Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 13hFormer AFP plod Rohan Pike, who founded the Australian Border Force's Tobacco Strike Team which completely and spectacularly failed to stop illegal imports, has criticised the Victorian Labor government for not moving quickly enough to slow down the distribution networks. Still on the grift too 🙄 000
Reposted by Colin FryWorst Movies Ever @worstmovies.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Girls hit your reload button (NO) Girls hit your reload button (NO) Girls hit your reload button (NO) 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you 'Cause upstream junk don′ give it to you The Bluesky site and we in the spot Don′t believe me just watch (COME on!!) 141
Reposted by Colin FryLaurent @lozzercozzer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Got plenty of movie themed gems to dip into as the evenings draw in. @alltherightmovies.com @christhebarker.bsky.social 032
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Some Australians are ‘bung lazy’ — Barnaby Joyce 67% attendance, hey? 🤔 #auspol 053
Reposted by Colin FryEngineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Thanks to all the microplastics in our bodies these days, we're going to have to re-certify humans as 99.2% ℮ organic. 043
Reposted by Colin FryEngineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026How not to install a security door. 051
Reposted by Colin FryStuart Palmer @spalm.bsky.social · 14/09/2026TableBuilder says: For 2021 census: Proportion of workers in all healthcare and social assistance industry division not born in Australia - 37.7% Proportion of workers in aged care residential services industry group not born in Australia - 51.1% 168
Reposted by Colin FryRUOK Speedwagon @uberpaul.bsky.social · 12/09/2026In the fictitious universe envisioned here in which most people don't "keep their job", they didn't account for the fact that if nobody makes any money, nobody can buy anything, so the entire system collapses. 142
Reposted by Colin FryJuha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Lemme just check how stupid things are now... one sec. www.bbc.com/news/article... "Crowd gathers after Pakistani cricket team mistaken for migrants"bbc.comCrowd gathers outside hotel containing Pakistan under-19 cricket teamPeople gather at a hotel as Pakistan's under-16 cricket team are wrongly identified as migrants. 195
Reposted by Colin FryAndré Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Today Mrs Deeming said she had no regrets and suggested she'd been approached by numerous political parties to contest with.” Having a great time with all my friends in other political parties. They’re just out of shot asking me to be their candidate at the election 5288
Reposted by Colin FryYung En Chee @yungenchee.bsky.social · 09/09/2026And so the social license-buying, sportswashing begins‼️ #DataCentreVampires 73721
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Scene: Hospital waiting room Woman who spent 20 years in solitary confinement for NOT murdering her four children (before being pardoned and convictions quashed) is being screamed at until she is crying by some deadbeat nobody who (I’ll bet) actually HAS a criminal record. Cops dragged her away. 100
Reposted by Colin FryEngineer Brains @hhackenbecker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's all done in the BEST! possible taste! #caturday 094
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 04/09/2026It’s almost like allowing vehicle manufacturers to self-certify that their vehicles comply with safety regulations is a bad idea…techcrunch.comFeds launch investigation into Tesla's Cybercab deployment | TechCrunchThe investigation was launched just a few hours after Tesla put the first production Cybercabs on the road in Austin. 120
Reposted by Colin FryJuha Saarinen @juha.bsky.social · 04/09/2026www.itnews.com.au/news/coles-t... Coles supermarket chain will end its data analytics work with Palantir.itnews.com.auColes to end data analytics work with PalantirFuture platform choice unclear. 092
Reposted by Colin FryPaperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Book prints for your home ✨ on sale at $15 and now shipping internationally 🙂 shop: paperbackparadise.bigcartel.com/category/pri... 6539116
Reposted by Colin FryTim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Does she realise that "expensive schools don't have a substantive impact on the actions of students" is a cogent argument AGAINST the existence of private schools? 031
Reposted by Colin FryHyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 20/08/2026In the book “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage.hyperallergic.comWhy Won’t Britain Return Looted Gold to Ghana?In “The African Kingdom of Gold,” Barnaby Phillips explores how British colonial forces plundered the Asante people and expertly traces the stolen artifacts’ afterlives in museum storage. 02413
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 18/08/2026RIP News 😢 “What my week as a content creator for a Temu sloth taught me” 010
Reposted by Colin FryPastRewind @past-rewind.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Here's footage (at the end of the video) youtu.be/L2DxUVeGQqI?...youtu.beDH.88 Comet at Old Warden 15th August 2026YouTube video by blizzardthewatcher 111
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 17/08/2026“Mr Dann KC said his client, convicted rapist Ralph Carr, had a history of PTSD, anxiety, depression and previous suicide attempts.” “He said a jail term would … have a significant adverse impact on his mental wellbeing.” And? I’m failing to see why anybody should care about HIS wellbeing now. 120
Reposted by Colin FryWorst Movies Ever @worstmovies.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) TMDB score 31% Martians fear their children have become lazy and joyless due to their newfound obsession with Earth TV shows. After ancient Martian leader Chochem suggests that the children of Mars need more fun—including their own Santa Claus—supreme 4253
Reposted by Colin FryCam @camster.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Not sure if this is aimed at Silent Generation/Boomers or Millennials/Gen Z 021
Reposted by Colin Fry Jonathan Leung (VGMaps.com / YT: JonLeung1) @vgmaps.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I think my word replacement is clever: every line thought out carefully, unlike most "We Didn't Start The Fire" parodies that are random and don't match most of the original lines. Yet this side-by-side video that makes this clear has LESS THAN 300 VIEWS. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KL-m... WTF!youtube.com"We Didn't Start The Fire" Vs. "B, D-Pad, Start, Select, A" (NES Parody)YouTube video by JonLeung1 131
