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Ameel Khan
@ameel.bsky.social
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Geek, techie, drummer, amateur photographer. He/him. Lives on Woiworung land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).
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ameel.bsky.social
It's a sad state of affairs when you encounter a problem with your work laptop and you're not sure if it's a malware infection or an issue with Windows! 😆
January 23, 2026 at 2:20 AM
ameel.bsky.social
This is excellent.

"The South Australian premier, Peter Malinauskas, would do well to read up on McCarthyism’s appalling moment in history because he and his whispering cadre of Israel lobbyists have become Australia’s new destructive, unapologetic McCarthyites."

theshot.net.au/uncategorize...
The dark arts - The Shot
The ideology of the Israel lobby in Australia is this - burn it to the ground rather than ever allow an opposing voice.
theshot.net.au
January 21, 2026 at 9:03 AM
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anthonyzougras.bsky.social
Welp, the Chaser's article on the Adelaide Writer's Week, calling it the Adelaide Writer's Afternoon, has infiltrated the Edge AI summary. 'Hilariously', the AI summary combines the parody article with real news, so it could very easily trick people not in the know.

#saparli
A screencapture of the Edge AI summary for the fake Adelaide Writer's Week, with the following text; "The Adelaide Writers Afternoon has been rebranded from the Adelaide Writers Week due to the controversial removal of Palestinian-Australian author Dr. Randa Abdel-Fattah from the program. This decision led to a mass withdrawal of about 100 writers in protest, including high-profile figures like ABC journalist Louise Milligan and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis. The festival board's rationale for the removal was based on concerns about cultural sensitivity following the Bondi mass shooting. The Adelaide Festival has faced significant backlash and has made changes to its approach in response to these events."
January 12, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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tweetyb.bsky.social
The two pieces that most accurately capture the events of this week #auspol
January 9, 2026 at 1:59 PM
ameel.bsky.social
Hmmm. I wonder if I should approve this comment on my 2022 blog post in which I shared photos of the baking I'd done over the weekend? 🙄😆

#CommentSpam

www.insanityworks.org/randomtangen...
Screenshot of an email notification about a comment posted on a blog post that needs approval. The comment contains about forty lines of HTML code with links to flavours of vapes on a website called Vapes Hive.
January 9, 2026 at 6:13 AM
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amyremeikis.bsky.social
www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/09/p...
Decision to disinvite Palestinian-Australian writer from Adelaide Festival is pure, ugly politics
The moral spinelessness in not only seeking to silence Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, but to link the cancellation to the abhorrent terrorist attack in Bondi, speaks volumes over who is allowed to have a voic...
www.crikey.com.au
January 9, 2026 at 2:56 AM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
"So a political decision. Made for political reasons that will once again see others pay the price. The arts have always been a contested space and, much like the media space before it, are being narrowed into a monoculture of centrism and approved views. "
January 9, 2026 at 3:16 AM
ameel.bsky.social
Great post by Cory Doctorow on the reason why virtually all first year college kids use AI in their writing.

Writing vs AI – pluralistic.net/2026/01/07/d...
Pluralistic: Writing vs AI (07 Jan 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 8, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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fozmeadows.bsky.social
my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility
January 6, 2026 at 3:12 AM
ameel.bsky.social
First the app was called Microsoft Office, then it was renamed to Microsoft Office 365, then just Microsoft 365, and now it's called Microsoft 365 Copilot. *sigh*

#MicroSlop
Screenshot from website office.com with the page title, "Welcome to the Microsoft 365 Copilot app". Text below this reads, "The Microsoft 365 Copilot app (formerly Office) lets you create, share, and collaborate all in one place with your favorite apps now including Copilot." Below this are two buttons labeled 'Download the app' and 'But Microsoft 365'.
January 5, 2026 at 10:50 PM
ameel.bsky.social
If you're not going to call, then at least text me Ishmael.
January 4, 2026 at 7:15 AM
ameel.bsky.social
Someone had a good night in St Kilda! #melbourne
Photo of an almost completely empty bottle of Jack Daniel's Tennessee Whiskey lying on a stone wall around a public park in a suburb of Melbourne.
January 2, 2026 at 9:45 PM
ameel.bsky.social
Australian Aboriginal eel net inspired design of the West Gate Tunnel entry portal in #Melbourne.

More on this urban design here: bigbuild.vic.gov.au/projects/wes...
Black-and-white photo of the eel-net inspired design of a road tunnel entryway portal. Thick curved beams create successively shallower archways across the entrance. Thinner beams crisscross these large beams at an angle, creating the effect of a traditional eel net.
January 2, 2026 at 7:15 AM
ameel.bsky.social
"With 5.9 stores per 100,000 residents, #Melbourne is home to more record stores per capita than any other city on Earth"

Melbourne is officially the record store capital of the world | www.timeout.com/melbourne/ne...
Melbourne is officially the record store capital of the world
With 5.9 stores per 100,000 residents, Melbourne is home to more record stores per capita than any other city on Earth.
www.timeout.com
January 2, 2026 at 3:29 AM
ameel.bsky.social
Happy new year! It's just past 11am in Melbourne and I've already received my first #scam text message of 2026. *sigh*

(I'm also slightly insulted that it's such a basic scam attempt.)
Screenshot of a text message that reads, "Hi dad happy new year! Message me back when you get this. My phone fell in water and had to get myself a new simcard"
January 1, 2026 at 12:28 AM
ameel.bsky.social
Happy new year! If your life is as hectic as mine sometimes is, may this be the year you get a chance to slow down. #AdviceFromBikePath
Close-up photo of a concrete footpath with a white-coloured 'slow down' warning painted on it.
December 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
ameel.bsky.social
Underneath the elevated Murrumbeena railway station in #Melbourne.
Photo looking down the length of a pair of elevated train tracks being held up by massive concrete pillars. This area under the tracks is a parking lot, which is almost full of parked cars.
December 31, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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lilahsturges.com
Forget insults, what’s the most unhinged *compliment* you’ve ever received?
December 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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jayhulmepoet.bsky.social
Just watched the new Knives Out and I think it's really important you know that the scene in the Seminary's Gym is filmed in the same place Rick Astley filmed the music video for Never Gonna Give You Up.

I saw the window tracery and immediately made my friends pause the film so I could tell them.
A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A screenshot from Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give you up music video A photograph of the seminary gym in knives out. It has the same window.
December 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
ameel.bsky.social
Statues above the entrance of the Former AMP Building in #Melbourne.

The plaque reads, "Amicus certus in re incerta cernitur" (a true friend is discovered in times of uncertainty) which is funny, given the crap AMP was found to be doing by the 2018 Royal Commission.
Photo of the front archway of a 1920s office building with a pink Casterton granite and Sydney freestone facade. Above this entrance are statues of three adults and one child, with all three adults looking down to street level. The Latin phrase "amicus certus in re incerta cernitur" (meaning "A true friend is discovered in times of uncertainty") is engraved on a plaque below these statues.
December 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
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nadianiaz.bsky.social
All of this.
A screenshot from the article that reads: AI IS NOT INEVITABLE. The only strategy here is the sum total pushback against its uncanny horrors and its non-consensual intrusion into every corner of our world — it steals our content, guzzles our water, increases our power bills, is crammed into services we didn’t ask for it to be crammed into while also charging us more money for the “privelege.” There is no strategy here except to find the fields where the AI grows and metaphorically set them aflame.
December 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
ameel.bsky.social
On a pillar holding up the Queen Street Bridge in #Melbourne: "In 1788 Queen Street Bridge was a waterfall".
Photo of a thick concrete pillar with a red-brick and yellow-plaster facade that's holding up a bridge. A round, black-and-white sticker pasted on this pillar reads, "In 1788 Queen St Bridge was a waterfall". Close-up photo of a thick concrete pillar with a red-brick and yellow-plaster facade that's holding up a bridge. A round, black-and-white sticker pasted on this pillar reads, "In 1788 Queen St Bridge was a waterfall".
December 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
ameel.bsky.social
Bank of Australia Post post office boxes.
Black-and-white photo of over a dozen post office boxes, each with an embossed Australia Post logo, a keyhole, and a PO box number.
December 26, 2025 at 4:45 AM
ameel.bsky.social
What are your go-to neutral-ish sans serif fonts that *aren't* just clones of Helvetica? These eight are my favourites. I made a whole video about them and everything (with a tl;dr at the beginning).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_l_...

#typography #fonts #helvetica #arial
Screenshot showing a grid of eight typefaces or fonts. There are four free fonts shown on the top row: Inter, Public Sans, Officer Sans, and Nebula Sans. There are four paid fonts show on the bottom row: Aktiv Grotesk, Neue Montreal, Phonic, and Brenner Sans.
December 25, 2025 at 8:30 AM
ameel.bsky.social
On the Jim Stynes Bridge that runs underneath the Charles Grimes Bridge on the Yarra River in Docklands, #Melbourne.
Photo of a cityscape taken from a pedestrian and cyclist bridge that runs below a road bridge that spans an urban river.
December 24, 2025 at 2:15 AM