Tim Coronel
@timcoronel.bsky.social
Toiling in the word mines for decades. Publishing/comms lecturer at Unimelb. Opinions, I got plenty. Join your union/s!
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Tim Coronel
@timcoronel.bsky.social
· Oct 2
‘Everything that is wrong with the human race’: inside Hollywood’s bizarre war on the leaf blower
For 18 years, Cate Blanchett has railed against the hated garden gadget – and she’s not alone. From Hugh Grant to Danny DeVito, the backpack blower has united stars in unlikely, furious contempt
www.theguardian.com
in furious agreement www.theguardian.com/film/2025/oc...
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if only there were a way to firebomb a livestream
Tomorrow Grimes will DJ a livestream of immortality influencer Bryan Johnson tripping on shrooms to determine its effect on longevity. Mr. Beast and the CEO of Salesforce will be there too.
Grimes DJing Immortality Influencer's Shroom Trip With Special Guest Mr. Beast
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations ...
stereogum.com
November 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
if only there were a way to firebomb a livestream
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Can't wait until he's convicted of murder. 💥
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Can't wait until he's convicted of murder. 💥
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What a complete joke and failure of a car the Tesla CyberTruck ClusterFuck is.
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
November 26, 2025 at 2:53 PM
What a complete joke and failure of a car the Tesla CyberTruck ClusterFuck is.
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
My 92 year old grandma in a wheelchair handle snow better than this!
Ht: @28delayslater.bsky.social
$TSLAQ
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The purpose of a system of is what it does.
OpenAI's Sora Is Letting Teens Generate Videos of School Shootings
OpenAI's Sora 2 easily allows teenagers to generate videos of school shootings and other harmful content, despite repeated claims of safety.
futurism.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 PM
The purpose of a system of is what it does.
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Decades ago, when I was a young railfan, I would simply have not believed you if you had told me that, in my lifetime, gunzels would be sought out for their political influence. And that legacy media would jealously bemoan it.
Good luck to them!
This makes me happy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Good luck to them!
This makes me happy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Instagram influencers used to promote Metro Tunnel
Documents obtained by the ABC reveal the Victorian government has targeted dozens of social media influencers to promote the Metro Tunnel rail project.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Decades ago, when I was a young railfan, I would simply have not believed you if you had told me that, in my lifetime, gunzels would be sought out for their political influence. And that legacy media would jealously bemoan it.
Good luck to them!
This makes me happy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Good luck to them!
This makes me happy.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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People talk about the right side of history - everyone living is currently on the right side of history (it is behind them, where it should be). One day, everyone living will be on the wrong side of history (they will be dead and part of it). Thank you for coming to my brutally materialist TED talk.
November 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
People talk about the right side of history - everyone living is currently on the right side of history (it is behind them, where it should be). One day, everyone living will be on the wrong side of history (they will be dead and part of it). Thank you for coming to my brutally materialist TED talk.
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I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
November 28, 2025 at 10:29 PM
I've never encountered more students who say they hate reading. Students who want to be teachers, writers, or both. I wonder if "hate" means "I have trouble reading," but I also talk with so many students who write in a genre but refuse to read in it. They can't see themselves in relation to others.
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This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 AM
This is seriously worrying - do read the whole thread
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AI-generated images of the Holocaust are flooding social media & distorting understanding of history
Wichtiger Text von Amely Wild und @thomasradlmaier.bsky.social über KI-generierte Bilder, die die Geschichte des Holocaust und der Konzentrationslager verfälschen, die gerade die sozialen Medien fluten.
Wie KI-generierte Bilder die NS-Geschichte verfälschen
Bilder, die scheinbar Szenen aus Konzentrationslager zeigen, fluten derzeit soziale Medien. Das Problem: Sie sind durch KI erstellt.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 AM
AI-generated images of the Holocaust are flooding social media & distorting understanding of history
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“Get out of my fucking seat.”
November 29, 2025 at 8:08 AM
“Get out of my fucking seat.”
