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Listed as one of Australia's top ten intellectuals, twice. Peer reviewed in the streets, widely discredited in the sheets.
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If you wonder why we have been banging on about how the LNP are utterly irrelevant to govt policy, just look at today's deal on the EPBC Act.

We really do not need to care about what Sussan Ley thinks
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The Point Live: Labor and Greens to pass environment laws today, Nationals pretend to care about Barnaby Joyce's future
Labor wants a political win and wants its environment legislation pushed through, even if it means sitting on Friday to do it, while the Nationals are pretending to care about Barnaby Joyce's potentia...
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November 27, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Calling it now:

The white nationalists who want to defend KKKaroline’s family will push the line that “Brazilians of Portuguese descent are EUROPEAN & therefore white- you know “the good ones”. I had a super racist, Brazilian roommate (with an uber German name) in college.

#ThisIsWhiteNationalism
Ferreira's sister, Graziela Rodrigues, has started a GFM to raise money to fight the ICE charges and allow Bruna to remain in Boston. It has now raised over $14K of a $30K target.
www.wcvb.com/article/karo...
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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"ABC Chair" is a kind of make-a-wish job for Australian media boomers who the industry is trying to put out to pasture (the compromise being a nice office where they can dribble on themselves in peace)
November 26, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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the Doug Mills video embedded in the NYT Trump aging story is pretty amazing
November 26, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Their denial of the body as merely a vessel for code is shown daily by the way these men treat actual living human beings, including the ones who work for their companies.

These men are chasing their own personal immortailty over piles of corpses. They're the closest thing we have to vampires tbh.
Peter Thiel Is Very, Very Interested in Young People's Blood
The contrarian venture capitalist believes transfusions may hold the key to his dream of living forever.
www.inc.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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David Pocock arguing in the #Senate against the cancelling of Centrelink benefits pending criminal prosecution. This is what an ethical equality warrior looks like. We need 20 more like him in the halls of power and hope we get them in the next election. He makes me proud to be Australian. #auspol
November 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I just slept for 15 ish hours 🥴
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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"I see echoes of past mistakes: asymmetrical restrictions placed on only the defending nation; the granting of fresh territory to an invader who failed to win it on the battlefield; the lifting of sanctions that would allow the aggressor to rebuild his armies." lnk.thebulwark.com/4pzTkrK
A Letter from Clausewitz to Secretary Rubio
Channeling the author of ‘On War’ on the U.S. pursuit of peace in Ukraine.
lnk.thebulwark.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Ok palate cleanse time. In case you missed it, here's my most popular post ever
4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga
November 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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People are always going to do stupid shit as long as there’s money involved.
Son dresses up as dead mother to claim pension in Italian Mrs Doubtfire scandal
The 56-year-old man from Italy managed to pocket thousands of euros before he was exposed.
www.stuff.co.nz
November 25, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Iceland Cricket coming in with the slog over cow corner to clear the fence lol
November 25, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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And the kicker …
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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RIP, Bevo. We’ll miss your hot takes.
November 25, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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*taps microphone*

Hi @bsky.app

If you want this to be a global platform, how about trending topics reflecting the other 96% of the world's population?

The domination of this site by American news and American topics is one of its greatest drawbacks

Hell, even old Elon manages to get this right
November 25, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Every single November / December StarTrack really give it a red hot crack to be the absolute worst delivery service. By a mile.
November 25, 2025 at 5:03 AM
Every single person in the senate should’ve ignored Hanson. She’s getting exactly what she wanted.
November 25, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Premium: This is The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA: A 14k word guide to how NVIDIA makes its money, how millions of Blackwell GPUs have been sold with nowhere for them to be installed, and how NVIDIA's future relies on companies raising hundreds of billions in debt.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
The Hater's Guide To NVIDIA
This piece has a generous 3000+ word introduction, because I want as many people to understand NVIDIA as possible. The (thousands of) words after the premium break get into arduous detail, but I’ve wr...
www.wheresyoured.at
November 24, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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When the leopard starts eating your face 🫣🐆
November 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Is this thing on
November 24, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Has everyone else’s Super tanked in the last two weeks or just mine?
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM