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Concerned. But it’s always the level of concern. Good for what and whom dependant.

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 38m
I've not encountered a single person who seriously considers the ecological impacts of global heating & for whom the Australian government's response generates 'hope'.
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Jeff Sparrow @jeffsparrow1.bsky.social · 23h
Nice review of the new book insidestory.org.au/lust-for-rad...
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Lust for radical life • Cathy Perkins
Melbourne poet Lesbia Harford opted for a life of political activism
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Andrew Gardiner @ajgardineresq.bsky.social · 4h
#Trump lets tech bros self-regulate on #AI. < tinyurl.com/5aupxhyr > Bravo! Worked a treat with salty foods/sugary drinks, at Volkswagen (Emissions Scandal) and at Wells Fargo (fake accounts). Some fear Trump could end democracy. At this point, I'm more worried about his imperilling *humanity* ...
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Digital Rights Watch @drwaus.bsky.social · 3h
New article up now on how our data is being used to hijack democracy, from the Cambridge Analytica scandal to Palantir getting it's hooks into Australia. Check it out on the website now ➡️ digitalrightswatch.org.au/articles/
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 5h
"Our new open-source climate tool – the Carbon Impacts Tracer – will help make fossil fuel companies and governments approving projects accountable for the damage they will do." Read the full piece on The Point: sbrew.link/tjNM6MOu
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 3h
Here is @crikey.com.au with my 1st on CPAC Australia branding itself as NatCon this year. That is 😬. It ties the 🇦🇺 Right with 🌎 Christofascist politics (see Malcolm Robert’s proposed “blanket ban” 4 abortion). Also NatCon is driven by pro 🇮🇱 extremists. And… #Auspol www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/30/c...
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CPAC Australia is calling itself 'NatCon' this year. It may mean more than you think
Sure, it's short for "national conference". But CPAC Australia would be well aware it's also the name of another very prominent European conference for national conservatism.
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Michael Taylor @ausindimedia.bsky.social · 4h
“Twelve nations put a price on Israel’s illegal settlements. Canberra sat at the table for months, then remembered it had a Security Council seat to win.” theaimn.net/australias-w...
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Australia’s West Bank Abdication: The Comfort of Complicity
Twelve nations put a price on Israel’s illegal settlements. Canberra sat at the table for months, then remembered it had a Security Council seat to win. Do we have principles? Strutting what it sees a...
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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bluesky does not seem to really be talking about this but today Stevie Wonder unleased 4 songs that didn't make "Songs in the Key of Life." music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Songs In The Key Of Life - The EP
EP • Stevie Wonder
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 16h
I will be speaking tonight to the Fallbrook Climate Action Team via Zoom at 6:30 Pacific time. Feel free to join us! Here's the link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 28/09/2026
When our captains of industry make LLMs talk like television secretaries from the imaginary twentieth century, I think of the genuinely frightening secretarial staff of that office. The only sober people there, who you crossed at your own risk.
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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 22h
Fourteen?!
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 19h
Cool and normal. Gotta stop this vile antisemitism!
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17h
No one could have foreseen this. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
The multibillion-dollar LNG Canada Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, Shell Energy Canada says, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coasta...
