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Dan Ilic

@danilic.bsky.social
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linktr.ee/danilic Investigative Humourist. Host @ARationalFear Podcast. Winner 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 Australian Podcast Awards Best Comedy Podcast. 🏆🏆🏆

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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 14h
Good Halloween costume idea this year — "politician opening methane valves."
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 15h
Australia’s greatest export
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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026
Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.
wisn.com
Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport
Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anytime I tell my mum I love you, she replies, thank you
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are the people who declare “I’m not racist in any way shape or form.” Appear to be, the most racist…. In shape, and form.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Newscorp spreads climate denialism in Australia — and now?
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Tip off JW
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tanaya’s love of Triple J captured beautifully here. I also had a deep love of the place, in the 90’s it was the most important brand to a 16 year old.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
Don't look now, but Trump's DOE is doing ... a good thing.
canarymedia.com
Advanced grid tech gets a $1.9B DOE boost
As the U.S. grid strains to meet rising demand, 31 projects across 26 states get federal funds for high-tech cables, sensors, and controls to boost…
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 27/09/2026
You say that a wave of nuclear hype is crashing on the shoals of "cost and regulatory hurdles"? Huh.
bloomberg.com
AI’s Nuclear Power Push Runs Into Cost and Regulatory Hurdles
Nuclear startups in the US have pulled in $4.6 billion this year. But even with surging demand from data centers, it will take many years for most new reactors to get switched on.
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Tim Baxter @timinclimate.naruresearch.com.au · 26/09/2026
Energy nerd Christmas was yesterday, with the release of the Australia's official energy data for 2024–25. I think the share of Australia's gas being sent offshore hit a new all-time record high for the year, which is neat unless you are running an Aussie business or home that uses energy.
Australian gas production and use in the 2024–25 financial year
As with every other year in the past decade, Australia produced far more gas than it used in 2024-25.

76.5% of all the gas produced in Australia shipped overseas via one of Australia's 10 liquefied gas terminals. Another 8.3% of all the gas produced in Australia was burned by those gas export terminals and their supporting infrastructure to produce, process and compress that gas for export.

