Karan J
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Tech-focused dude down under / he/him on Dharawal land Site:
http://bitstories.net/
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Prof Brendan Crabb AC
about 23 hours ago
Looks like success to me. Interesting article.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Jess Matthews’ Estate 🏳️⚧️
2 days ago
This is the richest man in the world. If you ever had impostor syndrome, this should cure it immediately.
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Greg Jericho
3 days ago
The electorate voted for a senate that has a majority of ALP and Greens. Murray Watt and the ALP are choosing instead to write laws that will please the LNP and mining companies. This is not the outcome a majority of Australians voted for.
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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives
3 months ago
Did a new one
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Sky Marchini
5 days ago
Remember, the New York Times wrote that the AI video of Trump dumping shit on Americans was “apparently” AI generated. As if they had some difficulty confirming President Trump flew a plane to dump shit on people. The press cannot call a spade a spade because of this phenomenon.
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Surprising pretty much no one I'm sure
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5 days ago
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Simon Rosenberg
7 days ago
“Balance in journalism can be good, but you don’t balance truth with lies.” - Chris Hedges
#SundayShot
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I was very much an edge case as a brown kid liking this band.
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Glenn Connley
9 days ago
So, Australia collects 43 cents per $100 of exported gas. Qatar collects 46 DOLLARS per $100 of exported gas And Norway collects 56 DOLLARS per $100 of exported oil This is not just a piss take ... it's the out and out theft of our natural resources.
www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
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‘For every $100 of gas exported, Australia gets 43 cents’: Unions open new tax battle
The federal government this week overhauled its superannuation tax reforms. Now the union movement says it should radically overhaul taxes on gas exports.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/for-every-100-of-gas-exported-australia-gets-43-cents-unions-open-new-tax-battle-20251016-p5n2wk.html
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Tim Baxter
9 days ago
It's in the face of deadassed shit like this that the message
@richarddenniss.bsky.social
has been banging his head against the wall for so long for - broadly, that we get to choose an economy that values the things we value - becomes most vital.
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Rob Arnol
11 days ago
Timeline cleanse.
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Cleaning up broken links on my site as I move to a new domain and new platform, and I find this one still works:
dontbeafuckingidiot.com
Kudos to this guy for keeping this domain and site up for 12 years now. And even more so, keeping it static and not updating it for each election we've had since
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Don't be a fucking idiot this Saturday
A yelly sweary ranting website that compares Labor's policies with the LNPs policies so as to make for informed voting behaviours.
https://dontbeafuckingidiot.com/
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Ebony Bennett
16 days ago
This could have been Australia, but thanks to John Howard, Tony Abbott, Scott Morrison, the Minerals Council and the BCA, we wasted nearly 20 years subsidising gas and coal instead. What a waste.
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Oh hooray, my favourite bit of A Song of Ice & Fire is getting a series! (Please be good please)
youtu.be/UPFRItMOgPo?...
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A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms | Official Teaser Trailer | HBO Max
YouTube video by HBO Max
https://youtu.be/UPFRItMOgPo?si=HjTxbIDbVy8rJ5Lu
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Ed Zitron
16 days ago
Every single AI data center is a toxic investment, with most of its value tied up in GPUs that will be multiple generations behind by the time these things turn on - and then die in 3-5 years. All to build for AI demand that doesn't exist.
edzitronswheresyouredatghostio.outpost.pub/public/promo...
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Clearly the problem with Napster wasn't well funded enough to buy lobbyists like this
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16 days ago
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this belongs in
@theonion.com
hall of fame headlines
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17 days ago
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Ebony Bennett
19 days ago
Offsets don't lower emissions.
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How's that strategy of exporting coal and gas gonna work out for Australia when China & India are making serious inroads to renewables
#auspol
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18 days ago
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I look at this and immediately flash back to organic chemistry lessons where it seemed like utter magic that molecules could do things at an atomic level
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18 days ago
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Captain Quoll
21 days ago
Might be time for our pissweak leader to grow a spine and stop sucking up to the bullies.
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Paul Eric Scannell
23 days ago
In Paris, porcelain plates inside 18 meter pool filled with water create random sound symphony without human interference..pretty cool 😎
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I've paid well over $500k in income tax over the last 10 years, so clearly I'm doing something wrong. How the fuck do I get in on Santos' scam here.
