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This talks about problems with today's media and politics, but it's also called A Rare Win. So read all of it. To recognise the things that are wrong, but also feel relief at something briefly (?) going right.
New piece - about the media environment today and the troubling lack of scrutiny of government nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win
December 13, 2025 at 6:43 AM
This talks about problems with today's media and politics, but it's also called A Rare Win. So read all of it. To recognise the things that are wrong, but also feel relief at something briefly (?) going right.
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Musk will die EU zerstören. Politik, Länder, Kommunen, Institutionen, Privatleute –Wer jetzt immer noch auf der Plattform X des Faschisten Musk präsent ist, ist nolens volens Teil des Problems.
Man schwimmt nunmal nicht im Abflussbecken, ohne sich zu beflecken und ohne den Abwasserpegel zu erhöhen.
Man schwimmt nunmal nicht im Abflussbecken, ohne sich zu beflecken und ohne den Abwasserpegel zu erhöhen.
December 8, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Musk will die EU zerstören. Politik, Länder, Kommunen, Institutionen, Privatleute –Wer jetzt immer noch auf der Plattform X des Faschisten Musk präsent ist, ist nolens volens Teil des Problems.
Man schwimmt nunmal nicht im Abflussbecken, ohne sich zu beflecken und ohne den Abwasserpegel zu erhöhen.
Man schwimmt nunmal nicht im Abflussbecken, ohne sich zu beflecken und ohne den Abwasserpegel zu erhöhen.
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we're all thinking it
December 2, 2025 at 1:17 PM
we're all thinking it
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David Pope in Canberra Times
December 3, 2025 at 10:01 AM
David Pope in Canberra Times
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Sword of Donocles
November 20, 2025 at 5:39 AM
Sword of Donocles
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities
November 26, 2024 at 9:23 AM
Here’s A Comic About Elon Musk & His Infinite Possibilities
Bond should die as Bond in every new Bond from here on in for four features culminating in four non Bonds
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Bond should die as Bond in every new Bond from here on in for four features culminating in four non Bonds
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Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
November 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Fine, I will write the next James Bond.
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
INT: SEX CASINO, NIGHT
BOND: Hello I am Bond James Bond my car goes NYOOM
CUT TO: ten minutes of a chase in a sports car
BOND: Also my watch is a special watch that makes ladies blouses see through
EXPLOSION
BOND: This film is for grown ups
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Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state
donmoynihan.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Purge, Merge, and Surge
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...
Refreshing, though often depressing, clear sighted analysis from folks who know things and care.
If this could be beamed into people’s living rooms or phones rather than the dross that commercial media inflicts upon us, we’d all be richer for it.
Thank you one and all for doing the good work x
If this could be beamed into people’s living rooms or phones rather than the dross that commercial media inflicts upon us, we’d all be richer for it.
Thank you one and all for doing the good work x
The #SundayShot is available now for catch-up viewing. @ketanjoshi.co spooks us with his clear analysis on the global failure to decarbonise & @lucyham.bsky.social explains the pseudo-science spewed by well-funded networks to reinforce inequality & protect wealth.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyYQ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyYQ...
Nature Be Damned - November 2, 2025 - Lucy Hamilton and Ketan Joshi
YouTube video by The Sunday Shot
www.youtube.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Refreshing, though often depressing, clear sighted analysis from folks who know things and care.
If this could be beamed into people’s living rooms or phones rather than the dross that commercial media inflicts upon us, we’d all be richer for it.
Thank you one and all for doing the good work x
If this could be beamed into people’s living rooms or phones rather than the dross that commercial media inflicts upon us, we’d all be richer for it.
Thank you one and all for doing the good work x
“…the idea that because you work somewhere, you must like it.
I come from a working class background.
I imagine if you work somewhere, you want it to burn to the fucking ground”
youtu.be/ZIsxYTa2IGs?...
I come from a working class background.
I imagine if you work somewhere, you want it to burn to the fucking ground”
youtu.be/ZIsxYTa2IGs?...
Frankie Boyle on working class vs middle class attitudes
YouTube video by Edward Mariyani-Squire
youtu.be
November 2, 2025 at 2:19 AM
“…the idea that because you work somewhere, you must like it.
I come from a working class background.
I imagine if you work somewhere, you want it to burn to the fucking ground”
youtu.be/ZIsxYTa2IGs?...
I come from a working class background.
I imagine if you work somewhere, you want it to burn to the fucking ground”
youtu.be/ZIsxYTa2IGs?...
Folk Bitch Trio - God's A Different Sword (Official Video)
YouTube video by Folk B*tch Trio
youtu.be
October 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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Kangaroo punching photographer John Drysdale - England, 1961
October 30, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Kangaroo punching photographer John Drysdale - England, 1961
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Boy with Hand to Face, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24874
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24874
October 26, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Boy with Hand to Face, 1910
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24874
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/24874
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The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
Generative AI is a societal disaster
Governments are deluding themselves into believing investment justifies allowing AI to upend society
disconnect.blog
October 24, 2025 at 10:12 AM
The AI industry wants us to believe AI superintelligence is the real threat from generative AI.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
But that narrative was crafted to distract from the many ways genAI is being used to tear our societies apart, as we saw this week when a deepfake video rocked the Irish election. It must be reined in.
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
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David Pope in Canberra Times
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
David Pope in Canberra Times
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“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”.
For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
Colonialism's new Gold Rush: how 80 per cent of Australia's critical mineral mines exploit Aboriginal land without true consent - Overland literary journal
This fight over the Pilbara mine is not an isolated spat — it hints at a much larger problem. A new study finds that nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous ...
overland.org.au
October 22, 2025 at 1:39 AM
“Nearly four out of five of Australia’s critical mineral projects sit on Indigenous lands”.
For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
For @copower.bsky.social, Noa Wynn examines the Yindjibarndi claim for damages to land and how green colonialism is repeating old injustices.
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Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
Albanese at the White House: Trump endorses Aukus, signs $8.5bn rare earths deal and calls PM ‘great leader’
President says US has no better friend than Australia but tells ambassador Kevin Rudd “I don’t like you’
www.theguardian.com
October 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Nuts to see the widespread media backpatting of Albanese after he ensures Aus critical minerals will be
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
- Shipped to a country that'll use them for weapons and AI slop data centres instead of for the energy transition
- Extracted in an env toxic way thanks to the deregulation promised in the deal
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“We have been amazing allies” says Trump as our sovereignty goes down the drain and we capitulate to militarism, US hegemony and containment of China. We will inevitably be dragged into a war with our most important trading partner. A sad, dangerous day not a diplomatic triumph!
October 20, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“We have been amazing allies” says Trump as our sovereignty goes down the drain and we capitulate to militarism, US hegemony and containment of China. We will inevitably be dragged into a war with our most important trading partner. A sad, dangerous day not a diplomatic triumph!