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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 3d

So yeah, I’m a bit obsessed with Ali Smith, sure, but this book is truly something else. It’s both devastating and uplifting. Also laugh-out-loud funny and mind-expandingly thoughtful. Think I’ll have to read this one again in a little while.

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

My fellow Jews: protect your heart and don’t read the replies to this post.

My fellow allies: read all of these replies, internalize the antisemitism problem on the left, and start gathering your thoughts about how you will fight this vile rhetoric.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ocasio-cortez.house.gov · 5d

I am sickened by today’s attack in Manchester. Antisemitism is on the rise around the world, and we must do all we can to stomp it out. I am grateful to first responders and congregants who showed incredible bravery, and I am praying for those who were killed.

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 5d

i really don't know how much more vocally anti-israel and anti-genocide i have to be before goyim actually care about what i have to say about their antisemitism

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 6d

A lovely story about Dr Jane Goodall's career & legacy, from Rachel Fieldhouse & Mohana Basu, in @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41.... Includes some comments from me about how researchers _can also_ be advocates and science communicators, and still be taken seriously (I hope)!

Vale, Jane.

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

The primatologist challenged what it meant to be a scientist.

www.nature.com

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Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis.bsky.social · 5d

It is nauseatingly unacceptable that Jewish people should be criticised (let alone being attacked) because they are Jewish. Equally, expecting Jewish people to endorse Israel's war crimes because they are Jewish, is a gift to antisemites of all types www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Manchester synagogue terror attack: two killed and suspect shot dead

Police say Jihad Al-Shamie, a British citizen of Syrian descent, was behind car and knife attack that left four people seriously injured

www.theguardian.com

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 5d

This is fine dot gif

Ocean heat was off the charts, and Australia bore the brunt

For the past year, Australia's oceans have been hotter than ever before. The impacts are being felt all across the nation — as far away from the coast as you can get.

www.abc.net.au

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 5d

i'll make you a deal: i will tearfully restrain myself from bringing up "surplus value" at all so long as you present a definition of working class that does not rule in car dealership owners on vibes

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 6d

This is very much the good news we like to hear ❤️

Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 6d

She taught us so much about being related to the rest of the natural world, living understanding that interrelationship. Vale Jane Goodall

The iconic image of Jane Goodall hugging a chimp

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8d

Ha!

Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8d

"So this is a big, big day, a beautiful day," Mr Trump said. "Potentially one of the great days ever in civilisation."

Where do you even start with that?

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 8d

Perfect. 100%. No notes.

Screengrab from Insta of Radical Graffiti - poster with Gramsci’s “The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of Monsters” with Elmo’s smiling face beneath

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 9d

There are so many things in here that scare the living shit out of me

What on Earth are people doing buying this stuff?!? And how can we stop it?

Melissa Sweet @melissasweetdr.bsky.social · 9d

AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach

www.techpolicy.press/ai-is-moving...

AI Is Moving Into Physical Products, And Out of Regulatory Reach | TechPolicy.Press

Matt Steinberg discusses how AI wearables and toys blur the line between products and speech—raising urgent regulatory gaps in privacy and child safety.

www.techpolicy.press

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 9d

Ha! To be honest, mostly just decent local (Australian) cheddar. But also some excellent local ash Brie, often. And occasionally splashing on an imported specialty like truffle manchego 😊

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 9d

Of all the egs of governance failure & institutional collapse, this one saddens me perhaps the most.

Coz the NACC is so important. But also coz Brereton is the one who had the guts to actually write up the ADF’s war crimes.

The whole system is dead & deadening. We have to live the next into being.

Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 9d

Commissioner Brereton told the public and parliament that his position with Defence was entirely honourary, now we know that is not true, that he is part of a chain of advice to Ministers and Defence.

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 9d

Cheese and bikkies - in ridiculous quantities.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 11d

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 11d

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Texas Tech Moves to Limit Academic Discussion to 2 Genders

www.nytimes.com

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 11d

Right… Is there another explanation?

Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 11d

Governments would literally rather pay a bunch of blokes to destroy magnificent beauty and the lungs of the Earth than do anything environmentalists and scientists call for.

No reason. No thought. No discourse. Just “yeah nah”.

The whole system is killing us. Time to cultivate the next one.

Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says

Murray Watt says ‘it’s not the government’s intention to stop old growth logging’ as Greens and academics press for total halt

www.theguardian.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11d

“Cracker Barrell Outrage Almost Certainly Driven By Bots.”

“…the boycott was unlikely to be an organic grassroots response but a bot-assisted amplification seeded by meme/activist accounts.”

Via @gizmodo.com

In other words, we’re being manipulated.

Aggressively, constantly manipulated.

Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

gizmodo.com

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 11d

Remember how lefties used to say "abolish ICE" back in the 2010s, and got roundly scolded by the centrists for it ever since, and now events have shown beyond a shadow of a doubt that they were 1000% on the correct side of history, but somehow they're still being scolded? Fun.

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Professor Euan Ritchie @euanritchie.bsky.social · 12d

"Politics can’t defeat the realities of physics and chemistry, but that is exactly what the Albanese government is attempting to do with their grossly inadequate emissions reductions targets..." - Professor Euan Ritchie

theenergy.co/article/2035...

2035 target falls short of scientific consensus

The Energy informs the people transforming Australia. We cover the people, policy, capital, projects and emerging technology behind the energy transition.

theenergy.co

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 15d

Australian friends, please consider helping Rising Tide stop the coal ships and build momentum at this year’s protestival by signing this petition:

risingtide.nationbuilder.com/stop_the_coa...

Stop the Coal Ships

risingtide.nationbuilder.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15d

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."

me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

www.bostonreview.net

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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 13d

“Violence is not always what the state says it is”

True peace “requires identifying, confronting and dismantling the ubiquitous political violence that our present order is designed to conceal … and building the power … that makes justice imaginable and achievable”

Brilliance by @eric-reinhart.com

What Is Political Violence? - Boston Review

Pundits and politicians conceal the truth: it’s all around us, perpetrated by our political system itself.

www.bostonreview.net

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