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Jamie Bosanko

@banjoeskimo.bsky.social
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Photographer / Designer / Live Music Fiend / Game Nerd

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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 29/09/2026
It's a mystery how we got a housing shortage...
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Jamie Bosanko @banjoeskimo.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Shoutout to that time RAGEFLOWER played one of the best gigs I've seen all year at The Workers Club. Full series available here: www.deviantart.com/banjoeskimo/gallery
RAGEFLOWER sings on stage at The Workers Club in Fitzroy, Melbourne.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 23/09/2026
There is no plan aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox...
master chief looking sad (even though he has a helmet on and you can't see his face; it's the body language, I think)
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Rafe Meager (they/them) @economeager.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
i can't get over the fact that someone asked wong kar-wai what he thinks about AI and he said "AI can replicate, but can it yearn?". superb. he knows what we want from him.
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Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au · 23/08/2026
It took 30 years to completely eliminate the 40 minute waits between #Melbourne suburban trains first imposed as part of budget cuts in 1978. But it's finally done, and we've got a much more useable rail network as a result. Bring on more improvements! Blog: danielbowen.com/2026...
Screens at Flinders Street showing departures on Sunday morning
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
“Here’s what we found: Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. The relationship was even stronger in lower-speed environments.”
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Big US-style trucks are killing more pedestrians in Australia – our research proves it
Pedestrians are more likely to be killed by heavier cars – and even more so if the vehicle is taller, Australian-first research has found.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Deidre Chambers
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/07/2026
Everybody wants house prices down. The only way we can get there is by building more homes.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 23/07/2026
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/07/2026
"The fact that most of the residential land in our cities is locked up under highly restricted zoning makes sense of why we can't build the homes we need." The Australian Zoning Atlas is out now (see the link below)!
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/07/2026
Two papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: scim.ag/3R2lLmf
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
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Luke Foley @lukefoley.me · 02/07/2026
Good news for live Melbourne music — The Gasometer will live on as the Smith Street Hotel. Chef and restaurateur Scott Pickett: "Are we a gastro pub? Fuck no. We're a live music venue, with great food and drinks."
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Coming Soon: Smith St Hotel Has Big Shoes to Fill — But It's Keeping The Gaso's Live Music Spirit Alive, Just with Upgraded Food
Collingwood's much-loved live music corner is getting a second act, with Scott Pickett's latest venue preserving its predecessor's gig-going legacy.
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 29/06/2026
More Melburnians deserve the choice to live close to transport, jobs and the city. That's exactly what the Activity Centres Program delivers.
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 24/06/2026
BREAKING: Wealthy Bayside Council is taking the Victorian Government to the Supreme Court to block upzoning, paving the way for a broader legal challenge. NIMBYs would rather burn hundreds of thousands of dollars on lawyers than let young people live in their neighbourhood.
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John Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
wait youre telling me a 'Mexican' fast food chain made by two white aussie investor bros using other people's names and likeness to pretend to be authentic failed in the american market where their competition was actually authentic Mexican food? there was simply no way of predicting that
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 20/05/2026
Grattan Institute’s new report shows that letting Australian homebuyers choose the car-parking they need will: → make housing cheaper, → get more homes built faster, and → create more walkable cities.
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David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Excellent demolition of “affordable housing”. It’s a muddled no man’s land between market and social housing, achieving the goals of neither. It functions as a modest benefit to a tiny fraction of middle class families. It’s costly, inefficient and impedes geographic and occupational mobility.
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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
You’d think journalists would at some stage consider whether this war has been in Australia’s best interests, and whether there might be political consequences to Labor’s enthusiastic support
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/03/2026
A massive victory in the war against upper-level setbacks! The Mid-Rise Code offers greater housing certainty for Melburnians. It also winds back one of the most damaging and poorly evidenced planning controls: upper-level setbacks.
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Ben Diskin @bendiskin.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
"DLSS5: ON" is to gaming what "motion smoothing" is to your parents' tv
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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
a while back a guy I knew was trying to justify having gone to Curtis Yarvin's wedding, and his girlfriend said "Don't you find him thrillingly contrarian' and I said 'That's how boring people excuse being racist'
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
The Albanese Labor Government is supporting bombing a country, then preventing people fleeing that violence from seeking safety here. It is wicked.
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Paul Austin @paulnaustin.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
My boss wrote a piece in support of migration – and migrants. It’s good. Makes me proud. #auspol grattan.edu.au/news/migrant...
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Migrants are who we are - Grattan Institute
When political opportunists come for migrants, it is kids in schools across this country who bear the scars.
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 26/02/2026
PRESS RELEASE → Whilst YIMBY Melbourne applauds the Coalition’s more positive housing vision, their plans leave too much to be desired.
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Jack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
The meme of three white men at a bar/pub table with pints only the men have various bugs for faces

