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Morabeets
@morabeets.bsky.social
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A human concerned for our legacy.

Teacher, Teal, boat person amongst other things.

Tired of attempted distraction, gaslighting, false narratives and Trumpism.

If you are not woke what are you.

Do not let your spirit wane.

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By seeking to defuse domestic tensions over Gaza, West Midlands police ended up making matters worse | Gaby Hinsliff
For the sake of British Jews and British Muslims – and those of us who believe in multiculturalism – lessons must be learned from the Villa Park row, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff
www.theguardian.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:25 AM
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www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Berg, a self-described Zionist and a governor of the Israel Australia Chamber of Commerce, accused the festival’s leadership of presiding over a “blatantly one-sided” mission that had traded open debate for a “vendetta against Israel and Zionism”

90% below water
Call this social cohesion? The six-day war of words that laid waste to the 2026 Adelaide writers’ festival
How a boardroom flare-up sparked an international boycott – and a looming defamation battle
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January 16, 2026 at 11:21 AM
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NEW:
AOC, Laurel Lee and Paris Hilton will hold a press conference to push for the House to pass AOC’s DEFIANCE Act to ban companies from producing deepfake AI porn.

It passed the Senate unanimous consent. And it’s a sign she is becoming a power player

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
AOC’s bill to ban deepfake AI porn passed Senate. Why is the House taking so long?
The bill is a sign of Ocasio-Cortez’s growing influence within the Democratic caucus that once shunned her, writes Eric Garcia
www.independent.co.uk
January 16, 2026 at 12:57 AM
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Could have highlighted how he removed cartoons from the walls of places they locked up kids because they made it too welcoming but no, Labour are attacking Jenrick for letting in too many migrants
peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”

Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 8:58 AM
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bladeofthes.bsky.social
Your terrible wages - billionaires
Unaffordable housing - billionaires
No Healthcare - billionaires
Unaffordable Energy - billionaires

People who will save your life or look after you in a care home - immigrants
January 16, 2026 at 9:01 AM
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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social
‘Freedom of speech-not freedom of reach’ where previously an account would be banned for spreading harmful content, X says it instead limits the reach of problematic content.

Hateful tweets about women/vulnerable people are commonplace. X, once a site for everyone, has turned into a cesspool.

4/5🧵
January 15, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social
"Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium"

- Van Badham -

The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it.

3/5🧵

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Elon Musk’s Grok made the world less safe – his humiliating backdown gives me hopium | Van Badham
The AI chatbot’s torrent of nonconsensual deepfakes isn’t its first scandal and won’t be its last. Responsible governments should simply ban it
www.theguardian.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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nickyschwenzer.bsky.social
We've left the cesspool of right-wing radicalization behind...

@theguardian.com
@sundaedivine.lol
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@annehidalgo.bsky.social

"Media Matters is quitting X"
- @eggerdc.bsky.social -

...we will no longer be using X. At all.

Will you join us?
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January 15, 2026 at 1:13 PM
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Tomorrow: My 13,500 word historical and financial analysis on how the AI Bubble is magnitudes worse than the Dot Com Bubble, with a contagion that will spread throughout the global markets and our society.

Here's $10 off annual.

