OJ (Owen Jones)
@iowenjones.bsky.social
Woke as f$@k. (he/him) Senior Content Advisor (UX). Surfer, musician and sailor learning to wing foil. #ResearchOps #UXresearch #InclusiveResearch. On unceded Gumbaynggirr lands. Now blocking crypto advisors and pornbots,
It's called summer 😳
December 6, 2025 at 9:34 PM
It's called summer 😳
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Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration:
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
The Vaccine Guardrails Are Gone
RFK Jr.’s allies are in full control of U.S. immunization policy.
www.theatlantic.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Alas, the existential threat that @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social & I detail in #ScienceUnderSiege grows more acute w/ each passing day of this administration:
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
Participation award?
Trump threatened ICE raids at the World Cup. I wonder if the silly "FIFA Peace Prize" was to buy him off so he wouldn't interfere. Both FIFA & Trump are so corruptly transactional, it would work that way. Or course, money may have changed hands, too.
December 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Participation award?
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At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
December 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
At no point during the five-year span that Monty Python's Flying Circus aired on the BBC, from October 1969 to December 1974, could the greatest comedic minds of their time come up with a skit more grotesquely absurd than Trump placing a fake peace-prize medal over his own head.
It takes some intelligence to use AI effectively.
December 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
It takes some intelligence to use AI effectively.
I don't like how Copilot formats Word docs that it outputs.
December 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I don't like how Copilot formats Word docs that it outputs.
Presentation day at Girl12 school this morning. She usually cleans up math and ICAS. Next year is high school.
December 4, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Presentation day at Girl12 school this morning. She usually cleans up math and ICAS. Next year is high school.
ABC Austrlai website is undergoing to changes. one being changing the default landing page to the News homepage. I'm not sure how this will go for kids trying to get to Bluey during times of war or times of violent crimes and disasters.
help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/art...
help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/art...
The ABC Homepage is Being Updated
ABC NEWS is Australia’s top digital news brand with 12.8 million users in October - that's just under 60 percent of the Australian population aged over 14.The ABC NEWS homepage is the destination A...
help.abc.net.au
December 4, 2025 at 2:43 AM
ABC Austrlai website is undergoing to changes. one being changing the default landing page to the News homepage. I'm not sure how this will go for kids trying to get to Bluey during times of war or times of violent crimes and disasters.
help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/art...
help.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/art...
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Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
December 3, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Can I let you in on a little secret?
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
Billionaire philanthropy isn’t charity.
It’s PR to distract you from low wages, labor exploitation, and a tax system that’s rigged for the rich.
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Released 39 years ago today:
"I Against I," the third studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track "I Against I."
BAD BRAINS – "I Against I"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"I Against I," the third studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track "I Against I."
BAD BRAINS – "I Against I"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
November 21, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Released 39 years ago today:
"I Against I," the third studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track "I Against I."
BAD BRAINS – "I Against I"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
"I Against I," the third studio album by the American punk rock band Bad Brains, featuring the title track "I Against I."
BAD BRAINS – "I Against I"
#punk #punks #punkrock #hardcorepunk #badbrains #iagainsti #history #punkrockhistory #otd
Bruce Lehrman went back for his underpants.
December 2, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Bruce Lehrman went back for his underpants.
Pity the detective who has to follow him around with an evidence bag waiting for the item to pass.
Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in jewellery store
Man charged with theft after allegedly swallowing Fabergé pendant in jewellery store
New Zealand police allege 32-year-old ingested the 18-karat gold egg – a James Bond Octopussy locket – and say the object has ‘not yet been recovered’
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Pity the detective who has to follow him around with an evidence bag waiting for the item to pass.
Not a King. More like a God Father.
“By pardoning [Juan Orlando Hernandez], Trump will be directly helping out one of the most powerful, corrupt, and prolific convicted drug traffickers.”
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
December 1, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Not a King. More like a God Father.
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“By pardoning [Juan Orlando Hernandez], Trump will be directly helping out one of the most powerful, corrupt, and prolific convicted drug traffickers.”
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
December 1, 2025 at 6:12 PM
“By pardoning [Juan Orlando Hernandez], Trump will be directly helping out one of the most powerful, corrupt, and prolific convicted drug traffickers.”
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
Award-winning investigative journalist Jose Olivares on Trump’s real motives behind his ‘drug war’ in Latin America.
zeteo.com/p/trump-hern...
I was hoping for an 8 day surfing streak but the swell has dropped off and high tide isn't helping. Oh well, strength training and pool maintenance instead.
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I was hoping for an 8 day surfing streak but the swell has dropped off and high tide isn't helping. Oh well, strength training and pool maintenance instead.
It's a good start to the week having a dawn surf with the 2 times world champion whose name is on 3 of your surfboards. It was also the 7th day in a row I've surfed. Good streak!
