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Van Badham@vanbadham.bsky.social |
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Guardian columnist, co-hosts The Week on Wednesday podcast, makes theatre, yaps a lot. Contact me: linktr.ee/vanbadham You should totally buy my book, QANON & ON: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults. It’s bonkers.
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Laura Helmuth
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There are “no links whatsoever between the offshore wind development activity and especially the humpback whale mortalities. None. Zero.” But oil & gas & shipping interests sure want you to think wind energy is what's killing whales 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/whal...
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Kathleen Bachynski
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Hear, hear: “In fact, the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump. Trump, 78, has been on the political stage for eight years marked by chaos, corruption, and incivility. Why go back to that?”
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Jeff Tiedrich
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I'm calling on Arthur Gregg Sulzberger to step down as publisher of The New York Times. his recent performance proves he isn't up to the task
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Van Badham
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Van Badham
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The only people I’m seeing freaking out Biden’s debate performance are people who are going to vote for him anyway. What does that tell you? 🤔
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Grant Jacobs BioinfoTools/NotJustDNA 🔬🧬🖥️✍️📚
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Similar in NZ! Also, one of my enduring early memories of travel in Asia was people avoiding walking in the sun. I remember in the baking heat seeing everyone walking in the 1.5 metre strip of shade on the side of building, avoiding the wide open spaces of sun they could be in. They cover up too.
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Thomas Lumley
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At the first scientific conference I attended, one of the international speakers had been to the Great Barrier Reef the previous week, and it showed. He was presenting on melanoma treatment 😬
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Van Badham
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Anyway, if you need a bleak laugh, here’s me lecturing the British on sun protection…
amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Van Badham
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Trump remains a known rapist and convicted felon.
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Leroy
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One of Victoria's most notorious jails, the privately operated Port Phillip Prison, will be closed along with a minimum-security facility in the state's north, due to reduced inmate population and the opening of a new 1,200-bed prison near Geelong. abc.net.au/news/2024-06... #auslaw
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The New York Times
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Breaking News: Mark Rutte, the Dutch prime minister, was formally named as NATO’s secretary-general, putting a pro-Ukraine leader at the head of the alliance.
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Leroy
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President Joe Biden pardoned potentially thousands of former U.S. service members convicted of violating a now-repealed military ban on consensual gay sex, saying that he is “righting an historic wrong” to clear the way for them to regain lost benefits. apnews.com/article/bide...
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Alejandra Caraballo
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What the actual fuck. Elon is again personally intervening to restore an account that posted CSAM.
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Dave Weigel
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News from South Carolina - all three female GOP state senators who filibustered an abortion ban lost their primaries. www.postandcourier.com/politics/sou...
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
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"Two months after Dobbs, 22 percent of adults said they were uncertain whether eggs inside a woman’s ovaries have shells (they do not)." *rubs temples*
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Cooper Lund
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Trump’s lackluster showing in Philly last night is another point for Juiceless Trump Theory
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Guardian Australia
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Senior Tories line up to denounce Nigel Farage’s defence of Putin’s war
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Van Badham
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but in a choice between an uninspiring centrist and an ACTUAL FASCIST, Vote 1 Uninspiring Centrist, every time. Government is not an entertainment medium, you are not picking your favourite fucking wrestler.
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Van Badham
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I don’t care if Biden’s 190 years old and held together with Kraft tape, the other guy’s an ACTUAL FASCIST, people, stop pissing about
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Pwnallthethings
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If voting and elections weren't important, billionaires wouldn't bother paying tens of millions of dollars to run ads to win them
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Van Badham
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Tucker Carlson is Australia is DANGEROUS: brilliant piece by Emma L Briant in International Affairs on Russian influence operations in Australia. Please read, #auspol. Now: www.internationalaffairs.org.au/australianou...
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Van Badham
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I’m really loving the feature here and on threads where you can hide abusive comments from everyone’s view so you’re not obliged to yourself platform from stringy loser calling you a cunt.
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Van Badham
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I like it here. Plenty of takes to cheerfully agree with. Plenty of takes to cheerfully disagree with. Many animals, just the right amount of smut, that guy who takes a photo of himself smiling every day and no one has yet told me to fuck my self because I am so very fat.
