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Kent Parkstreet, Laird of Doofus @kentparkskeet.bsky.social · 8h

Every king must have his court, paid for by his lords, who are paid for by their serfs.

#FeudalStatesOfAmerica

Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 6h

My late mother-in-law had a purple XU-1 in the early eighties. Neither of us drove so she used to drive the three of us between Leeton and Narrandera at about 150km/h.

Purple Holden XU-1 Torana coupe on a shiny grey showroom floor

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 7h

smell the productivity. Even authentically critical and empirical ai research and coverage thereof is already absorbed into the guns and butter economy.

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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Ian Graves @xskinn.bsky.social · 7h

music.youtube.com/watch?v=0oq8... 😎Ian

Love Is the Drug

YouTube video by Roxy Music - Topic

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 7h

David Pope in Canberra Times

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 18h

Remember when ISIS blew up religious cultural and religious historical sites in the Middle East and Afghanistan and everyone was horrified and apalled and thought it was a terrible crime?

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 10h

Turns out they moved the Overton Window.

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CosmicTeaCup @secularsadie.bsky.social · 17h

Greed and cowardice seem to be the only necessary attributes for many professions these days.

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 14h

Honestly, I'd be a little less concerned about the US freefall into fascism if the UK and Australian governments, supposedly of 'the left', were not as shit as they are

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 14h

Fixing our housing crisis?
Imagine if our super funds - $4trill, up by $4bill per week - had for last 30 years invested in Aust public & affordable housing.
Why have our politicians, ever since Keating, ignored any such policy?
Why haven’t our lemming-like economists been advocating this?

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 14h

Imagine if dental checks were funded by Medicare in Australia, and peridontal disease was picked and treated early, lessening the chance of cardiovascular disease and stroke (and thus saving public health dollars)

#TuckFrump @realtuckfrumper.bsky.social · 22h

Researchers link gum disease to increased risk of stroke, brain damage

www.upi.com

Researchers link gum disease to increased risk of stroke, brain damage - UPI.com

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wil @wilful.bsky.social · 13h

Anybody who thinks that the USA can or should 'just go back to the good old days' profoundly misunderstands the problem.

There's no way back, only forwards.

David Atkins @davidoatkins.bsky.social · 15h

The choice cannot be between "win every election from here until forever" or maga fascism.

Liberalism will need to fight for structural permanence just as aggressively as fascism does.

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Mike @bikeymikey70.bsky.social · 12h

Well they blew the horns
And the walls came down
They'd all been warned
But the walls came down
I don't think there are any Russians
And there ain't no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
Playin' with tanks

#WhiteHouse #EastWing

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The Call - The Walls Came Down

YouTube video by dodgybizkit

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max 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 2d

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Agnes Mack @agnessmack.bsky.social · 1d

David Pope in Canberra Times

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Melinda Standish @bytherivulet.bsky.social · 1d

Deadly good read

David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 1d

Here's me. '“People aren’t buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen'

“People aren't buying their shit anymore”: They think they can make you forget what you’ve seen - The Shot

Like colours, neurodivergence and political ideology, being a dickhead operates on a spectrum. From narcissistic middle managers, to people that...

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

As you can guess, this article doesn't mention why the records are being broken, but the sidebar nicely explains it

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

Hot weather records broken across parts of Sydney and NSW, with damaging winds forecast

By Isabella Ross

By Charles Rushforth

Topic:Weather Warnings

6h ago
6 hours ago
Mother and son sit at bench
Maximum October temperature records have been broken in parts of Sydney and wider NSW. (ABC News: Abbey Haberecht)

In short:
Maximum October temperature records have been broken in western parts of Sydney.

Wednesday's conditions mean out-of-control bushfires are possible in NSW, with wild winds, dry lightning and high temperatures forecast for the afternoon.

Total fire bans have been declared across several regions in NSW.

climate trigger formally ruled out of environment laws

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Twinks and Tote Bags @twinkocalypse.bsky.social · 2d

What a fuckwit. #auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

“You didn’t vote for it, you weren’t even asked, but it was decided three years ago – mostly by those the Reserve Bank – that Australia needed an extra 150,000 or so people to be unemployed.”

My column on unemployment hitting 4.5%

www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Australia’s surprise unemployment spike suggests an economy not overheating but in need of stimulus | Greg Jericho

Last week’s announcement that unemployment reached 4.5% in September came as a shock to the RBA, who must have been either embarrassed – or ecstatic

www.theguardian.com

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 1d

Well that Russo person's income doesn't just grow on trees you know.

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Sandra M Aus @igfbss.bsky.social · 1d

Businesses say Government needs to keep out of the way & remove regulations. Also say we are having a problem so the government must step up & fix, subsidise, legislate.

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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

As the Northern Territory prison population continues to reach all-time highs, data reveals a majority of the NT's rehab program are being cancelled more often than they are being delivered.

NT prisons so crammed 'girls are sleeping at reception', ex-prisoner says

As the Northern Territory prison population continues to reach all-time highs, data reveals a majority of the NT's rehab program are being cancelled more often than they are being delivered.

www.abc.net.au

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Lucien Rees 💬🚴🏻‍♂️☕🥑🐾 @aushounddog.bsky.social · 1d

You can hide behind your phone? Must remember to try.

stepmit.bsky.social @stepmit.bsky.social · 1d

Yes. But we wouldn’t have had this nifty icons to explain how to hide.

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Jamie Baker Roskie @whenisayj.bsky.social · 1d

It is as if the writers of MAD magazine wrote their bios and did their headshots.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens.

Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies.

This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.

Jonathan Green @greenj.bsky.social · 2d

I’m getting weary of this. This government is representative of what the people of this place want. The argument is with all of us. Turning it into a constant personalised political snipe belittles the nature of the problem.

Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to Murray and his ALP pals, weather reports like this will become increasingly scary and weird

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