Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 12/12/2025If folks aren’t prepared to think about what actually reduces abortions or have eliminated all the effective options from consideration, they aren’t pro life. It’s just marketing. 010
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 05/11/2025@daanysaeed.bsky.social www.crikey.com.au/2025/11/05/d...crikey.com.auDick Cheney shaped our world for the worse, and profited immensely from itFormer US vice president Dick Cheney, dead at 84, leaves a sordid legacy of war profiteering and torture advocacy. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 29/10/2025#Deloitte #AI Cheap labour typically gathers data for senior staff to analyse. In this case, AI replaced that process, but senior staff skipped fact-checking and rubber-stamped its conclusions. The paid service—expert analysis—was likely never delivered. Deloitte’s core brand appears hollow. 010
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 07/10/2025The LNP should be messy and chaotic right now. They lost big time and need to realign. Reporters projecting onto the next election are being lazy. The thrashing around is good for our country. #auspol 010
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 05/10/2025Referring to the abuse visited upon over a thousand girls as a “red herring” is nasty work, you asshole. 998140704530
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 29/09/2025When folks blame the left for violence I ask if they count violence against kids. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 27/09/2025Love is a dog bring her disgusting bone to you and eating it on your foot. 020
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 20/09/2025Is Trump even president if he isn’t sponsored by Raid shadow legends and express vpn? 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Fata Morgana @maladamus.bsky.social · 11/09/2025Why do they keep saying Charlie Kirk was an advocate for free speech when he made a hit list of professors who didn’t say what he liked? I just don’t get it. 1412957629
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 11/09/2025NEW: We got access to Jeffrey Epstein’s personal Yahoo inbox — more than 18,000 emails. It shows Epstein’s world in his own words: an unfiltered look at how his operation worked, who enabled it, and how Ghislaine Maxwell stayed at the center of it all.bloomberg.comJeffrey Epstein Email Trove Reveals Ghislaine Maxwell’s SecretsA cache of 18,000 messages obtained by Bloomberg News reveals Maxwell’s deep ties and involvement with the disgraced financier and sex offender. 267121085498
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 09/09/2025The us government kidnapping refugee kids and lying to a judge so they can traffic them to Guatemala is freaking me out. It is horribly cruel. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 08/09/2025What is the difference between a racist and someone who runs defence for or tries to use racists? The later is far worse. www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...thenewdaily.com.auConservative parties should not offer cover for racistsAustralia’s conservative parties have too often have purposefully or unwittingly provided shelter for racists. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/09/2025About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.” 732229766755
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Sorry Donnie, your coup has to succeed if you want to be invited to the dictator conference. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 31/08/2025Jesus came for the migrant, the unmarried, the orphaned, and the sinner. If you aren’t marching for them, you aren’t marching with Jesus. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 23/08/2025My prediction is that ICE will be used to harass voter during the midterms. Getting rid of mail in ballots is part of this. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025Trump tried to make the American people pay for his sexual assault and lies. His thrashing about to distract from the Epstein files is more of the same. 100
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 12/08/2025Funny how that works. 685130773980
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 13/08/2025America has paid for 70% of the deaths in Gaza. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025But I was told by everyone on the right that the only person who could deploy the National Guard (or prevent the deployment of the National Guard) was Nancy Pelosi. 516235595596
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Netanyahu is saying more bluntly what he has always said, peace with Palestinians is a threat to Israel. A threat he is not willing to accommodate. It was never about the hostages, justice, or anything other than an opportunity for genocide. This information is not new, but it is more obvious now. 010
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 10/08/2025Key questions a designer must answer about every class. What will a player do? Out of combat, On an average combat turn, During a boss battle, To contribute to team work. Ideally that question would be explicitly answered at different milestones across a classes career. #ttrpg #rpg 011
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 09/08/2025www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...thenewdaily.com.auGive free rein to our worst instincts and we all risk sinkingTim Wilson decided to enter the work-from-home fray with the zeal of someone who has just found franking credits at the end of the rainbow. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/07/2025🤔 www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol... 51142741268
