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@troutish.bsky.social
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DJ. Hip Hop MC. Poet. Unionist. Analyst. Writer. Curator. Husband. Topics: Climate, Data, Democracy, Economics, Energy, Environment, Gaming, Human Rights, Mental Health, Music, Space, Technology, Transport, War Living on Wadjuk Noongar Boodjar (Perth).

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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 9h
I hope this starts a trend of people comparing fuel prices internationally
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Zum Teufel mit Faschismus! @ouden06.bsky.social · 17h
€10,46 for petrol and €10,92 for diesel in Bavaria. ($11,72 and $12,23)
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Áine Mc Caul ✍🏼 @ainemccaul.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
$9.08 in Ireland
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 9h
Saw Hans Zimmer love tonight. Was great.
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s. e. smith @sesmith.lol · 21h
I don’t know why we’re doing Twitter discourse but IMO there is no reason for people to be active on there unless they are investigating/reporting on Twitter using burner accounts. Stop going to the local nazi bar and telling me you know it’s bad but it’s the only place you can see Dave.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 22h
Yes, it is probably worth reiterating how extreme a media bubble Twitter/X puts its users in; it's not enough that they feature white supremacists & fascists outside the mainstream — many are so hateful that they were suspended when the site still had a trust & safety team. bsky.app/profile/poli...
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h
Normal people didn't used to hear, "this person built a platform that pays a man who published images of a 2-year-old being sexually abused" and ask "how are the sports scores there?" This is very recent development. Read this story, if you haven't. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Twitter under fire for reinstating account that posted child sex abuse
Twitter reinstated the account after some of its more than 500,000 followers complained that the account had been suspended for its political messaging.
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 23h
I (probably obviously) disagree with John's POV here, but let's grant that all of what he says is true, and that X is good in all the ways listed in the post; let's even grant that's true for all demographics (it's not). It'd *still* be a site that pays known CSAM distributors at its owner's behest.
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 19h
Labor governments across the country have been compromised by the fossil fuel sector. This is a primer example of what it looks like: Minns government’s only meeting before reopening gas exploration was with fossil fuel lobby | New South Wales politics | The Guardian share.google/Jhsier6pKz1L...
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Minns government’s only meeting before reopening gas exploration was with fossil fuel lobby
Exclusive: Peak body for oil and gas industry met with minister’s office before a 2014 freeze on new licences was overturned, documents show
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Catherynne M. Valente @catvalente.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I don’t care where you started out on the political spectrum If your kid comes out as trans & you don’t become a rainbow-clad, parade-cheering ally & rock-solid supportive girl/boy/enby dad/mom? You were never a parent at all You were a doll collector furious they didn’t stay in their packaging.
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David Branch @dbranch9.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
It’s happening more quickly than I expected youtu.be/mZx_SjZdYH0?...
youtu.be
The Tipping Point Is Here: Dealers Are Refusing Diesel Trade-Ins as Resale Plummets
YouTube video by The Electric Viking
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Twang 🍉 @twangmaker.bsky.social · 20h
The resale value of diesel cars collapses. So much for former prime minister Scott Morrison's claim that EVs would "end the weekend". #auspol
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kristin (she/her) @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org · 19h
What you'll hear about at this event tomorrow: - change needed to remote area allowance, a $9 supplement payment for people in remote areas - challenging debts & accessing waivers for Centrelink & child support-related FTB debts - unlawful Centrelink payment cancellations & to assert your rights.
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Ebony Elizabeth Thomas @ebonyteach.blacksky.app · 12/10/2026
I'm ace. This sucks. And while we rightly tsk this Sahelian nation, compulsory sexuality is very real here in the West. writingtheother.com/refusing-com...
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Excerpt: Refusing Compulsory Sexuality - Writing the Other Resources
Writers who create worlds and futures should interrogate their own culture's "norms" in order to consciously create narratives that challenge said norms.
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 19h
Seems like a campaign the NTEU should get involved in.
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Hayden Donnell @haydendonnell.bsky.social · 20h
"I'd really like to be recognised for my journalism outside of New Zealand" *monkey's paw curls*
John Oliver quoting me on Kiwibank's sexy green-haired sheep Buck
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 19h
When you have a job that you can continue to do work on while travelling on the train...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
bigotry aside: imagine having to design an enforcement policy for this. what are we doing y'all?
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Well, it’s a quick take, and no doubt data will come in, but it sure looks like based on today’s evidence that a lot of pro-Trump and pro-AfD bot work depends directly on Russian data centers.
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Laura Chapin @laurachapin.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
When the Auschwitz Memorial has to fact check the new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia for being a nut.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not only should brooks and others shut up. But Ossoff is the best example in the country of a Democrat playing dominance politics and using it to control the whole terms of his race.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Right, it turns out that instead of letting the Republicans set the terms of the debate, you can simply tell them and their enablers in the media to cram it. El-Sayed has been doing the same thing. It's long overdue.
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ahhhh shit. My bestie had a family member pass away. Last thing she needs in life right now :(
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023
About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons
Pumpkin hoop
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/10/2026
Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And frankly, auditing how we got here is far less useful than working to change course now. Because it won’t just be rural folk who suffer the results politically
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
“BuSh FoLk BroUgHt ThIs uPOn TheMselves!” Pretty sure the mentally ill ppl, the medically complex, ppl with disabilities and the children didn’t
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And everywhere everyone knows someone who got fucked by a Robodebt and got back a minuscule fraction of the thousands that was unlawfully taken from them, while the government calls it “fixed”
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
You’re expected to walk past it without moral harm. The guy with a shopping trolley full of belongings casually setting a shirt alight at the local bus stop. You walk past and casually say ‘g’day’ and then start, because fuck, you’re not sposed to make eye contact, but you’ll see him again next week
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Christmas is coming and each evening I remind Kid to padlock his bike inside the shed unless he wants it to disappear overnight. I wish it wasn’t this way, but I’ve worked on the south side and in the ghettoized housing estates and it’s fucked
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Regardless of what happens to Labor, this cannot hold
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And every disability SIL house and hospital running on fumes and the hard work of people on visas, even while the racism soars
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
And potholes, everywhere another fucking pothole and jobs that rely on working cars, and everyone aged 18-50 scrambling two casual jobs and paying over 50% of their income to rent when a bag of fresh veg can break the budget
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Payday is white bread, white noodles, white potatoes, white rice…
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Whiskey Blair @whiskeyblair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Context: My son has lived and worked in eastern Ukraine for nearly two years. I’ve been in Ukraine myself—a handful of miles from the Russian border. I’ve stood in silent respect, 9am, with Ukrainians who’ve lost beloved family and friends. I’ve embraced Ukrainians Trump is betraying It’s personal.
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Whiskey Blair @whiskeyblair.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
💯 The betrayal I’m hearing from folks in Ukraine—a country that once revered the U.S. as a beacon of independence—is gut-wrenching. Trump is playing DARVO on the global stage. U.S. elected government is acting like a restraining order will keep an armed psycho from killing the one who resists him.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
And it is WILD that this context is not repeated by the media every single time he opens his mouth about Ukraine.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
Saying the war "never would have happened" if Donald Trump was president is not only a lie, it's possible that by signaling that the US was weak on Ukraine--by demonstrating that a president could illicitly halt aid, and that our government wouldn't actually hold him accountable--he helped cause it.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 11/10/2026
I realize that asking people to remember 2019 is impossible, since it was a million years ago, but you may recall Donald Trump's first impeachment, which happened because he withheld $400 million in aid to Ukraine because he asked Zelenskyy to investigate Biden (among other things).
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troutish @troutish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Good morning world.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
“[Due to Blanche’s corrupt and likely criminal ‘settlement’] Trump gets immunity from IRS audits for the year where he made, by far, the most money of his life in shady deals all over the globe.” @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ronf... bsky.app/profile/angr... bsky.app/profile/ifin...
Trump taxes IRS corruption meme: “I'm old enough to remember when a sitting president having 300 corrupt bank accounts shut down for money laundering by one of the largest banks in the world [Capitol One] would be front page news.”

