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Maddie
@msmaddiep.bsky.social
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Social media and content specialist + bingewatch bully + sharksploitation and kitties obsessed + politics nerd. My love language is committment to the bit. Team #SuzieHolt4Groom
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msmaddiep.bsky.social
@janfran.bsky.social ouroboros, babes
November 5, 2025 at 6:48 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
Are there other current or recovering radio/podcast people who get *extremely* stressed by the mic technique portrayed in NOBODY WANTS THIS?
October 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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michaelwestbiz.bsky.social
Indi election campaign funding: spending on candidates by Climate 200 et al varies wildly, may be a poor indicator of success at the polls @ajgardineresq.bsky.social on the
#AEC disclosures #auspol
michaelwest.com.au/election-spe...
Election spending. Big money for indi winners and losers - Michael West
Electoral Commission disclosures reveal money spent by Climate 200 and others on independent candidates is a poor indicator of success.
michaelwest.com.au
October 20, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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joshuaerlich.bsky.social
“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
This is such a perfect example of the myopia of Australian political media - a newspaper publishing a column offering political advice to the Liberal Party from a consultant (even referring to the party as 'we'). It doesn't even pretend to address the public. #auspol www.afr.com/politics/fed...
There’s no future for the Libs in nostalgia for the mythical base
The opportunity for the Liberal Party is to articulate a vision for wholesale economic reform to support growth and prosperity for all Australians.
www.afr.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Imagine pitching to Taylor Swift that she will get paid in "exposure".
September 26, 2025 at 6:30 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
@lamestreampod.bsky.social @scottmitchell.bsky.social @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social Look at this haiograohy: www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Mr Conviction: What’s behind Andrew Hastie’s new crusade?
As Hastie pushes a new direction for the Liberals, he’s activating a cheer squad in elements of the party’s right.
www.smh.com.au
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
Has anyone asked Albanese why the special envoy on antisemitism, Jillian Segal, has nothing to say about actual Nazi marches around the country? Or that Newscorp publications openly promoted them? #auspol
September 20, 2025 at 6:06 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
Bluesky, you are supposed to be the ‘good’ internet, and the algorithmic power of YouTube is the bad one. So why did none of you tell me Chappell Roan covered Barracuda recently? Honestly, take a good long look at yourself.
September 10, 2025 at 12:46 PM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
@mattbevan.bsky.social I loved the Ukrainian mud story!
September 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
I am 'every time I hear the name of an actor I second-guess, "wait, didn't they die?"' years old.
September 6, 2025 at 11:05 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
"This is exactly what Hamas wanted: for Israel to be trapped in the field without a goal, without defining the picture of the day after, in a useless occupation that no one understands where it is leading."
Israeli security cabinet approves plan for Gaza City occupation — as it happened
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israel's security cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City.
www.abc.net.au
August 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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jaspar.bsky.social
“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.
theo.io Theo Sanderson @theo.io · Aug 7
(real, one-shot :p )
August 7, 2025 at 8:36 PM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
Welp, we gave AI imposter syndrome 💀
techmeme.com Techmeme @techmeme.com · Aug 8
Google says it's working on a fix for Gemini's self-loathing comments, which have included "I am a failure. I am a disgrace to my profession." (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)

Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
August 8, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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martynpedler.com
"The danger is coming equally from every direction!"

