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Steven McKiernan

@yarragadee.bsky.social
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Cyclist, atheist, father, husband, Opa, water policy, aviation and transport policy

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Jonah Blank @jonahblank.bsky.social · 10h
"I have horrible thoughts." Fact-check: ✅
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 8h
This is Australia's defence policy @albomp.bsky.social #AUKUS #auspol
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tomwellborn3rd @wellborn.net · 13h
Fuckface claimed 86% of the popular vote. He got 49.8. He said Israelis love him 99%, but that poll doesn't exist, and his convention speech didn't beat the NFL either. $2.5 million viewers against 25 million. Pathological liar with a Sharpie.
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‘Does not exist’: Trump’s sweeping Time interview claims get brutally fact-checked
President Donald Trump boasted that he won “86% [of the] popular vote” in the 2024 election during his latest Time interview — but the magazine’s fact-checkers deflated that claim with the actual resu...
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Michelle @michelleroy78.bsky.social · 15h
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 10h
War criminal with arrest warrants "says". Truth free zone. This is pre-election hype www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
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Co-pilot in flight stabbing had ‘Islamic radical indoctrination’, says Netanyahu
Alleged flydubai attacker interrogated by Saudi security services as investigation into apparent crash attempt opens
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Jen Taub @jentaub.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let this sink in. Cornell University refused to refund Jane Doe's tuition the semester she was raped. Without this money, she could not transfer to another school. Essentially, she was forced to stay on campus where she saw those seven rapists frequently. Eventually she dropped out of college.
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Fr Chase 🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁 @kalanthropos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marco Rubio is an absolute dipshit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Rubio says foreign actor was ‘clearly’ behind suspected RAF Fairford plot
US secretary of state, who offered no evidence for claims, also says many people ‘disturbed’ that five suspects released on bail
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Luca @lucagalletti.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Someone slam a book and startle him straight to hell. 🔥
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So knee jerk rednecks like Trump and Farage blame Iranian terrorists yet these blokes were ripping off fuel....and make bail in 24 hours Stop believing Farage www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Petrol but no explosives found in suspect vehicles near UK air base
Counterterrorism police arrested five suspects, all men in their 20s from London, on explosives and terrorism charges on Sunday after a local resident raised the alarm about suspicious activity.
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hikikomorphism @hikikomorphism.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thinking about this old quote in the context of certain people - professors, nyt contributors, etc - who see casual misgendering as a reasonable response to a lack of respect for their claimed epistemic authority
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Darach Ó Séaghdha @darach.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Hippy songwriter Charles Manson, strong supporter of playing with the Beach Boys
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
So show us the five cm long swiss army knives/nail files SA cops have confiscated
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Trump started “renovating” the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in April. After spending $19.2 million of taxpayers’ money, it appears he’s abandoned it.
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John Birmingham @birmo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
You know one way of stopping AI agents from accessing Australian government data would be by making them have MyGov accounts.
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Ukrainska Pravda 🇺🇦 @pravda.ua · 25/09/2026
‼️ Russian state news agency publishes column claiming Russia faces new "special military operation" in Lithuania
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Russian state news agency publishes column claiming Russia faces new "special military operation" in Lithuania
Kremlin-aligned Russian outlet RIA Novosti published and later deleted an opinion piece threatening Lithuania with a Russian invasion and nuclear strike.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/09/2026
Trump’s state dinner looks like a meal you’d get as a reward in prison for not stabbing anyone all week.
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A.J. @andynear70.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
substack.com/@politepoet/...
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Polite Poet (@politepoet)
Great idea.
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Tom Crowley @atomcrowley.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Marking the vertex elevation, it's time to cartographise some space! Crowley Time Episode 45: Link's Gambit Live, guest starring Chiara Goldsmith and Andy Secombe with live music from Odinn Orn Hilmarsson, is on your podcast app and at crowleytime.com NOW! @odinnoh.bsky.social
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Terry Sedgwick 🦘 T.S. un ami. @lordsedgwick.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Embarrassing when we're being schooled by the leader of a nationalist right-wing populist political party.
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What the phlying phuck is this Ablo? Phighting Tories? You spineless coward @albomp.bsky.social www.afr.com/politics/fed...
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Albanese names former Murdoch executive as consul-general in New York
The prime minister has defended his decision to appoint Siobhan McKenna to replace Heather Ridout when her term expires at the end of this year.
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Bruce Williams @brucewilliams4.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Multiple sources inside the baby-killing machine confirmed to us that two factories, one in Mulwala NSW and another in Benalla VIC, are manufacturing nitroglycerine, nitrocellulose, and RDX, all deadly explosives that end up in the blood-soaked hands of the IDF.
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Mike D London @mikedlondon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not this c*nt again... After getting the Brexit he pushed for, he shifted chunks of his UK businesses over to the EU - plus himself to low tax Monaco. If everyone damaged the UK like that faketriot, we really would be f*cked. Surprised he's not relocated Man U to Europe yet.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sorry but if you still believe that AI isn't anything more than a scam and a hustle, I don't know what to tell you. This was one of Anthropics top guys and now he's doing Fox News hits? A nation of suckers.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The president is just such a stupid asshole. I know we try to ascribe motives to this guy but he’s at the end of the day, when the story is written, just a dumdum idiot with a tiny brain that don’t work so good.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
For 33 years, McConnell has voted against family and medical leave for working Americans. Then he disappears from the Senate for 92 days and keeps collecting his full paycheck. Apparently, paid leave is only a problem when someone else gets it.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 17/09/2026
The word "fascist" comes from the Latin *fasces*, a bundle of sticks; the symbology here is that a single twig is weak and brittle, but bundled together, many twigs are strong. It's a sound political theory, because in politics, coalitions are everything: pluralistic.net/2025/01/06/h...
A robotic claw grips a bundle of arrows; in the background are the pink folds of a human brain.
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M. D. @fecundity.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Kuzer Thread über Tech-Faschismus und seine Inkohärenz
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
#ICYMI
Jon Andrews in the Moorabbin Glen Eira Leader/Herald Sun (July 2019):

