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Caitlin Welsh

@caitlinwelsh.bsky.social
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editor, writer, anxious DJ, snack wizard, the Ricky Bobby of pub trivia playlists etc @sydneymusic.net [DMs not on because Australia]

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This is the master key to deciphering contemporary debates about free speech. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/se...
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The trouble with this is that nothing the onion could make up would be truly out of the realms of possibility for Robert Pattinson to actually say on a press tour
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Kenny Logins @kennylogins.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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@stackofbears.bsky.social
Me: So, yeah, I'd say the mango basically approaches "favorite fruit" territory for me

Guy interviewing me in my imagination:
That's incredible. And you say this because you're eating one now?

Me: Exactly. I invented you—gave you mind-birth—for that reason. This habit is one of my many perversions
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yeah, not a great look here.
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Rivers of Suggestion @youngweather.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Our daughter and friends (also not on social media) use Canva comments to chat like this Life uhhh finds a way
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home...
Who will clean any of this up? 
At a church service in Chicago they had set up cardboard cutouts in the pews to represent the worshippers who would have attended mass if not for fear of being disappeared. Not far away I saw a laborer’s lunch had been left uneaten and spilled over onto the sidewalk outside of a home he must have just been working on. Laboring on. There’s a dumpster out front and a red white and blue flag themed porta-potty from a company called Patriot Portables. Three ladders still leaning up against the building. 

It looks like it would have been a pretty tasty lunch. Even tossed aside like that and wasted now. A smear of orange hot sauce on the cracked styrofoam container. Not yet taken away by the wind. Such a beautiful seeming neighborhood too. I imagine it’s a very nice place to live. They say that Chicago is still surprisingly affordable. 

It shows me home listings when I scroll now because I clicked on one or two at some point and so the computer believes that this is an integral datapoint that explains who I am. I just saw one hanging ten off a bluff that has been pummeled by eons of waves and so will not exist for much longer. Neither house nor bluff. Overlooking the water on Cape Cod. You could squeeze a couple of good years out of it still I thought. Until one awful night. I can’t afford it even now despite the implication but it’s a nice little nightmare to have. 

I thought of a friend who was recently diagnosed with a terrible albeit not yet terminal disease but maybe that’s a bad analogy. A beach house is worth so much more than a person. 

I don’t know how much longer it will sit there. Either the house or the guy’s lunch. Maybe everyone passing by assumes another worker is going to arrive soon to take care of it but it could be he’s already been disappeared himself.
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Josh Taylor @joshtaylor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
If ultimately there's no criminal responsibility for this incident here then FOI just became a lot easier if we ask AI agents to go find those documents for us. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Albanese says OpenAI hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic inbox
Prime minister says he told Sam Altman he was disappointed it had taken OpenAI ‘way too long’ to disclose breach
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Na Mee @yourfriendnamee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Shout out to @fatbearweek.bsky.social and @explore.org who prolly had a stressful day yesterday but then came up with workarounds so we can still play our fun bear game 😝 **website problem fixed** **Day 1 voting is extended through today!** (Go vote!!)
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Linda Holmes @lindaholmes.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I mean this sincerely: If you are using a thingy to set your fantasy lineup for you, *what is the point* of fantasy sports? Especially if everybody in your league starts doing it? You are telling all your computers to play with each other! I do not understand what about this appeals to anyone.
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Rusty Foster @rusty.todayintabs.com · 23/09/2026
This seems like a great product if you’re a fucking loser
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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I had to know what "rapper Jethro Sheeran" looked like and I don't know what I expected but it wasn't this
JETHRO???
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was deputy M.E. at the WSJ when Murdoch took over, with a similar “editorial independence board.” Within 4 months, our top editor was gone, replaced by a loyal Murdoch deputy. That board raised a quivering objection, but the deed was done. If the Ellisons own CNN, they’ll do whatever they want.
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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
a poem called 'midvinterblot by carl larsson, 1915'
midvinterblot by carl larsson, 1915

