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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 10h

Another right wing stooge wins the Nobel Peace Prize

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Cas Ⓜ️udde @casmudde.bsky.social · 22h

I’m happy to see the awful Venezuelan regime being criticized but if “this is an award for an entire movement” (as the committee said), why give it to one specific person? And one with dubious friends and positions? Nobel Prize has been given to groups and movements before. Peace offer to Trump?

Reuters @reuters.com · 1d

BREAKING: Venezuela's Maria Corina Machado wins the Nobel Peace Prize for 2025 reut.rs/42uh3Aw

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 1d

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 1d

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 1d

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 1d

Fuck this normalising of insanity and avarice ...

James Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 1d

Adventures in framing:

Headline presenting this as a real-world question. Rather than as another sign of deepening vortex of narcissistic delusion and detachment from reality.

Headline: Trump Has His Eyes on Nobel Prize. Will He Get It?

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 1d

Corporate scumbaggery not bad for business apparently.

www.asic.gov.au/about-asic/n...

240 million in fines for misconduct = shares soaring

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 1d

#poldebt

#1003GIR

Robin Wigglesworth @robinwigglesworth.ft.com · 2d

BlackRock's bitcoin ETF now manages nearly $100bn, making the asset manager the single largest known owner of bitcoin. The ETF now throws off nearly $250mn a year in fees for BlackRock. www.ft.com/content/0cc9...

Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 1d

British Fascism: less bombastic than US fascism but still fascism.

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Jason Murphy @jasemurphy.bsky.social · 2d

Something super hopeful:
A way to treat Alzheimers that is totally new and was just shown to work amazingly in mice.

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport | share.google/U23UhLehCUUC...

Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy

Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy - Rapid amyloid-β clearance and cognitive recovery through multivalent modulation of blood–brain barrier transport

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Ben Rosamond @benrosamond1.bsky.social · 2d

Behold the tired old media theory of public opinion: We only reflect public sentiment; we have nothing to do with constructing it in the first place.

TheBossRoss @thebossross.bsky.social · 2d

The BBC's justification for platforming Farage beyond the actual significance of his small parliamentary party are his polls. A rather cynical explanation, for he wouldn't be where he is without the constant, uncritical appearances he's given on the BBC. It's a (literally) vicious circle.

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 2d

Kill it and we'll all be happier

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 2d

Here too!!

Janet French @jantafrench.bsky.social · 3d

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools.

Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

www.cbc.ca

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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 9d

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A much more plausible reason is the 10-fold surge in oil prices during the 1970s, not because the cost of energy rose (in fact many countries in Latin American produced and even exported oil) but rather because of its impact on capital flows.

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

#1003GIR

Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 9d

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Eduardo Porter argues in this FT piece that Latin America's import substitution industrialization (ISI) in the 1960s and 1970s "ended in a massive debt crisis that ushered in a period of economic decline known across the region as the “lost decade”."
www.ft.com/content/2f9d...

Going back to the 1970s won’t save Mexico

Embracing protectionism to prevent Chinese dumping and appease Trump will fail — just like import substitution did

www.ft.com

Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

The passive has been doing a lot of work in the Middle East

Jennifer Kretchmer @dreamwisp.bsky.social · 3d

Because it feels relevant as we continue to evaluate the media and our representatives’ statements, my favorite way to identify the active vs. passive voice.

A post by Rebecca Johnson:
“I finally learned how to teach my guys to ID the passive voice. If you can insert "by zombies" after the verb, you have passive voice.”

A tumblr respond from mightymur:
“The final, brilliant word on passive voice.
"She was killed [by zombies.]"<--passive
"Zombies killed [by zombies] her." <-- active”

Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

It's fascism innit

James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 3d

Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 3d

“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 3d

The fact Wong thinks she can just snark her way out of this is a sign of how normalised the relationships between politicians and lobbyists have become.

Like, of course the PM shouldn't be president of a registered lobby group that sells corporate members access to politicians? No shit??

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 3d

Independent Senator David Pocock and Labor's Penny Wong clashed in Senate estimates yesterday over whether the Parliamentary Sports Club could be considered a lobby group, as reported in Crikey last week. The club is registered as such, and lists Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its clients.

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Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

The end result of the culture wars - the dumbing of America

Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 3d

China — here is stem cell therapy breakthrough in treating severe diabetes

US under trump — WiFI radiation opens up your blood brain barrier … VaCcINes aRE bAd www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/h...

Tom Conley @tomjconley.bsky.social · 3d

Case in point - mainstream media has failed Australians - pusillanimous in the face of Genocide

Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 3d

😀👍

'SBS staff remain unable to use the word Palestine in news reporting despite federal recognition of the state last month as tensions over reporting on the conflict in Gaza remain high in newsrooms across the country two years after the October 7 massacre.'

www.theage.com.au/business/com...