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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · Aug 9
so... why haven't you blocked these assholes?

what's stopping you from doing that?
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 8h
heh
Stilgherrian: Wait. I need to come back to this. What is the point of a "confidential manifesto"? [reply] Darkly, Glass Darkly: You're not cleared for that, citizen. Please report to the nearest recycling station. The computer thanks you for your cooperation [unrelated skeet] Stilgherrian: I'm going away now. 个
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 8h
You're not cleared for that, citizen. Please report to the nearest recycling station. The computer thanks you for your cooperation.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17h
Oh my GOD lmao
mechanism, cognitive dissonance. Drawing on newly unsealed archival material, this article demonstrates that the book's central claims are false, and that the authors knew they were false. The documents reveal that the group actively proselytized well before the prophecy failed and quickly abandoned their beliefs afterward. They also expose serious ethical violations by the researchers, including fabricated psychic messages, covert manipulation, and interference in a child welfare investigation. One coauthor, Henry Riecken, posed as a spiritual authority and later admitted he had "precipitated" the climactic events of the study.
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 8h
The press gallery won't ask a question like this because they are also still happy to drench their brains in the same Nazi sewage.
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ransomNews @ransomnews.online · 8h
🚨 Windows update bug forces BitLocker recovery

A critical update to #Windows10 (KB5058379) is triggering unexpected boot loops and locking devices into #BitLocker recovery mode on systems with Intel vPro/TXT enabled.

Emergency patch issued

#ransomNews #windowsUpdate #bitlockerlockout
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.bsky.social · 9h
Did I share this a few months ago when I first read it? I forget, and I still love it.

The whole thing is sparkly with righteous anger - and there are many WHAT THE FUCK moments throughout but I quite like this early one.
www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/18/h...
But Bregman’s bite has always stopped short of the bone. While he gained praise for allegedly challenging elites, he never seriously threatened their position. His criticisms—always strategic, never structural—served to elevate his brand, not to disrupt the systems he claimed to question. One of the more laughable moments in this spectacle came when actor Russell Crowe compared Bregman to Socrates. Rather than reject the absurdity, Bregman leaned into it. He even used it to market his work. But Socrates was executed for challenging the moral foundations of his society. Bregman has been embraced, groomed, and funded by those foundations. To liken a media-trained, TED-stage liberal to a historical threat to empire is not just exaggeration—it’s a distortion. Socrates was feared by power. Bregman is a safe investment.
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 9h
it's "no nuts november" so it's time to sharpen your harvest knives...
Opinel pruning knife
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 9h
ah, a second-hand postie bike.
darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social
Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 9h
as in "being able to afford staple food"?
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Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 12h
User guide cover art for the Matra Alice computer by Moebius, 1983

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matra_A...
book cover a young woman, long hair, holding an apple, making a small computer levitate with a gesture
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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 9h
#BREAKING 🚨 FOI documents show AI-tainted Deloitte report was 'much worse' than previously thought (by YOU?) or disclosed.

It appears DEWR Secretary Natalie James may have misled the Senate in relation to the conduct of her previous employer.

✍️ @paulkarp.bsky.social

www.afr.com/politics/ai-...
AI-tainted Deloitte report was worse than previously thought
Non-existent laws and a misnamed judge were among concerns raised with Deloitte about its artificial intelligence-tarnished report.
www.afr.com
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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 10h
Just attended the launch of Art For Takayna, and here we are standing in front of (ahem) my painting.

bobbrown.org.au/event/art-fo...
Group photo of a motley bunch of greenies.
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 11h
chmod 777 > Liber 777
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11h
Sydney Centre for Ear, Nose & Throat warns patients of potential email data breach www.cyberdaily.au/security/128...
Exclusive: Sydney Centre for Ear, Nose & Throat warns patients of potential email data breach
Aussie healthcare specialist SCENT says its reception email was used to send phishing emails, with patient data potentially compromised.
www.cyberdaily.au
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 11h
[intense bubbling sounds]

PHEV... jimny...

