kcarruthers
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Skeets forever! Sometimes I feel like being a revolutionary cat. PhD candidate at UTS Sydney. Nothing here is the opinion of my employer. I have always hated emdashes.
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I’ve got too many email accounts 😭
February 14, 2026 at 12:26 PM
I’ve got too many email accounts 😭
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Well let us hope there are real world consequences for these people…
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
Exclusive: Robodebt Six served NACC findings
Almost three years after referrals were made in the robodebt royal commission’s so-called ‘sealed section’, the NACC is finally preparing to name the Robodebt Six.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 AM
Well let us hope there are real world consequences for these people…
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri...
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Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
February 14, 2026 at 7:55 AM
Just checking, it's now ok to flee your homeland, because you're afraid for your safety, and seek refuge in another Country?
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
Glad we've cleared that up. Let's hear no more about immigration and refugees then.
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Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
February 14, 2026 at 9:10 AM
Fighting age man flees his homeland to seek asylum on overcrowded island.
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You know when things started to go wrong with in the world?
When we stopped carving good puppers onto our furniture.
When we stopped carving good puppers onto our furniture.
February 14, 2026 at 9:45 AM
You know when things started to go wrong with in the world?
When we stopped carving good puppers onto our furniture.
When we stopped carving good puppers onto our furniture.
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if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
February 14, 2026 at 1:50 AM
if you're an older person who finds words like mogg and maxxing annoying, just starting using them. people over the age of 30 have the superpower to end trends by simply adopting them
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Can you have yr spine broken, unprovoked, by police & get no compo? Is that 'reasonable' justice in NSW now? @wendybacon1.bsky.social on the Minns laws rushed in, the judge, and the Inquiry #auspol #Herzog
michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...
michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...
When politicans fail, police go rogue, justice fails to protect - Michael West
Herzog has departed, leaving behind anger and less social cohesion, while politicians, justices and NSW police have many questions to answer.
michaelwest.com.au
February 14, 2026 at 3:37 AM
Can you have yr spine broken, unprovoked, by police & get no compo? Is that 'reasonable' justice in NSW now? @wendybacon1.bsky.social on the Minns laws rushed in, the judge, and the Inquiry #auspol #Herzog
michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...
michaelwest.com.au/when-politic...
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Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
February 14, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
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“many of the officers were literally grinning as they were hitting us”
michaelwest.com.au/herzog-prote...
michaelwest.com.au/herzog-prote...
Herzog protests. Medics attacked too, lawyers question police violence - Michael West
Monday's police actions against anti-genocide protestors in Sydney represent a significant escalation of unwarranted violence.
michaelwest.com.au
February 11, 2026 at 7:11 AM
“many of the officers were literally grinning as they were hitting us”
michaelwest.com.au/herzog-prote...
michaelwest.com.au/herzog-prote...
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Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
![Members of the Swarovski family were early, active and enthusiastic champions of Nazism, and at least six of its members maintained membership in the illegal party prior to Austria's annexation to Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.!23] Three weeks earlier, 500 marchers in the Tyrolean town of Wattens held a torchlight procession that ended with chants of "Sieg Heil" and "Heil Hitler". The majority of the participants, police determined, were Swarovski plant employees, among them Swarovski family heirs Alfred, Wilhelm and Friedrich. 124]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreicscf6waklhijry6fblsvr4psk7yku2jauu5hqsn4n765i4gkl2pe@jpeg)
![In its report to the state police on 14 February 1947, the Innsbruck district administrator called company head Alfred Swarovski "an enthusiastic member of the NSDAP." [25] Alfred Swarovski praised Hitler at business gatherings and took actions as a regional business leader to ensure that "Tyrolean industry could be integrated as smoothly as possible into the enormous gears of the economy of Greater Germany and into the National Socialist economic order." He sent
"grateful loyalty greetings" to Adolf Hitler on his 49th birthday and arranged a donation of 100,000 shillings for Hitler to establish a holiday home in Tyrol.!26]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreifou66ng5baxhiicmm6d3zntcqosn7pqwzafclwf2qs7xtq7wvqku@jpeg)
![In 1994, historian Horst Schreiber wrote about Swarovski's past but was not granted access to company archives. (27]
The contemporary Swarovski company commissioned historian Dieter Stiefel as "a step towards dealing with our history in a serious and very pro-active manner," board spokesman Markus Langes-Swarovski said in
2018; however, the study was not published because, Langes-Swarovski said, "Swarovski is a company that generally tries to keep the owners' personal stories largely out of the public eye because it does nothing for the business." (28]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nvfznp5ls3wcf6aktlfkfkp3/bafkreift4wajp6nsrzdrumb2cnyv7s5nvswakab7h62jnjqua4i7tf2qeq@jpeg)
February 14, 2026 at 4:24 AM
Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.
