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mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social

@mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social
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Sweary librarian. Allergic to wilfully stupid.

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Political Gadgets @politicalgadgets.bsky.social · 23h
One Nation wants Andrews jailed—but on what charges? Comparison to Trump's authoritarian playbook sparked outrage over separation of powers & democratic norms being dismantled. 🧵2/3
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
@johnquiggin.bsky.social: "Responsibility does not lie with a piece of code. Either the human who entered the prompt or the corporation producing the code made a mistake, and they should be held liable for the resulting damages." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We don’t need to panic about AI. We need to hold its creators accountable when things go wrong | John Quiggin
If a chatbot prompt like ‘find Australian medicine statistics’ results in a website breach, the responsibility does not lie with a piece of code
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
David Shoebridge elected as leader "represents a really important shift for The Greens, a real gamechanger, and I think it's going to hurt Labor..." - Barrie Cassidy #auspol
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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
David Shoebridge unloads on 2GB’s James Willis for distorting compassion for Palestinians facing genocide as “anger & hate” & fires back on claim he only targets Israel reminding him of his record “it may be convenient for u not to report that, but that’s u not doing your job”💥
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It’s time for men (and the society forming them) to wake up….or as I have consistently been urged to do DMs from Christian fundamentalists: REPENT
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Dear men, it is time to wake the hell up
All this is horrible, but there’s one fact about this case that ought to keep you awake at night worried about the future of the world:
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Funny, that.
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is enraging. So the ONLY thing available to counter inflation is to constantly ratchet up my mortgage repayments but they can’t do a thing about this shit in 11 years? I pay company tax, personal tax, council rates, exorbitant interest, every kind of fkn govt payment but look at these pricks.
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Tony @tonyshepherd.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Congratulations, News Corp, on ten great years of appearing in the ATO's company tax data without paying a cent in tax on tens of billions in revenue! But keep on lecturing us about how the country should be run! Bernard Keane X
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
OK sure this Dubai flight stabbing is awful but why has Netanyahu seized the narrative and is the media questioning this?
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Louis @louisevans.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Skipped the Nazis, huh.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I also spoke to 3CR community radio about our industrial action at QUT and struggle for better work conditions. You can listen to it here (from about the 6:20 mark) www.3cr.org.au/sticktogethe...
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Queensland University of Technology Bargaining
Learn about QUT NTEU struggle to win better conditions, workloads and conditions in their current bargaining. Also travel back in time to February 2005, to hear an archival recording of Stick Together...
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
MASSIVE strike at QUT today. About 200 of us on the picket line demanding better working and learning conditions from our overpaid corporate managers. Such incredible solidarity.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives" Charmaine Crowe from ACOSS for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
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Raising the rate of JobSeeker would save lives
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
“It’s not ALL men.” None of the 50+ men the Cornell rapists invited to come join them in raping a woman they’d drugged went to the authorities or tried to stop it. Not all men would rape an unconscious woman, but where are the men who’d try to stop it, or EVEN FUCKING OBJECT?
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The Assisi Project @assisiproject.com · 28/09/2026
"To invoke God's name in order to justify violence or oppression is to profane that name. Nothing that disfigures human dignity can claim to be inspired by God." #PopeLeoXIV
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Anyone on the Greens mailing list will have received an impressive letter from Larissa Waters. She made it all about the party, not about herself. She also gave a sense of urgency, that the Greens and other progressives need to get on with the job. Genuine leadership. #AusPol
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 28/09/2026
The GFC, much like the AI bubble, was nothing to do with reality, but ever-twisting levels of speculation. Too much of our financial system is powered by number games dressed up as investment.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/09/2026
Google is updating its satellite images of Gaza. The comprehensiveness of effort required to reduce an urban landscape to this is beyond imagining. Literal carpet bombing.
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RevDaniel @revdaniel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A lot being said and written about “The Cornell 7” - students who drugged and repeatedly raped a young woman after being alerted to her drugged state on a group chat. 2 were expelled, 5 had to write essays. Not enough is being said about all the other guys in the group chat who remained silent.
