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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 3d

It's not just Badenoch or Jenrick. The entire British conservative project is dying iandunt.substack.com/p/the-empty-...

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Louise Milligan @milliganreports.bsky.social · 15h

Watch reporter John Lyons’ story Chasing Trump’s Billions, on #4Corners ABC TV tonight 8.30 AEST & support public interest #journalism. Via YouTube for international viewers. This story famously led Donald #Trump to threaten John’s questions were “hurting Australia”.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

As Trump's wealth skyrockets, accusations of conflicts of interest mount

Donald Trump's wealth has skyrocketed since his return to the White House nine months ago, leading to accusations that he is profiting from the presidency.

www.abc.net.au

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 2h

And then they will point to the times they criticised him this year as evidence that they’re not just being partisan lickspittles but genuinely fearful that someone else may come along and start treating people who aren’t identical to them as human beings too. (3/3)

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 2h

Plus, it sets them up for deniability. We saw exactly the same thing when Bush was in the first year of his second term.

This time next year, they’ll all be saying, “Please support your local fascist.” (2/3)

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Big Beautiful Billablog @billablog.bsky.social · 2h

Today’s gratuitous advice to the internet:

No, the right wing media and Republicans in congress are NOT turning against Trump.

Sure, some of them are being mildly critical of him but that’s because they have nothing to lose right now. (1/3)

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 2h

This looks interesting, a book by Colin Kidd due next year.

Twilight of the Dons | Princeton University Press
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The rise to power and eventual fall from grace of the Oxbridge intellectual

After World War II, the academics of Oxford and Cambridge—the dons—formed an unusual kind of university-based, establishment-connected intelligentsia. Unlike intellectuals in other countries, often antiestablishment outsiders, the dons of Oxbridge enjoyed secure and even cosy connections with those in power. In Twilight of the Dons, Colin Kidd examines the golden age of Britain’s Oxford- and Cambridge-based intellectual elites—and how their influence waned when Oxbridge’s links to the establishment began to fray. Kidd explores a series of episodes and themes that range from the dons’ confrontations with student protesters in the 1960s to their reaction to the rise of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The cast of characters includes many of twentieth-century Britain’s most famous intellectuals—Elizabeth Anscombe, Isaiah Berlin, Edmund Leach, J. H. Plumb and Hugh Trevor-Roper, to name just a few.

Kidd describes the multiple important roles played by dons in World War II, the countercultural force of convert Catholicism and the strange phenomenon of Tory Marxism. He examines the dons’ attitudes toward America and France—as seen in their engagement in the debates over the Kennedy assassination and the awkward reception of Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology. When Oxbridge came under assault, it was first by a modernizing, technocratic Left in the early 1960s, then by student radicals in the late 1960s and finally by the Thatcherite right—in whose rise, Kidd shows, some dons were complicit. As deference to Oxbridge intelligentsia declined, a reassessment of the place of dons in British public life began.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

"Find every photograph of you that exists. Burn it. And never have another one taken."

Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 3h

Do pop down to an antique market in the south west of the United Kingdom right now if you are looking for a faceless life size child doll to take back home, destroy your regular sleep patterns and transform your house into a place of constant demonic terror.

A scary faceless doll I found at a market in Devon (but didn't buy, as I value my sleep).

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

So, obviously the most important news of the day is that it’s... YES, THAT’S RIGHT: the 27th anniversary of the release of Joe Pesci’s album Vincent LaGuardia Gambini Sings Just for You

What A Wonderful World

YouTube video by Joe Pesci - Topic

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David Marler @qldaah.bsky.social · 10h

Both Qld Labor & Qld LNP have rejected Fox Resources mineral development licence to explore for coal underneath $1.6b worth of prime agriculture land north of Bundaberg. Now that the company has collapsed residents want the tenement cancelled forever. #qldpol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Fight to cancel coal exploration permit in Queensland food bowl

Exploration company Fox Resources has gone into administration, but the community that successfully fought off its mining advances vows to keep fighting to cancel the tenement altogether.

www.abc.net.au

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Nick (derogatory) ✨ @slothropsmap.bsky.social · 15h

It feels like a fever dream that just a few months ago, Elon Musk would routinely address the media in the Oval Office in a t-shirt and jacket while the president just sat there and looked at him.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 2d

Jay Capsian Kang writes about how the internet has deepened the cracks in our fracturing sense of shared reality—and how many Americans have come to embrace a conspiratorial world view.

