Kristin Carao
@mikaelakristin.bsky.social
Filipino-Australian. Passionate about books, film, food and music. Based in Melbourne, Australia.
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Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
November 28, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur
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WELL WELL WELL
'I'm deeply troubled': Lawyers call out erroneous court transcripts
Obtaining court transcripts can cost thousands of dollars for a single day of proceedings, but the documents can contain errors, missing text, and even wrong attribution, frustrating legal practitione...
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
WELL WELL WELL
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“Journalists should not mistake his antics for news.”
Here’s @tommcilroy.bsky.social’s catalogue of antics doubling as a demonstration of the urgent need for greater integrity in politics:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here’s @tommcilroy.bsky.social’s catalogue of antics doubling as a demonstration of the urgent need for greater integrity in politics:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Barnaby Joyce’s scandals have damaged politics. Maybe it’s time for a change of scenery | Tom McIlroy
He was once seen as a Coalition star, but his career in parliament has involved a series of misadventures and bad policies
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:59 PM
“Journalists should not mistake his antics for news.”
Here’s @tommcilroy.bsky.social’s catalogue of antics doubling as a demonstration of the urgent need for greater integrity in politics:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Here’s @tommcilroy.bsky.social’s catalogue of antics doubling as a demonstration of the urgent need for greater integrity in politics:
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Dear US friends asking why we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia, on the basis we'd 'enjoy' it...
Which bit? The rampant consumerism, the unsustainable wastage of food, or the origins in a colonialist lie? Sadly Australia already has too much of that already. 🥴
Which bit? The rampant consumerism, the unsustainable wastage of food, or the origins in a colonialist lie? Sadly Australia already has too much of that already. 🥴
Tom Cardy Australian GIF
Alt: Tom Cardy Australian says Yeah Nah, Yeah Nah Yeah and Well, that's Australian and highly contextual.
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Dear US friends asking why we don't celebrate Thanksgiving in Australia, on the basis we'd 'enjoy' it...
Which bit? The rampant consumerism, the unsustainable wastage of food, or the origins in a colonialist lie? Sadly Australia already has too much of that already. 🥴
Which bit? The rampant consumerism, the unsustainable wastage of food, or the origins in a colonialist lie? Sadly Australia already has too much of that already. 🥴
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Still a few tickets left for the WAGGA Comedy Gala - TONIGHT: visitwagga.com/calendar/eve...
Wagga Comedy Gala
The Riverina's biggest night of comedy! Get ready, Wagga Wagga — the laughs are bigger, louder, and better than ever with the Wagga Comedy Gala!
visitwagga.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Still a few tickets left for the WAGGA Comedy Gala - TONIGHT: visitwagga.com/calendar/eve...
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The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
November 22, 2025 at 10:54 PM
The Durham community came together and raised 100K in 48 hours; hundreds of volunteers joined in to procure, package, and distribute food and necessities to immigrant DPS families - 655 families and 13000 meals. Thank you to local organizers who led us into startling food distribution efficiency 🫶🏼
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You can be on the side of Rowling, Putin and Trump, or you can be on the side of, you know, normal cool people.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
Sugababes, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Wolf Alice and more to play all-star charity concert for trans rights
Organised by Olly Alexander and the Mighty Hoopla festival to ‘fight back against the politics of fear and exclusion’, Trans Mission will take place at Wembley Arena in March
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 10:25 PM
You can be on the side of Rowling, Putin and Trump, or you can be on the side of, you know, normal cool people.
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/n...
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I launched my blog reDocumented exactly 6 months ago. In that time I've written 50 pieces, which I think is pretty impressive considering I'd barely written anything of the sort in the previous two years. And up today? Charlie Shackleton's ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT!
redocumented.ghost.io/zodiac-kille...
redocumented.ghost.io/zodiac-kille...
Zodiac Killer Project (dir. Charlie Shackleton)
I admit, I just really like Charlie Shackleton as a filmmaker. Like Marge Simpson and her potatoes, I just think his work is neat. Playful, but not obtuse. Shackleton’s films are “arty” in the sense t...
redocumented.ghost.io
November 28, 2025 at 6:44 AM
I launched my blog reDocumented exactly 6 months ago. In that time I've written 50 pieces, which I think is pretty impressive considering I'd barely written anything of the sort in the previous two years. And up today? Charlie Shackleton's ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT!
redocumented.ghost.io/zodiac-kille...
redocumented.ghost.io/zodiac-kille...
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I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
November 28, 2025 at 8:51 AM
I think award season is now over. Mean Streak just won the Walkley Book Award to cap it off and I’m so thankful. Buy or borrow, the story is more fucked up than you think.
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A Perth hacker who copied intimate images and sex videos from women's personal online accounts and set up fake Wi-Fi on Qantas flights is sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Hacker who set up fake 'evil twin' Qantas Wi-Fi to steal passenger data jailed
A Perth hacker who copied intimate images and sex videos from women's personal online accounts and set up fake Wi-Fi on Qantas flights is sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
A Perth hacker who copied intimate images and sex videos from women's personal online accounts and set up fake Wi-Fi on Qantas flights is sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
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Hong Kong's worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again.
Behind Hong Kong's skyline, thousands of old towers face rising risks
Hong Kong's worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again.
www.abc.net.au
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Hong Kong's worst fire in decades exposed long-standing weaknesses in its aging residential blocks. The question haunting the city is whether the disaster could happen again.
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Great idea for an article (nb/ @pipadam.bsky.social introduced me to Womb, which I will be forever grateful for!) thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-11-...