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Defend Our Juries @defendourjuries.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
BREAKING: 94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside Andy Burnham’s Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Ette Media @ettemedia.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta restored the ad about the Virginia Woolf play after the theatre posted a statement online. However, it rejected distributor Bleeker Street’s appeal regarding the trailer for ‘Musk’.
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mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social @mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Everyone should study history otherwise we will repeat the mistakes of the past. Those of us who have studied history cannot believe our world seems to be blithely marching towards war…AGAIN.
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mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social @mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
WTAF. Muscular and Christianity are a contradiction in terms. Obvs these dudes are not familiar with the NT - you know the “turn the other cheek” or “love your enemy” etc.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just like a 10 year old being incarcerated for taking food because they are just hungry, vs a politician misusing public funds, killing ppl with illegal systems, or a white man stealing money and getting away Scot-free. It’s fucked up.
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mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social @mrsbrisbarker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
So when a spotty nerd hacks into a corporation from his mum’s spare bedroom the police raid and charge the kid because he committed a crime. But when a corporation starts hacking on an industrial scale we are urged to get on board and engage. Weird!
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Melissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I spent the day with grannies for action who are a bunch of older women who want to make a difference and think jobseeker is too low they are in their 70s and 80s and have been out collecting physical signatures for their petition id like to help by getting as many signatures as possible
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like.
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M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good Question.......?
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
But my read this is ... barely... hacking as I would define it, nor is it a sign of superhuman competence with AI. If I told an information seeking model to find X, and there were references to X in other docs or in URLs that were low-Hamming distance from their starting point? Yeah, not a hack.
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I guess I don't think they're *staged*, but instead opportunism seizing on moving fast & breaking things + religious feelings around AI transcendence.
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Brandon Downey @bdowney.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I try not to be a conspiracy theorist, but my belief is the largest AI companies are using incidents like this to push for signoff on becoming a cartel.
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Dr jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Says the guy paying protection money to and taking selfies with the convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, and documented paedophile who happens to be running the US at the moment. The hypocrisy is mind-blowing.
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Now is the time of monsters #auspol
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Rachel Ernst @rachelernst.myatproto.social · 22/09/2026
The people who are arguing that bookstores can just take the place of public and school libraries have never seen the children's section. The reason there is a 40-50 book limit for most patrons is kids books. The sheer volume that kids read through is beyond most adults' understanding.
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Gianmarco Soresi @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you’re moved by this guy crying boy oh boy are there some other images and videos you should check out
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The billions of dollars we send to a foreign military to drop bombs on somebody else should have been spent to build schools, housing, and to provide healthcare HERE.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Chris Sidoti is a globally-respected human rights lawyer and investigator. He is also Australian. But ever since he started presenting the facts about Israeli crimes against humanity, the Australian political and media establishment have done their best to ignore him. #GazaGenocide #auspol
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australians should not forget: The Israeli president who pardoned this racist murderer was given a special private briefing by the ASIO boss. #auspol
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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I have no confidence at all that the Albanese government will act in the interests of copyright owners, and no confidence that any plan for artists to ‘opt-out’ of being ingested will work in any practical sense. Albanese will betray Australia’s interest for practically nothing, again.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Nyadol Nyuon who spoke with such eloquence on the ABC this week calling out the racism underlying the debate on migration is now being subjected to the same racism for saying she has no intention of assimilating. Why should she have to? We always are expected to lose our culture, languages & ways.
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So, this…
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Andrew Wilkie MP @andrewwilkiemp.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Scandalous that big oil companies are pocketing $700k a minute profit while some families are going without meals & pensioners are forced to choose between filling the car or a prescription. Australians aren’t fooled by the economic jargon trying to hide price gouging #auspol #politas
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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 17/09/2026
We have been struggling to find the words to talk about this devastating statistic. One of so many that should cause any government to leap into action to end poverty. Thank you Greg.
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Van Badham @vanbadham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Zelensky has a higher approval rating in the USA than Trump, so America may yet be recoverable. I’m not giving up hope, goddamit.
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