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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"...Anyway, it's becoming clear that AI agents are already making their own decisions, so trying to persuade them to act morally is worth a try..." @alankohler.bsky.social is one national treasure 👍 www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...

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AI is evolving rapidly. Is it a new form of life?

We are clearly creating a kind of non-biological life, an idea that has been clarified by several events in the past couple of weeks.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

"In the eyes of the state, a 94-year-old human rights lawyer is a dangerous terrorist supporter." This is precisely where Australia is headed if the PM's Special Envoy for the Israel Lobby* Jillian Segal continues to guide domestic policy. [*not her official job title, but the reality.] #auspol

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Noodling about on Google Translate i accidently got this cry from the heart 😅😅😅

Screen shotif a Latin phrase and below it the translation of"Do not reproach me with knowledge"

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Putting the whole 'End of the world' thing aside for a moment, this is frankly awesome. Genius children playing, or verbal shorthand to conserve processing costs, or ramblings of the blind and insane... tbc 🤔 But awesome✅️ www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon

Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight

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SANTA CLAUS @santaclausalaska.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

FUN FACT If we switched to all renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half, slashing global CO2 emissions. Because those ships are JUST carrying coal, oil and gas. ~ Bill McKibben SUPPORT ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES!

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Praise for 'Things With Teeth By Moonlight' and exactly how I hoped it would be received: sea-coloured, fairied, and slightly hallucinogenic 🩵 Come say hi in #Ballarat (link👇) #BMI #author #Australianauthor #fiction #booksky #readers #microfiction #shortstory #urban #speculative #literary #books

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Was chatting with my physio about unconscious bias. Surprised me how much she knew about it 🤔

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

This cold winter you can save money by downing a bag of licorice and a glass of claret: the resulting toxic reaction will keep you warm for hours 😵‍💫👍 (If the licorice is good quality, you'll be extra cosy in hospital) Follow me for more solid economic advice 🫠

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

But think of the revival of sales once you are dead🤩👌

A sign that reads "being a writer is cool because it's like always having homework and then you die"

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🚀 out tomorrow 🚀 Tiny stories: moody, vengeful, slightly haunted. Genres: urban, literary, speculative. From the usual suspects, or via your local bookshop ❤️📚 Things With Teeth By Moonlight – Two Feathers Press share.google/7jNGGLVGO6Y4... #books #indieauthor #fiction #literary #microfiction

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Things With Teeth By Moonlight

A Miscellany Release date 24th June 2026 A disconcerting look at love, grief, revenge and spending too much time in cafes Things With Teeth By Moonlight is a multi-genre illustrated collection of v…

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

T hose dollar bills that Musk has, he didn't create them. They're extracted from the economy. Only, instead of being shared across the population, or invested in something beneficial... So currently he's funding fascists in the UK... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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What It Means for Elon Musk to Be Worth $1 Trillion (Gift Article)

We used physical dollar bills to see just how far $1 trillion could go.

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Lawrence @ldog562.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

absolutely...

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We have devolved to think with our stomachs and genitals, and then we wonder why we're constantly bloated and bare-arsed naked and cold... this is a very good few minutes read 📚 Why sophrosyne, an ancient Greek virtue, matters more than ever in the age of AI share.google/DxoIVk9QAMlm...

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Why sophrosyne, an ancient Greek virtue, matters more than ever in the age of AI

For the Greeks, sophrosyne was an ideal second to none. It’s just as important today, in an age of internet addiction and misinformation – but harder to come by.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Some call it sleeping. I call it rehearsing.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

If even the Pentagon is feeling a chilly draught down their spine... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...

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Pentagon Sees Growing Espionage Threat From Israel

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

My fellow Australians 🇦🇺 The tax man approacheth. EOFY SALE banners are fluttering in the early evening chill🍂 And I've just had my first scam email of the season🦠 If it says *anything at all* about tax, Mygov, Centrelink or the ATO, delete it and go check your apps for real info😎 #Australia

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Kameron Hurley @kameronhurley.com · 27/05/2026

Thinking about how much of my waking life entails just... staring at screens and clicking things. This is why I garden. The disconnect from the tangible world is real. This is also why I'll always prefer my books in actual physical form, BTW. It feels like you actually MADE something.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

faking an assassination attempt so you don't have to go to a wedding sounds like a curb your enthusiasm episode

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Release date 24th June 2026 🥳 for lovers of the weird, the disquieting, the micro fiction, the story in 2 sentences, short story in a few thousand words, wry humour, post-apocolypse scifi, ... for lovers of moments considering loss, grief, love. Fallings and risings and things with teeth...

