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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 10h

🧵 If this peace deal is successful, we'll be back at the perpetual statemate that characterised the status quo ante. Israel will continue to expand illegal settlements in the West Bank, it will continue to control Gaza's borders and we will be no closer to Palestinian statehood.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 2d

The cruelty is the point.

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 2d

"If they don't deliver, they don't get paid,"

The first flagrant lie from the employment department in today's senate estimates hearing about the welfare cops who profit from poverty. No doubt there will be much more bullshit to come!

Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 2d

If you want to watch the employment department defend their unlawful operation of compulsory activities (so-called mutual obligations), you can tune in to the senate estimates hearing here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WId...

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 3d

I really should post more funny shit here rather than my depressing shit.

Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 3d

We're all guilty of this, me more than most people. I just went on a month of listening to 90s grunge, reading 80s cyberpunk whilst playing early 2000s Halo. Nostalgia is inescapable because it just is our culture now. A permanent escapism from the forever present / always dying neoliberal society.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 3d

I think you can pin it down to multiple moments in recent history: 9/11, the GFC, the failure of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, the 2016 election, COVID. I personally think its all of the above compounded. Trauma response society.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 3d

My favorite cafe plays jazz versions of pop songs from the 80s-late 2000s instead of just putting on a jazz radio station. I think the majority of people have been forced into this nostalgia hyper-reality because they can't cope with the world we're living in.

Maia @maiamindel.bsky.social · 3d

Using AI to keep watching videos of a dead person is frankly sinister. Just reveals a culture obsessed iwth never moving forward or looking ahead, just wallowing in increasingly degraded and unnatural rehashes of its own memories

Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 3d

Zelda Williams urges fans to stop sending AI videos of her father, Robin Williams:

“Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I’ll understand, I don’t and I won’t. If you’re just trying to troll me, I’ve seen way worse, I’ll restrict and move on.”

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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 3d

Scoop: OpenAI has signed its first ever Australia government contract, quietly inking a deal with Treasury amid the ChatGPT-maker's charm offensive on policymakers.

This modest contract is an ideal foothold into future, more lucrative deals, according to one firm's analysis.
www.crikey.com.au/20...

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 4d

HAUSUUUUUUUUU! Been waiting for this one!

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 4d

Just watched! Ive seen this before and well... yeah obviously it hasn't aged entirely well. Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster both batted it out of the park though.

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6 News Australia @6newsau.bsky.social · 4d

🚨 NEW: 58% of Australians agree that a genocide is happening in Gaza, according to a YouGov poll commissioned by the Australia Palestine Advocacy Network

88% of Greens voters and 72% of Labor voters were among those who agreed with the UN report on Gaza

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 5d

I mean, it's a miracle that media and government are treating this a scandal rather than an example of an organisation being Forward Thinking and Getting Ahead of the Pack and Innovating etc etc

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT

The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

www.abc.net.au

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 6d

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 6d

Also my partner, @seeyouspaceoomfie.bsky.social stole my previous user name (luv u babe).

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 6d

Explain your user name

I made my original username when I was in my lol random phase of my teens, Sadistic Sausage. That became SadisticSam and then I shortened it to SadSam. Then add on 0451, the Looking Glass door code.

Mentally Grill, because I'm depressed and like to grill.

moby spookgirl 🎃🏳️‍⚧️ @eigenvectrix.myatproto.social · 6d

Explain your user name

I picked epistemophagy because I wanted a thematically consistent name for my alt, and my main at the time was eigenvectrix, which is also a made-up pseudo-Latinate compound word. I ended up sticking with epistemophagy out of inertia. Still prefer eigenvectrix.

🎃 Spooky Scary Jam (they/them) 🎃 @jaimekay.bsky.social · 6d

Explain your user name

My first name is Jaime and my middle initial starts with K. Pretty boring!

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 7d

*cinematography, idk what im fucken on bro

Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 7d

"Thats a lot more of a digestible film" - @seeyouspaceoomfie.bsky.social

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 7d

Wow. In a couple of words: Delirious and claustrophobic. Im surprised by how much I enjoyed it despite how offputting the subject matter and the filmography is.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 7d

Alriiiiiiiiiiight, Tetsuo time.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 7d

Soon you can have your sushi delivered by the same drones that shot toddlers in the head while they were scraping spilled flour off the ground

PARTNERS WITH FLYTREX, AN ISRAELI DRONE COPMANY, ALL WHILE ISRAEL USES DRONES TO KILL CHILDREN

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 7d

The Australian Government has told us that ID will never be the only option for verifying your age, but the fact that its even an option is dangerous enough.

The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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The Verge @theverge.com · 7d

Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs

An “unauthorized party” may have accessed the names of users, the last four digits of credit card numbers, and more.

buff.ly

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 8d

Ive already spun the wheel for tomorrow nights movie and well... i was hoping for a little more of a warm up before this one...

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 8d

The Evil Dead was such a great movie to start this spooky month off with. A really simple premise with extremely effective followthru and some beautiful (and some gross) shots. I really enjoyed it.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 8d

I saw the 2013 reboot of evil dead and army of darkness like a decade ago in highschool (i missed 90% of the remake because me and my bestie went out to get maccas and got high on the way, got back and all the food was cold and everyone was pissed). Never seen the original films.

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Mentally Grill @sadsam0451.bsky.social · 8d

I have 19 spooky movies i wanna watch this spooky season and i just crossed one off!

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