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Mysteron
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Science and sport. Misanthropy and metal. No tolerance for bullshit. 🤦🏻‍♀️
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
An excerpt from my book to address this kind of pseudoscience apologetics.
November 28, 2025 at 7:38 PM
mysteron.bsky.social
#7MonsterSongs

Monster songs

Monster in the parasol - QOTSA
Little monster- Royal Blood
Nature of the beast - The Angels
The number of the beast - Iron Maiden
Release the Kraken - Clutch
Monster - My Ruin
The call of Ktulu - Metallica
7rock.bsky.social 7Rock @7rock.bsky.social · 5d
Time for another 7 Themed Songs run.
Send in up to 7 MONSTER songs.
Songs should be rock/punk/alt-rock.
Titled or feat lyrics 'monster' or related words: 'creature', 'beast' and I guess indiv monsters ala 'Godzilla'.
Have at it.
#7MonsterSongs
November 26, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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carlzimmer.com
I have a story today about interoception--a kind of sixth sense that delivers information from within our bodies to our brains. nyti.ms/4rfTDtn
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November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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chaser.com.au
"What sort of monster makes casinos pay tax and bans them from money laundering?" chaser.com.au/business/bil...
Image of James Packer talking into a podcast microphone. Headline: "Billionaire who preys on gambling addicts tells heartbreaking story of having to follow the law"
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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lisatellstruth.bsky.social
Have you seen this uncanny meme, @davemilbo.bsky.social

🤣🤣🤣
November 23, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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birmo.bsky.social
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Who deserves a state funeral less? Lawsie or Richo?
It’s nice for John Laws that so many people remembered him when he finally shuffled off his golden coil, even if they were lining up to piss on his grave, and it’s nice too that he died so close to Gr...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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booksofm.com
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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davidpocock.bsky.social
Save the CSIRO

Our national science & research agency is now facing more job cuts than under Tony Abbott

Call on the Albanese Govt to fund the scientists & research we need to tackle big issues we face from climate to food security and everything in between

www.davidpocock.com.au/save_our_csiro
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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gabriellehecht.bsky.social
The older you get, the fewer fucks you give. It’s practically a law of nature
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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rob-sheridan.com
Just noticed on an old VHS that Robert Patrick was wearing a NIN shirt when he was 3D scanned for the T-1000. That would have been 1990, so he was proudly supporting his brother Richard Patrick, who was in a new band called Nine Inch Nails at the time.
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
mysteron.bsky.social
Hello Babymetal tour!!
November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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musicbrownlow.bsky.social
Voting is open in the #BrettKirkMedal. The list below contains 100 albums released in 2005.
Give us your 3-2-1.
November 10, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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jonathanstea.bsky.social
Detox is a scam.

It’s a legitimate medical term that has been hijacked by the wellness industry to sell pseudoscience.
November 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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dailypratchett.bsky.social
“It was regrettable how many rulers of the city had been inhumed by the men in black because they didn’t recognize a chance when they saw it,
November 8, 2025 at 3:17 AM
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handle.invalid
Word of the Day is ‘catchfart’ (17th century): an obsequious individual who sucks up to the boss and always follows the political wind.
November 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
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gidmk.bsky.social
One of the things that Australia really excels at is consumer protection.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24d
This is huge news in @cameronwilson.bsky.social's @thesizzle.com.au- Microsoft is being forced by the Aus regulator refund all the ultra-dodgy AI plan pushing it was doing for Office 365

