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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
What the hell
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Really proud of the year 11 students at my kids’ school - many of them refused to attend a compulsory careers session about design that promised to ‘take handwritten illustrations and transform them using AI’ - the session is no longer compulsory
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Daniel James @mrdtjames.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
It should never have got to this. Independent media and community radio has never been so important. Sign the petition and help save 2ser. c.org/fbr6jKbXHL
c.org
Sign the Petition
Save 2SER-FM
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Excellent read: newrepublic.com/article/2091...
newrepublic.com
The AI Industry Is Discovering That the Public Hates It
If there was any doubt over the brewing public backlash to this technology, the last few weeks have erased it.
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
@albomp.bsky.social have we seen enough yet for you to act?
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Oh the irony. Altman after Farrow’s article and recent incidents: Now I am awake in the middle of the night and pissed, and thinking that I have underestimated the power of words and narratives.
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
we need to raise awareness that this is happening
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 02/04/2026
Good morning and Happy Nigella Day! Because all is briefly right with the world and as a special treat, it's free to read. www.ft.com/content/4819...
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How did I end up here? — Nigella Lawson’s first FT column
A defence of food writing (and a recipe for rice pudding) as Nigella returns to her alma mater newspaper
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Jess Harwood Art @jessharwoodart.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
History is full of world-changing ‘difficult’ women: Saint Mary MacKillop was a ‘troublemaker,’ Thea Proctor was ‘dangerously modern’, Millicent Preston Stanley - the first female member of NSW Parliament - was a ‘battleaxe.’ Here is an illustrated map I did for our She Shapes History walking tour!
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Just popping to say sudden mentions of Venezuela = Trump going omfg I'm such a dodgy biatch and about to be exposed again
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Prof Jenny Hocking @palaceletters.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Aust. peaked at 55% electricity from renewables in October on the path to meeting 2030 target. Libs are an irrelevant & unelectable rabble by dumping net zero #auspol reneweconomy.com.au/australias-m...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Forgive me, but how in the world is this not on the front page of every American newspaper, leading every cable news show, and right smack dab in the middle of every legacy media homepage? Why are we, at Zeteo, the only folks leading with this insane story?" zeteo.com/p/trump-ille...
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👑 Trump's Third Term?
Peter Rothpletz on Donald Trump's brazen push to secure a 3rd (forever?) term, the White House's transformation into a Saddam Hussein-style palace, and the bombshell NBA gambling indictments.
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
@nytimes.com you hearing this?
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
reminder that continental critical minerals are not ours to give away - not for imaginary submarines, not for contemptible attempts at appeasing fascism - and Forrest is a top ten multi-generational coloniser. overland.org.au/2025/10/colo...
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Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal
This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Next time someone says CCS is part of the solution, I am punching them
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First Nations Clean Energy Network @firstnationscen.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
PowerMakers started today — a transformative capacity building program for First Nations people pursuing clean energy solutions in homes, communities, and on Country. www.firstnationscleanenergy.org.au/getting_to_k... #auspol
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Getting to know each other: PowerMakers starts today
Getting to know each other: PowerMakers starts today, with the First Nations Clean Energy Network
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
So is this. Zionists have killed 200+ Palestinian journalists. More than any other war
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
This is really fricking bad: apple.news/ApSfsR9H_SGG...
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Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ — Guardian Australia
Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
“It is way less strange to watch a feed full of memes of yourself than I thought it would be,” Sam posted reassuringly. This is so deeply weird
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
What the actual. I know The Age has jumped the shark before, but this time it just popped itself into its jaws and died
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
We cooked✌️
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Here's me. "The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us)"
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The Yanks are cooked (and cooking the rest of us) - The Shot
American authoritarianism is an echo of tyrants’ past and its own unique perversion: shrouded in goldleaf, ski masks, and utter bullshit.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 26/09/2025
Wow! Nearly 1000 followers already. We are blown away. 🎉 We’re launching on Tuesday and we’d love your support. Sign up here for free to receive our new biweekly newsletter. Or join us as a paying member of the Nerve community. 🙏 thenerve.news
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The Nerve
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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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Ann Pettifor @annpettifor.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Labour is in a mess. My advice to the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to restore the government as a transformative, democratic “big green state”, rather than a technocratic managerial one serving private wealth. In today’s Guardian... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Labour is in a mess. Is there anything Starmer can do to turn things around? Our panel responds – part one
Over a year into power, Keir Starmer’s government is floundering. But it still has a large parliamentary majority and time on its side — here’s what it could do, says our first group of panelists
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
"It is baffling that in the same week, the government could release a terrifying document warning Australians of a grim future if global warming exceeds 1.5° ...then agree a target that...would lead to at least 2° warming globally." #ClimateCrisis #auspol climateanalytics.org/press-releas...
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Australia's insufficient target "baffling" in light of its climate…
Climate Analytics Australia responds to new 2035 climate target
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Belinda Weaver @longtimeleftie.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
"The world watches the progeny of those who perished in the Warsaw Ghetto carry out a modern-day reenactment of that mass murder, only this time it is the citizens of Gaza who are being systematically rounded up and murdered by the Israeli military." open.substack.com/pub/scottrit...
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Silence
"It is clear there is an intent to destroy the Palestinians in Gaza through acts that meet the criteria set forth in the Genocide Convention." United Nations Human Rights Council
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petit burgo @burgotastic.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
What if instead of open carry it was open curry and everyone just had a holster of chicken korma as a walking around snack?
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Bill Corbett @billcorbett.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).
1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
You’re evil Israel. Stop killing kids and journalists
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Trita Parsi @tparsi.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This is what Gaza City looks like right now, the northern tip of Gaza. No journalist has been there for months. No airplane has been allowed to fly over it and take pictures (this pic was taken in secret). >>
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
"60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names."
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60,000 Gazans have been killed. 18,500 were children. These are their names.
Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one per hour since the war began.
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Cartoon of a long dachshund. Caption: The Long Good Boy
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Truth hurts hey @albomp.bsky.social “Thanks for all the cash, here’s some F-35 parts. Please don’t use them, #peaceinthemiddleeast, #gravelyconcerned, yadda yadda. Also, if you run out, for reasons we don’t wanna hear about, don’t forget to come back for more”
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Same situation in Aust. These are profound yet terrible insights -thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Get to it @albomp.bsky.social @sussanley.bsky.social
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Heinous
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
This
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Gambling reform should be easy
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Tracks…
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
“Little information treats”
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Why could it not be both?
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Steffi Graf told me to be quiet while I was standing on the sidelines of a practice court
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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Absolufuckinglutely perfect 👇
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
"My name is Greta Thunberg and I am from Sweden. If you see this video, we have been intercepted and kidnapped in international waters by the Israeli occupational forces, or forces that support Israel."
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madmerle.bsky.social @madmerle.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
What is wrong with us m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bj9V...
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The Fight to Save Murujuga
YouTube video by The Australia Institute
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