Lyra
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"The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors."
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The National Socialist Network is dead
The far-right group is gone but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors.
independentaustralia.net
January 24, 2026 at 12:22 AM
"The far-right group is gone, but the danger isn’t — Australia has just turned an organised hate group into hundreds of abandoned "lone" actors."
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
independentaustralia.net/politics/pol...
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the cloud is just someone else's computer
Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch
The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.
techcrunch.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:59 AM
the cloud is just someone else's computer
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A (long) summary of others’ investigations into the well-funded international Islamophobia networks & Australian links, reflections.
Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination.
& Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
#auspol
Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination.
& Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
#auspol
Front Groups working with Zionist actors are promoting Islamophobia
Australian front groups have been working to promote the idea that the Greens make many cultural identities less safe. It's - loosely - part of a global Islamophobia industry.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:47 AM
A (long) summary of others’ investigations into the well-funded international Islamophobia networks & Australian links, reflections.
Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination.
& Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
#auspol
Palestinians are slaughtered because power elites have accepted the indoctrination.
& Palestinians forbidden to mourn 😡
open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
#auspol
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The weekend might be a good time to catch up with this. The Right (formerly free speech absolutists) is crushing our speech, cultural treasures & protest rights bc they despise us. They despise Muslims even more than us “woke” irritants. Networked & funded hate. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
Australians' freedom of speech is under attack because Palestinians are seen as less than human
A coalition of forces is working to stop Australian speech and protest that criticises Israel. Cultural landmarks like Meanjin and the 2026 Adelaide Writers Week festival are victims.
open.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:43 AM
The weekend might be a good time to catch up with this. The Right (formerly free speech absolutists) is crushing our speech, cultural treasures & protest rights bc they despise us. They despise Muslims even more than us “woke” irritants. Networked & funded hate. open.substack.com/pub/lucyham2...
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In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?
January 13, 2026 at 10:41 PM
In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?
🧪 seems like wildly irresponsible journalism at best, and wilful disinformation at worst, to post this, and not mention that all of the most strident criticism linked to is produced by "scientists" directly funded by plastics manufacturers and chemical companies.
‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discovery of microplastics throughout human body
Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 4:11 AM
🧪 seems like wildly irresponsible journalism at best, and wilful disinformation at worst, to post this, and not mention that all of the most strident criticism linked to is produced by "scientists" directly funded by plastics manufacturers and chemical companies.
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MAGA: "NO ONE IS LAUGHING AT US NOW!"
The rest of the world:
The rest of the world:
January 13, 2026 at 4:09 PM
MAGA: "NO ONE IS LAUGHING AT US NOW!"
The rest of the world:
The rest of the world:
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Hey everyone, please be very careful when using odourless thinners. They lull you into a sense of non-toxicity.
Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health.
I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask
Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health.
I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask
Oil washes are the future, I swear.
AK interactive Odourless thinners is the way to go.
AK interactive Odourless thinners is the way to go.
January 13, 2026 at 10:05 AM
Hey everyone, please be very careful when using odourless thinners. They lull you into a sense of non-toxicity.
Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health.
I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask
Thinners are usually toxic, and many oil paint pigments will seriously damage your health.
I use very stinky thinners to remind me to open windows and mask
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there is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both
January 8, 2026 at 6:31 AM
there is no link between Palestinian authors, Palestinian activism, or Palestinians and the Bondi massacre, and if you believe there is you are either extremely stupid or evil or (most likely) both
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Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
UN report: Israel practising racial segregation and apartheid - Michael West
A UN Human Rights Office has found Israel is 'asphyxiating' Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem via its policies, practices and laws
michaelwest.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Meanwhile ... UN Human Rights report finds Israel is an apartheid state
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
michaelwest.com.au/un-report-is...
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Many people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?
"Was the officer struck by the vehicle, as President Trump insists, or did the car pass by or around him?"
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
If we only had some trusted institution that could adjudicate between competing claims by relying on facts.
January 8, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Many people are saying 2+2=5, and who are we to judge if they’re right?
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What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
January 8, 2026 at 4:57 AM
What’s the point of writers’ festivals — or, for that matter, writers — if they can’t discuss issues that matter? Australian arts administrators would rather destroy the whole sector than allow Palestinians to speak about genocide. It’s beyond shameful.
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My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
January 8, 2026 at 5:36 AM
My heart is so heavy right now. It shouldn't take another murder to get people to wake up. The stacks of Black and brown bodies weren't enough to convince you?
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idk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent
January 6, 2026 at 8:34 PM
idk what people mean when they say american industry is in decline, the US seems to be very active in manufacturing consent
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An essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion
January 5, 2026 at 1:16 AM
An essay from a man in Nairobi talking about the social, psychological, and emotional toll of working as a chat companion
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A dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
January 4, 2026 at 9:39 PM
A dozen former athletes call for a royal commission: the government must heed this demand
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
100,000 Australians march over the Sydney Harbour Bridge: the government must ignore this rabble
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Will Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.
I think the most straightforward framing that captures the severity of the situation is that the government of the United States has been seized by a mad authoritarian regime not meaningfully distinct from Putin or Kim or, well, Maduro, and its members must be brought to harsh justice
January 3, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Will Stencil wrong again. American interventionism since the end of WW2 has been a rolling set of disasters, enacted upon sovereign nations with bipartisan support, causing the death and displacement of tens of millions of people. They just didn't do the key jingling part for pundits this time.
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Checking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Checking in on the TikTok knitting lady who insists the military would never follow illegal orders, and she is insisting that by the letter of the law this was legal because... well because otherwise her grift of telling liberals comforting nonsense falls apart, I guess.
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I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here.
It will only embolden them.
It will only embolden them.
January 3, 2026 at 6:23 PM
I guess what’s really despairing is that this feels like a litmus test of every part of the system, and every part of the system is failing. The media, the democrats, the army, international allies… pretty much everyone is willing to shrug their shoulders here.
It will only embolden them.
It will only embolden them.
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They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
They have no need for the patient escalation other administrations have conducted to incite the conflict they desire. They've seen what the world will tolerate. They won't stop until the American order is collapsed. And there's no external force that can or will.
The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.
January 3, 2026 at 11:16 AM
The "rules based international order" has always been a facade constructed by the most powerful nations to lend legitimacy to their conflicts of greed and power. Gaza was the nail in the coffin for what little reality there was.
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"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years"
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
January 3, 2026 at 8:34 AM
"NSW records the highest number of road deaths in eight years"
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
A few "reasons" given: drugs, alcohol, speeding. Ofc all of those factors long before COVID arrived to infect and reinfect almost the everyone, with known cognitive impacts.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...
January 3, 2026 at 4:23 AM
While far from impossible, it does take concerted effort to inure people to violence and atrocity to the point where they're comortable enacting it, and the stuff happening with grok gives me the same sickening feeling that listening to radio broadcasts from Rwanda leading up to the genocide does...
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About three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 AM
About three and a half hours until this cursed year draws to a close. Good riddance, 2025.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.
Let’s all sincerely hope for - and work to realise - a better 2026.
To paraphrase an old anarchist slogan, He ao hou ka taea.