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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Begging to be the cover art for another re-release of “The Last Tempation of Christ”

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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]

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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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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

…now I think about it, Doherty’s in Brunswick has been doing this exact thing for such a long time. Even fully sikk bros like a flat white.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

So it’s more than just that-gym-on-High-St-Thornbury then?

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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 · 16/06/2026

No, but to the fair, few managers do.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Well, that manager? He _gawne_. I have a habit of outliving my managers 😇

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A manager told me once “Hey, with AI you can write ten _times_ the code you write now!” I just thought to myself “Why write ten times the code when I can just write the right code once?”

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

This is as much advice for myself as it is anyone else.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

What to do? At this point, in my opinion? Stop scrolling, Support or join @vicsocialists.bsky.social.

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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...

redbridgeintel.substack.com

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 · 11/06/2026

…that would _hammer_ the CPU, no? Unless they’re using the GPU to do all the heavy lifting? Damn clever, though.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

So we pay for the privilege of being keylogged. Great. Thanks Sam Altman.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Since 2022, it’s always been Soy Albo.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

“Brazil” intersecting “Brave New World” and “Handmaid’s Tale” is an odd choice. It always felt like Thatcher on Modafinil/Peyote to me.

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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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SallyRCbra @srpassesiton.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Those living with cancer may recognise these words

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

So damn annoying - fuckstick’s said the same idiotic shit for thirty years. I’d venture the reason that she’s got this gust of renaissance, now, is that while she’s the same broken that she always was, _everything else_ in the western world’s has just collapsed.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

“I tell everyone who will listen how much of a slut I am for miracles” is a line that just breaks me, Omar. Wonderful poem, thank you.

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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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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I’m just imagining The Portsmouth Sinfonia, but with kazoos. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portsmo...

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Portsmouth Sinfonia - Wikipedia

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Or I’m just inventing the kazoo being in the song, like you.

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George M @zooruler.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

…I think it does??? It’s in place of the whistle in between the “I like” and the “birds” in some sections.

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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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