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Jessie Gender @jessiegender.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Trans people get called extremists for saying “hey don’t watch a wizard tv show.” Meanwhile people out here literally calling for legislative bans on our existence are propped up as feminist icons. Really just shows how those who make people uncomfortable or disrupt consumption are vilified.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 08/10/2026

cue the australian startup finance-bros whinging that australia just doesn’t let people take a chance

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 21/09/2026

find me a mainstream news story on the flimsy Paramount settlement that even hints at the fact right wing oligarchs are waging propaganda warfare on an informed electorate and that owning CBS, CNN, and TikTok is central to Ellison's vision of it

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/09/2026

also can we really call it "automation" if you have a task that is being done by mailing the data over to a remote server and running a stochastic process on someone else's GPUs, paying for it as a metered service, to invent how to do it from first principles every time

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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

the whole thing of being open-minded isn’t saying all viewpoints are equally valid, it’s subjecting them all to equal scrutiny then rejecting the ones that are evil or backwards or stupid

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026

We evolved these incredible brains and you don’t want to use yours? Weak

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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 29/08/2026

they *are* statistical, but one of the big changes recently is that their statistical output has been allowed to execute commands and *those* commands can be actual programs. I totally get it being confusing and that confusion is absolutely being taken advantage of.

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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

If your response to the data center backlash is "oh no, those poor hyperscalers! People are using inexact data in their arguments against OpenAI and Grok. Everyone should just let them proceed with their buildouts and focus instead on PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY," then you're either a grifter or a mark.

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Talia "ATTACK DOGS is out now!" Bhatt ⚢ @taliabhatt.itch.io · 20/07/2026

It's not "too woke" to say that straight men who rape women should be reviled for being rapists, not tarred as secretly queer. To imply they're gay, or that they wear dresses, to distance them from manhood, is to insist that their violence is "deviant" rather than utterly banal and normative.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 19/07/2026

couple days later i’m still noodling over this idea that Nolan’s ODYSSEY is actually incredibly conservative, of the type that can observe «if we break this norm (/nominate this person) it will destroy us, and we’ll deserve it» 1/3

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/07/2026

It is very funny how starkly and explicitly One Nation voters care most about race and care least of all voters about cost of living and housing, yet still get given the "it's just economic anxiety" treatment by most media www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

Bar chart comparing party voter priorities from a May poll — cost of living dominates most groups, but One Nation voters stand out by prioritizing immigration (28% listed it as their most salient issue) while other parties show higher shares for cost, healthcare, or housing.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 11/07/2026

welp i guess it’s time to finish that project to track my movie watching on my own site first Source: The Guardian share.google/VZEHhmh9YaYH...

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Netflix reportedly among parties in talks to buy Letterboxd

Sony Pictures and Paramount are said to also be among potential buyers for the film-focused social platform

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Evan Urquhart @evanurquhart.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's not appropriate for cis people to say that trans people are too alarmed, or that certain trans writers are irresponsibly causing trans people to think the sky is falling. I want to take some time in this 🧵 to write personally about how my skies have fallen.

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Senator Lidia Thorpe @senatorthorpe.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

When I say Labor is all talk and no action, this is exactly what I mean. The Albanese government has just rejected hundreds of recommendations from the United Nations aimed at improving the terrible state of human rights in this country. nit.com.au/30-06-2026/2...

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UN recommendations on Indigenous rights largely rejected by Albanese government

The Albanese government has rejected key United Nations recommendations aimed at improving outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, including calls to raise the age of criminal respo...

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 30/06/2026

one of my favourite things about the world cup is watching colonisers lose so two in one day in penalties has been pretty exciting!

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Dr Eleanor Janega @goingmedieval.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.

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Jim Malo @maloism.com · 19/06/2026

Why are billionaires allowed to organise out in the open like this? If lefties and anti-zionists were calling to smash the state so brazenly they'd get a visit from the special branch and a van parked out front. These women are openly plotting to make our lives worse www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

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An orange bulldozer is ploughing through the political arena

Four years ago, Australians decided they didn't want a bulldozer for a prime minister. But now if Gina Rinehart has her way, a big orange one will be ploughing her way through the political arena.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 02/06/2026

new work gig plays lots of news on TVs and it’s making me feel crazy watching so much media report on trump like he’s a rational actor

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

End AUKUS, close Pine Gap.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 20/05/2026

brb building a rocket ship on which i’ll offer schmidt a seat

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Annalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 06/05/2026

sat next to someone on the train chatting with an llm in the way weird reply guys do on social. like ignoring most of what it was writing, knocking out a few words in response, getting weirdly argumentative about meaningless stuff, all over and over. i don’t know what it means but it was fascinating

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Given the reaction today, I’m not sure if the RBA, in raising rates just so it can be seen to be doing *something* even if that something will only harm people, realises just how white hot angry it has made people. Haven’t seen this level of fury in sometime

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 27/04/2026

partner and i were trying to remember a movie we saw recently based on a plot point, and we got «it was about a dad looking for his daughter, and it was kinda weird/messy», and yeah One Battle After Another really wasn’t a resistance movie and wasn’t even a solid dad movie

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onion person @junlper.beer · 19/04/2026

palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 20/03/2026

It is objectively extraordinary to see Israel literally invading Lebanon to permanently occupy it, with no complaint or even remark from the rest of the world. The pretext is as thin as Russia's for Ukraine.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 13/03/2026

a good read! the central thesis is one i’ve argued for a decade or more but this essay also touches on a whole bunch of issues impacting media production and consumption these days (literacy, shared references, the fact the ppl approving movies don’t want to suffer consequences themselves!)

