Sign in

🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯

@chris8875.bsky.social
594 followers 1K following 2K posts

Refugee from the land of journalism. Now helping charities Musings from Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Gardens. Basketball. Basketball coaching. Caffeine. Books. Gaming. Sometimes news. Photography.

PostsRepliesMedia
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Something about the emperors clothes.
010
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
THE (spooky af) LEGEND OF MATT @thelegendofmatt.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
031
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Same thing happens with Gina Rinehart and radiation.
000
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial) @smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 29/09/2026
📢 You can blast these hospital-haunting bugs with radiation for 200 hours and they still won’t die.
smh.com.au
‘Ultimate superbug’: New form of antibiotic resistance uncovered
277
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Super cool. Here’s a class traitor dispatch: when you start to make more money you start to pay more taxes. The size of the checks you send to the govt have big numbers on them. It’s unsettling. You need a strategy & that strategy is SUCK IT UP MOTHERFUCKER.
111251138
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Sato Juniper @satojuniper.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I've heard hot rhetoric from Israel's spokespeople insisting that the stories about wholesale death & destruction in Gaza are antisemitic lies. Apparently, even Google Earth has now caught up with what is being done & it's there for those willing to see. #Auspol www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
independent.co.uk
Google Earth exposes devastation in Gaza with new updated images
Google Earth shows the unprecedented devastation in Gaza, illustrating the scale of the wreckage
22013
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"This is just going to hurt Australians, and do bugger-all to actually reduce inflation." And as usual, the Australians most likely hurt are the ones who can afford it least and [ironically] have little scope for discretionary spending. #auspol
07025
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I give you the annotated version of the RBA statement (just in case you want to know what they really mean) thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...
thepoint.com.au
The RBA has raised rates again. Here’s what its statement really means
Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, annotates the RBA’s latest statement, breaking down what the central bank is really telling us.
79031
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Wonder Why🦆Ducky🦆 @duck-flying.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Aussie mum-of-two kicked out of rental after requesting a working oven -requested the oven in her rental property to be fixed. Months later, she was asked to leave -After more months she was eventually provided with an offer: the reimbursement of an air fryer au.finance.yahoo.com/news/aussie-...
au.finance.yahoo.com
Aussie mum-of-two kicked out of rental over oven fix despite new eviction rule
Victorian renters are facing unreasonable eviction notices despite the state government banning no-ground evictions.
032
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Australian Conservation Foundation @ausconservation.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
One more piece on the Bogong moth resurgence... www.sbs.com.au/news/article...
sbs.com.au
'A story of hope': Bogong Moths swarming the east coast are exciting researchers
Large moths have been visiting homes in NSW, ACT, and Victoria, which scientists say is great news for the species.
2228
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Please look after the moths
000
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is just utter garbage. So many real things we could use real money on, and this is the stuff that continues to go forward.
000
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 29/09/2026
"So, what's your company valuation?" "2 trillion dollars" "What are you basing it on?" "We lost 42 billion dollars last year" bsky.app/profile/edzi...
914337
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Spot on. Insulting.
010
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.
752927750
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Stilgherrian @stilgherrian.com · 27/09/2026
For those of you following the resuscitation of Australian literary journal Meanjin, an interview with establishing editor Ashley Hay. www.killyourdarlings.com.au/article/what... Disclosure: Meanjin is a client of mine.
killyourdarlings.com.au
What's Next for Meanjin
An interview with establishing editor Ashley Hay
091
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Crikey @crikey.com.au · 27/09/2026
Opinion | AI bosses are nothing but "fossil fuel cultists injecting methane gas directly into the heart of their machine god", writes Ketan Joshi. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
crikey.com.au
Doomsday AI cultists aren't just good marketers — they're capturing governments
As soon as you realise the AI industry is packed with adherents to a cult of climate and fossil fuel dismissiveness, everything clicks into place.
04012
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
The Onion @theonion.com · 26/09/2026
Cat Internally Debates Whether Or Not To Rip Head Off Smaller Creature It Just Met theonion.com/cat-internally-debates…
Cat Internally Debates Whether Or Not To Rip Head Off Smaller Creature It Just Met
241611144
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
ProPublica @propublica.org · 26/09/2026
Hey, ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson here. I’m taking over the account to tell you about my new story. For months, I posed as a problem gambler on DraftKings to test the company's "responsible gaming" safeguards. Spoiler alert: They made me a VIP — and I lost $10K. Here's how it all went down. 🧵
Selfie taken by ProPublica reporter Jake Pearson, a man wearing a backwards baseball cap and an orange T-shirt.
19595923527
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Patrick Matthews @matthewsp.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Classic regulatory capture attempt. Market leaders just flat-out asking the government to help them entrench their positions by erecting new barriers to entry.
1245
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.blacksky.app · 12/09/2026
lol the vibe shift in AI hype feels like a ploy by U.S. tech bros to permanently keep out competitors. They are cosplaying concern so they can "regulate" their competitors out of existence. It's not about safety. It's about money.
16487107
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Absolutely. Why else would we be hearing about what AI agents have been doing in Australia recently? They want regulations to close the market and rescue themselves from a lack of profitability.
000
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
5776142098
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes but all those counter examples are terrible television, that’s the point
21963
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30 billion/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $43 billion in roughly seven months (and that's a low estimate) It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.
7732321070
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Frank The Hat @frankmani.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The media should now say "actually, we prefer it outside" and not turn up anyway. Rhe whole planet would be grateful if we never hear Mango Mussolini again.
021
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Child: This is my first time meeting a mayor. Mamdani: Wow, have you ever met a prime minister? Child: No Norway PM Jonas Gahr Støre: *walks over*
776285774856
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Some ppl reporting the data Quest has told them was included in the hack was “CAT_ID2”. Suggestion is it’s a room designation (standard or deluxe) identifier. Remember: the intruders also have cards with CVV: so they could filter for which cards are linked to deluxe room bookings
061
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Suggestion on Reddit is that it was the third party cloud based central reservations system that got hacked. Won’t name them til it’s confirmed because I don’t have money for a defo case
1111
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Uh. Quest Apartment has updated info on the hacking of their systems. 46,727 credit cards (with CVV), 297,739 credit cards (no CVV), 225,300 vehicle regos, 104,268 passport or license numbers www.questapartments.com.au/update
questapartments.com.au
Update
186037
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 17/09/2026
So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...
techpolicy.press
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
14416220
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
They don't care. They just don't care.
010
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Will always stop to read Mr Flanagan. www.smh.com.au/national/alb...
smh.com.au
Albanese isn’t just betraying authors like me. He’s selling out Australia to AI colonists
Like standover goons, America’s AI giants are threatening our government – and it is rolling over to their demands like no other nation.
000
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A decade ago, a “weird” kitten was found on a road near a Bolivian forest. Too small to be a housecat, he had a scrunched-up face, short round ears, long whiskers, & a coat of leopard-like spots. DNA analysis now reveals him as the very first of a newly discovered species & I think I'm in love. 😻🧬🧪👇
nationalgeographic.com
Meet the First New Cat Species Discovered in 100 Years
A small, spotted tiger cat from Bolivia may just be the beginning of a wave of new small cat species.
626387
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Oh yes.
000
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
static.klipy.com
The Simpsons: Homer's Brain Monkey
ALT: The Simpsons: Homer's Brain Monkey
000
🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯 @chris8875.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A shill and a grifter. Surely he doesn't need the money. Surely. But he wants the money, wants it, and will find something that suits him in order to earn it. Says more about him that Polymarket is his choice. He is nothing but a grifter preying on others.
000
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
David Pocock calls out the major parties for rejecting proposed Red Lines reform which seeks to protect taxpayers from funding illegal wars including Israel’s genocide in Gaza. “It shouldn’t matter where these crimes are being perpetrated…whether they are allies or not!”💥
821393
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Albury’s City press release on the Sharon AI purchase of the land parcel in Ettamogah says any plans will be informed by the Water Master Plans. Guess which document is currently missing off the Albury City website? The Water Infrastructure Masterplan www.alburycity.nsw.gov.au/strategies-a...
alburycity.nsw.gov.au
275
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The owners of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory self-regulated.
840119062845
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Janel Comeau 🍁 @verybadllama.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I mean if you really want to hear Ed Sheeran without any opening acts you can simply get put on hold with your bank
128115891942
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Matt Thiessen @mattthiessen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Beautiful! Sarah Kendzior: "I do not use AI: not for research, writing, photography, or anything else. I never will. I’d rather be a ghost haunting the machine than a vampire imbibing it."
38832
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Hallucinating AI robots wrote an article in one of the largest English papers in the world saying I quit writing to become a gardener. I did not! Instead, I wrote about them. Read on: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/i-wandered...
A fake AI generated article about me in the July 2026 Times of India. No i did not quit writing to become a gardener, as they claim!
571078377
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026
propaganda still has to be interesting to drive ad engagement
5483
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 16/09/2026
sad_trombone.wav
1112015
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
FFS She. Did. Not. Apologise
Screenshot from The Australian