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 18h
Board of Deputies of British Jews not. fans. of Randa Abdel-Fattah: “We urge the Home Secretary [Shabana Mahmood] to use her powers to exclude her from the UK.” www.theage.com.au/world/europe...
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‘Exclude her’: British Jews urge UK to bar entry of Australian author over October 7 remarks
Britain’s peak Jewish group wants Randa Abdel-Fattah blocked from visiting to promote her new novel over past comments, in which she described the Hamas attack on Israel as “exhilarating”.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 17h
Told ya. The warning signs were obvious from the beginning.
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 29/09/2026
The Oz piles straight in before Mehreen has even declared, just to remind her what it'll do to her if she dares.
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Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When I was stumbling around in the mallee, surrounded by budgies, I looked up to see this wedge-tailed eagle cruise right over me. It was probably looking for budgies too. Gluepot Reserve, South Australia.
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Matthew Spillane @spillanemj.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
is ‘can-do’ one level below ‘retail’ ?
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"Chris Minns is one of the most can-do people you’ll ever see,” V’landys said. Of course, it depends on who's asking him to do.
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Power is its own constituency. It exists to protect itself.' Authoritarianism sounds scary, but it arrives bit by bit. We're already doing the work for some grim future. Will be talking about this and more at Sydney Opera House's Curious program this Sunday. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/28/r...
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Don't think Australia is immune to authoritarianism
Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.
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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Disgusting. And the media are pretending that our only options this election are the ALP that's doing this, or the LNP that's even more keen to do shit like this, or ON, who would foam at the mouth with excitement about such cruelty. We're not allowed to hear about the Greens. #AustraliaVsHumanity
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Recent photo at the NHS. Over 6 years into #COVID, and we still have “wash your hands” under “AIRBORNE PRECAUTIONS.” We are failing hard to communicate one of the most basic lessons of this pandemic: Airborne means spread through the AIR. Clean air is infection control. #Airborne #PublicHealth #NHS
Photo shows a sign at NHS that says: Airborne precaution
Please wash your hands before entering the training room. Thank you
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Saul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
"We will continue to isolate Iran so that they re-open the Strait of Hormuz, which is so essential to tackling the cost of living crisis here at home" Do we have any idea what happened to make them close it?
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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The UK has no strategic food reserves, imports more than 40 percent of its food, and grows most of the rest in parts of the country most prone to serious drought in the years and decades to come We are not - to say the least -in a good place www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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Most of UK’s essential food supply grown in drought-risk areas, report warns
Keys crops such as cereals, potatoes, sugar and oils grown in areas with moderate to very high risk
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Check what tech they’re using the read the submissions to the Office of the PM’s AI consiltation
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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sorry Barn but you shall never get the gunzel vote
Sydney Morning Herald reports:

