David Poyner
@davidpoyner.bsky.social
🦘Environmental qualifications, but now a retired IT professional. Gardener of Australian native plants. PoGo player, Dog Dad. Apple AI generated profile pic, just a bit flattering 😂
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So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:12 AM
So as everyone kind of knew, when Chris Minns talked about cracking down on protests and gatherings, he really meant specifically pro-Palestine and anti-mass-murder protests: racist, white nationalist protests (probably attended by neo-nazi anti-semites) are completely fucking fine
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If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
If You're Not Free To Oppose A Genocide, Your Society Is Not Free
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
December 21, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If the right to free speech does not include the right to oppose an active genocide using strong and unmitigated language, then there is no freedom of speech.
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/if-youre-n...
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Israel's cheerleaders should just be honest.
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
December 18, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Israel's cheerleaders should just be honest.
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
They want to criminalise all speech condemning Israel's behaviour.
They want Israel to be able to slaughter as many Palestinians as it wants, and for it to be a criminal offence to oppose that.
That's their actual intentions!
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Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting
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Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting
Reading by Tim Foley:
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December 17, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Israel Propagandists Are Uniformly Spouting The Exact Same Line About The Bondi Shooting
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Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists.
Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross.
Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.
Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross.
Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.
![Transcript from a speech the soon to no longer be Leader of the Opposition gave at Bondi today:
My team and I want you to be proud of your Jewish faith, to be able to celebrate a time like this. First they came for the Opera House, then they came to the Harbour Bridge, now they've come for Bondi, but we will not let them win. [Applause]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ebyirfmcml2wmydrexhxu27t/bafkreieborcz53jugom2e326uhkvo52qlrutbgdxwd443e5jrdfygtjafe@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists.
Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross.
Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.
Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross.
Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.
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You know what I’ve never heard in my life is a person say “I had wonderful, caring parents who weren’t always perfect but tried very hard and loved me and I’ve decided to cut them off entirely.”
And yet all of these parents seem very sure that’s what’s happening
And yet all of these parents seem very sure that’s what’s happening
Welcome to the pissed-off parent pushback: After years of therapists and others encouraging adult children to cut ties with families they deem harmful or “toxic,” estranged parents are speaking out on.wsj.com/4s49U52
These Moms Are Done Being ‘Doormats’ for Their Estranged Children
Parents publicly blast their adult offspring for cutting them off, drawing tens of thousands of online followers.
on.wsj.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:44 PM
You know what I’ve never heard in my life is a person say “I had wonderful, caring parents who weren’t always perfect but tried very hard and loved me and I’ve decided to cut them off entirely.”
And yet all of these parents seem very sure that’s what’s happening
And yet all of these parents seem very sure that’s what’s happening
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Will all their big data mining overreaching powers …. Why did ASIO’s machines not pick up a previous POI going to JI training in the Philippines?
What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Bondi gunmen underwent 'military-style training' in Philippines
Father-son gunmen Sajid and Naveed Akram travelled to the Philippines to receive "military-style training" in the month before they killed 15 people at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, security ...
www.abc.net.au
December 16, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Will all their big data mining overreaching powers …. Why did ASIO’s machines not pick up a previous POI going to JI training in the Philippines?
What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
What is the point of giving up civil liberties if they can’t even stop this?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
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Laura Tingle correctly points out that Netanyahu is in no position to criticise the Australian government while he continues to be unable to defend his complete failure to prevent the massacre of 7 October
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
December 15, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Laura Tingle correctly points out that Netanyahu is in no position to criticise the Australian government while he continues to be unable to defend his complete failure to prevent the massacre of 7 October
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
Can media please stop giving this war criminal oxygen
#auspol
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• I oppose Zionism AND I grieve the murder of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach.
• I oppose Israel's #GazaGenocide AND I want Jewish people in Australia to feel loved, respected & safe.
• I yearn for a #FreePalestine.
• I mourn the deaths at Bondi Beach. #BondiBeachShooting
• I oppose Israel's #GazaGenocide AND I want Jewish people in Australia to feel loved, respected & safe.
• I yearn for a #FreePalestine.
• I mourn the deaths at Bondi Beach. #BondiBeachShooting
December 15, 2025 at 8:03 AM
• I oppose Zionism AND I grieve the murder of Jewish people celebrating Hanukkah at Bondi Beach.
• I oppose Israel's #GazaGenocide AND I want Jewish people in Australia to feel loved, respected & safe.
• I yearn for a #FreePalestine.
• I mourn the deaths at Bondi Beach. #BondiBeachShooting
• I oppose Israel's #GazaGenocide AND I want Jewish people in Australia to feel loved, respected & safe.
• I yearn for a #FreePalestine.
• I mourn the deaths at Bondi Beach. #BondiBeachShooting
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You need to read this thread and you need to be calling every representative you have and threatening to literally never vote for them again and donate your time to getting them replaced if they do this.
If you don't, it's basically the end of the internet.
If you don't, it's basically the end of the internet.
It’s very simple. Genuinely very simple. Until Section 230, it was the case that any website that allowed a user to publish any content of any kind could be sued if they said *anything* libelous or bad. That includes web hosts, blogging platforms, social media etc.
