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Nelle from Meanjin

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Pascals Wager: Covid edition. If I'm wrong, I've mildly disadvantaged myself by wearing a mask in public. If you're wrong, you have played a part in spreading disease, disability and death to millions, possibly including yourself and your loved ones.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · Dec 27

Don't bother replying to something I posted weeks ago. That conversation is over and the context is gone.
This isn't substack.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 9h

("A dear chased by a bear" is better than "a deer chased by a beer" because then we'd have cause to question your sobriety 🤣)

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 9h

I think a lot of the public safety cases will have multiple sources, even if they're just dashcam or wobbly phones, & there'll be shocked witnesses.

The two we've described aren't public safety.
"Don't go to the toilet,
don't let your baby crawl out of a window".
Purely entertainment.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 9h

I'd have noticed if it was on paper. 😁
My phone commits so many spelling atrocities on my behalf that I don't even see them on screen anymore, unless they've rendered the meaning incomprehensible.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 9h

When I studied journalism, I learnt that we must verify using two independent sources.

So with the prevalence of A I slop, we must find out exactly who was involved, including the camera operator, how did they get that shot, & where and when did it happen. Otherwise, default position, it's fake.

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AlanShares @alanshares.bsky.social · 10h

As always, "why were they filming". I saw a similar one with a man using the toilet and a dear crashes through his window being chased by a bear. Why is there a camera filming the bathroom/toilet? Why is it centre of frame? This AI nonsense is just stupid at this point, and I'm sick of the slop.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 10h

Today I've seen two different videos where man walking down a street catches a baby falling from an upper story. In each, the man was centre of frame and in focus. There were no other people around.

When you see something like this, ask yourself how likely is this. (Answer, not very.)
#AIFake

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PaulWA14 @paulwa14.bsky.social · 15h

The US doesn’t have the workers to build their own as replacements for the existing inventory, how will build and deliver ours in parallel?
Australia is just paying to prop up USN shipyards.
Naval drones will be in play by the time we get, if ever, our 1st submarine.
#AUKUS #auspol

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 14h

I am Kevin Rudd.

Images from the "I am Spartacus" scene from the movie.
The first panel shows Donald Trump's head superimposed onto a Roman ruler with the caption "Which one of you Aussies called me dumb as fuck"
The next three panels show random people saying "I'm Kevin Rudd "
The final panel is a crowd scene with the caption "I don't even like Kevin Rudd but I'm Kevin Rudd."

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 17h

Before he became Australia's ambassador to the USA, Kevin Rudd described Trump as "the most destructive president in US history."
Today, when asked for his response, Trump says, "I don't like you either," whilst destroying the East Wing of the White House.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 1d

734th in the queue. This library book is more popular than I expected.

A "hold" screen from my library app, showing current position 734 in the queue.

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Blue Resistance @blue-resistance.bsky.social · 1d

Your existence matters, but so do the actions we take! Let’s unite across generations to dismantle systemic oppression and fight for equality together. #blueresistance

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 1d

"White Boomers voted for Trump"

Me, a white boomer: millions of us didn't.

"The No Kings rally was mostly white boomers"

Me: yeah, that's what I've been saying.

Maybe we got tired of being told we didn't exist.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 1d

On the other hand, who do extremely wealthy people meet? This skeet, found just above yours in my feed, seems relevant here.

Pikture of RFK junior, apparently in conversation with someone out of shot.

Tweet from

The Intellectualist

@highbrow_nobrow

X.com

RFK Jr. explains why socializing with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't such a big deal for him:

"...I ran into everybody in NY. I mean, I knew Harvey Weinstein, I knew Roger Ailes, I knew O.J. Simpson came to my house. Bill Cosby came to my house."

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marque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 1d

Compelling defence

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 1d

It wasn't even the first Gaza ceasefire this year. Israel violated the January 2025 ceasefire almost every day, too.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 2d

Since Trump’s reelection the MAGA death threats have escalated to the point he has had to move oveseas (Portugal) because staying in his home city is too dangerous. A political cartoonist!

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 2d

#NoKings.
It's one thing for an anonymous person to create an AI video of Trump, wearing a crown, flying a plane called King Trump, dumping a brown sludge on a protest march.

It's completely unacceptable for a president to post it on his official account.

The man disrespects his office and country

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 3d

At the time, I was thinking of a TV late night show host/comedian, but that's because we didn't have reality show hosts yet.
The reality show host hasn't worked out so well for the Americans.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 3d

I did like this, but fact checkers have found it is fake.

Please don't create or share fake stuff. The true stuff is hard enough to believe, without having to fact check the fake stuff too.

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

A tweet allegedly by vice president JD Vance saying the banter in the Oval Office is worse. It's marked as fake.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 3d

In the 1999 Republic referendum, I happily voted yes, because it recommended a ceremonial head of state chosen by ⅔ of parliament. It lost because half the avowed Republic supporters voted no, wanting nothing less than a directly elected President.
I am even more convinced that they were wrong.

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Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 3d

I'm neither in the business nor an audio book consumer, but I 100% agree. I don't watch a 1 minute TikTok with digital voice. Cheap and nasty.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 4d

I dunno. Do we count the estimated 3 billion his family have made in crypto in the past 12 months?

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 4d

* and only "billionaires" because there isn't a convenient english word for people with a quarter of a billion dollars, or a tenth.

Nelle from Meanjin @nelle.bsky.social · 4d

Charles is the public face of inherited wealth and influence. The mostly anonymous beneficiaries of inherited wealth and influence are happy for him to take the focus off them, and he gets the social status as compensation.

I'd go with "No Billionaires" as a protest slogan.

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Paul Eric Scannell @pauleric70.bsky.social · 4d

🚨🇮🇱 WHAT ISRAEL DID TO CHRISTIAN VILLAGES — AND NO ONE TALKS ABOUT IT

In 1948, Israel forced the Christian residents of Kafr Bir’im and Iqrit in the Galilee to leave their villages. They never let them return.

The villagers went to court. And in 1953, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled they

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