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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10h

Promising starts are promising. Being held to account for your bullshit engine’s bullshit is a good start, especially when said bullshit is marketed as dispassionate algorithmic truth.

MechaHitler is the product of its inputs, and its regular tweaks by Musk are dispositive. Accountability!

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 10h

She’s already 7? Dear god.

Best of luck with yer knees PZ

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 12h

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Nadia from London has an idea that sounds such fun you'll be booking a day out asap.
"I've always loved museums," she says,
"but they can be overwhelming for children. For decades now, I've done something called 'playing postcards'
We do
the museum backwards, visiting the gift shop first. Each child gets to choose three postcards. Then they take it in turns to find that particular artwork in the museum and give us a little information about the piece from the details on the postcard, or from any gallery plaque. At the end of this treasure-hunt-style activity, we vote for our favourite in the cafe."

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 14h

Desi gets around a bit.

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 1d

Want yourself some history of Gaza? I gots you covered 👇🏼

William Dalrymple @willdalrymple.bsky.social · 1d

Don't miss our new @EmpirePodUK double bill on:

OTTOMAN GAZA:

From Selim the Grim to Allenby & the WW1 Battles of Gaza
With the great Eugene Rogan, Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Oxford
podcasts.apple.com/il/podcast/2...

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 2d

As I was saying:

Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

Eh?

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

1 - pre-Trump this wasn’t an issue
2 - a world without warmongering fuckwits is better than a world with them
3 - yes, it’s better to have multiple independent suppliers
4 - balkanisation is the new thing as the States ease into fascism
5 - we could be so much better than this

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’ on.ft.com/4nHKoQl

China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’

Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain

on.ft.com

Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

It surprised the hell out of me to learn that oregano & garlic is as good with lamb as rosemary

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

It’s unbelievably good

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

“How dare you not write the article I wanted you to write!”

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

Tom is replying to Charlotte, who started this by having a whinge that Tom didn’t write the article she would have written, which is indeed ridiculous and unhelpful.

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

There’s something about Tom that brings out the worst in some kinds of people.

Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 3d

Mr. Nichols, use your words. No one is stopping you from contextualizing why profanity merits an essay like this but not the dehumanizing language against trans people used by the GOP all year. You couldn't even bring yourself to mention transphobia in your summary of Hegseth's military briefing.

Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 3d

oh dear God

Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 3d

ANU with big Sideshow-Bob-stepping-on-rakes energy

Dr Liz Allen @drdemography.com · 3d

#Breaking | ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences will not face structural changes at this time. No renaming, merging, or disestablishment of areas. Change management appears to have been halted, even walked back completely. It’s unclear the impacts of this announcement on the school of music.

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 9d

Anyway for those not keeping track: Hastie has quit the ministry because he’s not allowed to do racisms out loud.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Breaking: Andrew Hastie quits shadow cabinet

Shadow Home Affairs Minister and Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie has quit Sussan Ley's shadow ministry.

www.abc.net.au

Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 9d

Jesus I really need to check speling before posting

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 9d

Nuclear power! Abandoning Net Zero! IMMIGRANTS!! This is how we get back the teal seats!

Keep it up boys, you’re doing a great job. Uncle Rupert is proud of you

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 9d

The Libs listened to him instead of their electorates u til they were a completely captured far-right circle jerk the was politically unpalatable.

Two elections now and the blokes (to give Ley fair due) still think Naur we gotta go further right!

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 9d

I do love how there’s a straight line between Rupert Murdoch and the death of the Australian right wing as a viable political entity

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 11d

I spend my professional career seeing things like this and it never occurs to me to post them. We need more carefree beauty, there’s enough hideousness going on already.

Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 11d

Windjana Gorge, folks. A Devonian coral reef roaring 80m vertically out of the flat plains, karst and dramatic and very, very speccy.

Windjana gorge, looking upstream. 80m high cliffs cut into a Devonian coral reef, lotsa crocs in the green billabong at their base

Looming karst cliffs looking quite unnecessarily dramatic with gum trees looking tiny in the foreground, long golden grasses under the trees.

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 11d

1. Felicitations!
2. Commiserations :(

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my

Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 11d

Kid just shared his new favourite song.

Genre: Soviet psychedelic funk. Band name: Ариэль. Song title: ‘hey you, porushka paranya’

Wtaf

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Amanda Marcotte @amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 11d

Charlie Kirk's memorial was a flop.

The pundit class panicked, thinking it was going to be some huge win for Trump.

But really, it exposed why the MAGA movement can't expand past its base. The thrid rate Christian rock exposes why.

www.salon.com/2025/10/01/m...

MAGA can't expand its base — and Christian music tells us why

The songs from Charlie Kirk's memorial exposed a serious problem

www.salon.com

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Kobrind Slnzx @waitwtf.bsky.social · 18d

“It’s not corruption if you do it in full view of the public”

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 18d

“I can't believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!”

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