December 14, 2025 at 7:25 AM
You need to read this thread and you need to be calling every representative you have and threatening to literally never vote for them again and donate your time to getting them replaced if they do this.
If you don't, it's basically the end of the internet.
If you don't, it's basically the end of the internet.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“It’s hard to overstate how much the new right idealizes America’s past,” our columnist David French writes.
“It’s hard to overstate how much the new right idealizes America’s past,” our columnist David French writes.
Opinion | What Happens if You Refuse to Recognize That We Are in a Death Spiral
Remind me never to listen to what they are saying online about me.
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December 14, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“It’s hard to overstate how much the new right idealizes America’s past,” our columnist David French writes.
“It’s hard to overstate how much the new right idealizes America’s past,” our columnist David French writes.
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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This cannot be considered normal.
Want to go to Disneyland? Maybe rethink those mean tweets about US policy: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12-12/us-social-media-australia-explainer/106128586
Want to go to Disneyland? Maybe rethink those mean tweets about US policy
Mean tweets about US policy might mean no trip to Disneyland, under a new proposal that would see Australians provide their social media history for the past five years.
www.abc.net.au
December 12, 2025 at 4:53 AM
This cannot be considered normal.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
December 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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Same society that sends hundreds of children aged 10 to 13 *to prison each year* (approximately 600 last time I looked) and forced thousands more through the criminal justice system?
“Freeing them to grow up in a society that protects them.”
Wow that society sounds great, where is it?
Wow that society sounds great, where is it?
The fuck is this
December 10, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Same society that sends hundreds of children aged 10 to 13 *to prison each year* (approximately 600 last time I looked) and forced thousands more through the criminal justice system?
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Not that I would want to go, but there is no fricken way I would ever go now.
December 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Not that I would want to go, but there is no fricken way I would ever go now.
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I see this a fair bit and I think it's representative of entire generations that just fundamentally do not understand building a network through your own actions (subscribing to feeds, following ppl) rather than having it handed to you by a corporation's secret algorithm
Where is the genocide in Gaza on Blue Sky? It incredible to me it’s hardly talked about here.
December 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
I see this a fair bit and I think it's representative of entire generations that just fundamentally do not understand building a network through your own actions (subscribing to feeds, following ppl) rather than having it handed to you by a corporation's secret algorithm
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The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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Every single person who is anti-trans is a slight scratch away from going full racist. It is basically a gateway drug for racism/bigotry.
It seems fine. You pretend it’s about protecting women. You can point to famous people on your side.
But it is only ever about hate. Disgusting & cruel hatred.
It seems fine. You pretend it’s about protecting women. You can point to famous people on your side.
But it is only ever about hate. Disgusting & cruel hatred.
UK Labour is what happens when a party flushes its soul down the toilet.
A party of bigots.
A party of bigots.
Trans women to be barred from main Labour women’s conference in 2026
December 7, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Every single person who is anti-trans is a slight scratch away from going full racist. It is basically a gateway drug for racism/bigotry.
It seems fine. You pretend it’s about protecting women. You can point to famous people on your side.
But it is only ever about hate. Disgusting & cruel hatred.
It seems fine. You pretend it’s about protecting women. You can point to famous people on your side.
But it is only ever about hate. Disgusting & cruel hatred.
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Turnbull was right – but it’s government that really matters https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/turnbull-was-right-but-its-government-that-really-matters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turnbull-was-right-but-its-government-that-really-matters #auspol
Turnbull was right – but it’s government that really matters
On the eve of his defeat as Liberal Party leader in 2009, Malcolm Turnbull gave an interview to press gallery legend Laurie Oakes that still shocks hardened political watchers today.
australiainstitute.org.au
December 2, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Turnbull was right – but it’s government that really matters https://australiainstitute.org.au/post/turnbull-was-right-but-its-government-that-really-matters/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=turnbull-was-right-but-its-government-that-really-matters #auspol
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„These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up“
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
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November 30, 2025 at 11:08 AM
„These companies are stealing every scrap of data they can find, throwing compute power at it, draining our aquifers of water and our national grids of electricity and all we have so far is some software that you can’t trust not to make things up“
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
#humanetech broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-great-...
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It's 4,000 BC.
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
November 30, 2025 at 9:04 AM
It's 4,000 BC.
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
You are immortal.
The Egyptian pyramids have not yet been built.
You decide to save $10,000 EVERY DAY, never spending a cent.
6025 years later, it's 2025.
You still don't have as much money as Gina Rinehart.
TAX. THE. FUCKING. BILLIONAIRES.
🐝
#auspol
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Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
November 27, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Putin's plan to end the war in Ukraine.
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
Cartoon by Michael de Adder
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Where are the headlines about this?
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This French judge approved Netanyahu’s arrest warrant. Now Trump is targeting him | Owen Jones
Three ICC judges have been put on a sanctions list with terrorists after approving an arrest warrant for Israel’s prime minister. This is the charade of the ‘rules-based order’, says Guardian columnis...
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Where are the headlines about this?
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The US has turned the life of this French judge into a nightmare - because he applied justice to Israel.
This is gangsterism.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...