Found on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/terre-strial.bsky.social/post/3msghgwztx226

#TrumpEpsteinFiles
#EpsteinFiles
#EPSTEIN_FILES
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles
#ReleaseAllEpsteinFiles
#UnredactTheEpsteinFiles
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
“The key takeaway from [Wyden] report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.” @wyden.senate.gov
Trump-Epstein files Ron Wyden tweet meme 7/17/25: https://twitter.com/ronwyden/status/1945864024672919592?s=46‬

‪“Big news from my investigators on Epstein's sex trafficking operation: the Trump administration has an Epstein file detailing 4,725 wire transfers and almost $1.1 billion flowing through just one of his banks. Hundreds of millions more through others.‬

‪“The Trump administration claims it doesn't have enough evidence to investigate. If you ask me, that’s 4,725 lines of investigation right there. And that should only be the start of it.‬

‪“Epstein had to pay for all his sex trafficking somehow. Further evidence shows he used Russian banks to process hundreds of millions in payments. Again, this is info in the possession of the Trump administration, but they’re refusing to investigate.”‬

‪For more, read the 7/17/25 NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/business/epstein-banks-wyden-trump.html ‬

Ron Wyden tweet meme found here: https://bsky.app/profile/lachevron.bsky.social/post/3msgqvcrym22y

Parnas: How much money was funneled through these banks to Epstein?
Wyden: I think it’s certainly well over a billion dollars.
Deutsche Bank failed to properly report to the Treasury Department more than $250 million in suspicious transactions https://bsky.app/profile/acyn.bsky.social/post/3msgqb562gs23

Turns out covering up for pedophiles isn't a winning strategy. See you at Nuremberg 2.0 https://bsky.app/profile/wyden.senate.gov/post/3mijqc6yuik2o

