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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 3h

Senator David Pocock has been turfed out of the Australian Parliament Sports Club! What?! | First Dog on the Moon

Was it for unsportspersonlike conduct? No it is much funnier than that * Sign up here to get an email whenever First Dog cartoons are published * Get all your needs met at the First Dog shop if what you need is First Dog merchandise and prints Continue reading...

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Purplepingers ☭ @purplepingers.bsky.social · 4h

$700 a week for a room in a rooming house in Upper Mount Gravatt is where we’re at I guess

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 1h

Senator's 'cheapest form' of energy claim misleads

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Senator's 'cheapest form of electricity' claim misleads

Nationals senator Matt Canavan's claim that the CSIRO has admitted that coal is the cheapest form of electricity is misleading.

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Michael Mazengarb @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social · 3h

"The so-called 'independent research' gives vested interests a veil of credibility, which they exploit to lobby parliamentarians and the broader public, distorting the framing of policy debates"
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ACCC urged to probe 'distorted research' behind government gas policy

Advocacy group Climate Integrity has accused the gas industry of using "distorted research", produced by the accounting firm EY, to influence the Australian government's Future Gas Strategy.

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 6h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 12h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 3h

Trump might have pulled the pin on US climate action but the world might move on without him.

Why Trump is not a death knell for global climate action

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 3h

If any child in your life has an IEP or 504 plan:

Trump fired (we think) all of the employees in the office at the US Department of Education that disburses special education funds from the federal government that school districts use to pay for those plans.

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 2h

Trump tragedy: US as autocracy and dictatorship

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Trump’s tragedy: US an autocracy, the presidency, a dictatorship

The President of the US has decided the US military should include American cities and the people who live in them in its operational plans.

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Andrew Orton @andreworton.bsky.social · 14h

The death of multi-camera TV: a thread. I know most of you will know the technical parts of this (and may have read it in the other place) but bear with me. 1/ 🧵

A shot from the studio rehearsal of Doctor Who: The Daleks' Master Plan episode 'Volcano', showing several actors ont he TARDIS set, with various video cameras around the scene.

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 4h

I haven't read it, but I remember being amused by the title of the sequel: THE CELERY STALKS AT MIDNIGHT.

The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 4h

The original is worth seeing: I re-watched it last month. I haven't watched the more recent TV versions, but the cast lists are impressive.

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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 19h

Immigrant advocates have been thrown to the ground, pepper-sprayed, and tailed in their cars by officers in an apparent attempt to intimidate them, @caitlindickerson.bsky.social reports. One tells her: “It's never been this bad.”

‘It’s Never Been This Bad’

Immigrant advocates face escalating consequences and threats from the president.

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Classic SF with Andy Johnson @andyjohnson.xyz · 2d

Written by "Murray Constantine" (Katharine Burdekin) and published in 1937, Swastika Night is a terrifying vision of a far-future fascist dystopia, and a novel which is troublingly relevant today. This week's article is here.

Reign of evil: Swastika Night (1937) by Murray Constantine

An extraordinary and “exceptionally nightmarish” dystopian vision

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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 21h

That’s a nice trick, since Biden wasn’t the president on Jan 6.

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Crikey @crikey.com.au · 19h

"I think social media needs to be safer... but pretty much everyone agrees that it shouldn’t be banned," says one 14-year-old.

How Australian teens are already planning to dodge the social media ban

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

BREAM: Open enrollments starts in November. People are already getting notices about what they may pay. I mean, that's gotta be resolved.

MIKE JOHNSON: Yes, and they're eating up the clock in the month of October

(Johnson canceled the House in August to avoid taking votes on Epstein)

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 19h

alan moore hated people like thiel misinterpreting his work so profoundly that he dropped out of public life to become a shaman and worship a snake deity

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 21h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 20h

Maybe there's something in this Nigel Farage and Nathan Gill Russian bribes story....

Lots of stories about Nathan Gill and Russian bribes.

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

Portland's famous Unipiper was spotted at the Portland ICE protest where he played his bagpipes in front of Santa, Mr. Potato Head, Garfield and more -- all while surrounded by bubbles.

More on how the tone of Portland's protests has shifted: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...

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Lawrence Schimel @lawrenceschimel.bsky.social · 19h

#booksky

An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · 28d

"The Ones Who Walk Away From Hogwarts"

New blog post: hugoclub.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 17h

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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 19h

"If there’s a bathroom code, you’d better have it. Otherwise, everyone in the store gets arrested and deported. It doesn’t matter where you are from. As far as the US government is concerned, you are antifa."

Please Let Our Warfighters Use Your Restroom

By now, you’ve noticed our brave patriots—ICE, the National Guard, police officers, select local mall cops, rando bodyguards, weird little incels, ...

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The Facts in the Case of Dr Dedman @stephendedman.bsky.social · 17h

If it's anything like the GOP's usual healthcare policies, I presume that's "fixing" in the same way pets are sent to the vet to be "fixed".

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 19h

I wonder if this was another DM that Trump accidentally sent out to the world. Perhaps he meant to be passing on a directive to Bondi.

Just imagine the rotting word salad he vomits daily into the DMs of his minions. It'd be a full time job just to work out what the hell he means.

Fred Guttenberg @fredguttenberg.bsky.social · 21h

This senile liar who currently occupies the White House does not remember that he was President on January 6th.

If you voted for this senile liar, and if you enable him today, you clearly are ok with breaking America. The ruins of our once great nation are because of you.

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Greg Jenner @gregjenner.bsky.social · 19h

I completely missed this story, so sharing it in case you missed it too
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What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?

Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned

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