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on unceded Awabakal land. OR nurse. Bikefluencer @lambtomnium #cargobike & runner. Music lover. Not-too-bad-a-cook. 👈Woke leftie. #couchpeloton 🚴🏼‍♀️

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 21h
Just what will history judge? Was beloved author Sally Rooney really a dangerous supporter of terrorism? Was the banning of her books under anti-terror legislation a sign of sanity? Or will it be those who cheered on the erasure of Gaza judged as monsters? It’s a tough one!
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Daniel Suitor @danielsuitor.com · 14/10/2026
most wild part of this is that they're a FAMILY of human cannonballs: father, mother, daughter
Brian, Skyler and Tina Miser during Ringling’s 135th EditionBrian, Skyler and Tina Miser in 2023
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isaac @sevier.io · 14/10/2026
Spending my time without wifi (about to start) with @amywestervelt.bsky.social's new book!
Book cover of Brought To You By: how corporations warped the truth, conned the public, and broke democracy
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 20h
Aussie men. Stay classy
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
@WhateverVishal

My mom recently installed WhatsApp and thought that groups were meant for sorting contacts.

Long story short: She created a group called “Unimportant” with about 25 relatives and acquaintances.
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Still trying to understand how Napster got shut down, but Anthropic is going public and still hasn’t paid us authors yet after stealing our work.
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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Being GenX/Millennial is such a trip. In our lifetimes, we saw people our age getting wild criminal penalties for pirating music and now have to sit and watch as companies gobble up our work with impunity.
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Jack Kennedy @jackkennedy.ie · 14/10/2026
If I'm doing my maths right, between 2020 and 2026 the Irish government increased state funding for horse and greyhound racing (which 70% of the population opposes) at a notably faster pace than public sector pay (the cause of the nationwide strike today). 21.4% vs 19.2%
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 21h
gonna link the story?
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 15/10/2026
The posts are derogatory to a range of targets, including Greens Senator Mehreen Faruqi and Muslim New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani. Daanyal Saeed reports.
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Vulture @vulture.com · 14/10/2026
The best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney risks criminal offense in the United Kingdom for her continued support of banned organization Palestine Action.
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Sally Rooney’s Publisher to End Sale of Her Books in U.K. Amid Palestine Support
The best-selling Irish author Sally Rooney risks criminal offense in the United Kingdom for her continued support of banned organization Palestine Action.
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S. Kramer @libraryephemera.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
A truly staggering number of iron options.
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Even gift links have been subjected to enshittification
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/10/2026
40% of *everything being shipped everywhere on Earth* is fossil fuels Just an absolute laughing-stock clown-show of an energy source. This is laughably absurd, why do we treat this like it's normal and good Fossil fuels are a satirical fuel www.irena.org/-/media/File...
Global shipping transports fossil fuels and runs on oil: 40% of shipped products are fossil fuels or derivatives, while 99% of international shipping’s energy demand is met by oil-based fuels.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/10/2026
"Most nations avoid public executions for the pretty obvious reason that turning a person’s death into propaganda is an assault on human dignity. It creates perverse incentives for jackals like Hegseth to target individuals for spectacular acts of violence in the name of self-aggrandizement."
publicnotice.co
The fascist spectacle of streamed executions
It’s a sign of a deeply sick society.
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Elon’s crib ssl.cdn-redfin.com/photo/92/big...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 11/10/2026
If you have been wondering why so many centrist dudes have been sneering and spitting at environmentalists on X for the past few weeks: ensuring that stuff like this doesn't face regulatory hurdles is a big part of why
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fionnulamac.bsky.social @fionnulamac.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Today’s Business Post front page. What on earth are our politicians doing?
Headline: Four tech giants use one-fifth of Ireland’s electricity
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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 11/10/2026
he's so good at this
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/10/2026
Elon just blasted his home address to his 240 million followers along with his order number and last 4 of his Amex charge card while shilling grok bot. Someone else canceled his order.
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
it’s the polite thing to do - “no no, don’t get up “
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
the tech industry is about to invent books
Andrew Yeung 
@andruyeung
X.com
We created gyms because modern day work no
longer required physical activity. Without exercise,
our muscles atrophy.
I predict we'll need gyms for our brains too, once Al
starts doing our knowledge work.