One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce has revealed the price of supporting the Coalition in a hung parliament, saying the populist party would demand pro-mining policies, new dams and the revival of the $45 billion inland rail project, in return for making Angus Taylor prime minister.

The Nationals defector told this masthead One Nation would seek to scrap the climate change department, deregulate the farming sector, cut taxes such as the tobacco excise and slash immigration numbers, if One Nation won enough seats to help the Coalition govern in minority.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Fossil-fuel firms in line for billions in benefits after answering Trump’s donation call
Senators’ report says taxpayers face higher bills after ‘bargain’ between president and major polluters
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Ben Harris-Roxas @benhr.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If this was a state actor they’d call it espionage. This is amongst the most sensitive data there is. Instead our governments, universities and institutions are lining up for OpenAI subscriptions - there’s something deeply cooked about that.
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How OpenAI agents tried to thwart cybersecurity amid Medicare hack
OpenAI's rogue artificial intelligence agents appear to have worked together to try to circumvent cybersecurity defences and find ways to access Australian government health data, according to conversation logs.
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Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hey my muchachos, I've had a run of very bad luck. Please retweet for visibility. Thanks. t.co/QXnWEWjuW5
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Adam Bell @adambell.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I mean, this is just straightforward computer crimes, it doesn't matter if the agent was 'autonomous' or not.
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Own an AU domain? You may soon lose it. What’s the scam? Kim Wingerei reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/own-an-au-domain…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Kangaroo Court of Australia @kangaroocourt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is the NACC’s new Commissioner Kylie Kilgour? Another Captain's Pick by PM Anthony Albanese? kangaroocourtofaustralia.com/2026/09/24/i...
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Is the NACC’s new Commissioner Kylie Kilgour? Another Captain's Pick by PM Anthony Albanese?
Acting National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) Commissioner Kylie Kilgour is in the box seat to become the Commissioner full-time which is quite disturbing given her performance before a Parliament...
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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 24/09/2026
The Knesset (Israel's parliament) elections panel has voted overwhelmingly to exclude all the Arab majority parties from participating in the upcoming national election. The decision will be reviewed by the Supreme Court. We couldn't possibly suggest that this sounds a little like apartheid.
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Belverdear @belverdear.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Well according to one politician...it came in on time and budget. Pulse Tasmania has an article. 🤦‍♀️And politicians wonder why people don't take them seriously.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Concern? How about arrest the f*cker?? Cripes. If you or I hacked Medicare, the AFP would bash down our doors. AI does it? Oopsies! I am concerned! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach
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Lisa the Leftist @lisatellstruth.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, nah That old cvnt can just fvck off with that shit #fuckoffMargaret #handsoff You know she has her own fkn "church" Yuk
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Please someone write again about Albanese's peerless political instincts
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
South Australia once again the laboratory of Australian democracy showing the odds are rising for Coalition-coalition power sharing arrangements that prop up illiberal right-wing governments. New Zealand is basically the model.
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Alex Antic’s rise in SA Liberals has coincided with a collapse in the party’s vote. Is there further to fall?
Election of rightwing senator – once called a ‘vote-losing machine’ – as state president in South Australia takes party further from the centre
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Susannah Breslin @susannahbreslin.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A roundup of some of the stories I’ve written about the adult movie industry over the years susannahbreslin.com/xxx
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Kate Auty @kateauty.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is important…
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This the correct response to authoritarian narcissism
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Kent Parkstreet @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
When someone earns around a million bucks a year and they want to pursue a policy that will force more people onto unemployment benefits they’ll most often call that policy “taking the heat out of the jobs market”. Bastards. #AusPol
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Anon E Mouse @anonemousie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Interesting job title 🤔
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
via gringoben 'HN60 'Dave Evans', somehow granted anonymity, almost got away without being questioned in the #spycops inquiry, having lied in his sworn witness statement. Just three short hours on the stand. A sad day for accountability and a shameful day for the UCPI.'
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/09/2026
Well, *fuck*. California AG Rob Bonta just surrendered to the Trump-aligned billionaires who want to take over and destroy Warners, merging it with the chudded-out husk of Paramount, leaving these two corrupt assholes to control Warners, Paramount *and* Tiktok: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

The Warner Brothers tower. It has been tinted orange and is leaning at a 30-40' angle. It is surmounted by Trump's hair. The tower is wavering. The background is ominous, red-tinged clouds, through which peek a marching army of banner-waving demons.

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Todd Dwyer (modified)
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warner_Bros_Water_Tower_-_panoramio.jpg

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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
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Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Today it’s Axl Rose and Charlotte Church with more spine than Ed Sheeran and Albo. Tomorrow it’s an axelotl. Cool cool.
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Doug Cameron @dncameron.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The US and UK arms industry, laughing all the way to the bank with $Bs of Aussie dollars. An “optimal pathway” to fleece gullible Australian politicians. We are being treated as mugs. Building infrastructure in the UK and while Aussie battlers can’t get a roof over their head🤬
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Zio whinging cancels yet another event - Children's Hospital talk on children and war #whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social michaelwest.com.au/hospital-can...
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Hospital cancels education event fearing pro-Palestine bias - Michael West
Last week, Perth Children's Hospital cancelled a scheduled 'Grand Round' because of "perceptions of pro-Palestinian bias”.
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Harry Saddler @harrysaddler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Took the day off work, saw an echidna. This is what capitalism is trying to keep from you
Am echidna with its head buried in the ground: a ball of yellow and brown spines about the size of a football, in the understorey of a grassy forest.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026
It is so funny to me that the fossil fuel industry's big lie is denying an apocalypse that science confirmed as a real risk while the tech industry's big lie is insisting on the threat of an apocalypse for which there's no scientific evidence for at all
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