The Persistent Pull of Planet Epstein

Many Americans have stopped trusting establishment media, and conspiracy-minded content creators are offering them a dark alternative view of the world.

www.newyorker.com

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 11h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Travis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 11h

While Twitter might still drive policy in the US, it doesn't in Australia. But neither's Bluesky or LinkedIn.

We've lost a social platform that drives discourse, brings new thinkers to public prominance and connects policymakers and journalists with people with ideas outside our stale institutions.

Jonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 2d

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it is still shaping policy. So were we all wrong to leave?

Was the left wrong to leave X for BlueSky?

The platform formerly known as Twitter may be horrible, but it's still shaping policy

www.newstatesman.com

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 13h

There isn't a suburb in Australia where you couldn't get 200 signatures against absolutely ANYTHING. *Petition against free cake* signed for reasons including, I Like Biscuits More, I'm Dieting, I Hated My Mum's Cake, Satan Loves Cake, Waddabout Famine Overseas, I Want Free Fireworks etc etc.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

A two storey building with a licensed function area. The horror. Basically Las Vegas.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

Redeveloping the small site of a lifesaving club now up to its third full set of designs over seven years (!!!!) but "Council has received a petition with 194 signatures" against the latest ones so it's "tensions flare." Absurd stuff. www.theage.com.au/national/vic...

Tensions flare in seaside suburb over ‘Bondi Icebergs’ proposal

Over seven years, the lifesaving club has gone through three rounds of redevelopment plans, and the neighbourhood is once again divided over the $14.5 million project.

www.theage.com.au

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Leroy @leroylynch.bsky.social · 13h

Resolve federal poll
TPP: ALP 55 (0) L/NP 45 (0)
Primary: ALP 34 (-1) L/NP 28 (+1) GRN 11 (0) ON 12 (0) IND 9 (0) OTH 7 (+1)
www.theage.com.au/politics/fed... #auspol
(+/-) changes since September, sample 1800 voters
TTP is respondent allocated preferences

Image of poll graphs taken from page 10 of The Age, 13 Oct 2025.

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Dr. Robert D. Bullard @drrobertbullard.bsky.social · 1d

WIRED: Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy www.wired.com/story/as-coa...

Australia’s March Toward 100 Percent Clean Energy

The country’s grid operator says shifting from coal to clean power is not only possible but inevitable. The work there could provide a road map for other countries.

www.wired.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

Basically, these replacement antinatalists believe that it's "fundamentally unethical" to have kids because the future is digital, and hence there's no point to bringing new biological people into the world. It's a fascinating new twist on traditional

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com/p/the-strang...

The Strange Rise of Antinatalism in Silicon Valley

Most of us are aware that pronatalism is popular within Silicon Valley. But there's a new kind of antinatalism that's catching on, too! In this article, I give it a name: replacement antinatalism.

www.realtimetechpocalypse.com

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Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 3d

Most of us know about Silicon Valley pronatalism--people like Musk having as many kids as possible. But did you know that a peculiar kind of *antinatalism* is also becoming popular in the Valley? In this article, I name the phenomenon: replacement antinatalism. Read below:

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 1d

My last-election preferences aggregate post Resolve 55.8 to ALP (-0.1)

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 1d

#ResolvePM This question if correctly quoted is unsatisfactory; its results should be ignored. Presents one side of the debate only, and also refers to L-NP reducing immigration when it is not the government and there is no way yet of knowing when or if it again will be.

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Kevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 1d

#ResolvePM ALP 34 L-NP 28 Green 11 ON 12 IND 9 other 7

Their 2PP 55.0 to ALP (respondent prefs)
My 2025 prefs estimate 55.5 to ALP

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Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social · 3d

Should you be looking for bathroom design inspiration here are some colorful ideas from the late 70s. Couldn't resist picking up a catalogue of sanitary ware from a local bus stop/ book swap. I mean, just look at the colour chart 😍

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Very funny considering this was about six months ago

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · Apr 29

Under attack from Nate Silver, "the man who is always right"

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