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Marcus Mantscheff

@mmantscheffau.bsky.social

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Local & Remote Area firey, father/ grandpa, omnivorous reader, latent gardener. Not good with short-cuts or sugar-coating. Living on Whiyabul land at Nimbin, NSW.

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · Feb 1

"Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone.
Kindness in another's trouble,
Courage in your own.”

‘Ye Wearie Wayfarer’, Adam Lindsay Gordon

Adelaide wildlife rescuer Simon Adamczyk carries an injured koala on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Half the island’s 50,000 koalas are estimated to have perished in the bushfires.
Source: David Mariuz/ AAP (2020)

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 1d

And so it begins… allegiance to the defence of your flag & constitution versus the private/ corporate interest now paying US military personnel wages.

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 3d

Likely to be banned with the stroke of a Sharpie… or ‘challenged’ out of US school and public libraries?

Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 5d

I choose & build the sequence. There is a passive default that lines up new releases of subscribed shows

a man in glasses is pouring a green liquid into a glass

ALT: a man in glasses is pouring a green liquid into a glass

media.tenor.com

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 5d

Apple podcast app lines up a sequence of episodes, or you can stick to a show & it will travel sequentially forward or back depending on the start position. A regular 2.5hrs drive b/w SEQ & home flows without touching the device. Occasional adverts suck, relieved with a 30sec skip button.

Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 5d

Rarely step out of the queue. Creature of habit & frequently add faves

Buffering pretty good through NSW Northern Rivers - less so streaming small music files - but downloaded & queued a few podcasts for a recent +4200km trip through some network-free spaces

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 7d

Noted

Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 7d

Given all that has transpired, the current US administration has no choice but to double down & attempt to protect its power by withholding future elections. Trump is old, unwell & will die. How US citizens & foreign nations respond to the feudal oligarchy that replaces him will be another test.

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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 7d

My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:

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Maranoa Girl @maranoagirl.bsky.social · 7d

AU. Former PM Paul Keating with Laura Tingle as moderator at the Press Club.
Journo: What makes you so sure that China is not a military threat to Australia?
PJK: Because I've got a brain principally and I can think and I can read and I read every day.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoJI...
Enjoy.

Former Australian PM BRUTALLY DESTROYS Pro-American Journalists

YouTube video by Global Insight Hub

www.youtube.com

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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 7d

I interviewed Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent Chris Hedges for an hour about the Western media betrayal of Palestinian journalists, the National Press Club of Australia, fascism and a violent empire in decline.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LatG...

Chris Hedges talks with Dave about journalism, censorship and empire

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot

www.youtube.com

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 7d

the US government has arrived on bluesky

4 panel comic

Panel 1: A group of people just having a lovely time. Everyone is laughing

Panel 2: An absolute Federal Agent appears in the middle of the group laughing like an obnoxious robot

Panel 3: The group quickly disperses, leaving the gross creepy agent by himself

Panel 4: The agent touches his ear and says “arrest their moms”

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Step and fetch @fetchstep.bsky.social · 7d

Labor now spends more on the criminal BIG 4 consultants than the "consultant addicted Morrison Government".
Minister for #Woodside Watt and chief protector of these criminals is seen here defending Labor paying for AI Fraud from its consultant mates.
#LaborLNPcoalition #FOI

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Sean Thomason @seanthomason.bsky.social · 8d

Linus said snitches get stitches and fuck ICE.

Peanuts panel, Linus saying to Frieda “of course they won’t! Anyone who would turn someone in to the Head Beagle doesn’t deserve to be spoken to!”

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Enough!!!!!🦋 @ofthebs.bsky.social · 8d

Mass blocking even.🙂
bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Index on Censorship @indexoncensorship.org · 8d

Introducing @youmnaelsayed.bsky.social - Journalism nominee for the 2025 Freedom of Expression Awards! El Sayed an internationally recognised journalist and public speaker, formerly serving as Al Jazeera English correspondent in the #Gaza Strip. Learn more: www.indexoncensorship.org/awards-2025-...

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Scotland's No1 Comrade @scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · 9d

Have you ever stopped to question as to why Palestine . Action was so quickly 'Proscribed' as a terrorist organisation without actually carrying out one single terrorist action?
@uklabourparty.bsky.social

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 10d

Just a feckless, feeble, snot flap of a man

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 9d

Archiving one’s authentic account on X without visiting it ticks a few boxes. It limits (doesn’t stop) hoax postings & impersonation, while avoiding the commercial algorithm baiting. Other apps exist to allow viewing access without ever reopening X.

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Aaliyah 🇮🇪🇵🇸 ‼️SAVE GAZA‼️ @aaliyahxx.bsky.social · 13d

Footage shows the systematic destruction of entire neighborhoods in the northwestern area of Gaza City following the withdrawal of Israeli forces.

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Michael Dowling aka MeckeringBoy @meckeringboy.bsky.social · 15d

Written by Chris Hedges

“How is it possible that a peace proposal ignores the ICJ’s July 2024 Advisory Opinion, which reiterated that Israel’s occupation is illegal and must end?

How can it fail to mention Palestinian’s right to self-determination?”
👇
chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-sha...

Trump’s Sham Peace Plan

There will be no peace in Gaza. Only the temporary absence of war.

chrishedges.substack.com

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 14d

Powerful speeches at the Sydney pro-Palestine rally in Hyde Park today before a large and engaged crowd. So many great signs but this was sadly my favourite. Thanks Palestine Action Group Sydney. #auspol #SaveGaza
#FreePalestine #SanctionIsrael

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Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 25d

I teach a history of antifascism course @ruhistorydept.bsky.social and figured I'd start an ongoing thread this semester to share some insights from course readings and recommend some great works on antifascism.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 17d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Yung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 20d

Meanwhile in Australia, the so-called National Press Club cancels decorated journalist, Chris Hedges, who was to speak on the "amplification of Israeli lies in the press, which most reporters know are lies, betraying Palestinian colleagues who are slandered, targeted and killed by Israel"

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Marcus Mantscheff @mmantscheffau.bsky.social · 19d

Boris M. ❤️’d Anna C. (Stalin ended that romance)…
&
Delcie May P. ❤️’d Clement ‘Clem’ Mervyn T.

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