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I Am Deeply Worried About How Not Like The Dot Com Bubble This Is I spent hours and hours reading old articles through broken paywalls and archive.org links in the hopes I’d find some sort of positive spin - a way that the AI bubble wasn’t as bad, some sliver or nugget of joy, some shred of hope, and everything I’ve read has made me more and more worried. The real problem is that there are similarities, but only with the worst parts of both bubbles. We’ve got stupid amounts of money being sunk into stuff. We’ve got stupid companies that want to IPO. We’ve got hopeless startups juiced up by credulous venture capitalists and marketed by even-more credulous journalists. Except this time we have the worst margins this side of a vineyard planted in Las Vegas Nevada, and despicable boosters that will go to war with you to try and prove you wrong using ghost stories, fairy tales and pixie dust. I realize I’m being a little cavalier and colloquial about this, and that’s because I feel utterly emotionally drained by this - things are so much worse than I thought. I really felt like I’d dig into the past and find that there were direct, obvious similarities, and thus have some degree of hope that things wouldn’t be apocalyptic. Instead, I’m convinced that things will be much, much worse. The dot com bubble was relatively distributed, and created useful infrastructure. The ideas of some of the most prominent dot com startups were valid, but based on stupid hypergrowth business models that didn’t make sense and were only sustained through mass hysteria and ignorance. By comparison, AI startups are fundamentally illogical, selling unreliable software that’s best-known for its consistent mistakes and active harms backed by the corrosive and ever-worsening infrastructural costs. And they’re the customers of the largest company on the stock market, that can only keep its valuation, on which the markets depend, by selling more of an expensive-to-buy and more-expensive-to-ins… The Logical Endpoint Of My Argument Depending on how right I am, I worry that the following will happen: NVIDIA will lose anywhere from 40% to 90% of its revenue, which will annihilate the value of the S&P 500. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Meta will face massive, multi-billion dollar impairments within the next few years. Oracle will face potential bankruptcy or at least a severe, horrendous series of layoffs and restructuring efforts to try and right the ship after agreeing to $248 billion in lease obligations primarily to get the revenue from its $300 billion, 5-year-long deal with OpenAI, a company that is going to run out of money in the next year. Venture capital is going to take such a severe haircut from the AI bubble that it will effectively kill any chances of raising a round after Series B for many, many years. Those $178.5 billion in data center debt deals will be predominantly underwater, leading to massive losses for private equity and banks (leading to a chill in effectively all debt markets), and massive job losses across the many, many construction projects that have started as a result of the AI bubble. If OpenAI or Anthropic can manage to go public, every investor will lose out as they collapse under the weight of their bullshit assumptions. Every partner, every company relying on them, every infrastructure provider will be burned. I also believe that we, as a society, will face a violent paradigm shift as a result of the AI bubble bursting, because it revealed how many people do not understand stuff. The amount of bosses, influencers, movie stars, politicians and other individuals of note that have fallen behind generative AI and claimed again and again that it can do things that it can’t and perpetuated myths that will lead to massive societal harms both today and in the future have revealed themselves as fucking frauds. It’s been obvious since 2023 that generative AI flat out does not do what many people say it will and obvious since 2024 t… And believe me, even if I’m half right, things will likely be so much worse than when the dot com bubble burst. I don’t see a scenario where anything survives the collapse of CoreWeave, let alone the collapse of OpenAI. I don’t see a scenario where any more than a few AI startups survive, and if that happens, there won’t be any customers for those GPUs - not that anywhere near enough existed to fill even a tiny percentile of the demand. On some level, I hope I’m wrong. I just don’t know how anymore.
January 16, 2026 at 1:26 AM
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21-year-old activist injured by ICE:

I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can't fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.
January 15, 2026 at 7:24 PM
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michaelkruse.bsky.social
“We’re in a time when looking over your shoulder is just about the only way to look.”
Journalists confront new reality in reporting after FBI raid
Many saw the FBI search of a Washington Post reporter’s home as a jarring new step aimed at limiting their ability to gather information.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Even by Badenoch’s standards, responding to the opportunity offered by Jenricks’s departure by promoting the ‘mastermind’ behind Theresa May’s myriad disasters is an act of extraordinary idiocy.
January 16, 2026 at 8:42 AM
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
This is so important. If you persist in misrepresenting or misunderstanding reality you give even more ammunition to populist liars who understand nothing.
sundersays.bsky.social Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 12h
It is really important to understand that the asylum hotel chaos of 2022-24 is a *failed experiment in closed borders* (in contrast to the liberal visa policy)

The hotel chaos comes from passing multiple laws that all claims will be refused & to stop processing claims

