Austin G Mackell
@austingmackell.bsky.social
I sell mirrors in the city of the blind. www.writeinstone.com
Just tried @openmeasures.bsky.social's tool and immediately experienced a total failure.
January 14, 2026 at 8:31 PM
Just tried @openmeasures.bsky.social's tool and immediately experienced a total failure.
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Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5 https://aje.news/23euro
![A Palestinian woman sits near damaged tents in Gaza City [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreib7kyvuguflentmn624wvtubkz6cqawy3mmaw3xmoomf7ut4ny6cu@jpeg)
![Displaced Palestinians gather near damaged tents. Aid groups say not enough shelter materials are entering Gaza. [Dawoud Abu Alkas/Reuters]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreiczch5f6v4g67iab6na3n3mi3akorxsmahp4ay3fwmrn2nqsedlqe@jpeg)
![A Palestinian man mourns over a body during the funeral of three family members who died after parts of a war-damaged building where they had taken shelter collapsed. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreicpcpqygsk2tszimrzs74lcd24exzpnnpfcnkobrortsov4qbn6oq@jpeg)
![People inspect the site where a wall collapsed on tents sheltering displaced people. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lofqead276vtc5647ye7sl2/bafkreibx5zr54je4mjkzhvbccdoqjqk5xaodmdwzlnlj454z77yvbezyku@jpeg)
January 14, 2026 at 7:30 PM
Conditions in Gaza worsen as winds and hypothermia kill 5 https://aje.news/23euro
The Egyptian Agriculture Ministry links the viciousness of dogs to the 2011 revolution. youtube.com/shorts/rApuV...
In #Egypt, every problem is the result of dissidents, not the government's endless failures.
YouTube video by DAYM0ON
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January 11, 2026 at 2:39 AM
The Egyptian Agriculture Ministry links the viciousness of dogs to the 2011 revolution. youtube.com/shorts/rApuV...
We'll be seeing so many conversions to Islam in America over the next decade.
January 10, 2026 at 10:23 AM
We'll be seeing so many conversions to Islam in America over the next decade.
Luigi Mangione, Nicholas Maduro, and P. Diddy are all in the same NY prison. I can't really process any more absurdity for the rest of 2026.
January 6, 2026 at 5:47 AM
Luigi Mangione, Nicholas Maduro, and P. Diddy are all in the same NY prison. I can't really process any more absurdity for the rest of 2026.
So what? Who cares?
If the biggest donor to the DCCC/DNC ran a website where you could use AI to take women's clothes off I feel like there'd be a demand for Dems to give the money back.
January 5, 2026 at 11:43 PM
So what? Who cares?
There's too much good content on youtube for them to all keep putting up with the platform's nonsense. Some kind of federated something has to come along.
YouTube Censorship: The Video They Didn't Want You to See!
YouTube video by Patrick Boyle
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January 5, 2026 at 9:32 PM
There's too much good content on youtube for them to all keep putting up with the platform's nonsense. Some kind of federated something has to come along.
The world will have democracy, or the world will have a king. Said it before, saying it again. We currently have a global oligarchy and that will collapse into one or the other.
January 5, 2026 at 2:30 AM
The world will have democracy, or the world will have a king. Said it before, saying it again. We currently have a global oligarchy and that will collapse into one or the other.
I wrote last year that the world will have democracy, or the world will have a king. To be honest China doesn't seem to like either option. Tough shit.
China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro reut.rs/4qC4tsi
China says it cannot accept countries acting as 'world judge' after US captures Maduro
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing cannot accept any country acting as the "world's judge" after the United States captured Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
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January 5, 2026 at 2:29 AM
I wrote last year that the world will have democracy, or the world will have a king. To be honest China doesn't seem to like either option. Tough shit.
Ireland's Arts Grant is not a basic income: youtube.com/shorts/VUsJm...
An arts grant is not a basic income.
YouTube video by DAYM0ON
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December 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Ireland's Arts Grant is not a basic income: youtube.com/shorts/VUsJm...
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I am going to start putting my essays on Youtube going forward. This is the first of those. It's about how Morsi, and a democratic #Egypt, would have stopped the genocide in #Gaza.
Morsi Would Have Stopped This Genocide
YouTube video by DAYM0ON
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November 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
My overwhelming impression of TV and movies these days is that it's too violent and sexual to watch with my kid, but also too childlike and simpleminded in its themes, plot and characters to be taken seriously by adults.
December 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
My overwhelming impression of TV and movies these days is that it's too violent and sexual to watch with my kid, but also too childlike and simpleminded in its themes, plot and characters to be taken seriously by adults.
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There is no murderous fascist of the past 100 years that The New York Times has not exalted
![NYT
A Whisperer
to the Stars
on the Middle
East Conflict
Many in Hollywood have struggled to
navigate how to talk about their
support for Israel on social media.
Some of them have turned to Hen
Mazzig for advice.
