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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1h

And we thought turnitin was annnoying

University wrongly accuses students of using artificial intelligence to cheat www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI

An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

www.abc.net.au

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 1h

Focusing on arson really ignores the fact that one person isn't supposed to be able to cause a disaster of this scale. It's only possible because of climate change.

Florida man accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades

Jonathan Rinderknecht is accused of intentionally starting fire that destroyed Pacific Palisades.

www.latimes.com

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chimera @chimeraxmachina.bsky.social · 1h

Democrats have the easiest job in global politics. No competition from other liberal or leftist parties and malignant opponents who support a deeply unpopular president. And yet they won't fight back because that goes against the only thing they serve: imperialism.

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Lamentably Undead @lamentablyawake.bsky.social · 59m

I can understand why people would respect Jonathan Portes speaking out on Israel's genocide but please note that, to this day, he supports austerity that kills disabled people.

He defends his work at the DWP under the coalition and he backed Starmer's welfare cuts.

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People Against Prisons Aotearoa @papa.org.nz · 14h

We condemn police brutality against @peaceactnotautahi.bsky.social members and supporters who engaged in peaceful direct action to oppose NZ arms and aerospace companies' collaboration with the American military industrial complex and the Israeli genocide in Gaza. thespinoff.co.nz/society/08-1...

Dozens of protesters arrested at Aerospace Summit in Christchurch

'We need to stop hiding behind this thin veneer of space exploration,' said one of the organisers. <br />

thespinoff.co.nz

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Ckan @ckanned.bsky.social · 14h

As the climate crisis unfolds, our laissez fair governments will jostle, fighting over necessity of funding & degree of responsibility; our current disaster frameworks & responses no longer adequate for these ‘unusual’ and long-term, far-reaching, more difficult to predict events.

Business as usual

Algal 'disaster' request never formally made, bloom chief tells inquiry

The SA government has never formally requested that the Commonwealth declare the algal bloom a "national disaster", a senior bureaucrat has told a parliamentary inquiry — despite a state minister "adv...

www.abc.net.au

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corey jae white 🏳️‍⚧️ @coreyjwhite.com · 22h

Maddison and I turned this skeet into a story for her patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/i-brok...

It's a comedic cybernoir heist, with a similar energy to our recent Interzone story (bsky.app/profile/core...).

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Peta (It's spooky time 🎃) 🏳️‍⚧️ @ptchronic.bsky.social · 21h

Happy International Lesbian Day!

Bathroom wall graffiti that says, "Try lesbianism"

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Tom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 21h

Breitbart and the Epoch Times are covering this shit now so fair to say escape velocity has been reached

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · 21h

"Eat the Rich (and nachos)"
Seen in Liverpool, UK

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Living in a neoliberal dystopian hellscape @breakify.bsky.social · 21h

We're so fucked. People see these as minor superficial changes instead of understanding that they cumulatively represent monumental shifts in the balance of a very fragile habitat. Yes, the planet can endure a lot. We can't.

As California glaciers disappear, people will see ice-free peaks exposed for the first time in millennia

The glaciers of California's Sierra Nevada are disappearing as temperatures rise. Scientists recently found that the glaciers probably have never before melted in human history.

www.latimes.com

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chimera @chimeraxmachina.bsky.social · 22h

An aspect of AI that goes unexamined is that it will further centralize control over media. The AI companies who come out on top will offer their services to smaller sites to substitute their proprietary algorithms. This means centralized control over what we see for empire.

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Ckan @ckanned.bsky.social · 21h

VESPERBELL cooking with their first anisong

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV8P...

VESPERBELL「一閃」Official Music Video

YouTube video by VESPERBELL

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Denis - The COVID Info Guy @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social · 23h

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar.

Up to 150,000 COVID ‘auto-tests’ were sold last week amid a surge linked to the new XFG variant.

Self-tests give results in 15 mins but are only ~70% accurate, meaning 3 in 10 positive cases could be missed.

Source: archive.md/52Qfc

French pharmacies run out of Covid tests as cases soar

A vaccination campaign against Covid begins in France on October 14

A view of a positive lateral flow Covid test

Self-testing kits are the easiest and quickest way to check for Covid-19

Michele Ursi/Shutterstock
Zane Lilley
Published Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 13:48 Modified Tuesday 07 October 2025 - 14:28

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

The annual pace of rent hikes has now accelerated to 4.3%, the equivalent of $28 increase in the nation’s median weekly rents.

