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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 12h

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Dave Jorgenson @davejorgenson.bsky.social · 13h

sometimes it feels a bit on the nose that the very people wearing masks right now are often the same people who refused to wear one in 2020.

try to be more subtle, writers of the America show!!!!

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 14h

The widespread media decision to frame international affairs as "will Donnie get the prize he wants?" is pathetic.

He's not the protagonist of human events. And to the extent he's a significant character in world affairs, whether or not he gets a prize is one of the least important things about it.

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 14h

Nicely done

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 15h

oh great, a small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

www.anthropic.com

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Rachel Withers @rachelwithers.bsky.social · 22h

Imagine kicking the former national rugby captain out of your sports club instead of the gambling lobby.

To paraphrase Groucho Marx, who'd want to belong to a club that would accept Responsible Wagering Australia as one of its sponsors?

Bill Browne @browne90.bsky.social · 23h

Making his point for him -- just asking about the power of the gambling lobby gets Senator David Pocock booted from sports club the Prime Minister heads. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Former Wallabies star David Pocock booted from parliamentary sports club

Exclusive: Senator accused of bringing social club into disrepute after raising concerns about its association with betting lobby

www.theguardian.com

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 23h

"Darwin, Broome and Port Hedland are predicted to be pushed outside the “human climate niche” — that is, the temperature and humidity conditions in which humans can survive."

#ClimateEmergency

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 21h

there are SO many more inflatable costumes tonight. clearly we have settled on a motif

Wide shot of many people in inflatable costumes

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dr. caitlin m. green @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social · 21h

the portland chicken guy 🥰

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 1d

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 15h

Cannot overstate how amazing my local vet is. The microdog was stung by a wasp this afternoon and had a really bad reaction. Thankfully her friends at the vet made time immediately, pumped her full of drugs, monitored her until they were happy to let us leave.

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 16h

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2025 #NobelPeacePrize to Maria Corina Machado for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 16h

Kidnapped in international waters, extraordinary rendition to a genocidal state, and then imprisoned indefinitely.

You'd think this would trigger the immediate expulsion of the Israeli Ambassador for these inexcusable actions against an Australian citizen.

Dave Earley @earleyedition.bsky.social · 16h

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Australian woman on pro-Palestinian aid flotilla will be ‘indefinitely detained’ by Israel unless she signs waiver

Madeleine Habib, who captained the Conscience ship, was arrested by Israeli forces on 8 October and detained in Israel’s Ketziot prison

www.theguardian.com

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · 15h

Seriously, Guardian? You think they "overlooked" him?

They looked at him, guffawed and moved on.

Venezuelan politician María Corina Machado wins Nobel peace prize as Donald Trump overlooked

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 15h

FFS Linda. Let it go. You are not achieving what you think you're achieving, and I'm sick to death of you.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 20h

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

David Sharaz served bankruptcy papers by Linda Reynolds

Brittany Higgins's husband David Sharaz is served bankruptcy papers by former Senator Linda Reynolds, as she tries to recover damages awarded to her by a Perth court for defamation.

www.abc.net.au

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Possum @pollytics.bsky.social · 15h

The Nobel Peace Prize should go to the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Delivering peace through superior trolling.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h

OH MY GOD

the national party - putting the n back in cuts

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 15h

Also little kids tend to go for dog faces and ears because they're little kids, so IMO the likelihood they'll both get an injury out of that is pretty significant

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 15h

Yeah it sounds like they think they're hiring an au pair. Not adopting a dog.

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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 18h

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

SHOCK POLL:
NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW
IN an amazing poll conducted
by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions
may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like.
However, 99 percent of journalists
agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when
Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 1d

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

In estimates, Senator Allman-Payne quotes the Department director (below), & says:

"You can't be confident that the foundation on which [the TCF] is built complies with the legislation & yet we're all comfortable w/ continuing to allow ppl to have payments suspended"

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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 1d

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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Michael Truscello🏴 @mtruscello.bsky.social · 2d

"Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished, far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition, a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed." #FreePalestine #Genocide

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza acutely malnourished, Lancet study estimates

Study shows clear link between Israeli restrictions on aid entering Gaza and levels of malnutrition among children

www.theguardian.com

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 2d

That's because they're fucking idiots, there is literally no other explanation

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama

It felt “more different to images than people expected.”

www.theverge.com

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Temple Connolly @tea-n-see.bsky.social · 2d

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