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
my life is just spent now ushering moths out of the house
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Oil stone
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Mei 🪽 @meidotwav.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
treat your body like a data center. consume as much water, art and literature as possible. upset local municipalities with your existence.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 09/10/2026
“Mind-boggling” volume of cyclists in Dublin says Senator; as Fianna Fáil Seanad leader calls for high-vis and helmets to be mandatory One Senator called for bikes to be taken off people who did not have high-vis or helmets, and it prompted Fianna Fáil's leader in the Seanad to call for mandatory…
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“Mind-boggling” volume of cyclists in Dublin says Senator; as Fianna Fáil Seanad leader calls for high-vis and helmets to be mandatory
One Senator called for bikes to be taken off people who did not have high-vis or helmets, and it prompted Fianna Fáil's leader in the Seanad to call for mandatory high-vis and helmets for cyclists. Senator Paraic Brady, who is Fine Gael's Seanad spokesperson on agriculture and food, said: "Going home yesterday evening through our capital, it was mind-boggling to see how many people were on bikes, but also how many were on bikes without lights, dressed in black with no hi-vis, etc."
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 10/10/2026
Excessive hours in hospitals and some universities are an expected part of the business model on which these institutions are built, writes Hayden Stephens. It's ingrained behaviour that’s near impossible to shift. trib.al/BLyEnCa
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How hospitals and unis normalised wage theft
Australia’s hospitals and universities do very different work, but they share a growing problem: they routinely fail to recognise the hours worked by the people who keep them running.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/05/2026
Amazing story here about how data centre company Firmus has been quietly deleting a huge raft of environmental claims from its site, including correcting its unauthorised use of a United Nations (!!!!!) sustainability logo www.smh.com.au/technology/f...
The admission confirms that for the bulk of the period in which Firmus has been courting institutional investors and building its private valuation from under $100 million to nearly $8 billion, the company was displaying a UN emblem it was never authorised to use. There have been reports it
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Not a moment too soon!
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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 09/10/2026
Why host a data centre at all? Ketan Joshi argues the real competition in the AI race is who can best resist them, not who can build the most. The latest episode of the Cut Through podcast is live on all platforms now. #cutthroughpodcast
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s happening to our climate is utterly terrifying. We’re looking at 4 degrees above average this southern summer www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Trump's suit appears to be part of Jos. A. Bank's Traveler line. The suit is listed as having been made abroad using a wool-polyester-spandex blend. The company describes it as having the "ultimate stretch" and was designed to minimize body odor.
Trump wearing a blue suit on stage. He is flashing his jacket open, such that you can see the interior labels. One label says Jos. A. Bank. A product shot from Jos. A. Bank's website. This is from the Traveler line. It appears to match the label in Trump's suit. A photo from the product page touts that the suit is made from a new "fabric technology" that has "ultimate stretch performance" and "anti-microbial/ reduce moisture and odor" qualities. There is a photo of a man wearing the suit. From the product page: "Product Details & Care
Stay comfortable and confident with this Traveler® Collection suit separates jacket, powered by innovative 37.5 © technology. Designed to maintain your body's ideal microclimate, the fabric removes moisture at the vapor stage to keep you dry before sweat even forms. Plus, 37.5 helps absorb and trap odor molecules, keeping you fresh and ready for every occasion. Offering maximum mobility with built-in stretch, this jacket moves effortlessly with you throughout your day. As part of the suit separates collection, it allows you to customize your fit by selecting jacket, vest, and pant sizes individually, ensuring a tailored look that's perfect for you.
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Two button
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Water- and stain-resistant
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66% wool, 30% 37.5 polyester, 4% spandex
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Stephanie Farr @farfarraway.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Holy hell. Anthropic's AI model submitted a false tip about a HOMICIDE to the Philadelphia Police Department's online public tip form. The release today from the PPD:
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 10/10/2026
Junior doctors work well beyond their rostered hours to treat patients, writes Hayden Stephens. Likewise, casual academics are required to work without proper recognition and pay. This unpaid labour is often treated as incidental. In reality, it is anything but. trib.al/OS1EzXy
trib.al
How hospitals and unis normalised wage theft
Australia’s hospitals and universities do very different work, but they share a growing problem: they routinely fail to recognise the hours worked by the people who keep them running.
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sharperstill @sharperstill.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
the roguest
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854
Taxing Entrepreneurial Wealth: Evidence from
Norway, 2021-2025
Marius A. K. Ring
WORKING PAPER 35854|
DOl 10.3386/w35854
ISSUE DATE October 2026
Whether imposing higher taxes on business owners adversely affects business activity by constraining investment and inducing capitalist flight is a central question in the ongoing debate on how to tax the ultra wealthy. To shed new light, I exploit a series of related Norwegian reforms during 2021-2024 that increased dividend tax rates, removed migration-related capital gains tax loopholes, and nearly doubled the effective marginal tax rate on business wealth. These reforms spurred international debate and, allegedly, an "exodus" of Norwegian billionaires (Financial Times,
2023). While I document clear effects on migration, these responses are concentrated among the top 0.1% of the wealth distribution and mostly confined to 2022 and 2023. My results indicate that at most 100 individuals left due to the reforms. I find no evidence of significant outmigration or reduced inflows of startup founders or inventors. I estimate that absent any outmigration, wealth tax revenues would have increased by 75% from 2021 to 2024. Reform-driven outmigration lowers the revenue gain to 71.5%. My findings further show that outmigrating owners' firms remain economically active and do not reduce investment. In a broader set of analyses, I examine whether business outcomes are affected, regardless of whether owners outmigrate, since firms may reduce investment both due to liquidity constraints or distortions to owners' savings decisions. I compare firms owned by Norwegian individuals subject to the wealth tax with firms owned by foreigners and other tax-exempt entities. By merging historical ownership data from Orbis with the Norwegian shareholder register, I perform these analyses on both Norwegian and foreign-domiciled firms.