Eight New Zealand novelists on the music they write to
From one song played masochistically on repeat to a sprawling 12-hour playlist, this is the music behind the books.
thespinoff.co.nz
November 28, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Great idea for an article (nb/ @pipadam.bsky.social introduced me to Womb, which I will be forever grateful for!) thespinoff.co.nz/books/27-11-...
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LISTENER FEEDBACK TIME!!! This Sunday night we are recording one of our Scott Brothers episodes early, to be released in January.
We have @johngudmann.bsky.social joining us to talk submarine warfare with Tony Scott's Crimson Tide. Give us all your thoughts about this 1995 flick.
#filmsky 🎥📽🎬
We have @johngudmann.bsky.social joining us to talk submarine warfare with Tony Scott's Crimson Tide. Give us all your thoughts about this 1995 flick.
#filmsky 🎥📽🎬
November 28, 2025 at 8:02 AM
LISTENER FEEDBACK TIME!!! This Sunday night we are recording one of our Scott Brothers episodes early, to be released in January.
We have @johngudmann.bsky.social joining us to talk submarine warfare with Tony Scott's Crimson Tide. Give us all your thoughts about this 1995 flick.
#filmsky 🎥📽🎬
We have @johngudmann.bsky.social joining us to talk submarine warfare with Tony Scott's Crimson Tide. Give us all your thoughts about this 1995 flick.
#filmsky 🎥📽🎬
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The billion dollar deportation deal Australia doesn't want to talk about ft. David Shoebridge
The billion dollar deportation deal Australia doesn't want to talk about ft. David Shoebridge
Australia is expected to spend billions of dollars to deport non-citizens to the small Pacific nation of Nauru. Meanwhile, Pauline Hanson as repeated a years-old stunt, environment laws have passed, and Barnaby Joyce has cosied up with One Nation. Greens Senator David Shoebridge talks about the Nauru deal, after a translation of an interview with the nation's president was controversially put on the record in the Senate.
www.sbs.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 8:21 AM
The billion dollar deportation deal Australia doesn't want to talk about ft. David Shoebridge
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Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know
Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know
The new program, launching on 5 December after political delays, was part of Labor’s 2022 election pledge
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The federal government’s low-deposit, shared equity scheme will open for applications next week in an initiative designed to pave the way for higher levels of home ownership.
The “Help to Buy” program was part of Labor’s 2022 election platform, but the bill was delayed in parliament amid a battle over competing housing policies and even briefly emerged as a potential trigger for a double dissolution election. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Australia’s Help to Buy scheme to get more people owning homes opens next week. Here’s what you need to know
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Always great to catch up with @cherylkernot.bsky.social @noely.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social where earlier we chatted about the #auspol year, highlights, lowlights, the year ahead & so much more
We've been podcasting together since 2017!😲
Here's the replay> podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
We've been podcasting together since 2017!😲
Here's the replay> podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
Cheryl Kernot, Noely Neate & Ronni Salt wrap the #auspol year for SpinProof
Podcast Episode · SpinProof - #auspol · 28/11/2025 · 1h 48m
podcasts.apple.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Always great to catch up with @cherylkernot.bsky.social @noely.bsky.social @ronnisalt.bsky.social where earlier we chatted about the #auspol year, highlights, lowlights, the year ahead & so much more
We've been podcasting together since 2017!😲
Here's the replay> podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
We've been podcasting together since 2017!😲
Here's the replay> podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/c...
Just finished a Teams interview for a job! Fingers crossed!!
November 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Just finished a Teams interview for a job! Fingers crossed!!
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Today is the fifth anniversary of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK being published! We did a launch on Instagram stories because England was back in lockdown. A year later I threw a party in Camden for it that nobody thought to photograph so I can't post any pics
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Today is the fifth anniversary of YOU RUIN IT WHEN YOU TALK being published! We did a launch on Instagram stories because England was back in lockdown. A year later I threw a party in Camden for it that nobody thought to photograph so I can't post any pics
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REVIEW: Takeaway by Angela Hui @TrapezeBooks @orionbooks #read #book #review #bookreview #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal #readingchallenge #FOOD #Takeaway bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
Review: Takeaway by Angela Hui
Title: Takeaway: Stories from a Childhood Behind the Counter Author: Angela Hui Published: 21st July 2022, Trapeze Status: Read November 2025 ++++++++ My Thoughts: Chinese takeaway restaurants are …
bookdout.wordpress.com
November 26, 2025 at 9:41 AM
REVIEW: Takeaway by Angela Hui @TrapezeBooks @orionbooks #read #book #review #bookreview #Nonfiction #ReadNonFicChal #readingchallenge #FOOD #Takeaway bookdout.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/r...
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New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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JFC people - I haven’t spent 40 years cooking, decades of taking food pics, and a year of culinary school hell to use bloody AI food photos.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
JFC people - I haven’t spent 40 years cooking, decades of taking food pics, and a year of culinary school hell to use bloody AI food photos.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
EVER.
AI has no place in the culinary sphere.
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"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."
How to Give Thanks by Cooking Food No One Knows How to Cook and Eating Food No One Likes to Eat
To remind everyone how grateful we should be for all the readily available, appealing food that is easy to prepare and that everyone enjoys eating,...
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November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Stuffing is wet bread with pieces of wet celery stuck to it. Everyone says they love it, but they never prepare it on any other day of the year. The majority of the other side dishes are factory-rejected baby food."
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Things online are often not as they appear.
November 24, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Things online are often not as they appear.