chris j
@chrisjohnston.bsky.social
non-fiction - melbourne
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More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
Google sent personal and financial information of student journalist to ICE | TechCrunch
The tech giant handed over the personal information of a journalist and student who attended a pro-Palestinian protest in 2024. This is the latest example of ICE using its controversial subpoena power...
techcrunch.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:46 AM
More reports of Gmail turning over email content to ICE are coming out now.
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
techcrunch.com/2026/02/10/g...
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I find it hard to believe this snake oil will actually regrow my hair. Have you seen a snake
June 2, 2024 at 4:56 AM
I find it hard to believe this snake oil will actually regrow my hair. Have you seen a snake
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Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.
every time i see a white guy in their fifties radicalized by the twitter algorithm into racism and extremism i think about how it's a total failure of the youtube algorithm to instead radicalize him into home brewing, elaborate A/V setups, or DIY solar
January 28, 2026 at 10:37 PM
Middle aged white men (and I’m 49, so I’m in the demographic) absolutely need ridiculous Dad Hobbies or they get squirrely. I think if you’re can’t prove you have a preexisting Dad Hobby or 2 by age 45, you get entered into a national hobby draft and get assigned one. It would solve so many things.
don't care what you like to eat mate. this is called phoning in an exhausted clickbait column for the cash
www.theage.com.au/traveller/re...
www.theage.com.au/traveller/re...
No, thanks: 11 popular foreign dishes I just don’t get
I won’t say I don’t like these much-loved and sometimes iconic national dishes. Let’s just say I’m still learning to like them.
www.theage.com.au
January 27, 2026 at 10:32 PM
don't care what you like to eat mate. this is called phoning in an exhausted clickbait column for the cash
www.theage.com.au/traveller/re...
www.theage.com.au/traveller/re...
"As much as the hunt for #Ingram feels like outback noir, with a gunman fleeing into scrub and red dirt stretching into a cloudless and edgeless sky, there is an awful truth to the offending"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Lake Cargelligo shootings were over in minutes but the effects will echo through generations in a small NSW town
Police responded on Sunday to a reported sighting of Julian Ingram at Mount Hope, about 70km north of Lake Cargelligo
www.theguardian.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:19 AM
"As much as the hunt for #Ingram feels like outback noir, with a gunman fleeing into scrub and red dirt stretching into a cloudless and edgeless sky, there is an awful truth to the offending"
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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The making of a tobacco warlord - "the enforcement of the legislation also introduces an anxious role for the state’s 14 tobacco inspectors."
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
The making of a tobacco warlord
The arrest of Kazem Hamad in Iraq is welcomed by Australian authorities, although the illicit tobacco trade that built his brutal empire shows no sign of waning.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au
January 24, 2026 at 5:17 AM
The making of a tobacco warlord - "the enforcement of the legislation also introduces an anxious role for the state’s 14 tobacco inspectors."
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/law-cri... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au
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'RUINS: Make you dream and give poetry to a landscape.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺
January 23, 2026 at 11:06 PM
'RUINS: Make you dream and give poetry to a landscape.'
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺
- Gustave Flaubert, Dictionary of Received Ideas, 1870s 🏺
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In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.
January 23, 2026 at 8:35 AM
In the light of recent political confusion about the identities of Iceland and Greenland, we feel the need to post again this map of our local geography.
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The Shadow Cabinet of Sussan Caligari (2026)
January 22, 2026 at 5:54 AM
The Shadow Cabinet of Sussan Caligari (2026)
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Station Model Violence - Heat
Something of a post-punk supergroup featuring members of Total Control, Den, R.M.F.C. and Gaud, this is a fun motorik punk taster of an album now Sydney-based Dan Stewart and co recorded with Mikey Young
Something of a post-punk supergroup featuring members of Total Control, Den, R.M.F.C. and Gaud, this is a fun motorik punk taster of an album now Sydney-based Dan Stewart and co recorded with Mikey Young
Station Model Violence - Heat (Single)
YouTube video by Harakiri Diat
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January 22, 2026 at 1:42 AM
Station Model Violence - Heat
Something of a post-punk supergroup featuring members of Total Control, Den, R.M.F.C. and Gaud, this is a fun motorik punk taster of an album now Sydney-based Dan Stewart and co recorded with Mikey Young
Something of a post-punk supergroup featuring members of Total Control, Den, R.M.F.C. and Gaud, this is a fun motorik punk taster of an album now Sydney-based Dan Stewart and co recorded with Mikey Young
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A problem with David Byrne : @themonthly.com.au :: www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...