Avi Yemini's ex-wife reveals personal toll of his assault and harassment

Activist and former soldier Avi Yemini has been convicted of the brutal harassment and assault of his ex-wife, whose harrowing victim impact statement said he had "broken her spirit" and "destroyed her self-worth".
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
who needs the far right when Labor will do whatever they want anyways
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What a fucking dumb idea from an idiot
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Right-wingers call to 'execute traitors' outside 'NAZA' filmmaker's family home
A few dozen activists gathered outside the house of 'NAZA' co-director Rachel Szor's parents as Netanyahu vowed to revoke the citizenship of Szor and the film's co-director Yuval Abraham
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Richard Kadrey @richardkadrey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Hey kids! Halloween is right around the corner.
A parody FBI agent Halloween costume that features Kash Patel in a plaid shirt behind a stuffed bear so that it looks like he's having sex with it.
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Chris Kennett @chriskennett.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Remember when Ed Sheeran was in Game of Thrones for no reason at all
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
We had thought the “safety issues” at the Kennedy Center were caused by the Trump administration. It appears that might be the case. In a sworn declaration filed today, a legal observer said she witnessed a forklift carrying fencing drive to the north
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Frank Conniff @frankconniff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“I’m not voting for anyone because I oppose genocide.” Guess what, no you don’t.
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Shot has the right to "self-defence"
The Shot has the right to “self-defence”

In Crikey, Sami Shah stated that The Shot is anti-Semitic, describing our masthead as “an attempt at a satirical site for people who found Facebook comments insufficiently moderated” and our work as “Practically demonstrations of antisemitism". Embarrassingly, in the same week, The Australian more accurately described us as “left-wing” and “probing the limits of law and language”.  
 
Sami singled out two article headlines, The royal commission into the hurt feelings of genocidal psychopaths and Updates from the royal commission into the selective outrage of Zionists, which he clearly didn’t read before accusing us of sloppy “media criticism”. The headlines were mine, the body copy written by Joel Jenkins. They were no-bullshit, reality based tear downs of the fascistic assaults on our democracy, which all of us can see so plainly with our own eyes. Even liberal Zionist cowards like Shah. 

During a mass slaughter that our government is supporting materially and diplomatically, it's not good enough to have segments of the indie media community trying to un-stretch the Overton Window back inside the borders set by decades of hasbara, horrifically biased and supremacist mass media, and the whims of the genocidal psychopaths. We don’t know how many Australians love milquetoast fence-sitting during atrocity, but Pew research shows that 80% of us despise Israeli atrocity and fascistic overreach into our democracies.

Description continued on next slide As a credo, I try to treat people with the same level of respect I am shown. We have done more serious analysis and investigative reporting on this depravity than Crikey has, a much larger outlet with more staff and resources. Over the years, The Sunday Shot has also platformed many Crikey writers. Needless to say, that moment has passed us by.

To make such petty remarks at some of the few unvarnished truth-tellers in Australian journalism on this subject, in this moment of abject moral failure, of cowardice and of complicity, speaks to the hollow pettiness of Shah’s analysis. Focus on what really matters, please. 

There is enough genocide apologia in the corporate press already. It's pathetic to see it in the indie space, too. Do better, Crikey, your readers expect more. 

Fuck fascism. Free Palestine.
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H I Sutton @covertshores.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The world needs more no-nonsense grandmas
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A minor detail is missing from the headline.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
y’all are bad
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John Rain🥇 @johnrain.co.uk · 15/09/2026
Ed Sheeran's tour bus.
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THC BBS @thcbbs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lil PETSCII bonus for yall
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 15/09/2026
That's why the roads leading to Amazon's warehouses are lined with pee bottles that drivers have hucked out of their windows before arriving at the loading dock.
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Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Would he like them to dress as a cop, a fireman, a leather daddy, a construction worker and a Native American?
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Don't look up @zone6bgardener.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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billkittle.bsky.social @billkittle.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Michael J. Stern @michaeljstern.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
We’ve heard it before. Now apply it to the people who actually need to hear it.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Mitch McConnell looks like a toddler who has just seen his first puppy. There is no way this poor man is up to voting. Republicans need to stop this heartless charade and allow him to rest at home.
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Steven McKiernan @yarragadee.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Where's Ed Sheeran? I always knew he was a cunt
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hegseth has taken out more American generals than Iranian ones.
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