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Tom Dunstan @tomdcc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
gradle.com/events/moder... 8h to 2h builds, with significant flaky test reduction. Use Develocity and actually reduce your resource consumption.
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Lessons learned modernizing Apache Kafka CI builds with Develocity and GitHub Actions | Gradle Technologies
Get the lessons-learned from the migration from Apache Kafka's migration from Jenkins to GitHub Actions, including how Develocity helped quantify performance gains and prove ROI.
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Riggsveda @riggsveda.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I see David Rees is coming back into fashion, so enjoy his evergreen works.
David Rees’ style was to use clip art for businesses to create comic panels of people in office environs commenting on current events. In this series, Get Your War On, a black man and white man are talking on the phone in front of-their old CRT computers.
Black man:  Oh my God this War on Terror is gonna rule! i can’t wait until the war is over and there’s no more terrorism!”
White man: I know! remember when the U.S. had a drug problem and then we declared a War on Drugs and now you can’t buy drugs anymore? It’ll be just like that!”
Black man: Right! God, if only that War on Drugs hadn’t been so effective! I could really use some fucking marijuana right now!
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 05/02/2026
ai is a rhetorical technology. when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 21/02/2026
This is what I keep saying: the right base *wants* this. Trump conformed himself to their desires and it turns out what they desire is violent thuggery & racism.
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Tom Dunstan @tomdcc.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
United For You campaign for the upcoming United Workers Union election. For those in SA, this was the team, who negotiated the best ever set of pay increases in a single EBA in Australian history recently. www.unitedforyou.org.au
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United For You
United For You: Building a stronger United Workers Union with more organisers, better member support, no fee increases for 4 years, and real results. Your union. Your voice.
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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
I think I'm willing to take that chance.
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This isn't just a casual observation. Fascism scholars have long made this point. It's why calling them "weird" was a more effective strategy than talking about the prices of eggs. Fascism is an aesthetic political movement - you need to make people feel embarassed and horrified by it.
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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
one of the most effective weapons we have against fascism is mockery, especially when its really funny
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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 13/01/2026
I didn't save this tweet but somebody did and it feels worth resurfacing
Old tweet that says when I was young I thought things wre bad because solutions were complicated and now I'm old and realize things are bad because solutions are simple but will inconvenience affluent people (or those who aspire to be) and religious fanatics.
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Tom Dunstan @tomdcc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Pathetic.
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Tom Scocca @tomscocca.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
Consuming a daily stream of Nazi propaganda does not have to turn you into a Nazi to distort your perceptions of the world
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 07/10/2023
Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?
A spoof of an infographic showing a map of Europe, colour-coded by which countries will offer food to visitors. The caption is "Will the detective investigating your murder be sad?" The Nordic territories are labelled "sad", Northern Europe is labelled "sad & wet", Eastern Europe, Southern France and Northern Italy are labelled "sad and drunk" and the Mediterranean nations are labelled "sexy". It's less funny when you explain it, to be honest.
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Tom Dunstan @tomdcc.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
@gruber.foo re the NYT iPhone piece - same energy from as far back as 1988 where the inappropriateness of the racism was played for a joke, but at least kinda acknowledged youtu.be/96iJsdGkl44?...
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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
The Liberal Party is failing for the same reason the UAP failed: adopting policies based on lobbying rather than any deeper sense of what the nation needs. Much has been written about the failure of the UAP and the foundation of the Liberals, but few parallels have been drawn to the present
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frankbongiorno.bsky.social @frankbongiorno.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
inside.org.au/are-the-libe...
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Are the Liberals in danger of becoming the Kodak of Australian politics? • Frank Bongiorno
The party is taking a long time to understand its plight
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
well, they couldn’t use the source material directly
Russian anti-alcohol poster
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Anthony Albanese @albomp.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Thank you, Australia.
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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
anti establishment branding has little relationship to political ideology. failing to see that is really dangerous and can lead to fascist creep in progressive spaces. www.liberalcurrents.com/be-skeptical...
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Be Skeptical of Anti-Establishment Branding
“I am the antichrist/I am an anarchist,” John Lydon famously snarled on the Sex Pistols’ 1976 debut single “Anarchy in the UK.” The song is an angry punk rock call for revolution and destruction—an el...
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Thomas Frampton @tframpton.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
That's an jaw-dropping number: "Between 1976 and 2015, an astonishing 80 percent of the state’s capital sentences were later reversed." boltsmag.org/chris-duncan...
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Jon Fasman @jonfasman.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
I have to admit that I did not have “The Defense Department under a Republican administration resurrects Socialist Realism three decades after the USSR’s collapse” on my bingo card.
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
It's important to know that when tech bros say they are "data driven" what they mean by "data" is their own experience and the assumptions. This is why you regularly hear things like "UBI will destroy society" and "if you give away housing no one will work" despite all studies showing the contrary.
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Buck @fairtirade.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
More Nats than Libs in NSW, and equal in Vic, ACT, Tas and NT... #ausvotes
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Osmond Chiu (赵明佑) @redrabbleroz.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Some non-ALP lefties may be disappointed but this is a far better result for progressives than a minority govt as it’s the 1st time in 30 yrs the Coalition has experienced 2 decisive #ausvotes losses. It will forge an #auspol common sense about hard right politics being toxic to swing voters
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
One of the lessons of Liberal Party over my lifetime is that the next leader will be worse than you thought the last one was.
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
You only get one Peter Dutton. It's great to win, but remember *that* was the person in front of you.
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
the number of climate 200 backed independents is growing… They are going to take up more seats… This is a bigger problem now - David Speers, political lead at the Australian public broadcaster, which spends millions of our dollars on legal arguments about “balance”. Look at it. He has only one lens.
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FMI @fmi.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Tingle gets it...
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Chris Pomfret @chrispomfret.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
We just got the trifecta.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
That election was called before voting closed in WA
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Jess McGuire @jessmcguire.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Just got a message from a mate: “Can Peter Dutton get a ‘Goodbye From Country’?” 😂
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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
You only get one Peter Dutton. He isn't the lesson here, even though it's easy. Govern it like you stole it, not like you got a good lease deal on a popular, moderately priced small car with a big low km rebate on the expiry. It's why your primaries are in he toilet
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Bingo card for you! Drink responsibly x
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pseudomorph @pseudomorph.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
Ding ding ding. Someone give Greg an award for predicting the utterly predictable.
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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 27/04/2025
Blocked these guys' ads from appearing on our Yotube videos during this final week ahead of election day—depriving them of one more billboard is worth the lost revenue. Hope other YouTube creators can afford to do the same
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Speers mentions Capital Gains Tax discount, and yep
Chart showing CGT 50% discount destroyed the housing market. Thanks John Howard you c*nt
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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
the right always say they just want immigrants to assimilate! here you have a "Maryland dad" but he's not *really* from Maryland according to them he's wearing a Chicago Bulls hat but he's not *really* a Chicago Bulls fan according to them you'll never be American enough
Watters: Garcia is a bulls fan? But he's from El Salvador. And he lives in
Maryland, not Chicago. The bulls lost 60 games in 2019 so why the hat?
Can Garcia name anyone on the team, anyone on any bulls team?
Everyone from El Salvador knows what it means when you wear a bulls
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Fox News LIVE
"MARYLAND DAD" DRESSED LIKE A GANGSTER