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025Is it fair to assume that anyone using the Trump golf course in Scotland is ok with pedophilia? 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Kikki Planet @kikkiplanet.bsky.social · 29/07/2025A sitting POTUS shouldn’t be taking a taxpayer funded trip to Scotland to do a ribbon cutting on his new golf course, and none of you should need it explained to you why he shouldn’t. 1436987
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 29/07/2025The LNP uses a merit system to select candidates. Which shows you the value they see in women and people of colour. #auspol 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 23/07/2025If you don't already, watch Colbert. He is a man with no more f*cks left to give. And it's glorious. Check out this song parody from last night's show: Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September 723290678721
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Be good if media disclosed Scomo as a weapons and AUKUS lobbyist. (maybe even 'former PM and simultaneously Minister for Health, Industry, Home Affairs, Finance & Treasurer') 2124183
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 24/07/2025DeSantis is heckled at an event today 1423193703800
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 24/07/2025If you have been frustrated at the FBIs lack of progress on a case concerning you or your loved ones, the reason is ICE and the Epstein cover up. 000
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 17/07/2025This re-silence stuff they teach the kids sounds cool, but I don’t think it is working on my lot. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)It's Abby. Yep @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 15/07/2025Chores are important. They teach kids how to work just hard enough to get the people in charge off your back 161052138
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 16/07/2025Having something shipped from Italy and the email from the courier company today was all pretty much "hey, you might want to pay the tariff on that today, before your dipshit president triples it" and they weren't wrong for providing me the reminder 301667106
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)WIRED @wired.com · 15/07/2025NEW: Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”wired.comThe FBI's Jeffrey Epstein Prison Video Had Nearly 3 Minutes Cut OutMetadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.” 873227318711
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 14/07/2025Boy, if only someone would have told Epstein everything was fake and a creation of Obama and the CIA and deep state, he wouldn’t have had to take his own life or have it taken by imaginary people 523256525112
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Why wasn’t this taken into account when Labor appointed her to such an important role? Who does Labor actually work for? 020
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 13/07/20251/4 Jon Stewart asked “why does the politics of peace seem so expensive compared to the years of chaos and tragedy of war?” 300
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)TLC @tarantical.bsky.social · 10/07/2025I keep thinking about how Gov Abbott had plenty of funds to fly and bus migrants all across the country but couldn't come up with a million for a flood warning system. 6149954349
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)E. Jean @ejeancarroll.bsky.social · 10/07/2025July 10th, 2025 So long, Old Man! The United States Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, bids thee farewell. 490147862926
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 11/07/2025Apparently Grok will be installed in Teslas’ next week. My non-white brothers and sisters better hope it doesn’t have access to auto pilot. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Keith Olbermann @olbermann.bsky.social · 10/07/2025Breaking: per FEMA sources Kristi Noem was responsible for THREE DAY DELAY in deploying search-and-rescue in Texas Fire her. Blood on her hands. 1824203808316
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 10/07/2025American Pharma have lobbied Trump to require American citizens to pay a 200% tariff on Australian made medicine. Forget TACO for a minute and consider who your friends are. 000
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)The Onion @theonion.com · 08/07/2025Ted Cruz: ‘Vacationing Is How I Grieve’ 493209883776
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Breaking news: woman made entirely of meat “inexplicably “ attacked by lion. 100
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)The Democratic Coalition @thedemcoalition.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Remember this. #ResistTrump 36817264
Reposted by Alistair Clough (he/they)Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 02/07/2025So do I. 486242367384
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 03/07/2025Looking at the LNP over recent years, maybe a merit system might be worth trying? What ever they are currently using isn’t surfacing gold. #auspol #quotas 010
Alistair Clough (he/they) @smashtastic.bsky.social · 01/07/2025The US Supreme Court has stated that the rulings of lower and previous courts are irrelevant next to the underlying legal principle. This naturally means that the rulings of the Supreme Court are equally irrelevant. 000