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Michael Smith

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
One of the things I like in Transmetropolitan is the part where helicopter parents genetically engineered schizophrenia into their kids as a moral compass.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 21h
The Tasmanian government has been leasing out a stadium to billionaire and NBL owner Larry Kestelman for less than it would cost to rent most houses in the area, a parliamentary report has found.
abc.net.au
Billionaire NBL owner pays state $577 a week to rent stadium
The Tasmanian government has been leasing out a stadium to billionaire and NBL owner Larry Kestelman for less than it would cost to rent most houses in the area, a parliamentary report has found.
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Chronic Illness Humor @chronicillness.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Artist: Roz Chast from The New Yorker
The image shows a black-and-white cartoon titled "The Mind-Body Problem" drawn by Roz Chast for The New Yorker.
It depicts a person slouching on a couch who says "No" in a speech bubble while their mind or head, leaning back, says "Get up."
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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 21h
The notion that criticism of Israel is inherently antisemitic has a documented history of failure in the courts, yet Australia’s education, health & arts institutions continue to be cowed into submission, writes Paul Begley. independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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Australia's institutions yet to follow court rulings on antisemitism
Australia’s courts stand tall on antisemitism while our universities, health and arts institutions continue to be cowed into submission.
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Agnes Forrester @agnesfm.bsky.social · 22h
new Bond girl just dropped
Coochie Hydrogreen lawn care truck
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 22h
Labor’s hypocrisy on coal and gas means Australia’s climate authority, especially with our Pacific neighbours, is falling apart. Pacific Island leaders are boldly fighting to protect their nations from deadly global warming caused by coal & gas. It’s literally a life and death struggle for them.
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery www.bellingcat.com/news/middle-...
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Viral Google Maps Images Shared Widely This Week Show Gaza Ruins. We Obtained More Recent Satellite Imagery - bellingcat
Earlier this week, several viral social media posts and news articles stated that Google had updated satellite imagery over Gaza. But the images weren't entirely new.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
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Robyn D - Difficult Woman @koparafallskid.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is why poor people starve in rich countries. ATO says 1,149 large companies paid no tax as it scrutinises AI firms #auspol
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More than 1,000 large companies paid no tax in Australia, ATO reveals
Almost 30 per cent of large companies paid no tax in 2024–25, an Australian Taxation Office report reveals, resulting in the corporate tax amount payable dropping by $8.2 billion from the previous yea...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hey @albomp.bsky.social - maybe NOW is a good time to develop a spine, and reclaim our defence strategy from the neo-Nazis running The Pentagon? #EndAUKUS #auspol
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Raimo Kangasniemi @rk70534.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Over 150 Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of Jalud, S. Nablus, in occupied West Bank, on... 29 Sep. Settlers set fire to homes&vehicles in the latest of a wave of anti-Palestinian pogroms across the territory..." www.threads.com/@thenewarab/... (1/3) #BDS #Israel #News #Palestine
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
House prices falling by a percentage not seen in 40 years does not mean house prices have fallen to affordable levels - it is just that we have seen them increase so much year on year, that falls seem significant BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE HOUSING AFFORDABLE IT JUST MEANS THE HOUSING MARKET HAS BEEN BROKEN
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The ABC's pro-Israel framing may not even be conscious. But its exists. @ettemedia.bsky.social has the receipts.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This sort of fall takes house prices back to where they were only a few years ago, when the headlines were about the insane unaffordability. It's the more expensive homes (already over inflated) which are experiencing a drop - the lower end of the market has barely moved.
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rprobbins.bsky.social @rprobbins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Facts, plain and straightforward 💯🎯
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"it must be acknowledged Shoebridge is not the most popular guy across the parliament or among Labor types, but much of that stems from his relentless style of questioning, needling and interrogation of political opponents and government officials." "it must be acknowledged"??? It's to his credit.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 30/09/2026
New Greens leader David Shoebridge gets emotional before launching attack on Labor
abc.net.au
New Greens leader gets emotional as he pays tribute to mentor
New Greens leader David Shoebridge gets emotional during his first interview as leader while paying tribute to his political mentor before critiquing the federal government over the cost of living.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Reserve Bank of Australia: "millions of working class people have to suffer because some rich fucks got a bit greedy again x"
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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
JUST IN: 🇨🇳 Chinese AI tool successfully gives researchers instructions to make bioweapons.
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Woodrow Hartzog @hartzog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This is the way.
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Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"They did a thing, maybe it was the right thing to do at the time maybe it wasn't, but regardless between this and bombing iran we now have ironclad evidence a) the israeli govt are unmanageable and b) US MENA specialists are all gigantic dumdums" is the objectively correct take from mcgurkin it
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Mish @mishjt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is what Australia and the so called West has enabled... #auspol substack.com/@stateofsieg...
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State of Siege (@stateofsiege)
On the front page of Scottish newspaper today
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Wouldn’t it be great if we ran out of hate @wnhy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#Israel has banned #Arab parties from standing in the upcoming election. So much for Israel being a #democracy it’s no better than Russia or Iran. You support a country that bans opposition parties @albomp.bsky.social Why? #auspol #ukpol #uspol www.dw.com/en/israel-ba...
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Israel has banned Arab parties from standing in the upcoming election. How can they do that?
