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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I didn't expect this. Health comes first; she can take all the time she needs. She's not stepping down from the Senate, just the leadership. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Larissa Waters steps down as Greens leader due to ill health

Ballot for new leader expected next week after Waters quits to manage pre-existing kidney disease that has ‘declined significantly’

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm surprised an US LGA can go "Rightio" to a drone delivery service without getting the feds involved (their equivalent of the Civil Aviation Safety Authority) to greenlight it first.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Looking at the list makes me think "Watching TV is an active investment in time that I have chosen not to do". There are so many series here I have not watched at all, and there are no series listed I've watched in their entirety (with the exception of Shōgun).

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The British right has now descended to the point where 'the England team are not English' is becoming the consensus position

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Maybe Derek's a Motie Mediator. (Only Niven/Pournelle readers will get this.)

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

It's like Orwell survived his TB, and wrote a farcical sequel to 1984. All torturers have KPIs, and O'Brien has to justify his interrogation of Winston and Julia as meeting his '99.9% of Party-hostile viewpoints quashed' targets. en.vietnamplus.vn/new-regulati...

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New regulation on political, ideological work in Party highlighted at national conference

The regulation, adopted at the second plenum of the 14th Party Central Committee and issued as Regulation No. 19-QD/TW on April 8, 2026, marks the first comprehensive and systematic framework governin...

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's many things wrong with this, but it's the transparent ballot boxes that stand out for me. Has the Russian government ever heard of this thing called "secret ballot"? I doubt it would pass muster with the Australian Electoral Commission.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Salary caps sounds like a particularly USA problem. Other countries have no problems paying senior public servants more than their politicians. The Australian PM gets 600K AUD/yr. His cabinet secretary gets 1M AUD/yr. (Whether you get value for money is a separate question.)

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Nicolas Hénin @nicolashenin.net · 17/09/2026

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Here's my policy for the Greens - make all entry visas cheaper and easier to access. (And that includes Visitor visa 600, for the record.)

As it says: Key Findings: Australia Visa Fee Increases from 2015 to 2026 for Student 500, Partner 820, Skilled 189 and Graduate 485. Going up from left to right, but really climbing after 2022, when the ALP got elected, and accelerating upwards in 2025.

Generated by Mistral AI, so numbers could be shaky. But it does seem to point to what's happening.

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Claire Willett @clairewillett.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

this is the most mental energy I've given to either Macklemore or Ed Sheeran in my life but I am REALLY interested to see whether the trend of other artists dropping out continues to the point where this tour becomes radioactive for everyone still involved, possibly up to and including Ed

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In normal countries, "public office serves as a means to extraordinary wealth" is called corruption.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The setting moon, with Venus just behind it.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Here's a French video (with English subtitles) about what would happen if the far-right racists got their way and all foreigners and people of colour were forced to leave.

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Rachel Greenham @strangenoises.org · 08/09/2026

everywhere but africa we're a runaway invasive species.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Arguments about the "Media" are a distraction from what's happening in my party: we're too boring and we don't cut through. Mass media is biased, but mass media isn't so mass these days; folk don't get their news from TV or newspapers so much these day. Kos Samaras sounds mostly on the money.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I think Sami Shah's criticism holds up quite well, honestly. www.crikey.com.au/2026/07/17/a...

Context lost

The media has given the royal commission’s first interim report similar treatment to allegations of bias in ABC and SBS coverage. It contains 14 recommendations, five of them confidential, largely concerned with security, policing, counterterrorism coordination, firearms and the failures surrounding the Bondi attack.

The Spectator Australia complained that it was “the report that won’t name the problem“, arguing that the inquiry’s commitment to social cohesion prevented it from identifying radical Islam and its alliance with the hard left as the true drivers of antisemitism.

At the other end of the ideological horseshoe, The Shot — an attempt at a satirical website for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated — published “The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths“, followed last week by “Updates from the Royal Commission into the selective outrage of Zionists“.

One side thinks the commission is concealing the truth to protect Muslims. The other thinks it is manufacturing a lie to protect Zionists. Social cohesion has been achieved, provided social cohesion means everyone agrees that a sinister religious minority is secretly controlling the process and merely disagrees over which minority.

These framings are not morally equivalent. The Spectator’s determination to explain Australian antisemitism primarily through radical Islam can obscure neo-Nazis, conspiracy movements, white nationalism and antisemitism on the non-Islamist left. But The Shot responding to an inquiry dominated by Jewish Australians describing abuse by collectively presenting them as genocidal psychopaths is not media criticism either. The headlines I’ve cited are practically demonstrations of antisemitism.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Trump hates preferential voting is crooked. I'm not surprised. Adding more than one number on a ballot paper would be too suspiciously over-complicated for him.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Things have changed in the last 60 years if locals are restricting the R&R that visiting US service people can get up to. Sounds like a good thing, but how are they going to police it? Ban farangs with American accents? thethaiger.com/news/pattaya...