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Van Badham
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As a woman of 49, I can say with some confidence is that the great benefit of ageing isn’t that you stop giving a shit when people hate you, it’s that you luxuriate in it as if it were really fancy fucking soap.
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cait
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i think before people are allowed to post online they should have to take an introductory course to ensure they understand basic concepts such as "a joke" and "hyperbole" and "metaphors" and "women are people also"
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Will Yeates
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"Dirty air is now the second biggest killer globally, overtaking tobacco use, and second only to high blood pressure, as a risk factor for death among the general population. Among children under five, air pollution is second only to malnutrition" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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An Evan
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Unofficial BBCNews (World) Bot
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One of world’s rarest cats no longer endangered
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Van Badham
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This story is heartbreaking but the mum is a freakin’ hero.
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Pwnallthethings
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A serious attempt by legislators or a candidate to invalidate a plainly valid election to install someone who plainly lost the election as president is not a "legal hack" or "finalizing results". It is treason. It is a treason against the United States and its citizens. We shouldn't dance around it.
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Van Badham
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IT WAS AMAZING
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Van Badham
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Brilliant. Thank you.
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Just S
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Yes, if you don’t like the choice between Trump and Biden, think of it as picking between Stephen Miller and Pete Buttigieg, Steve Bannon and Deb Haaland, Michael Flynn and Lina M. Khan, Alex Jones and Jessica Rosenworcel, or Brett Kavanaugh and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Both sides are not “the same”
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Mark Chadbourn
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A record number of 629,875 people registered to vote in the UK yesterday - the highest amount in a single day.
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Van Badham
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MELBOURNE! TONIGHT!!!
come see MEEEEE be a wild eyed loner at the gates of oblivion (alongside some really awesome other people) LIVE at Trades Hall for @litdeathmatch! 7:30pm!
BOOK HERE! www.eventbrite.com.au/e/literary-d...
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Will Oremus
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The Federal Trade Commission, of all entities, is out here writing absolute bangers about AI snake oil. www.ftc.gov/business-gui...
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Van Badham
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An absolutely glorious piece of writing and some of the best journalism of the year. Sink in and read this incredibly piece from The Atlantic about the material reality that no culture war can defeat: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
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Van Badham
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I woke up this morning to a parade of insults on Instagram condemning my MORAL WICKEDNESS for wearing a vyshyvanka in solidarity with Ukraine, just in case you wondered with those suckling the Russian propaganda teat were doing today. So here it is on Bluesky, and Slava Ukraini. 🇺🇦
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Van Badham
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My latest in the guardian is about the deepfakes scandal and entitlement culture: in tech, in private schools, in patriarchy… and how it inevitably results in one thing: girls get hurt.
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Jason Bailey
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I know naivete is gauche but I'm still capable of being gobsmacked that we're at a point where this is just a piece of information to swallow and shrug about
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Van Badham
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EAT MY COOKIES YOU MOLLS
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kcarruthers
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Van Badham is right on this topic: “Cate Blanchett’s admission of middle classness is consistent with an Australian cultural understanding of it. That admission’s context as self-deprecation while in the performance of public virtue is, perhaps, even more identifiably bourgeois.”…
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Mark Chadbourn
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First poll taken since Sunak’s National Service announcement. YouGov for Sky News:
#UKGE2024
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Another victim dies as result of enemy attack on Epicenter shopping center in Kharkiv
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Costa Samaras
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As someone who is terminally online it brings me no joy to report the truth that showing up to a public meeting, calling an elected representative, writing a public comment for a regulation, and voting has more positive impact than 92,000 posts.
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Van Badham
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If you haven’t read this landmark article about the absolutely worst people in the world yet, oh my god - stop what you’re doing and read it immediately. And all the way to the end (trust me). I almost spat out my breakfast. It is EXTRAORDINARY.
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Guardian Australia
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Cate Blanchett was pilloried for saying she’s ‘middle class’. Here’s why she’s right on the money – in Australia at least | Van Badham
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David Marler
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If the Qld LNP are going to build large-scale nuclear reactors the electricity grid will need accommodating. Australia's largest single unit coal power station at Kogan Creek in Qld is 750MW. Nuclear plants can be 1,000MW & most are 1,400MW. #qldpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Van Badham
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My latest in the Guardian is on Cate Blanchett, Karl Marx… and class.
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Van Badham
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I have no idea who they are. Any guesses, fam?
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