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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 13h

I beat Silksong, which I think is a pretty good achievement given how much brain fog has been going on in this skull lately.

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 14h

Finally getting a tramp stamp?

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

Oh this is cool! I remember seeing the demo last year and being really intrigued.

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

Please keep making podcasts about how democrats need to stop being so condescending about red states

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is a real video of a journalist in Chicago being arrested.

Heartland Signal @heartlandsignal.bsky.social · 2d

BREAKING: Masked Border Patrol agents aggressively arrested WGN video producer Debbie Brockman in Lincoln Square Friday morning, supposedly for "obstructing justice." (Video via Josh Thomas on Facebook)

Follow @heartlandsignal for more.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.

dontbeonline • 1d ago
Journalist gets detained while doing her job #ForYou, #viral, #foryoupage, #tikto... more
• Contains: Bad Boys (The...

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d

This is AI.

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Ben Schrager, but he’s spooky now @benschrager.bsky.social · 1d

New reading of The Phantom of the Opera: Carlotta is simply asking for safe working conditions, and Christine is essentially a scab

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Dr Monique Ryan @mon4kooyong.bsky.social · 1d

Every time the government accepts money from the gambling industry, it increases its debts to companies whose business models are based on preying on young and vulnerable people, and doing them harm.

The Albanese government does this again and again.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Sportsbet dines with government minister at Labor fundraiser despite calls to reject lobbying from industry

Exclusive: Dinner occurred on the same day that four crossbench MPs held a press conference calling on government to ignore lobbying from gambling industry

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

It's a brilliant Brisbane Spring day, I'm sitting in a cafe drinking an iced mocha, and I don't have anything specific to do. Sometimes it's good to savour the little joys in life when you can.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 3d

Just so we’re clear: Labor is choosing to work with the worst possible party on environmental issues, instead of the Greens and teals who actually want environmental regulation.
And Watt is already admitting it won’t have a climate trigger …

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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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

Their eyes match the flowers!

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

It is right and just.

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

I appreciate the attention to detail of putting SEQ as separate to QLD as a whole.

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 1d

Can't believe they stole the name of my indie pop-punk band.

Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 2d

I… what???

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Joe Kassabian @jkass99.bsky.social · 2d

Because when you burn down a house and nobody ever rebuilds it, someone is still forced to live in the ashes

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 3d

Thatcher was born 100 years ago and her reign feels a lifetime away. Why is her effect on the country still so huge? | Martin Kettle

Today’s politicians need to learn that she is not the answer to contemporary problems, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 2d

Do I want to know why everyone is suddenly talking about foreskin?

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Fahad Ali @fahad-s-ali.bsky.social · 3d

When the AFP chief talks about the need to strengthen hate speech laws, why does she mean speech critical of Israel and not this:

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Dr Adam Levy @climateadam.bsky.social · 3d

With so much destruction - to people (over 1 in 10 killed / injured) and to infrastructure (90% of schools damaged / destroyed) - a ceasefire would be only the very beginning of recovery.

As Jewish people know well, trauma can last generations.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 3d

Wait I made mine up as a joke! Is that a real thing?!

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 3d

What is a "Lead Engendering Prophet"? Who knows!

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 3d

One of the things I hate is when organisations change the name of their jobs to sound less "corporate" because all it does is obscure what jobs people actually have, and makes it harder to find the right person to contact.

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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 4d

Media flurry about the biomarker test for ME. 🧪

It's a promising discovery stage study but what needs to be done to turn this into a validated biomarker?! 🧵
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translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Infographic titled “ME Biomarker Claims” with a header “Latest Research.” Image shows test tubes, one filled with red liquid as a pipette adds a drop, symbolizing biomedical testing. Text summarises: researchers using EpiSwitch® found immune-linked chromatin markers distinguishing ME/CFS patients from controls, but small sample size and limited validation make biomarker claims premature. Footer credits Long Covid Advocacy and cites Hunter et al., Translational Medicine (2025).

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Tim Hutton @timhuttonau.bsky.social · 4d

Dear Package Delivery Companies: Just tell me when you deliver my package. I don't need to know:
1. That it's leaving the depot
2. That it's in transit (I intuited that from the previous text)
3. That it's about to be delivered, and
4. That it has indeed just been delivered

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