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B Chalks

@bchalks.bsky.social
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Australian. Father. He/Him. Attempted Nerd. NHL Sabres sad-posting, Bills Bandwagoner. AIHL CCRhinos play-by-play caller. Star Trek socialist

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Beefcake Dad @jeffsreturn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Googling Tony Blair Arms Deal to find out what the deal is with those arms
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OpenAI first alerted Services Australia on September 10th. Someone at Services Australia read the email on Sept 11 and then waited 4 days before emailing ASD to inform them
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If just 600 more people had been unemployed out of a labour force of 15.55m, it would have risen to 4.7%
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LORI SCHAFFER @lorihjschaffer.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Highest unemployment for 5 years? RBA happy.
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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Stop calling it a climate problem. Call it what it is: organized greed. The planet isn’t dying. It’s being killed for profit. The killers have names. And boardrooms. #ClimateJustice #StopEcocide
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hard not to see AI companies talk of needing a slowdown as just "please governments, enforce something so we can use it as a legal excuse for getting out of the massive financing hole we are in"
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is sewer-level stuff from Littleproud.
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dindin6.bsky.social @dindin6.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Strange to think that an embryo can lose its rights if it develops into a female
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Michael Daly @michaeldaly64.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
1987. Bowie was a voracious reader all his life, & travelled with a 'capsule library' including old favourites & new books. Marilyn Monroe had done similar
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
And that's a huge change! It's going to change a lot of things. But the most visible and impactful change to most people is that we'll all suffer way way more fraud Still zero reason to believe it'll cure cancer or figure out interstellar travel.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I keep seeing AI described as a massive shift in the nature of humanity and our understanding of consciousness But when I look at how good these new models are at hacking, I think oh we've basically just built the computer equivalent of the machine gun.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
it's probably worth noting that the guys who 'grew up' instead of obsessing over their 'right' to be bigots still have vibrant careers doing what they love. meanwhile, there's Graham.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Dolly Parton: the American Diogenes
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Ben-Gvir's AI-generated ad for a fucking concentration camp is one of the worst things I've ever seen (I admit I've had that thought a lot recently!). If you're still supporting these pricks, or haven't opened your mouth against them, your cowardice/evil has no limit, no red line
Literally an AI ad for a concentration camp, in which Ben-Gvir joyfully starves Palestinian prisoners
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B Chalks @bchalks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
What a fantastic system Jeff has created. {Heavy sarcasm}
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Haha, a more fitting logo for Google.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Spreading the pain…
Graph showing Woolies profits up 18.1%
13.7% for Coles.

