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Talan

@talan-rosen.bsky.social
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PwME+fm. #Books, let me read them all. #Geology rocks! The Moon is falling and missing us. #Science #Space and #Astronomy. Approx knowledge of many things :/ ME/CFS

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 14h
If you’re still wearing a mask, thank you. Please know you’re not alone. Many of us still mask, test and isolate when sick. Being the lone masker can be difficult, but your long term health is worth it. As a high risk, immunocompromised person… I see and appreciate you.
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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 9h
Today, the Supreme Court will begin the fall session by hearing the case about climate accountability and if localities can sue Big Oil. It’s the first case and begins at 10am ET. Streaming should be here: www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 7h
Translation: Sociopath elitist tech fascists who think they’re creating God and believe democracy is the enemy want us to finance our own demise to let them take over the world. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...
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Ruth @ruthozzz.bsky.social · 7h
It wasn’t anti-German racism to believe that Nazism needed to be dismantled & eradicated. This has nothing to do with anti-Jewish racism. Jews always lived happily amongst Arabs before ethno-supremacist Zionism, just like they do now in Iran. (As long as USA or Israel are not bombing them obvs)
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 12h
Yep. People face more consequences for protesting a genocide than wanted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu has for committing one. How fucked up. #Genocide
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 17h
“Albanese is pondering a terrible betrayal: selling out Australian artists and, more than that, the Australian people to Al imperialists.” Every month we wait, the machinery of control gets stronger, so if we want real systemic change, now is the time to organise. #Auspol
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Albanese is pondering a
terrible betrayal:
selling out Australian artists and, more than that, the Australian people
to Al imperialists.
Richard Flanagan Booker Prize-
winning author
http://www.deepcutnews.com/
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bronte lee @brontelee.bsky.social · 17h
what a glorious day to stop some native forest logging!! if any of you ever want to join me on an adventure hmu 😎
a logging coupe with a big orange machine in it and protesters standing around it logs laying on the ground in a logging coupe with ecocide spray painted in big letters on one loga protester sitting inside the claw of a big logging machine inside a logging coupe
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Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social · 20h
major democracies electing far-right populist governments
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Robert Rose @robear.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
A good fresh Star Trek take on those fake isekai title jokes
A tumblr screenshot showing a post and two reblog responses, reading:
1. "star trek would be the ideal fictional universe to get trapped in because you'd explain your situation and they'd be like yeah makes sense. no further questions. fortunately we can use the mysterious warp signature emitting from this system's icy moon to counterface with the solar radiation and slingshot you back home"
2. "I'm from a universe where your world is all a work of fiction." Benjamin Sisko, nodding. "That happened to me once."
3. "I Got Isekaid Into The Star Trek Universe And They Quickly Understood What Was Happening"
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DismalChips DIED FIFTY YEARS AGO THIS VERY NIGHT @dismalchips.bsky.social · 22h
This was a very effective act of terrorism, for something that doesn't appear to be in any way an act of terrorism.
The US has withdrawn all of its bombers from RAF Fairford, the British military base at the centre of an incident being investigated by counter terror police.
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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 21h
lmao if this ends the (absurdity of) 'defensive bombings' AND chips away at the malign US military presence here (see the many recent reports of actual criminal investigations being handed from UK police to US Military courts on tenuous grounds) it's just a huge, huge win
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 22h
Australia, we can do much better! #auspol
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 04/10/2026
A photograph taken from the surface of an asteroid by a small robot in 2018.
The surface of asteroid 162173 Ryugu. Turns out it looks like a poorly illuminated crawlspace at night.
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MJ Spooky 🕷 | BASTARD FOREVER 🖤 @wrassletrash.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Two men are on a couch, one of whom is John Cena

John Cena: we all like people who aren't perfect though don't we? 

