and here's the thing. as far as I can tell, the Verge did not post this clip on Twitter. nearly all their other posts are identical to the ones they have on Twitter, but this one was made for Bluesky's eyes only
Leigh
@leighdlf.bsky.social
Idk some guy I guess? Melbourne, Australia 🌱
Folks I won’t tell you not to feel your feelings, but this is rage bait. He’s talking about expanding beyond politics into things like live sports.
The Verge@theverge.com · 2d agoBluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."
It’s the phones. open.substack.com/pub/stancilc...
Sam@samd.bsky.social · last wk.what’s going on with the world man. why is the far right resurgent everywhere? it’s easy to blame whatever policy boogeyman (neoliberalism, housing shortage, immigration, etc etc) but I think it has to be something deeper. maybe lived memory is dying out of how evil fascism is
That Musk talks about The Culture books a lot while embodying the opposite philosophy as The Culture also also awful.
Jess Morrissette@decafjedi.com · 11mo agoAll the money in the world can't buy you media literacy.
Indigenous person with a autism living 35 miles away from a store materializing in the head of every person when veganism is mentioned
Almost as bad as feeding 78% of the global soy crop to brutally exploited, emissions generating farmed animals, thereby destroying ~90% of its nutritional value. ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
We could reduce the amount of land used for grazing and croplands used to grow animal feed.
ourworldindata.org
Marina Bolotnikova@mbolotnikova.bsky.social · 3w agoWe're destroying what remains of the world's rainforests for biofuels that aren't benefitting the climate at all, & the Trump admin's unprecedented expansion of the state-manufactured market for soybean oil-based diesel will make it all the worse. It really be that bad :(
Neo-fascism is not a materialist response to anything. It is a revolt of the privileged, so bored by their prosperity that they are reigniting world-historical ideological struggle just to feel something for once in their miserable, empty lives.
Flattening out modern, diverse Australia. What a dismal, unpatriotic mission.
this is, though, an interesting thing. which is that being on the right is still so low-status culturally that even on a now totally reactionary dominated platform people reflexively do this tic
Louis@louisevans.bsky.social · 2mo ago“I’m not even super right wing” >> you are about to hear the most Nazi shit you’ve ever heard in your life.
Albo says it’s “completely extraordinary” One Nation claims to stand for Australia while they “offshore their own advertising” & “offshore their party membership process.” 💥 Will anyone ask Hanson about the hypocrisy at NPC today?
Raf Epstein calls out blatant favouritism media gives Pauline Hanson “She could never say ‘show me the good Jews” “She says that about Muslims” “If she said that about Jews there’d be a discussion on this couch whether or not she should be prosecuted under hate laws”💥🎯 #auspol
This from the person interviewing Richard Spencer about his Pepe pin when he got clocked, is just galling.
“Why would we engage now, two years out and on her terms? It’s a distraction,” one Labor MP said. “She craves attention and we have a job running the country.” Exactly. Nothing to be gained by playing politics on Hanson’s terms. #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Pauline Hanson is becoming a problem for Labor – now it has to respond
Labor talking points this week concede Australians are frustrated with an economy that ‘isn’t working for them’. The goal will be to convince voters One Nation isn’t either
theguardian.com
because I don't go on X much anymore, the PM's press conferences are sometimes an insight into what right wing media is losing its mind about
Take this to the 2028 election Pauline! And as the Coalition will preference One Nation and may enter into a coalition govt with them they should be asked every day whether they support this. #auspol www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
One Nation defence plan could blow out budget by $400b and require conscription
One Nation’s polling surge, which has pushed it above Labor and the Coalition, has focused attention on the right-wing populist party’s policy platform.
smh.com.au
I suspect that once more voters are exposed to One Nation’s extreme positions that their support will evaporate. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
One Nation wants to roll back abortion rights in Australia – and is emboldening activists seeking US-style laws
Support for Pauline Hanson’s populist party has given fresh impetus to a loose network of activists trying to chip away at reproductive rights
theguardian.com
Definitely some truth to this one. Whether the exact sum is $10m or $100m, there is definitely a point where you could live in luxury as anyone could reasonably define it for the rest of your life, and people who carry on rather than selling after that are definitionally at least a bit megalomaniac
Russ Silva@russellsilva.bsky.social · 2mo agoI have kind of the opposite opinion. The richest people worked to become that wealthy precisely because they were unable to ascend Maslow's pyramid like a normal person would after making ~$20 million.
Yesssss Dan Andrews Colossus. Astride the heads of port phillip bay, staring out to bass strait with an expression of cold determination. North Face can pay half. Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus. [bashing clipboard] Dan Andrews colossus. Dan Andrews colossus.
ABC News Bot (unofficial)@abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe government says work is already underway to honour Daniel Andrews, who is Victoria's longest-serving Labor premier.
The show is called "make it make sense" but it's just a guy being really confused by straightforward things
Make It Make Sense@themimsshow.bsky.social · 3mo agoAmsterdam bans hamburger ads
Beef consumption gets framed as "no ethical consumption under capitalism" when it uses infinitely more water than AI, which gets framed as "you are a bad person if you use ChatGPT." I'm not a fan of AI either, but it's just evidence that no one thinks about what they're saying.
Why are so many on the left hostile to veganism and animal rights? For you Bsky dwellers, this question blew up last week on X after Billie Eilish made some comments on the matter. My thoughts here:
Billie Eilish addresses criticism over her statement that “eating meat is inherently wrong”: “go watch a documentary or two and some footage of what is done to the animals u claim to love and what it does to the planet u pretend to love as well...”
Isn't presenting oneself as the false coming of Christ the exact thing that the Antichrist is supposed to do?
it's so funny to complain about the Pope being "weak on crime". he is the ostensible mouthpiece of a God whose whole thing is forgiving sins. it's technically his job to be weak on crime.
Joey Politano🏳️🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · 4mo agoan all-timer for "imagine how JD Vance would react if a democrat said any of this"