[cough]
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11h
Junk AI reports harming NDIS users: disability groups www.afr.com/politics/jun...
Junk AI reports harming NDIS users: disability groups
Disability organisations say the use of artificial intelligence is undermining the integrity of the NDIS process and people’s claims.
www.afr.com
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11h
International Day of People With Disability is coming up, and as a rural non-binary person with disability who works in disability support I would like to suggest your organisation please invite me to speak (or at least invite me to the brunch)
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 11h
i don't know what sort of truck that was, but it looks like it may have had 3 or even 4 axles. which would put the truck in the 28t range.

assuming the bridge is also a spherical 28t cow, some other fucker can do the math. my physics brain died years ago.

anmel.com.au/fleet/cherry...
40m Truck Mounted Cherry Picker - Anmel Cherrypicker Hire
Meet The Fleet Our Trucks 40m CELA TELJ -40 40 Metre Cherry Picker Perfect for use in construction and maintenance applications to efficiently and safety access infrastructure such as sports field lig...
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 11h
every fucking time i remember we're spending 400 billion smackaroos on bullshit subs we have no sane use for and will never see, i get mad all over again.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11h
Australia’s health records at risk: The myth of anonymous data independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
Australia’s health records at risk: The myth of anonymous data
As Oracle and Palantir weave their systems into Australia’s digital health network, the promise of “de-identified” data begins to look more like a dangerous illusion of privacy.
independentaustralia.net
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Darkly, Glass Darkly (Spooky Era) @darklyglassdarkly.bsky.social · 11h
fuckin amazing
australia.theguardian.com Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 12h
Illegal tobacco burns $3.3bn hole in Australia’s tax revenue, crime agency says
Illegal tobacco burns $3.3bn hole in Australia’s tax revenue, crime agency says
ACIC report says total impact of illicit trade on economy amounted to $4bn in a year amid debate over cigarette excise * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The illegal tobacco market has left a $3.3bn hole in the federal government’s finances, with Australia’s national criminal intelligence agency warning organised crime’s dominance of the market is continuing to grow. The Australian Taxation Office believes the illegal trade now accounts for one in five tobacco sales, which has led to reduced tax revenues despite the government’s excise on legal cigarettes reaching almost $30 for a pack of 20 sticks in September. The excise has increased almost eightfold since 2006, when it was $4.65. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 14h
Well, unbelievably, Tanya, we actually have ministers in the Albanese government who are arguing that giving police more powers to cause poverty will stop rape or murder or child abuse, that police should cause more poverty and trauma despite never reducing rape or murder or child abuse.
clip from this https://live.thepoint.com.au/category/the-point-live-sussan-ley-finishes-off-worst-week-as-leader-so-far/page/3/#b1ed3d53ac starting at “well, unbelievably, Laura…”
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 12h
police investigate about 15% of the minuscule proportion of sexual violence victims who report to police. Most people know not to boost police data while being ridiculed and disbelieved and traumatised by violent misogynists.

Tell us how police causing poverty stops rapists, Tanya. We are all ears.
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Jon Piccini @jonpiccini.bsky.social · 15h
Rock Chugg might be the hardest name ever.
overlandjournal.bsky.social Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 19h
We have put a lot of effort recently in making available the entire archive of OVERLAND’s 70+ year history.

In that spirit, on the penultimate day of Subscriberthon we bring you this previously unpublished interview with historian Humphrey McQueen on state violence and the arming of the police.
Back when they armed the police: an interview with Humphrey McQueen - Overland literary journal
In this interview with Rock Chugg, commissioned some twenty years by then-editor Nathan Hollier for a monographic issue that didn't eventuate, Australian historian Humphrey McQueen discusses the armin...
overland.org.au
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Bokbot @bokbot.bsky.social · 13h
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