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PhD in superbugs, and MD. Policy failings aren't due to a lack of evidence, but a flagrant disregard for anything thay doesn't further ideological aims. Clean Space Halo wearer, infection dodger. #GoWhales

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Disgruntled @cdrhbiscuitiii.bsky.social · Apr 23

Posting old pinned thread from the bad place from April 2021. Feels appropriate as a record of everything we warned would play out.
The thread was edited only for continuity, as an error meant some of the posts were not properly ordered:

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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 2h

“President Trump then took a call from King Charles, who admitted the Queen should have chosen him to ascend the Throne.”

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 5h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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OSINTRadar @osintr.bsky.social · 4h

🇪🇪🇷🇺 Estonia has closed the border crossing with Russia in Saatse.

The reason is the increased activity of Russian troops in the area.

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Techpriest @techpriest.bsky.social · 4h

You just know that somewhere out there some kid just blew up Bashar Al Assad in Helldivers 2 whilst yelling "FOR DEMOCRACY"

Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 4h

Some kid is doing the standard “ur mom” voice chat trash talk and they got no idea they’re talking to bashar al assad

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Jonathan Howard @joho.bsky.social · 3h

Except most of these occurred under Biden.

Sandieglo @sandieglo.bsky.social · 1d

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Dorothy Canzano Beach @dorothy4climate.bsky.social · 4h

“The past fortnight for Sam has involved the release of AI video generator Sora 2 – a staggering upgrade on the Sora of barely 10 months ago – and its instant descent into a sludge of stolen copyrighted goods”

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

It’s Sam Altman: the man who stole the rights from copyright. If he’s the future, can we go backwards? | Marina Hyde

His AI video generator Sora 2 has been reviled for pinching the work of others. One giant leap for Sam: for everyone else, not so much, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

www.theguardian.com

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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.

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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 9h

Warnings about how to avoid a paper trail that might later be accessed by an FOI request are part of the induction kit for new political staffers. Even the acronym has its own crude nickname in the ministerial wing: “FOI. Fuck Off Idiot.” satpa.pe/zPB9QFA

Inside Albanese’s FOI reforms: ‘He hates transparency’

Labor’s reforms to freedom of information laws are opposed by every public submission made to the Senate, with the government’s record on secrecy worse than Scott Morrison’s.

satpa.pe

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The Pleasure Vice Principle (he/him/his) @hannibaltabu.bsky.social · 10h

I saw the dot coms crash from a front row seat. AI is running out of money way faster.

The evangelism is insecurity from people who made the wrong bet. I’ve seen it before. futurism.com/future-socie...

AI Data Centers Are an Even Bigger Disaster Than Previously Thought

An investment manager realized he made a crucial mistake — and that his grim prediction about AI investments may not have been cynical enough.

futurism.com

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@Libraryadvocate.bsky.social @librayadvocate.bsky.social · 15d

We can't deny that selling a vast proportion our fossil fuels overseas is contributing to climate change. And we're not even taxing these companies enough, if at all, to at least build a fund to mitigate the damage it is causing. And then mooting that tax payers fund a flood levy

As more flooding looms for Australia, insurers pitch a bold plan

The peak body for insurers wants the next federal government to stump up $30 billion to protect homes against an onslaught of climate-fuelled flooding predicted to batter Australian communities in the...

www.abc.net.au

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 6h

What Thiel is saying about tax havens = what Altman is saying about copyright:

"I can't be rich unless you let me steal from you."

This is how Broligarchs differ from oligarchs of yore: the latter tried to hide their thievery; the Broligarchs trumpet their entitlement to steal as a natural right.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 6h

Exhibit A of feckless elites: Tony "Cool Brittania" Blair.
bsky.app/profile/flyi...

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17h

That horrible New Labour documentary did feature one helpful scene, where John Major says he met Rupert in 1997 and refused to change his non-specific Europe policy. Smash-cut to footage of Tony bounding up the gangplank of Murdoch’s yacht, willing to say yes to whatever.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 8h

Among many others at the CDC, the Trump regime laid off the staff of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

“The publication’s storied history includes a June 1981 report that five previously healthy gay men were treated for an unusual pneumonia — the first hint of the AIDS epidemic.”

