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RetireAustralia. Time Magazine Person of the year 2006. I am not a complete Idiot (some parts are missing). **** Out of Cheese Error ****

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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 07/07/2026
So Trump tries to appeal suspension ofUSMNT star Folarin Balogunto rep Team USA, turns out he's a birthright citizen ... www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/b...
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How birthright citizenship allowed USMNT star Folarin Balogun to rep Team USA
USMNT striker Folarin Balogun was born in Brooklyn and with it, is a U.S citizen.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/07/2026
“…Eight Sleep engineers can know when you’re asleep, whether two people are sharing the bed, and when the bed is empty.” 🤷🏿‍♂️
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Tom Sutcliffe @tds153.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Thread. Appropriately enraged. PS. Sarah Wynn-Williams’ book Careless People is well worth reading.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 05/07/2026
Teaching / Training people. Also, the one thing learnt in IT in general is that it's about PEOPLE, not THINGS. 🧵 #AI
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 26/06/2026
#AusPol 🧵
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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 19/06/2026
@AusPol "If this makes you think the RBA always acts firstly in the interests of companies not workers, you are getting warm." Via grogsgamut.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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Greg Jericho (@grogsgamut.bsky.social)
Chief Economist at @australiainstitute.org.au Columnist on economics and politics for Guardian Australia. Dollars & Sense podcast https://australiainstitute.org.au/news/category/podcasts/dollars-sense...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
The latest tax stats show 90 millionaires paid no tax (1 poor sucker got their total income from $1m to below $18,200, but still had to pay... err $769 in tax) thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Ninety millionaires paid no tax in 2023–24. New ATO data shows why tax reform matters
In 2023-24, according to the ATO, 90 Australians who earned more than $1m in income paid no tax. The figures also reveal that the changes in the budget targeting the reductions in the discount for cap...
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 18/06/2026
#AusPol #PHON Calling people names just entrechs their existing opinions. You need to point to the effects of the PHON policies, to actively engage peoples's concerns and answer them, to persuade them (ie questions like "do you want that aide at the nursing home, that your mum likes, deported ?")
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Elise (they/them)🇦🇺 🏳️‍⚧️ @eliseswords.eurosky.social · 18/06/2026
Lovely to see white, able bodied, cishet men speaking out publicly against a fascist dictator. (Such an Aussie approach to the problem 😄.)
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
After this 100% wrong AI summary, I pledged some money to Wikipedia. I think we should all do that. It might be the answer. Imagine if it vanished cos more people wanted to invest in the planet-burning lying plagiarism machine than in crowd-sourced open access information.
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Jennifer Crawford @ournewhomecoach.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Next ON policy just dropped. #Auspol.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 18/06/2026
#AI "The am dash ... feels less like a design stunt and more like a cultural correction, giving writers a way to plant a flag in the soil of their own ideas." www.remorandom.com/p/em-dash www.theamdash.com
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Em Dash
The em dash is prized for its versatility. It has also acquired an unexpected cultural role. It has become, in some circles, a “tell” for AI-generated writing.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 16/06/2026
#MiddleEast
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 16/06/2026
#AusPol #AukUS If Port Kembla becomes a US Submarine base, what do we lose ? (Archive Link) archive.md/https://www....
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal
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Man Who Supports One Nation and Socceroos Suffers Mental Breakdown After Former Refugee Scores World Cup Goal — The Shovel
A man who within the last 24 hours has both called for an end to all immigration to Australia and chanted ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie’ at a World Cup live site, was said to be in a serious but stable condit...
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Joining a big crowd here outside Bisalloy in the Illawarra to picket this site and stop steel exports that are being used to facilitate land theft and genocide - come down for an AUKUS teach in at 9pm ✊
Large crowd milling wearing kuffiyehs on a dark night
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 14/06/2026
Maybe phones are NOT rewiring their brains ... "There is very little, if any, causal research in the early years. Almost everything is correlational." www.theregister.com/personal-tec...
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Scientists pour cold water on claims phones are rewiring kids' brains
MPs told that while concerns over handsets and social media grows, evidence they're changing children's brains is limited
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 13/06/2026
A lot of people are deliberately confusing anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. 🧵
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 13/06/2026
#BlackCaps Kane Williamson retires from International Cricket. He will be missed ... www.bhaskarenglish.in/sports/crick...