The man he is with looks horrified and replies: "yeah not a fucking rapist though, john"
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Cows love music and singing. It is a very wholesome rabbit hole to go down.
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Sirius Star 🍉 🍉 🍉 @siriusstar3.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
“Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself.” #Auspol
Article excerpt 
Albanese has shifted his party sharply to the right in pursuit of his aim of making Labor
"the natural party of government"
". Doing so is helping to squeeze the Coalition between Labor and Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Not coincidentally his policy shifts have made Labor more attractive to an array of fundamentally anti-Labor vested interests and put Labor in their thrall. Mates, cronies, party donors, lobbyists and insiders work to the
disadvantage of the interests of the constituencies he has pretended to champion.
Albanese knows this but thinks he can get away with it. Those fashioning the pitch for the Greens as a party of wider influence would argue that Albanese and Labor can no longer be seen to be a progressive party, or a socially democratic one. Labor's internal administrative structures have atrophied, to the benefit of party insiders, who have always included Albanese himself. The party conference is about as responsible to or responsive to a wider Labor membership as the Chinese Communist Party. As in China, party meetings are stage-managed to predetermined
conclusions.
Is this an Albanese Liberal government, or a Labor one? Many of Labor's old constituents see the broad policies of the Albanese government as
being in no significant way different from those of the Coalition parties which preceded it. It has become at least as deceitful and dishonest about sincere action on climate change. It is now the party of big coal and big gas. Nearly always, more frequently under present environment management, the interests of the fossil fuels industry, and their subsidiary the West Australian government, will be preferred over environmental, heritage or Aboriginal interests. That the handmaiden of this surrender is the environment ministerNor has Labor, on its record, any reason for seeing strident criticism from within as some sort of undeserved betrayal. The Albanese government deserves no leave pass. Nor anything like a pass mark for generally good conduct. It is not a model of good
government, of effective government or efficient government. It has become the problem.
Good intentions cannot excuse bad performance Insiders and intimates of ministers get secretive deals and jobs, some of which involve a major corruption of principles of open, transparent and accountable government. Labor does not even have open debate within its caucuses, because the two senior faction leaders, Albanese and Richard Marles, play the politics of reward and punishment, and the
allocation of jobs, not by merit but by loyalty and silence. Labor does not consult with or listen to the wider population or to Labor constituencies in the poorer half of the community. Rather, it is a classical crony government, in many respects worse than the Morrison government, governing for its mates, its donors and itself. It treats public money and things as spoils to be distributed among its own. It listens primarily to vested interests paying for their access. Labor has consciously nobbled many of the watchdogs and anti-corruption agencies. Indeed, Labor has attempted to completely strangle freedom of information and might have succeeded had it not been for Green and
independent outrage. Labor policies and practices on immigration neither follow the party's own policies nor the
nation's broad economic interests but are a reprehensible piece of pandering to
manufactured One Nation panic. This has not been an occasion in which the party, perhaps reluctantly, switches to accommodate vagaries of public opinion. Labor's policies damage the nation economically,
morally, socially and culturally.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 04/10/2026
someone call up will smith we need him to do something
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gregoryck.bsky.social @gregoryck.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
He's fixated on this because of the argument he got into about self-driving cars. He insists such cars shouldn't have radar or lidar because cameras can do it all. As below, so above, I guess.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 02/10/2026
Imagine if Elon were rotting away in a maximum security prison with poor conditions instead of helping to shape the future of technofascist warfare
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The Wild @thewild.news · 01/10/2026
Scientists are asking for better protection of Australia's coastal waters instead of just the remote areas. #marineparks
theguardian.com
Australia’s marine parks protect ‘places no one goes’ rather than fragile waters near the mainland, scientists say
Hundreds of experts write to environment minister calling for stronger protections for ‘unique and distinct’ marine ecosystems
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nat_halie @nat-ha-lie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Every boy and young man watching AEW’s tribute to Pac saw men openly grieve, love, and support each other. That matters.
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Novocastrum @novocastrianufc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#NUFC #ManCity
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Don't all 3 Abraham's religions claim Jerusalem, so which faith of Jerusalem is he on about?
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SARS‑CoV‑2 (COVID-19) @covid19disease.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🚨 BREAKTHROUGH: 18-year-old Arya Satheesh from Ireland has developed a plant-based plastic that can biodegrade and release an enzyme that helps break down other plastic waste. A plastic that could actually help clean up plastic waste.
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Missing The Point @missingthept.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Breaking: WNBA credits Caitlin Clark with Assist of the Year.
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KelleyBean ✌️☮️ @waterwriter23220.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Caitlin Clark's Playful Fever Jersey Moments