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🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal “threatening Australia’s freedoms and democracy”, Jewish groups warn - The Klaxon
A group of Jewish organisations has labelled Envoy Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report" an attack on Australia's “democracy” and “freedoms”, and say it must be rejected.
theklaxon.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 4:57 AM
🚨Nine Jewish groups are urging the Government to reject Jillian Segal's "Antisemitism Report", saying it's an attack on Australia's "democracy" and "freedoms" – benefitting the state of Israel.
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
Segal must be given zero powers, they warn. Explosive...
theklaxon.com.au/22ti
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"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese marries Jodie Haydon at The Lodge in Canberra"
surely they married each other
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
surely they married each other
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Prime minister gets married in private ceremony at The Lodge
Anthony Albanese marries partner Jodie Haydon at his official Canberra residence in a private ceremony, after details of the wedding were kept top secret.
www.abc.net.au
November 29, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"Prime Minister Anthony Albanese marries Jodie Haydon at The Lodge in Canberra"
surely they married each other
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
surely they married each other
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Absolute scenes at Rising Tide today as police chased a group of octogenarians in a dinghy who were trying to stop a coal ship.
They stopped the coal ship.
Knitting Nanas ahoy!
They stopped the coal ship.
Knitting Nanas ahoy!
November 29, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Absolute scenes at Rising Tide today as police chased a group of octogenarians in a dinghy who were trying to stop a coal ship.
They stopped the coal ship.
Knitting Nanas ahoy!
They stopped the coal ship.
Knitting Nanas ahoy!
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Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sadako crawling out of your tv, turning motion smoothing off, then crawling back in
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More cracks in the dam
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
More cracks in the dam
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For your schadenfreudery pleasure.
Dealership data shows that Tesla has only sold “just over” 100 cars in India since July, an exceedingly low number by any measure – especially when considering the India is now the most populous country in the world, with a population of just under 1.5 billion.
Tesla has sold ~100 cars since entering the world's largest country in July
After years of trying to enter the Indian market, Tesla finally opened its first store in July. It's not going great so far.
electrek.co
November 28, 2025 at 7:58 PM
For your schadenfreudery pleasure.
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British state logic;
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
November 28, 2025 at 10:14 PM
British state logic;
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
One activist lost their shit and hit a police officer with a hammer, so that justifies declaring the entire organisation terrorists, suspending their legal rights and arresting over 2000 people for holding signs.
See? Logic.
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"My poll numbers have never been better."
November 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"My poll numbers have never been better."
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Oh.my.god. 😲
My new happy place. 🤗🚂🛏️
My new happy place. 🤗🚂🛏️
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Oh.my.god. 😲
My new happy place. 🤗🚂🛏️
My new happy place. 🤗🚂🛏️
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I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 3:07 PM
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
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The late Skyhooks guitarist Bob Starkie was a close friend of Ronnie Biggs, the notorious Great Train Robber, Starkie went to Brazil to make a documentary about Biggs. During their time together, Starkie and Biggs bought and renovated a house on an island south of Rio
November 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
The late Skyhooks guitarist Bob Starkie was a close friend of Ronnie Biggs, the notorious Great Train Robber, Starkie went to Brazil to make a documentary about Biggs. During their time together, Starkie and Biggs bought and renovated a house on an island south of Rio
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Guderian recalled Hitler stating: ‘The soldiers on the eastern front fight far better. The reason they give in so easily in the west is simply the fault of that stupid Geneva convention which promises them good treatment as prisoners. We must scrap this idiotic convention.’ - Kershaw, Hitler.
“Should we follow the Geneva Conventions?” Pete Hegseth asked in 2024.
It’s almost as if there were signs!
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It’s almost as if there were signs!
bsky.app/profile/anna...
November 29, 2025 at 4:16 AM
Guderian recalled Hitler stating: ‘The soldiers on the eastern front fight far better. The reason they give in so easily in the west is simply the fault of that stupid Geneva convention which promises them good treatment as prisoners. We must scrap this idiotic convention.’ - Kershaw, Hitler.
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Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose. @squigglyrick.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
Inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s $96m website fiasco
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
November 28, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Global IT consultancy Accenture has been accused of ‘strip mining’ the Bureau of Meteorology during its years-late delivery of a redesigned website not fit for purpose. @squigglyrick.bsky.social @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/2025/11...
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In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:14 AM
In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders: