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Nonya Beeswaxx
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Moving from bluesky to blacksky. As mostly a lurker, easier to start from scratch
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athul.acharya.cc
TIL the original lyrics to Deck the Halls are awesome and “don we now our gay apparel” is temperance movement bullshit
Deck the hall with boughs of holly, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! "Tis the season to be jolly: a, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Fill the meadcup, drain the barrel, Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la! Troll the ancient Christmas carol. Fa, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la!
December 13, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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ghoulpus.bsky.social
YOUTUBE: you like history
ME: I do!
YOUTUBE: and you're white
ME: well, I mean
YOUTUBE: here are some white people who also like histor--
ME: no no no No NO NO NO
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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joehuggins.bsky.social
Another great thing @sifill.bsky.social said on Amicus podcast. We can’t draw circles around groups who we think don’t belong (I’m looking at you @governor.ca.gov).
We all belong or there is nothing to belong to.
December 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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juliaringma.bsky.social
I love listening to Sherrilyn explain things. (Right now on the Amicus pod with @dahlialithwick.bsky.social .) She said the civil rights movement was a democracy movement. Therefore, the backlash that has been going on ever since is an anti-democracy movement. Get motives out in the open.
December 13, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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jayrosen.bsky.social
In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
Indigenous Australians now account for 29 per cent of all deaths in custody, a proportion higher than when the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody delivered its final report in 1991. satpa.pe/I1AKCqp
‘Increasing failure’: First Nations deaths in custody at record levels
More than three decades after the royal commission, calls are growing for the government to finally implement its recommendations, to stop the rising number of preventable deaths.
satpa.pe
December 14, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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omodesierto.bsky.social
Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University.

We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish
December 13, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com
i believe people when they say linux has gotten better in the last few years. what i'm skeptical of is that linux Guys have improved. i will not use an OS where i'm at high risk of someone calling me stupid for not liking some aspect of the experience. i must be allowed to hate the computer
November 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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billcorbett.bsky.social
Ms. Rachel is an absolute hero. She’s gotten so much abuse for her extremely compassionate, humane - and in my opinion, common sense - views on children being hurt and killed in Gaza. But she’s not letting that silence her. Bless you Ms. R. 

@msrachelforlittles.bsky.social
Message from Ms Rachel on Threads: “If killing thousands of children can be defended, but calling to stop the killing cannot, something is profoundly wrong.”
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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thesaturdaypaper.com.au
"I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating," writes Martin McKenzie-Murray. "Fuck FIFA." satpa.pe/lwF9MA1
FIFA awards Trump a free kick
The 2026 FIFA World Cup draw was a stunning own goal of self-love and sycophancy with a Trumped-up ‘peace prize’ – all in the service of further monetising the world game.
satpa.pe
December 13, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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aljazeera.com
Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.
‘Result of aid obstruction': Gaza storm passes, misery remains as 14 killed
Suffering of people in Gaza manufactured by Israeli restriction of aid, not weather, Oxfam says.
www.aljazeera.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
New piece - about the media environment today and the troubling lack of scrutiny of government nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win
December 13, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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pixelatedboat.bsky.social
My transport plan is simple: a lifetime ban on driving for anyone with a DUI, turning drunks into a powerful constituency in favour of dense walkable neighbourhoods
December 13, 2025 at 7:19 AM
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timdunlop.bsky.social
"I've shifted position on this a little. At first I was completely dismissive, worried about the role of US anxiety entrepreneur, Jonathan Haidt, and the self-serving campaign run by News Corp based on his ‘work’. But it's more important than that."

tdunlop.substack.com/p/the-road-t...
The road to hell is paved with good inventions
Moral hygiene in the age of social media and a plea for better democratic engagement
tdunlop.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Been rather dispiriting how much ink has been spilled by the gallery on MP expenses, while the report into mutual obligations has been pretty much ignored. @amyremeikis.bsky.social is on it #ThePoint (what is The Point? It’s not news, but it SHOULD be)

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
The welfare system isn’t just on fire, it’s burning out of control
The problem with having pattern recognition is that you can always see the fires before they start. Governments are a bit like that, too.  It’s not that they don’t see the fire before the smoke, it’s...
thepoint.com.au
December 13, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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carl.fish
The additional irony on this one being that Google did, in fact, fire Timnit Gebru for saying "Hey, maybe the real risks of AI aren't the AGI ghost stories, but [list of things that all turned out to be the real risks of AI]."
December 13, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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squigglyrick.bsky.social
'Pig-headed' is the way Terry Carney, of Robodebt fame, describes the response of the Department of Employment to the second Commonwealth Ombudsman report into their error-riddled privatised jobseeker compliance program. You can see why for yourself here. www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic...
‘Particularly strange’: Ombudsman damns welfare compliance
In an interview with The Saturday Paper, the Commonwealth ombudsman says government departments still need to ‘unlearn’ the culture that produced robodebt.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
December 12, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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nothoodlum.bsky.social
“The guy who bedazzled this room in gold thinks your child has too many pencils.” - Jimmy Kimmel
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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an-leavy.bsky.social
When we choose not to tax wealthy people and corporations appropriately we are choosing children in poverty and aged stuck in hospital beds, we choose suffering for the many for the privilege of the few

Well, we don’t choose, governments choose for us
December 12, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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reichlinmelnick.bsky.social
One under-appreciated part of this: note the bit below about “and their dependents.”

Under the Trump admin’s new policy, dependent children of visa applicants are not allowed to have their social media set to private during the entire visa process. They MUST make their social media public.
lyns84.bsky.social Kenbehren @lyns84.bsky.social · 2d
From the US Embassy in London today.
Visa Services Update: As of December 15, the Department will expand the requirement that an online presence review be conducted for all H-1B applicants and their dependents, in addition to the students and exchange visitors already subject to this review. To facilitate this vetting, all applicants for H-1B and their dependents (H-4), F, M, and J nonimmigrant visas are instructed to adjust the privacy settings on all of their social media profiles to 'public' U.S. Embassy London
December 12, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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kibblesmith.com
Ten years ago.
December 11, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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kudelka.bsky.social
Heading back from Mona, don’t miss our beautiful architecture .
Hobart’s iconic zinc works on the waterfront
December 12, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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rowecartoon.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Trump sent Vance there twice. He threatened to cut off all federal spending to the state. He vowed to back primary challengers of any Republican who voted against him here. He posted their names online, prompting his fans to send them death threats.

But all that failed, so now he wasn't involved.
acyn.bsky.social Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 2d
Reporter: The senate in Indiana voted against the redistricting effort.

Trump: I wasn't working on it very hard. I wasn't very much involved
December 12, 2025 at 12:57 AM