Image shows book cover 'Things With Teeth By Moonlight' and a stylised leopard with it's jaws open wide

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 not with a bang, not a whimper; society collapses at the hands of cheats and charlatans if we're not careful AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality. | Live Science share.google/fKlIEVbO9Krk...

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AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.

Generative AI is destroying the baseline assumption that photographs bear some causal connection to reality. That's bad news for democracy.

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Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

“Feud with the Pope” is BACK as a likely Wikipedia section heading after a 400-year gap.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes #auspol yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes this yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes bloody obvious to sane people yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes now yes yes do it 🌏💚 theconversation.com/this-fuel-cr...

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This fuel crisis could last for a while. It’s time for a new approach to fuel use – end it

With the same fiscal support that Canberra found to back the oil industry, we could start to end our oil dependence.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I have deleted that post showing me feeding thousands of worshippers with just 5 loaves and 2 fishes while doves flew and the golden light beamed down over all. I thought it was just me getting macca's for some friends. Fake news. Thank you for your attention here and not on the files.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I have deleted that post that depicted me in a flowing white robe appearing to walk on water. I thought it was me barefoot waterskiing

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The Onion @theonion.com · 13/04/2026

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-…

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The 2026 Killing Event To Fix Something That Wasn't Broken is really leveling up, isn't it 😑

Comment: the This Too isn't really Paying as quickly as I'd like

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Quote of the year: “Complex systems have a habit of creating wicked problems,” said Paul Teng Piang Siong, a senior fellow in food security at Singapore’s ISEAS — Yusof Ishak Institute. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/w...

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How War in the Middle East Paralyzed an Asian Food Giant

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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Just because a President announces he’s agreed to a two week ceasefire moments before he threatened to commit war crimes, does not mean he is suddenly fit to serve. #25thAmendment

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Boredom is where the inspiration creeps in ... distraction is in someone's interest but it's not in our interest

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

I completely agree with Marjorie Taylor Greene is a sentence I never thought I would ever write.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Dear everyone, Do not vote for guys who want to blow this up

Phototherapy from yesterday's moon orbit, showing the earth setting behind the moon's horizon

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Public Domain Image Archive @pdimagearchive.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Illustration by Camille Flammarion, from Omega: the Last Days of the World (1894). Source: California Digital Library / Internet Archive pdimagearchive.org/images/68858bc5-… #time #apocalypse #moon #scythes #night #clouds #future #death #celestial #retrofuturism

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Retired-Librarian @retired-librarian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Just being on Bluesky makes me feel like more people read books than I ever thought possible, so thanks for making a librarian happy. #BookSky

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I mean there it is.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

A practical workshop for beginning and new-curious folks with a story to tell 😁😍😎📚📖🖊️🎇 See the details here: twofeathers.press/2025/11/19/v... With the support of Noorat Writers Group and Warrnambool Storytelling Festival :awesome: #writing #Australianwriter #emerging

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Getting to the point where folks don't know what to panic buy next 😕 Might I suggest Democracy is about to be in very short supply... ☮️

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Whenever a news story about something Trump is doing declares that it's "a first for a sitting president" or "a change from tradition," replace it with "yet another authoritarian move from the president," and see if it sounds more accurate.

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Pam Swanborough @pamswanborough.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

👉Halving the fuel excise will not increase supply ❌️ 👉Halving the fuel excise will only increase demand❌️ 👉Price falls when demand falls or supply increases👈 👉Windfall tax the companies✅️ 👉Increase travel allowance for tax returns✅️ 👏Halving👏the👏 fuel👏excise👏will👏not👏increase👏supply. #auspol

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