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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 2h

Now that the Deloitte report, about the government's unlawful administration of mutual obligations, is making international headlines, it's worth looking at what's actually in it (apart from AI slop) and WHY it was actually commissioned

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 4h

If you stopped bank robbers it would kill the whole robbery industry

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.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 8h

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Hari Kunzru @harikunzru.bsky.social · 16h

Trouble is you soon stumble on Blake and Shelley and before you know it you’re telling pater and mater how mill owners are dark and satanic and the Peterloo massacre was bad actually

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 16h

Oh hey Australian Labor

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 17h

Good to see the Conservative Party committed to keeping the deficit down by *checks notes* spending £2 billion giving tax breaks for private education, creating a massive new deportation force and pledging to maintain pensioner benefits.

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 17h

How viscerally sexy he was

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 1d

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Alom Shaha @alomshaha.bsky.social · 18h

Publishers to authors: you need to be active on social media
Authors to publishers: Sure! Could you help me make some stuff to help promote my book:
Publisher:
Author: please
Publisher:
Author: at least repost this for me?
Publisher:

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 18h

The land of Shakespeare and countless other giants of literature thinks that degrees in their language are rip offs? The cognitive dissonance here is wild

Tim Worthington @outonbluesix.bsky.social · 19h

How is this repeatedly made into a policy issue - by *all* parties - when the blunt fact of the matter is that grown adults who are obliged to pay for their own education, and relentlessly pursued to repay their loans, should be able to study whatever the fuck they want.

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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 18h

It has cost $1.138 million and counting for the independent lawyer the NACC has had to hire to fix the mess their Commissioner made of the Robodebt inquiry

Compromised decision making costs public money and trust.

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Martonnax at 99.8% Restoration @rakshasa.bsky.social · 19h

How fucking embarrassing is it for the entire political establishment that they're being outflanked on the left by MICHAEL FUCKING HESSELTINE

BBC Newsnight @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social · 1d

“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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Gregory Norminton @gregorynorminton.bsky.social · 18h

"Man is the bread that bakes and eats itself." - Alasdair Gray, LANARK

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 18h

Alasdair Gray is one of my heroes

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 18h

Who knew that the man who ate a raw onion and fell out of a fire truck, and stood in front of a sign that said “ditch the witch” would be feted by the Tories

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 19h

I mean the LNP, for some reason the Tories love their schtick

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 19h

Reckon they started it

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Rich.W. 🌹 @catowasright.bsky.social · 19h

The de education of the population is a principle of fascism

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 19h

Imagine if their boat was turned back

Frédéric Moreau @goodclimate.bsky.social · 1d

This lurid headline is about British tourists no longer getting away with overstaying in Schengen. Or being 'illegals', as it's often called in the UK.

Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 19h

How long before the coalition completely fractures? The signs have been there for a decade

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 20h

A wee message from us 👇

A Message to the Police (British) State

News of a Crown Prosecution Service Appeal against the ruling of their own judge is unsurprising.

He ruled the charge was ‘unlawful and null’ and it was.

It is unsurprising because this whole process has not been driven by the police or the courts, it has been driven by politicans backed up by British media. This is political policing.

There is no ‘important point of law’. The CPS have submitted nothing new in their appeal. What there is though, is a state wide witch-hunt against Palestinian solidarity.

The media were gleefully informed about this appeal before we were.

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A Message to the Police (British) State

Once again this is a massive waste of taxpayers money, of police time, of court time.

Once again there are endless news reports about Mo Chara, about Kneecap but we are NOT the story.

Yesterday 104 Palestinians were murdered in Gaza and hundreds more maimed as Israel commits genocide.

Entire families wiped out, people bombed to pieces as they slept, young kids with limbs blown off and no medicaine to treat them.

This is aided and supported by the British State.

We will fight you in your court again. We will win again.

FREE PALESTINE / TIOCHFAIDH ÁR LÁ

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 20h

No. No no no no no

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 22h

The City of Melbourne is set to vote on a new plan that would see more privately owned CCTV cameras feeding into the city's security network and staff able to access the footage to investigate local law breaches.

Melbourne council staff to be given surveillance powers under draft plans

The City of Melbourne is set to vote on a new plan that would see more privately owned CCTV cameras feeding into the city's security network and staff able to access the footage to investigate local law breaches.

www.abc.net.au

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Hel in a hand basket @helodare.bsky.social · 20h

I’m not religious, but I’ll pray for Dolly

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

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WhiteRoseAFA @whiteroseafa.bsky.social · 21h

These costumes really ruin the optics of the propaganda videos the far right wants to make, which is what they're there for.

ICE will eventually target them and brutalize them to try to run them off, so they can get useful propaganda video. I hope they're prepared for that.

Courtney Vaughn @courtneyvaughn.bsky.social · 1d

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

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Melissa Rogerson @melissainau.bsky.social · 1d

Do you teach boardgames? We have just launched a survey asking about your experience! It takes about ten minutes to complete - please share!
Survey link: go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp

Image text reads:
Do you teach board games?
We invite you to complete a short survey for academic research into people’s experiences of teaching boardgames, at home and elsewhere.
The survey takes about ten minutes to complete.

To find out more, please use the QR code,
visit go.unimelb.edu.au/45qp
or email hybrid-games@unimelb.edu.au

(University of Melbourne Human Research Ethics Approval 33778)

There is also a decorative image of game pawns and dice, with a magnifying glass on top, as well as a QR code which points to the given link.

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 22h

One of the conspirators who helped Gavrilo Princip shoot Archduke Franz Ferdinand survived to see the breakup of Yugoslavia. He could conceivably have watched the Neighbours episode where Scott and Charlene got married

rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 1d

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

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goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 20h

Optus sent two emails to an incorrect address at the Department of Communications, alerting it of the Triple Zero outage on September 18
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed...

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