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rbreich.bsky.social
Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"

There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:

1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance

Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Hell, yes!
November 16, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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carnage4life.bsky.social
They’ve laid off so many people that the government is now getting its economic data from DoorDash.
November 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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peterwmurphy1.bsky.social
Recently, the Israeli Knesset passed a bill to annex the #WestBank. On Mon 10Nov2025, it passed the first reading of a bill allowing the execution of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel. Israel aims to annihilate the Palestinian people. #GazaGenocide #IsraeliTerrorism share.google/PDVVymF2VdqB...
November 12, 2025 at 2:58 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could.

Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Graph showing unemployment benefits relative to poverty
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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wendyharmer.bsky.social
I dunno.Perhaps Australia becoming a Republic would have more meaning.
Just me...
goldingcartoons.bsky.social goldingcartoons.bsky.social @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 7d
Albanese reveals a statue marking the dismissal would be placed in front of the old parliament to mark both Whitlam’s speech of November 11 and the achievements of the government
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
The 2025 writers are trolling us.
A tweet from Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis) reads: “Dr. Oz linking obesity to dementia while Trump’s slumped over at his desk is absolutely a choice...” Below is a photo from C-SPAN showing Dr. Oz speaking at the White House podium while Trump sits at the Resolute Desk, leaning back in his chair with eyes closed, surrounded by officials. The C-SPAN chyron reads: “TRUMP ANNOUNCES DEAL WITH PHARMACEUTICAL FIRMS FOR LOWER WEIGHT LOSS DRUG COSTS.”
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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coldamage.bsky.social
- "Do you think Israel should pay to rebuild Gaza?"

- "You're so fired, your desk plant filed a restraining order."

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust

theintercept.com/2025/11/04/j...
A Journalist Asked Why Israel Isn’t Paying to Rebuild Gaza. It Cost Him His Job.
Italy’s Nova news agency confirmed it let reporter Gabriele Nunziati go for asking a European official about Israel at a press conference.
theintercept.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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deniseshrivell.bsky.social
I have zero expectations for LNP - and they exceed those expectations every day.

I did however have some expectations for Labor - and I now feel completely betrayed.

I truly didn’t think they would be this bad.

Could and should be so different 😞😞 #auspol
November 8, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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asherwolf.bsky.social
The Australian Human Rights Commission has voiced an urgent need for legislative privacy law reforms after releasing its own – world first – study into potential impacts from the application of neurotechnology www.qlsproctor.com.au/2025/11/laws...
Laws needed to protect our thoughts – Proctor
The Australian Human Rights Commission has voiced an urgent need for legislative privacy law reforms after releasing its own – world first – study into potential impacts from the application of neurot...
www.qlsproctor.com.au
November 7, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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justadutchguy.bsky.social
USA Photo of the year
November 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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dumbeblonde.bsky.social
Let’s dance to Joy Division
mrrexpatrick.bsky.social Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 12d
The rotten fruit is starting to drop from the $368B #AUKUS tree. Against the backdrop of @albomp.bsky.social’s choice to spend so much money on a single future capability (that likely won’t arrive), other ‘now’ defence capabilities are suffering. Reckless strategy in tense times 🤦‍♂️. #auspol
November 6, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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mrrexpatrick.bsky.social
Today I cross-examine a secret witness on his/her secret evidence (some of which I've now seen) as to why the Australian War Memorial censored the official history of ADF operations in Timor. Although I'm allowed in, the Tribunal door will be closed to the public . #FOI #auspol
November 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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nicolechvastek.bsky.social
Amen.
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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vicsocialists.bsky.social
When the class divide in housing becomes so extreme it turns into a form of literal apartheid...
A screenshot of a post on X by @mckinnon_a, who shows a screenshot of text from an article talking about how those living in affordable housing in the Waterman's Residences at Barangaroo in Sydney have to enter and exit through 'poor doors'
November 7, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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coldamage.bsky.social
The kicker is that all of Google's wealth and power is from our own pockets. It's from us using Google. We can stop using it.

#FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
November 6, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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netrunner.nullsignal.games
Meet the newly-ascendant #China #Netrunner community as they square off against the TAIB testing group in an exciting series of exhibition matches! The first are linked to below, and the next two will take place on the following two Sundays at noon UTC!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0G4...
PROJECT GUNSLINGER WEEK 1 | TAIB vs CN community
YouTube video by aksu
www.youtube.com
November 3, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
Victoria’s public libraries have been warned about using a cartoon watermelon mascot due to its possible association with “political movements”.

www.deepcutnews.com/p/library-ma...
www.deepcutnews.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
"It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers" @richarddenniss.bsky.social #ThePoint

thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
It wasn’t the laws that were too weak to stop those projects, it was the ministers
The Prime Minister is betting that by 2028 people will forget the North West Shelf and EPBC backflips, but it would be a brave backbencher willing to make that same bet.
thepoint.com.au
November 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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mskathleenquinn.bsky.social
The only heavy equipment allowed into Gaza is restricted to retrieving Israeli corpses. Bare hands are used to find the Palestinian dead. There is a default sympathy for Israelis demanding the return of the dead but the painfully wrong dehumanization and starvation of living Palestinians continues.
carceralabolition.bsky.social Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 15d
The grim task of recovering thousands of bodies from the rubble of Gaza

Relatives and experts tell of the human and societal need to find and identify the dead, while images and data shed light on the scale of the job www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
November 2, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
Every day it feels more and more like a zombie apocalypse over on LinkedIn, in which you start a conversation with someone who you hope is an ordinary person and then a couple of turns in discover that they have surrendered their brains to the "AI" mass delusion.
Comment on a linked in post, from user Kurtis Loken who presents themself as "Experienced Metrology Engineer | AI/ML real world experience | Patented Solutions | R&D | Mass Production" Comment reads: Emily M. Bender You are a linguist. LLMs have proven some theories disproved others about how language works. I would think that would be an amazing time to be a linguist. Have you ever actually talked to an AI…I mean really talked to one? The Turing test has been passed. (Sonnet 4.5 has particularly impressed me when discussing ideas with it…definitely has passed my own Turing test.) I would really love to see a conversation between yourself and it discussing your views. That would make a great podcast. Have these models explain to you why your idea to ban them may or may not be a good idea. These things probably have their own opinions on the topic if someone would listen to them. Maybe that’s you?
November 2, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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mspraxis.bsky.social
Two panels, one on top of the other. The first panel shows a hand holding a red mushroom with white spots, in front of a small figure with AI across the chest. Speech bubble from the hand says “is this mushroom edible?” The AI figure replies “yes!“ The second panel shows a gravestone with RIP on it and the AI figure near it. The speech bubble says “You’re right – that mushroom was poisonous. I’m sorry for the confusion! Would you like to learn more about poisonous mushrooms?“
November 3, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
"PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts"

Damning work by @skyelark.bsky.social on this govt's secrecy
#OffTheCharts #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
PM Albanese’s culture of secrecy, in three charts
If he doesn’t change course, the Prime Minister may end up leading exactly the kind of 'shadow government' that he derided his predecessor for.
thepoint.com.au
November 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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coldamage.bsky.social
No one can stop you from boycotting Israel. Use the following tools:

Disoccupied dot com
No Thanks app
Boycat app

I'm boycotting until we have a single state with equal rights for all between the river and the sea. #FreePalestine #GazaHolocaust
November 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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deepcutnews.bsky.social
A Labor staffer mistakenly emailed the federal government’s full talking points on Israel, Palestine and Gaza to the Australia Palestine Advocacy Organisation.

Read them in full here:

www.deepcutnews.com/p/exclusive-...
Exclusive: Australian government’s full talking points on Gaza accidentally sent to Palestinian advocacy group
Government notes reveal they won’t back Gaza hospital proposed by Dr Mohammed Mustafa
www.deepcutnews.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:39 PM