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😳 The “SAVE” system at the heart of the GOP’s Save America Act was “expanded” by DOGE & the DHS to “check the citizenship status of all U.S. citizens w/o providing info on how this was accomplished or the accuracy of the resulting tools. Early reports suggest an error rate as high as 17%” 8/2025 1/
February 14, 2026 at 4:32 AM
😳 The “SAVE” system at the heart of the GOP’s Save America Act was “expanded” by DOGE & the DHS to “check the citizenship status of all U.S. citizens w/o providing info on how this was accomplished or the accuracy of the resulting tools. Early reports suggest an error rate as high as 17%” 8/2025 1/
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If you look at everybody, it's more like 95%.
AI will not help with any of this.
Maybe it's not the panacea you think it is.
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AI will not help with any of this.
Maybe it's not the panacea you think it is.
2/2
February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
If you look at everybody, it's more like 95%.
AI will not help with any of this.
Maybe it's not the panacea you think it is.
2/2
AI will not help with any of this.
Maybe it's not the panacea you think it is.
2/2
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Of VC-backed products, 78% fail:
42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
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42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
1/2
February 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Of VC-backed products, 78% fail:
42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
1/2
42% fail because nobody wants them.
17% because they don't really solve the problem they claim to solve.
19% because they were no different from competing products or couldn't evolve with the market.
And that's just VC-backed companies.
1/2
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Poland’s Sejm has adopted a decision allowing citizens to fight for Ukraine without criminal liability. Previously, participation in a foreign war was punishable by up to five years in prison. The new law also applies to Poles who had already received sentences. #Ukraine
February 13, 2026 at 3:44 PM
Poland’s Sejm has adopted a decision allowing citizens to fight for Ukraine without criminal liability. Previously, participation in a foreign war was punishable by up to five years in prison. The new law also applies to Poles who had already received sentences. #Ukraine
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🧵The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is a conference org based in the UK that is Christian Nationalist: it wants their version of God’s law running your government. It’s also fossil fuel sector money. Who are these #Auspol figures on the Advisory Board alongside?
February 13, 2026 at 10:44 PM
🧵The Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) is a conference org based in the UK that is Christian Nationalist: it wants their version of God’s law running your government. It’s also fossil fuel sector money. Who are these #Auspol figures on the Advisory Board alongside?
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Australian authorities actually managed to stop a ship that was smuggling cocaine and they didn't even blow it up, or anything! 😱
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
Cocaine ship heads towards Sydney after being stripped of cargo
A ship caught carrying five tonnes of cocaine is making its way towards Sydney after being stripped of its cargo.
www.abc.net.au
February 14, 2026 at 12:24 AM
Australian authorities actually managed to stop a ship that was smuggling cocaine and they didn't even blow it up, or anything! 😱
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...
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On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
February 13, 2026 at 7:41 PM
On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.
But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.
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Babe wake up the Secretary of Defense is dropping another worst policy decision anyone at the DoD has ever made in their entire lives again
New: Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the US (list in replies) abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Hegseth’s campaign against schools he describes as being biased against the US military
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
www.cnn.com/2026/02/13/p...
Pentagon may bar tuition aid for top universities in Hegseth’s crackdown on ‘biased’ schools | CNN Politics
Military officers could soon find dozens of top colleges and universities across the United States abruptly off limits for tuition assistance as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s campaign again...
www.cnn.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:40 PM
Babe wake up the Secretary of Defense is dropping another worst policy decision anyone at the DoD has ever made in their entire lives again
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From the river to the sea
#freepalestine
#freepalestine
February 13, 2026 at 7:19 AM
From the river to the sea
#freepalestine
#freepalestine
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lil man's first mouse
February 14, 2026 at 12:27 AM
lil man's first mouse
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DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
ChatGPT cuts in action
www.politico.com
February 13, 2026 at 11:49 PM
DOGE allegedly used ChatGPT to identify 1,400 NEH grants it said were DEI. Grants were terminated April 2025, according to a court filing. E.g.
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
Film: 1873 Colfax massacre
Film: first female pilots flying for U.S. military in WWII
Film: “Untold Story of Jewish Women Slave Labor in the Holocaust"
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Can't wait for the vision of the cops kicking down Johnny Farnham's door, dragging him off his prayer mat, couple of quick punches to the guts, and then tossed into the back of the van...
February 13, 2026 at 10:59 PM
Can't wait for the vision of the cops kicking down Johnny Farnham's door, dragging him off his prayer mat, couple of quick punches to the guts, and then tossed into the back of the van...
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US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
www.ft.com/content/fdd6...
www.ft.com/content/fdd6...
Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich
US secretary of state cancels attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
www.ft.com
February 13, 2026 at 9:56 PM
US Sec of State Rubio skips Ukraine meeting with European leaders in Munich. He canceled attendance at last minute in move that EU official calls ‘insane’
www.ft.com/content/fdd6...
www.ft.com/content/fdd6...
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The Americans are under strict instructions from the Kremlin not to talk to European leaders about Ukraine.
February 13, 2026 at 9:23 PM
The Americans are under strict instructions from the Kremlin not to talk to European leaders about Ukraine.