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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7m

My favourite way to filter co-workers to see whom I can get on well with is the simplest bit of workplace humour in chat - write a message in normal informal English, apply strikethrough style to that, then repeat the message in business bullshit LinkedInSpeak. If they don't get it.... Yeah.

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Garth Coghlan @wildwoila.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 59m

"Ultimately, an organization’s Unique Selling Points are the aggregate unique talents of all the people they hire. Building an organization with the right combination of people is, and always has been, the ultimate moat. To then shove this all through AI is to filter out all the talent you’ve […]

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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities

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Defending Ukraine @ukrdef.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

KYIV INDEPENDENT: Dozens detained at authorized Communist Party rally after chants of 'Down with the Tsar' kyivindependent.com/dozens-detained… The event had been authorized by Moscow authorities, but detentions […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Following the vote on the anti-Zionist policy at Green Party Conference, the 5 Green MPs, the Leader and Co-Deputy Leaders have issued a joint statement: www.facebook.com/share/p/19ohNNmLbg #GPEW #ukpol #antiZionism #FreePalestine

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@tokyo_0 a) You have to click thru to see someone's profile, and I did so after you mentioned the no DM thing. Now I know, I won't DM you. b) in my reply, I said feel free to start a new public thread OR direct message, and you did not start a new public thread. c) as I said, to me […]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RL friends You know who you are Love you guys

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Paris has been praised in recent years for their visionary, progressive city-building, but they don’t get enough credit for just being really pragmatic! Everything they’ve been doing is common sense. They’re moving a lot more people with less space while cleaning the air and cooling the city.

People riding bikes in a full separated bike-lane in Central Paris.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Hot take: Leaving aside environmental, theft, & cognitive harm issues... A problem with #AI is the cultural milieu into which it drops: The broader culture was ALREADY struggling to articulate why a person should; do a thing for the joy of doing it, do a thing to get better at doing it, do a […]

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GhostOnTheHalfShell @ghostonthehalfshell.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: dair-community.social/@emilymbender… We are the technology, we have a billionaire problem. The problem is not technology. The problem is political economy.

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Mats Holberg @holberg.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

A headline encapsulating my fundamental rejection of this trend as anything more than reactionary playacting. Tradwives *choose* to surrender their agency knowing they can *reclaim* it at any time. Every moment of their marriage is actually an ironic expression […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

News+
New York
What Makes a Tradwife Quit?
4h ago • Sarah Jones

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The automated message from HR reminding me to do my mandatory annual development plan has a grocer's apostrophe.

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Tim Richards @timrichards.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It is crazy that dental care isn't covered in Australia by Medicare; since when is the mouth not part of the body? "Dental care is one of those things that most can’t live without. Yet, it’s not covered by Medicare, meaning only some, including children and concession cardholders, can access it […]

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I don't understand the need to say dickwad CEOs can't make good stuff. This is the world we live in. A lot of my favorite things in the arts and sciences come from absolute bastards. The real argument should be about how to channel dickwaddery into good social outcomes, not whether the stuff works.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History from @adamtooze.bsky.social adamtooze.substack.com/p/the-bigges...

A table titled, Average annual infrastructure spending as percentage of GDP.

It has six circles showing percentage of GDP spent on each tech:
Canals .66%
Railroads 2.24%
Electrification .5%
Highways 1.13%
Telecom and fiber 1.1%
AI 3.63%

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Australian headlines sometimes are exactly how I imagined Australian headlines would be before I moved to Australia.

Gaurdian headline:

What field price is rise ahead of interest rate decision; whale carcass prompts shark warnings at Perth beach

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

You know flying is bad for the environment. But it that hasn't gotten you to shy away from flying maybe the new AI powered air traffic control might. And The Devil Said: "But there are applications for LLM algorithms in routing and traffic control that could lead to greater efficiency when […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 27/09/2026

The insufficient growth of renewable energy in Australia is was bad before the data centre boom, but that insufficiency persists even as the target finish line moves further and further away as projected demand grows.

New capacity required to meet 2030 targets (gigawatts): wind about 2 GW under construction versus ~18 GW required, solar about 3–4 GW under construction versus ~22 GW required.

