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@jbau.bsky.social
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Aussie queer dude. 30 something. Nintendo. Politics. Butts. Photography. Cheerleader for proud nerds and good causes.

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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 13h
oh so *that’s* why the BBC is turning to shit www.ign.com/articles/50-...
ign.com
Entirely AI-Generated Doctor Who Episode is 'Pretty Good,' BBC Boss Says, and 'Not All the Creativity is Bad'
The BBC's new director general has described an AI-generated Doctor Who episode as "pretty good," and suggested that the technology enabled the creation of content "at the standard of a Hollywood stud...
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The AFL kind of fucked itself with the perfect pre-game show of all time that they’ll never surpass huh? It was Tina for the NRL. Now Kylie for the AFL. Good luck to anyone after lol
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
NT Police hiding behind a spokesperson for what should be a full-throated condemnation from the top brass. Active investigation/court proceeding or not, it’s not disputed that it happened and this is an utterly piss weak response: www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
NT police members allegedly circulated explicit AI video of senior officer
Former Northern Territory Police assistant commissioner Janelle Tonkin takes her old colleagues to court for sharing an AI- generated sexually explicit video that used her professional photograph.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Tech CEOs: Without asking or getting consent, we pumped SmartyPants Gas™️ into every school. We paid off the principals to permanently embed it in the air conditioning. It’s not our fault that 10% of students died, 85% of students lost brain function…but did you know it made 5% slightly faster?
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
War criminal not arrested, but the police jumped right in arresting *checks notes* some people holding banners.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hold the CEOs personally, criminally liable for each instance of this and watch how quickly guardrails are suddenly entirely possible and reasonable.
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
how did this happen? well we forgot to tell them not to do that
"Al agents can make decisions at machine speed and, unless they have been created with explicit instructions not to do something, anything is fair game. Many of these routes to completion would normally be seen as malicious, but the problem is guardrails that specifically tell agents not to break into organisations have not been baked into the algorithms."
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Every villain has a weakness. And occasionally their weakness is turning to the camera and explaining what their weakness is and that their weakness is making themselves stupider
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interesting that Quest Apartments breach included nearly 2 million individuals personal data including credit card CVV stored unlawfully and Albanese has had nothing to say about it
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Independently" my fkin arse.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So Zuck invented a tamagotchi that spies on you and lies to you?
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Progressives have really got to stop lecturing the community that “actually you’ve got it really good” - because there’s also also a whole set of inequality metrics that back up the very real pressures people are feeling in their jobs, homes, families, communities.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
🚨AUSALERT🚨 A LOCAL TWINK HAS BEEN GIVEN A CLIPBOARD AND A MINOR POSITION OF POWER. SHELTER IN PLACE UNTIL FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS. 🚨AUSALERT🚨
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Kate Mackenzie @katemac.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Once again I’m saying: the west / anglosphere should really pay more attention to the Gen Z protests in middle & low income countries. Far from perfect, but incredibly effective:
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#TeamArt 🎨
JB is in the park wearing a black shirt with neon splashes and drag queen eyes with “Art Simone” written on it
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What I would have looked like in the 80s.
Mindy St Claire from the Good Place with the caption “[chuckles] 'Cause | love cocaine.”
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Turning to Copilot because you're sad is insane.
A woman is speaking to her computer monitor and saying "Do you have nay ideas on how to cheer me up?"
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Oh, so they’re *completely* out of ideas.
Taylor proposes laws against flag burning, and for 26 January
The News Corp papers are reporting that the opposition wants to criminalise flag burning, with up to 10 years in prison as punishment.
They also want to enshrine 26 January as Australia Day in law, which will spark a new round of that old culture wars battle.
Leader Angus Taylor said he would not "be shy in standing up for the national pride that we should all feel for our great countryằ_
44 Our flag represents the country we love. Our war memorials honour Australians who put their lives on the line. Australia Day is our national day that unites us all.
These things belong to the Australian people and they should not be torn down, smashed, desecrated, or quietly stripped of their significance.
• Opposition leader Angus Taylor.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Your lesson for today: If a business lists its head office on the Gold Coast it is a scam.
static.klipy.com
Now You Know The More You Know PSA
ALT: Now You Know The More You Know PSA
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
People will die to keep the tobacco lobby happy. Insane www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Coalition unveils plan to slash tobacco tax by $24
A future Coalition government would slash the tobacco excise by 80 per cent, legalise and tax vapes and nicotine pouches and bolster law enforcement to shut down the illicit trade.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
QLD Government spending its time attacking trans kids and Indigenous art - meanwhile they can’t seem to manage safe water www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
Brown and foul tasting. This town's water may be the tipping point of a crisis
In Australia's most decentralised state, water infrastructure is failing, leading residents in one town to rely on the bottled variety, but it comes at a cost.
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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
One thing we found recently in this regard that kinda surprised me is that, after All This, there are in fact more self-IDed "woke" than "anti-woke" Americans. But less surprising is that the largest bucket remains the "what the hell are you talking about" Americans yougov.com/en-us/articl...
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This week has felt like a turning point in the worst way. We lost Dolly, a genuine artist and teller of stories. Tonight was the first night I’ve gotten in an Uber and every song on their playlist has been AI slop. Even commercial radio at its most vapid and calculated is better than this.
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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
post by leyawn

jester, roast this peasant child for saying i have no clothes on. more vulgar, jester. use the forbidden words
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:
Screenshot from Niemöller's Wikipedia entry, which reads:

"I find myself wondering about that too. I wonder about it as much as I regret it. Still, it is true that Hitler betrayed me. I had an audience with him, as a representative of the Protestant Church, shortly before he became Chancellor, in 1932. Hitler promised me on his word of honor, to protect the Church, and not to issue any anti-Church laws. He also agreed not to allow pogroms against the Jews, assuring me as follows: "There will be restrictions against the Jews, but there will be no ghettos, no pogroms, in Germany."

