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Apothetes (he / him)
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Erik reads a lot, and puzzles about how culture works & sometimes doesn’t, but he is no scholar let alone scientist and seldom tests hypotheses.
🏳️‍🌈 Non-Indigenous, living on unceded Widjabul Wia-Bal | Bundjalung Country
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omarsakr.bsky.social
What this illustrates is that the competent adults on the new Board understood immediately that their predecessors decisions were untenable and indefensible. Yet it *was* done, and we deserve answers as to what pushed them to it. The Premier also has to apologise and retract his gross statements.
January 15, 2026 at 8:24 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
Is ICE going to deport Native Americans now? What a bunch of clowns.
Oglala Sioux Tribe says three tribal members arrested in Minneapolis are in ICE detention
The president of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota said three of the four tribal members detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis last week have been transferred to an ICE facility and called for th...
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January 15, 2026 at 8:32 AM
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danielwaweru.bsky.social
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melissaterras.bsky.social Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 8h
I’ve been travelling A LOT recently and it occurred to me lately that I’m getting out of dodge when I can. It’s hard to go into work to do your job and people are walking the corridors crying. People are crying in meetings. What kind of management does that to their workforce? Over years?
January 15, 2026 at 8:33 AM
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groundup.org.za
The Will for Peace 2026 joint naval exercise between South Africa, China, Russia, and Iran, which started in Simon’s Town last weekend, is a bad idea.

Read groundup.org.za/article/we-s... by GroundUp Editors
We should not be playing war games with Iran, Russia and China
Repressive regimes should have no place in our military strategy
groundup.org.za
January 15, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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politico.eu
Serbian intelligence officers have tested sound cannons on dogs in collaboration with Russia’s notorious security service, according to government documents seen by POLITICO.
Serbia let Putin’s spies zap dogs with ‘sound cannons’
Documents show Belgrade brought in Russia’s FSB to conduct experiments on animals.
www.politico.eu
January 15, 2026 at 8:57 AM
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progintl.bsky.social
35,000 people ‘partially or completely’ deaf in Gaza due to Israeli bombings.
January 15, 2026 at 9:28 AM
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aljazeera.com
Five US legislators say they are under investigation by the Department of Justice over a video released in November.
Five US lawmakers investigated over warning troops about illegal orders
Five US legislators say they are under investigation by the Department of Justice over a video released in November.
www.aljazeera.com
January 15, 2026 at 9:32 AM
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politico.eu
OPINION: The international liberal order is ending. In fact, it may already be dead.

But Donald Trump is equally responsible for another death: the united West.
The united West is dead
European leaders should heed their voters and ensure the bloc remains a pole within its own sphere of influence — not a bystander in someone else’s.
www.politico.eu
January 15, 2026 at 9:42 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
So glad we're still part of that AUKUS agreement.
cnn.com CNN @cnn.com · 6h
Germany, Sweden, France and Norway have all since confirmed they are sending military personnel to Greenland this week for a joint exercise with Danish troops. https://cnn.it/45aV8Q5
January 15, 2026 at 9:54 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
We'll say it again: "social cohesion", when uttered by the holders of political and social power and privilege, means simply the maintenance of the dominant culture and silencing of any challenge to it.
January 15, 2026 at 6:12 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
This bill is truly awful, an embarrassment
The hate speech bill is an omnibus disaster — and there's a glaring exclusion
The argument the government is putting forward for excluding 'advocating genocide' from this bill's list of hate crimes is nonsensical.
www.crikey.com.au
January 15, 2026 at 6:16 AM
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lilly-brown.bsky.social
And quickly - as others have pointed out ( @wyld.bsky.social) Cultural safety is a practice and concept developed by Māori midwives. It is a concept borne from the struggles of First Peoples. It is a fundamentally anti-colonial concept and practice…
January 15, 2026 at 4:00 AM
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lilly-brown.bsky.social
To be clear: Malinauskas misappropriated an Indigenous concept and practice (cultural safety) to justify the erasure of a Palestinian writer at the behest of lobbyists in the name of Zionism as settler colonial project!
January 15, 2026 at 4:01 AM
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marquelawyers.com.au
Statement from our client Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. It is a tragedy that Adelaide Writers' Week has been destroyed, for nothing. However, this is a massive win for artistic freedom and hopefully a turning point in this time of unhinged McCarthyist witch-hunting. Randa is a hero and we love her.
January 15, 2026 at 1:31 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
FY26 is forecast to be the first year Australia earns more from gold exports than from any individual fossil fuel export (met coal, thermal coal or fossil gas)

It is so weird how coal and gas get central billing in Aus' exports conversation

www.industry.gov.au/sites/defaul...
a chart showing xports $8 billion in 2025–26.  aluminium exports are forecast to be flat at just over $6 billion, with upside risk.  lithium earnings are forecast to rise from $4.8 billion in 2024 – 25 to over $6.8 billion in 2026–27. The increase will be driven by modest rise in output and spodumene prices at the end of the outlook period. Higher lithium hydroxide production and exports will have a positive impact on export earnings. Energy exports are set to decline over the outlook period, driven by lower thermal coal, LNG and oil exports.  LNG export earnings are forecast to fall from $65 billion in 2024– 25 to $53 billion in 2025– 26 and $47 billion in 2026– 27. The fall reflects a combination of slow declines in spot prices and a rapid decline in oil prices, which feed through into LNG contracts.  Thermal coal export earnings are forecast to fall gradually, from $32 billion in 2024–25 to $29 billion in 2025–26 and $27 billion in 2026–27.  Metallurgical coal exports are forecast to be steady at around $36-37 billion over the outlook per
January 14, 2026 at 10:45 PM
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drdemography.com
Neither wise nor necessary: Australia’s hate laws could be history repeating www.theguardian.com/law/commenti...
Banning organisations has a sorry history – does Australia really want to go down this road again? | Anne Twomey
As the government brings its new hate laws to parliament, it’s worth remembering past attempts suggest legislation used to outlaw political groups have been neither wise nor necessary
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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omarsakr.bsky.social
I am so very tired. Here’s more on the debacle that tanked Adelaide Writers Week, and the staggering racism involved. sakr.substack.com/p/resignatio...
Resignations, Racism, and Resistance
Zionist Australia's cultural apartheid continues & according to Labor, it's good to be genocidal, bad to be Palestinian
sakr.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 9:24 AM
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parismarx.com
How can governments still talk of a Western alliance when one part of the alliance is fortifying Greenland against another part of the alliance that’s gone rogue?

They need to stop shying away from criticizing the United States and aggressively reduce their dependence on all fronts.
January 14, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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tparsi.bsky.social
Told @FRANCE24 that when we zoom out and look at the evolution of protests in Iran over the course of the past 20 years, we can see a dramatic radicalization, which ultimately is a reaction to continued repression and the failure to deliver change.

www.france24.com/en/absence-o...
'Absence of credible alternatives' has allowed Iranian regime to survive, analyst says
www.france24.com
January 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
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tparsi.bsky.social
On Israeli media, they speak openly about bombing Iran AFTER the regime falls:

"Do you remember what happened 20 mins after Assad fled ot Russia? Israel turned Syria into one big shooting range."

This is the state the monarchists are pinning Iran's future to...
January 13, 2026 at 1:07 AM
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lalehkhalili.bsky.social
South Africa’s right-wing culture minister cancels Gabrielle Goliath's video installation about grieving Israeli genocide, intended for the Venice biennale. Read Rinaldo Walcott and Christina Sharpe: on this.
South Africa’s cancellation of Elegy threatens to join the ignoble set of actions meant to disappear Gaza and Palestinians from the art world’s public sphere. To say that this action is like a tremor from the trauma of the genocide-in-progress is not to overstate the shattering effect of an official acting as a censor on behalf of the same government whose case against Israeli acts of genocide compelled the world to bear witness. It feels like a betrayal because it is one. The only remedy is the reinstatement of Elegy, as is, as the South African pavilion’s selection. Elegy is wound and medicine when mourning itself is under threat.
January 14, 2026 at 10:59 PM
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alexwodak.bsky.social
Great comments from @jamomartin.bsky.social reminder decapitating organised crime poor track record for improving outcomes & often sparks ⬆️violence as rivals fight for positions. Part of Australia’s failed policy on cigarettes & neo prohibition of vapes
theconversation.com/alleged-toba...
Alleged tobacco kingpin Kazem ‘Kaz’ Hamad has been arrested in Iraq – what happens next?
The alleged kingpin of Australia’s illicit tobacco trade has been arrested - does this mean the end of the so-called ‘tobacco wars’?
theconversation.com
January 14, 2026 at 11:07 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
Pretty straightforward statement. It isn't any more complicated than this.
tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social Tony Vaughan KC MP @tonyvaughanmp.bsky.social · 1d
I am leaving X.

The app is capable of creating pornographic images of children, there is absolutely no question: I cannot, in good conscience, remain on the platform.

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January 14, 2026 at 10:24 AM
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globalvoices.org
“Banning an entire news organization from press conferences hurts the public interest as people will lose access to independent reporting on matters of national importance.”
Samoa prime minister bans newspaper from attending press briefings
“Banning an entire news organization from press conferences hurts the public interest as people will lose access to independent reporting on matters of national importance.”
globalvoices.org
January 14, 2026 at 10:40 AM
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snurb.info
Can't hit the repost button often enough on that one.

Great takedown of his _Anxious Generation_ airport book in none other than Nature, BTW:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 1d
Banning social media for kids may be good or bad but that guy is a comically obvious bullshit artist with entire books full of trite lessons extrapolated from anecdotes that are themselves barely half-true.
EXCL: Wes Streeting has asked Jonathan Haidt, a bestselling author and high-profile advocate of banning social media for under-16s, to speak to officials in his push for UK to consider following Australia's landmark ban -
January 14, 2026 at 11:14 AM