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Stacey
@staceycassels.bsky.social
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Astronomy, PC gaming, history, sci-fi, reading. Climate action.
Kiwi living in Australia. 332.81ppm
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staceycassels.bsky.social
Not to distract from the obvious murder.
About 11m into this video one of the masked goons who is upset at having snowballs thrown at him, lifts his weapon (unloaded/safety on idk?) and repeatedly pulls the trigger point blank at protesters.
Fuck ICE.
jkz12769.bsky.social The Desert Veteran @jkz12769.bsky.social · 2h
Please share.. ICE THUGS shot & killed a woman in Minneapolis. Then attack citizens point blank with teargas grenades, pepper ball guns & chemical spray in the faces. Of course, Greg Bovino was in the mix. He needs to be brought up for murder charges.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
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🚨BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS AND KILL WOMAN in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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January 7, 2026 at 11:16 PM
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jkz12769.bsky.social
Please share.. ICE THUGS shot & killed a woman in Minneapolis. Then attack citizens point blank with teargas grenades, pepper ball guns & chemical spray in the faces. Of course, Greg Bovino was in the mix. He needs to be brought up for murder charges.🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
youtu.be/LnfiWmX_mTE?...
🚨BREAKING: ICE SHOOTS AND KILL WOMAN in Minneapolis
YouTube video by Status Coup News
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January 7, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
For many years I lived in an apartment without aircon. My list of places I could go to escape the heat in metro Melbourne
January 5, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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wolfcat.bsky.social
Heatwave Warning for Victoria issued at 02:49pm EDT on Monday 5 January 2026

Heatwave Situation for 3 days starting Tuesday 6th January 2026

#MelbWeather

If you wouldn't walk barefoot on a path, don't let your dog do it.

Stay cool, stay hydrated, stay out of the sun.
Heatwave Situation for 3 days starting Tuesday 6th January 2026 Most of Victoria is covered under a severe heatwave warning, with a few pockets of Extreme and a band along the coast of Low intensity Heatwave
January 5, 2026 at 4:14 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
No one is radicalised enough tbh. This system is evil.
damonyoung.com.au Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 5d
I can’t verify what’s in this confession, but it certainly seems plausible.

“I'm a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it.”

Loathsome manipulation and exploitation.
r/confession Join u/Trowaway_whistleblow • 3h I'm a developer for a major food delivery app. The 'Priority Fee' and 'Driver Benefit Fee' go 100% to the company. The driver sees $0 of it. I'm posting this from a library Wi-Fi on a burner laptop because I am technically under a massive NDA. I don't care anymore. I put in my two weeks yesterday and honestly, I hope they sue me. I've been sitting on this for about eight months, just watching the code getting pushed to production, and I can't sleep at night knowing I helped build this machine. You guys always suspect the algorithms are rigged against you, but the reality is actually so much more depressing than the conspiracy theories. I'm a backend engineer. I sit in the weekly sprint planning meetings where Product Managers (PMs) discuss how to squeeze another 0.4% margin out of "human assets" (that's literally what they call drivers in the database schemas). They talk about these people like they are resource nodes in a video game, not fathers and mothers trying to pay rent. First off, the "Priority Delivery" is a total scam. It was pitched to us as a "psychological value add." Like I said in the title, when you pay that extra $2.99, it changes a boolean flag in the order JSON, but the dispatch logic literally ignores it. It does nothing to speed you up. We actually ran an A/B test last year where we didn't speed up the priority orders, we just purposefully delayed non-priority orders by 5 to 10 minutes to make the Priority ones "feel" faster by comparison. Management loved the results. We generated millions in pure profit just by making the standard service worse, not by making the premium service better. But the thing that actually makes me sick-and the main reason I'm quitting-is the "Desperation Score." We have a hidden metric for drivers that tracks how desperate they are for cash based on their acceptance behavior. If a driver usually logs on at 10 PM and accepts every garbage $3 order instantly without hesitation, the algo tags them as "High Desperation." Once they are tagged, the system then deliberately stops showing them high-paying orders. The logic is: "Why pay this guy $15 for a run when we know he's desperate enough to do it for $6?" We save the good tips for the "casual" drivers to hook them in and gamify their experience, while the full-timers get grinded into dust. Then there is the "Benefit Fee." You've probably seen that $1.50 "Regulatory Response Fee" or "Driver Benefits Fee" that appeared on your bill after the recent labor laws passed. The wording is designed to make you feel like you're helping the worker. In reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it. You are literally paying for the high-end lawyers that are fighting to keep your delivery guy homeless. And regarding tips, we're essentially doing Tip Theft 2.0. We don't "steal" them legally anymore because we got sued for that. Instead, we use predictive modeling to dynamically lower the base pay. If the algo predicts you are a "high tipper" and you'll likely drop $10, it offers the driver a measly $2 base pay. If you tip $0, it offers them $8 base pay just to get the food moved. The result is that your generosity isn't rewarding the driver; it's subsidizing us. You're paying their wage so we don't have to. I'm drunk and I'm angry. Ask me anything before this taken down.
January 2, 2026 at 6:17 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
all of energy twitter patting itself on the back for continuing to post on a website that is mostly users prompting a generative chatbot to create non-consensual sexualised imagery of children