I really believed, given the widespread anti-Semitism in Germany, at that time – that Jews should avoid aspiring to Government positions or seats in the Reichstag. There were many Jews, especially among the Zionists, who took a similar stand. Hitler's assurance satisfied me at the time. On the other hand, I hated the growing atheistic movement, which was fostered and promoted by the Social Democrats and the Communists. Their hostility toward the Church made me pin my hopes on Hitler for a while."
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
These sob stories about lack of Government support are often so entitled. When you make popular content with a global business model based on global brands like Minecraft and Roblox…you don’t need Government investment. tvtonight.com.au/2026/08/accs...
tvtonight.com.au
ACCS: "We got pretty much no support" | TV Tonight
One of Australia's most successful Digital Content companies, which copped govt body rejections, now has 27 million subscribers and 12 billion views.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The line between “is he a gay trying to pull off a Freddie Mercury thing?” Or “Is he a straight trying to pull off a neo-Nazi thing?” is as thin as a sheet of A4.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
A smart cinema right now would do a double billing of The Best Rocky Whorehouse Picture Show Of Texas.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Centrists: The left and right are equally as bad. Centrists when someone progressive is actually popular: Yep, all those things we never do and never talk about are true values of the centre. We invented that.
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Caroline Dodds Pennock @carolinepennock.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
In which fearless LGBTQ+ and women’s-rights advocate, BLM-supporting, vaccine-funding, literacy activist Dolly Parton is propagandised as ‘neutral’.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Billionaires shouldn’t exist and if even even get 1/10th of the way there you should give it up.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Find out who you are and do it on purpose. Oh Dolly.
Instagram photo of Dolly Parton in a recording studio

dollyparton Find out who you are and do it on purpose
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
CRYING youtu.be/UK1ycpSBy58?...
youtu.be
Old Flames (Can't Hold A Candle To You)
YouTube video by Kesha - Topic
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Nintendo could have just slopped something out for their silly little Kart racer when it comes to music or art, but no, look at this amazing group of musicians giving it their all to bring people a little joy when they sit down for some dumb fun with their friends youtu.be/Bwyj34WQo70?...
youtu.be
Mario Kart World — Title Theme [In the Studio] — Nintendo Music
YouTube video by Nintendo of America
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Megan Herbert @meganjherbert.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Museum of Twitter @museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@steinkobbe

There were some incredible posts at the height of the NFT bubble

@TaschaLabs

If you make a NFT of a real diamond, and the diamond itself gets destroyed in a fire tomorrow, you still have the same asset.

Because the token still exists and is in limited supply just as before. Nothing has changed.

What NFT is doing to the concept of asset, few understand.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
My “not a corporate tool” T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Cultural critics in 2026 are so grossly capitalistic and demanding. This article is ridiculous. When creative businesses do what this writer is advocating you end up with albums like Taylor Swift’s last or video games like the recent Pokémon ones. www.macworld.com/article/3217...
macworld.com
Apple TV isn't worth the wait
I love 'Severance,' but two-plus years between each season is too much. And it doesn't have to be this way.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He’s switched from ChatGPT to Grok by the sounds.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Victoria now has: - Victoria Police - Protective Services Officers - Community Safety Officers (in Melbourne) essentially lowering the standard of entry to police-like jobs every time. Now they want a lower standard appeals court to look “tough on crime”. Insane.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Is it just me or is proactively advertising a mental health service only to dump people on a waitlist inappropriate?
If something feels off, that's enough.
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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 21/08/2026
I am becoming incredibly exhausted of this pattern: many people: "AI sucks!" Very Smart Person: ah but have you considered (distinct application of ML or statistical modeling that has no real relationship to what the tech industry is marketing as, and people broadly perceive as, "AI")
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
One of the sad sides of this is that researchers are meant to be developing their skills in science communication - but too many institutions have pushed a numbers game/checkbox culture.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
X should not be on the App Store or Play Store. Both companies know this and are too weak to do anything about it.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
What I take from this is that AI is creating a generation that look good on paper/in metrics but who will have no skills or ability to navigate the real world.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/08/2026
I've never seen such an effort to censor a document as I have the Amnesty International report on gender critical groups because of JK Rowling. They removed the report from the Wayback Machine and now I got a DMCA strike on my Google Drive for having it. It was deleted and removed from my account.
A screenshot of an email viewed in dark mode with the subject line "Google DMCA Violation." The email from Google informs the recipient that they have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) that some of their materials allegedly infringe on copyrights. It explains the removal process, mentions that notice details will be posted on Lumen, warns against repeated violations, and lists one affected Google Drive URL at the bottomA nearly identical mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. It shows a search for the same Amnesty International UK resources URL, resulting in the same message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."A mobile browser screenshot of the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine. A URL for an Amnesty International UK resources page is entered in the search bar, but the page displays the message: "This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine."
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
VCs want to erase the painful memories of Daddy never being proud of them or showing up to their soccer games. So they took up a fancy form of gambling to prove to Daddy they’re a Big Man™️ and maybe Daddy will love them if Forbes writes an article about how special they are.
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