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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 1d

AUS Foreign Minister Penny Wong's fawning praise of Trump is vomitous. No mention by Wong of the billions of dollars of arms provided to Israel by the USA for its genocide in Gaza? Srsly?! This is abhorrent commentary from Wong. 😔 #auspol #USPolitics #NobelPeacePrize #GazaGenocide

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 8h

Israel cannot dominate 6 million Palestinians forever without granting them equal rights and freedom; ie. Israel can be Jewish or democratic but not both. This is the contradiction at heart of the Zionist project.

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 8h

🧵 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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💀 🎃 ThemBOO! 🎃 💀 @thembo.bsky.social · 12h

If you're a Leftist you should be starting at least 1 abrasive and inscrutable discourse cycle a week, no excuses

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Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17h

These fascist "philo-Palestinians" are as sincere as the fascist philosemites

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Camden @camdenluxford.bsky.social · 16h

Like two days after Oct 7 a bunch of far-right twitter accounts pivoted to pro-Palestinian content; some got a *lot* of traction on progressive Twitter. Tucker et al weren’t as quick to sniff out opportunity but it’s the same fucking grift. Don’t let them pipeline you!

Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social · 17h

No, you do not have to hand it to Tucker Carlson, MTG, or any white supremacist who suddenly found compassion for Palestinian children

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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 1d

Nice try, “Paul A. Thompson”

A Pitchfork review for One Battle After Another that call it a “nerve-wracking masterpiece”, written by one Paul A. Thompson

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 1d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Camden @camdenluxford.bsky.social · 1d

Lord grant me one (1) tech startup that aspires to meet an actual human want/need

Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 1d

Do we really want 250,000 mirrored satellites in Low Earth Orbit? Hasn't the Starlink megaconstellation already done enough damage?
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A US startup plans to deliver ‘sunlight on demand’ after dark. Can it work – and would we want it to?

Satellites beaming sunlight down to Earth sound like science fiction – and they have astronomers very worried.

theconversation.com

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 1d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

www.liberalcurrents.com

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

Ludicrous. The NACC is supposed to be independent but Brereton keeps working for the ADF while overseeing potential corruption investigations about it?
The Kathryn Campbell conflict wasn't enough to demonstrate how costly and damaging this is? That mistake already cost the NACC $1.2m to rectify.

Corruption watchdog head 'consulted' for ADF inspector general 11 times

Paul Brereton and Labor politicians had previously stated he had stepped away from the body and resigned as assistant inspector-general of the ADF prior to taking on the top integrity job.

www.abc.net.au

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Tyler, from the Internet @tylerfromtheinternet.com · 1d

Yeah! That's where the old expression comes from: "choppa the dick, autism is thick; leave the prepuce, no autism juice"

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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Camden @camdenluxford.bsky.social · 1d

Nope, sorry, I’m afraid we need to sink yet more years and research dollars into making ABSOLUTELY SURE it’s not the environmental toxins or insufficiently loving mothers.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

AND, in this same token, why can't we focus on improving their quality of life? Why shouldn't we focus on reducing seizures or death from epilepsy?

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

There are people who think that people myself who have written about autism acceptance diminish their needs. That couldn't be further from the truth. Accepting autistic people means accepting ALL autistic people. Not just the convenient ones like myself. It means providing them the proper supports

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

Also, I want to be clear: autistic people with high support needs do have significant challenges. People with it have lower life expectancy, face more risks to health and institutionalization. They deal with self-injury and risk death from epilepsy. They deserve services that ameliorate it.

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 1d

It's no worse than any other disabilities. But for years, it was billed as one of the most tragic outcomes possible for kids. It was seen as a symptom of schizophrenia or this condition that drove children into a catatonic state. The fact mothers were blamed for it made the stigma worse.

Saeed Jones @theferocity.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t exactly how to phrase this, but like… is autism that bad???? Like, why is it such a source of fear??? Of course there are challenges but you can be autistic and have a rich, fulfilling life! Many people do! I don’t understand the preoccupation.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1d

Many parents are stressed about lack of support and their child’s different needs but look to other stressed parents for information rather than to autistic adults.

Some experience their child’s autism as a narcissistic injury. (The child doesn’t fit into their fantasies of who the child would be.)

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👻 ZH0000GE LIANG 臥龍 / 伏龍 👻 @shuchancellor.online · 1d

THOSE POOR CIRCUMISED CHILDREN ARE BEING AUTIZIED AND YOURE LAUGHING!?

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Camden @camdenluxford.bsky.social · 1d

I’m confused, does the Tylenol cause the autism or does it cause the circumsicision which THEN causes the autism??? 🤔

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic.

"Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 3d

Oscar Issac looking at some kind of electronic tablet.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 4d

I regularly come across older people with disabilities who were held at ‘Mayday Hills’ previously known as the ‘Beechworth Lunacy Asylum’. The site is now used for ghost tours, even while some of the old Mayday Hills workers are still employed elsewhere as disability support workers

El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 4d

any further changes must include justice for the thousands of disabled people who lived and died in these places, and who also fought for liberation

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

Psychiatric hospital to 'urban parkland': Sydney's public space dilemma

The challenge of transforming a major piece of Sydney's public space from a former mental health hospital to an "iconic urban parkland" is a delicate dance for the state government.

www.abc.net.au

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Thinking Person's Guide to Autism @thinkingautism.com · 4d

“As a neurodiversity advocate and as an autistic person, I’m really grateful for so much of the work that’s been done that allows me to be myself and to be successful being myself.” Link, who has been *banned*!?!? from this platform?

thinkingautismguide.com/2025/06/spac... #AutisticWhileBlack

Space Law, Race, and Neurodiversity: Autistic Advocate AJ Link

We live in a country & society that is built on racism. The neurodivergent community isn't free of that racism—per Autistic advocate AJ Link.

thinkingautismguide.com

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 4d

Built in a lab to appease billionaires

"I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," Ms. Weiss told the Federalist Society, an influential
conservative legal group, in 2023. "And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."

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Why @why.bsky.team · Mar 19

My unified theory of political discourse centers around the fact that the quote post was invented in 2015

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