It's where the Serious Smart Experts are Posting

www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...
Global outrage as X’s Grok morphs photos of women, children into explicit content - CNBC TV18
X is facing backlash after users exploited its Grok AI to morph photos of women and children into explicit images, sparking global concern over AI-driven sexual abuse and platform safety.
www.cnbctv18.com
January 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Israeli president Isaac Herzog should be banned from visiting Australia and I support all protests against him
December 31, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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clapifyoulikeme.favrd.social
Sam Altman is going to be in the history books, but not in the way he’d like.

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Complaint – #1 in Emily Lyons, Administrator c.t.a. and Personal Representative of the Estate of Stein-Erik Soelberg v. OpenAi Foundation f/k/a OpenAi Inc. (N.D. Cal., 3:25-cv-11037) – CourtListener.c...
COMPLAINT against Samuel Altman, OpenAi Foundation f/k/a OpenAi Inc., OpenAi Group PBC, OpenAi Holdings LLC, OpenAi Inc., OpenAi OpCo LLC ( Filing fee $ 405, receipt number ACANDC-21492305.). Filed by...
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December 30, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
Who else?
December 30, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
They're enabling creepy lonely men to create submissive "AI companions" that can be modeled on whatever real-life woman they're obsessed with and made to do whatever they want and, Jesus Christ, I need to wash my hands just typing that.
zoandbehold.bsky.social Rep. Zooey Zephyr @zoandbehold.bsky.social · 10d
"And I never say no"

We need to have a serious talk about the way "AI companion" apps not only prey on the vulnerable, but are priming their users to ignore consent and to conflate love with control.

We need AI regulations across so many sectors, but this area is particularly horrifying.
December 28, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
Half of our news stories these days are "Rich Asshole Doesn't Want to Follow the Rules" or "Rich Asshole Doesn't Like Something" or "Rich Asshole Makes Ominous Threat"

Instead of kowtowing to these spoiled toddlers, I want to stand outside their mansion like Lloyd Dobler blaring this on a boom box:
The Coup - "The Guillotine"
YouTube video by ANTI- Records
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December 28, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
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We've seen again the conflation of Israel with Jewish people, which is Zionism's aim, and the conflation of Palestinian rights with antisemitism generally, which is far more insidious and frankly evil. There is also the conflation of Muslim with Palestine. These three reductions serve the imperial agenda. This had nothing to do with Palestine whatsoever. The killers were not Palestinian, not advocates for human rights, not organisers of rallies - they re random assholes with known links to terrorists from as early as 2019, the father purchased his weapons in September 2023, before any of the protests or chants that are currently being blamed, and not only that, they are apparently affiliated with ISIS who are ideologically opposed to Hamas, and to Palestinian liberation. The attempt to link this attack, in this specific way, is no more than a sickening retrospective justification for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, the ongoing colonisation of their land, and genocide.
December 26, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
My latest article addresses this point comprehensively.
A great deal of Zionist rhetoric has been aimed at our education system, at artists and journalists, at universities for the "student encampments", at our freedom of speech, at our freedom of assembly, at our freedom to teach, at our freedom to wear clothes and accessories (no kheffyehs, no pins, no watermelons, no reference whatsoever to Palestinian existence), at our healthcare system. No one who objects to the Zionist murder of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians is safe. Total obedience and total erasure is required, and it will be demanded in the most emotional and sensational way possible so as to override critical reasoning. And yet, looking at Segal's plan, looking at the demands, there is not a single thing that, having been enacted, would have prevented the Bondi terrorist attack. It wasn't carried out by a uni grad, or artist, or activist - it was carried out by a bricklayer and his unemployed loser father who somehow gained access to weapons they should never have had. What's more, the Muslim community warned police about the extremist preacher the terrorist was connected to, over a decade ago, and were told authorities wanted it kept open because "it was a good source of intel".
December 26, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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saygday.bsky.social
I want to see this so much!!!!

John Clarke the dryest, funniest and cleverest comedian of my lifetime
#johnclarke #clarkeanddawe #auspol

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NOT ONLY FRED DAGG | Official Trailer | In NZ Cinemas Boxing Day
YouTube video by ClarkeAndDawe
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December 26, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
This has to stop! And I’m not just talking about Trump! America has to realise it doesn’t have the right to invade any country for any reason. You are not the world’s sherriff. You have no right in other countries under any guise, especially what you call democracy.
ronfilipkowski.bsky.social Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 12d
The malignant narcissist can’t stand America trying to have a peaceful Christmas without him.
December 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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kattenbarge.bsky.social
It doesn’t fix things, but it really does bring me comfort to know how miserable some of the worst people are. Donald Trump tweeting over 200 times on Christmas. Billionaires fighting with strangers online during the holidays. Everything about Elon Musk
December 26, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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lukewiwa.com
They should invent a form of cricket that goes for five days
December 26, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Most will know I have thrown a fair bit at Penny Wong over the years - especially regarding Israel's genocide - so I am no great cheerleader for her.

But I am so fucking angry by Ley personally attacking Wong for no reason except racist dog whistling.
December 22, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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birmo.bsky.social
If you’re booing someone at funeral, you should probably take a look at yourself
December 21, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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robertarnol.bsky.social
Or Port Arthur. It wasn’t even the biggest massacre of white people in Australia.
Revisionist history for political gain.
December 18, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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scalzi.com
Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.
December 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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cameronwilson.bsky.social
Just hours after the Bondi shooting, we saw a near-instant generation of closed loop of AI misinformation:

It appears that AI was used to generate a lie, which was then absorbed by AI, then regurgitated to others in a breaking news situation.

www.crikey.com.au/20...
December 16, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Oh!
I thought he received his inculcation at the harbour bridge peace rally and the sandstone university courses they were never enrolled in
Bondi gunmen underwent 'military-style training' in Philippines
Father-son gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines to receive "military-style training" in the month before they killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, security ...
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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monsterteatime.bsky.social
What if fuck you.
vox.com Vox @vox.com · 23d
America, you have spoken loud and clear: You do not like AI. But what if AI is the way to restart the world’s idea machine?
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 16, 2025 at 12:55 AM
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margaretmorgan.bsky.social
"[Segal's] plan conflates antisemitism with legitimate criticism of the State of Israel, threatens freedom of political speech... and is an undemocratic, punitive framework that risks exacerbating instead of combating antisemitism."

#auspol
1/3

www.amnesty.org.au/jewish-coali...
Jewish Coalition Opposes Anti-Democratic Antisemitism Plan, Calls for United, Whole-of-Society ApproachJewish Coalition Opposes Anti-Democratic Antisemitism Plan
A coalition of nine Jewish organisations has today released an open letter urging the Australian Government to reject the plan proposed by Australia’s A coalition of nine Jewish organisations has toda...
www.amnesty.org.au
December 15, 2025 at 9:33 AM