Inflation is 4%
Wages is 3.2%
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B Chalks @bchalks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
seems like the kind of thing a government confident they're doing a good job would be keen to have data to present on...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Really good work by Alan Kohler (and yes he does use a couple of my grpahs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlg...
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Australians got a massive paycut in 2021 — and they're angry | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
next-level bet-hedging there, Google.
Lake Ontario in Google Maps labeled as both Lake Ontario and Lake America
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Optimus Prime via Peter Cullen was a proxy father figure to a generation of well-meaning little dudes that heard him say on the regular things like"freedom is the right of all sentient beings" and took it seriously. Plus, ya know, he turned into a truck. RIP to a real one.
Peter Cullen describing advice from his brother about how to play a hero as a gentle and calm.Dead Optimus Prime from the 86 Transformers movie
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/08/2026
Lawyers Say Andrew Tate Rented Brother To Appear Loved Online
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Lawyers Say Andrew Tate Rented Brother To Appear Loved Online
MIAMI—Saying the manosphere influencer vastly exaggerated aspects of his life in order to fabricate a social media persona, lawyers for Andrew Tate disclosed Thursday that he rented a brother to appea...
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Keep yourselves safe from the 40 visiting IDF soldiers running in the marathon, Sydney. I'd avoid visiting hospitals if you can, they like to blow those up. Ditto for mosques. Same for Australian war cemeteries. And it probably goes without saying, but keep your kids well away.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I'm sorry what
The visit by Taliban officials to the slutz cheese making plant in central Belarus
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B Chalks @bchalks.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
presumably, He will have plenty of suitors.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"Millions delay or skip appointments as specialist care become too expensive for many Australians – new research" by @lukeslawomirski.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/million...
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Millions delay or skip appointments as specialist care become too expensive for many Australians - new research
A submission to a Parliamentary Inquiry by The Australia Institute reveals that seeing a specialist in Australia is now more impacted by a patient's ability to pay than their medical need.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
When I see someone characterize cis men disrupting and harassing women’s basketball players as “protecting” women’s sports, I think about how last year at a women’s soccer game some young men behind me paid for tickets just to heckle the women on the field. It’s all blatantly misogynistic.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton spent 80 years proving you could have big hair, a bigger heart, a brilliant mind and absolutely no patience for anyone who underestimated you. She gave us unforgettable songs, free books for millions of children, and enough wit, rhinestones and kindness to light up Tennessee.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
One way you know Dolly Parton lived life the right way: I don’t think anyone’s going to get fired for accurately quoting Dolly Parton today.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The most racist, bigoted person you've seen on your timeline who regularly calls for the government to slash funding for charitable causes: "Genuine tears for Dolly Parton passing. She stood for so much."
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton's Imagination Library gifted more than 332,000,000 books since it was first created 31 years ago.
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Joel @itsjoels.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.
Sorry, I can’t type that.
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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 25/08/2026
[Exit Queen.]
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Mara Wilson @marawilson.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Between this, and the children’s hospital that she funded in Knoxville, that I believe was recently named after her, although she hesitated on that for a long time because she didn’t want the recognition, she has saved countless lives.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
we lost an actual saint
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Between The Shot's story about explosives sent to Israel, Deepcut's story about Bisalloy Steel's role, plus all the F-35 parts, I can't help wondering how much of Australia's manufacturing is geared entirely towards facilitating the genocide... Remember when we made fkn cars?!
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just remember it's wages *expectations* that the RBA is worried about. And poor Ampol had no choice but to charge higher prices and have profits go up 376%. Good thing it only cost the govt $3.3bn to artificially lower petrol prices, no one else had any need of that money...
Charts showing wage, inflation and Ampol profit growth 2025-26

Wages: +3.2%
Inflation: +4.0%
Ampol profits: +376%
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Please don't fall into the trap of defending a terrible government just because Dave Hughes is a fucken idiot. That's the play. It's easy to ridicule a cooked petty bourgeois landlord who doesn't understand anything without defending genocidally complicit ghouls. I just did. See.
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4fuxake @blueheartedly1.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Again, if you owe a woman $5 million dollars for sexual assault, you also owe the country your resignation.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
One of my less popular beliefs is that you aren't serious about dealing with the problem of our big tech oligarchy if you completely disregard capital punishment for C-suites and founders. Thiel, Zuckerberg and Musk are all guilty of treason by any reasonable definition.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The cuts to the NDIS will destroy lives. My guess is a Royal Commission into abuse and neglect of people with disabilities in... ohh 2032 www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Bryn is 16 and has never eaten a meal. His mother’s terrified the newly-cut NDIS won’t ‘step up to keep him alive’
Sweeping changes, condemned by disability advocates, mean some scheme participants’ funding will be reduced by 99%
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
bookmarking to say that if Minns lets this happen the armed guards will at some point injure and kill locals and call it self-defence. This is something colonisers invariably do. Our politicians are actively importing an additional form of colonialism.
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NSW Premier backs trial of armed guards at Jewish events, defying police
12 hours ago - NSW Premier Chris Minns has backed a trial of armed guards from the Jewish Community Safety Group watching over public events, ...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Under the current forecasts, by the end of 2028 real wages will on average be the value they were at the end of 2011. But yeah, gotta keep those wage growth expectations down, don't we RBA! www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Screenshot showing a graph of real wages. Shows that the RBA predicts real wages in Dec 2028 to be only as they were in Dec 2011 and still around 3.5% below what they were in March 2021
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Has any algorithm used in care work *not* lead to abuses and neglect?
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Kaitlin Kal Lee @kaitlinkallee.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
A heated debate over the Epstein files is making waves online 🔥
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Willie Muse @williesillie2.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
It's weird how much of modern masculinity was predicted by Jaoquin Phoenix movies
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B Chalks @bchalks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Oh no, it's only going to be *nearly* double what it was a decade ago... Truly the greatest tragedy of our time. . .
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