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US Navy face Pattaya Walking Street time limit, cannabis shop ban, restricted zones

US Navy Pattaya visit brings restricted areas, a 2am Walking Street limit and warnings on prostitution and sexual exploitation.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

This is not quite "Kristina Keneally chosen as the candidate for Fowler over more deserving local members" levels of ALP cynicism. But it's up there.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I know Katseye, as daughter (12) asked to see their documentary on her birthday. It made me think they were over-sexualized and over-exploited. Someone should tell the members about Dolly Parton: how the royalties from composing 5,000 songs made her a wealthy woman. It'll be a learning experience.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 28/08/2026

What the fuck I thought at first the blog on screen was satire, it's actually fucking real. @cameronwilson.bsky.social at #PyConAU naomibashkansky.com/blog/telepat... someone actually wrote this! Dear lord, giving a company access to your thoughts, whyyyyy build the torment nexus

Cameron Wilson presenting a slide at PyConAU that says you don't get trust, you earn it, with think, show, give, prove. And then agent smith laughing after killing the oracle, and a blog post reading

Why I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
August 4, 2026
On Thursday, July 23rd, I resigned from OpenAI. On the 24th, I started as a Founding Researcher at Conduit. We're building telepathy: thought-to-text models, trained on non-invasive neural data.

I'll talk about:

Thought-to-text: what using telepathic tools will be like in 2027, 2030, and 2035
How do we build thought-to-text: why Conduit is collecting immense quantities of non-invasive neural data
Why I joined: I joined because of the audacious vision, the brilliant people, and the fun problems
Hi: about me

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I wrote this about the dreariest freeway in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iht8...

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New Jersey Turnpike

YouTube video by TFSOFLAI

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/08/2026

here is the thing. if you tell me that you believe that race is a biological category and that it is a guide to the objective superiority and inferiority of groups of people, i am not calling you a racist to *insult* you, i am calling you a racist because it best describes your beliefs.

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Fun @funkelly.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

the good news is that, for at least the foreseeable future, these humanoid robots can be easily defeated by utilizing any number of foiling tactics demonstrated in your run-of-the-mill looney tunes cartoon.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 15/08/2026

Black person plagarizes: they take your job, your money, they sneak into your house and steal your dog White person plagarizes: they’re very sorry, of course they’ve lined up a new job writing for the nation, isn’t it great that we all had a teachable moment together?

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

You're never off-side with Haaland's medicinal powders.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Zuckerberg's the sort of superyacht-owning fool who would deliberately ignore other ships' distress signals. He's in the "getting kicked in the head by a horse every day" stage of billionaire cognitive decline.

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John C @badsocialism.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

"are there any bad @stephencollins.bsky.social cartoons?" No, of course not, I've been laughing at this one for three minutes

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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 07/08/2026

There are disability scholars and activists who’ll no doubt give this bullshit the criticisms it deserves, so I will merely ask: Is a requirement for being a terf that you simple *refuse* to recognise others’ embodiment?

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Why are young women using walking sticks?
A disproportionate number of Gen Z females are affected by vague syndromes and may be victims of' social contagion

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It's far more pathetic than repellent. Normal people don't create AI slop pictures of themselves in a general's military uniform, especially at the age of 80. Normal people wouldn't even ever think of it. The man's got Narcissistic Personality Disorder - untreated, and untreatable.

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Acid Rain @bearysweet.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And now, a little Vivaldi. Michel Tirabosco, a renowned pan flute player, collaborating with Raphaël Froissart. He is a professor at the Geneva Conservatory. Born with physical differences, he began playing the pan flute at 7 and has achieved international recognition for his skill. #streetmusic

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

When one can't even do the obituaries without mixing the metaphors. "Poured petrol where others feared to tread" makes him sound like an arsonist in a national park teeming with dangerous animals and spiky plants.

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idiot lizard🦎 @idiotlizard.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

How many drum parts from classic songs can Cavs remember on the spot? With Arts Centre Melbourne #kglw www.instagram.com/p/DbcmuBTj0mS/

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Blakandblack @blakandblack.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

A public servant wrote that Aboriginal people are “compulsive liars and criminals,” naming a Wiradjuri man’s own family. That letter has been protected for 20 yrs by ACT Labor and the AFP. When I pushed again, I was charged on 16 counts and acquitted on all of them blakandblack.com/2026/07/31/c...

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Common Beliefs: Two Decades Of Institutional Protection For A Racist Public Servant

Over twenty years of seemingly direct support for Angel Marina in the face of his racism leads to the conclusion that the ALP and AFP are both racist.

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Jeremy Pober @jpober.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Am I the only one bothered by this attempt to Platnerize El Sayed? A candidate with progressive positions who is just a terrible person is not the same as a candidate with progressive positions whose personal story is impeccable unless you care that he is Arab/Muslim.

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

I might not be the greatest fan of church, but I'm a fan of (accidental) musical improvisation. Props to the pastor yelling "SIR! SIR!" to get them to shut up. In vain. www.youtube.com/shorts/tWOjb...

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Hilarious Church Organ Trigger! 😂 #gospel #trending #god #faith #christianshorts #music #church

YouTube video by Paul Bernard II

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Peter Murphy @peterkmurphy.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

It would be far better if the new premier's reading pile had turned out to be all fiction. "The man reads for pleasure, not for impressing people". Make it a compilation of lovingly-dogeared 70s-era paperbacks - your Robert Ludlums and Len Deightons and alike - and I'd be impressed. Not this lot.

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The Pub-Liking Universal Friend @johnb78.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Nuclear power is extremely safe. The problem is that making it extremely safe has made it uneconomically expensive. As usual, this problem has now been solved by replacing complex mechanical equipment with simple solid-state electronics that allow everyone to enjoy the benefits of nuclear fusion

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

the insistence by conservatives that the most tedious shit is 'punk' should result in jail time

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