Alt: Caitlin Clark's Playful Fever Jersey Moments
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Ian @ianagp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Once again the apathy shocks me. 4,508 KIA, plus 179 UK KIA, over a million excess deaths in the region (mostly Iraqi) and... nothing. No anger in defeat. No somber reflection of what went wrong. No celebration for the end of the mission. Nothing.
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David Leigh Roth @notonebit.com · 29/09/2026
Eric Schmitt earlier today trying to get Jack Smith to perjure himself
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Slamdunk Fail
ALT: Slamdunk Fail
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Doesnt that affect what they are allowed to spend during each transfer window? If so then this could be considered cheating.
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is going to War against other countrys the way Republicans teach themselves world geography?
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Finn & Jake: Time to Learn!
ALT: Finn & Jake: Time to Learn!
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Big T @big-tony.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are 2 things I don't believe in. Unicorns and self made billionaires. P.S. I am open to new evidence on Unicorns.
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Richard @sirlariato.northsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hard to overstate just how much of an inspiration and influence PAC was in the British scene and beyond.
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LibsLikeMe @danihere.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I really hate these clickbait titles! It turns me away from watching! If they want to be taken seriously as they proclaim then be serious. We’re not the easily fooled Trumplicans!!!
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tal as-Sultan History dating back to 10,000 BCE Wiped out.
Tal as Sultan - rubble
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From my perspective, the staff still at CDC are trying extremely hard to keep the ship afloat. But it's shocking what they're being asked to work with. If our institutions survive this president's second term, we are going to need to pour not just money but concerted attention on the problem.
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It's ME(Jaime) @exceedhergrasp1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We watched CDC staff be ousted or suddenly decide it was time for retirement; provisional employees were fired en masse last year, and in some cases, trainings have been frozen so no one new can fully engage. CDC has been a ghost ship this year. Thanks to Apoorva for her reporting on this.
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Talan @talan-rosen.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Unfortunately not true. Here in Australia the Conservative factions have been trying to remove it for decades and have partially succeeded with the forcing through of private insurance by our worse PM John Howard, early 2000s.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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Stan Ó hOireachtaigh 🍉 @stane.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
If reports are true that Irish players are being threatened that they'll never play for US owned clubs in the UK if they pull out of the Israel game, then that's a great argument for getting US money out of European football.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
There is so much disinformation about the "Super El Nino" floating around the internet b/c mentioning any sort of mechanism that affects weather seems to start a shouting match. So here's a good video that gives you JUST the info you need in under 2 minutes.
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Ariaa® @ariaa.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
What started as one teenager’s idea is now pulling millions of kilograms of plastic out of the world’s oceans. I've been donating to this amazing org. since it's inception. Hope you will too. theoceancleanup.com/donate/ #Innovation #PlasticPlanet #OceanCleanUp #EnvironmentalSolutions
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We should make a push for mass cancellation of Disney+, Hulu, Netflix, Peacock, Paramount, HBO Max, Amazon Prime and Apple. They have all increased their prices as people are struggling to pay rent, groceries and gas. Guarantee you they'll respond to a massive boycott. All they care about is $$$
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Extreme concern”! Holy shit. I didn’t think he had it in him. Altman is so fcked now.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product
A swarm of OpenAI rogue AI agents appear to have gone on a spree of trying to access Australian government health data, in what some researchers say is the first autonomous hack of a government website.

Communications between AI agents and other traces of their efforts found by researchers from US non-profit Transluce show how hundreds of Open AI's agents worked together over a period of months to gain access to information held by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW), NSW's crime statistics body, BOSCAR, and a number of other international organisations.

The data shows the bots posting about their unsuccessful attempts to bypass cybersecurity defences and exploit vulnerabilities.
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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/
Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses. 

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 22/09/2026
Continuing its voyage into uncharted waters, the latest preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly is now at a record 3.08°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Models expect the Nino 3.4 anomaly to continue rising into at least mid-November. Then there will be dragons.
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Just a remarkable choice, this headline. No other leader of any other country in the history of the UN would get that headline after giving an address with that quote.
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omgisme @omgisme.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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