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Tim Dunlop
@timdunlop.bsky.social
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Writer in Melbourne, Australia
Author of 4 books on media, politics, technology and work
Advocate for bottom-up democracy beyond the two-party system
https://tdunlop.substack.com/
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No doubt about it, she is very insightful.
Screenshot of a Peta Credlin column in the Oz. The blurb says, "Nothing unites a political party more than the sense that it’s now in a fight with the other side rather than with itself." Genius!
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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Perhaps the most unnecessary subheading in history (article via @simonwdc.bsky.social)
Astounding figures.
Para reads: In 2024, 21 percent of adults in the U.S. were found to be illiterate, while 54 percent of adults had a literacy below a sixth grade level, according to the National Literacy Institute. This is the followed by the subheading: Why It Matter
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Not left.
Not Right.
Stupider.
Image and headline from Ezra Klein podcast page. Headline is: Not Left. Not Right. Bigger. Image is of Klein seated behind a microphone looking uncomfortably into the near distance as if Zohran Mamdani had just unexpectedly entered the room.
November 3, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Sauron says what?
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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Btw, the Mellon Auditorium has a 22,000 sq ft neoclassical ballroom 8 mins from the White House that the govt helped restore in 2022. Total Trump aesthetic.
Knocking down the East Wing has nothing to do with building a ballroom. Building a ballroom has nothing to do with building a ballroom.
Interior shot of a gaudy be-columned space, every bit as gilt and tasteless as Trump could desire.
October 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Dad, what's a metaphor?
Aerial shot showing the complete demolition of the East Wing of the White House
October 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
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Melbourne: ever helpful
October 19, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Looking forward to seeing the new Spinal Tap movie
Photo of Trump holding up a mini-model of a new Arch he proposes to build, a la the tiy model of Stonehenge in the first Spinal Tap movie.
October 17, 2025 at 4:47 AM
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I love the smell of hallucinogens in the morning
Screenshot of header for Oz column by former editor, Chris Mitchell. Headline: Here’s a news tip: be fair, fearless and factual Blurb: The trajectory of former New York Times writer Bari Weiss, who has transformed her four-year-old digital start-up into a $240m media powerhouse, shows up ABC and other broadcasters’ failures on Covid, Russiagate and the Biden laptop.
October 13, 2025 at 3:44 AM
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You scoff, but this is how we got Medicare.
Sorry, I meant AUKUS
Screenshot: Headline reads: Murray Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws Summary reads: Murray Watt nears deal with Coalition to finally overhaul environment laws
October 9, 2025 at 5:42 AM
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Worth a read for more detail on the #npc cancellation.

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The communications obtained by Lamestream make it clear that Hedges was not only a confirmed speaker at the NPC, contradicting the organisation’s public statement, but that he was dropped because the NPC believed they had booked too many speakers “in favour” of the Palestinian cause.
October 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Why isn't this idiot sanctioned by the Senate for this dangerous nonsense?
October 2, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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A mere 2500-word ABC puff piece on rightwing extremist Andrew Hastie. The sort of balanced, professional reporting that has helped turn America into the democratic powerhouse of moderation and reasonableness we know today.
Screenshot of ABC article with a photo of Andrew Pastie under the headline: Soldier, Shakespeare die-hard, and the next Liberal leader? Andrew Hastie's week in the headlines
September 28, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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ChatGPT prompt: create the most embarrassing image imaginable of a world leader having a selfie with Donald Trump. Make both of them grin like cats passing razorblades.
Fucking awful selfie of Trump and Albanese grinning like cats passing razorblades.
September 24, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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I said love, I said pet, I said Dahl
September 9, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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An apposite quote:
Keeping Australia 'one nation' has been Howard's great theme in the years since. Time and again, he has argued with flat passion that Australia is at risk of 'legal fragmentation' if Aborigines are given more than 'an equal dispensation of justice'. Ask Howard precisely how this break-up is going to happen and he talks about a fragmenting sense of that egalitarianism which is 'such a valuable bond'. Press him further on his idea of Australian egalitarianism and it comes to seem peculiarly racist. Our egalitarian identity can survive ceaseless jockeying by everyone from Queenslanders to brain surgeons for a better-than-equal dispensation of justice, but apparently it can't survive a deal where Aborigines are the winners.
September 9, 2025 at 3:50 AM
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How can you not give this guy the Nobel Peace Prize?
September 7, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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"If ever there was a time to cling to our functional separation of church and state it is now, and we should be loudly proclaiming its benefits, not letting politicians hold little parties in parliament for their Christian mates."
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Images is a b&w graphic of a wave crashing over a nestled town that includes a prominent chruch spire. The text/headline says, Why does Chris Minns was to undermine a hard-won tenet of Australian democracy. Seriously, what he is doig is fucked up, and I'll explain why.
September 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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One of the few rights-related matters that made its way into our rather workmanlike Constitution. Right there in Section 116.
The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth (section 116).
September 2, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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The Oz is shameless
Screengrab from editorial in The Australian: Throw book at ‘sovereign citizen’ Australia must remain vigilant against ideologies that weaponise delusion and undermine justice.
August 27, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Neolaborism
Picture of the PM and the Treausrer and a cute dog. Text says: The PM and treasurer say the round table is about making sure the economy rewards hard work, invests in talent and nourishes aspiration.
August 19, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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Someone pass Pontius Pilate a towel to wipe his hands
August 10, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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"Stop wheeling out Howard; lock Abbott in a cupboard somewhere; Peter who?" must've come in as options 11, 12 and 13.
Screenshot of Paul Kelly article in the Australian headlined "Ten ways the Libs can stand up race against the clock." Lede is: The message from party statemen, John Howard, Peter Costello and Tony Abbott: reclaim your principles and champion them everyday."
August 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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The Solution After the uprising of the 17th June The Secretary of the Writers Union Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee Stating that the people Had forfeited the confidence of the government And could win it back only By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier In that case for the government To dissolve the people And elect another? By Bertolt Brecht
August 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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I love David Milch’s version of this:
My idea of storytelling is—I wouldn’t say it’s religious but I would say it’s spiritual. You know, the chemist Friedrich August Kekule worked for twenty years trying to figure out the structure of the benzene ring, and he couldn’t do it. And then one night he was sleeping and he had a vision of a snake swallowing its tail. So he told his students about it and they said, ‘Not bad, you go to sleep and you wake up with that.’ And he said, ‘Visions come to prepared spirits.’
August 6, 2025 at 11:41 AM