Road to somewhere: David Byrne’s ‘Who Is the Sky?’
Was something great lost during the former Talking Heads frontman’s evolution from affected irony to chronic positivity?
www.themonthly.com.au
January 15, 2026 at 4:46 AM
A problem with David Byrne : @themonthly.com.au :: www.themonthly.com.au/december-202...
This is the book to read on #AI it seems. (birthday coming soon, note). Here's author @karenhao.bsky.social on a couple of podcasts, the first longer, the second shorter. Love her work and the way she's approaching this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
January 14, 2026 at 6:54 AM
This is the book to read on #AI it seems. (birthday coming soon, note). Here's author @karenhao.bsky.social on a couple of podcasts, the first longer, the second shorter. Love her work and the way she's approaching this.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...
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Bandcamp bans AI music
Bandcamp Bans AI Music
AI music has become a big problem on streaming services. Remember the Velvet Sundown, the AI-generated psych-rock band from last year with hundreds of thousands of Spotify streams? Remember bands gett...
stereogum.com
January 14, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Bandcamp bans AI music
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Pair of leather mittens. Hungary, 19th century.
Ref CIRC.49-1922, V & A Museum.
Ref CIRC.49-1922, V & A Museum.
January 13, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Pair of leather mittens. Hungary, 19th century.
Ref CIRC.49-1922, V & A Museum.
Ref CIRC.49-1922, V & A Museum.
The Adelaide Writers’ Week fight rolled out at board level months before Bondi www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/13/a...
The Adelaide Writers' Week fight rolled out at board level months before Bondi
The emergence of a key letter casts new light on the rationale used by the festival board to uninvite Randa Abdel-Fattah.
www.crikey.com.au
January 13, 2026 at 2:57 AM
The Adelaide Writers’ Week fight rolled out at board level months before Bondi www.crikey.com.au/2026/01/13/a...
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and so we must retreat to micro-scenes, self-organising, strong ethics, strong morals, kindness, curiosity, respect. the mainstream is finally dead
Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits
January 12, 2026 at 10:55 PM
and so we must retreat to micro-scenes, self-organising, strong ethics, strong morals, kindness, curiosity, respect. the mainstream is finally dead
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Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits
January 12, 2026 at 10:42 PM
Apparently we have to destroy the arts to save them. Though as we all know by now after more than a decade of hostile arts policy, what "we" want is a culture with no memory, no freedom and no conscience, endless reruns of a starveling so-called western canon, background noise for the suits
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Handmade pottery jar, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt
January 10, 2026 at 5:31 AM
Handmade pottery jar, by Jean Bad Moccasin, artist of the Lakota Sioux Nation #WomensArt
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Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Trump's DOJ was monitoring all the movements of the Miami Herald reporter who was covering the Epstein case.
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After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/dy1aXpG
On faith and the exit ramp
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December 23, 2025 at 12:06 AM
After a fall, Barry Jones found that he could no longer walk. What followed was 40 days in hospital, he writes. "The exit ramp is looming." satpa.pe/dy1aXpG
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Ah yes, we could never have predicted this, never www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Teens flock to alternative apps after social media ban
The Commonwealth's long-awaited social media ban for under-16s came into effect this month. But some experts note a rise in alternatives to popular platforms as teens find ways to stay active on socia...
www.abc.net.au
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Ah yes, we could never have predicted this, never www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...