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Last week, I launched a new publication called The Dissident. It's an anti-fascist publication focused on the intersection of tech, privacy, and LGBTQ rights in the current authoritarian moment. Check it out! www.thedissident.news

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@benwritesthings.bsky.social I have a confession - I have been paraphrasing your line from an episode of BadGaysPod about Palestine "Israel has been condemned by every major humanitarian organisation and the ICJ" without credit. Apologies, but holy crap it's an effective comment. Thanks!

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“Do your own research. By reading books published by respected academics and attending organised courses within a well-funded institution with an international reputation.”

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TIL that after the shooting death of CEO Brian Thompson UnitedHealthcare approved many life-saving medical procedures it has been holding out on because of sudden internal panic and public scrutiny. So, Luigi (innocent until proven guilty) probably saved more lives than he took.

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'trans women are men and that is why we have censored all these photographs of them topless.' -- national news media

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i want to be a killjoy: we need to make it socially unacceptable to ask chatgpt anything

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kinnard apples, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1910

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"the one thing universally considered to be illegal", fucking incredible

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Trump’s 2-year reprieve gives coal plants ‘a free pass to pollute’ #Climate

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your regular reminder that buying Harry Potter stuff gives money to Rowling and she uses that money directly and in large quantities to fund attacks on trans people no ethical consumption under capitalism and all but “don’t buy Potter stuff” is an extremely easy baseline to follow

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Laura Tingle: The intergenerational inequity involved in the largesse handed out by Howard & Costello to older Australians on the back of the resources boom, has only really started to become clear in the past few years. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05...

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Will Australia’s newly recycled Prime Minister fix our broken #Environment laws? Not without us taking action! That’s why Knitting Nannas and Friends visited @albomp.bsky.social electoral office to let him know what’s needed on this #EndangeredSpeciesDay

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ICE pretended to arrest a 21 yo in order to force her to call her undocumented mother to come leave the house (where she was safe from ICE arrest) to care for her baby. When the mother came, she was abducted and the daughter was suddenly of no interest to ICE. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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2020s Person: "Hey! It's an 1890s kid! I bet you'd die at your first taste of Dorito. I bet you'd faint at Mario Kart!" 1890s Kid: "I'm packing my picnic lunch with beer to eat while I watch the public execution."

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Has it ever been more obvious that the Nakba never ended? A statement from the Independent Alliance on Nakba Day.

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CEOs and billionaires are both completely useless and a threat to all labor, I’m not seeing the contradiction here

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Maybe people are finally catching up.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Get on this while you can- super nice tones.

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Trump called price controls “communist” when Kamala wanted to fight gouging… but now that he’s proposing cost controls on pharmaceuticals they are “the most important and impactful truth ever issued”

submitted 8 days ago • 35 comments

tired: SignalGate @wired.com: The Signal clone, TeleMessage—which Mike Waltz appeared to use in a Reuters photo—has been hacked. And Customs and Border Protection also confirmed it used TeleMessage. Welp.

submitted 10 days ago • 105 comments

released 14 years ago today but it still sounds like another aeon… mvandee.bandcamp.com/album/countr...

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“I asked chatGPT-“ ok, and I asked Tinsel, and she said you’re an uninspired, vapid dork who needs a computer to think for them.

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neurotypicals: if you can't have your adhd meds on auto refill and you need to request a refill every 30 days, why not set an alarm on your phone? me: you are adding an additional step to the process and i guarantee i will dismiss the reminder so relying on my shoddy memory is the least worst option

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#ArtistFave15 Prince Proteges Artist 9 Jesse Johnson with Sly Stone Crazay (Extended Version) Mix by Steve Hodge Written & Produced by Jesse Johnson 1986/87 A&M #2 R&B Original guitarist for The Time goes solo in 1985 after band dissolves. From his second album. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3e40eWDRpc

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Rally against the Hobart Stadium project. Parliament Lawns, Saturday 10 May at 11am.

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Life stuff is really beating me down today. CRIPES. How much do you miss hot water when you don't have it?

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today's insane art and politics question and research: is landscape art especially popular in Australia? Is Contemporary art dominated by landscape art in other places? I'm suspicious it's bigger in Australia than elsewhere. If anyone has even the slightest lead, throw it at me please!

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Brian Tawn has kindly let me post his 8mm silent footage of Hawklords at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, 3 November 1978, on the film section of the DOTU website - scroll down to view! www.daysoftheunderground.com/videos It's pretty psychedelic, but any film of Hawkwind in the 70s is gold dust.

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And we have reached that stage in the great seat of #Kooyong where Monique Ryan wins a batch of postals and moves further ahead. Kooyong -> expected IND retain.

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Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

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this isn't my style but the basic message is pretty on point.

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#BREAKING 🚨 Statement from ex-PM Paul Keating after Ed Husic was dumped from Albanese’s frontbench: “As the cabinet's sole Muslim member, Husic's expulsion proffers contempt for the measured and centrist support provided by the broader Muslim community to the Labor Party at the general election”

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Look at the colour of Tim Wilson’s campaign volunteer t-shirts Take a look at the colour of Zoe Daniel’s volunteers’ T-shirts. Then have a look at the traditional colour of Liberal T-shirts on volunteers for the election. Apart from Wilson’s toxic rhetoric - I suspect some massive shytfokery here

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Voting is open in the #GavinWangchunganeenMedal. The list below contains 100 of @wangchungtonight.bsky.social’s favourite songs. Give us your 3-2-1.

submitted 12 days ago • 43 comments

everything I write is getting longer. it's fine but finishing stuff is getting harder

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