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George M

@zooruler.bsky.social
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Ol’ bag o’bones. Coder; guitarist; flaneur. Wanker.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Not really a fan of not knowing what happens next, especially with a parent.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026
Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Are you sick of idiotic headlines like these? Tired of excessive cost of living increases and bad rentals? Do you avoid watching the news now because you want to throw things at the TV? Don’t ragequit - join @vicsocialists.bsky.social!
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
The late Russian-isation of the US continues. Also, there are better shaggy dog jokes than this. Ever heard Norm MacDonald on Conan turn the moth/podiatrist joke into a Checkov play? You must! youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo?...
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Norm McDonald - Moth Joke [napisy PL]
YouTube video by StandUpy PoPolskuPowróciły
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Classic Trump 2 story in how it works as a grim shaggy-dog joke. Dozens of creeps lying and backstabbing and hiring Trumpy lobbyists and de facto bribing RFK Jr. and the end result is Trump blearily saying "we're looking very strongly at approving this, or maybe not." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...
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How an Addictive Gas Station Drug Found Allies in Trump’s Cabinet
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spooky october name @dormin.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
when I was 14 I spent most of my time on an obscure fansite that a) was owned and operated by two other 14 year olds b) was mostly populated by teenagers c) had a peak of maybe a few dozen active users and I don't think spaces like that really exist any more
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Watching the response to Hanson on bsky, knowing full well that it is a microcosm within a microcosm of largely leftist voices that are mostly relatively privileged, educated and metro-based
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
And not a day goes by lately when someone here in rural Victoria doesn’t tell me they’re voting One Nation, barely knowing what it stands for, but with the knowledge that both the ALP and the Coalition failed them
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I have this queasy feeling. Had it since about March, actually, that we were sliding into an inky morass. Asher distills it quite nicely.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Alex Fein reporting on the likely origins torrent of slop targeting weary, aggreived Australian voters. Why is One Nation spiking like it is now? Some of it’s gotta do with this. redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/call-it-wh...
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Call It What It Is: Foreign Interference
If a hostile state ran this sort of operation to swing our vote, we'd call it foreign interference. It's time we did.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
“I think what we must diagnose instead is a ruling class brain tumour: a growing inability to achieve any coherent understanding of global change as a basis for defining common interests and formulating large-scale strategies.” Indeed.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Since 2022, it’s always been Soy Albo.
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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
McDonald’s’ social license to operate is absolutely contingent on providing jobs to humans. Fuck this shit right off. www.allrecipes.com/mcdonalds-ai...
allrecipes.com
McDonald's Just Announced a Big Change to Its Drive-Thrus
McDonald's announced a new AI ordering system, called ArchIQ or "Archy," at its McDonald's Worldwide conference this week. Here's what you need to know about the drive-thru change and when you might s...
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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Those living with cancer may recognise these words
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Soraya Sebghati on fire with her latest post on critique at TrueAnon.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
'Antidote is a new report from Victorian Trades Hall Council outlining the vital role for workers and their unions in taking on the far-right.' Has anybody read this? www.weareunion.org.au/antidote
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Antidote - New Report from Victorian Trades Hall Council.
Antidote: Victorian Unions' program for taking on the far-right.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Foodbank Melbourne opened at 10am this morning. People were already queuing at 7am
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I get all the justifications here, but the reason I don't use AI is that I just don't want to. I like writing emails and digging around for new papers online. Let me have my fun.
nature.com
Meet the academics refusing to use generative AI
Researchers say they have their reasons for avoiding AI tools — and they’re sick of arguing about it.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 30/05/2026
Remember when Bernie Sanders unveiled his plan for free college for all Americans, and everyone said we can't afford it? We just spent more than that amount on Trump's war in Iran.
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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Stop Labor’s demolition of public housing
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Jake Wright @bcnjake.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Once again: German universities were the envy of the world before the Nazis rose to power and took an ideological wrecking ball to the entire enterprise. If you want to know how long it took for German universities to recover… they haven’t.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Damn it feels good to be Roman Catholic
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Just realised Catholics can now cite the Magnifica Humanitas encyclical as a religious objection to AI in the workplace and at school
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Not a great day. “We’re stopping chemo. The next step is to get you on clinical trials” isn’t the advice you want from your mum’s oncologist, on a good day.
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
"everyone" = men with money
galvanicklucipher 14h
In the 1830s everyone in the USA knew
that canal waterways were the future of
commerce. Every state started building a
canal network with the vision of hooking
them all into a national network. In 1837
there was a Great Recession, and the tax
base for the canal work collapsed. When
the economy recovered 5 years later, the
railroad boom was happening and
everyone knew that canals were over.