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Virat Kohli shares farewell message after Kane Williamson's retirement: 'King' says, 'Pleasure watching you bat, I value our friendship'
Kane Williamson retires from international cricket. Follow Bhaskar English Updates. Kane Williamson has officially announced his retirement from international cricket, bringing the curtain down on one...
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Reuters @reuters.com · 12/06/2026
David Hockney, the artist whose brightly colored renditions of California would go on to make him one of the most celebrated artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, died on June 12, his publicist Erica Bolton said in a statement. He was 88 reut.rs/4e5R6xd
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David Hockney, the British artist who went in search of Californian colour, dies at 88
The former enfant terrible of pop art became the most celebrated British painter of the 20th century.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 12/06/2026
#AI and lawyers... www.loweringthebar.net/2026/06/its-...
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It Was Only a Matter of Time: *Both* Sides’ Lawyers Sanctioned for Using AI
None of the four lawyers involved will be seeing the inside of this courtroom again for a while.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
SpaceX goes public today. There’s been a lot of chatter about the largest IPO in stock market history that will likely make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire. Here's what I think you should know about it... 🧵
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 12/06/2026
SpaceX goes public tomorrow. A wonderful moment for cynical shills and Patagonia gargoyles to roll in the filth of the dodgiest company to list since Enron. This is the last exit route for capital for a minute. A big win for horrible people, but a brief one before a dark era for Silicon Valley
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Tarik Abou-Chadi @tabouchadi.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
There is too much focus on Musk and too little focus on how British politics and media have created the conditions for the pogroms in Belfast. Yes, Musk and X should face consequences but it‘s too easy the externalize the reasons for an empowered far right.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 10/06/2026
"An administration lawyer told the judges in the second-most-powerful court in the country that no court can stop a president who moves fast enough from destroying the White House or the Statue of Liberty." newrepublic.com/article/2115...
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Can Trump Really Tear Down the Statue of Liberty? His Lawyers Say Yes.
An administration lawyer made this shocking and cynical argument in court last week. That’s the position of an emperor, not a president.
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Holden Sheppard 🇦🇺😎💪 @v8sheppard.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
OPINION: Homophobia Isn't The Only Thing Keeping Footy Players In The Closet 🏈🏈 I have written a new opinion article, published in the Star Observer today, about gay elite footy players coming out and the pressures facing them. Full article here: www.starobserver.com.au/opinion/opin...
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OPINION: Homophobia Isn’t The Only Thing Keeping Footy Players In The Closet
Author Holden Sheppard argues that we might need to broaden our minds to what gay AFL players might want or need in order to come out.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I can’t find the bit where we analyse >$200K income support for the racism party. It is higher than every bracket between $45K and $200K why would we skip over wealthy racists? They have far more power than people on <$45K demosau.com/news/who-are...
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Who are the Voters Swinging to One Nation? - DemosAU
DemosAU's Federal MRP Model, released earlier this week, projects One Nation would win 12 seats (based on the model's central forecast), if the results of our
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Nick Higgins @nick-higgins.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I've been on the waiting list to have my prostate lasered out SO long, they've started asking me if I still want to be on the list... But when the new Stadiums arrives and Marinus Link powers all those AI data centers we're paying for, I'll be really happy.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 07/06/2026
"The only reason to have an LLM emit sentences like “I understand” is to make it more appealing than a search engine and increase the likelihood that a user will return; that is, it’s another way of maximizing customer engagement." #AI Archive Link archive.md/https://www....
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Independent Media Australia. @indymediaaus.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026
Jools Topp: Aotearoa loses an iconic artist and activist www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1455/cult… #Auspol
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Jools Topp: Aotearoa loses an iconic artist and activist
Zara Lomas pays tribute to Jools Topp, one half of Aotearoa New Zealand’s iconic duo The Topp Twins, who died last month.
