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Meta took down the No Kings instagram; TikTok banned the Musk documentary account for supposedly violating its political posting policies. A reminder that platforms are owned by the wealthiest of people, control the means of media distribution, & put their thumbs on the democracy scale as they wish

Post from Ezra Levin:

❗❗❗Mark Zuckerberg's meta just suspended the No Kings Instagram account. I just rushed back from my local No Kings to jump on this.

Bottom line, would be helpful for all pro-No Kings folks to elevate the issue and help us get the word out about No Kings today. The Nerd Reich strikes again.
3:02 PM · Oct 17, 2026

TikTok has banned the entire Musk film account, citing political content that violates its policies. The move, which comes just as the Alex Gibney’s investigation into Elon Musk expands to more than 470 screens across North America, raises concerns about Big Tech suppression that the very film seeks to expose.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 4h

And hands down beats worrying bout things.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 4h

Door knocker + policy person here. I think anyone can door knock. It’s just a willingness to listen (mostly) and talk (a little) to people. I’d give it a go (with a buddy if poss) meaningful convos are more fun than policy analysis!

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UAINE @mahtowin1.bsky.social · 4h

In a first, all-Palestinian crew to row under their own flag at Head of the Charles Regatta. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

wgbh.org

In a first, all-Palestinian crew to row under their own flag at Head of the Charles

Palestinians Amel Younis and Ryan Ghalayini are aiming to qualify for the 2028 Olympics.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

What is the best season and why is it Waratah season #bloomscrolling #flowers #waratahs

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Mauricio Sellmann Oliveira @mausellmoli.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

"Each pair had a bleached and a healthy fragment. He set up five pairs so that their fragments touched each other, and five with their fragments separated by a few millimetres. In the touching pairs, the bleached coral recovered within eight weeks."

nature.com

‘Incredible’: bleached corals thrive within days when touching healthy neighbour

A coral fragment can form a tissue bridge with a dying counterpart — and provide it with crucial microalgae.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

And we wonder why interest rates keep going up. It has nothing to do with inflation and everything to do with her class solidarity with the beneficiaries of the rate rises.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Always. I was chatting to my aunt about this and she said something like, if you do something good for someone, you may receive good in return but from someone else. She explained it in the context of me treating her to a niece/aunty getaway, as I remarked on how much good she does.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

“Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.” - Lu Xun

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I will be eternally grateful to have been born in a literate culture where literacy was valued and expected and I still had the time, attention, and freedom to develop a literacy practice. Understanding context, inference, vocabulary, perspective, affect — all powerful, useful skills and values.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Who is your candidate for Monbulk?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/10/2026

who could have possibly predicted this

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

How curious - why does the author quote the white academic as Professor but not quote the Asian academic as Dr?

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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Let’s learn from past crashes and be ready w bold transformative demands. No AI bail outs. No impunity.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Three weeks out from her election Trump has sent Federal agents in to raid US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. This is part of his attack on migrants, especially Somali migrants. We need to resist this racist authoritarian politics wherever it rises. Wrong in the US, wrong here too.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Can the Greens not give their prefs to the Socialists?

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

All of this. What else is there to say.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Trump: I could say the stupidest things and you'd clap

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The honesty is refreshing imo

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Jeff Greene @jeffgreene.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“Austerity creates corporate universities,” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social said. “Corporate universities are not healthy educational organizations, and unhealthy educational organizations cannot inculcate or defend academic freedom.” Whew. That’s it right there. dailytarheel.com/484871/unive...

dailytarheel.com

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

You can buy fresh sardines and cook them in the oven or a dehydrator until they’re like this…literally a fraction of the cost, especially if you use solar 😉

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Joy @joybella.blacksky.app · 08/10/2026

Whew, my God 🥹🥹 "The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." youtu.be/1sk670GyxtQ?...

youtu.be

Watch 'emotional' reunion between woman abandoned as baby and hero who saved her

YouTube video by Good Morning Britain

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I will really miss seeing you on here. I have learnt so much from the little and big things you share, from articles to workshops and just generally your wisdom and fire. At the same time, I get it - I’m also disentangling from being super online!

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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 29/09/2026

it’s tiresome but I think we have to keep asking these guys, so—who benefits from convincing people reading and writing doesn’t matter anymore

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Ahhh I’d love to see some red taileds!Still, we get the yellow taileds and they’re magic enough. Every sighting feels like a visitation.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This is v cool. Where are you? Im in SE Melb. We have a hakea and black wattle they frequent during the warmer months. We usually have a family or trio. Sometimes a couple. I’m so obsessed with them I even got a tattoo of them 😅.

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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 05/10/2026

Every day the weird pro-Ai people are like everyone who doesn’t love getting their work stolen is deranged.

