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Marley Hodgman

@marleyh.bsky.social
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Science teacher, apparently. Fan of: watering pot plants, laying on the floor for extended periods, stroopwafel. No milk, thanks.

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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
After probably decades of “divisive/division” building up as essentially a right-wing dogwhistle term used to moan about critical analysis, it’s disappointing how thoroughly it has been adopted across the political spectrum in the last couple of years.
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Dr Blair Williams @blairwilliams26.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Tax private schools out of existance. Abolish all private schools and properly fund public schools!
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Here's me. "Two states of bullshit"
theshot.net.au
Two states of bullshit - The Shot
The broken logic, morality and impracticalness of the Hasbaric “two-state solution” should be apparent to anyone cursed to own a phone.
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Harvey @harvey-normal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Will the last person to pull out of the Bendigo Writers Festival please turn out the lights.
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Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
🚨Antisemitism boss Jillian Segal and her husband are the second biggest funders of far-right group "Advance". The extremist lobby group spreads online racism and xenophobia, including directly targeting Palestinians... theklaxon.com.au/hrgd
theklaxon.com.au
Jillian Segal and husband funding far-right group "Advance" - The Klaxon
Antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal and her husband are among the biggest funders of far-right group "Advance”, which spreads hateful propaganda and racist tropes.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
The biggest problem with the ALP right now is it is led by someone who irrationally hates the Greens. He doesn't really like to "fight Tories"; he loves to fight the party that reveals his actual lack of "left-wing" positions. Someone needs to tell him to get over his uni politics crap.
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Peter Kelly @thepeterkelly.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Saying that chatgpt can be used as a disability aid for ADHD is pretty much saying you have no idea what the fuck you are talking about, and don't particularly give a shit whether people get harmed.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Never forget how many of those advising the ALP are patting themselves on the back for ensuring the govt did nothing in this. “Not an issue/we made sure it hurt the Greens” Those doing so are truly putrid. At best excusing murder, at worst cheering for it. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...
abc.net.au
Israel is keeping up its blockade of aid as kids starve to death
As the total ban on any humanitarian aid entering Gaza stretches into its third month, doctors warn babies are starving in hospitals.
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decolonise our minds @proudlywoke1000.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Worse than supplying weapons is supplying moral legitimacy to the Netanyahu regime by calling the mass starvation and extermination a 'conflict', by attacking those who call out genocide. Moral legitimacy is international power, a key enabler in this historical tragedy.
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Lady Luddite (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Hahaha, imagine calling Bandt an extremist leftist.😬 How embarrassing
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Barbara Pocock @barbarapocock.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
‘Labor spent the past 3 yrs pretending its hands were tied - on integrity, religious protectns, climate, sanctioning Israel, tax reform, poverty, inequality & housing because it didn’t have bipartisan support. It was bullshit then. It is even more so now.’ australiainstitute.org.au/post/austral...
australiainstitute.org.au
Australia rejected the Dutton-Murdoch agenda, now we’ll see if Labor does the same - The Australia Institute
We are about to see who the Australian Labor Party really is, in 2025.
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Julia Em @66jayel.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Greens are forgiven for nothing, no missteps, ever, while the ALP & LNP can have scandals, back-room deals to prop up the duopoly, be enthralled to corporate backers & unions countless times over & be forgiven, or at least have indiscretions written off as something equivalent to "boys will be boys"
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
It's hilarious the way people are acting about this. Truly embarrassing behaviour over a meaningless gesture.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
“did you see what I saw? Humility. Respect. Mateship. Australian values.” No. I saw class solidarity between powerful white males. I saw Albanese condescendingly scold people who worked for his win, for free. I saw Dutton try to win back the anzackery vote after aligning with nazis over veterans.
