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Alter-ego of @infinite8horizon.com (the nice one, with pictures). This account for politics & biting social commentary (rants). Bio: https://bsky.app/profile/infinite8horizon.com/post/3lgmq5wdco22d Longform essays at https://infinite8horizon.wordpress.com
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I gotta say, ranking LNP leaders and ministers in order of arseholiness is a perfectly acceptable if rather nauseating pastime, but comparing Fraser as PM and Whitlam as PM, there is seriously NO comparison. How Fraser got there, and what he did when he got power, compared with Whitlam? Please...🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

I agree it's sad (maybe I'd use a stronger word than sad), but the grease was out long before now. Most of these people work for billionaires whose agendas do not include any amendments at all, and their unwillingness, for FOUR YEARS, to call #45 a liar was all the warning you needed. 🧵

submitted 14 hours ago • 1 comment

Will Musk interfere in the Australian election? Lessee... White, born in South Africa, maternal grandfather supported apartheid, holds far right views and hates migrants. Peter Dutton, white, holds far right views, hates certain coloured migrants, and as I recall, was pro-white-South African. 🤷

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Perfect 🤣🎯

submitted 1 day ago • 395 comments

Now is exactly THE RIGHT TIME, NYT to slide the stiletto into the still-warm body of American democracy. The Times & latterly WaPo have been the almost invisible, deadly blade, in comparison with the daily unsubtle bludgeon of Fox. They're all tools of billionaires, wielded differently. #uspol

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

...and this is why Israel and Gaza are taking up so much space in our media and the election campaign... (sarcasm, and disgust, for the sarcasm impaired) If you vote for a party that ignores & condones genocide, consider how little they will care for you when it's expedient. #Gaza #auspol

submitted 21 hours ago • 1 comment

At what point does this chaos impinge on the populace? Too late? They are truly in boiled frog territory now.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Climate disaster or hip-pocket? @theage #Election2025 #auspol

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

“The media falls for it” I have a bridge to sell you. Bezos, Slim, Murdoch, Musk, Zuckerberg are not “falling” for anything, and the trained, intelligent, professional journalists they employ or amplify haven’t tripped over anything. They fear for their jobs, or they quit. #ThisIsNotJournalism

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I was going to leave this, since your comment contained zero argument & 100% personal opinion, but if you want to vote for a genocide supporting, coal exporting, environment destroying, gambling coddling, poverty preserving, asylum interring, promise breaking ShitLite™ government, it's your choice.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

If an Australian journalist were murdered in Gaza, who would write their obituary? Who would report and mourn their death? Not any of their colleagues—Australian journalists working for the mainstream media, our so-called "free press". How can I be so sure? It's simple: #ThisIsNotJournalism 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

forbiddenstories.org/en-journalis... #gaza #journalism

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Rewriting the past and controlling history is right up there for dictators. Nowadays, no need for bonfires. I'm often reminded of a passage in an Iain M Banks (much missed) story, where an invading tyrant agrees surrender terms with a librarian planet:/

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

<sarcasm alert, if you are sarcasm impaired, look away> Clearly some Jews are anti-semitic

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It's pretty clear that when people have no moral bottom, the depth to which they will sink is not determined by any inherent remaining decency, but the enormity of the moral challenge. Mild challenge: lie and steal corflutes. Appalling challenge: cheer on genocide and attack any protest. #auspol

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

While in this case the LLM may have got the pattern-recognition right, it's interesting that somehow the output of a plagiarism machine that's known to create mirages of non-existent facts & cite documents that don't exist should be thought a *better* judge of who's a nazi than our own eyes.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments