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Chris McIntosh
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Where the wild things are.

Farmer, designer, writer, explorer. Australia. #auspol

www.cmc.id.au
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"Can't read. Too busy being alpha..."

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“This landslide electoral defeat of Peter Dutton represents an absolute rejection of his ideology and policies which is why we, as the victors, will be adopting all of them.”
December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
It‘s really feeling like the main point of large language models (LLMs) is to boost the fossil fuel industry.

#auspol #AI #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
December 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“With warnings AI tech could require 12% or more of Australia’s power…”

WTF FOR? What is the business case? That is obscene.

#auspol
December 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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BREAKING: Former Trump lawyer Alina Habba disqualified as New Jersey prosecutor
December 1, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Muting “Barnaby Joyce”. There’s nothing more I need to know about him, and certainly nothing he says. Let’s all just move on.

#auspol
November 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
If democracy survives in the US, there will need to be some changes made to the constitution.

Removing the President's pardon power needs to be near the top of the list.
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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Make no mistake, the Israelis are the NAZIS of our times!!!!! 'Video shows Israeli forces shooting Palestinians dead moments after surrender'
theguardian.com/world/2025/n... #IsraeliNazis #PalestinianHolocaust #FreePalestine #auspol
November 29, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Any of the Epstein files been released yet?

#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #EpsteinTrumpFiles
So, how about all those Epstein files? Tick tock. We have not forgotten about them…not for a nano second. #EpsteinFiles

Pass it on.
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Whoever runs the @nature.com BlueSky account is about to get a LOT busier...
November 28, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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Waiting impatiently for news of the office of Births, Deaths and Marriages’ Black Friday sale offers
November 28, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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Budgets are about priorities. The idea is to tax things you want less of & subsidise things you want more of

In Australia we spend $14 billion per year on fossil fuel subsidies & we are cutting science jobs at CSIRO…

As i said, budgets are about priorities #climate

thepoint.com.au/news/251127-...
If the Government's top priority is productivity, slashing the CSIRO budget does not make sense
Research and development is one of the major drivers of productivity and the CSIRO has a long track record of making productivity enhancing breakthroughs.
thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
If democracy survives in the US, pretty much the entire Trump administration is going to jail. They must know that. What do you think they'll do to prevent that from happening? What are US citizens prepared to do to defend their country?
November 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
"Barnaby Joyce is about to announce he is leaving the Nationals for One Nation.

No one really cares."

- Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social

#auspol
November 27, 2025 at 1:42 AM
The Liberals have become a satire of a political party. Who are we casting for the series?

Sussan Ley - Julia Zemiro
Ted O’Brien - Tom Ballard
Andrew Hastie - Luke McGregor
Michaela Cash - Delta Goodrem

Who are your picks?

#auspol #TheLiberals
Coalition makes tax cut pitch in bid to restore credibility among young
Shadow Treasurer Ted O'Brien will address the National Press Club on Wednesday.
www.abc.net.au
November 25, 2025 at 11:10 PM
People still on Twitter / X: Still think there’s a point to you being there?

Delete your account. Do it today.
"Almost immediately, 'About This Account' stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand."

You know all this by now, but it's nice to have a quality summary.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
How X blew up its own platform with a new location feature
www.theatlantic.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Home DESPOT.
November 22, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The ratio of fossil fuel to renewables lobbyists in & around parliament is at least 10:1, Blume says. The capability to respond to consultations, parliamentary committees & the like sees big teams from the fossil fuels sector up against the tiny capacity on the renewables side.
How an Australian coal lobbyist honed fossil fuel messaging
An Australian lobbyist now leading the world’s key coal body addressed the National Press Club this week, demonstrating a sophisticated pivot in global fossil fuel messaging.
bit.ly
November 22, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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The "existential threat" to Australia is not mass migration, it's Donald Trump's administration.
#auspol
November 25, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Have to wonder how much the alcohol and tobacco industries lobby to continue the stupid and harmful “war on drugs”.

#auspol
The LNP: Don't care if the world burns, don't care if poor people starve, don't care if young people die. The selfishness is never a surprise, but somehow always shocking.

#auspol #qldpol
November 24, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Does anyone else remember when they raided Jeffrey Epstein's home & they found tons of hidden cameras and secret tapes? I wonder what was on them? Anyway it's cool how they've trickle-leaked names and comms the whole time big tech has been perfecting a "literally any image can be faked" machine, huh
November 24, 2025 at 6:14 AM
NEW ENGLAND BOOK LOVERS - Two events coming up, first weekend of Dec:

"Dark deeds in the highlands" at The Makers Shed, Deepwater, Sat 6th

"New England Noir" at Seasons of New England, Uralla, Sun 7th

Details follow... 🧵

#books #AuthorTalk #BookSigning #CrimeWriting #Australlia #NSW #NewEngland
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Time for the Greens to step up and be a party of government. Australia URGENTLY needs a genuine opposition party and the LNP ain't it. The Greens need to become a viable alternative to the current Labor government, and they need to do it now. As little as 2 years until the next fed election

#auspol
November 24, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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This seems so bloody obvious - why did it take an independent like @davidpocock.bsky.social to write this bill @albomp.bsky.social??

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

#auspol
'You should own your own face': Pocock launches AI deepfake bill
Australians who share AI deepfakes of another person without consent could be sued for it or face steep fines under a new bill.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Love how this troll turns comments off on all of their posts so nobody can argue with them.

Won’t stop the reporting of the blocking, sunshine.
Since Trump signed the release of the Epstein files... we haven't heard a word from

Barack Obama
Bill Clinton
Hillary Clinton
Bill Gates
Reid Hoffman
Hunter Biden
Tom Hanks
Kevin Spacey

🚨 This is gonna be the biggest backfire in the history of this country's body politic 💯%
November 23, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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Transparency
November 21, 2025 at 12:45 AM