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jwwr.bsky.social
jwwr
@jwwr.bsky.social
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What they call an ‘applied’ social scientist. Disciple of Brandolini's Law. Also captivated by invariably BS-infused politics and media, which is a bit of a contradiction. The only ‘abundance’ is stupidity. Everything else is precious. Long-termist.
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 1h
Just in case you didn’t already know Spotify was evil …
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moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 1d
Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 4h
‘By their ridiculous hair ye shall know them.’
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Lady Bee Middlemast-Neal @mistyswoman.bsky.social · 4h
Douglas Adams: "It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it".
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BremainInSpain @bremaininspain.com · 5h
No surprise from the man who sold his country down the river just to become PM - a corrupt, useless, self serving lying one at that

Johnson secretly lobbied the UAE for a billion-dollar private venture, amid plans to use an influential contact & senior contacts in the Saudi gov he met as PM
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 4h
Burn.
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Drew @drewdavies68.bsky.social · 4h
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 5h
Is this the kind of thing that will be happening 80 years from know, as the the aging children of the Trump regime are gradually tracked down with the assets they’re currently stealing, to their bunker refuges in Hawaii or Aoteora, or wherever else they’re going to flee after this is all over?
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Reuters @reuters.com · 5h
The quiet Dutchman whose dogged search led to a Nazi-looted painting in Argentina reut.rs/46Xqbio
The quiet Dutchman whose dogged search led to a Nazi-looted painting in Argentina
Dutch systems specialist Paul Post had glimpsed the notebooks that contained his father’s Nazi-era diaries before, but when he rediscovered them in an attic 15 years ago, the recent retiree finally had time to closely examine them.
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 8h
I am deceased
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 6h
Tony Blair met with the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in London during his time as prime minister, it has emerged
Tony Blair met Jeffrey Epstein while prime minister
www.thenational.scot
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 6h
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.
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 6h
Siri, define ‘Ponzi Scheme.’
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 6h
'The circularity has also prompted questions about how sustainable the revenues will turn out to be.'
How OpenAI put itself at the centre of a $1tn network of deals
The company behind ChatGPT has signed agreements with many of the largest tech groups, adding to a growing web of financial dependencies across the AI world
www.ft.com
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The Daily Show @thedailyshow.com · 1d
The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 19h
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It

From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
Memo to Future Historians: This Is Fascism, and Millions of Us See It
From Chicago to Portland, James Comey to Letitia James, and so much else—this is no longer America.
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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 7h
I endorse this plan!
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 17h
Lol lmao
Herald Sun Steve Price Abbott return is what Libs need
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 7h
Portland baristas: “If ICE agents come to buy a coffee, serve them robusta.”
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Michele Okoh |🖤🩶🤍💜|🔺🐘 @okohlaw.bsky.social · 12h
It’s the Portland way.
LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.
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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 15h
apparently billionaire-built digital slop machine output is being posted to billionaire-built digital platforms in an effort to create and spread misinformation as widely and harmfully as possible ikr.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
AI-generated misinformation about 4yo Gus prompts tech and legal concerns
The thought of a missing boy lost in the outback is indescribably harrowing — but what's almost as disturbing is the realisation that some on social media have seized on the disappearance of four-year...
www.abc.net.au
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 6h
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 6h
The resemblance is uncanny. Melania might have jumped the fence.
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 6h
And the old man is still complaining that he didn't get it.
Venezuelan woman who begged Trump to bomb her country wins Nobel Peace Prize
María Corina Machado has become the first person since Barack Obama to win the Nobel Peace Prize for doing absolutely nothing.
www.normalisland.co.uk
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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 11h
Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry
Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry
www.theguardian.com
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 1d
“US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain”
US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats
www.theguardian.com
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 11h
Daily news from the US is like Kramer sliding through the door over and over again on fast-forward.
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 18h
I love it.
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Igor Sushko @igorsushko.bsky.social · 16h
🚨 Baltic NATO states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania plan for mass evacuation to relocate over 1 million civilians when Russia invades - one out of every six people.
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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h
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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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 1d
Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?
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Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d
Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club
Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby
www.theguardian.com
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Royce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 18h
It really does say something when an article about reactions to a coal power plant continuing to operate says nothing about climate change, the existential threat it poses and the need to phase out oil, gas and coal.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 19h
Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.
Plan to extend life of coal-fired power stations sends 'mixed messages'
Communities across Queensland have welcomed plans to keep coal and gas burning across the state, though some warn a lack of future planning could undermine short-term benefits.
www.abc.net.au
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jwwr.bsky.social
jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 1d
“US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain”
US anti-fascism expert leaves country a day after blocked from flying to Spain
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was told at gate his trip was cancelled after Trump threats
www.theguardian.com
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jwwr @jwwr.bsky.social · 2d
Have a look at the big bubble print handwriting so that the old man can understand it.