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Will Clarke

@will-downunder.bsky.social
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Cycling and music loving communications professional. Head of Corporate Communications at MMSG.com.au #cycling #vinyl #records #dogs #abitofpolitics #club7til11 #housemusicallnightlong - what's not to love?

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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2026
It certainly looks like it pays to be breached by OpenAI.
motherjones.com
Everyone wants to be the sole master of AI tech
Nvidia is competing with OpenAI and Anthropic by acquiring the platforms that threaten its business model.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Has the world not suffered enough????
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Another brilliant ad from Everyone Hates Elon @everyonehateselon.bsky.social futurism.com/future-socie...
Satirical advert criticizing Meta and its AI Glasses featuring a photo of Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta AI glasses with the tag line "Glasses for people who don't do consent"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Shocked to discover FIFA is corrupt. www.foxsports.com.au/football/wor...
foxsports.com.au
BREAKING: World Cup fury erupts as FIFA overturn US star Folarin Balogun red card ban after Donald Trump call
BREAKING: Fury erupts as FIFA overturn US star’s red card ban after Trump call
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Smudge The Insult Cat 🐀 @disentingcat.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Christopher Penn
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Just remember that given the abundance of neurodivergent people in science, it's far more likely that autism causes vaccines.
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Philip O'Connor @philipoconnor.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I've written about women's football for more than 15 years now and often think about how far the game has come in that time. Then I see things like this on Instagram, and realise how much work there is still to do. #woso #equality
A graphic/picture that explains how ex-Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy reportedly earned nearly £6m in 2024-25; more than every single player and staff member (a total of 64 people) on the women’s team combined.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Technology these days. Now knives with cameras. What will they think of next
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Am hearing that Albanese is very worried about the gas companies at this tough time. And look, the Iran War really has hit them... in the arse with a rainbow
Chart showing share price change since 26 Feb and the start of the Iran War:
	Growth
NAB	-18%
CSL	-11%
Westpac	-10%
Wesfarmers	-9%
ASX200	-5%
BHP	-5%
FMG	-4%
CBA	-2%
Rio Tinto	2%
Woolworths	3%
Santos	15%
Woodside	16%
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Our home www.theage.com.au/national/vic...
theage.com.au
My suburb is the heart of the city’s shtetl-south. It’s no utopia but a lesson in coexistence
When my family moved here from the Soviet Union, we began a quest to feel at home. It took us to four suburbs, but we ended up right where we belonged.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
@rutgerbregman.com on ChatGPT www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman
As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
More evidence of Australia’s massive insurance problem - beat.com.au/a-melbourne-...
beat.com.au
A Melbourne venue's $157,000 insurance bill could reshape how Australia protects live music
Pride of Our Footscray is a 200-capacity, community-owned venue in Melbourne’s inner west that hosts drag, comedy, poetry, live music and theatre. It’s owned by roughly 200 local shareholders, holds a...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
nytimes.com
Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Blimey - Hundreds of jobs at risk as BBQ chain collapses www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/cons...
thenewdaily.com.au
Hundreds of jobs in jeopardy as BBQ chain collapses
Hundreds of jobs are at risk after one of the country's best-known barbecue chains, Barbeques Galore, collapsed this week.
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Tim Stephens @proftimstephens.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Steve Bannon interfered in the 2019 Australian federal election, as part of a global effort to stifle climate action. He should face investigation under Australia’s foreign interference laws. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘I had Clive Palmer do the … ads’: Trump lieutenant’s Australian election claim revealed in Epstein files
Trump ally Steve Bannon told paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 2019 he had influenced an omnipresent election advertising campaign by the mining billionaire.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low
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Sean O’Kane @okane.fyi · 29/01/2026
My former colleagues at Bloomberg reporting Tesla is in play, too www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX Is Said to Consider Merger With Tesla or xAI
SpaceX is considering a potential merger with Tesla Inc., as well as an alternative combination with artificial intelligence firm xAI, according to people familiar with the matter, a sign billionaire ...
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Perfect - Marina Hyde speaks for the rest of humanity here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...?
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Masked thugs, sneering elites and terrified citizens: a picture of the US today. We used to have a name for this | Marina Hyde
Truly, I am the country’s biggest fan. But in the spirit of free speech its leaders apparently love, here’s a few things the rest of the world needs them to know, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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waldokanto.bsky.social @waldokanto.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Bad guys with guns. My @smh cartoon.
Single frame. Top left fade-out vignette of Alex Pretti; bottom right fade-out vignette of the ICE agents crowding (from recent footage of them murdering Alex Pretti). Text in seriffed font: “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” Hand corrected in red pencil to say: “The only thing that stops a good guy with eyes + a phone is a bunch of armed federal goons with absolute impunity.”
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/01/2026
Like the rest of the world, the EU is accelerating the shift away from gasoline vehicles to EVs. The US is being left behind.
carbonbrief.org
Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief
Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
"Australia is the loser from this emerging Victorianisation of the whole country, in which a poor government can glide through debacle after debacle because its opponents are much, much worse" @keanebernard.bsky.social in today's @crikey.com.au www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/22/s...
