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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

However much you hate British media, it is not enough www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09...

How having a disability became cool
Young women, nicknamed ‘sickfluencers’, are turning chronic illness into a lifestyle trend and entrenching a culture of economic inactivity

Young women are also more likely to get caught up in “social contagion” – the spontaneous spread of behaviours or emotions previously observed by sociologists in “outbreaks” of bulimia, self-harm and transgender ideology. What may have otherwise been transitory feelings are seized upon and obsessed over until they form a central pillar of a person’s identity. A chronic-illness influencer won’t want to get “better” any more than a female-bodied transgender person would want to re-identify with their sex.

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Nicky Rowlands 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nickyrowlands.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

When he turns Ellie’s head without taking his eyes off the dinos

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Nicky Rowlands 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nickyrowlands.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

I just received an email beginning “Short one”, meaning it will be a short email, but my initial interpretation was that they were addressing me, a short person.

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Meroull the Wooden Doll | VSmarties ✨ @meroull-and-oaki.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Trans Lesbians are Lesbians! (Reminder for some of y’all)

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Will Burrows 🖖🥖🥀 @reforest-kelley.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

An illustration of Jadzia Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Behind her is a trans pride flag, and in front it says "friend of Dax."

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer Resigns Amid ‘Not Being Very Good Prime Minister’ Scandal

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My Bloody Valentine @chekhovsgundam.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

June is Pride month; July is & month; August is Prejudice month

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

There should be a movie called “all cats are big now” where all cats are suddenly 10 feet tall and hunting their owners and Patrick Wilson is a scientist looking at a screen and it shows a graph of cats being small and then big with an arrow pointing at big and he takes off his glasses dramatically

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Jason's Mom Has Got It Going On 🎃 @sailorsoapbox.com · 14/06/2026

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

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Gnome Anne @annethegnome.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Allistics, I wish I could communicate the absolute HIGH of talking to someone when they casually say “I’m autistic“ and you say “me too” and then you both stop making eye contact and the conversation gets 1000 times better BOTTLE THIS SHIT

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Jasmin🌸 @theboobtaster.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

this might be the best headline i’ve ever read

Enemy lesbian nuns quit convent and marry each other

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Tansy Rayner Roberts @tansyrr.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I've seen a lot of discussion from indie authors wanting to generate AI references then get real artists to "make it legit art" which suggests a HUGE lack of understanding of how to commission art/design as an author. So I thought I'd share my experience.

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Anni Jyn @annijyn.com · 06/06/2026

hello i’m a queer artist witch if you wanna support the queers this pride month and all of the time forever ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ everyone who buys art from me this month gets double the amount of smooches

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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A terrific actor, an essential part of one of the greatest TV shows ever, and from what I’m hearing, a really good dude. Rest in Peace, Anthony Head.

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Leena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 02/06/2026

feeling uneasy about how we’re remembering the pandemic, our collective memory it’s referred to as a period of inconvenience to most people (may be biased here as we had the most time under lockdowns in the world) instead of a mass casualty event where we had excess global deaths of 15 million.

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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

because I know y’all can’t click and read

1. "Except in rare circumstances, drowning people are physiologically unable to call out for help. The respiratory system was designed for breathing.
Speech is the secondary or overlaid function.
Breathing must be fulfilled before speech occurs.
2. Drowning people's mouths alternately sink below and reappear above the surface of the water. The mouths of drowning people are not above the surface of the water long enough for them to exhale, inhale, and call out for help. When the drowning people's mouths are above the surface, they exhale and inhale quickly as their mouths start to sink below the surface of the water.
3. Drowning people cannot wave for help. Nature instinctively forces them to extend their arms laterally and press down on the water's surface.
Pressing down on the surface of the water permits drowning people to leverage their bodies so they can lift their mouths out of the water to breathe.
4. Throughout the Instinctive Drowning Response, drowning people cannot voluntarily control their arm movements. Physiologically, drowning people who are struggling on the surface of the water cannot stop drowning and perform voluntary movements such as waving for help, moving toward a rescuer, or reaching out for a piece of rescue equipment.
5. From beginning to end of the Instinctive Drowning Response people's bodies remain upright in the water, with no evidence of a supporting kick. Unless rescued by a trained lifeguard, these drowning people can only struggle on the surface of the water from 20 to 60 seconds before submersion occurs."