"Pauline Hanson making a rare apology is a new test for One Nation" by Dennis Shanahan
2134267
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The dumbest thing about the whole Ed Sheeran thing is he identifies as a "culturally Irish" musician, and is seemingly touring with half of Ireland, and yet somehow had no clue that Irish musicians have been the single longest and loudest chorus of voices in Europe about what is happening.
1354513717
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Murray Watt has called out Alex Antic on his anti-vaxxer bill, who with support of One Nation, seeks to repeal vaccination laws put in by his own government, in order to cut vaccine access for kids. “That is what the Liberal Party of Australia has become.”💥 Disgraceful.
1319374
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Wendy Harmer @wendyharmer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
For writers like me (corralling a novel into existence), there's an old book I have: "Creative Wisdom for Writers" by Roland Fishman.(Allen&Unwin) If you can find it, it's both a balm and a call to action. All quotes from the greats. Ie: "Most of the work is done in the unconscious" Peter Weir
3598
Reposted by 🐯 ɹǝʞuıɹᗡ ǝǝɟɟoƆ ɐǝɹ∀ 🐯
Sandy Horne @sandyhorne.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Another Wrensday Wednesday shot - this time from the farm near Quorn. Sometimes I like to include a lot of background. In this case, it highlights how tiny the white-winged fairywren truly is. Just a blue pop of colour 🙂 #wrensday
24997118