Christopher Bothsides is... THE CENTRIST.
August 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
Either way, politicians deciding when political protest is justified is a terrible idea, and it’s surprising that a self-professed Anglophile and student of Western civilisation would espouse it.
msmaddiep.bsky.social Maddie @msmaddiep.bsky.social · Aug 2
This raises a very interesting question - what is a political decision? What is a legal one? IMO this falls pretty squarely into a legal decision about rights, and political decisions are about the creation of new legislation, and not the upholding of existing legislation, and allocation of funds.
ashrafghebranious.bsky.social Ashraf Ghebranious @ashrafghebranious.bsky.social · Aug 2
Oh Tones. You are still struggling with the political decision made by your electorate to get the fuck out of our lives. So by all means. Go fuck yourself thoroughly. You can ask a catholic priest for instructions and a helping hand
August 2, 2025 at 9:58 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
This raises a very interesting question - what is a political decision? What is a legal one? IMO this falls pretty squarely into a legal decision about rights, and political decisions are about the creation of new legislation, and not the upholding of existing legislation, and allocation of funds.
ashrafghebranious.bsky.social Ashraf Ghebranious @ashrafghebranious.bsky.social · Aug 2
Oh Tones. You are still struggling with the political decision made by your electorate to get the fuck out of our lives. So by all means. Go fuck yourself thoroughly. You can ask a catholic priest for instructions and a helping hand
August 2, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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brendelbored.bsky.social
He’s invented Robotaxis driven by human beings and you STILL can’t call him a genius????
July 28, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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marklemley.bsky.social
Now THAT's a cease and desist letter
July 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
“The motivating force behind American career fascism would appear to be wanderlust”. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/... Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Online Only | n+1 | Yanis Varoufuckice
Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE | Yanis Varoufuckice
This is a disgusting country, I thought, irredeemable visually, psychically, morally, and ethically, and whatever is likable about our people’s warm patter does not in any way forgive what we have don...
www.nplusonemag.com
July 12, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
The @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social has put out a very strong and well argued statement rejecting the special envoy’s antisemitism plan
Jewish Council Rejects Special Envoy’s antisemitism plan The Jewish Council of Australia has today warned that the newly released Special Envoy’s Plan to Combat Antisemitism risks undermining Australia’s democratic freedoms, inflaming community divisions, and entrenching selective approaches to racism that serve political agendas. The report is riddled with misinformation and claims about nefarious funding sources for protests and universities that verge on conspiracy theory. The Council is especially concerned about the plan’s strong endorsement of the widely discredited IHRA definition of antisemitism, which has been used to silence legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism. The Council criticised the plan's emphasis on surveillance, censorship, and punitive control over the funding of cultural and educational institutions: measures straight out of Trump's authoritarian playbook. We caution that some of the reccommendations including new visa powers and judicial inquiries into student activity — risk censoring criticism of Israel, deepening racism, and failing to meaningfully address the root causes of antisemitism. The Council is calling on the government to: • Ground its response in anti-racist principles that include tackling Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian racism, racism against First Nations people and all other forms of racism; • Engage a broad spectrum of Jewish voices, including those critical of Israel, who have not been consulted in the development of this plan; • Reject authoritarian proposals that erode civil liberties under the false guise of Jewish safety.
July 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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uncleduke1969.bsky.social
wife: what did i ask you to do?
me: buy the name-brand repellent
wife: and what did you do?
me: i bought the cheap stuff
wife: you bought the cheap stuff
me: it was half the-
wife: and what do we have now?
me: *sigh* we have elephants
wife: we have elephants
An elephant’s head bursts through the wall of a kitchen.
July 10, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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uxbrad.bsky.social
Joe Rogan flips the Frankenstein narrative on its head with shocking theory that the doctor is the real monster.
July 9, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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jessharwoodart.bsky.social
I think we need to stop obsessing over the mushroom murders and turn our attention to the NT coroner’s inquest report into the police shooting and death of Kumanjayi Walker by policeman Zach Rolfe
July 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
msmaddiep.bsky.social
“You can just try to highlight the beauty of the things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step”.
bencollins.bsky.social Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 7
Also talked about The Onion being inefficient on purpose.

www.status.news/p/the-onion-...
What has it been like shifting from reporter to media executive, managing a staff instead of filing stories yourself? And do you write any of the jokes at The Onion? Or are you strictly managing the business? The Onion’s process is deeply, beautifully inefficient. Every day, our writers take 150 headlines into a physical writers room in Chicago and whittle them down to maybe one or two. These people throw away the funniest sentence I will ever write in my life six times by noon every weekday. The point of taking over this place was to preserve this process, which I learned this week is almost assuredly more rigorous than The New York Times. That’s why I don’t touch any of it. I just try to get more people to pay attention to the output, and get our work into different mediums and new places. We brought back the paper, reinvested in the Onion News Network, bought a full page ad in The Times for something they were going to write anyway. The role is to make the world-class work they’re already doing seep into everyday American life more frequently, and that’s working. You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step. If people get one thing out of this whole Q&A, I hope it’s that. You do not have to make an A.I. version of your own employees that operate at 1.5x speed but produce purely iterative garbage, especially in media and journalism. People don’t actually want that shit. Make a good, human thing and people will bend over backwards to support you. This is a valid way to run a company.
July 8, 2025 at 9:10 AM