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Kirsty Webeck @kirstywebeck.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Hello BlueSky Angels, I am doing an encore show in Canberra this week. I would love it if you could let any friends you have in Canberra know. Thank you very much. Xox All tour tickets can be found here: wwe.kirstywebeck.com/tickets

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The Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 22/05/2026

Sometimes you fall short and then people try to butter you up by insisting that well, you were within the margarine of error

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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

As a queer who grew up in the 90s, when it was completely normal to call everything you didn't like "gay," I'm begging y'all to push back on the use of homosexuality as an insult, even when it's leveled at people you hate. No, it's not more fitting because they're homophobic bigots. It's never cute.

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

In 18 years of closely watching federal budgets, I've never seen a budget measure with this level of social spending cuts (not even in Joe Hockey's 2014 budget). $36b in NDIS cuts over the forward estimates

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Penny Allman-Payne @pennyallmanpayne.com · 12/05/2026

JobSeeker is nearly $300 a week below the poverty line. Immiserating people on welfare is utterly immoral and makes it even harder for those who can work to find a job. We're sick of Labor crying poor when the 1% grow their wealth in their sleep. Tax the rich. Raise the rate.

Line graph showing Australian weekly unemployment benefit compared to the poverty line over time. Graph shows the current JobSeeker rate is $291 per week below the poverty line,

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Beau @drbeaubeaumont.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Hatred for Nazis.

A Nazi in Raiders of the Lost Ark, about to get exactly what his kind deserve.

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Black Aziz Anansi @blackazizanansi.blacksky.app · 03/05/2026

Same. Like yeah fascism has always been present, but when you reelect a president who ordered his supporters to storm the capitol...

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Arloween 🎃 @feraldactal.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Okay, I’m putting myself on a book buying ban. Preorders don’t count. Neither do books apart of a series I already own. Special editions also don’t count. Also ebooks definitely don’t count. Neither do any books with pages. Or any books with words. I totally got this.

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Seth Trueger @mdaware.org · 29/04/2026

notably his cure is from CAR-T therapy, which is so new I didn’t even learn about it in med school THIS is why we invest in science

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Nicky Rowlands 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nickyrowlands.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

I had tickets to WorldCon 2020. It was going to be my first international trip. Then the pandemic happened. It can't replace that WorldCon but if it's in Brisbane, that means I (and many others in the Southern Hemisphere who missed out on Wellington) might actually be able to attend!

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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 26/04/2026

For those just waking up:

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taylor swift lyrics @tswiftlyrics.swifties.social · 26/04/2026

Black text on white background reading: Dear reader, when you aim at the devil, make sure you don’t miss.

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Fiona Tribe @fionatribe.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

Same text as in post. Via @UBIWorks.bsky.social #UBI #UniversalBasicincome

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Frances “Poet Laureate of the Robot Alliance” Klein @fklein907.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should

A package of KFC “colonel’s favorite jellybeans” with fried chicken, sweet corn, and gravy flavors

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Zig Zag Claybourne @zzclaybourne.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This. Amazing stuff all around. Books, crafts, music, mental peace, a boom in soul-feeding things.

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John Wiswell @wiswell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

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Louisa @louisathelast.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Yeah. I get that it can be funny/inspiring to see people you think of mostly as ferrying kids to soccer practice and collecting Stanley mugs showing up to protests with kind of bloodthirsty signs. But the surprise bothers me because 75%+ of the time the people leading and volunteering are women

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Nicky Rowlands 🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @nickyrowlands.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

You know you're getting old when staff barely glance at you before they slap the "Over 18" wristband on.

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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Alysa Liu stole her hairstyle from an Australian

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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre. She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s. Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

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Natasa Ilincic @natasailincic.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

I keep seeing authors getting duped by AI users pretending to be artists (and then sadly realising it when everyone calls their book AI slop). These grifters are everywhere and I don't have a solution, but I have a few pointers:

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Mary Robinette Kowal @maryrobinettekowal.com · 16/02/2026

Proposal: vampire romance is necromantasy

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Mahto @mahto808.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

To anyone that needs clarification, "your best" is what you can accomplish without damage to your physical, mental and emotional health, not what you can accomplish by destroying them

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Chris Fenoglio @chrisfenoglio.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 13/02/2026

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

"Moderna's CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: 'You cannot make a return on investment if you don't have access to the U.S. market. Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"et choo, thomas?" — sir topham hatt, during his assassination

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