Ian Whitney
@iancwhitney.bsky.social
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I do one thing very well and therefore assume all of my opinions are impeccable, no matter the subject.
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Pinning this mainly to remind myself:

Hmm that looks like an American Problem. Sucks to be them, I guess. Hope they sort that out but not my rodeo.
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I am going to make an exception for the performers in the NDIS Code of Conduct video who are genuinely entertaining BUT NOT the filmed segments that follow each of their skits.
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An Order of Australia for any training course which provides transcripts instead of mandatory videos. I can read and learn so much faster than a slow paced video!
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I do not need long lingering landscape shots of the Australian landscape! Save me some time!
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An Order of Australia for any training course which provides transcripts instead of mandatory videos. I can read and learn so much faster than a slow paced video!
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This remains one of the greatest examples of French contemporary culture.
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In 2004, Parisian police were conducting a training exercise in the french catacombs and found, after moving past a desk and a tape playing audio of snarling dogs, a fully functional movie theater and bar. When they returned 3 days later, the equipment was gone, with a note: “Do not try to find us.”
Members of the force's sports squad, responsible
- among other tasks - for policing the 170 miles of tunnels, caves, galleries and catacombs that underlie large parts of Paris, stumbled on the complex while on a training exercise beneath the Palais de Chaillot, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower.
After entering the network through a drain next to the Trocadero, the officers came across a tarpaulin marked: Building site, No access.
Behind that, a tunnel held a desk and a closed-circuit TV camera set to automatically record images of anyone passing. The mechanism also triggered a tape of dogs barking, "clearly designed to frighten people off," the spokesman said.
Further along, the tunnel opened into a vast 400 sq metre cave some 18m underground, "like an underground amphitheatre, with terraces cut into the rock and chairs". There the police found a full-sized cinema screen, projection equipment, and tapes of a wide variety of films, including 1950s film noir classics and more recent thrillers. None of the films were banned or even offensive, the spokesman said.
A smaller cave next door had been turned into an informal restaurant and bar. "There were bottles of whisky and other spirits behind a bar, tables and chairs, a pressure-cooker for making couscous," the spokesman said.
"The whole thing ran off a professionally installed electricity system and there were at least three phone lines down there."
Three days later, when the police returned accompanied by experts from the French electricity board to see where the power was coming from, the phone and electricity lines had been cut and a note was lying in the middle of the floor: "Do not," it said, "try to find us."
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Bluesky is also still years behind where Twitter was during that period. Australian content here is still minuscule- it is really noticeable, for example, around elections. As bad as 💧auspol could get at the old place, it did fuel a larger system (if only via dunking!!).
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I deleted the original because it was escaping containment but on this one we are going to have to disagree.
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My first response was "huh?" but once it's explained... yikes. Plus, as below, it also includes my pet hate of Online American Food Gatekeeping Discourse.

bsky.app/profile/nute...
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Not the main point here, which is as Revan says just gutter anti-Semitism, but it does make me genuinely aggravated how utterly ignorant and uncurious these people are about very basic concepts of how cuisine travels and how food history works, which are really interesting topics!
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Okay I guess people are fine with being antisemitic on main
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yeah, it's sub optimal. I didn't get the reference when I first saw it but then enough people have gone... uh, maybe rethink this one... and it's still up. So best case, weird joke gone astray. It is, of all things, to do with gumbo.
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Australia really is the last port of call for any failed wash-up from the US who was within breathing distance of the White House.
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That's the Australian Way!
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I think Parnell's sole purpose is the House Liberal. Hewson is the same for Schwartz Group, but at least Hewson has some actual achievements to his name.
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I would love to see their subscriber postcode data.
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Quick as you can, name one tune from next year's tent pole show ANASTASIA.
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I can see why RENT was groundbreaking at the time. But two things can be true: you can be groundbreaking for a time, and also left there.
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I am reminded how much I dislike the musical RENT.

This is secondary to my questions around why Opera Australia is doing it.
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people are going to post AI slop...sometimes they just do not realize it at the time and have the good graces to delete it

but if they are told and keep posting it your safest action is just to block them because they will continue to spread it
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Yep, and the original poster knows and doesn't care. There is no such thing as negative engagement.
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What I think Hastie is realising is that he can have a far more lucrative and easier career which doesn't involve a pretty shitty commute between Perth and Canberra every week. I'm still 50/50 that the good burghers of Canning will have a by-election in the next 2 years.