8:12 PM • Apr 15, 2025
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Michael Thrower Chowdhury @bevansadvocate.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
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Antony Green @antonygreenelec.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
#black - 18.5% of 2CP counted - LIB Predicted 2CP=39.6% -13.2% swing. Labor takes 2nd seat off opposition this term at a by-election - results at tinyurl.com/3ajhr2ue #saparli
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Black by-election 2024 Results
Black by-election 2024 Results
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
As @jvl.bsky.social pointed out, Harris ran a smart campaign. She was a solid candidate. Trump ran a disastrous campaign and is in clear decline. This was a clear choice. No matter who wins, half of voters either chose bigotry and authoritarianism, or had no problem with it. And that’s hard to take.
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AdotSad @adotsad.bsky.social · 06/11/2024
2016 was depressing but you could chalk it up to luck and a combination of bizarre circumstances. This is way, way, way more darker. He ran an objectively worse campaign and has an actual track record.
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 05/11/2024
Great to see the owner of a major media outlet taking his admin controls to sit with one of the candidates. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...
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Theodore SchleiferReporting on money in politics

On X Spaces, Elon Musk just confirmed our reporting that he is heading to Mar-a-Lago tonight for the Trump watch party. “I just voted, and now I’m headed to Florida. And I’ll be there with President Trump and JD and a bunch of other cool people,” he said.
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eric gonzalez juenke @egojunk.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
New teaching slide for "independent" voters.
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Amyville Hoyrror @amyhoy.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
one thing i have never stopped thinking about is all the photos of irish women flying home to vote in person to create the right to abortion may lexi's deliveries always be on time, her important emails never go to spam, and her lips never chapped
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Scoiattolo @scarnecchia.net · 05/11/2024
And so it begins 😡
A screenshot of a social media post from "Donald J. Trump" with the handle "@realDonaldTrump." 

- Profile Picture: Displays an American flag motif overlay.
- Verified Badge: A pink checkmark is visible next to the name.
- Post Content: "A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!"
- Engagement: 1.07k ReTruths and 3.19k Likes.
- Timestamp: November 5, 2024, 4:39 PM.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Trump has apparently decided he has lost PA.
A Trump Truth Social post that says "A lot of talk about massive CHEATING in Philadelphia. Law Enforcement coming!!!" I've written, "Trump says he's losing Pennsylvania" on it, in red.
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
your regular reminder that all the russiagate stuff was true and trump successfully covered it up and kept doing it.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
People sometimes think that cult-like fervor is the emotion that drives authoritarianism, but that's only a small piece of it. Trump's avid cult is not that large. The dominant emotion in authoritarian political cultures is cynicism, a sense that nothing matters, that everyone is a liar.
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Håkon Nordhagen @hakonnordhagen.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
I anyone was in doubt, crypto and AI have “given us some more optimism that our coal operations will continue longer than when we started looking at some of this diversification,” The twisted mirrorworlds of Musk and coal. Excellent reporting by @emorwee.bsky.social ! heated.world/p/coal-ceos-...
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Coal CEOs are the new crypto bros
Alliance Resource Partners isn’t just mining coal anymore. It’s also mining Bitcoin.
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