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Philip Williams

@philipwilliams.bsky.social
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Musician; Gamer; Librarian; PhD candidate - Presence in VR; Complex Adaptive Systems explorer; Ally in training; he/him

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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
If only there was a profession that had expertise in citation, research, and information management that could help avoid this kind of mistake. #librarylife #librarianship www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Report supporting Australia’s teen social media ban appears to contain AI hallucinations, Senate hears
Exclusive: Guardian analysis finds one section of report includes links to academic articles that do not exist, but authors deny the references were made up by AI
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The trauma and misogyny of sycophantic AI open.substack.com/pub/katemann...
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A Culture Hooked on Generative AI is a Culture that Misses Female Sycophants
And we have missed a central reason why AI is a feminist issue
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
If it looks like book burning, smells like book burning … probably is book burning. Levels of irony, layers ethical concerns, this AI machine has a phenomenal appetite. Human creativity shovelled in, consumed and sold back as something new!? www.404media.co/ai-companies...
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AI Companies Are Buying Tons of Old Books Because They're Free of AI Slop
ISBNdb, a company that sources printed books for AI companies to turn into training data, tells clients “the optics problem is real.”
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I cannot be party to silencing writers, which is why I am resigning as director of Adelaide Writers’ Week | Louise Adler
Cancelling the Australian Palestinian author Randa Abdel-Fattah weakens freedom of speech and is the harbinger of a less free nation
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Who is shaping the discourse on presence in virtual reality, and what have they been saying? Interact with the information maps here: www.presenceinvr.com . Mapping 6636 articles from over 30 years of Presence in VR research. Download: www.frontiersin.org/journals/vir... #VRcademicSky #bibliometrics
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
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“Don’t kid yourself that it can’t happen here,” warns Kerry O’Brien
YouTube video by The Walkley Foundation
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
GenAI as a consumer product is an agreement machine, the very opposite of learning and critical thinking (Tokuda-Hall) www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
This week's #SundayShot goes global with Shot favourite @ketanjoshi.co beaming in from Oslo, joined by Dark Money expert @lucyham.bsky.social, with an update on all things EPBC Act from @ausconservation.bsky.social's Brendan Sydes. As ever, like, subscribe, donate 👇! www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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Dr Alan Nixon @alangnixon.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
The #Networks and #Tactics being employed by #NeoLiberalism (like the #AtlasNetwork) make it hard to tell if some tactics are about deeply held ideology or just maintaining money and power, says @lucyham.bsky.social on #TheSundayShot. youtu.be/cyYQM_lQjfg?...
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The Sunday Shot - November 2, 2025
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
theconversation.com/renewables-h...
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Renewables have now passed coal globally – and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
Even as clean energy progress slows in the US and EU, developing nations such as Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and the Maldives are surging ahead.
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
‘Footprints in Time’ report. The Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Children. “Our study followed Indigenous children for 15 years to understand what helps them thrive” theconversation.com/our-study-fo...
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Our study followed Indigenous children for 15 years to understand what helps them thrive
A new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind.
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Helpful to be forewarned. As always, avoiding any Meta products www.theregister.com/2025/10/01/m...
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Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads
: Religion, race, health and other dicey topics supposedly exempt
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Is it good news that the best OpenAI and Anthtopic can do is a 70% refusal rate on hallucinations? That means 30% still getting through! openai.com/index/openai...
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Findings from a pilot Anthropic–OpenAI alignment evaluation exercise: OpenAI Safety Tests
OpenAI and Anthropic share findings from a first-of-its-kind joint safety evaluation, testing each other’s models for misalignment, instruction following, hallucinations, jailbreaking, and more—highli...
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We’re missing the main take away from this data! Reddit is becoming the main reference for information searches!! And Wikipedia unsurprisingly remains a key source of information. Not sure what AI searches are actually helping us to do? www.analyticsinsight.net/news/reddit-...
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Reddit Overtakes Google in AI Search: Here’s Why It Matters
Reddit became the number one source for AI-generated search results in June 2025. According to Statista, 40.1% of all citations used by large language models (L
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
“Students using AI for analysis miss the cognitive development that comes from wrestling with uncertainty” www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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AI Makes Us Worse Thinkers Than We Realize
New research on more than 600,000 students reveals why the "impractical" philosophy major produces the best thinkers and what we lose when AI does our thinking for us.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Here's the line-up for this week's #SundayShot. Please watch us! (& also like, subscribe and give us money) It's going to be a great conversation. @wendybacon1.bsky.social, @boganintel.bsky.social, @arielbogle.bsky.social, @davemilbo.bsky.social. Iran. Sovereign Citizens. Not the Midwinter Ball.