Government needs to buy up housing stock for public housing.

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

Rent hikes accelerate as rental vacancies hit record low
Luca Ittimani
Luca Ittimani
Rent hikes are back on the rise after a decline in new listings brought vacant rental rates to a record low – despite a boom in housing investor activity.

Just 1.47% of Australia’s rental stock is up for rent, less than half the average pre-pandemic proportion, new data from Cotality shows.

The annual pace of rent hikes has now accelerated to 4.3%, the equivalent of $28 increase in the nation’s median weekly rents. The median weekly rent has surpassed $700 across Australia’s capital cities, with Brisbane and Perth running especially hot.

Regional rents are catching up to the cities as well, reaching $591 in September on a weekly median basis – about $110 behind the capitals, compared to a gap of $120 in May 2024.

Rent price growth had previously been easing from an annual pace of about 8% and held near a four-year-low of just 3.4% since May, amounting to about a $20 weekly increase on the median rent, Cotality found.

Kaytlin Ezzy, an economist with Cotality, said re-accelerating rent rises were the result of far fewer properties than normal being listed “for lease”, with listings running at just three-quarters of the pre-pandemic average.

Ezzy noted that even a recent explosion in home loans to investors, or prospective landlords, had not boosted rental listings.

Property investors have become so active in recent years that the Reserve Bank said last week overcrowding in the market could risk a future house price bubble and resulting crash in its review of Australia’s financial system.

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Ckan @ckanned.bsky.social · 1d

1 of the things that something as unignorable as the ongoing Covid pandemic should have primed people to be aware of, is the systemic ease with which 'official' counts and the methodology of counting those deaths have been leaned on & abused to launder the preferred narratives of the state and West.

CNN Reporter Says Network Suppresses Gaza Genocide Coverage

YouTube video by The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder

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The Spectre of Potatoism 👻 @kootenaymarxist.bsky.social · 1d

Two years since October 7th:

‘If Hamas has to be dismantled because of what it did on October 7th (it doesn't)…then the Israeli government has to be dismantled 10 times over.’

-Norman Finkelstein

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 1d

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows.

@ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

In 2 Years of Gaza Genocide, Sunday Shows on NBC, ABC and CNN Have Not Featured a Single Palestinian Guest

In a microcosm of the U.S. coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza, since Oct. 7, 2023, influential Sunday news shows have not seen fit to book any Palestinians.

inthesetimes.com

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AskHistorians @askhistorians.bsky.social · 1d

There's another awesome #AMA coming tomorrow #Skystorians! We're joined by Dr. Casey Schmitt, and you have the opportunity to ask all kinds of questions about their new book "The Predatory Sea: Human Trafficking, Colonization, and Trade in the Greater Caribbean, 1530-1690!"

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Eli Valley @elivalley.bsky.social · 1d

Bari Weiss, CBS News, 1965

- New art in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social
jewishcurrents.org/bari-weiss-c...

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Megumin Maniac 🐈‍⬛ @meguminmaniac.bsky.social · 1d

I just found a beautiful YouTube account.

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💜 phonakins 🍉 @phonakins.com · 1d

Independence vs perceptions of "luxuries" :/

A $2600 Thermomix to cook for herself or $10500 on a support worker to cook for her and have to manage?

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Should the NDIS fund kitchen items? In some cases, advocates say yes

A year after a controversial NDIS change, advocates are growing increasingly concerned that "counterintuitive" and "nonsensical" funding decisions are reducing participant independence.

www.abc.net.au

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Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

Independent NT MP, Justine Davis, was highly critical of the announcement, stating "income management doesn't work," noting, "decades of evidence tells us this".

nit.com.au/06-10-2025/2...

NT government to refer parents of truant children to income management

The Northern Territory Government will refer parents whose children do not attend school to income management, saying the measure is part of the CLP's plan to reduce crime and strengthen community saf...

nit.com.au

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Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

When the 79th mechanized femboy division faces off with the texas national guard

Transphobes Can't Read @lordaslan.bsky.social · 1d

gm

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CSarracenian @ COMMISSIONS CLOSED @sarracenian.bsky.social · 1d

I could post a lot about the different characters & scenarios, how this feels like the nexus-point of so many humanist scifi of the time, how it feels like a predecessor to even very recent works like Heavenly Delusion or Fire Punch...

But instead I'll make the wise decision:

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