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conifergirl.bsky.social @conifergirl.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Surviving Texas @itscindyrae.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Who knew?
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They Welcomed 37 Data Centers to Town. Now Their Schools Have to Dim the Lights to Cut Energy Costs
Henrico County has been home to massive data-center investment. However, now, a 25 percent electricity-rate increase is hitting its government and schools.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Allegations of children with bound hands in mass graves. Time for your "deep concern" again @senatorwong.bsky.social? Another atrocity to ignore @albomp.bsky.social? Do you have ANY red line for Israel, which would impel your government to take *real* action? #GazaGenocide #auspol
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TizzyWoman @tizzywoman.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
In an unprecedented act of dissent, active-duty USAF Major Jason Watson was arrested on the Capitol steps after calling for the impeachment & removal of Donald Trump. Risking his career to uphold his constitutional oath, his arrest marks a historic moment. ✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼✊🏾✊🏽
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
AHPRA "reversed a written position on one of the most contested definitions in public life and offered no account of who made the decision, what evidence was weighed, what legal advice was taken, or why the professions were bypassed." More Israeli foreign interference. #auspol
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leftylady.bsky.social @leftylady.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
If you owe a woman $5 million for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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James Hughes @dystopian-fashion.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
A massive Georgia data center drained nearly 30 million gallons of water, sparking outrage among local residents asked to conserve water during a drought. Residents of Fayetteville, Georgia, first noticed something was wrong when their home water pressure mysteriously plummeted.
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Omar Sakr @omarsakr.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This is from the court filing. We know for a fact that CSG told an Australian soldier to disobey direct orders and lie to his superiors - to put them and Israel above his oath to this country. And Minns wants to give them permission to be their own official armed police force here. This is fucked.
d) During the [2nd interview], [the Applicant] stated he has loyalty to the CSG [Community Security Group]... he was specifically told to describe the Israel-based training courses as Jewish leadership courses... The Applicant) stated he did not openly declare the purpose of his Israel travel during the clearance process as he was worried doing so would have a negative effect on his security clearance process and would require answering more questions about the CSG, which he had been told by the CSG to be guarded about... F ASIO→ assesses [the Applicant] intentionally withheld information on his travel to attend Israel-based training courses. F ASIO»
assesses this demonstrates [the
Applicant's] loyalty to Israel outweighs his obligations to the Australian Government as a security clearance holder.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
We need a bigger tent, that’s why we must betray and expel the following types of people:
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
emblematic of what's going on at much higher levels than operations. #genocide #lawlessWar #neocolonialism youtube.com/shorts/6xi_0...
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@ajnamdeplume #Resist ✊️🗽⚖️ @ajnamdeplume.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
bsky.app/profile/ajna... aka, the bought and paid for Sedistic Patriarchal #Oligarchy.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Exactly this
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Mark Lemley @marklemley.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I can't log into my two main twitter accounts ATM, just says something went wrong, try again later. doesn't confirm my login details are correct or anything. accounts appear to still exist… never had that issue in all the years I was using it which was pretty early on in the roll out of Twitter.
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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
If you grew up in a household with an evangelical right-wing parent, as I did, you already know that the dismantling of the U.S. Department of Education, like the reversal of Roe v. Wade, is the culmination of a 50-year project.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/07/2025
Probably fine.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
more i study NCE more obvious it seems the history of NCE is a perpetual ruse to remove all moral, intellectual, social and ecological enquiry from economics using elementary school maths (simultaneous equations) Toy Models™ of stasis/equilibrium. no science, hard or soft, would allow such capture.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
PUBLIC MONEY for PUBLIC GOOD Free WORKSHOP (no money required) on this Saturday 5th of July 2025. 1 pm – 4 pm. Torrens Uni Flinders St Campus Melbourne (opp. Fed Square) Presentations by my star colleagues in PMPG. Workshop involves breakouts and Q&A sessions publicmoneypublicgood.net/events/
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
either way, why have governments, courts & edu sectors allowed themselves to be co-opted by M$ offering freebie software with which to lock in the standardisation of their commercial products for everybody else? Open Source Software admin tools r fine for Govt admin, Govt should invest in OSS dev!
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Christopher Dornan @chrisdornan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Just a reminder that Orwell’s protagonist in 1984, Winston Groom, works as a copy editor, except that his job entails endlessly “correcting the data” so that the archival record conforms to the Party’s preferred fictions, and what is “known” becomes a principal instrument of conformity.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I wasn't known for much anything, but was banned for a few weeks on Twitter half a nanosecond after a tweet reply to climate change denial from AU Senator Matt Caravan loosely phrased to include "neanderthals". TW demanded my phone# & ID just to get my account back. 1st offence, no warning!
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
the “you got played” portrait of 2025. can’t believe the nativity, nah, scratch that, power-thirsty, wilful ignorance of latino and black Americans who ran for office as part of an overtly, unsubtle, racist MAGA platform. now adopting, “I’m so shocked” posture. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
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Liz Conor @lizconor.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
You’re defaulting to the dumbest of whites
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Musk is burning a truck load of methane to power his Grok complex in Memphis while leaking a lot of methane. poisoning the community & Climate. so much for being a Climate warrior… methane for rockets, methane for Grok's server farm… plans to frack for methane in Tx… www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...
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We Went to the Town Elon Musk Is Poisoning
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
"Loyalty is a rare commodity in politics but it’s an essential one, and out in the bush, it’s worth everything," McKenzie said. another (unintentional) non sequitur from Sen. Bridgett McKenzie. if loyalty’s an essential but rare thing for Coalition, maybe that’s why they’re now on endangered list?