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
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Labor’s new bill would cut HELP loans by 20%. But it also risks locking some graduates into a ‘debt treadmill’
The debt changes will deliver major benefits to recent graduates, but much less to current students and nothing to future students.
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Cutting debt and paid internships: key reforms in the Australian universities blueprint
The highly anticipated report has made 47 recommendations, addressing disadvantage and cost of living
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Tim Winton among 100 high-profile Australians calling for university fees that don’t ‘punish’ arts students
Open letter urges Labor to reverse JRG scheme, introduced by Coalition in 2021, as cost of humanities degrees reaches more than $50,000
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
In a week in which the decision in the Australian Climate case was handed down, the #SundayShot is joined by Grata Fund's Isabelle Reinecke and @roycerk2.bsky.social to discuss the desperately disappointing result. Please join us at 9am AEST on Sunday 👇 www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I Can’t Sleep. Now What? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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I Can’t Sleep. Now What?
It’s the middle of the night — and you’re wide awake. We asked sleep experts for tips to help you get some rest.
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
We're about to go live with the #SundayShot! Join us on YouTube rather than hanging with the News Corp crew on #Insiders. www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
The #SundayShot is up! Get the historical context on this week's Coalition chaos with our expert panel. I KNOW they're not the Government but it's fascinating and useful to understand this background of the alliance and the implications of its potential demise. www.youtube.com/live/rtdBmc0...
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Can they put Humpty together again? - May 25 - Frank Bongiorno, Judith Brett and Julianne Schultz
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
youtube.com/clip/UgkxMMO... Merle’s-Ponty and Dreyfus on the phenomenology of perception
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Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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Denise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Please join us this morning at 9am for #SundayShot This will be me behind the scenes 😇😇 #auspol
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a man sitting in front of a computer with the words if you 're reading this you 've been max written on a blackboard
ALT: a man sitting in front of a computer with the words if you 're reading this you 've been max written on a blackboard
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
A MS teacher requested an immersive experience of the industrial revolution. So I created this simple prototype coal mine experience for our students using Blender, Unity & Engage VR. >> cramped conditions, collapses, fire, poor light, danger & an AI guide at the end. #VRcademicSky
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Middle School students and I have been working on iterative #WorldBuilding #ExperienceDesign & #Storytelling to create "Elevation Social" in the Engage VR platform using Unity. Collaborate with your team to navigate the treacherous 3D maze to locate the alchemy lab, dungeon & throne. #VRcademicSky
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Charles Harvey @cjharvey56.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Thank you for your expose’ of these heinous neoliberal think tanks and media organisations set up by elites to extend their power and influence @lucyham.bsky.social !
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
On the occasion of the publication of his latest book "On Freedom" ("Sobre la Libertad", Galaxia Gutenberg, 2024), historian Timothy Snyder analyses the evolution of threats to individual and collective freedom in a situation marked by the rise of authoritarianisms. youtu.be/CXZbdQpVSAk?...
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Timothy Snyder. The habit of freedom | CCCB
YouTube video by CCCB
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Why #AgentialRealism matters to social work September 2020British Journal of Social Work DOI:10.1093/bjsw/bcaa106/5900789 #phenomenology www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Lewis, J. 2016. [Representation of Barad's Agential Realism. Permission to reproduce has been obtained from the author].
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
#AgentialRealism #phenomenology #KarenBarad www.artsy.net/artwork/jenn...
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Jennifer Moon | I 💜 Karen Barad (2020) | Artsy
From Venice Art Walk Benefit Auction, Jennifer Moon, I 💜 Karen Barad (2020), Inkjet print, 11 × 18 in
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Wow! So many powerful truths in one talk. Thank you @carolecadwalla.bsky.social youtu.be/TZOoT8AbkNE?...
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This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from world’s driest areas >> “Neither people nor data can live without water,” said Gómez. “But human life is essential and data isn’t.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Thanks to everyone who watched the #SundayShot! For those who missed it, it's a cracker conversation with some serious heavyweights (even if I did accidentally call @angelapriestley.bsky.social Miranda from The Devil Wears Prada. Watch, subscribe, like etc.👇 🙏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EouI...