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peterstefanovic.bsky.social Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 13h
“Robert Jenrick is the man who as Immigration Minister oversaw the open borders experiment that led to the biggest increase in illegal immigration in our country”

Labour's Steve Reed reacts to Robert Jenrick's decision to defect from the Conservatives to Reform UK
January 16, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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Deepest sympathies to writers of satire, your jobs are redundant www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...
Trump accepts Nobel medal from Machado 'for the work I have done'
The US president says he has accepted María Corina Machado's Nobel Peace Prize at a meeting in the White House, on account of "the work I have done".
www.abc.net.au
January 16, 2026 at 7:34 AM
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euromaidanpress.bsky.social
On 16 Jan 2014, Ukraine's Parliament passed "dictatorship laws," restricting protests & free speech. These anti-democratic laws sparked outrage & clashes, as Ukrainians resisted with defiance & creativity.

The “anti-mask law” banned peaceful gatherings while wearing masks, helmets & face coverings.
January 16, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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olthwaiteeric.bsky.social
We are spending $100 million on coastal businesses to compensate for (probably) climate change induced algal blooms.

And then the muppet does this.
January 16, 2026 at 8:38 AM
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markosilberhand.bsky.social
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Neither Maria Machado nor Donald Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize.
They have disgraced it forever !

💠 😠 💠
January 16, 2026 at 8:39 AM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
Of all the wrong-headed things going on in this wrong-headed world, the UK government inviting Peter Thiel and Palantir into the heart of the UK's health, policing and military data systems is among the wrong-headedest.
boldpolitics.bsky.social Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 1d
"Peter Thiel... the founder of this company, does not believe in democracy"
January 15, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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ktmtragic.bsky.social
@albomp.bsky.social Mate you are going to have to lift your game ! Grovelling to the Israeli Government and Trump looks shit from where I am standing! As for your hate laws wellll ! #auspol
January 16, 2026 at 7:12 AM
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billjondoyle.bsky.social
dump santos from the tour down under rally, victoria square tarntanyangga, south australia

#auspol #southaustralia #DumpSantos #TDU #TourDownUnder
January 16, 2026 at 7:18 AM
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magpie-minion.bsky.social
Why does the MSM keep seeking commentary from a man who was sacked from his position as Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs for breaching the public service code of conduct more than 14 times and was stripped of his AO as a result?
#auspol
January 16, 2026 at 7:26 AM
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mitchxxvi.bsky.social
Given most hate speech comes from religious types I’d say them not liking potential laws to curb it is a good sign 🤷‍♂️

#auspol

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Christian and Muslim faith leaders express ‘deep concerns’ about Labor bill’s impact on free speech – as it happened
This blog is now closed
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January 16, 2026 at 7:35 AM
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wolja.bsky.social
Agreed. Shame the usual #whiners are worried about "unintended" consequences. Only change if make is removing the exemption for quoting from religious texts.
Hate is hate even if your sky daddy supports it #auspol
mon4kooyong.bsky.social Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 1d
National tragedies demand unity, not division. Australia's political leaders came together after Port Arthur, after 9/11, and after the Bali bombing.
January 16, 2026 at 5:11 AM
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“A small, networked minority, leveraging capital, media, and Zionist ideological fervour, has successfully manipulated the levers of education, policy, and public perception to hollow out Australian democracy.”

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The Manufactured Silence: How Australia’s Education and Institutions Were Engineered for Consent
Abstract This investigation traces the deliberate transformation of Australia’s education system from a public good to a commodity of ideological control, orchestrated by a confluence of neoliberal po...
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January 16, 2026 at 7:40 AM
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11thhourmsnow.bsky.social
"I have never seen agents kitted out like this, full military gear, face masks, head shields...this looks more like an invasion."

@joycewhitevance.bsky.social and @ahylton26.bsky.social discuss the images coming out of Minneapolis.
January 16, 2026 at 4:32 AM