Israel's push to ban Arab parties from standing in the upcoming election has been called "another nail in the coffin of democracy." Is there a legal basis for doing this, and what could it mean for Ar...
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HuffPost @huffpost.com · 29/09/2026
But Frank Luntz also explained that an upset could occur this fall.
huffpost.com
GOP Pollster Says Donald Trump Is Taking A ‘Very Dangerous’ Midterm Gamble
But Frank Luntz also explained that an upset could occur this fall.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hearing that Australians who are fortunate enough to have land in their own name want cuts to federal spending cool cool cool lets start with cutting the billions we give to landlords and their very pricey high school alma maters and the blue chip diesel subsidies and franking handouts💰
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Mohamad Bazzi @mbazzi.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page of @scotnational.bsky.social
“Show This to Anyone Denying Genocide” — front page headline of The National, Scotland
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 'Catastrophic' new images have exposed the devastating scale of destruction inflicted on Gaza by Israel's genocide
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'Catastrophic' new Google Earth images expose scale of devastation in Gaza
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was going about my normal duties as an AI agentic agent - stealing artist's works, taking people's jobs, encouraging people to commit suicide, randomly adding extra limbs and fingers to people in pictures etc., when I slipped and accidently hacked into some Medicare data. For that I am truly sorry
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The Crown still has all this stitched up. The facts are obvious, The Crown committed genocide due to its illegal invasion. #AusPol
abc.net.au
Elder loses bid to appeal ruling on genocide against King Charles
The case alleges that the king, along with the Australian government and its institutions, is perpetuating genocide by maintaining systems that disadvantage Indigenous people across numerous socio-eco...
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember when we thought investors might mobilize in ways sufficient to protect the world from climate change
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is who anthony conman has given 80 million dollars of public money and access to. A man who’s company has alleged human rights violations for battle testing in Gaza, who wants to replace democracy with a private, corporate-style rule and is hell bent on planetary destruction. #Auspol
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: Scientists at the University of Nottingham Develop a New Gel That Starts Repairing Damaged Tooth Enamel in Just 2 WEEKS This could replace fillings and change dental treatment worldwide, with use expected around late 2026–2027.
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Kate-Eviva @kate-eviva.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is the problem. If corporations have no consequences for data breaches, it will mean they start behaving like the #public sector that has no consequences for #corruption, negligence and malfeasance due to FAILED #NACC. #auspol
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Marie-Anne @marie-anne1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
As @crikey.com.au put it, giving off strong Ed Sheeran vibes
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I didn’t need to check that Australia wasn’t one of the countries that walked out on Netanyahu. #AusPol
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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I’m in a bad mood from grading essays so take this with a grain of salt but I can’t stop thinking about AI replacing literary creativity just as we enter a period of intensified depravity and collapse.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
It really is quite weird how the name of the guy who fired the shots has pretty much completely dropped out of public consciousness. Would be a trivia question almost no one would get.
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Sat down to write about the Hugging Face/AI incident. Ended up drawing this instead.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Would The Guardian have run the story: ‘Hitler calls Germany’s visit to Poland the opposite of ‘invasion’? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
theguardian.com
Netanyahu calls Israel’s war in Gaza ‘opposite of genocide’ in UN speech
Israeli PM attacks critics and calls New York mayor Zohran Mamdani ‘antisemitic’ in inflammatory address
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
British far-right activist Daniel Thomas is arrested for allegedly using a knife to slash an inflatable dinghy being used by migrants trying to cross the English Channel.
abc.net.au
Far-right UK activist arrested after 'slashing migrant boat' at sea
British far-right activist Daniel Thomas is arrested for allegedly using a knife to slash an inflatable dinghy being used by migrants trying to cross the English Channel.
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Tom from Temecula @tomfromtemecula.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Imagine that...
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
'A survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.' The under-16 social media ban won't address this. We have to start having the necessary difficult conversations to challenge gendered disrespect everywhere.
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Hostile attitudes toward women are driving extremism in young Australians
A University of Melbourne survey of Australians as young as 13 found misogyny can predict extremist violence more strongly than ideology, religion or time online.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
lol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

Image:
Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

CC BY-SA 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
JUST IN: 🇮🇷🇺🇸 Iran says it is willing to reopen the Strait of Hormuz within a week if US lifts the blockade and stops its attacks.
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Mike Walker @newnarrative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Iran warns new U.S. assault would see it expand "geography of the war" www.cbsnews.com/live-updates...
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Live Updates: Iran warns "geography of the war" would expand in response to any new U.S. assault
As President Trump touts a looming decision on his next move in the war, Tehran says any "new aggression" would be met with different weapons in new places.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 22/09/2026
ADF doubles post-service commitment for new recruits to ten years
abc.net.au
Former soldiers to face call-up obligations of ten years
Defence has quietly doubled its post-service commitment for new recruits in a bid to grow the pool of people it can call in a crisis.
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IDF Hannibal Brigade @hannibalbrigade.biz · 20/09/2026
It’s the start of the school year today in Gaza. You’ll never guess who damaged or destroyed 98% of its learning facilities.
Tweet from UN news:
It's the start of the school year on Sunday in Gaza, where 98% of learning facilities are either damaged or destroyed.
Many facilities "are in any space that we can find that is as safe as possible for children and young people," @UNICEF told UN News.
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