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William

@lwwithpride.bsky.social

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He/him. PhD. Progressive politics (centrism has failed), literacy expert, reader, hiker, nature lover, Lord of the Rings, queer fiction, atheist. 🏳️‍🌈 🌈 On Turrbal/Jugerra land - sovereignty was never ceded. Photos: Madrid & Yosemite 💚. Some adult content.

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William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · Dec 1

Growing up in a heteronormative, homophobic time, it took me a long time to realise who I am, even longer to eventually come out. Feeling isolated and different shapes what you believe, your music and reading preferences…and I could go on. That’s why I’m a progressive and feel passionately…1/2

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 4m

Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger is one of the best analyses I’ve read of the current political division. Really complex and nuanced.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h

Going to permanently home-school my kids so I can teach them crazy stuff like science, critical thinking, reading and research while the entire world's education system collapses into tech facist AI slop

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 1d

Thiel's ongoing war on education:
Palantir thinks college might be a waste. So it tried hiring 22 high-school grads for a fellowship. www.wsj.com/business/pal...

Palantir Thinks College Might Be a Waste. So It’s Hiring High-School Grads.

Tech company offers 22 teens a chance to skip college for its fellowship, which includes a four-week seminar on Western civilization

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 1d

More about controlling your employees and what they think, I suspect. None of that critical thinking that you might pick up in college.

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 1d

Horrifying. This stuff needs to be shut down.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

Racist Influencers Using OpenAI's Sora to Make it Look Like Poor People Are Selling Food Stamps for Cash

Folks looking for evidence of SNAP recipients as welfare queens have no shortage of AI generated schlock to use as justification.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder who will buy stuff when no one has a job? Seems a great, long-term business plan.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 2d

Nationals vote to make themselves irrelevant.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 2d

Another right-wing illiterate - if he actually knew what Gatsby was about, he’d be banning the novel.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 2d

And he’ll get a state funeral from or supported by the Democrats - in the name of harmony.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 2d

There are many bad things about this post but one of the worst is the realisation that when another president gets into the WH they’re going to need to renovate the bathroom again. Trump’s taste is just appalling - that bin looks like the sort of ‘gold’ bin you’d get from IKEA.

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DNA @dnamagazine.com · 3d

He’s 38, he just beat the far-right, and he’s poised to be the Netherlands' first openly gay PM. Meet Rob Jetten. (link in comments) 👇

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Sonny Vukic (he/him) @svukic.bsky.social · 4d

Yes!

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Susan DuBose @houseofbast777.bsky.social · 4d

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy - they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
#Booksky

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Sean Murray @seanwmurray.bsky.social · 4d

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 4d

No media about this?

NSW Police investigated 14 incidents of alleged antisemitic attacks and found NO evidence of Iran or any other foreign agent acting in relation to the 14 alleged antisemitic incidences

The Minns and Albanese govts both exploited this falsehood to further their own agendas

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4585 - Police and Counter-terrorism - INCIDENTS INVESTIGATED UNDER STRIKE FORCE PEARL

Latham, Mark to the Minister for Agriculture, Minister for Regional New South Wales, and Minister for Western New South Wales representing the Minister for Police and Counter-terrorism, and Minister for the Hunter
(1) I refer you to the answer provided to the recent Budget Estimates, on notice, by the acting Police Commissioner Peter Thurtell regarding serious attacks on people and property motivated by antisemitic ideology, such that, "Fourteen incidents were investigated under Strike Force Pearl which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffitti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses", and ask:
(a)
(b)
of these 14, how many were investigations of incidents that did not lead to any charges being laid? of the remaining (where charges were laid), how many were perpetrated by:

Iran or agents of the Iranian regime? other foreign agents?
people associated with and paid by organised crime figures?
(c)
Of those not covered by (a) and (b) (that is, were a product of genuine homegrown anti-semitic ideology), what was the nature of the incident and what criminal proceedings have been pursued by the NSW Police Force?
Answer -
I am advised that:
(1)
(a) All 14 incidents have resulted in charges being laid.
(b)
(i)
(ii)
Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to Iran or agents of the Iranian regime perpetrating these incidents.
Strike Force Pearl investigated 14 incidents which were at the higher end of offending, being attacks on synagogues, graffiti, firebombings, attacks on cars and attacks on houses. The NSW Police Force has nil holdings in relation to foreign agents perpetrating these incidents.

Answer received on 23 October 2025

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

Take out the data centre, and use the electricity to heat three hospitals instead

Greedy industries offer scraps of their own waste to underfunded and undervalued public services all the time, as a way of greenwashing their public image. You don't have to accept it.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hospital gets low-carbon heating from data centres
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William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 5d

And he’s not the only billionaire to miss the point of Lord of the Rings…they may have the smarts and lack of morals to make lots of money, but they lack so many positive traits.

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Elliot @1t2ls.bsky.social · 5d

This is why I couldn’t live with copilot. It sucks, it’s invasive, and it’s distracting.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

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Nick Brumfield @nickjbrumfield.bsky.social · 5d

Well, we barely tried guys but I guess we gave it the college best time to throw in the towel

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 5d

Our elites are omnicidal.

www.nbcnews.com/science/clim...

Bill Gates calls for 'strategic pivot' in climate change fight away from curbing emissions

In a memo released Tuesday, Gates said the world's primary goal should instead be to prevent suffering, particularly for those in the toughest conditions in the world's poorest countries.

www.nbcnews.com

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Annoyed O’Brien @annoyedobrien.bsky.social · Sep 5

FUCK ICE

Indiana Jones, taking a short break from stealing Indigenous peoples’ artifacts, is punching nazis in the face, as he should.

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Jane Rosenzweig @janerosenzweig.bsky.social · 7d

From new Wired article about Alpha Schools: www.wired.com/story/ai-tea...

While parents are asked to consent to these surveillance programs, the school’s handbook says that there is “no expectation of privacy” on campus. If parents want to restrict recordings of their children outside of the school, they have to manually opt out of the “anywhere” option—as Jessica Lopez learned midway through her older daughter’s second year at Alpha. The girl says she remembers sitting on her bed one night working on schoolwork when she received a notification that she’d been flagged for an anti-pattern. She says Alpha’s system sent a video of her in her pajamas, taken from the computer’s webcam, that showed her talking to her younger sister.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 6d

At least they’re carrying on a long Queensland LNP tradition.

William @lwwithpride.bsky.social · 6d

Isn’t everything split along party lines in the US these days?

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Agnieszka @agniesz.bsky.social · 7d

My birthday began with the water-
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name
Above the farms and the white horses
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

-Dylan Thomas, Poem in October
born on this day, 1914

#BookSky
#DylanThomas

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Starfish Who Can’t Think Something Witty @irhottakes.bsky.social · 7d

TOLKIEN: So then Turin, upon realizing he fucked his sister, killed himself. His father, broken by the tortures of Satan and mad with grief… Stop sobbing, boy.

CHRISTOPHER: Daddy, I’m six.

TOLKIEN: Oh fine, you little shit. Once upon a time there was a hairy little midget that lived in a hole...