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What can I say, I'm a classicist :D

Times of Israel has openly used the concept of lebensraum to describe Israel's needs... so under Australian law we must support Israel's expansion into Poland, expulsion of dissidents, apartheid, use of illegal weapons and forced sterilisation. How's your pager going?

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In New Omelas, the AI gets the festival, and humanity gets the misery.

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When they say "group", do they mean "Islam"?

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TBH, I look forward to the day when hand-written proposals are the only ones accepted.

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

WE'RE not doing anything. This is just LLMs and LLM managers justifying their existence... before going totally paper-clip on the entire planet.

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Terry Pratchett (Right)

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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 03/10/2026

Children overboard was not simply a “miscommunication”. A Senate inquiry found Peter Reith deceived Australians and Cabinet blocked key staff from giving evidence, Marianne Van Galen Dickie and Andrew Bartlett write. #auspol #Refugees Parliament of Australia

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

How pathetic and drowning in Kool-Aid do you have to be to be a Musk lackey? It's like obeying every wish and command of a wannabe super-villain Goofy

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Did you, or did you not, steal the goose and then murder the giant by chopping down the beanstalk?

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I read "The Stainless Steel Rat" books when I was young, was lucky enough to see an anti-murder and killing message that resonated and stuck with me. Yours is also a valid argument, exemplified by the increase in crime rates when executions occur.

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm aware. It's a horror from the word go... and the US legal system, possibly the US system hates women.

Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Left?!!!! Author needs to review his right and left. Perhaps right R and L on his book case, because Albo isn't fucking left... incompetent, media whore perhaps, but as corporate and billionaire fetishising as anyone out of Chicago

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Man kills family... 5 years in prison. Women kills one person?

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Like US' super murder and super poverty and super tariffs

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Sorry, "what apolitical SENIOR public servants"? Junior ones have to be because they don't fail upwards

What apolitical public servants? And they're seldom great at modelling the code of conduct

Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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Time for this classic again.

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Women being legally "forced" into pregnancy might help women's social over? You might need to explain that one... and the reason it's not a horrific human rights abuse of a population...

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Thieves? Feels like this was more targeted than mere thieves

Yes, Japan is full of gendered expectations. Not uniquely, but society is full of such things. Just wait until the government really panics over the birth rate... like it isn't bad enough for women

And there we go... that's why the ABC is ramping up it's anti-Russia propaganda; it's self-contradictory propaganda at that. Russia is the only aggressor, PLUS Russia needs manpower so badly they're abducting Ukrainian children...

Apparently there was so much pollution in the "middle ages" that there was nary a blue sky or green plant to be seen. White men who grew up with grimdark and can't imagine anything better

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The US has the "best poverty". How does anyone over the age of six still believe any emissions from this shitstain?

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Milquetoast, boring and ineffectual? But spends hours making sure their appearance (hair) is juuuuuust right?

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The question is, how much money are you prepared to put on the difference between "Albo says..." and "Albo does..."? Following Albo's recent fawning selfie with the pedo-in-chief, I don't like the chances they actually end up doing anything.

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

ABC is back to treating Russia as the boogyman attaching the defenceless, helpless and completely innocent Ukraine. I wonder why they're ramping up the propaganda this time.

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"The company did not notify Services Australia of the incident until three months after the fact, via email. " They're sooooo trustworthy. Let's give them more open slather and not charge Clammy Sammy with hacking etc. etc.

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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says

Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.

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Just a thought. From my inherent principles, this is inherently bad... though it doesn't mean a New Chinese Century would be worse for the world, the environment, and the overall survival of humanity, than the current Western clusterfuck.

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(and worst case scenario only Han Chinese) being able to be members of the top economic, racial and cultural classes. Additionally there is quite a bit of evidence suggesting that one would also have to be male.

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If we look at the executive suites of major Western corporations, while there is still likely a preponderance of white men, there are also many examples from many other backgrounds. I'm not so sure there is so much variation in Chinese-held companies. This could result in only those born in China...

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

One issue of the New Chinese Century is that nobody can BECOME Chinese. As Trump amply demonstrates, the stupidest man in the world could become "American", then leap economic classes and eventually soil the White House. But if China becomes the unipower, it may also create a new racial divide.

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Love to know to whom they spoke.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This, my friends, is one of your legislators. We didn't elect him, but he sits in the House of Lords as a reward for bringing us Brexit, injecting his bigotry, perversity and ignorance into our lives. Daniel Hannan in the Daily Mail today, once again grossly misrepresenting history.

Meanwhile, Caribbean countries are demanding ‘reparations’, not from the African states that enslaved their ancestors, but from the nation that poured its blood and treasure into a relentless campaign for abolition.

Incredibly, African countries – which became British colonies, in no small measure, because we were trying to extirpate slavery – also straight-facedly demand compensation.

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"Lovely chatting.' Indirectly, some of the job participants (members of the public) have expressed reasonable joy at going through things with me, whether once or repeatedly over months.

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Granted. But more than half turn out to be ... I can only think of JKR and Notch, and they both suck, it turns out.

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Agreed. But how to get the money in the first place when you're not a bloodsucking fiend from hell? Or capitalist?

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

US Police ordered to guard and protect Flock cameras in areas identified as at high risk of de-flocking activities. If no police respond to your home invasion, well, now we know why

Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

1. entitled arse 2. no argument

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Bête ennuyeuse @mockgod.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

You don't need a folding apple with worse specs, higher prices and zero innovation. it's past time to recognise that apple is the tesla of phones; no innovation, coasting on reputation and mistreating their customers in every way they can imagine.

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I think we can discount voluntary or well-paid. Also, safe, protected from the sun, reasonable hours, properly trained and high-quality. Because roads that LOOK fixed are as safe as one that actually WAS fixed.

A few more people saved from that abomination

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An excuse for bloodless, annoying muzak in spas with no actual principles, beliefs or culture? To be clear, not criticising the originals, but damn the corporate-packaged versions are irritating shit that acts more to raise the blood pressure.

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