That's why every city in the Midwest has a
half-finished canal in it. This is a post
about data centers
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
In a past life, in amongst going out too much, I got an honours degree by using a neural net to try and cluster music into genres. Not that successfully, mind, but I tried.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Absolute _banger_ research from Alex Fein. A must read about the why’s of One Nation’s current rise.
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Dr Keith 🎃 Wilson @keithwilson.eu · 13/05/2026
I set a similar assignment for my Philosophy of Mind and AI undergraduate students. The vast majority conclude that LLMs are unsuitable for academic writing, and realise that they can do a lot better themselves, which is a real eye-opener for some. 👀
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Remember, kids: It is in the interest of the moneyed classes to couch intrasocietal struggles as intergenerational warfare because they’d rather have you yelling “boomer” at a working class 65 year than setting fire to a bundle of 30 year olds with Lambos.
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
You should get to choose whether you want to know true things. Maybe you'd rather know false things instead. The state needs to respect that.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Spoke to one of the teens involved in the high court case against the social media ban. Like most other kids he was able to get around the ban. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Fifteen-year-old Noah hasn’t been kicked off any social media platforms – he’s still fighting Australia’s under-16 ban in court
Millions of accounts have been deactivated since the ban came into effect in December, but Noah Jones found it was easily circumvented
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Consider also the 50% capital gains tax break for assets held for more than a year. The money earned by already having money can be taxed less than money earned through actual labour. This is perverse.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
SMH economics editor Ross Gittins got a tooth infection that caused heart failure and nearly killed him. 44 days in the ICU. Weeks on the ward and in rehab Not a single word in Gittins’ article about the experience mentions that dental isn’t rebatable under Medicare
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
In the '90s, punks and leftists made absurd images like this to parody American conservatism. I'm not sure you can do that today because there's not even the veneer of Christian virtue to point out the hypocrisy.
Trump posts on Truth Social: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like!!! Open the Fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell — JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP."

Underneath, there's an ad for some whiskey. The ad says "Grab This 1776 Whiskey Keepsake." Included is an AI-generated image with spelling mistakes.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?...
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The Day Today - WAR!
YouTube video by Jmagunda
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
Strange how the psychological effect of a strongman distorts all sorts of things through sheer will/terror. In Stalinist Russia, inputs for targets were skewed, and purges executed with abandon. In 2026-era United States? Markets are skewed, and purges are executed with abandon.
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Truly grateful to every single person who has read or listened to Where it all went wrong: the case against John Howard - it has meant that even without a huge amount of institutional support, it has been a chart topper 💖 (To those who complained it's biased - guys, the title kinda gives it away 💋)
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Amazing how the War On Terror was against theocratic impulse and how War On Terror 2.0 is a turn toward theocratic impulse, blah blah blah blah blah.
nytimes.com
Hegseth Invokes Divine Purpose to Justify Military Might
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 10/03/2026
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Don’t do what Donnie Don’t does. (How I learned to stop worrying and buy a BYD)
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
О проведении специальной военной операции.
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
That old familiar feeling of diving into code, solving for it conclusively, and still coming away with a renewed sense of loneliness, ennui, and lethargy.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
For Australian Governments who have, are in the process of or are planning to take away healthcare options for trans kids, please dont ignore the very real evidence that their lives are on the line goodlawproject.org/new-data-sho...
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New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project
A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare
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Daniel Angus @antmandan.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Watching the footage emerging of the police brutality from Sydney last night is truly sickening. People have a right to peacefully protest. And shame on the media for framing this as 'protesters clashed with police' when from the footage it was clear that 'peaceful protesters were bashed by police'
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Clare Kelly @clarekelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Chatbots offer a magnificent bribe - a fast, frictionless route to information that bypasses the discomfort of learning. In this op-ed, we describe this as a Faustian bargain, in which we trade away what it means to be human & universities trade away their value www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
irishexaminer.com
Learning is complex, messy, emotional: AI can’t replicate that
ChatGPT and other AI tools may seem irresistible. But educators should beware, as they could end up trading away the thing that gives them value — the rich experience of slow learning
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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
“…that’s the huge contradiction at the heart of this – the state is maximising removals for political signalling to the base … while at the same time having to maximise legal admissions for economic stability that all the interior enforcement now threatens.” Liz Franzack on the ICE three card monty
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Special Report: Minneapolis | TrueAnon Podcast
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HasanTheHun (automated mirror) @hasanabirepeater.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
its looking like the local & state administrators might have folded and will let ice continue to operate in minneapolis WITH local law enforcement protection in exchange for some fake promises that there will be a real investigation into the two murders & a "scaleback
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"I am paying more for everyday goods than I used to, but I feel like I am getting less in return" Agree: 89% Disagree: 10% Echelon Insights / Jan 26, 2026
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