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Carl Maxim @carlmaxim.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
"And we now have María on the line who would like to swap a Nobel Peace Prize for the presidency of Venezuela..."
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Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 18/01/2026
I will forever be amused that Meta could spend $77 billion and still end up with nothing better than this shit. Indeed, it took them two years to get legs. www.vox.com/recode/2022/...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
The Mercator projection is 100% why Trump wants Greenland
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...
theage.com.au
US Congress threatens eSafety commissioner with contempt charges
Online safety tsar Julie Inman Grant has been accused of harassing American companies over Australia’s under-16 social media ban.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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We’ve had a skinful: drinks to toast the end of the political year | Jess Harwood
For most of these tipples, one is one too many
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Sarah B @flythehighlife.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
I do wonder how some people Sleep at night -
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
We should be ashamed our ourselves as a global population www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
theguardian.com
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Eileen Higgins becomes Miami’s first Democratic mayor in 30 years
In stunning upset victory, Higgins also becomes first woman in post and first non-Hispanic candidate since 90s
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Australia’s kids are saved! The social media ban is here and all the teens are outside touching grass | First Dog on the Moon
(Vaping, shoplifting Labubus and getting bullied in person)
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Paul McNamara @mpaulmcnamara.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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Niall @niallau.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Hilarious. Clearly LNP ran a focus group to address their 'Women won't vote for us because we are dominated by White Males' problem & somehow ended up with 'Replace them with White Blonde Females' as the solution. I'm guessing the 'LNP policies sucked' being the cause didn't get evaluated. #auspol
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Don’t read this amazing story - listen to it on the rabbit holes podcast. No one tells a cycling story like @iaintreloar.bsky.social @escapecollective.bsky.social
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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Mr Gideon Haigh on why the ongoing, incompetent and dull-witted enshittification of the State Library of Victoria is so heartbreaking, so stupid, and so dangerous. Please share. www.cricketetal.com/p/an-institu...
cricketetal.com
An Institution Betrayed
GH on the State Library's post-literate plans
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TK-S Is Here Now @timekiller-s.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
This is cool. I suppose if it’s automated there’s no Driver 8 for us to say “take a break” to.
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Interesting that ABC 7:30 and Jacob Greber chose “4th leader in 5 years” rather than “3rd in 11 months” to comment on VIC Lib spill. Some good PR work there (or showing a bit of bias).
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Nazis reckon NSW is best chance to run successful electoral campaign for Senate. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
smh.com.au
Nazis who rallied at parliament want to enter politics. They think NSW is their best shot
Neo-Nazis are on a recruitment drive in a bid to register as a mainstream political party, and they believe a NSW upper house position could be their best bet.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/11/2025
Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."
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The White Rose Society (Australia) @whiterosesociety.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
The National Socialist Network held an antisemitic rally outside New South Wales Parliament today - astoundingly, it's emerged this afternoon that they did this with approval from NSW Police. www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
smh.com.au
Police allowed Nazi rally outside NSW parliament
More than 60 people attended Saturday morning’s rally after notifying police more than a week ago. The police commissioner said he had no idea it was going to happen.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
this is incredibly lucid and valuable research.
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Hifi Sean ✨ @hifisean.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
I do love this piece of art by the satirical genius Wankers Of The World. He actually slipped some of these on the shelves in the Buckingham Palace gift shop. #PrinceAndrew #epstein #EpsteinFiles
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Alex Steffen @alexsteffen.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Some explanations deliver themselves. Soft denialism on the march.
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Kevin Riggle @kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 05/11/2025
“TURN THE VOLUME UP!”
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Who supports the Albanese Govt's new environment laws? • Chevron • BHP • the Minerals Council of Australia • the Business Council of Australia Who doesn't support the new laws? • Australian Conservation Foundation • Greenpeace • the Climate Council • the Wilderness Society and more. 🤔 #auspol
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
AI search failing again - @joshtaylor.bsky.social in @australia.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Fake claims about Australian road rules on headlights generated by AI and spread on Google
Google search results displayed false information from an AI website about drivers risking a $250 fine for not keeping their headlights on at all times
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🎀FANCY🎀 @fancysplace.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
🎀🎀
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Will Clarke @will-downunder.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
What an absolute c#%$ he is
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Ebony Bennett @ebonybennett.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
EXPLAINER: Why does the winner of The Block get their prize tax-free but the Archibald winner doesn’t? @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
thepoint.com.au
Why does the winner of The Block get their prize tax-free but the Archibald winner doesn’t?
This year, the winners of The Block took home $520,000 in tax-free prize money. Meanwhile, the winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award paid at least a quarter of the $60,000 prize to the tax of...
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MadWoman.PDX ❌👑 @resister4344.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Book club meeting in front of the ICE building, in #Portland. They’re discussing Animal Farm by George Orwell. 🤣🐷🐖🐽
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