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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 4h

remember that time the minister intervened to suspend an ARC funded Future Fellow after zionists created an orchestrated a campaign against her academic freedom.

Ben Walter @benwaltez.bsky.social · 5h

I wrote to Tony Burke about the closure of Meanjin, and finally received a reply from the office of Jason Clare, who had been forwarded the message because it was an issue for higher education, rather than the arts (!).

This is a wholly embarrassing and inadequate buck pass and response.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 22h

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 6h

lmao after watching successive governments do absolutely nothing meaningful about the data broker industry nor targeted marketing, I’m not above laughing at them for this

Anthony Albanese, Sussan Ley and Scott Morrison’s private phone numbers exposed on US marketing databases

Richard Marles says investigation under way into how the prime minister and other senior government staff’s phone numbers appeared in the databases

www.theguardian.com

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 15h

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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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 6h

... it was a fake invoice, wasn't it?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

AI used to imitate personalities defrauds Noosa council of $2.3m

The mayor of a small council that lost nearly $2 million in a "sophisticated" scam says international fraudsters were able to "imitate personalities" using AI.

www.abc.net.au

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Ruth Delgado @heylookitsruth.bsky.social · 14h

A mom in Houston reported her 15-year-old son with autism missing. She spent 6 days terrified, searching for him. The whole time, Houston police knew exactly where he was since they helped ICE place him in a refugee facility.

This is beyond cruel.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Missing teen with autism transferred to refugee facility by HPD

He is currently being held at an Office for Refugee Resettlement facility.

www.houstonchronicle.com

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 10h

"Murray Watt backs tawny frogmouth as bird of the year as poll enter home stretch"

Well that's the kiss of death for the poor Tawny Frogmouth, then.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

News live: record year for EV sales; Venezuela to close Australian embassy; hiker still missing in Tasmania

Follow live

www.theguardian.com

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Dr swift parrot @teamswiftparrot.bsky.social · 16h

Look at how greenly gorgeous this little regent parrot is💚💚💚

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 14h

the online places where kids will increasingly gather when blocked from their standard communication channels (“social media”) are already riddled with nazis and sexual predators.

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

How sexual predators and far right extremists are using Roblox to target children

Experts warn Roblox has a predator problem, amid reports Australian children are being exposed to a range of disturbing experiences on the platform.

www.abc.net.au

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El Gibbs @bluntshovels.bsky.social · 14h

so great that rich people are being heard with their concerns about staying rich #antipovertyweek

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

Government offers major concessions on proposed super tax increase

The government has bowed to pressure on its superannuation tax policy, one of the few revenue-raising measures it had promised, two years on from when it was first announced.

www.abc.net.au

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 14h

let me guess, they need more money and power to combat it?

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 14h

Artificial intelligence is amplifying the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to operate faster and at greater scale, according to Australia's federal cyber agency. Follow live.

Live: AI fuelling the next wave of cyber threats

Artificial intelligence is amplifying the cyber threat landscape, enabling attackers to operate faster and at greater scale, according to Australia's federal cyber agency. Follow live.

www.abc.net.au

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 14h

"Israel also forbade people from celebrating the release on Monday, firing teargas at family members and journalists waiting near Ofer prison in the occupied West Bank, where detainees were kept. A flyer distributed by the Israeli military warned people that “we are surveilling you everywhere”"

Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 14h

"... some bearing the marks of recent beatings and a few unable to walk without being propped up by their relatives.

When asked about their treatment in the prisons, a prisoner apologised and said he could not answer, for fear that he would face repercussions from Israeli authorities"

‘Locked up for 24 years’: release of Palestinian prisoners and detainees sparks joy and sorrow

Nearly 2,000 people, including about 1,700 seized from Gaza and held without charge, set free from Israeli jails

www.theguardian.com

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Paul Dutton @pdutts68.bsky.social · 14h

Babet gets away with disgusting language on social media and is never held to any standards.
Lydia Thorpe, however ….
#AusPol

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Dr Ingrid M @ingridm.bsky.social · 13h

the ABC is carefully curating a narrative that people harming children via social media are all other children. Lies. The biggest threat is adult males. The biggest threat is always adult males, including to each other.

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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 1d

No one will remember anything Linda Reynolds did in politics, but we will remember this forever. What a piece of sh#t.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 22h

Linda Reynolds's capacity to find new depths to plumb is almost Trumpian. Just when you think she can't possibly behave like a more vicious self-parody of herself, she finds a way and goes for it.

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 23h

Dear Labor, if you can't be bothered to think about getting amended defamation laws off the ground after they've been used to drive a rape victim into repeated mental health crises, what fucking good are you

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Kaz Cooke @kazcooke.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds will be remembered for her character, which seems to consist of nothing but distilled, ossified spite.

Vaxatious Litigant 💉 @exposingnv.bsky.social · 1d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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benjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Linda Reynolds launches bankruptcy proceedings against Brittany Higgins

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jaythechou.bsky.social @jaythechou.bsky.social · 1d

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1673

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 1d

AFP investigates The Bloodhound Gang's claim they would "let the motherfucker burn"

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

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...

www.theguardian.com

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Geelan Mitchell Media @victoriannews.com.au · 1d

Could have paid a fine for traffic offences. But I told Your Honour I couldn't (on purpose) as I had a suspicion and I wanted to prove it.

So, Your Honour ordered me to do community work to pay off the fines. And I got sent to the exact same place, same tasks, same time, as WFD.

I busted them.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting choice. I don't remember the sleep snot monster at all, though - I seem to have missed that episode entirely, as well as the second Maisie Williams episode.

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wombatpunch.bsky.social @wombatpunch.bsky.social · 1d

Which season and episode?

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 1d

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 2d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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