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23 days ago
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Nereide
24 days ago
🧵 Question: "If chimps are so much like us, why are they endangered while humans dominate the globe?" Goodall: "Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful." —
#JaneGoodall
, 3 Apr. 1934 - 1 Oct. 2025
#ForeverInspiring
#LegacyOfHope
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23 days ago
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Jacob T. Levy
25 days ago
Reminder that support for war crimes on TV was Hegseth's only qualification for the job; it's the only reason Trump knew he existed. Secretary of War Crimes is the job he was auditioning for during his career as a drunken talking head on Fox.
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Andrew Lawrence
25 days ago
people were worried about a behind the scenes loyalty test and once again they get around outrage by just doing the thing right out in the open
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Selling shovels in a gold rush is where the true money is.
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25 days ago
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Danielle Froom 🏳️🌈
26 days ago
I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".
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Greg Jericho
26 days ago
That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that" "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"
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William Gibson
30 days ago
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Pearls and Irritations
30 days ago
The government needs to understand that if Australia and many other countries continue to support fossil fuels, there won’t be any renewable energy superpowers.
#auspol
#renewables
#fossilfuels
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The world isn't even trying to phase out fossil fuels
This article highlights the global failure to address the most important requirement to minimise the climate threat, the phasing out of fossil fuels.
https://johnmenadue.com/post/2025/09/the-world-isnt-even-trying-to-phase-out-fossil-fuels/
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Rebecca R Helm
about 1 month ago
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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The web of funding for AI boggles the mind
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Robbie Andrew
about 1 month ago
India has broken my graph. 30 GW of renewables added so far this year, ahead of 28.6 GW for all of 2024.
robbieandrew.github.io/india
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Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens
about 1 month ago
Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"
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Simon Evans
about 1 month ago
NEW: IEA reiterates ‘no new oil and gas needed’ if global warming is limited to 1.5C (but this time, it only says so quietly) 🧵quick thread
www.carbonbrief.org/...
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Work Chronicles
about 1 month ago
(comic) 5 year plan
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John Birmingham
about 2 months ago
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The primal scream of a barbarian hive mind.
I went to the gym on Sunday morning last week.
https://open.substack.com/pub/aliensideboob/p/the-primal-scream-of-a-barbarian?selection=5cbdfd22-5b84-4b33-a0c0-6abd25af8dbc&r=2exjx&utm_medium=ios
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Agnes Mack
about 2 months ago
David Pope in Canberra Times
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
my bluesky
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A Catbus on Elm Street
about 2 months ago
I will never apologize for a post
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Read it here:
www.rossgittins.com/2025/09/if-a...
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about 2 months ago
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Geoff Lemon 🍋
about 2 months ago
After months of UK Labour kicking migrants and trans people to please bigots, the Mail front page calls the deputy PM “hard left” and the nation “North Korea”. Buds, they will never ever back you, because you’re not Tories. So stop trying to be Tories.
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Possum
about 2 months ago
The modern ALP are very very bad at institutional partisan politics. It is in their BEST interests to massively EXPAND open government through FOI and concrete it in, because they govern in a way that more harm will come to the Libs then themselves. Plus it's good
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Labor facing backlash over plans to curb access to government information
Changes announced by Michelle Rowland include new charges for FoI requests as well as tougher rules related to cabinet confidentiality
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/sep/02/labor-backlash-plans-limit-access-to-government-information
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Dr Richard Denniss
about 2 months ago
If the Productivity Commission was as interested in productivity as it is in ideology it would be pushing for much tougher efficiency standards for cars, houses and commercial buildings…but no…it wants market forces to fix market failure..FFS…my op-ed
#climate
www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025...
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If the Productivity Commission was serious, it would not target EVs
With Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions from transport near record highs, the Productivity Commission is worried about subsidies for EVs.
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2025/08/29/productivity-commission-evs
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Stu Fleming
8 months ago
Manager: "What's this milestone 'Living on a prayer' ?" Me: "That's the documentation deliverable." Manager: "What's the status of that?" Me: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Me: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Me: "Tommy used to work on the docs"
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Crikey
2 months ago
The same groups advising on how to disarm the intergenerational economic bombs that have started to explode are the same groups that helped set them, writes Amy Remeikis.
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Australia's capital class remains too focused on profit to truly address productivity
https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/08/22/economic-roundtable-tax-reform-jim-chalmers-amy-remekis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1756077549-2
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