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Policy, Parity, Parties - April 6
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Once again, a wonderfully well informed episode. These are the conversations we need to be having!! Thank you @instanterudite.bsky.social @angelapriestley.bsky.social @polipedia.bsky.social
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
"We are people. Large language models will always be machines. To declare the machines superior means believing that what makes humans human is inherently inferior." *More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI* by John Warner www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...
Front cover of John Warner's book, "more than words: How to think about writing in the age of AI"
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Today's #SundayShot is up, people! Get into it for illumination and insight from @punterspolitics.bsky.social and @crystaljane.bsky.social. Oh, and @davemilbo.bsky.social too. #auspol youtu.be/6Vpw9mOPk8M?...
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The Kids are Alright
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
#phenomenology of perception
Quote “BODILY EXISTENCE, WHICH
STREAMS FORTH
THROUGH ME WITHOUT MY COMPLICITY, IS BUT THE SKETCH OF A GENUINE PRESENCE IN THE WORLD.” By 
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Phenomenology of Perception
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
This week @davemilbo.bsky.social & I are trying to be proper YouTubers & ask Shot viewers & readers to do the "like & subscribe" dance for the #SundayShot as we've got a target to reach if we want to continue after the election... Throw us a bone! Subscribe below 👇. www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot
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The Sunday Shot
The Sunday Shot streams at 9am AEDT each Sunday. The Shot's Jo Dyer and Dave Milner are joined each week by a roster of Australia's best independent journalists and thinkers to discuss what's been ha...
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Sae Ra Germaine @saera.au · 20/03/2025
Welcome to those in the #InfoOnline25 Starter Pack! I'm thinking I will change this to a more generic ALIA Starter Pack and I can add in new GLAM joiners so we have a nice list going. thoughts? go.bsky.app/RULidQ8
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLqr... #InfoOnline25 #ai #libraries
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Decolonising Methods and Methodologies - Dr Linda Tuhiwai Smith
YouTube video by Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
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Jane Cowell @janecowell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
The top 10 tips to upskill you & your team in #GenAI #InfoOnline25
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Kirk Wolcott @kirkwolcott.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Could there be a more ringing endorsement for the new whistleblower book "Careless People" than Zuckerberg not wanting us to read it? #booksky #books #authors #readingcommunity #writingcommunity A Facebook Insider’s Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...
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A Facebook Insider’s Exposé Alleges Bad Behavior at the Top
“Careless People,” a memoir by a former Facebook executive, portrays feckless company leaders cozying up to authoritarian regimes.
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
And this! An antidote to surveillance capitalism. www.youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP...
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The State of Personal Online Security and Confidentiality | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
This! fascinating insights into Bluesky. youtube.com/live/B7OwcXC...
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Bluesky's CEO on the Future of Social Media | SXSW LIVE
YouTube video by SXSW
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Philip Williams @philipwilliams.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
This! Finally we hear from people who actually know what they are talking about rather than focusing on political prancing and manoeuvrings.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The YouTube recording for this week's The Sunday Shot with me, @instanterudite.bsky.social, @ketanjoshi.co, @pollyjhemming.bsky.social and @auspoldaily.bsky.social is up now! Climate themed discussion, cutting through the crap. Just how fucked are we? Let's find out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJxm...
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THE SUNDAY SHOT - March 2, 2025
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
The Sunday Shot it back on Sunday February 23! Watch or listen LIVE at 9am AEDT on your preferred platform - details at linktr.ee/SundayShot Join us as we dive into another year-long week - get us trending above #insiders by using #sundayshot here on lovely Bluesky (and not that nasty other place).
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The Shot @theshot.net.au · 22/02/2025
Tomorrow morning live on Youtube and Facebook, instead of complaining about Insiders, we are making a better version of it. #SundayShot Featuring @davemilbo.bsky.social , @instanterudite.bsky.social , @janecaro.bsky.social , @joshbornstein.bsky.social and @sarahschwartz.bsky.social
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Jo Dyer @instanterudite.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Your new alternative to #insiders The Sunday Shot premieres on Sunday at 9am! For those intending to watch, please click below and subscribe to our new YouTube channel - www.youtube.com/@TheSundayShot - apparently we need at least 50 subscribers to ensure a smooth YouTube livestream experience!
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