Wild that other regions aren't also using regulatory power to punish Microsoft

thesizzle.com.au/p/google-sur...
Microsoft is refunding its scummy AI plans so that the ACCC doesn’t go so hard on them Microsoft is offering refunds to 3 (!) million Australian customers and apologised about its dodgy AI plan pushing (SmartCompany). In an email sent to customers today, Microsoft says it will refund all the additional cost of its Copilot AI plans if people revert to its non-AI plan by the end of the year. “In hindsight, we could have been clearer about the availability of a non-AI-enabled offering with subscribers, not just to those who opted to cancel their subscription,” the statement said. grovelling email by Microsoft The Sizzle: None of this happens if the ACCC hadn’t launched legal proceedings against Microsoft. Notably, this is just for Australian customers. Everywhere else just remains ripped off. If our consumer protections make us a nanny state, then stick a dummy in my mouth and give me a diaper!!! Greatest country in the world!!!!
November 6, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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effinbirds.com
A painting of a bird beside the text "let's get back to bullying millionaires"
November 5, 2025 at 11:01 PM
mysteron.bsky.social
Arctic Frost - Celtic Frost’s Icelandic cousins.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 29
Eric Schmitt on something called "Arctic Frost" -- "I can't think of a bigger political scandal in the last 100 years. So if you want to compare it to Watergate, this is 100 times worse than Watergate."
October 30, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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effinbirds.com
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A painting of a bird beside the text "this has got to be the stupidest shit in the history of shit"
October 29, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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musicbrownlow.bsky.social
Voting is open in the #SimonMaddenMedal. The list below contains 100 albums released in 1984.
Give us your 3-2-1.
October 29, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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theshot.net.au
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Support The Shot. Subscribe. Share. Shout. Everyone that writes for us has abandoned mainstream media for the truth (and to use profanity freely, we're not saints). Social media is siloing our reach, and we are all paid less and are more stressed (because we actually care) than all the suits that lie to you on TV. Support The Shot. Subscribe. Share. Shout.
October 23, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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rob-sheridan.com
Nine Inch Nails “Art is Resistance” flyer (2007), with some thoughts on what it means today that came up in my recent Q&A. #NoKings ✊
Nine Inch Nails "Art is Resistance" flyer, 2007. The Art is Resistance flyer, designed by 42 Entertainment with art direction by Trent Reznor and me, was plastered around cities to draw players of the NIN “Year Zero” ARG to real-world gatherings, secret meetings of “the resistance” in the Year Zero fiction, but also a very real mechanism to plant the seeds of real-world activism into a story about what the future might look like if more people didn’t “wake up and give a shit.” Unfortunately, the future turned out almost exactly like what we imagined in Year Zero, but the message - that art is resistance, and you have a voice - is more important than ever. Question (u/tiktock34): What do you think is the most powerful combination of art and music today, given our political climate? Im thinking of movements similar to the "Art is Resistance" type of message. Lots of music and lots of artists but its clear you are passionate about the blend. Also, thanks for the years! Huge fan Rob Sheridan: I think about this a lot, and wonder what the role of art should be in this particular moment of resistance. It's weird to look back at the NIN Year Zero ARG and "Art is Resistance" campaign from 2007 and see that the future took the bad path anyway, almost eerily to a tee. Not that I expected an album to change the future or anything, but at the bleakest of times I couldn't help but second-guess if art did matter anymore in terms of actually affecting change; if I should have been more involved with organizing or with direct action, if we were deluding ourselves in thinking we were doing anything more than a cool art project. But then, year in and year out, again and again, right now included, fans tell me - more than any other project I ever worked on, by far - how much Year Zero meant to them, how much the Art is Resistance campaign inspired them, how it changed the way they viewed the intersection of music and politics. They show me the AiR flag tattoos, their numbers from the ARG, the friends they made through the process, the paths they took after - some even met their future spouses! And it reminds me that yeah, what we did mattered, because a lot of fans were radicalized by that experience to be more politically-aware and think more like activists, and a lot of artists were emboldened to speak out more. 1/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/ These days artists/celebs are expected to have an opinion on everything and will even get called out for not speaking up on some things, but back in the early 2000s there was this real cynicism about music being "political." Bands would get so much backlash and told to "stick to music" if they voiced political opinions. I'm proud I helped NIN be one of the bands of the era to really break through that barrier on With Teeth and then demolish it completely on Year Zero, and help a lot of fans come around to how fundamentally intertwined art and politics have always been. And today? I don't think there's any right or wrong way to combine art / music with message, because I think just making art - any kind of art - is a crucial part of the resistance we need right now. At the core of the fascist project is the removal of intellectual and artistic freedoms, and that tells you all you need to know about how much art matters. Between the billionaire techbros & CEOs showing how much they revile creators by racing to gut their livelihoods, and the grotesquely ugly, unfunny, uncreative anti-aesthetics of the right-wing movement, a systemic disdain for the arts and sciences is stronger than it's ever been. In a moment like this, we all have to keep making human art and connecting around human art, whether it's aggressive music that calls the fuckers out directly or just cute drawings of cats that make people smile. I know artists who are making very direct and provocative protest art; speaking truth to power loudly and directly is important, but it's not everyone's lane and it's not the only way to use art right now. 2/3 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/ I also know musicians who are just carrying on with their shows without really speaking out specifically, because they know how many vulnerable people are in their audiences going to their shows for strength and community, and they don't want to put additional targets on those peoples' backs. Protecting your community matters, too. For my own part, thinking about all of this over the past year was a big motivation in doing my art book right now. The feeling of not being sure who I should be or what I should say as an artist in this moment, how much it matters, and finding along the way that some of the art I was making that was really connecting with people and helping them, was art that wasn't literal with a specific message, it just honestly evoked the way I was feeling and the way I think a lot of people are feeling. The catharsis of feeling together, of knowing you're not alone in the way you feel, of seeing artists who matter to you also feeling the same thing; that gives strength, and strength is power. It's okay to check out to take care of yourself. And it's okay to find joy in music, art, movies, games, books, sports right now. I'd say it's crucial to find joy, more than ever. They're counting on you sacrificing joy, because then you lose hope, and then you lose the strength to fight back. Art is resistance, and joy is defiance. If your little drawing of a cat brought you or someone else some joy today, that matters. They want you to give up. Keep. Making. Art. Rob Sheridan, 16 Oct 2025 Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1o89qtx/comment/njtmeg9/
October 18, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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ronnisalt.bsky.social
Vote now, if you haven't already, for the Guardian's Bird of the Year 2025

It helps to nominate a bird that's endangered, giving it a much higher profile - like Baudin's black cockatoo for example

Please vote - this is a wonderful environmental exercise

🙏🏽 🦜

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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3wombats.bsky.social
A Tesla executive is leading Australia’s R&D review. That’s not OK. Public roles should serve the people – not billionaires. Add your name to demand Denholm’s resignation and new integrity laws: getup.to/qdnOZFWWrfXB...
Billionaire Hands off Public Policy!
Tesla's chair is in charge of our tech future - but it should be us shaping policy
getup.to
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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oregonthedm.bsky.social
Boxes also work on bobcats
October 7, 2025 at 3:09 PM