'Here comes trouble' says a long horned beetle
'Looks like they'll let anyone in here' - a fly
'There he is' - a green cricket
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
It gave us the great Disco Elysium Vance video:
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
From me: The architect of the Robodebt scheme, who was told it was unlawful even as he delivered it for the government, is still employed in the public service, now at the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions. And in a senior governance and risk role. www.crikey.com.au/2026/02/20/r...
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Exclusive: Robodebt architect remains employed in a senior governance role in the public service
Scott Britton was a national manager of the customer compliance branch in the Department of Human Services and signed a June 2014 minute that first detailed how robodebt would work.
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Professor Euan Ritchie FAMS @euanritchie.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Proud to say I'm the ecologist Matilda Boseley is referring to re: quotes. Minor correction, @australia.theguardian.com, it's greater gliders, not sugar gliders. Great video, thank you! www.youtube.com/shorts/R8Cqs...
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The government just did what while we weren't looking?
YouTube video by Guardian Australia
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 19/02/2026
Help shape the future of Melbourne’s Activity Centres! Community Reference Groups (CRGs) are being formed right now to provide local feedback to the upzoning plans. If we want walkable, transit-oriented, and affordable neighbourhoods, we need YIMBYs in the room!
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Absolutely devastating. Jon was a wonderful guy and the best political cartoonist Australia ever produced
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 06/02/2026
One site, two permits, two radically different reactions. NIMBYs overwhelmingly weaponise the planning system against social housing. It's time to stop listening to NIMBYs and build more homes.
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Jeremy Poxon @jeremypoxon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
The partner income test traps people in abusive relationships and dangerous households, and the Department is out here doing bad Bridgerton jokes about it
Dearest gentle reader,
The social season is upon us, and so, perhaps one finds themselves amidst change.
Whether you've recently begun promenading the ton with your new match, or you find yourself once more unshackled from courtly pursuits, one must remember to make their relationship status known.
A moment tending to myGov to make your relationship known is most beneficial to ensuring your payments and services remain in good order.
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 27/01/2026
Commonwealth policy leaves young Australians locked out of community housing. The "youth housing penalty" is one of the factors behind the low rate of social housing tenancies being offered to young people, currently less than 3%. 👇
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Public Transport Users Association @ptua.org.au · 24/01/2026
They said "a new timetable will be in place everywhere" - when the Metro Tunnel opens. But many lines are missing out, and 30-40+ minute waits remain common. More PT services more often are needed to fix the public transport network, and keep people moving.
PTV network status board altered to summarise changes on the network from 1st February. Sunbury/Cranbourne/Pakenham extra services. Craigieburn/Upfield/Werribee tweaks, extra services later. Sandringham/Williamstown changes later. Hurstbridge/Mernda/Belgrave/Lilydale/Glen Waverley/Alamein no changes. "Everywhere" quote source: https://www.premier.vic.gov.au/metro-tunnel-delivered
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 13/01/2026
For decades, the loudest voices in planning were saying "No." We started YIMBY Melbourne to say "Yes." The Guardian credits that shift with driving a "planning policy revolution." Proof that when you show up with evidence & optimism, you can change policy!
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Melbourne is in the middle of a housing revolution – have the yimbys already won?
Advocates say even they are surprised by Allan government’s embrace of higher density housing, but warn construction costs risk city becoming ‘victim of its success’
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
On leave til Monday but again asking why politicians, government agencies and journalists are continuing to post on a site that has weaponised nudifying people, including children. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Elon Musk’s Grok AI generates images of ‘minors in minimal clothing’
Lapses in safeguards led to wave of sexualized images this week as xAI says it is working to improve systems
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 03/01/2026
The United States is a rogue actor throwing the world into disarray. It hosts war criminal Netanyahu, sanctions ICC and European officials, launches strikes around the world, and now kidnaps foreign leaders. Western allies need to stop it if they truly believe in human rights and international law.
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YIMBY Melbourne @yimby.melbourne · 07/12/2025
Areas that were downzoned saw increases in their white population shares (or slower loss of white population) and concentrated wealth compared to non-downzoned areas.
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Daniel Bowen @danielbowen.au · 30/11/2025
The good news just keeps on coming
The Age headliner: ‘I wouldn’t move to Victoria’: Pauline Hanson speaks at Melbourne anti-immigration rally
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Inflection Points @inflectionpoints.work · 09/11/2025
We could build 67,000 extra homes a year & see rents fall 12% in a decade. How? By fixing our land use planning systems. ✍️Brendan Coates inflectionpoints.work/articles/pla...
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Planning is the bottleneck to new housing | Inflection Points
Reforming states’ sclerotic land use planning systems is the key to building more housing. Both state and federal governments must do their part.
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Information Age @information-age.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Tech giant Meta is not only failing to block scam ads but is knowingly taking billions from scammers each year, according to leaked internal audits that found the company is feeding users 15 billion scam ads per day – and even more to those that click on one. Read more ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
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Meta relies on scam ads for 10% of its revenues: internal audit
Rather than ban scammers, tech giant charges them higher rates.
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Streets Alive Yarra @streetsaliveyarra.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Infrastructure Victoria is clear—better connected and safer cycling infrastructure is needed to support more Victorians to ride.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 09/11/2025
this is one of the most insane policies people are subjected to in Australia if you're in a couple, your partner's income is used to assess *your* eligibility for dole, disability, etc. if your partner makes a basic wage, *you* can't get help it's designed to keep victims in abusive relationships
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David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
this is how it’s enforced www.pedestrian.tv/news/centrel...
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Centrelink Wants To Know If You And Your Housemate Are Banging, And Other Invasive Questions
Normal social security system.
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David Sligar @davidsligar.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
I've long criticised the dehumanising and patriarchal partner income test embedded everywhere in the Australian welfare state. The tax on love really does hurt families, and has a real impact on relationship formation or termination. www.reddit.com/r/Centrelink...
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From the Centrelink community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Centrelink community
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil
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