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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉

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Opposes genocide. Global cyberhate expert and future AI-psychologist. Don’t follow me because I don’t know where I’m going, and there are no cookies.

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · Nov 12

“In the old free days all I wanted was a sharp sword and a straight path to my enemies. Now no paths are straight and my sword is useless.”

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Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 4h

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 5h

Itamar Ben Gvir is a real monster www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 1h

Israel is evil.

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h

"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:

Excerpt of greta thunberg article in link below

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 5h

"Everything they do is extremely violent."

Greta Thunberg on Israel:

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Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 6h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Samara @samaaraa.bsky.social · 5h

„We’re going to gas you.“
It was standard for them to say that. They held up a gas cylinder and threatened to press it against us.

Christine Binzel @christinebinzel.bsky.social · 6h

Horrific testimony by Greta Thunberg

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”

– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

www.aftonbladet.se

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 12h

25-year-old former ADF member, involved with the National Socialist Network (a neo-Nazi group), charged with possessing and distributing child abuse material. Not shocked. #auspol

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 19h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 1d

Reminder that Paterson wants to repeal section 18C of the Racial Vilification Act 1996, and deludedly thinks China is Communist rather than authoritarian state capitalist. #auspol

Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 1d

James Paterson is a nepo-baby Liberal since he was 17, an IPA disinformation stooge, and hasn't had a real job in his life. Why anyone platforms him is a mystery. #auspol

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 1d

James Paterson is a nepo-baby Liberal since he was 17, an IPA disinformation stooge, and hasn't had a real job in his life. Why anyone platforms him is a mystery. #auspol

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 1d

Ahhh well.

Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · Jun 5

Anyway, this is just pre-emptive bitch in case the PM forces Chalmers to negotiate with the Libs over superannuation rather than just band with the Greens & pass the bill as is.

Grow up and use the Greens to pass the policies you want.

(Prob tho, when the PM prefers politics to policy)

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Captain Quoll @kudelka.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the Murray and Albo show! Watch two gutless dickheads unnecessarily sacrifice irreplaceable rainforest and species out of sheer laziness and spite.

Newspaper article describing the latest act of unnecessary vandalism.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres.

All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing:

www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

John McCarrick, the company’s new head of Global Energy Policy, was a senior energy policy advisor in the first Trump administration’s Bureau of Energy Resources in the Department of State while under former Secretaries of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo.

As deputy assistant secretary for Energy Transformation and the special envoy for International Energy Affairs, McCarrick promoted exports of American liquefied natural gas to Europe in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, and advocated for Asian countries to invest in natural gas.

The choice to hire McCarrick matches the intentions of OpenAI’s Trump-donating CEO Sam Altman, who said in a U.S. Senate hearing in May that “in the short term, I think [the future of powering AI] probably looks like more natural gas.”

It also aligns with the company’s early moves toward powering new data centers, huge warehouses full of linked-up computers that require enormous quantities of water and electricity, to run with gas. OpenAI’s U.S. Stargate Project site in Texas, which is slated to become one of the largest data center sites in the world, is already installing off-grid gas turbines to power its operations.

“Big Tech’s collusion with the Trump administration’s fossil fuel agenda for artificial intelligence is evident in their massive investment in methane gas power infrastructure — as well as pro-gas political operatives like McCarrick,” Tyson Slocum, director of consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen’s Energy Program, said.

The “solution” of powering AI with gas is part of Trump’s AI energy policy platform. In a July speech to announce a $96 billion AI and energy funding package, Trump lauded fossil fuel and coal-powered data center development while flanked by oil and gas executives.

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 1d

Fairfax posting pics of every Israeli released hostage - while released Palestinians aren’t allowed to speak to the press - is very lopsided coverage

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Denise Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 1d

It's all SO wrong.
We're supposed to completely forget what's been happening in Palestine since 1948. That Netanyahu was associated with Hamas prior to Oct 7. That US/UK supplied billions $ in weapons used in a genocide. That Netanyahu could have done a deal prior 😢 #auspol

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 1d

So we retain an iniquitous system favouring the rich. Which will surprise nobody."

Inimitable @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social on the Super backflip
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/albos-supera...

Albo’s super dance: one step forward, one backward, one to the side - Michael West

It was Jim Chalmers’ superannuation reform but we get Anthony Albanese’s reform of the reform - Government is risk-adverse and incremental

michaelwest.com.au

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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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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 2d

Coalition calling Labor's superannuation changes "a victory"... Labor are pathetic sellouts. #auspol

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 2d

I have been paid $1m this year from Antifa.

Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2d

Sean Duffy says the No Kings protests this Saturday are “really frustrating” because they are all paid Antifa people.

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well."
An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 2d

The Rich People's Lobby has whacked the govt into a backflip on its superannuation reforms
#whatsthescam #auspol @kimwingerei.bsky.social
michaelwest.com.au/wealthy-supe...

The One Percent has a super win as Chalmers caves. What's the scam? - Michael West

Treasurer Jim Chalmers has announced Labor is backing down on the proposed tightening of the super tax for the very wealthy. What’s the scam? The scam is how the Labor Government is letting hyperbole ...

michaelwest.com.au

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Prof Matt Haggis 🐀 🍉 @matthaggis666.bsky.social · 2d

Not a Thorpe fan, but the LNP "meritocracy" MPs and SkyNews faux outrage is moronic. #auspol

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 2d

AFP investigates Lidia Thorpe’s claim she would ‘burn down’ Parliament House

Senator says her words at Melbourne pro-Gaza rally were ‘a metaphor’ and the reaction to them ‘mock outrage’ that distracts from Palestinian suffering * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian federal police has said it is investigating whether independent senator Lidia Thorpe’s claim to a pro-Palestinian rally in Melbourne that she would “burn down” Parliament House has breached legislation. Thorpe told the rally on Sunday: “We stand with you every day, and we will fight every day, and we will turn up every day, and if I have to burn down Parliament House to make a point … I am not there to make friends.” Continue reading...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 2d

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion.

The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion.

Read that back.

When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

The ALP might as well merge with the Minerals Council of Australia

Miners to get an early look at Labor’s new green laws

Tom Rabe
WA political correspondent
Oct 12, 2025 – 3.26pm

The Albanese government will give mining companies and other stakeholders draft extracts of its environmental protection laws before they go to parliament, as Environment Minister Murray Watt tries to rebuild trust after earlier negotiations on the reforms collapsed in acrimony.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 2d

Didn't even have the bottle to stick with changes to super that affected only the wealthiest 0.5%.

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