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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 27/09/2026

I haven't been paying attention to stuff but I heard about the lesbian bar and honestly I'm just glad to see the mentally ill from 2014 still having fun. It makes you almost nostalgic, ya know

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 27/09/2026

Gosh I love Cities Skylines... downloaded the Australian terrace houses pack. So cool. (I also appear to have caught an additional autism... the grandaddy autism... trains and buses. Uh-oh...)

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 26/09/2026

When Free Press/Quillette types invoke Arendt, you really do see the upside down world they live in. In every fibre of her being, she would have hated those people, what they do, and how they appropriate her legacy. How 'IDW' types launder ideas and trick people is disgusting.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 25/09/2026

This is what I get for suggesting my husband have a day off. He came back from an "errand" with this. Not content with the Phillips ones from the other week... lol

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 19/09/2026

I have a friend who was telling me how her religion requires her to pay her bills and not lie in order to be right with God. She is a Muslim. Just saying.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 19/09/2026

Everyone on X has AI psychosis How's it going over here?

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/08/2026

In light of the "Woke 1 was crazy" discourse, I am posting this. I will, again, point out that it was NOT benign at the time. Lives were ruined. Until people reckon with their role in that, well... teasmith.au/p/when-will-...

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When will ‘the left’ stand up to the threat of totalitarianism?

Totalism is on the rise in the United States, and it isn't coming from where you'd expect.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/07/2026

Do you ever sit back and look at your life and wonder how you got here? More screens than when I was in tech lol

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/07/2026

Captcha but for Americans They gotta identify basic political concepts and the right way to spell stuff 'click on the socialist' 'click on the Nazi' 'Celebrity or Expert' 'identify this country on a map' 'click on the correct spelling for favourite' Ah, peace on the internet

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 20/07/2026

So I was cleaning and I slipped and fell and hit my head, and covered myself in caustic soda in water. That could have been a life ending blow to the head. Thankfully it's just a bump, hurt wrist, and (lol) my right nipple has a band-aid because the caustic went in my bra.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 18/06/2026

Last 2 weeks of the Grad Dip Legal Practice and then I’m done. Definitely taking a break… I had no break between finishing law school and this so kinda need one…

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

Widow’s Bay is a fucking masterpiece. Holy shit. Get on it.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

Oh, we may be living in a dystopian hellscape with the most horrendous, awful and immoral shit being given a pass and it will only get worse but have you seen the guy's tattoo? - libs who hate the right but literally do everything in their power to bolster them at every turn

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/06/2026

I mean when people are so rotten to their core that you think Iran is pretty based...

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 11/06/2026

After a year on Mint, I decided to move to Fedora. It's been a slight adjustment due to GNOME, but I get to live the GruvBox life again... just gotta work on some more icons and a bit more of the CSS to make it all look consistent, but... noice.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 06/06/2026

heh I am officially free of pretty much every streaming service except YouTube (which I don't mind paying for). Another album yoinked, so decided to set everything up on NextCloud, with Subsonic app. I'm freeeeeeeeeeeeee (now to convince the boys they don't "need" Spotify, ugh)

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 05/06/2026

People I mostly agree with and respect maybe don’t be arseholes about abuse of women’s trauma and maybe just say “yes that’s bad and you should still vote for him because people are not necessarily their past and politics is kinda complex like that” challenge

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 05/06/2026

Americans just be normal for once challenge I’m starting to root for the Tide Pods I gotta be honest

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Bullshido @bullshido.net · 05/06/2026

Dumb men create bad times. Smart people burn themselves out to solve problem created by dumb men. Dumb men say "see, it wasn't a problem after all".

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 05/06/2026

By pretty much every metric, I am a badass and a success story. Despite every hurdle imaginable I the exception to every rule. Tell me I can’t, and I will let that be my fuel and then I will. Not in an arrogant way, but I will drill a hole in you with a look and then prove you wrong.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 31/05/2026

Dying laughing at Urzila Carlson’s show on ABC. Fuck she’s funny. Menopause Cop had me howling

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 28/05/2026

It's come up a few times... people asking why I stay on that crappy app. It's because this would never, ever happen anywhere else. Even after everything that has happened. This is Twitter and it can never, ever be replicated. Twitter is as much a concept as it was a product.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/05/2026

There's a reason why so many comedians are lawyers. There's something about the understated tone of very silly things, where you have to reduce it down to a sentence. You end up with potato defamation.

ACCC v Mitolo Group Pty Ltd (2019) ATPR ¶42-644; [2019] FCA 1257, especially [27] and Annexure A Unfair: Farmer must not disparage wholesaler or licensed variety of potatoes: The term forbid the farmer from doing or saying anything, or giving any impression, that directly or indirectly was likely to have a negative effect on the reputation of the licensed variety of potatoes or the wholesaler’s business

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 21/05/2026

Not sure where this puts me on the loser scale (already fairly high), but I've spent a few days configuring our home server to run a bunch of custom agents. One is something that pulls and summarises recent ACL cases and emails a doc. But also a random greeting why not @actualbenfolds.bsky.social

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 16/05/2026

When the right fund certain court cases, it is never because they care about the issue. It is usually about a secondary goal or grievance. Such as, perhaps, trying to undermine the External Affairs power (and therefore the Racial Discrimination and Sex Discrimnation Acts).

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 15/05/2026

Remember when people (including me) thought "birthing person" was dehumanising, and a bunch of people were like "the right know what a woman is, they are friends" and told anyone who said "no they hate women more" was called every name under the sun? I don't either

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Marni Mead @marnimead.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

People seem to have short and selective memories….

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 14/05/2026

As I type this, there is a crew slumming it by going out to the outer burbs to film a segment with a man named Darryl. Darryl is a tradie, just 3 years from retirement. Him and his wife lost their son and they have a discretioary trust for their grandkid with special needs & Albo must be stopped.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 14/05/2026

I'm not implying that he did it on purpose or anything (it's all about me), but @actualbenfolds.bsky.social is playing in Sydney when I am being admitted in NSW. Good to way to celebrate a momentous achievement, if I must say, especially seeing as he kinda played a role ❤️. Shuffling some things.

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

not gonna lie sometimes I get a little embarrassed about how much time and effort I put into youtube videos that got like 2k views so honestly seeing The Washington Post spend millions to flop even harder is actually pretty comforting

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 12/05/2026

Eagerly awaiting the new segments on the budget where they go into the kitchen of some old Boomer jiggling a teabag in their unrenovated kitchen saying how they overcame Keating's interest rates, were never handed anything, and now this, which is why they're racist for some reason

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 27/04/2026

I have no beef with people who want to purchase an investment property, or rent it out, or are landlords. I'm grateful you were so genrous to only increase our rent by $30 this time. But please, for the love of God, stop fucking whining and playing victim. It's pathetic.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 26/04/2026

May you live long enough to see Ben Shaprio become a hall monitor/wokescold, and every wokescold you know saying 'false flag' and 'pizza'. If you haven't melted your brains on the computer and possess object permanence and a Theory of Mind, you find it all very entertaining.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 26/04/2026

We have a VEIN server that I set up on our home server, and it is super fun. Except it has basiclly become Grith Simulator Minecraft. lol If you play it and you wanna play on our server, let me know - it'd be good to get a server going with a few more people (I don't like public servers)

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 25/04/2026

Oh no Netanyahu has cancer I really hope the cancer can survive this

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 25/04/2026

So… Tylenol would fix it?

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 25/04/2026

Hi, popping in to say that there nothing less patriotic than being the mouthpiece for a foreign corporation, at the behest of a person who barely shows up to the Senate, and someone whose bloody money comes from blue asbestos, avoids her taxes to the point she doesn't even live here.

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 14/04/2026

I'm honored to be delivering a keynote on 2nd July at the Centre for Digital Trust and Society's 4th Annual Forum with Digital Futures at University of Manchester, UK. The theme will be 'Misinformation, Disinformation and Online Social Influence' Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

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Centre for Digital Trust and Society Forum 2026

Join the Centre for Digital Trust and Society for an engaging day of talks and discussions!

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 02/04/2026

I’ve never been more proud to be Labor. Especially WA Labor. Love to all of those who have been fighting like hell to remind people that Labor would do what they can as soon as they possibly could. ❤️ Happy Easter!

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 02/04/2026

I'm so hard right now And not just because it's everything I hoped for/work for New Bill on manipulative practices etc that amend the ACL.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 01/04/2026

Has anyone checked in on the Americans to see how they feel about things I’d love to get another perspective from people who haven’t had the chance to speak yet Especially about fuel being $1 a litre Are they okay

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 29/03/2026

Forgot to mention I got this for $1 at the op shop the other day It’s my favourite mug but I had to say I was buying ironically because Zoomers were giving me the stink eye Bitch I was there when they lost it over the Dixie Chicks stfu

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 29/03/2026

I've been creatively stuck for a while because all my energy was being eaten by my buprenorphine patch and sheer career change exhaustion, but I landed on Reddit at 4am (because, yesterday, I ripped off my patch in my sleep and thought 'maybe I don't need it'. I need it. It's back. OMG. I need it.)

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 29/03/2026

"Someone like Doctorow" brought a concept to the mainstream that many of us have been trying and failing for years to articulate, and have brought anti-capitalist analysis to the public. FFS. This stuff is so tedious.

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Téa Smith @teasmith.au · 29/03/2026

In a world run by Muppets... there's always @actualbenfolds.bsky.social

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Lilah Sturges @lilahsturges.com · 28/03/2026

I think we need to celebrate the death of Sora a bit more. This is a technology that, just MONTHS AGO, we were being told was going to literally destroy Hollywood and Disney was going to give them a BILLION DOLLARS and NONE OF THAT EVEN REMOTELY HAPPENED

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