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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 5d

If you wake up many days with a degree of dread, even though by all accounts, you're living a good life.
It's most likely because your brain and gut are having difficulty with this masquerading bullshit used by our politicians that they label social cohesion while themselves breaking it.

#auspol

Ronni🧂Salt @ronnisalt.bsky.social · 5d

My latest article in The Shot

"The largest contributors to the breakdown of social cohesion in Australia are the governments of Australia, practising a privileged fuck-you version of democracy that makes its own rules & caters for those within the club"

#pffft
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The myth of 'social cohesion' - do as they say, not as they do - The Shot

There’s an established principle in law: he who comes looking for equity must come with clean hands. The clean hands...

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 2h

Hopefully it creates the greatest backlash to those doing the damage and instead of wet dream it turns into some far worse than Chucky visiting

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 3h

Insane, this will be as big as Salem it's a witch trial all over again. The witches were as disconnected as those of Antifa

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 3h

Everyone who supports what the USA did in WW11 is Antifa

Don't ever forget if you side with what America did in WW11, you are by default Antifa

AKDftw @akdftw.bsky.social · 5h

Excuse me, this was AG Bondi sitting next to Trump.

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 10h

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 3h

With this, they are saying if you get apprehended and they ask you if you're against the administration, they can pull the trigger. No questions asked

Let's get that very clear for everyone not in the USA.

This applies to all of us anywhere in the world

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4h

When he told Fox “I want to try and get to heaven if possible” and concluded “I’m hearing I’m not doing well. I hear I’m really at the bottom of the totem pole”, If I get to heaven, this will be one of the reasons”.

Give him the prize

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Donald Trump would not be the worst person to ever get a Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize was, from its very inception, about the wealthy whitewashing their own involvement in violence. So why shouldn't Trump get one?

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4h

Until we blow them up or etch them away with chemical leaching from problematic corporations

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4h

Wow you wonder what else they were up to. I mean the idea that they had framed to extract all the subbranch funds to a central repository that they no doubt controlled, seems like a check's notes, massive scam waiting to eventuate

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4h

The continuous failure of government to do the absolute minimum of what it should leads to the rise in fascism.

This is horrendous that this happened, but sadly I'm also not surprised

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, what.

Let's hope the appeal fails as well.

Maybe Starmer should be realistically doing something about Gaza and Palestine and stop worrying about people who keep calling out his bullshit

#freepalestine

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CPS to appeal against dismissal of terrorism charge against Kneecap’s Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh

The rapper was accused of displaying a flag in support of Hezbollah but case was thrown out by magistrate

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 1d

What a rogue in the ranks? Surely a whitewash or damn.

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 2d

Sadly, it feels like far too many are compromised. I doubt many will feel good about his work as it shows themselves up as hacks

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 2d

I'm going to get burned

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 2d

Today's not the day, Peter. Isn't that what Albo said

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 2d

I have receipts that republicans can end the shutdown right now without a single democratic vote, and that the trump administration wants this shutdown and that's why they're not ending it. See the proof! www.youtube.com/live/PkEOK7J...

LIVE: Allison Gill - REPUBLICANS DIRTY SHUTDOWN SECRET REVEALED

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David @davidlogically.bsky.social · 2d

This seems important

OMG.WTF 🇦🇺 🇲🇪 🇿🇲 @amsickofpollies.bsky.social · 3d

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This short video is a must see I think. This fella speaks truth with passion

I’ve never heard of this “Bunny” but he sounds like he has great integrity

MAGA MELTS DOWN Over Bad Bunny Super Bowl

YouTube video by Really American

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 3d

Brilliant ❤️❤️❤️

KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 3d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

It's interesting to read this and see how Christianity in America is enabling it all over again.

Which will rise and crash this time?