Across settings, I find no evidence that Norwegian-owned firms pay out more dividends or invest less after the reforms,…
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 10/10/2026
“My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.” These titans of business. These masters of the universe.
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My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it.
Shane Mac, the CEO of XMTP Labs, got a rude shock when one of his AI agents posted his monthly bank audit in a company Slack channel.
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I 💙 Dogs @dogs100.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
👏👏👏👏
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Margaret Morgan 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇦🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
What a great decision. Stick that in your coal hopper, Minns. #ClimateCrisis #AusPol www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
Hunter Valley community group wins landmark high court climate change case over Mount Pleasant coalmine
Ruling on Mount Pleasant coalmine shows ‘we cannot continue to dig up coal … and pretend the consequences have nothing to do with us’, group says
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 07/10/2026
Answering this with a quote because I think it's important. As vitally important as cases like today's High Court victory are to the fight against the planet fuckers, admin law cases like this are throwing a sabot into the machine. We need so much more than this, including from our courts.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Saw a prominent tech reporter have a mea culpa and say he's going back to posting on X as it's where the tech conversations are, so I opened it up to see what I was missing and was immediately presented with an AI video of Hanson making out with a prominent right wing blogger. I'll be alright.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 06/10/2026
Trump stood at a rally and said "Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego." Then politicos rushed to explain what he "really meant." We won't sanewash him. Today's midday updates are up, paywall free:
meidasplus.com
Tuesday Updates: Media ‘Sanewashes’ Trump, Plague Claims Another Victim, More Tankers Struck – 10/6/26
Important updates. Paywall free.
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"But the more staid and plodding carriages – those with warnings outside the political cycle, with a focus on the bigger picture, they tend to get left to circle the track ignored" writes @amyremeikis.bsky.social Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/UvEMQKc3
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My latest for @deepcutnews.bsky.social on the we need less govt spending folk who pay no tax. open.substack.com/pub/deepcutn...
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News Corp, Santos, Kogan paid $0 in tax. But sure, let’s blame ‘government spending’ - Greg Jericho
The Coalition want to cut already-underfunded social and health services, while staying silent on the corporations paying nothing
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Andrew Deck @andrewdeck.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
ChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors. "It’s slop, and unlike the other slop that I’ve encountered, this is slop that’s pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
Left: A cartoon generated by ChatGPT and signed with Emily Flake’s signature that was posted to a Reddit forum in June. Right: A real Emily Flake cartoon published in The New Yorker on August 20, 2026 and licensed via The Cartoon Bank.
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AliceK @coalisdead.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Two days later, after talking with Centrelink, Jarrad told his mother he didn’t believe he’d receive his Newstart allowance because of the debt. He died by suicide that evening This gov’s stuffed #ICAC & done nothing to improve #Centrelink for people. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
‘You’re denying what you did to my son’: mother of robodebt victim told she is ineligible for compensation
Commonwealth lawyers argue Jarrad Madgwick, whose death by suicide was highlighted at royal commission, ineligible as he only received provisional debt notice
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Marcus Kelson @marcuskelson.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These things are a fucking menace - ban the lot of them l say… www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
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Teen pedestrian critical after being hit by e-bike near Wollongong
Police allege an e-bike rider returned an alcohol reading more than twice the driving limit and positive tests for cocaine and meth after a crash critically injured a 16-year-old girl near Wollongong.
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WIRED @wired.com · 05/10/2026
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, “Gouged,” traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/10/2026
"Australia is a major producer of fossil fuels. We all know fossil fuels are the primary driver of the climate crisis," [Ralph Regenvanu] said. "The very least a country like Australia should be doing is stopping future expansion, and it's not doing that." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10...
abc.net.au
Australia's fossil fuel expansion 'slap in the face' to Pacific nations
Having just approved a major coal mine expansion, Australia's climate credentials will be under the spotlight at pre-COP talks in Fiji.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He cheated on her and he protects pedophiles but she’s going to vote for him anyway because oppressing the rest of us matters more.
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