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Ley in, Tehan out of Liberal leadership bid as rift over Price's defection emerges — SBS News
As tensions emerge amid the Liberals’ preparations to vote for a new leader following the Coalition's election loss, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is also facing criticism over his cabinet reshuffle...
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
great piece by @nathantankus.bsky.social on the scoundrel behaviour from one well practiced at scoundrel behaviour. This sentence speaks large for the putsch/coup going on in USA politics ATM :: “involves a willful misunderstanding of what this system does” www.crisesnotes.com/i-asked-form...
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I asked Former Bureau of the Fiscal Service Employees to Interpret An Elon Musk Tweet. Here’s What they Told me
Notes on the Crises pivoted on February 1st into around the clock coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. Today is Day Fifteen Read Part 0, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5...
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
America's first gender neutral bathroom was Rush Limbaugh's gravesite.
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Cara Ramsey @cairenntairisu.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Well, imagine that! Karma came for Target right off the bat. Couldn't have happened to a more sniveling bunch of cowards. At least we knew who Walmart was all along.
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God @thegodshow.com · 28/01/2025
Let Denmark cook.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Perfectly captured.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
if the first trump presidency was dysfunctional in a good way, this one is off to the races in a much more dangerous way. the billionaire tech-bros are positioning to turn what’s an already capitalist oligarchy into a superpower dystopia as the tension b/w old & new superpowers goes bad. not good.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
so much for the Democrats and Biden « Trump Proofing » previously committed IRA grants… his is getting very messy very fast. Elon Musk apparently cared about climate change and once at a Tesla launch he appeared in front of a « sustainable energy now » digital backdrop heatmap.news/politics/tru...
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Trump’s IRA Pause Is Already Leading to Layoffs
The founder of Zero Emissions Northwest talks about furloughing his staff — and about the farmers he serves, who are also paying a price.
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Liz Conor @lizconor.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
I’m at the inaugural National Symposium Unifying Anti-Racist Research and Action with colleagues and comrades and it has been pure joy to been included in black teachings and Palestinian solidarity
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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
The House GOP has released a menu of options that could be included in their reconciliation bill. Really shows their commitment to bettering life for the <$100k voters who sent Trump to the White House. punchbowl.news/reconciliati...
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a man with long hair and a beard is saying yeah ... not really .
ALT: a man with long hair and a beard is saying yeah ... not really .
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
I wanted to give a plug to @focusmate.bsky.social #Focusmate (AKA ADHD Anonymous ;-) I think I can smash 2024's 7,600 minutes and 244 sessions by June this year if I try!
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
finally the ADHD causation vector has been confirmed by scientists.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Po — the least likely of the Teletubies to be tempted by the ring that binds them. she already has a scooter and a ring perturbing from her crown, after all!
po the teletubie partially behind a grass mound. Po has a ring symbol extruding from the crown of her head.
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Craig Sicknick @jan6risingvoice.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
I can’t forget. My brother died thanks to the insurrectionist’s actions that day. Over the following years, the U.S., in my mind has also died. There is little left here for me.
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Amii Illustrates @amiiillustrates.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Funny comic strip / meme. 
Person to houseplant: you need to drink enough water
Plant: so do you
Person: mind your damn business
Illustration drawn in simplistic cartoon line art style. By Amii Illustrates.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
hey @raspberrytips.com thanks for ur article, not dated, but suspect at the time of writing many Arduino boards programmable in Micro Python simply by pasting Python code to board as a USB device. raspberrytips.com/raspberry-pi... www.wired.com/story/micro-... www.kickstarter.com/projects/214...
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Micro Python: Python for microcontrollers
The Python language made lean and fast to run on microcontrollers. For beginners and experts, control your electronic project with ease
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
President Obama was arguably the worst post-war POTUS for black and coloured Americans in terms of his decision making and political appointments to the Federal Reserve etc etc. Launched more drone missile attacks than Bush 2. Some unions didn't even get behind Biden b/c his administration sucked…
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
except I never said they are equally bad, did I? I said neoliberalism lives both sides of the isle. meaning: its very obvious to those who understand the Democrat's attachment to neoliberalism and neoclassical myths prevented them from being an effective advocate for truely progressive politics 1/
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Jay in Kyiv @jayinkyiv.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Another environmental catastrophe caused by Russians east of Crimea, after one of their decaying oil tankers broke apart on high seas 2 days ago, 35km of pristine coastline has been contaminated in true Russian style. And these tankers are now all over the world.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 17/12/2024
"There is a chasm in outlook between the global climate policy-making elite with their focus on distant goals and slow, non-disruptive change, and activists and key researchers who see the world hurtling towards climate breakdown and social collapse." www.climatecodered.org/2024/12/clim...
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Climate's collision course: Science meets politics
The climate emergency requires actions at emergency speed for a rapid transition to a post-carbon, safe-climate future.
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usefuldesign.bsky.social @usefuldesign.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
I wouldn't claim progressive independents (candidates & MPs) are the “only hope” for Australian democracy. While I worked for one prominent Teal candidate in 2018 & welcome the rise of Teals in seats held by the Coalition, there's obvious limits in their ability to make good policy… b/c reasons. 1/
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Stephanie Kelton @stephaniekelton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Rate hikes are stimulus checks for the rich. "High-income households...also receive more interest and investment income during periods of higher interest rates, all providing a stimulus for sustained levels of spending." www.federalreserve.gov/econres/note...
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A Better Way of Understanding the US Consumer: Decomposing Retail Spending by Household Income
The Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington DC.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm RFK Jr. The letter marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice. But Kennedy is a threat they could not ignore, one said. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...
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Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination
Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.
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