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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 24m

Brilliant, they’ll be directed to Nazi and manosphere content even *faster* without accounts. Just excellent. Exactly what we need.

Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 39m

Senators and even eSafety seem to be unaware you can already use TikTok logged out. 🫠https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/sep/22/under-16s-may-still-see-gambling-violent-far-right-content-under-australia-social-media-ban-simply-by-not-logging-in-zero-neo-nazis

From zero to neo-Nazis: what under-16s may see under Australia’s social media ban, simply by not logging in

Guardian Australia test finds scrolling shortform videos while logged out of YouTube and TikTok quickly leads to gambling, violent and far-right content

www.theguardian.com

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 3h

omg I just realised that the ATO gives rich people more $ for claiming travel expenses.

Apparently as a taxpayer my tastebuds are too povvo, so I have to subsidise rich people claiming more for breakfast.

Also I guess I don't deserve a nice bed when travelling for work either.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 4h

A “peacemaker” who sent money and weapons to the genocide?

Kevin Reuning @reuning.bsky.social · 1d

Trump straight up murdering people in the Caribbean and the NYT writes this

The Trump Split Screen: A Peacemaker Abroad, a Retribution Campaign at Home

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 8h

Wait EY and the rest of the consulting industry might publish…bullshit? 😮

Shocked. SHOCKED I tell you.

ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 9h

Climate Integrity asks the ACCC to investigate claims made by the gas lobby in its submission to the government's Future Gas Strategy, while raising doubts about EY modelling

Climate Integrity asks regulator to investigate claims made by gas lobby

Climate Integrity asks the ACCC to investigate claims made by the gas lobby in its submission to the government's Future Gas Strategy, while raising doubts about EY modelling

www.abc.net.au

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 20h

A poll question that starts with “Some have suggested”? Seriously? Horrific push polling.

THE
AGE
Immigration numbers
Q: Some have suggested that Australia's current net migration of 316,000 and permanent intake of 185,000 per year is too high, and that the Coalition should reduce immigration numbers significantly. Would you support or oppose a significant reduction in Australia's immigration numbers?
Source: RPM

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 22h

My point is that the data is framed in *opposition* to agriculture. And regardless of your or my views about the role of agriculture, Australians have a cultural view/predispositions about agriculture.

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23h

People are influenced by emotional context though. They won’t view the data rationally - they’ll view it through the lens of their exisiting emotional and social context.

Using a rational point/data to try and “fix” an irrational emotional/social ignores what’s driving their beliefs.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

You’ve never been known to do things by half pounds have you 👀

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

I know what this is *trying* to do - but presenting it as a binary competition and oppositional with the agriculture sector is politically stupid and doesn’t help foster social license. Graphs and facts and numbers overwhelm people.

Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 1d

🌞Total land required to replace coal fired energy
🌞Example assumes all solar:120,000 hectares
🌞 That’s less than 0.016 percent of Australia’s total land currently used for agriculture
🌞 Australian agriculture currently accounts for 58% of our land use
🌞And agrisolar = panels + grass/sheep etc

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

Seriously though, supposedly “smart” people turning everything into an acronym or contraction to “make things easier” actually does make everything harder. Significantly harder. Just use normal words. Don’t make the public remember more things.

Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 1d

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

It’s scary how willing people are to back rapist freaks because they hold some similar worldviews to theirs.

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

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John Ready @john-ready.bsky.social · 1d

People on welfare don’t have savings, because we don’t let them. You have to draw down on any savings before you are eligible for welfare and then you are paid below the poverty line, so every dollar is already spent before you get it says @amyremeikis.bsky.social

JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

A system entirely designed around cruelty.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

A system entirely designed around cruelty.

Nobody Deserves Poverty @nobodyinpoverty.bsky.social · 1d

"Which again, brings us back to the question: If $400 was all the money you could count on every week and it didn’t get paid, how do you think that would impact your life? How well do you think you could cope?"

New from @amyremeikis.bsky.social

www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now added AI slop

The system is so convoluted and stacked against people that even if it worked as intended, it would still be not just harmful, but useless.

www.thenewdaily.com.au

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 1d

We went to spectate the Melbourne marathon out the front of our place and got stuck between two lanes of runners 😅

JB holding his scruffy dog Sprocket with lots of runners behind him.

Sprocket the scruffy dog stands on the grass as marathon runners run behind him.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

Seriously though, I’ve seen people on the tram screaming obscenities who’ve made more sense than this gobbledygook.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

These billionaires are like human ChatGPTs. They take in a wealth of information and spit out a bunch of words that sound like they understood it all, but fall apart once you apply any scrutiny or logic. They’re insane www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist

The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

www.theguardian.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

a judge is sitting in a courtroom with her hand on her chin and says you 're gonna love it .

ALT: a judge is sitting in a courtroom with her hand on her chin and says you 're gonna love it .

media.tenor.com

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

Meditation break. Here’s some ducklings.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

Oh and then whether the thing you’re plugging into can handle any of that is completely different again.

Is any of those consistently labeled or flagged in any way?

The number of friends, family and colleagues I’ve had to troubleshoot this stuff for is insane.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

It still enrages me how badly the tech industry screwed up USB C.

So you sell cables that can fast charge…but shitty data speeds.

And then ones that have good data speed but can’t fast charge.

Your product marketing sometimes tells you the actual stats of the cables sometimes not.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

It actually did! Huge difference. They did a sleep test before and after and were shocked - I lost access to a follow up clinical trial because the surgery was too successful.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

God those Meta Ray-Ban Displays are uuuuuuggggggly.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 2d

I can’t believe it was 6 years ago I went public about how cooked this is and it’s only gotten worse www.abc.net.au/news/2019-07...

'Not what I expected for my life': Jonathan has been waiting two years for surgery

If you have a medical emergency, the Australian public hospital system will take care of you, whatever your bank balance. But when it comes to less urgent, elective procedures, the system is not so eq...

www.abc.net.au

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 3d

My advice for comms peeps: do NOT embed any one of these tools as an essential part of your workflow auscommsguide.com/2025/10/09/c...

These companies aren't making profit - and they're not projected to for a long time. The hype is not materialising into profit.
What happens when they crash? What happens to the pricing of the companies and the tools that are left behind?
Will the tool I rely on today double in price next month? Will it exist next year?

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