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
media.tenor.com
a cartoon monkey is holding a piece of food with a letter m on it
Alt: Edited footage from The Lion King. A cartoon monkey raises a potato into the air and throws it off a cliff.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
watch how many white males in highly paid positions are invited to speculate about whatever Dutton Says without informing the public-audience-voters in any meaningful way. These overpaid commentator-“journalists” derive direct ongoing monetary benefit and status from racist politics.
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 03/04/2025
As a former child junior olympic-level runner, I have a few thoughts on the attacks on trans girls in sports. I ran for one of the most competitive teams in Southern California, and people who ran for my have gone on to become professional athletes. And these bans: they're fucking NONSENSE. 🧵
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 01/03/2025
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
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CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
This is horrible. City of Moreton Bay makes homelessness a crime www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02...
abc.net.au
Council declares all homeless camping illegal on public land
City of Moreton Bay chief executive Scott Waters says the change will benefit the region's homeless population.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Last year the NGA had an exhibition of Paul Gauguin’s work, which was opened by Prime Minister Albanese. Gaugin was a pedophile rapist with three Native child “brides” in Polynesia. The NGA and Albanese both defending this but apparently the Palestinian flag is a step too far.
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Frances Danger *Deadly SoverAuntie* @francesdanger.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Happy captain james cook getting what he deserved Day! british colonizer captain cook was killed by Native Hawaiians on this day in 1779. cook, whose men spread disease and used violence against Native Peoples for rejecting european rule, 1/2
A painting of british colonizers getting their asses handed to them by Native Hawaiians. A white man dressed in a blue waistcoat, white vest and shirt and white pants is being stabbed by Native Hawaiians. He's captain james cook.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 12/02/2025
Tweet by Alex Blechman @AlexBlechman
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Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus
5:49 PM • Nov 8, 2021 • Twitter Web App
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The chair of the ABC has today in court implied that supporting Israel is neutral and natural and journalism but having sympathy for Palestine makes you an activist that needs to be fired - maybe even catch Covid to save face. That's where we're at.
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
For perhaps the first time in years, someone at the ABC has figured out how to write a headline.
News headline: “World’s richest man wants poorest people cut off from crucial US aid”.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Oh joy, watching the ABC's flagship current affairs show where Sarah Ferguson ask s"Is there any proportion of the Palestinian people in Gaza who would welcome the chance to be relocated?" How about no, because there is no such thing an ok proportion of ethnic cleansing? #730
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Claire Connelly @claireconnelly.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
‘The irony of this fabricated campaign against Schwartz is that it’s a perfect example of what she’s talking about: the instrumentalisation of a Jew for political purposes by powerful groups.’ www.crikey.com.au/2025/01/29/s...
crikey.com.au
Sarah Schwartz must be punished: The instrumentalisation of a dissenting Jew
After calling out Peter Dutton's use of Australian Jews for his own political purposes, Sarah Schwartz has faced a campaign of demonisation.
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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Just heard about the news out of Queensland. Hormone therapy, from puberty onwards, is safe, rigorously evidence-based, life saving medicine that results in higher quality of life, lower rates of depression and anxiety, and a direct reduction in deaths for trans and gender diverse people.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/01/2025
It has never stopped blowing my mind, the incredible situation that the gas industry has created for itself Not only do they create their own demand, they pair that with panicked media drops about shortfalls in "energy supply". It's so nuts how effective the lies are, too bsky.app/profile/keta...
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🐈‍⬛💜 phonakins 🍉🌲 @phonakins.com · 23/01/2025
First cook statue vandalised of the season ✊ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Randwick City Council confirms vandalism of Captain Cook statue