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I’ll add, lawmakers engaged in a moral panic about kids and social media want to destroy all of this and destroy open source software generally all so they can enact a mass AI surveillance state and censorship systems. And big ppl on the left continue not to mount a challenge to this!

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

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andy™ @andylevy.net · 20/02/2026

“We were stunned [about the prescience] for a while, but we’ve really gotten to the point where it’s really sad. It’s just sad how predictable and lame and obvious and wrong it all is. Fascism is just a total fail in the end.” www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

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‘Andor’ Creator Tony Gilroy Gives the Interview He Couldn’t During Its Release

While promoting his cautionary tale about fascism, Disney asked Gilroy to refrain from using the word. Nine months after it aired its finale, the 'Star Wars' series feels scarily prescient.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Trump is not an aberration. He is a symptom of a much larger disease. You do not get to Donald Trump and American Fascism without George W. Bush and if you find yourself trying to paint him in a positive light you have absolutely lost the plot.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Zali Steggall points out the consequences of inviting Isaac Herzog given the ongoing Israeli genocide against Palestine was 'highly foreseeable' live.thepoint.com.au/2026/02/the-...

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 09/02/2026

the scenes from sydney town hall last night are a reminder that cops are the defenders and enforcers of settler-colonial genocide, whether that genocide is in so-called Australia or in Palestine

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/02/2026

The impossibility was created by the police, licensed by the NSW government, and the whole situation comes back to the prime minister's decision to invite the President of Israel to come here.

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/01/2026

Social cohesion, Australia, 2026: hate preachers (brown) intolerable, protestors (brown) divisive, bomb-signers (Israeli) welcome, bomb-throwers (white) awkward

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 28/01/2026

White racist literally threw a bomb at black people to kill them, apparently not a sufficient cause to have a moral panic, special envoy, national introspection, royal commission, terrorism declaration, new laws, 1,000 op-eds in The Australian. We're struggling to identify why that might be.

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Device allegedly thrown into Invasion Day crowd designed to 'explode on impact', say police

A 31-year-old man is charged with making explosives in suspicious circumstances after a device was allegedly thrown into a crowd of hundreds of people attending an Invasion Day rally in central Perth ...

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Kara Schlegl @karaschlegl.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

As we look at what's happening in the US, Invasion Day is the perfect time to remember these gestapo jackboot types are carbon copies of militia groups used to round up First Nations people, that being shot in the street like a dog isn't new, it's been a cruel reality for many for centuries.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/01/2026

rightwingers see people caring about others in their community and instead of finding that inspiring they think it’s some sort of grand conspiracy because they don’t understand what it means to care for others you don’t personally know

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Vicky ACAB @vickyacab.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The pain and the outrage is correct and just and I'm glad everyone can see and understand it here, and this is also already what BLM was, if you argued for training, police reform or body cams instead of abolition this is what you sounded like, this is why people were so mad at you

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 15/01/2026

We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 07/01/2026

the only reason AI is getting traction is cause it’s marginally better than the internet we have now, but that is SO MUCH WORSE than what it used to be!

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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

*I'm catching glimpses of a world where self-driving cars massacre more people than the Russo-Ukrainian front, and it doesn't matter because they've all got measles and they're NonPlayerCharacters who've got no jobs anyhow *And also the cars can just carry anything anywhere, cheap and fast, sorta

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

We don’t talk enough about how the AI bubble is going to seamlessly transition to tech-based state surveillance and oppression of the working and dwindling middle classes as the wealth class steals more and more resources and power and as the climate worsens.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Linking the march across the bridge to the massacre is disgusting and everyone doing so should be deeply ashamed of their giving tacit support for genocide www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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NSW to effectively ban protests for up to three months as premier links Gaza rallies to Bondi terror attack

Chris Minns says state ‘can’t risk another mass demonstration on that scale in NSW [because] the implications can be seen, in my view, on Sunday’

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 20/12/2025

by seeking to criminalise the phrase “globalise the intifada”, Minns et al are just proving that the struggle IS worldwide, and resistance MUST be globalised #AusPol #NSWPol

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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

The most racist, supremacist garbage is being vomited across Australian media right now. Criticising Israel is an unacceptable threat to Jews so speech must be restricted but we have to ensure the restrictions don’t stop us from saying Muslims are terrorists or that brown people shouldn’t migrate.

Similarly, the potential pitfalls of Albanese's proposal to develop a "narrow" federal offence for "serious" racial vilification depend on how these provisions are cast and what kind of speech can be caught in the net.
There must be no possibility of the threshold for prohibited speech stifling legitimate discussion of sensitive but important subjects that touch on matters of race, such as immigration policy or the connection between radical Islam and terrorism. These are the kind of technical questions that the royal commission into antisemitism proposed by former treasurer Josh Frydenberg could usefully explore.

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Peter M Howard @petermhoward.au · 13/12/2025

every now and again I forget how bad Colbert is and watch a monologue for a few laughs and then I get hit with a «Trump is losing cause he hasn’t deported as many people as Biden» 🤦

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