Well under one-fifth of the gas produced in Australia went to Australian users of the fuel. Gas exporters burn more of their own product preparing gas for export than any sector of Australia's domestic economy.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026
Happy ten year anniversary of the 2016 blackout in South Australia. I was told that as clean power grew in Aus, we'd see a blackout apocalypse. The chart below shows blackouts for generation shortfall as columns, and renewable proportion as a percent of the eastern grid. Enjoy :)
a chart showing blackout data for Australia
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Robynne @haddagutful.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We have no problem delivering war on time, but wring our hands over climate action amyremeikis.substack.com/p/we-have-no...
amyremeikis.substack.com
We have no problem delivering war on time, but wring our hands over climate action
(First Published in The New Daily)
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
MELBOURNE!!! www.tickettailor.com/events/cheer...
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Visitors
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Exhausted sociologist @iaracpassos.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
@mozilla.org launched a campaign against the tech billionaire class during the UNGA — and my face is in NY. 🧵 The ad places me next to Zuckerberg: he manufactures surveillance eyewear; I build local AI to expose political violence in Brazil, with Instituto Fogo Cruzado.
Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Mark Zuckerberg; second panel, center: Iara, a white woman wearing glasses. Above, the text "Mark gets into eyewear / Gives creepers, peepers" over Zuckerberg and "Iara builds local AI / Exposes political violence" over Iara. Third panel, white background, all caps: "The powerful shouldn't choose what we see", below: "We all decide."Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Jeff Bezos; second panel, center: Rose Njeri Tunguru. Above, the text "Jeff builds a rocket. Celebrities go to outer space." over Jeff and "Rose builds democracy tools. Kenyan voices grow stronger." over Rose. Third panel, white background, all caps: "Joyrides won't build a better future", below: "We all will."Triad of posters from the Mozilla Foundation campaign. First panel, left: Elon Musk; second panel, center: Rudy. Above, the text "Elon buys the blue bird. He trashes the place." over Elon and "Rudy builds Blacksky. Communities call the shots." over Rudy. Third panel, white background, all caps: "Wannabe kings don't rule the internet", below: "We all do."
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
That is CRAZY!!!!!!!
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Essential reading from @michaelmazengarb.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/tempests...
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hey @danilic.bsky.social Wolfie's spot on here!!
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 25/09/2026
poor fucker
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Oh good Earth gets some gas central heating
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 24/09/2026
Hey!!! Here's a new @crikey.com.au piece - on why the bullshitty AI doom hype frenzy perfectly represents the tech industry's cutlist climate denialism and their unhealthy methane addiction. Plus the media's total failure to grasp the real risks at play. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Another beautiful day in Wokeworth
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 23/09/2026
Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
theguardian.com
Anthony Albanese says OpenAI agent hacked Medicare and he expressed ‘extreme concern’ to Sam Altman
Prime minister says he expressed ‘disappointment’ to chief executive it had taken the company ‘way too long’ to inform his government about the breach * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Anthony Albanese has revealed an artificial intelligence agent developed by OpenAI hacked Medicare in June. The prime minister made the comments at the UN summit in New York, saying it appeared no personal information had been accessed – though investigations were ongoing. Continue reading...
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says OpenAI's "AI agent infiltrated" a Australian government website for healthcare statistics, accessing non-public information. PM says the company took three months to tell Australia.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The new Siri may actually work!
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Met Angry Anderson backstage at the Hills Centre — I interviewed him for the Loud media festival. He really gave me a nice pump up as a 14 year old kid wanting to participate in media and arts — what a gift.
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Tim Parker @pozlit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
So true. Remember the good (Mark Colvin) times? www.theguardian.com/media/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Caitlin Moran: social media went from utopia to hellhole in a decade – if you want to feel hopeful again, get offline
Fourteen years ago, Twitter was the fastest, funniest game on the web. Now I’ve been driven out by so-called ‘online activists’. The only answer is to unplug and try this instead
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 22/09/2026
I maintain this is fundamentally one of Albanese's worst lies thepoint.com.au/explainers/2... thepoint.com.au/explainers/2...
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
But — what if it is?
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Wow — so glad I let my X account lapse last year the comments here are wild: x.com/getup/status...
x.com
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Sheepie @bastardsheep.com · 22/09/2026
First order of business, bring back Captain GetUp (even though it was an Advance creation to misinform people about GetUp).
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Some personal news mumbrella.com.au/poking-fun-a...
mumbrella.com.au
‘Poking fun at power’: Dan Ilic to lead GetUp
Presenter and comedian Dan Ilic is set to take the reins of activist group Getup just months after it made headlines after ambushing Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club appearance by unfurling a remo...
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Pandymonium @pandymonium.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#AusVotes2028 #AusNews #auspol
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Josh Parris @josh-parris.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/thea...
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
"Ilic says the press club incident, which is subject to an ongoing police investigation, made becoming GetUp’s next chief executive a much more interesting prospect. " Congrats @danilic.bsky.social sic 'em 😁
smh.com.au
From ABC talking head to activist campaigner: Dan Ilic to become GetUp’s next boss
The progressive campaign group has announced a new chief executive just months after targeting One Nation leader Pauline Hanson with a secret banner.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
For those who are in urgent need of a biography of Dan Ilic — here it is written in third person: about.me/danilic
about.me
Dan Ilic on about.me
I am a comedian, Journalist, and filmmaker in Sydney NSW, Australia. Listen to my podcast.
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
My last ever Talking Pictures — a huge thanks to Mike and @fionakatauskas.bsky.social for setting a fun table to discuss the week in pictures, and celebrate some of out funniest commentators in Australian media. I've been lucky enough to be part of the program on and off since 2011.
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Laki @lakitukl.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Looks like a great one - bookmarked #auspol
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Another funny episode… great guests this week:
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
OMG SNL UK is so good youtu.be/3DVIESl8OFE?...
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Charles and D.I.A.N.A. | SNL UK
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live UK
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Laura Banks @laurakatebanks.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I had a yak to @danilic.bsky.social and co on A Rational Fear this week, take a listen. arationalfear.substack.com/p/samsung-tv...
arationalfear.substack.com
Samsung TVs are making you racist!
🎙️ NEW PODCAST: Feat. Laura Banks, Grace Vegesana, Lewis Hobba, and Dan Ilic
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These are brilliant!
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Rɪᴄʜᴀʀᴅ Tᴜꜰꜰɪɴ ᵃᵘ ᶜᵇʳ ᶜᶠᶜ @richardtuffin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Funny you say that. This is on their homepage
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
NEW PODCAST: Where's Karl, AI killing us all?, and why is SkyNews default on your smart TV arationalfear.com
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Dan Ilic @danilic.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The iiNet guy doesn’t age — he’s been the face of this brand since I worked at Next Byte.
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CAMERON WILSON @cameronwilson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
AI companies could be required to report 'rogue' AI incidents like OpenAI's HuggingFace hack, under a proposal being considered by the Australian federal government for its 'AI standards', the new rules for tech companies and data centres operators.
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Melissa Chan @melissakchan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🇦🇺 Dan Ilic — @danilic.bsky.social — is one of Australia’s sharpest satirical voices — a comedian, broadcaster, and producer who uses comedy to take on everything from politics to climate change. We're so glad he loved YOU MUST TAKE PART IN REVOLUTION and was willing to blurb our graphic novel! 🙏
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Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 17/09/2026
‘I’m genuinely sorry’: Australian Hyrox athlete who soiled herself apologises to China and rivals
theguardian.com
‘I’m genuinely sorry’: Australian Hyrox athlete who soiled herself apologises to China and rivals
* Joanna Wietrzyk ‘regrets’ decision to keep racing * She forfeits points from her win in the Beijing race * Get our new political email, free app or daily news podcast The Australian athlete who caused a storm by winning a Hyrox event in China despite soiling herself during the race has apologised to the “people of China” and rival athletes in a statement online. Posting on Instagram, Joanna Wietrzyk, said she offered a “sincere apology” to the “people of China, my fellow competitors, the spectators and the Hyrox organizers for what happened during the race in Beijing”. Continue reading...
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