There isn't a pretty future for some of these people

From the book Saving a Sick America:a prescription for moral and cultural transformation

Here in America, “studies find that in the United States the irreligious are far more likely than the religious to believe in a whole array of occult beliefs such as Atlantis, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, astrology, UFOs, haunted houses, and ghosts.”34 So it is not those following the Scriptures who believe in fairy tales and superstitious myths. It is those who reject God’s Word who are more likely to do this. In the oft-quoted words of G. K. Chesterton, “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing—they believe in anything.”35 On October 14, 1941, Adolph Hitler commented: So it’s not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that’s left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.36 Today we can say that it was not Christianity that died a natural death. To the contrary, it was Nazism that died a violent, ignominious death while the Christian faith, despite setbacks in the West, is thriving worldwide like never before. Nazism, for its part, has been “convicted of absurdity”—and far worse.

Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

They'll extend it to their allies if we remain one. It'll all be about protecting the regime because of all the reasons they can manifest like protecting USA forces

#auspol

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

Government subsidies will be the answer, and the government will spruiker that it's all about the jobs. Probably 250 of them

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

The headline looks OK. The first part seems reasonable, and then the switcheroo

Dan, the expert, spruiks nuclear with his fictional SMRs

#auspol

News.com.au headline "Never ending demand: Household bills expected rise due the AI energy consumption " picture of Sky News taking head

The global AI boom is well on its way to Australia, with the prices of energy and property expected to rise as a result.

The government will need to find a solution to prevent Aussies from footing the bill, with a Coalition minister spruiking nuclear energy as a potential solution.

Increased investment from international firms in Australian AI infrastructure over the coming years is set to drive up demand for land and energy to support the technology.

Energy and utility expert Phillip Vrettakis said the demand for energy from technology companies “is much more than we’ve got available”.

“It’s going to be a challenge for the entire energy sector,” he said.

Mr Vrettakis, an executive director of energy advisory firm Rennie, said the increase in energy demand from data centres would lead to “bigger bills for consumers going forward”.

Data centres have a “never-ending demand” for energy and are “hungry” for data, land and water to cool their facilities, he said.

“At the moment there’s a real scramble for locations that are close to city centres to make sure infrastructure, especially fibre connections and latency are short.”

The warning comes after US-based software giant OpenAI confirmed plans to open its first Australian office in Sydney, and Amazon pledged a $20bn investment in local data centres.

A spokesperson for the federal government’s trade and investment promotion agency Austrade, said they are “seeing strong interest from international investors” in AI.

An April report from the International Energy Agency projected electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030.

Coalition spokesman for Energy Dan Tehan said nuclear innovations in the United States including small modular reactors could provide a solution to Australian energy demands.

“There’s basically a nuclear renaissance taking place in the US,” Mr Tehan told ABC Radio National on Thursday following a trip to the US touring nuclear sites.

“Everyone that I spoke to is incredibly confident given the use of AI, given the use of quantum, that they will continue to make rapid developments with nuclear technology.

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

Imagine if the government did its job and protected the people who voted for it

It was one of their own who instigated the plan and did nothing.

#auspol

Another shameful response by @albomp.bsky.social

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‘Time is running out’: Sportsbet offered share of $1m in bonus bets if customers gambled on AFL grand final day

Online bookmaker’s offer, one of a series texted during finals, was valid only if customer took up a suggested same-game multi bet

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

They are going to flog this immigrants are the problem until the cows come home.
I'm pretty sure we should have never let those 10 pound poms into the country as all that suburban development put a lot of pressure on infrastructure then

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Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield @agdanrayfield.bsky.social · 4d

BREAKING NEWS: We just secured a court order blocking the president’s order to deploy federalized National Guard troops to Portland when a federal judge granted our request for a Temporary Restraining Order. Read our statement.

#orpol #nationalguard #portland #portlandoregon

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Data Dot @petermclarty.bsky.social · 4d

The massive loss in sales for Qantas is the main driver. We, the public, are not of concern in the late stage capitalism death throes