[w/pic of Mazzig trying in vain to look like Hasan Piker]
Hen Mazzig is a founder of an organization created in 2019
to reach younger people who didn't trust traditional news
media and instead found most of their information through
influencers. Chona Kasinger for The New York Times](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:itcqruu6tvm4sjbzffscuao6/bafkreicxuvwygpzoxdzwkv4whshlbvoveyq7arho7wuc64gty46czrrqmu@jpeg)
December 28, 2025 at 1:35 AM
There is no murderous fascist of the past 100 years that The New York Times has not exalted
So I have been actively Instagraming for a little over a year now and apparently I am not ok at it.
But I will note that this, my first million plus video, was probably one of the lowest effort, least considered pieces of content i produced.
All the incentives push us away from deep thought.
But I will note that this, my first million plus video, was probably one of the lowest effort, least considered pieces of content i produced.
All the incentives push us away from deep thought.
December 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
So I have been actively Instagraming for a little over a year now and apparently I am not ok at it.
But I will note that this, my first million plus video, was probably one of the lowest effort, least considered pieces of content i produced.
All the incentives push us away from deep thought.
But I will note that this, my first million plus video, was probably one of the lowest effort, least considered pieces of content i produced.
All the incentives push us away from deep thought.
And you can take him seriously because he doesn't take the AIPAC money.
Trump’s illegal misuse of the military, using our cities as “training grounds,” is dangerous for individuals and our democracy. This welcome ruling offers important hope from Portland to DC.
December 23, 2025 at 9:46 PM
And you can take him seriously because he doesn't take the AIPAC money.
Watching the ABC's coverage, for a few minutes at a time, of the post-Bondi shit-fight, and they seem to be basically amplifying the oppositions attacks on Albanese, like every little fucking Eichmann in every aging bureaucracy has gotten some memo that they need to scurry to the right...
December 22, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Watching the ABC's coverage, for a few minutes at a time, of the post-Bondi shit-fight, and they seem to be basically amplifying the oppositions attacks on Albanese, like every little fucking Eichmann in every aging bureaucracy has gotten some memo that they need to scurry to the right...
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Arguing that if we'd adopted Jillian Segal's recommendations in full that somehow we would have stopped what happened at Bondi is a deliberate, egregious and disgusting manipulation of a genuine tragedy.
December 18, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Arguing that if we'd adopted Jillian Segal's recommendations in full that somehow we would have stopped what happened at Bondi is a deliberate, egregious and disgusting manipulation of a genuine tragedy.
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Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
In news from Sudan, the UAE-backed paramilitary Rapid Support Forces has been attempting to cover up its mass killings of civilians in the city of El Fasher by burning and burying bodies. That’s accor...
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December 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Drone Attacks Killed Over 100 Civilians in Sudan This Month
The press is trying to blame the Bondi attacks on @albomp.bsky.social's gov, for recognising Palestine. It's important we point out that any peaceful progress towards the liberation of Palestine makes violence less likely. By recognising Palestine, we reduced the motivation for and risk of attack.
December 17, 2025 at 11:32 PM
The press is trying to blame the Bondi attacks on @albomp.bsky.social's gov, for recognising Palestine. It's important we point out that any peaceful progress towards the liberation of Palestine makes violence less likely. By recognising Palestine, we reduced the motivation for and risk of attack.
"Shootings like Bondi Beach basically never happen, whereas Jewish attacks on Palestinians always do. " indi.ca/the-hundredt...
The Hundredth Beach Attack, But The Only One White People Care About
Forgive me for not giving a shit about Bondi Beach
indi.ca
December 15, 2025 at 8:06 PM
"Shootings like Bondi Beach basically never happen, whereas Jewish attacks on Palestinians always do. " indi.ca/the-hundredt...
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This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
December 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
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Fact Check: FAKE Site Said IT Professional 'Edward Crabtree' Disarmed Bondi Beach Shooter -- NOT Actual News Site
Fact Check: FAKE Site Said IT Professional 'Edward Crabtree' Disarmed Bondi Beach Shooter -- NOT Actual News Site
Did an actual news site report an 43-year-old IT professional named "Edward Crabtree" disarm a terrorist during a terrorist attack on Bondi beach in Australia on December 14, 2025? No, that's not true: That name and description came from on...
leadstories.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Fact Check: FAKE Site Said IT Professional 'Edward Crabtree' Disarmed Bondi Beach Shooter -- NOT Actual News Site
9 civilians one of two shooters dead after what looks like an antisemitic terrorist attack in Bondi, targeting a Chanukah event.
Appalling scenes. I was just there the other day. Surreal
A tiny taste of the violence and hate we support overseas has washed up on our shores, and it's shocking.
Appalling scenes. I was just there the other day. Surreal
A tiny taste of the violence and hate we support overseas has washed up on our shores, and it's shocking.
December 14, 2025 at 10:15 AM
9 civilians one of two shooters dead after what looks like an antisemitic terrorist attack in Bondi, targeting a Chanukah event.
Appalling scenes. I was just there the other day. Surreal
A tiny taste of the violence and hate we support overseas has washed up on our shores, and it's shocking.
Appalling scenes. I was just there the other day. Surreal
A tiny taste of the violence and hate we support overseas has washed up on our shores, and it's shocking.