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Erika Kirk-Vance’s Vinyl Mourning Pants
@daryltractor.bsky.social
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Person with knowledge of the meeting.

Accident-prone tractor with an interest in news, politics, scandals, banter, public health and general nonsense. Open to bribery/corruption etc.

She / her / Madam Tractor
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daryltractor.bsky.social
Giving Americans’ thanksgiving feasts a brutal dressing down
November 28, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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kazcooke.bsky.social
60,000 women a year die from unsafe abortions. In one country. This is the reality of banning pregnancy termination. It never stops abortion. It just makes sure more women die.
globalabortionnews.bsky.social Global Abortion Rights News @globalabortionnews.bsky.social · 10h
An MP in Zimbabwe has called for the repeal of the country's "backwards" 1977 abortion law. He argued that safe abortion should be available to a wider range of Zimbabwean women, as it is currently restricted to a privileged few. Each year, 60,000 women die due to unsafe abortion.
It’s Time To Scrap Zimbabwe’s Outdated Abortion Law - Molokele ⋆ Pindula News
Hwange Central MP Daniel Molokele (CCC) has called for the repeal of the 1977 Termination of Pregnancy Act, describing it as one of the most backward laws in Zimbabwe. Molokele made the comments at a ...
news.pindula.co.zw
November 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
daryltractor.bsky.social
Love Actually is on TV if you can believe it
November 28, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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meidastouch.com
Donald Trump finally posts a Thanksgiving message — and uses it to call Governor Tim Walz “seriously retarded.”
November 28, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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harrychemay.bsky.social
Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’ — The Shovel

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Pauline Hanson Condemns Use of Term ‘Black Friday’, Saying ‘All Fridays Matter’ — The Shovel
"My inbox has been inundated with ‘Black Friday this’, ‘Black Friday that’. Granted there have been some wonderful bargains. But as yet not a single mention of White Friday. So typical of this country...
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November 28, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
This man’s values are based in power, greed and division. They are so far removed from the values of the Australian people.
We need a government that has the courage to stand up to him, reject his racism, reject US bases and forge an independent peaceful path for Australia.
November 28, 2025 at 6:32 AM
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middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social
Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-strikes-syria-kill-least-nine-including-two-children
Israeli strikes on Syria kill at least nine, including two children
A deadly Israeli incursion in Beit Jinn has displaced families and injured several Israeli soldiers
www.middleeasteye.net
November 28, 2025 at 7:37 AM
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edzitron.com
I reported a few months ago that in August Microsoft had only 8 million active paying users of Microsoft 365 Copilot. So tired of his company! Wow you’re gonna have 220 million paying subscribers, crazy, are you going to conjure a genie too? How about a dragon? Fantastical bullshit
A more apt comparison might be with Microsoft’s Office 365 productivity app suite, estimated to have around 450 million paying subscribers. While people use ChatGPT for personal purposes, OpenAI has been adding more workplace features, such as the ability for employees to share chats with colleagues and to connect to internal company data through tools like Slack. These features could turn the chatbot into more of a direct competitor to Office 365 and Google Workspace, both of which are adding AI features to automate tasks like writing emails.
November 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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clairezagorski.bsky.social
honestly, RFK’s substance use might be the most normal thing about him
anamariecox.bsky.social Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.bsky.social · 1d
I am a little tired of being yelled at for this but apparently not tired about: heroin addiction is not RFK’s problem. He’s a sociopath. Most addicts aren’t. Honestly, walk into an NA meeting, grab the first person with a few years to be head of HHS and they’d probably do a better job than Bobby.
fatdonald.bsky.social Fat Donald @fatdonald.bsky.social · 1d
This is what happens when you put a privileged, 14 year heroin addict in charge of health. Duh
November 28, 2025 at 4:01 AM
daryltractor.bsky.social
She’s dead. So much blood. Wow. Never seen anything like it. No Band-Aid was gonna sort that out. Her parents were with her when she died. They were like oh fuck no. She just died. Very sad. Anyway, what’s for lunch?

- Trump re National Guard shooting victim
November 28, 2025 at 4:25 AM
daryltractor.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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jhaue.bsky.social
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address
Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists.
www.theguardian.com/media/commen...
Kerry O’Brien sounds the alarm for Australian media in thunderous Walkleys address | The Weekly Beast
Former 7.30 host takes Labor government to task for record on press freedom and pays tribute to Palestinian journalists. Plus: a roo in the news
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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abc-news.bsky.social
Breaking: Police operation underway in Western Sydney after public place shooting: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/nsw-shooting-blacktown-western-sydney-police-operation/106078118
Breaking: Police operation underway in Western Sydney after public place shooting
NSW Police said in a statement there was no threat to the public but the community was urged to avoid the area.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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timunken.bsky.social
It is once again that hallowed time of year, where my dad, The Mad Man of Thanksgiving himself, makes an insanely comprehensive spreadsheet for the renowned holiday meal
November 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.
November 28, 2025 at 12:02 AM
daryltractor.bsky.social
Waiting impatiently for news of the office of Births, Deaths and Marriages’ Black Friday sale offers
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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philplait.bsky.social
A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 1d
Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!
newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination
Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.
www1.racgp.org.au
November 27, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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cathywilcox.bsky.social
Barnaby out.
My @smh @theage cartoon.
Single frame. Barnaby exiting a room from which a leg kicks, a hand flipping the bird, another throwing a tomato, an akubra hat and a beetroot flying, and “BUGGER OFF!” and “GOOD RIDDANCE!” Barnaby in melodramatic pose looking back says “Don’t try to beg me - I’ve made up my mind.” In front of him, Pauline Hanson in burqa (dress, legs and high heels showing) arms outstretched, saying “COME TO MAMA!” - eclipsed by Gina Rinehart behind her, long white dress, same pose also saying “COME TO MAMA!”
November 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
daryltractor.bsky.social
Look at all of those other morons just standing there mute while he attacks a journalist who has come armed with facts
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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gergyl.bsky.social
The Barilaro-Berejiklian 'save the pest horses' bill is finally revoked.
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
daryltractor.bsky.social
Pauline devastated not to have wooed Barnaby to One Nation despite dangling the “you can say the n-word in our office” carrot
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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blairpalese.bsky.social
Why? HPV VACCINES… EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. Science… it works!
November 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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theplanetaryguy.bsky.social
Holy fucking shit this is a *real* image from a *real* (presumably peer-reviewed) paper in [Nature] Scientific Reports.

How many people had to sign off on this figure?

The editor, one hopes, the reviewer(s)? The copy editor?

What had to happen for THIS to get published?
feralrobots.bsky.social Feral T. Robot, Oil Swamp Utility Bot #7629 @feralrobots.bsky.social · 22h
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Figure 1 from a paper published in Nature (linked in post). The figure purports to be an infographic depiction of the "Overall working of the framework" for 'explainably' diagnosing autism spectrum disorder. The infographic is plainly nonsense, containing many spelling errors, nonsense words, meaningless images and graphs. Clearly created using generative AI and (crucially) NEVER CHECKED AT ANY STEP OF THE WRITING OR PUBLICATION PROCESS.
November 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
daryltractor.bsky.social
Can’t be bothered with today tbh
November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM