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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 1d

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 21h

Ba-dum, tish!

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 21h

Death by a thousand micro aggressions and ego-driven petty backbiting

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Rising Tide Australia @risingtideaus.bsky.social · 1d

🪑 Armchair activists, assemble! 😜

We need YOU to sign our petition to the Port to stop coal ships during the Blockade.

The Port calls itself “a global leader in sustainability” — let's pressure them to live up to that claim.

risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations! Well done!

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 2d

Epic gaslighting by Labor - the Coalition is irrelevant, so choosing to negotiate with it is just political cover for failing to do the right thing

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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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 2d

The messenger somewhat dilutes the message.

Sure, we've been doing truly heinous stuff to innocent people whilst destroying democracy for decades, but these vampires over here are stealing our advertising money!!!!!

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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 2d

News Corp Australia chairman says social media platforms are monsters and torment kids but I guess hacking the phone of a murdered schoolgirl is ok though.

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 2d

Oof, Glen. Too raw.

Glen Le Lievre @lelievre.bsky.social · 2d

Girl trouble

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 3d

This is hilarious. Gold kissed bonkers from the Seppo. Anglo's! Bet that went down like a cup of warm sick.

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Kate Bevan @katebevan.com · 3d

This whole thread is absolutely peak Bluesky. Dear Americans, not everything is about you.

NYCNAFOFELLA. 🇪🇺🇺🇦🇭🇷🏳️‍🌈🇺🇲 Militant Centrist, Bill Maher aligned @nycnafofella.bsky.social · 3d

Announcing this on a board where Americans are in the fight of their lives against a fascist takeover may be a pointer....

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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

~ ermahgerd ~

Seems v much like the NPC was not truthful about its cancellation of Hedges' scheduled appearance on OCT 20.

'Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia'

www.afopa.com.au/blog/2025/10...

Statement on Cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National Press Club of Australia — Australian Friends of Palestine Association

AFOPA is responding to the Statement published on 4 October 2025 by the National Press Club of Australia ( NPC) in relation to their cancellation of Chris Hedges’ confirmed appearance at the National ...

www.afopa.com.au

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 4d

This is more serious than at first glance. Since when can affected individuals not provide govt agencies with hectares of personal data? For that to be farmed out to private sector without guards against abuse destroys trust. Trust in govt agencies ability to help

#Auspol #NSWpol #DataBreach

Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 4d

Breach? Sounds like people gave their data to the government on a promise of disaster support, the government gave their data and our money to a contractor on a promise of service provision, and the contractor gave their data to a tech business on a promise of slop.

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

Major data breach as up to 3,000 flood victims' details loaded to ChatGPT

The NSW Reconstruction Authority says the breach occurred in March and involved the personal data of applicants to the Northern Rivers Resilient Homes Program.

www.abc.net.au

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 4d

Excellent analysis. The NPC is committing a heinous betrayal of the very ethics they seek for their profession - speaking truth to power.

#Auspol #Gaza #Genocide

The highest obligation for a journalist in the field of war should be to veer towards truth, not neutrality, and Hedges said that we “cannot stand by while one people is exterminated and call it balance”. His address at the National Press Club was expected to explore this collapse of journalistic integrity – how the media’s complicity in Gaza reflects a broader decay in Western journalism, driven by corporate consolidation, political fear, the loss of moral courage, and a failure to hold power to account.

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Dr. Brendan Anderson @fossilsndcoffee.bsky.social · 5d

Day154 of photoshopping @lastweektonight.com's John Oliver with fossils in the hopes that he saves the Paleontological Research Institution

Don't worry John(H. sapiens) those aren't sandworms, they are just bryozoans (PRI108377). Please make the #JohnOliverCoprolitasticShed a reality and #savePRI 🧪

John Oliver waving with big eyes while large dark branching bryozoans emerge from the sand behind him

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 5d

And long may it reign

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 5d

It’s truly not that complicated

t.co/3ZM7dfSoVr

https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politics/australian-politics/2025/10/04/politics-hope-complicated-left-right

t.co

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Kaya Wanu. @kayawanu.bsky.social · 8d

Italian workers in Bologna have shut down transport systems and workers in Rome ,as well as every dockie in Italy are shutting Europe down. Statement from

Trade Union: L’Unione sindacale di Base (USB)

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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @csmfht.bsky.social · 11d

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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 11d

Re Andrew Hastie
Since the creeps at Melbourne University are shutting down Meanjin, I am bringing my essay out from the paywall. It’s on how “Christian” is being used to bring together a ratty coalition against “woke” , here at ARC, Hastie on that Board. #auspol

www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/l6oxr...

Mind-numbing sleep-woking
The word 'woke' is tiresome. More though, it's a cliché that terminates our ability to debate. In Australian civic discourse, and internationally, the word is used to demarcate lines of battle. In 2025, Australian politicians are hoping it can turn a motley coalition of voters into the government's base.
Lucy Hamilton
Lucy Hamilton is a doctoral student at UTS and a writer who focuses on the impact of the international Right on Australian politics and society. This research is supported by an Australian
Government Research
Training Program
Scholarship. She works on Woi-wurrung and Wurundjeri lands.
Woke emerged as a concept in US Black culture in the 1920s to signal people who were aware of how the system trapped them in disadvantage. Later, progressives borrowed (stole?) the label to celebrate that awareness more broadly, with regard to varied subjects like human rights for minorities, women, workers and refugees. By 2020, the term had become established as the right's latest slur for the 'politically correct.

See linked essay for more…

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 11d

If you rearrange the letters of that mother of acronyms you get the secret to Brereton's success removing conflicts of interest from his high powered, high salaried, hifalutin anti-corruption role.

IDGAF

#Auspol

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 11d

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

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Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 14d

*sort of worked. My sister insists it was the oxidation of the fructose or some such, I think it's just a really effective placebo. Whichever way, I swear by it and our kids all 'treated' this way also

Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 14d

I had this conversation with my sister just 3 days ago. Our mum, bless her, insisted on grating an apple (sweet or tart) to treat our nausea and it sorry if worked every time. If you can stomach a little, you've got something there and might even get hungry. If it bounces, the deed is done

Milo Kei @milokei.bsky.social · 15d

I hate to bother you @cathywilcox.bsky.social but was hoping this could be made quicker by asking directly. I copyied this toon of yours from here without any context and want to cite it for use in my undergrad course. Can you remember when this was published? Was it July?

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