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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 19h

This is sad. I think I liked every part I saw Diane Keaton play.

MSNBC @msnbc.com · 1d

Oscar-winning actress Diane Keaton has died at age 79. No cause of death has yet been made available.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 19h

Hard to believe that Harry Vanda has just released his debut solo single at this stage of his career.

Why Harry Vanda is coming out of retirement at 79: ‘The world is going to rack and ruin. I couldn’t help myself!’

The former Easybeat and father of Australian rock on making the country’s ‘best song of all time’, working with AC/DC and releasing his first solo single

www.theguardian.com

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder this myself. Sonos set their method up a while back and it works, but Bose ditching the entire multi room playback feature just because they can't be bothered maintaining software is incredibly lazy shit.

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David Harrison @trawg.bsky.social · 4d

really want to see more Australian journalists asking the obvious followup questions to this like "have you checked all their other work recently" and "why would you ever give them any more money" and so on

your #3 source for absurdist true crime 🔨 @davidgerard.co.uk · 5d

Deloitte Australia retracts ChatGPT report, refunds government

vibe compliance

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HJV... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20251007-del... - podcast

time: 3 min 28 sec

office worker with white shirt and glasses, dozing on his laptop keyboard

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 1d

Can't even place a bet with inside information anymore. Because of woke.

BRICS News 📄 @bricsinfo.bsky.social · 2d

JUST IN: Nobel Peace Prize Committee launches investigation into themselves after Polymarket predicted the winner hours before it was announced.

Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 1d

This sucks so hard. #InternetOfShit

Bose is yanking key features from its SoundTouch speakers

It’s discontinuing support for SoundTouch features and the app.

www.theverge.com

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Micah @rincewind.run · 2d

the list of things that needs to be done to repair this country is extensive but high up on it is breaking the power of the tech lords

they are convinced they are untouchable feudal barons whose money allows them to dictate everyone else's life and they must be disabused of that notion

Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 2d

Being a billionaire must really fuck with your mind. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco

www.nytimes.com

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 1d

Face masks look like they'll make a cube back for non-infectious reasons. No idea if it's Kmart, Bunnings or The Good Guys, but apparently complying with OAIC rulings is "woke".

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

A major Australian retailer is defying rulings by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and is once again using facial recognition and covert surveillance cameras to identify thieves in its Victorian stores www.channelnews.com.au/exclusive-ma...

channelnews : EXCLUSIVE Major Retailer Defies Privacy Ruling, Reinstates Facial Recognition in Select Victorian Stores

UPDATED: A major Australian retailer is defying rulings by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC) and is once again using facial recognition and covert surveillance cameras to id...

www.channelnews.com.au

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 1d

Christ.

Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Although in this thread, *shivers*...

Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 2d

I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?

Reuters @reuters.com · 2d

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Robert Maxwell @robmax4.bsky.social · 2d

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

NSW police wrongly categorise ‘significant’ number of incidents as antisemitic

Anti-Palestinian graffiti and verbal abuse of pro-Palestine protestors incorrectly recorded as antisemitism in figures government cited to defend restrictions on protests

www.theguardian.com

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Fred Smith @fredsmith.bsky.social · 2d

*Woman who insists she’s done journalism before voice*

Hey what does a journalist do at work? I definitely know. I’m just asking to make sure you know.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

What's the bet she uploads the responses to ChatGPT and asks it to make all of the recommendations regarding firings?

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 2d

News: Bari Weiss just sent a memo to staffers at CBS News asking them to produce a memo explaining "how you spend your working hours—and ideally, what you've made (or are making) that you're most proud of."

One CBS News staffer puts it like this to me: "We just got Elon Musked."

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

He plenty mad.

Trump Launches Wild Self-Soothing Posting Spree After Nobel Snub

The president ignored that his furious campaign to be given the Nobel Peace Prize did not work.

www.thedailybeast.com

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting that religion probably pulled the strings of right wing politics before the roles reversed and conservatism started pulling Christianity's strings in the US. Silicon Valley now obviously looking at this and seriously considering puppetmastery.

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MsPraxis @mspraxis.bsky.social · 3d

Cheese! 😍

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3d

Cheese was on track to be a champion when his working dog trial career was cut short by an accident. A year after recovering from surgery to amputate his front leg, the yellow border collie is back in the yards and the winner's circle.

'No way I was putting him down': Three-legged muster dog mounts comeback

Cheese was on track to be a champion when his working dog trial career was cut short by an accident. A year after recovering from surgery to amputate his front leg, the yellow border collie is back in the yards and the winner's circle.

www.abc.net.au

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Very accurate!

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Blue Wave @votebiue.bsky.social · 2d

Idiocracy……..

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

If I was religious and felt the need to identify an antichrist (and remember that not all Christians feel the need to do this) I'd be thinking long and hard about anyone pushed by Thiel into senior political positions.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Peter Thiel is utterly bananas. But you can see the germination of an idea forming where religion and right wing politics is weaponised against opponents of Silicon Valley.

Dara Kerr @darakerr.bsky.social · 2d

We got the audio from Peter Thiel's off-the-record antichrist lectures and... my brain hurts.

But please read what we wrote, it's long, weird, and has Thiel's take on everyone from Musk to Netanyahu to Mamdani. (With @jmbooyah.bsky.social & Nick Robins-Early)

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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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

If I was on acid, this would be the greatest movie ever. Unfortunately, I haven't done hallucinogens in nearly a quarter of a century.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

I'm watching Baz Luhrmann's Elvis because it's on the tube. If I was stoned, I wouldn't have a clue what is going on.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Fucking hell. Spring racing carnival time.. God I hate that time of year.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Suffer in your jocks, Donald.

Bart van Zwieten @bvzw.bsky.social · 2d

The Venezuelan opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado, wins the Nobel Peace Prize 2025. She is an industrial engineer, ex-member of parliament, and known for challenging the Chávez and Maduro regimes. The Nicolás Maduro government has banned Machado from leaving Venezuela.

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Dikkii 🔱 @dikkii.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty sure that 0468 is shoddy and poor as well. I'm not answering those, now.