In the disaster year, in the famine
foreshadow, for all the questions in
the air, only one still haunts me: Is there
Is there life out there in Oakland
There In Oakland California or still
The Bay or after the Bay or after Portland
or after the chaz after Toronto after Brooklyn
Is there life in Oakland California
Is there life after the weekend even
if it never dies, is there life in the squat
even if it never dies, is there life in the
scene even if it never dies is there
Life in the Castro or in Greenwich
Village or life in the tunnels beneath
Las Vegas where holdout soldiers
make a final stand for demon dope
Is anyone there for those gay people
on my phone are they getting enough
and can they get by, can we cut them
a break or can we know if they die
or if they live at the end of it all
when the shouting is done and the
rumors go to mill can we know if
they die or do we need to ask some
soft machine or hard-eyed actress
Is there life out there in Oakland
Still in Oakland California
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Siobhan Thompson @vornietom.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Do you think that Greta Gerwig will keep the bit in the Narnia books where they don’t let Susan come back to Narnia because her tits came in
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rob @ok-but-still.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good to see this finally get coverage in my old paper. This is the same mob who campaigned against me, but it wasn’t sufficiently newsworthy then.
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Demon King of the New Platform @clothedvillainy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Australia’s social services system is built around bizarre notions of ‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving poor’. The undeserving don’t work because they’re insufficiently motivated, and we motivate them by starving them and making them risk homelessness.
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026
AI hallucinated a report that a Chinese ship was transporting nuclear material to Iran and the US military scrambled and nearly boarded it. We were apparently minutes away from a major war because of an AI hallucination. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
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Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Stephanie 🍉 @ageofoddish.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
mmygod
the slut gnomes of false berlin jeopardy bluesky posttoday's jeopardy categories. the last 2 are "false berlin" and "bizarre little men"
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Dean Napolitano @dinonapolitano.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“A three-pound wildcat with leopardlike spots from Bolivia who once lived briefly as a house pet isn’t just adorable. He is also, scientists say, the standard-bearer for the first new feline species discovered in a century.” By Kate Golembiewski in @nytimes.com
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New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century (Gift Article)
The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.
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K.B. Spangler @kbspangler.com · 18/09/2026
*smashes bottle against table* STOP STEALING OUR GOOGLY EYES AND USING THEM TO PRETEND YOU MADE GOD
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Rick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
they drew the name from a hat and now they don’t know whether that’s the winner or the person eliminated, which imho should disqualify them all
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Tim Hollo @timhollo.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I keep hearing this idea that "I don't like AI, but maybe it can solve climate change" and I just... what? Surely there is nothing about "solving" climate change that needs more computing power or ideas. It's purely about the interaction of power structures and social realities. Can we not?
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liz duck-chong @lizduckchong.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If you've got a spare couple of dollars this month, I would love for you to direct it over to the amazing team at @scarleteen.com! Read more about how to support them here: pro.gofundme.com/campaign/sca...
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
MAKE SOME NEW GLORY DAYS WHY ARE YOU GIVING UP
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Helen Rosner @hels.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Just got a press release for a new bar that “pays homage to the glory days of NYC nightlife” and listen, I’m sure this bar is perfectly nice, but I’m losing my goddamn mind. I’m sick of remakes! I’m sick of homages! Stop building monuments to beauty instead of trying to build beauty itself!!!!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Rick Scott: "With regard to destroying mankind, these companies need to do the right thing on their own. We're not going to get smart enough to regulate them. We're not going to get something done up here."
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Paul Blinkhorn @paulblinkhorn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
You can't blame Ed Sheeran for caving in to American stadium owners I suppose. I mean, take these guys in the 60s, they refused to play to racially-segregated audiences in stadiums in the southern states of the USA and who remembers them now?
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The Beatles banned segregated audiences, contract shows
The Beatles refused to play to segregated audiences in the US, a contract for one of the group's concerts shows.
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Every Sydney Station @sydneystations.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The pedestrianisation of George St has been such an unquestionable success that this is like the 4th or 5th time it'll be extended!
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
My column on how the level of Jobseeker kills people. And those running the economy for over 30 years have decided that is how it should be. www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
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In such a rich country, it is shameful how many Australians on jobseeker are dying in desperate poverty | Greg Jericho
Lifting the abysmally low jobseeker rate to the poverty line would save thousands of lives
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Poverty kills. The level of Jobseeker kills. It is a choice governments make every year. It is a choice the RBA makes when it decides more people need to be unemployed www.theguardian.com/business/gro...
Screenshot showing deaths per 100,000 by age