We got some quotes from @wyden.senate.gov about his wild report yesterday about banks withholding suspicious activity reports about Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking empire because they wanted to keep the lucrative relationship. Crazy conduct and Wyden has some good solutions for it. https://bsky.app/profile/ddayen.bsky.social/post/3msdotienys2n

US Senator Wyden urges regulators to probe Wall Street banks over Epstein accounts https://reut.rs/4fSKBO8 https://bsky.app/profile/reuters.com/post/3msbwei2xxn2v
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“The fact that it’s taking France and England and other foreign countries to be able to launch investigations — and yet our American DOJ is sitting on #TrumpEpsteinFiles, doing absolutely nothing, including not cooperating with those foreign nations — is such a big red flag…” @katiephang.bsky.social
Trump-Epstein files meme: It’s no longer just “Release the Epstein Files.” It’s also “Arrest the men in the Epstein files.” And women who helped Epstein too. Authored by Jenni, found here: https://bsky.app/profile/debbie156.bsky.social/post/3mqhuscs2qc2s

The TrumpEpsteinFiles might clarify the timeline, but it might just be that it was trump who showed epstein the potential for running modeling scams. Not necessarily vice versa- trump was in deep already in 1991. Ingrid Seynhaeve, an 18-year-old from Belgium, was crowned the winner. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year https://bsky.app/profile/hanoixan13.bsky.social/post/3mrobvfwph22a

“I’ve never been friends with Epstein.” https://bsky.app/profile/24bibi.bsky.social/post/3mm3sfbc3ek2a

What is being hidden about Trump in the Epstein files? https://bsky.app/profile/kashwitna.bsky.social/post/3mrc2e23pzs2k

“Trump is in the Epstein files thousands of times. In those files there’s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children [and] Trump threatening to kill children.” @tedlieu.bsky.social
https://bsky.app/profile/ifindkarma.bsky.social/post/3meh5nxqm6k2h

Morgan J Freeman: “And just like that, it's completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show allegations that Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Let’s make this viral again.”
Found here: https://bsky.app/profile/marktsneed.bsky.social/post/3mp437ls73c2w https://bsky.app/profile/ifindkarma.bsky.social/post/3mp7k6ih6ak2x

“On July 19 2023, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial and confirmed that Donald Trump raped E. Jean Carroll. I’m going to submit this court ruling into the Congressional record.”
Rep Ted Lieu 7/25/23
@reptedlieu.bsky.social
#TrumpIsARapist 
https://bsky.app/profile/ifindkarma.bsky.social/post/3mdvn3igujc23
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Capital One says anti-money laundering review prompted closure of more than 300 Trump-affiliated accounts… The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business… The closures were the result of months of analysis and a careful review…”
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Capital One says it closed Trump Organization's accounts after anti-money laundering probe
The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his trafficking network, and details on how he got cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet.” @wyden.senate.gov bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... bsky.app/profile/ifin... #TrumpEpsteinFiles
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Epstein Fiasco Takes Darker Turn as Dem Senator Drops New Bomb
Ron Wyden has some ideas for Pam Bondi to pursue—if, that is, she’s genuinely interested in getting to the bottom of the Epstein scandal.
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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“Todd Blanche participated in the #EpsteinFiles cover-up — continues to participate in the cover-up… A woman told the FBI in a formal statement that she had been sexually assaulted and physically assaulted by Donald Trump [when she was] 13… Those 37 pages remain covered up.” @whitehouse.senate.gov
Melanie Stansbury Trump-Epstein files meme: “The United States government is engaged in an active cover up of the largest sx trafficking scandal and influence peddling scandal in the history of the United States. And Donald Trump is right at the center of it.”

Found here: https://bsky.app/profile/iamarthurkotb.bsky.social/post/3melth4gnes2s

Full transcript February 2026: https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r2dkoj/rep_melanie_stansbury_the_united_states/

So the Trump Regime DOUBLE-REDACTED the Trump-Epstein Files https://bsky.app/profile/katiephang.bsky.social/post/3melncnh7b22k
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Also, I posted it before. But this website is great: bitsofwork.org
bitsofwork.org
Measuring Cryptanalytic Effort
A bibliometric estimate of how much public cryptanalysis each public-key assumption has received, and what that effort would cost under assumed AI productivity.
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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Me: makes silly offhand comment about AI and public key cryptanalysis. People freak out. Also me: does a serious analysis of cryptanalytic effort so far set against recent LLM math results, which is (IMHO) wildly more terrifying. Nobody notices.
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KittyKatGirl😻🙏💞🐞 @mary1kathy.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
“The three Gs – gas, gambling and Gaza” - Albo under pressure from Hannah Ferguson in his own seat. @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social #Grayndler #auspol #polls michaelwest.com.au/albos-suppor...
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Albo's support down. Could he really lose his seat? - Michael West
It seems unthinkable, but could a PM enjoying a two-to-one margin at the last election be tossed out of parliament at the next?
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