Alison
@cuntworthy.bsky.social
Australian, homosexual, public transport enthusiast. Liable to post about politics and/or photography. She/her/hers.
Went to the City Loop today to take photos with my DSLR of High Capacity Metro Trains, as the Metro Tunnel's "Big Switch", scheduled 1 February, will mean that the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines will no longer run through here, mainly. These are the best of a pretty middling bunch of pics:
January 26, 2026 at 8:48 AM
Went to the City Loop today to take photos with my DSLR of High Capacity Metro Trains, as the Metro Tunnel's "Big Switch", scheduled 1 February, will mean that the Pakenham and Cranbourne lines will no longer run through here, mainly. These are the best of a pretty middling bunch of pics:
Would obviously only apply to Victoria but I am partial to 12 December as a public holiday -- the day last year that Treaty was adopted. (Although it would likely be too close to Christmas to be viable, much as the mentioned 14 December of the Corangamite by-election would be.)
January 25, 2026 at 10:20 PM
Would obviously only apply to Victoria but I am partial to 12 December as a public holiday -- the day last year that Treaty was adopted. (Although it would likely be too close to Christmas to be viable, much as the mentioned 14 December of the Corangamite by-election would be.)
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @leopuglisi6.bsky.social SA-BEST announces first candidate in the 2026 state election!
January 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
@anthonyzougras.bsky.social @leopuglisi6.bsky.social SA-BEST announces first candidate in the 2026 state election!
Jacinta Allan's Metroid Dread Tunnel
January 15, 2026 at 2:10 AM
Jacinta Allan's Metroid Dread Tunnel
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This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface
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This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface
The ‘Bush Legend’ is bringing us short videos of an Aboriginal person teaching us about native animals. But he isn’t real.
theconversation.com
January 14, 2026 at 10:05 PM
This TikTok star sharing Australian animal stories doesn’t exist – it’s AI Blakface
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Great stuff at Benalla station
January 6, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Great stuff at Benalla station
Really not a fan of the Dan Murphy Chavez Eyes at Southern Cross
January 6, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Really not a fan of the Dan Murphy Chavez Eyes at Southern Cross
Twas the night before New Years' Eve, and not a creature was stirring, except for the courier delivery trucks.
December 30, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Twas the night before New Years' Eve, and not a creature was stirring, except for the courier delivery trucks.
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And, if we're being honest, we need to be able to see the tendencies towards hate, sadism, etc. in ourselves, and catch ourselves on it. Because we all do it. The best of us actively work to minimize it.
December 24, 2025 at 7:47 AM
And, if we're being honest, we need to be able to see the tendencies towards hate, sadism, etc. in ourselves, and catch ourselves on it. Because we all do it. The best of us actively work to minimize it.
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AFL clubs, the Grand Prix and Victorian govt have distanced themselves from a private security group accused of worker exploitation, tax evasion, and ties to a bikie gang.
Why is the Albanese govt still paying MA group to guard asylum seekers on Nauru?
Why is the Albanese govt still paying MA group to guard asylum seekers on Nauru?
Embattled security firm haemorrhaging high-profile clients amid growing scandals
Four AFL clubs, the Australian Grand Prix Corporation and the University of Sydney have dumped scandal-plagued company MA Services Group.
www.theage.com.au
December 20, 2025 at 6:40 AM
AFL clubs, the Grand Prix and Victorian govt have distanced themselves from a private security group accused of worker exploitation, tax evasion, and ties to a bikie gang.
Why is the Albanese govt still paying MA group to guard asylum seekers on Nauru?
Why is the Albanese govt still paying MA group to guard asylum seekers on Nauru?
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This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.
At a Coldplay concert in July, Kristin Cabot appeared on the Jumbotron in the arms of her boss. Cabot retreated, trying to make things right with the people who mattered most. Now, for first time since that viral moment, Cabot is sharing her side of the story. trib.al/I8tWdU4
December 19, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This is going to trigger another round of abuse for this woman but the basic facts appear to be that she was separated at the time and so was the CEO. She recoiled on the jumbotron because her husband was attending the same concert.
Can people stop using the AI overview as a citation for facts ffs? It hallucinates, makes stuff up. Cite a news source, a primary source -- hell, even Wikipedia. Just not something a computer vomited out at you.
December 18, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Can people stop using the AI overview as a citation for facts ffs? It hallucinates, makes stuff up. Cite a news source, a primary source -- hell, even Wikipedia. Just not something a computer vomited out at you.
Club X (formerly known as Twitter)
December 16, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Club X (formerly known as Twitter)
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People will avoid saying the word “lesbian” like if it passes their lips the bloody ghost of Ellen DeGeneres will appear …
December 13, 2025 at 8:58 PM
People will avoid saying the word “lesbian” like if it passes their lips the bloody ghost of Ellen DeGeneres will appear …
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My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
New York Has a New E-Bike Speed Limit—and No Way to Enforce It
August 9, 2025 at 4:47 PM
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
December 5, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The thing about ”Türkiye” and similar things is that the Turkish government didn’t name the country and unless they’re gonna rename it I don’t care what they think the English word should be.
November 25, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The thing about ”Türkiye” and similar things is that the Turkish government didn’t name the country and unless they’re gonna rename it I don’t care what they think the English word should be.
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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in move criticised by human rights groups
Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”.
Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
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Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
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November 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Two months after firing over Charlie Kirk comments, Ghost of Yotei dev blames harassment campaign, not 'bad joke'
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The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Proposed cuts at State Library of Victoria go against its mission – and will hurt the disadvantaged
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 AM
The State Library of Victoria’s ‘major’ proposed cuts include slashing the number of reference librarians and free computers for public access. Some staff are shocked.
Just subscribed to my first tagging list on BSky and I appreciate the heads up (certainly better than a blocklist) but some of it seems a bit silly. I don't need to know how a sitting US Senator is problematic, if I wanted to block them I would
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Just subscribed to my first tagging list on BSky and I appreciate the heads up (certainly better than a blocklist) but some of it seems a bit silly. I don't need to know how a sitting US Senator is problematic, if I wanted to block them I would
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A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Investigating a Possible Scammer in Journalism’s AI Era | The Local
A suspicious pitch from a freelancer led editor Nicholas Hune-Brown to dig into their past work. By the end, four publications, including The Guardian and Dwell, had removed articles from their sites.
thelocal.to
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...
Surprised no-one has pointed out that this article used a large language model for much of its analysis, as it used it to categorise the political leanings of content: news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
November 6, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Surprised no-one has pointed out that this article used a large language model for much of its analysis, as it used it to categorise the political leanings of content: news.sky.com/story/how-sk...
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Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life
Israel’s Defence Minister is accusing the IDF’s top lawyer of spreading blood libel because the lawyer leaked a video of IDF soldiers raping a Palestinian prisoner
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Israeli military's top lawyer resigns over leak of video allegedly showing abuse of Palestinian detainee
Maj Gen Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi was facing an investigation into how the video at a detention facility holding detainees from Gaza was leaked last year.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Allowing "blood libel" to be generalised from a very specific Medieval European conspiracy into "anybody getting mad at me ever" is one of the most shocking pieces of historical revisionism of my life