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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 6h

This morning there is one Nobel Peace Prize winner, 8.1 billion or so people who did not win the Nobel Peace Prize, and one Nobel Peace Prize loser.

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 5h

Frogs! Huh!
What are they good for?
Outmaneuv'rin Nazis
Say it again!

M. Jack O'Lantern @caspia.rocks · 7h

🎼 Jeremiah was a bullfrog
Beyond that I decline to reply
I'm gonna use the Fifth and shut my mouth
Were we friends? Well no comment, guy 🎶

Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 10h

There’s something happening here
What it is ain’t exactly clear
There’s a frog with a cape over there
Tellin me, I got to beware

You better stop, children
What’s that sound?
Everybody look, they’re croaking now

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 12h

Which will be the first Australian football code to play a Saudi Round, AFL or NRL?

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17h

Inspector General of ADF James Gaynor says NACC Commissioner Paul Brereton who still works for him, on the side, had his compulsory retirement age extended twice so he can maintain access to sensitive material from Defence systems & that his work is fed to govt ministers.
🚩🚩🚩 #Estimates

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 13h

After reading the primer, am I primed? Hopefully. Am I primmed? Hope not

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 16h

Make sure you leave the hose running

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 17h

I went for a ride out to Parramatta this morning (about 2.5hrs in total) and it really struck me how many drivers are willing to use their vehicles to intimidate cyclists. Driving close; cutting into the bike lane on corners; revving aggressively right behind you...

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah nah

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 20h

Here’s a primer on ‘primer.’

It’s pronounced ‘PRIMM-er’ if you mean “a small book” or “a short informative piece of writing.”

It’s pronounced ‘PRY-mer’ if you mean “an initial coat of paint.”

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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 23h

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

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Lawprofblawg @lawprofblawg.bsky.social · 22h

Academic Freedom means not getting death threats for a book you wrote or having people trying to fire you.

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Conservative students want Rutgers professor fired for 2017 book about antifa

Mark Bray plans to flee for Europe after he said he received death threats. A former head of Turning Point USA Rutgers says he calls for violence against conservatives.

whyy.org

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Joshua Benton @joshuabenton.com · 1d

June 11: GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn introduces a bill to defund NPR and PBS because of their "left-wing propaganda" and "radical leftist gender ideology."

October 7: The news industry's main trade group gives Blackburn its "Support Journalism Champion Award."

Just shameless.

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Seth Rosenthal @sethrosenthal.bsky.social · 1d

Clifford Simak absolutely fuckin rips

Book excerpt, slightly cut off by the curvature of the page:

river in the morning.
Riley said: "If we get a good run tonight, we'll reach
"The Missouri?"
Riley nodded. "If we don't break down again. If we … good time.
But that night they met the witches.

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rava @rava.bsky.social · 1d

I wish journalistic standards were real

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reb of Melbourne @guttertwits.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone else noticed that selfie sticks are no longer a thing?

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 1d

Know that one of your students who can cut through AI slop will one day beat a lawyer educated elsewhere who couldn't be bothered (or just couldn't)

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 1d

Debord be damned, this lot are emulating Jacob Rees-Mogg, who in turn was a character cut from Evelyn Waugh

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Zach Halper @zanath.bsky.social · 1d

"We took freedom of speech away" should be in every campaign ad moving forward.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We took the freedom of speech away because that's been through the courts and the courts said you have freedom of speech, but what has happened is when they burn a flag it agitates and irritates crowds."

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3d

I begged @spiegel.de to translate Jörg Schindler's excellent reporting on America's fall into theocracy and they did. As I keep saying, German journalists are doing a better job covering America's fall than American journalists. 1/
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Trump's Crusaders: Christian Nationalists Are Gaining a Solid Foothold in Washington

U.S. President Donald Trump has opened the doors of power to far-right Christian nationalists. Their goal: an American theocracy. The separation of church and state in America is at risk.

www.spiegel.de

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

No clearer indication of the right’s moral rot than the swift evolution from angrily denying any association with buffoonish bigots like like Posobiec and Fuentes, to “there’s no harm in having a conversation,” to openly praising and promoting them.

Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 1d

Not the least surprised by this. I’d hope it might finally wake up some mainstream libertarians to what Smith is really about. But it probably won’t.

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Sham Jaff @shamjaff.bsky.social · 2d

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

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Most Podernist Meo Narxist @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the thing, most serial killers are boring cunts. Fred and Rose West, who I have spent a lot of the past month looking up visual reference of, were boring cunts. Being fascinated by serial killers is being a boring cunt on a meta level.

Most Podernist Meo Narxist @robertgalbraith.bsky.social · 2d

I don't give a fuck about Ed Gein. He's boring and so is the American Horror Story guy. Sorry if your Netflix subscription fooled you into thinking this might be a conversation starter.

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 2d

All these headlines saying “Bondi Goes on the Attack.” Really? She wasn’t in the octagon, she’s a public servant who was at an oversight hearing. Her job was to answer questions. She refused to do her job. Stop glamorizing and whitewashing this moronic, performative bullshit.

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LillianDCA @lillianorlando.bsky.social · 1d

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 2d

I love how Mike Johnson, the Speaker of the House and #2 in line for the presidency, is always like, “What? News?! I never read or hear anything that happens in the world, anywhere. I’m totally offline. What even is ‘social media’? They play news all day on TV!? Wow! That’s a surprise!”

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Q: Do you agree that the mayor of Chicago and governor of Illinois should be in prison?

MIKE JOHNSON: Should they be in prison? I'm not the attorney general. I'm not following the day to day on that

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Martin Shaw @thebooksdesk.bsky.social · 1d

Ah makes you miss bookselling... (ad in the latest Oz booksellers' newsletter)

Ad for a customer agression training course

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