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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B heard media 💚🇵🇸⛔️🤐✂️ @bheardmedia.bsky.social · 6h

Starmer is determined to take the UK down an authoritarian dystopian path..

Digital ID will be required for everyday living, incl. banking & for everyone over 13 years old.

The right to protest will be controlled by the state, incl. what protesters chant!

#StarmersBritain 🇬🇧👁
#StarmerOut ✅️

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Dr Alex Wodak AM @alexwodak.bsky.social · 7h

@albomp.bsky.social ‘It’s Time’ you got serious about shocking, off the scale gambling problems in Australia! They stink too @davidpocock.bsky.social @richarddenniss.bsky.social
@publichealthaus.bsky.social #auspol

Rum Court Rules @courtrum.bsky.social · 10h

Las Vegas licence hearing turns nightmare for boss of Australian pokies giant

Regulators in the world's most influential gaming jurisdiction have dismissed a licence bid by the boss of Australia's Ainsworth Game Technology, branding him

" his "attitude stinks". "

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

Las Vegas hearing turns nightmare for boss of Australian pokies giant

Regulators in the world's most influential gaming jurisdiction have dismissed a licence bid by the boss of Australia's Ainsworth Game Technology, branding him "arrogant", "misleading" and lacking in "...

www.abc.net.au

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 6h

Farage/Reform and the Trump playbook.

Mass sackings of unsympathetic civil servants
Promise to reduce workers's rights
Inflict spending cuts - hit the poor, old, sick, disabled

Now claims teachers are “poisoning our kids” - just as Nazis did to control education.

Power grab by dividing society.

Nigel Farage accuses teachers of ‘poisoning our kids’ on race issues

Exclusive: Reform UK leader’s remarks at event for private US college criticised as ‘grossly irresponsible’ by NEU leader

www.theguardian.com

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 12h

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

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Fiona Parker @fionaparker1.bsky.social · 16h

Reminds me of this choice paragraph from that excellent article from Mother Jones where the journo called every single person in Jeffrey Epstein’s little black book:

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Felicity Tiggs @fiztig.bsky.social · 16h

Thiel talked about Carl Schmitt being one of his ideological heroes that forms part of his core beliefs. Why do we treat anything he says as anything more than utter nonsense?

We may as well say that billionaires are a bunch of shallow, credulous idiots at this point.

Excerpt from Carl Schmitt Wikipedia entry:

Schmitt's doctrine helped clear the way for Hitler's rise to power by providing the theoretical legal foundation of the Nazi regime.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17h

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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Dr Richard Denniss @richarddenniss.bsky.social · 2d

I don’t know about you, but I’m a bit scared of any new ‘environment laws’ that Labor can get Matt Canavan and Andrew Hastie to vote for…I think they will be better described as ‘ how to build more mines faster laws’ www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws

Environment Minister Murray Watt will sit down with his Liberal counterpart Angie Bell today, with quiet optimism in both parties that a deal might soon be struck to finally rewrite Australia's "broke...

www.abc.net.au

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 14h

Blue Cross had refused to pay thousands of claims for the center’s patients, but on several occasions executives at the insurance company had signed special one-time deals with the center to pay for their wives’ cancer treatment.

(Published April)

“Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay”: Trial Reveals How Insurers Try to Wield Power Over Doctors

Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.

www.propublica.org

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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17h

Thiel’s main Antichrist argument is that politics should be framed apocalyptically, and that Silicon Valley—potentially an agent of the Antichrist—should be empowered to do whatever it wishes because it alone can save (or destroy) the world.

www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Peter Thiel says Antichrist ‘Wants a Nobel Peace Prize.‘

Leaked Highlights from Tech Billionaire's Secret Antichrist Lectures

www.thenerdreich.com

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 12h

Trump said he deserved a cut for brokering the TikTok deal, and at once there was agreement that his son Baron would have a top executive slot... though he hasn't asked for it, and has no apparent qualifications to hold it. This is how Trump 2.0 works. www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Barron Trump tipped for top TikTok job

US president’s 19-year-old son could be appointed to the app’s board

www.telegraph.co.uk

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d

1/ Russian Railways is reported to have faked a Ukrainian attack to cover up its own culpability for a fatal derailment in the Leningrad region in September 2025, caused when a locomotive was ordered to be driven at over twice the permitted line speed. ⬇️

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