Reposted by Colin FryOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Just been reminded of Starfish Hitler. You’re very welcome 23637186
Reposted by Colin Fryjessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 31/07/2026I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful 193126057997
Reposted by Colin FryOdd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 31/07/2026It’s the 56th anniversary of the first day of a legendary rock festival. Sly & The Family Stone, Fleetwood Mac, James Taylor, and Janis Joplin were booked, but an injunction by locals meant none of the artists turned up. So tens of thousands of people turned up and took a shitload of drugs anyway 🧵 46719
Reposted by Colin FryTim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 30/07/2026*thinks about it for one nanosecond* 7436
Reposted by Colin FryTim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Glinda : You've had the power to go home all along! Your ruby slippers can do it! Dorothy : Why on earth didn't you tell me? Glinda : It was necessary for you to find out for yourself. Dorothy : But I *didn't* find out for myself! You just told me!! 1389
Reposted by Colin FryPastRewind @past-rewind.bsky.social · 23/07/2026A gem here. youtu.be/yQesCbCXyTM?...youtu.be1958: The State of Britain's Roads | Second Enquiry | BBC ArchiveYouTube video by BBC Archive 111
Reposted by Colin FryGlennyrodge @glennyrodge.bsky.social · 22/07/2026They’re being chased by the VAT Controller www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...independent.co.ukGrandkids of Thomas the Tank Engine author in HMRC court fight over huge tax billAlmost 30 years after Wilbert Awdry’s death, the managers of a trust ended up fighting HMRC in a bid to pay out less tax on the royalties 1332783
Reposted by Colin FryMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Even The Spectator. “being cursed with vision, hearing and sanity meant enduring an event that made Truss’s premiership look like a model of tact and foresight.” Attendance at the Far Right CPAC was described as the equivalent of “the attendance at a paedophile’s funeral”.spectator.comThe sheer awfulness of CPAC GBShaped in Liz Truss's image, it was shallow, senseless and utterly detrimental to the conservative cause it claimed to champion. 31592174
Reposted by Colin FryMiranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 16/07/2026The streets are quiet on my dog walk this morning. She does her usual stop outside the house where she was born. Perhaps her parents will notice her and bark hello like they sometimes do. Not today. A white rosebush shows off her finery in the early light. 1714
Reposted by Colin FryJason @nickmotown.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I've recorded an album called 'Obsessed With Sex'. It's only got one track, mind. 2439
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Why do we spend so much money on moronic coroners? Deputy State Coroner Emma Roper asked why Ms Wyld was left on her own in the aged care facility. Even before the industry was sold to profit-making businesses there wasn’t anything near a 1:1 staff/resident ratio. No way she could be watched 24/7.abc.net.auStaff shortage led to woman being strangled by wheelchair belt, court hearsA woman who died after slipping from her wheelchair and being strangled by its lap belt had been left unsupervised due to a staff shortage at an Adelaide care facility, a court has heard. 000
Reposted by Colin FryMiranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 11/07/2026In answer to something she has asked, a dad on the bus explains to his little girl, that if she is good most of the time and only naughty sometimes, she is doing ok, and she sighs in relief. 2828
Reposted by Colin FryAngry People in Local Newspapers @apiln.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Yet when I try to dispose of a sack of properly bagged elephant shite, I get a visit from Special Branch.northdevongazette.co.ukVillage ‘poogate’ row spills over after cat poo put in ‘dog poo’ binA Berrynarbor resident was stunned when he was reported to the council for putting cat poo in what he thought was a dog waste bin 4446
Reposted by Colin Frygreatgenes @greatgenes.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The guy avoids jail because “the only factor that weighs against him is his lack of remorse” says the judge. Read that again. A judge thinks lack of remorse for violently raping a woman is not reason enough to send a dude to jail, never mind he has a history of DV. A lack of remorse! #auspolnews.com.au 8169
Reposted by Colin FryThe Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 06/07/2026FIFA President Gianni Infantino has strongly rejected suggestions that Donald Trump has interfered in the World Cup match between the USA and Belgium, after officials agreed to allow Americans to carry semi-automatic weapons “purely on footballing grounds"theshovel.com.auFIFA Buckles to Trump’s Demands and Allows US To Carry Firearms During Belgium Game — The Shovel"At the end of the day, it's still football. There just happens to be a loaded Glock in Christian Pulisic's sock" 47220
Reposted by Colin FryMiranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 01/07/2026A builder on a site watching my dog sniff everything we walk past: She's reading her wee-mails. 3727
Reposted by Colin Frychristhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Nine years since I won an award and dropped on the way home… 7662
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026TIL Miniature poodles look less cute after being dismembered and gutted by a Bull Mastiff. The professional dog walker with the poodle is absolutely distraught. The shitty dog’s owners were screaming “Racism” at the cops who had to impound their dog (who had killed before according to neighbours). 🤔 010
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 29/06/2026As they are easily confused, here’s a handy guide: • Arch of Titus, 81 AD, Rome • Arch of Tightarse, 81 IQ, Foam 000
Colin Fry @colinfry.bsky.social · 28/06/2026New One Nation ‘Monoculture’ ad just dropped… #auspol 6126
Reposted by Colin FryMiranda Keeling @mirandakeeling.com · 25/06/2026I look to my right as I stand on the train platform, to see this man captured perfectly in a security grill frame - the image a story, a drama of foreground and depth, silhouette and shadow, security tape and 'no entry' sign, his bag held close - a spy movie, a thriller, or whatever it is for you. 8697