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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 55m

I've just deleted my Spotify account. It mightn't mean much to them, but certainly means a lot to me.

moonchildjs.bsky.social @moonchildjs.bsky.social · 1d

Spotify is now running ICE recruitment advertisements.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 13h

American legislators are some of the dumbest people on the face of the earth. The rest of the world should be doing everything they can to untie themselves from any sort of agreement or association they have with these imbeciles.

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 13h

"Some people have died". (We're not sure how many, and we really can't be arsed finding out exactly how many tbh. It's Friday evening and I'm already late for Friday drinkees)

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 13h

My first reaction to seeing his face was 'Fleabag'.

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 1d

Also, the "sports and politics don't mix" thing can get in the bin once and for all

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 1d

Australians should understand how much of their super has been tipped into this Ponzi scheme. Whether it's computer chips, data centres or software companies, they've gone all in, as all these companies are outperforming the index, leaving funds managers no choice but to dive in.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 1d

From memory Hanson sued and got the song pulled from Triple J when it was released

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 1d

I can't see how Netanyahu is anything but fucked in all of this. His cabinet agrees to the plan, his govt probably collapses. They don't agree, Trump probably turns on him. Couldn't happen to a nicer prick.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 1d

"He'd almost never seen a perfect score"

You've either seen a perfect score. Or you haven't. His brain is just orange fucked

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 2d

Try changing your first name to 'Cameron' and see how you go

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 2d

Incredibly honest and courageous by Sarah. For non-jews, it's a real eye opener for how Zionism and Judaism really are in conflict at a personal level. If the concept of a Zionist Israel can tear Jewish families apart, then maybe it wasn't such a great idea after all

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 3d

He knows they have editorial control of Sky After Dark, right?

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 3d

Franz Ferdinand was assassinated because of the space race wars

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 3d

Maybe, but he really did puff out his chest more than anyone else. Clearly he was bullied at school, and decades later this was his revenge

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 3d

For a guy that trained to be a priest, he more often than not comes to the conclusion and goes with what Jesus wouldn't do

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 3d

I believe CSR sold it to Lang

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

Thankfully for all of us, we are not you

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

This is just glorious

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

I never knew that song was about Lang Hancock's asbestos mine in Wittenoom until I listened to the Guardians 'Gina' podcast. What a fucking awful family they are.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

Also, you may not like what people protest about, and you may not like where they want to protest, but the moment you dictate to govt who can and can't protest is the moment you start taking a sledge hammer to democracy. The alternative is playing out in real time on the other side of the Pacific

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

A timely reminder that calling Hamas terrorists for the atrocity carried out on October 7, and calling the Israeli govt genocidal for their subsequent reaction can be simultaneously true. And if you can accept that, you are part of the problem.

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Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 4d

So the people who aren't citizens who come to the UK to do the shit jobs that UK citizens won't do are told to fuck off back home because something something 'benefits'. What could possibly go wrong?

Bruce from Canberra @officialbrucecbr.bsky.social · 5d

You are a fucking knob