Randwick City Council has confirmed a statue of Captain Cook has been damaged overnight.

It said in a statement the sandstone hand was “completely removed and the statue partially covered in red paint.”

Council had cleaned and restored the statue after a similar incident last February. Randwick mayor Dylan Parker said in a statement:

Randwick City Council condemns this act of vandalism of the heritage Captain Cook statue. Vandalism has no place in public discussion.

Vandalism is an illegal act that does a disservice to progressing your cause, a disservice to the community and a disservice to reconciliation.

Council staff are currently actioning plans to clean and restore the statue.
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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Big tell in this Trump order targeting trans people: "at conception"
(d) "Female" means a person belonging, at
conception, to the sex that produces the large
reproductive cell.


(e) Male" means a person belonging, at conception,
to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Words matter. They're chosen for a reason. The ABC's coverage of this slaughter could serve as a lesson for media students wanting to understand how consent for atrocity is manufactured
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
The local paper yesterday: “Take back control: how to avoid the deluge of misinformation online” The local paper a day before that: “Will the town thrive or simply survive in 2025? We asked local tarot reader”
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The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 15/01/2025
📢 NSW Labor promised before the last state election to save five hours of teachers’ time each week. But a new audit doesn’t identify any tasks that can be cut. 👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
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Managing medications, school refusers: Biggest drains on teachers’ time revealed
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
I was getting so furious about comedians doing lazy jokes and blaming the response on wokeness that @patricklenton.bsky.social was forced to publish my rantings before my head fully blew off. Read if you want ! t.co/uwP12v1fxy
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Absurd fees. But it’s absurd even at $10k, 6k, whatever. Either private schools are producing extra value worth their prices, in which case they’re centres of inequity and should be shut down, or they’re not, in which case they’re a waste and should be shut down. www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...
smh.com.au
Sydney private school fees eclipse $51,000 for year 12
A survey of 30 independent schools shows fee increases of an average of 7 per cent as staffing costs skyrocket.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/12/2024
Back in 2022 I wrote a comparison between Jurassic World and Don't Look Up - criticising both for very badly failing to capture the true nature of the climate crisis and instead leading on shallow fatalistic, misanthropic tropes instead. ketanjoshi.co/2022/07/06/i...
At least Jurassic World's threat is driven by the intentional actions of an evil corporations,
whereas the rogue asteroid metaphor in 'Don't Look Up' removes intent from the threat
entirely, and in doing so, fundamentally erases any meaningful capacity for metaphorical insight in its art.
Both films can only understand climate through a boring binary. Peace, or apocalypse. The threat is the flipping of the switch, at some point in the near future. But in reality, climate change is immediate, and more of a gradually rising boil rather than a binary on/off apocalypse. There are many, many people in the world already living the terrible impacts of fossil fuels. I guarantee you experienced it today. A news report about rising fossil fuel prices, floods, fires,
heatwaves? There will be something, in the
past 12 hours of your conscious life. You are in the climate crisis now. There is no switch.Don't Look Up is meant to be the climate film, but it badly misrepresents so much about climate. It tries to tackle media misreporting, but ends up placing most of the blame on ditzy morning show hosts rather than false balance, the insidiousness of fossil fuel propaganda, advertising and co-opted newsrooms and the viciously corrupt intent of hyper-conservative outlets like News Corp. It focuses almost entirely on denialism, and ignores the pernicious impacts of delay. Like Jurassic World, it cynically depicts riots, violence and looting as the human response to impending catastrophe. It also places heavy blame on social media and a distracted, childish
populous that spends too much time looking at puppy-riding-chicken memes instead of
reading IPCC reports and engaging with climate politics.It has been very, very regularly and positively compared to 'Idiocracy', a repulsive film that presents a future in which only "stupid" people breed, resulting in a societal collapse. There's a sneering, mean-spirited cruelty at the heart of both films, and it's no accident that both are seen as two peas in a pod.
In Don't Look Up, the protagonists half- heartedly try to create an activism / protest movement to encourage the government to fire nuclear weapons at the asteroid, to deflect it (this is depicted in the movie as the good option!). They fail, and the asteroid hits Earth, killing everybody. It is ultimately a doomist message; even when you try, the people are too dumb and distracted to care, politicians too corrupt, corporates too greedy. At least Jurassic
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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Sure, generative AI is terrible for the environment and the power grid and hallucinates nonsense and relies on theft of intellectual property at previous unimaginable scales, but also there is a great tragedy in someone deciding to outsource the very act of creation.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Just once I’d like the good that the perfectly is supposedly the enemy of, to actually be good.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
The age just published an article about how a landlord realised he couldn’t get a renter to pay off his ENTIRE mortgage and had to pay some of it himself. Incredible stuff.
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STEAMLORD @exoplanetdinosaur.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Guys do I have bad news for you
Screen cap of Stockman Steaks tweet with a photo of cooked steaks and “mRNA free” caption in big white lettering
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Putting all the important questions in my Year 7 end of year quiz
Multiple choice question, the prompt is "Buffalo buffalo", and all four options are the word "buffalo" six times with variations in capitalisation of the first letter.
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bebopshebop.bsky.social @bebopshebop.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Australia is not a serious country
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Marley Hodgman @marleyh.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Literally the only reason to legislate yourself protection against prosecution for negligence is if you plan to do a whole bunch of negligence.
Text from SBS News article about new refugee powers: “It also clears the government from legal recourse for negligent decisions, making them immune from civil lawsuits in relation to the removal of a person or their treatment in a third country.”
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Here's me. "Arrest warrants issued for genocidal babykiller, Benjamin Netanyahu" theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
theshot.net.au
Arrest warrants issued for genocidal babykiller, Benjamin Netanyahu  - The Shot
The ICC has proven it has eyes and brains and has issued warrants to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity.
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