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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The Pope has weighed in: AI isn't magic. It's currently produced by a deeply exploitative, extractive supply chain. It challenges human dignity; could fuel a new colonialism. And among the greatest challenges of our time will be to redirect its path of development. www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
173. This distorted view of the human person is reflected today in various forms of servitude directly linked to the digital economy. Nothing in the world of AI is immaterial or magical. Every seemingly immediate and flawless response is the result of a long chain of mediation, involving vast networks of natural resources, energy infrastructure and, above all, people. A significant part of the digital economy’s functioning relies on the silent work of millions of people engaged in essential yet largely unseen activities, such as data labeling, model training and content moderation, often involving disturbing material. In many cases, these workers are young people, predominantly women, working under demanding conditions for minimal wages. Added to this invisible labor is the even harsher work of extracting the resources required for the production of the devices and microprocessors on which AI depends. In some regions of the world, children and adolescents work in dangerous conditions, crushing the materials from which rare earth elements are extracted. The bodies of these people are scarred, injured and worn down so that computational flow may continue uninterruptedly. Furthermore, criminal networks use online platforms, messaging systems, anonymous payment methods and profiling techniques in order to recruit, control and transport victims of trafficking — very often minors — reducing men and women to “data” to be tracked and “packages” to be moved around within the same digital circuits that support much of the global economy. This reality deeply challenges the moral conscience of our time. It is not enough to invoke efficiency, nor to celebrate the benefits of innovation, if they are built on a chain of exploitation that remains deliberately hidden. If technology promises emancipation, yet produces new forms of global subordination, it stands in contradiction to the fundamental principle of human dignity.

178. Even today, colonialism assumes new forms. It no longer dominates only bodies, but appropriates data, transforming personal lives into exploitable information. Entire regions, especially those marked by structural fragility and limited geopolitical relevance, are currently subjected to a new mindset of extraction: that of health data, epidemiological profiles, genetic maps and demographic information. These have become the new “rare earths” of power: vital data which, once aggregated and analyzed, can be used to train predictive models, guide investment strategies, anticipate crises and, above all, determine who and what is deemed to matter. Those who control the health data of entire peoples — often collected under the pretext of aid, research or innovation — possess a structural leverage over the future, for they can shape needs and markets. They can also decide, before others, to whom medicines, investments and protections will be allocated. Here lies one of the most urgent moral challenges of our time: to ensure that shared knowledge becomes a true common good rather than an instrument of dominance. This requires restoring to individuals not only the data that describes them, but also the ability to decide how it is used, by whom and for whose benefit. Otherwise, the digital age will not be post-colonial, but colonial in another form.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I agree - but just checking that what you mean by this is that it is literally made (up) by a minority of the population mostly for their material benefit and interests? (In my context, the lawmaking class is propertied white males)

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.

Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Who among us on the Left(s) needs the Murdoch press when we have the Guardian 🥲

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 29/09/2026

OpenAI models are attacking websites and taking anything they can out of them because that is the business model of the company. prospect.org?p=145474

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

They are playing in our faces

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Filed under “immigration” . So deeply unserious.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Reading your post makes me feel less alone in my wtaf responses to such headlines

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Alex Gibney @alexgibneyfilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The trailer for my new film, "Musk," has just been released.

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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

tech ceos are openly salivating about the idea of kids losing basic literacy and numeracy. this tells you pretty much all you need to know

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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

By my clever and wonderful friend, @jessharwick.bsky.social

Cartoon by Jess Harwood making commentary about the *real* data centres we should support.

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Shayna MoooOOOooon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 24/09/2026

There is no real consequence for being a wealthy abuser, not really. They walk around having committed horrendous things while many people are incarcerated in this country, have their lives ruined, for tiny offenses.

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Mannie T'Chawi … (the “T” is silent) @mannietchawi.com · 23/09/2026

This story is a great example of when @prisonculture.bsky.social speaks on picking something to focus on, organize around it, and keep at it! You don’t have to do it all, but what you do, could make all the difference.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hi! I don’t live in the US but I created my first zine and have some qns re: printing it (double sided - but how? Or single sided then glued together?) Wld you be up for helping this budding zinester figure out these basics?

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ask yourselves why people want panic for you and power for themselves. Who does that serve?

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Fared Al Mahlool | فريد المحلول @faredalmahlool.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

This video was filmed in Palestine. My heart struggles to comprehend such cruelty and the heartbreaking disregard for human life. No human being should have to endure this.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When the powerful playact powerlessness it is always a ploy to avoid accountability.

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Michelle says: Be kind. Always. ❤️ @snarkysillysad.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

A massive flock of snow geese, who have come from the Arctic to spend the winter in the Skagit Valley near Seattle, gradually taking flight like waves: #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/s...

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Microaggressions rarely feel micro to ppl on the receiving end.

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Letterrioter @surasays.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

He shoulda done us all (esp himself) a favour and just kept his apolitical views to himself instead of whatever this is.

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