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Drew Magary @drewmagary.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
By the way I just came out of Backrooms and thought it was extremely cool
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Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This should be the point that Reform is visible as the new BNP and everyone who isn’t a racist drops it like a hot potato
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 04/06/2026
Hi @squigglyrick.bsky.social So sorry to hear about Jack. He knew he was loved. rick-morton.ghost.io/goodbye-jack/
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Goodbye Jack
Much has happened and I have been very unwell. I think, perhaps, I've been having one of my all-time nervous breakdowns. But in Paris, which is a vibe. This has been going on for a while but has been particularly acute over the last few weeks. I have been unable
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The only reason Sharma’s daughter can afford to do this is because she’s living at home. Everything about getting ahead in Australia is balanced on generational wealth. And that’s why it’s got to change, for the many
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Rob Sheridan @rob-sheridan.com · 03/06/2026
The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 03/06/2026
#Pride month, US Veterans, and the intentional hypocrisy. charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/yes-june-i...
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Yes, June is Pride Month. Get Over It.
Stop whining.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 24/05/2026
To the People’s Republic of Treacle Mine Road... Truth! Justice! Freedom! Reasonably priced Love! and a Hard-Boiled Egg! #Glorious25th
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Will Leitch @williamfleitch.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
The paperback version of LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE is out today. It is a good book that I am proud of, and I think if you have not read it, you would like it. You can buy it wherever books are sold, and also here: www.harpercollins.com/products/llo...
The cover of the paperback version of LLOYD MCNEIL'S LAST RIDE.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 23/05/2026
The Arlington National Cemetery Memorial apparently has deleted references and information on everyone interred there who wasn’t a white straight man from their database - attempting to sweep their existence under the rug. My thoughts on this obscenity cannot legally be shared on this platform.
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Missing in Action: Women Service Members “Delisted” from Arlington National Cemetery Website
When visiting Arlington National Cemetery this Memorial Day you won’t find Purple Heart recipient Nicole Leanne Gee, U.S. Marine Corps (1998-2021) on it’s website despite being interred there and…
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SJ Groenewegen @sjgroenewegen.co.uk · 22/05/2026
20 years ago today, Pet Shop Boys released their album, Fundamental. Songs include "Indefinite Leave to Remain", "I'm With Stupid" (about the UK/US "special relationship"), and "Integral" (about ID cards). 20 years later and they could re-release it without much change. 1/4
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
New blog entry: The Enshittification of History: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 21/05/2026
#AusPol "If we can all agree to call misinformation by its normal name – lies – then Pauline Hanson lies."
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 21/05/2026
The annual Cities Service Boston commemorative service, in partnership with the 6th Machine Gun Battalion Association, Bass Point Reserve, Shell Harbour. discover.shellharbour.nsw.gov.au/nodes/view/1...
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The SS &#039;Cities Service Boston&#039;
Read the full record details for Collection: The SS &#039;Cities Service Boston&#039;
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.
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Ewart, Dave @davidewart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
can you share this for me . im in it youtu.be/VsbUzvuVx-8?...
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Papua New Guinea Traditional folk Music .The Magic live
YouTube video by davey ewart
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 20/05/2026
Unfortunately, I dont think this was done on purpose (as some kind of meta-joke). Just another case of #AI #Psychosis
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 20/05/2026
Old review of @scalzi.com book, Fuzzy Nation - via @doctorow.pluralistic.net As it says, a masterful, likable reboot of one of the great sf classics. memex.craphound.com/2011/05/16/s...
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Scalzi’s Fuzzy Nation: a masterful, likable reboot of one of the great sf classics – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
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Loony Left Media 🚨#TaxTheGas + KillAUKUS @loonyleftmedia.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
So one of the 40 ‘entrepreneurs’ sold his business to Domain for $180 million How is this relatable to the 99% of Australians who’ll never have access to this kind of wealth? Pathetic MSM even the ABC championing the 1%
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Forty under 40: Millennial entrepreneurs unite against Albanese’s tax overhaul
Treasurer Jim Chalmers got on the front foot on Tuesday following scrutiny over Labor’s decision to remove the CGT discount on shares and companies.
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Human Guinea Pig AU @martin-english.com · 19/05/2026
More trouble for Cricket Australia, this time from within. michaelwest.com.au/cricket-aust... #Cricket #Aus #CA
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Cricket Australia rocked by contracts-for-mates allegations by whistleblower - Michael West
Cricket Australia blocks serious allegations of contracts-for-mates by whistleblower amid BBL privatisation imbroglio. Joel Jenkins reports
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