December 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
It's a good start to the week having a dawn surf with the 2 times world champion whose name is on 3 of your surfboards. It was also the 7th day in a row I've surfed. Good streak!
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a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom:
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
a few candidates have talked about this but any Dem planning to run in 2028 should make it explicit: the next DOJ will, in fact, go after you if you’re funding this awful ballroom, or any other pay to play deals you make with this administration
Today's task I call skipping. Removing waste from our pool installation and backyard remodelling.
November 29, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Today's task I call skipping. Removing waste from our pool installation and backyard remodelling.
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The EPBC Act changes are nowhere near perfect, but there have been some important improvements to the pretty shite original bill.
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
The Point Live: Labor and Greens to pass environment laws today, Nationals pretend to care about Barnaby Joyce's future
Labor wants a political win and wants its environment legislation pushed through, even if it means sitting on Friday to do it, while the Nationals are pretending to care about Barnaby Joyce's potentia...
live.thepoint.com.au
November 27, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The EPBC Act changes are nowhere near perfect, but there have been some important improvements to the pretty shite original bill.
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
Good on the govt for negotiating with the Greens to deliver something not completely shit.
Maybe think on doing a bit more of that?
live.thepoint.com.au
It's like one of those jet stoves. The radiant heat would have been intense.
“BBC Verify has geolocated video footage which appears to show the early stages of a fire at a high-rise public housing complex in #HongKong - and how fast the blaze took hold.” flip.it/wu.zJd
Video shows speed fire spreads in Hong Kong tower block
Footage geolocated by BBC Verify show the blaze taking hold in Wang Cheong House.
flip.it
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
It's like one of those jet stoves. The radiant heat would have been intense.
Work news.
From 1 December, the OneCX Program- behind the unified nsw.gov.au -joins the Government Technology Platforms Agency.
Together, we’re building simpler, safer, connected experiences for everyone in NSW.
digital.nsw.gov.au/delivery/government-technology-platforms
#GovTech #DigitalNSW #OneCX
From 1 December, the OneCX Program- behind the unified nsw.gov.au -joins the Government Technology Platforms Agency.
Together, we’re building simpler, safer, connected experiences for everyone in NSW.
digital.nsw.gov.au/delivery/government-technology-platforms
#GovTech #DigitalNSW #OneCX
NSW Government
nsw.gov.au
November 27, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Work news.
From 1 December, the OneCX Program- behind the unified nsw.gov.au -joins the Government Technology Platforms Agency.
Together, we’re building simpler, safer, connected experiences for everyone in NSW.
digital.nsw.gov.au/delivery/government-technology-platforms
#GovTech #DigitalNSW #OneCX
From 1 December, the OneCX Program- behind the unified nsw.gov.au -joins the Government Technology Platforms Agency.
Together, we’re building simpler, safer, connected experiences for everyone in NSW.
digital.nsw.gov.au/delivery/government-technology-platforms
#GovTech #DigitalNSW #OneCX
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Barnaby's Choice
(noun) a situation in which a terrible person must choose between two equally terrible allegiances
(noun) a situation in which a terrible person must choose between two equally terrible allegiances
November 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Barnaby's Choice
(noun) a situation in which a terrible person must choose between two equally terrible allegiances
(noun) a situation in which a terrible person must choose between two equally terrible allegiances
Uh!!! Auspost has my delivery at the post office again! Claim I wasn't home. The postie took a photo of the door. I stepped away from my desk for a minute. I was back for the skip bin that was delivered 5 minutes later. #firstWorldProblems
November 27, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Uh!!! Auspost has my delivery at the post office again! Claim I wasn't home. The postie took a photo of the door. I stepped away from my desk for a minute. I was back for the skip bin that was delivered 5 minutes later. #firstWorldProblems
Unacceptable. Climate events like storms, floods, drought and fires are ramping up. Regions are being designated as un-insurable leaving people with property they can't sell to relocate or pass on to their offspring. People are being killed by events.
These are diabolical pollution numbers that suggest we are on track for cataclysmic climate change.
48% is a country mile away from the 62% emissions reduction that Labor promised.
48% is a country mile away from the 62% emissions reduction that Labor promised.
November 27, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Unacceptable. Climate events like storms, floods, drought and fires are ramping up. Regions are being designated as un-insurable leaving people with property they can't sell to relocate or pass on to their offspring. People are being killed by events.
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My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎
Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.
A tech critic’s guide to holiday gift-giving
Maybe your grandma doesn’t need that Alexa smart speaker
disconnect.blog
November 26, 2025 at 1:42 PM
My family has been calling me a luddite for years, & I’ve never felt better about that moniker than I do now, after a cities conference highlighting AI data centers & a new push for more surveillance downtown. We don’t have to participate. This year, shop in local stores, buy actual books. 📚🎄🕎