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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 13h

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 20h

Here are the little darlings they’ve created. Horrifying.

www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 10h

Small world

Crikey @crikey.com.au · 10h

Exclusive | Scott Morrison has registered himself as having a relationship with a $2.5 trillion Saudi fossil fuel company whose board member was once appointed by Morrison to a COVID recovery taskforce.

Scott Morrison declares role with Saudi oil company

www.crikey.com.au

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 17h

A cup of coffee in Melbourne

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 1d

lets say a wizard has cursed you with a lot of money. you are going to become permanently brain damaged simply by being in possession of so much money. the only way out of it is to spend a lot of money on something ridiculous and not at all useful

what would you buy to break the curse?

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 19h

*conditions apply: If he were using Libre Open office, also, tbh 'probably' is doing a lot of work there

Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 19h

If Ogden Nash were alive and poetry-writing now he'd probably do a poem about how annoying lock files are*

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 20h

I bet they tell them a few group chat jokes to see if they snicker

Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 20h

First day at the Pentagon

Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 20h

Deloitte faces the condign punishment of paying a little back, keeping the rest, and getting lots more government work

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

Wow.
"The corrected version of a Deloitte report to the Albanese government reissued by the big consulting firm after it was found to include AI-generated mistakes contains new citation errors and other flaws in referencing the academic work it relies on"

www.afr.com/politics/fed...

More errors, ‘irrelevant citations’ in Deloitte’s revised AI report

Academics question how AI-generated “gobbledegook” can be justified after the fact by irrelevant citations, as the big four firm republishes its welfare report.

www.afr.com

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 22h

I’m a subscriber to The Onion print edition and trust me, the ads alone are worth it

Fake Apple ad

Remember when those
Chinese factory workers were all committing suicide?
Neither do we!

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 22h

Unlawfully built, now leaking through the safety liner. Enough fuel to blow Darwin Harbour to kingdom come

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

Safety liner under US military fuel tanks still failing, weeks after approval

Groundwater is leaking through the safety liner under some of the fuel facility's 11 tanks, which were constructed unlawfully on Darwin Harbour without a building permit. It comes after the NT government approved the tanks for operation in September.

www.abc.net.au

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 20h

This sort of thing is coming for all of us if Australia is not careful

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 1d

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

Dying mother loses life insurance after failing to declare UTI tests

A terminal cancer patient is told her failure to declare a UTI has voided her insurance policies, leaving her struggling to pay her mortgage and care for her children in her final days.

www.abc.net.au

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 1d

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 1d

The military has now killed 27 people as if they were enemy soldiers in a war zone and not criminal suspects. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/14/u...

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says

www.nytimes.com

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 22h

Climate change

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 22h

Isn't that how Sonic Youth got their unique sound?

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 1d

breezy, speculative, counterfactual history, with minimal recourse to the work of historians, is the pumpkin spice of airport books

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Polly Hemming @pollyjhemming.bsky.social · 1d

Timor-Leste just scrapped lifetime pensions for former parliamentarians after student-led protests.

But sure — protest doesn’t work.
#auspol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

screenshot of ABC article. text captured says Timor-Leste scraps lifetime pensions after student-led protests
Topic:Activism and Lobbying

Fri 26 Sep
Friday 26 September
Police officers in the street usher crowds.
Police appeal to students to clear the road to await the result of the parliamentary vote. (AFP: Valentino Dariell de Sousa)

In short
Protests broke out last week in Timor-Leste, with thousands of demonstrators demanding parliament cancel a $4.2 million plan to purchase SUVs for lawmakers and lifetime pension for MPs and public officials.

Sixty-two members of parliament voted unanimously on Friday to pass a new law that scrapped the pensions for MPs, former presidents, prime ministers and cabinet ministers.

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 2d

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
2? Questions
I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1d

Looks interesting.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 2d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1d

Genocide-denying new definition of 'reporting' just dropped, bound to come in handy

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 1d

She is here btw, this is the piece he was talking about bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Reingold @olivia-reingold.bsky.social · Aug 18

I recently looked up the Arabic translation of some of the names of the emaciated children used in coverage of the alleged famine in Gaza.

It turns out that many of them were sick before the war and have long, complicated medical histories. Our reporting shows they do not represent the average.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 5d

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Reuters headline: Exclusive: Trump considers big 'fine' over China intellectual property theft.

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 1d

"There is a reason why Palestinian hostages’ families are banned from media interviews. Because there is overwhelming evidence that these hostages have been subjected to industrialised torture, rape, starvation." #GazaGenocide

Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 2d

Israel violates the ceasefire - and threatens more genocidal violence.

New post 👇

www.owenjones.news/p/israel-vio...

Israel violates ceasefire, threatens more violence

Palestinians in Gaza are celebrating - but danger remains

www.owenjones.news

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1d

Two lots of hostages were released yesterday. One group was called 'prisoners'. Their emotional reunions with loved ones received zero attention in the Nine papers because they're Palestinian.

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1d

Most of Leslie Charteris' 'Saint' books are brilliant, and deserve much more respect and attention than they get

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Floyd, of the K floyds @floydthek.bsky.social · 1d

This is the same Linda Reynolds who had a massive sook about her reputation, cementing her reputation as someone who relentlessly pursues a rape victim in the courts

benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 2d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against a young woman who a court of law found to have been raped in her office by a Linda Reynolds staffer

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 2d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 1d

In today's 'Herald Sun', Andrew Bolt describes Trump as 'brilliant' and says he was swindled out of the Nobel Prize. Here's what Bolt used to say before Rupert pulled him into line.

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