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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 16m

The reality of an AI future is front-line workers will continue to be paid minimum wage. Middle managers, administrators and clerks will become unemployable beyond taking the seasonal jobs picking fruit the migrants used to do.
There will be no middle class.

Then there be revolution.

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 20m

“Things will be free”, so Andreessen is predicting AI will usher in an era of socialist nirvana.
Methinks that’s not what the capitalists will use AI for.

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 28m

I’ve been sucked in before but have always been able to use the credit (which, by rights they didn’t have to give me). The fully-flexible-no-deposit option is only a few bucks more and worth every cent for the peace of mind.

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 32m

Hopeful always of peace but nearly all involved in this ‘deal’ on all sides are incompetent, deeply compromised awful human beings determining the fate of so many desperate people only as an ancillary benefit to their criminal objectives as war criminals and organised crime bosses

Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 43m

🚨Fugitive of international justice Benjamin Netanyahu says he will convene his government tomorrow to approve Trump’s Gaza deal. He praised the army, thanked Trump, and said Israel would “achieve all our goals” with divine help.

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Matunos @matunos.bsky.social · 1h

investigate fraud, in this economy?!

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 1h

I’ve paid my subscription but I still haven’t received my antifa t-shirt.

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David @daverino.bsky.social · 3h

No matter the religion; you can’t trust them with kids

“Vijitha pleaded not guilty to charges of sexual penetration of a child & committing an indecent act with a child under 16. The Buddhist monk is accused of luring 6 girls to his..quarters & sexually abusing them”
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Buddhist monk sexually assaulted girls at Melbourne temple, trial told

The head monk of a Buddhist temple, Naotunne Vijitha, has denied sexually assaulting six girls at the temple in Melbourne's south-east.

www.abc.net.au

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 3h

The way Labor are rolling, Jacinta Price will defect to them soon.

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Gigz @andrewgigacz.bsky.social · 4h

A rather disappointing sequel to 1957’s “Exciting Report”.

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 3h

Oppositions don’t win elections in Australia.
Gummints lose elections.
It’s how it has always been.

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 16h

LLMs will never be good for anything other than plagiarism

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 1d

I'm never actually going to need to write another comment piece again am I?

The right wing shit rags are just going to keep recruiting for us.

Folks - want a better country?

Join.greenparty.org.uk

The party even more dangerous than Starmers labour - UK's answer to Putin's communists

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 16h

LIVE SCENES FROM WALES
#WorldBollardAssociation 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 16h

“You don’t meet the threshold of “terrorist” but the AFP will treat you like a terrorist for the shitz and giggles.”

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godlessbitch.bsky.social @godlessbitch.bsky.social · 23h

Atheism
It’s the Real Thang

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 17h

Britian Rules The Waevs

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 17h

There may be unforeseen costs to downgrading our understanding of the national language

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Kathy Mac @kmac-79.bsky.social · 17h

The Victorian state liberal party just congratulated me on recently becoming an Australian citizen.
I was born here nearly 50 years ago...
Lol
#auspol

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 1d

How many trillions of dollars have been invested into this technology so far?

Google search for "austria hungary in space"

Google excitedly tells you about the 1889 orbital flight, and that by 1908 there was a Mars research output with 30 people.

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Marc Wilson @marcwilson.co.uk · 17h

Concentration camp, Sereď, Vrbové, Slovakia. June 2018.
From 'A Wounded Landscape - bearing witness to the Holocaust'.

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 17h

I understand the well-deserved grief being heaped on the Riyadh comedians but sports people have been laundering the reputations of these murderous regimes for years now, and they get a free pass. How many people in Australia turned up and tuned in to Liv X in Adelaide?

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 19h

Not to the people who own him…

John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 1d

I read this as Abbott suggesting free summer weekend transport in Victoria too, and I was very confused.

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Robert Nagle (aka idiotprogrammer) @nagletx.bsky.social · 1d

(GIFTED) Here's an absolutely lovely annotated list of the 25 most important/meaningful magazine covers of the last century. Best to read on a laptop or tablet (not a phone)

The 25 Most Influential Magazine Covers of All Time

Four editors, a creative director and a visual artist met to debate and discuss the best of print media — and its enduring legacy.

www.nytimes.com

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Leni @heradescends.bsky.social · 1d

I can’t wait till shame makes a comeback

MediaActive ▪️EQUALITY ▪️JUSTICE ▪️PEACE @mediaactive.bsky.social · 1d

“Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’ “. Ugly. But it’s a new #AI epoque. Ethics, dececency, compassion? Forget them. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...

Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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