without a warrant, use IDF tech to search data, under new legislation brought to NSW Parliament #auspol #nswpol @michaelsainsbury.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/the-police-s...
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Surveillance State. NSW Police to seize mobile phone data without a warrant - Michael West
Legislation before NSW Parliament to allow police access to mobile phone data without a warrant, developed by Israel Defence Force veterans.
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Australians will fill out a Census on Tuesday and I implore you to tell the truth. Some religious groups are pushing you to write "Christian" for religion and if you are, by all means list it, if you're not then tick "None". Statistics are important. 😊
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Lee Cicuta @butchanarchy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
There are more male authors writing and publishing works centered on men and wider access to that work now than most of the history of written language. More than any “literary man” could read in his lifetime. But he’s too busy whining about women authors to meaningfully engage with all that.
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Elissa 🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 @libris55.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Men have always devalued women’s reading and women authors. None is this is particularly new, whats new is the manosphere being taken seriously
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Kate Manne @katemanne.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Generative AI is catnip to the men who miss female sycophants katemanne.substack.com/p/a-culture-...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 31/07/2026
Amnesty have issued an apology to JK Rowling and the rest. Adjust your expectations, and donations, accordingly www.amnesty.org.uk/latest/an-ap...
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An Apology for A Growing Threat briefing, published on 8 July 2026
Amnesty International UK has made a public apology for the publication of the briefing “A growing threat: the anti-rights movement in the UK”. Click here to read it in full.
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Dr Florence H R Scott @florencehrscott.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
PETA keeps finding new ways to humanise animals by dehumanising women and minorities
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
In @karlbode.com's scathing write-up of the "OpenAI rogue hacker" marketing stunt, he highlights the underreported detail that this extremely responsible AI company ran their exploit kit with safety guardrails disabled. Once again, I ask: why haven't they been charged? karlbode.com/ai-doomsday-...
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AI Doomsday Bullshit Is Getting Tired
The "rogue AI" narrative continues to help obscure very ugly and avoidable human failures.
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
It truly is extraordinary to watch how any accusation of rape or sexual assault immediately is treated by our culture as an event requiring the protection, not of the victim's safety, but of the accused's reputation. Every accusation enters a workflow designed to negate the impact of the accusation.
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
I don't think I've ever seen this guy break before. He's trying so hard not to laugh. www.tiktok.com/@huskistaken...
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ladystardust ☮️ @ladystardust64.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Briony Kidd @brionykidd.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
’Would we need to pay ChatGPT for its services? Would shutting one off be a kind of killing? Would they deserve a voice in how they are governed?’ Literally out here worrying about the theoretical rights of ChatGP-fricking-T before caring about the real workers being exploited or made redundant.
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Feena van @feenavan2099.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
"The Nazis frequently described disabled people as “useless eaters”, “empty human shells”, and “life unworthy of life”. They chose these labels to evoke images of people who were incapable of doing anything, and so needed to be kept in institutions for their entire lives"
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Disabled people were Holocaust victims, too: they were excluded from German society and murdered by Nazi programs
In 2023, International Holocaust Remembrance Day marks 90 years since the Nazis assumed power. Disabled people were the first Holocaust victims; Nazi programs discriminated against and murdered them.
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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Hey folks Bec freedom and her merry band of racists are up to shit again. This time putting offensive racist stickers on Indian food in major supermarkets. If you happen to see one of the stickers please report it www.theindiansun.com.au/2026/07/18/r...
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Racist stickers placed on Saabi Foods products ahead of national rallies - The Indian Sun
A social media campaign encouraging supporters to place anti-immigration stickers on Indian food products in Australian supermarkets has raised fresh concerns about the targeting of Indian businesses,...
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Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 13/07/2026
JK Rowling offers to fund lawsuits against Amnesty is a headline that will cut through.
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
What is happening now was foreseen, with absolute clarity, half a century ago.
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 04/07/2026
Many years ago I wrote a poem from the point of view of Penelope, because I was fascinated by her tactics to keep the suitors at bay, and because I had a crush on a peripatetic woman, so I identified. I'm curious how Penelope is in the movie. Also the @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social interview is great.
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Why is a woman still not safe @treemuseums.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Stopping women from accessing abortion healthcare is reproductive abuse This is the world under christian nationalists and rightwing extremists like PHON #auspol
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The Liberal BoJack @thelibbojack.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The reason the world is upset with Israel is because of the 700,000+ innocent Palestinians they’ve murdered. It’s not because they’re Jewish. Hope that helps.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Wise words from @cbo.bsky.social re #AI and research: We should insist that researchers disclose their use of automated tools, that they are responsible for the veracity of their findings, that credit and accountability belong to people rather than to systems…”
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I've decided to compile a definitive thread of photos of the best sheep I've photographed during my walks in the countryside, together with supporting biographical information. I will put the vital story associated with each sheep in the alt text, since some of it is a little long to fit in a post.
A nihilistic sheep, who, like so many other sheep, just wants to watch the world burn, staring at me insouciantly, moments after it has set fire to a large portion of the United Kingdom.
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SK2 🍉 @sk21878.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
You dislike Muslims, but have you thought why? Do you know any Muslims? Have you had bad experiences with Muslims? Or is your hate coming from the TV? Radio? Press? You don’t hate Muslims, you think you do, because you’ve been told to by the media, every minute of every day. #Islamaphobia #RacistUK
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Admirable Women @admirablewomen.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Dr. Cicely Saunders (b. #OTD in 1918): founded the modern hospice movement & established the global medical discipline of palliative care. Frustrated by the mid-20th-C medical mindset viewing dying patients as "failures" to be ignored, she revolutionized end-of-life care. #WomenInSTEM #hospice
A charming black-and-white portrait of Dame Cicely Mary Strode Saunders (1918–2005), the pioneering British nurse, social worker, and physician who revolutionized modern end-of-life care by founding the global hospice and palliative care movement. Left: she sits in a library or office setting with softly blurred bookshelves lining the background. She poses with her head resting gently against her right hand, wearing a dark ring on her finger. Her face is framed by softly coiffed white hair and large, round eyeglasses, and she looks directly forward with a warm, comforting, and deeply compassionate smile. She wears a dark tailored blazer over a crisp, light-colored collared shirt, detailed with a small decorative pin on her left lapel. Overlaying the lower right quadrant of the image is a stark white rectangular box containing her most historically significant quote, capturing the gentle and dignified mood of her life's work. The text reads, "you matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life," with the opening words styled in a large, elegant serif font. Below the quote, the text attributes the words to "- Dame Cicely Saunders, Hospice Movement Founder." The overall composition balances a professional, academic atmosphere with profound personal warmth.
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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:
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David Lamond @davidlamond.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
#auspol #NOidea #NOalition #PHONies
WHY I'M NOT A ONE NATION AND LNP SUPPORTER
I DON'T HATE WOMEN 
I DON'T HATE MINORITIES 
I DON'T HATE THE POOR 
I AM NOT HOMOPHOBIC
I AM NOT A RACIST 
I BELIEVE IN SCIENCE
I BELIEVE IN CLIMATE CHANGE AUSTRALIA NEEDS AND WELCOMES IMMIGRANTS
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Julie Roginsky @julieroginsky.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Why is a 76-year-old man doing all the hard work in this moment? Where are the Millennial/Gen Z artists (ahem, Taylor Swift) to shake their audiences into sobriety about what is going on? open.substack.com/pub/saltypol...
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Why is Springsteen Doing All the Hard Work?
What today's generation of best-selling artists refuses to do
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns. The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate. Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care. The list goes on and on. Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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