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

The criminality of England's oldies cintinues to shock. #MerseysidePolice today arrested a 94 year old #terrorist in Liverpool. Even worse, the terrorist #MargaretOwen is also a Jewish human rights barrister,. It's scary to think of the risks to #AndyBurnham's […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

A section of trunk with lichen, small epiphytes, and a climber I can't name, on the Northern side of a palm tree trunk. #mosstodon

Epiphyte is bright green.
Lichen is blueish green.
There is also some actual Moss.
Only a little of the palm trunk is visible under all the plantlife

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Strong coffee. Spring sunshine. Cowboy Bebop soundtrack over the crowing of our new rescue rooster. Good morning #Nimbin

Coffee mug.
Grey metal table & chair.
Garden with OATH hive.
Blue sky behind.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

ACAB includes the "You're Using Mastodon Wrong" Cops

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

@Kmrnhr Hello. Will you be writing a bio and doing an #introduction post?

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Bunnings numbering their aisles boustrophedon is a perfect example of how monopolies completely stop caring about customer experience where it conflicts with profitmaxxing.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

"Quantum is an area within AI" is something I have just heard The Chancellor Of The Exchequer Of The United Kingdom say on the radio news

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

What happens to ent gangsters? ... They get arrested by the copse.

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Knowing how electricity is normally generated makes these things even more magical Like we all know that electricity is made by moving magnets around coils of wire or vice versa, and that's how I think of electricity, it's a big steel shaft in some really good bearings and at the end of that […]

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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops @ifixcoinops.retro.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

When you were a kid did you ever go to a science museum with a hand-crank generator and a buncha lightbulbs? So how this works is you'd spin the crank and it'd rotate pretty freely y'know, you could feel magnets kinda resisting you a little bit but you'd take your hand off the crank and it'd […]

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Fou @foufoutos.kafeneio.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

US, the global terrorist "If they land, you can't fuel them, you can't provide landing services, you can't sell their tickets, or you're going to be kicked out of the dollar system," Bessent told CNBC. Which countries are banning Iranian flights over US […] [Original post on kafeneio.social]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 23/09/2026

This is actually the first major de-electrification we're seeing in the mid-transition era and I cannot fucking believe my eyes in seeing the core advocates of electrification celebrating and welcoming and encouraging it www.wired.com/story/us-dat...

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Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

There’s no clearer sign of the data center boom than rampant gas projects that have been proposed or that are already under construction.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

"I'm being pragmatic but also nuanced" I declare, as I allow *some* Nazis into my bar

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

It still weirds me out every time I recommend a show to friends and then they're like where is that streaming. I'm terribly sorry I haven't the faintest idea.

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AJ Sadauskas @ajsadauskas.pixelfed.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Stumbled on this street art in Gresham St, Adelaide. According to Glam Adelaide, it depicts a blogger named Sonia Bavistock: glamadelaide.com.au/the-adelaide-st… #StreetArt #StreetPhotography #Photography #Adelaide #SouthAustralia #Australia

A mural depicting a woman with blue eye-shadow and hair, in a laneway at night.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

You know when you see somebody on television singing the US national anthem and they're taking it, and themselves, absurdly seriously, to the extent that it becomes indistinguishable from parody? I feel like LinkedIn has that same energy

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Wow Trump's UN speech is somehow even more embarrassing than the previous efforts

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Watching Mr almost 16 doing English homework assignment. Literally 100% manipulation of content chunks from AI that he doesn't understand. Anything I say would likely sound as relevant to him as when my 1980s maths teacher told me I wouldn't always have a calculator in my pocket as an adult.

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Final Round Player 😷🇪🇺🍸 @jbond.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

#Climate #Elnino It looks like we just broke the records for temp above 1991-2020 baseline, above 1982-2010 baseline and the all time Nov 2015 sea surface temperature in the El-Nino region. Godzilla El-Nino is still growing.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Interesting gmail spam. Sender is from a US domain - listings@jobuliet.net. Opening the email shows "job listings" (lol) in Charleston, South Carolina. Clicking on any job opens identically titled "job listings" in Australia.

Page displayed after clicking on a listing - jobs in Australia

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I've lived in Aus for years now. When I first immigrated, I noticed there is a particular kind of fake smile you see in ads here that would be seen as too fucking weird elsewhere. It's a subtle difference in advertising, but real. Exhibit A.

Bathhouse ad featuring a woman with an exaggerated rictus grin/laugh

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/09/2026

Australia does good PR for itself and people in other countries lap it up - but it has a shocking record during Albanese's tenure and Albanese in particular is personally totally disinterested in climate. No idea how he was convinced to go to NY climate week and actually mention the word 'climate'

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Alexander Karn @xankarn.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

RE: the.bisexuals.town/@gersande/117309… Awful stuff, but worth reading as a reminder of where we stand and how security forces often aren’t.

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Jay @jaystephens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I feel old. Over half as much time has passed since the Lord of the Rings films were released, as between the release of the books and the films.

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