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Jules 🍉💔🖤🤍💚🇮🇪 @katsikajules.bsky.social · 8h

Israel dropped around 200,000 tons of explosives on Gaza since Oct 7th, equivalent to nearly 13 Hiroshima bombs.

Evil.

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Dr Linda McIver @lindamciver.adsei.org · 3h

gosh, who could possibly have foreseen this?? 🙄

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 3h

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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Fiona Wallace @fiionawallace.bsky.social · 13h

BREAKING

Prime Minister of South Africa:

“If international law means anything, Netanyahu must be arrested. Otherwise, the ICC is a Western puppet.”

#ICC #Netanyahu #NetanyahuWarCriminal #Justice

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 6h

I want to go back in time and box the ears of the GP who told my friend she was making up 'chronic fatigue syndrome' and just wanted attention. I wanted to do it then, too. I'll still want to do it in 10 years time.

Billy Hanlon @bhanlon15.bsky.social · 23h

Female First: 'Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome'

'The test..showed 92% sensitivity and 98% specificity. The team examined 47 patients with severe ME/CFS and compared results to 61 healthy individuals.'

www.femalefirst.co.uk/lifestyle/sc...

Scientists create first accurate blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome

Scientists say they have developed the worlds first accurate blood test to diagnose myalgic encephalomyelitis, also known as chronic fatigue syndrome MECFS.

www.femalefirst.co.uk

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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 4h

"Turning the clock back 25 years."

Typically not how you build a strong economy.

Tony Dutzik @frontiertony.bsky.social · 4h

All the lip gloss being put on the AI boom as somehow good for climate or the energy transition is masking that, at the present moment, it's a disaster.

Not only more gas generation, but the worst, dirtiest, least efficient kind. Turning the clock back 25 years.
heatmap.news/energy/natur...

Data Centers Have Solved Their Speed-to-Power Problem — With Natural Gas

“Old economy” companies like Caterpillar and Williams are cashing in by selling smaller, less-efficient turbines to impatient developers.

heatmap.news

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 4h

One Australian woman is currently showing more backbone and morals than the entire Australian federal govt.
What a shameful state of affairs.
I was not this angry about Malcolm Fraser.

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Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5h

The Aust Parliament Sports Club (the one that ditched David Pocock) is now formally registered as a lobby group👇🏽

Anthony Albanese is the President of the Aust Parliament Sports Club.

That means the Prime Minister of Australia is currently the president of a lobby group.

Just utterly unbelievable.

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Kerrie B @wheels002.bsky.social · 4h

Why would a parliamentary sports club need sponsors when it’s in a government owned and taxpayer funded building and MP’s are all very well paid? I mean even their rugby matches are played in the parliamentary precinct. This BS needs to stop.

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 11h

Follow our shop 👇🏼

vintagehabibi.bsky.social @vintagehabibi.bsky.social · 1d

Follow us. We got hamsters.
vintagehabibi.etsy.com/listing/4383...

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 11h

Thank you. They don't give people like me big budgets...gotta work with what you got...because if the few of us don't hang on...all your stories will be told by the same kind of cis white zionist guys who wreak havoc on the world...

Rita Wild @ritawild.bsky.social · 15h

I loved this, it's smart and funny and incredibly well made on what looks like a tiny budget. So much good stuff packed in. And I learned a great new insult...Darth Karen!
It's sooo refreshing and delicious to have a film that's not the usual expensive but bland diet we get fed. Highly recommended.

الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 1d

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second.

We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 15h

I have no future - but I’ve known that for nearly 50 years already

Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 15h

JFC I can see our elected morons are slavering to get this going.
RICH PEOPLE ARE NOT SMART THEY ARE GREEDY.
GREEDY PEOPLE CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH.
Why are emotionally 12 year old white men attracted to politics

blair @blairaf.com · 23h

Looks like Canada's approach to "sovereign AI" will involve creating structural dependencies on large US tech companies

Excerpt from an article that reads: Lehane met with AI Minister Evan Solomon on Monday. Solomon told The Logic in June that his mission is to “create sovereign AI.” But “sovereignty is not solitude,” Solomon said, noting that Canada still needs technology and capital from other countries.

OpenAI is participating in similar initiatives in other advanced economies. In May, the firm launched OpenAI for Countries, a new program that localizes ChatGPT and its underlying models for a nation’s particular customs and the requirements of its public sector. It is also offering to build data centres for countries that help pay for the infrastructure.

Countries are turning to OpenAI because of its “cutting-edge technology,” which can be used to build homegrown tools and applications, and because the firm can help stimulate their domestic AI ecosystems by building or buying compute capacity, Lehane said.

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Revolutions Per Movie @revpermovie.bsky.social · 17h

So much goodness forthcoming from @revolutionspermovie including episodes on Lou Reed & John Cale’s ‘Songs For Drella’ , The Gun Club doc, The Forbidden Zone, The Dicks doc, Half-Cocked, Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains, Rolling Stones:Cocksucker Blues & more shows.acast.com/revolutionsp...

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Dave Graney @davegraney.bsky.social · 16h

Dave Graney and the Coral Snakes 30th Anniversary Soft n Sexy Sound Tour is at Corner Hotel in Melbourne tonight. Doors at 8:30pm and we play the album i the frist set at 9:15pm. No opening act. We play a second set of rockers after that. tickets.cornerhotel.com/outlet/event...

Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes (Soft & Sexy Sounds 2025)

PLAYING TIMES: DAVE GRANEY & THE CORAL SNAKES 9.15PM 'TIL 10.15PM + 10.45PM 'TIL 11.45PM Gather up folks for one of the best tours coming your way this year. Dave Graney ‘n’ The Coral Snakes are hitt...

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David Simon @audacityofdespair.bsky.social · 16h

Unless the presiding judge in the Comey case is as corrupt as Bondi or as sentient as an artichoke, this is evidence enough to collapse the indictment and dismiss the case.

Fucking hell. This is astonishing. There are no moral, ethical or legal boundaries for these shitheels.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 23h

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

New WSJ reporting reveals Trump accidentally posted what he thought was a private message to AG Pam Bondi, urging her to prosecute James Comey and other perceived enemies. @chrislhayes.bsky.social reports.

New reporting CONFIRMS Trump accidentally posted DM to Bondi ordering prosecutions

YouTube video by MSNBC

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17h

The New York Post has been honest brokered.

The IPCC is lucky to have @frediotto.bsky.social as a coordinating lead author.

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h

So late to this, but this @bloomberg.com piece on the impact of sudden surges in power demand from new data centres on local electricity prices is really, really good - lots of original analysis.

So many still shrug this off as a non-issue. Tell it to these ppl

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

a chart shwoing price impacts near data centres

a photograph of a man sitting on some stairs o nthe street

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 18h

Like this fellow talking is only one of the rambling lunatics in this administration- who then is driving the bus?
And why has the bus just picked up a cohort of fossil fuel execs?

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 19h

"Somebody showed me a TikTok video of a pregnant woman eight months pregnant—she is an associate professor at the Columbia Medical School—and she is saying 'eff Trump' and gobbling Tylenol with her baby in her placenta."

gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-compl...

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The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Kristi Noem praised for ‘staring down’ Antifa. It was a dozen reporters and a guy in a chicken suit

Kristi Noem ‘stares down’ Antifa. It was reporters and a guy in a chicken costume

www.independent.co.uk

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18h

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles
One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators.
Stephen Prager
Oct 08, 2025

A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects.

The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 19h

This is the problem with this game’s automated wordchecker, and also with the right in general.

A digital scrabble board displays an error message after an attempted play of E-M-P-I-F-I. The message reads “INVALID WORD.
Empirical is not in our dictionary”
I have then taken a very long bow and tried to draw it into a joke.

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Anthony Morgan @admorgan.bsky.social · 19h

Turned off replies man? Not SO interested in the truth then, weird for a “journalist”

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404 Media @404media.co · 23h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 21h

If you live in Ireland or the UK, Absolute Dominion is available today on Google or Apple TV
www.rte.ie/video/id/28161

Absolute Dominion, the new film from Palestinian-American Oscar®-nominated director Lexi Alexander

This superb martial arts battle for humanity begins on October 9.

www.rte.ie

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