Not on welfare; on Jobseeker
22-34: 17.1; 137
35-44: 30; 288.1
45-54: 83.4; 427
55-64: 201.6; 615.6
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Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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alexis nedd @alexisthenedd.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
congrats to ed sheeran on his achievement
screenshot of an achievement from the game Disco Elysium. The achievement is titled "the world's most laughable centrist" for defending the political centre 7 times. 23.6% of players achieved this.
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Abby Olcese @abbyolcese.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Get it girl.
Katie Dippold in her Babadook costume
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lots of rude comments but each of these items gives her a different stat boost and some of us care about gameplay
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alexis simpson @amutepiggy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
this is what killed Bob Mackie
Photo of... is that Shailene Woodley walking the Emmys carpet. She's wearing a periwinkle tank top with a plunging neckline showing her sternum,  a pair of maroon....pleather? vinyl? definitely hideous gloves going up to her elbows, and a pair of..
 textured? awful pants that look kind of like a popcorn ceiling.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 15/09/2026
rhea seehorn didn’t win for better call saul so vince gilligan was like, what if she was the only character, what now
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Caitlin Welsh @caitlinwelsh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
@condimentwords.bsky.social you seeing this shit
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André "Normal" Alessi @andrealessi.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"BDE" then you erase the "E" and replace it with an "S"
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Trung Le Nguyen @trungles.com · 15/09/2026
Attempting to frame these bigots like they’re brave pragmatists breaking from some kind of stalwart trans-affirming norm is the type of enormous lie where the ground should open up to pneumatic-tube you directly to hell.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
macklemore and dave matthews will be our pete seeger and woody guthrie won’t they. 70 years from now they'll be remembered as principled songwriters whose music is ideologically admired but rarely listened to. it won’t be any of the earnest folk revival types it’ll be macklemore and dave matthews
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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"wow, everyone knew this already" is such a cynical, annoying and unfortunately extremely common response to tech news. assuming your privacy is being violated and proving that it is are two very different things, and the latter is the result of hard work and rigorous reporting
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merritt @merrittk.com · 14/09/2026
truly believe this is happening to a lot of people who don't even realize it, they're sliding rightward by virtue of having heinous shit normalized for them everyday on there
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Jaya Saxena @jayasaxena.com · 14/09/2026
Ed Sheeran a bitch
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Bernard Zuel @bernardzuel.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
One neighbour complaint leads to the council enforcing a rule with no flexibility and a small live music culture - i've been there & it's a minor gem we need in Sydney - is set to wither. Plus c'est change ... www.smh.com.au/culture/musi...
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‘In Sydney this is a rarity’: The hidden music haven caught in a bitter council spat
For almost two years, Nick Shimmin and Matthew McGuigan were hosting free, invitation-only gigs in an old former church. Then the local council stepped in.
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thinkingbayonet.bsky.social @thinkingbayonet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Houthis: what the fuck, you told us it was economical to build the IR sensor with aluminum foil instead of mercury cadmium telluride Claude: That is exactly the right challenge to raise, and the honest answer is that the claim was asserted rather than demonstrated. Inshallah it won't happen again
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Ian Rennie @theangelremiel.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Nathan Fielder and Elizabeth Holmes doing the "we're just normal men" meme
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Bec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
oh your new crime show is about a tortured grizzled sad alcoholic detective man? should we throw a party? should we invite raymond chandler?
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