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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 · 17h
Apparently queer people existing must be relentlessly censored by Government, but the Government live streaming real executions is fine and dandy.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 20h
Anthropic banning “abusive or cruel behavior” toward Claude in its new usage policies is proof to me that tech companies are going to moderate violence against AI before they ever moderate violence against women and minorities
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I’ve started seeing formerly respected music review sites in Australia now doing “reviews” of live music where the artist “infused words and music with emotions” and the “line at the merch desk showed the dedication of fans” and it’s just dire.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
highest of compliments 🥰
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My lesbian wifey from the country got the nicest photos of me I’ve seen in ages 🥹
JB has curly hair staring at the camera with a wry smileJB has curly hair staring at the camera with a wry smile
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Elon, whose genAI is the world's largest distributor of CSAM, has essentially infinite money to throw at evading any kind of consequences for producing and distributing more CSAM than any human in history.
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Kim Reid @drkimclimate.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Maybe we should try to anthropomorphise climate models so they stop defunding them
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Eerily similar to the abortion debate. They care about a foetus right until it becomes a human being out in the world and then don’t care if that child lives in abject poverty. They want to anthropomorphise chatbots so we feel bad for regulating them while not caring about the harm to real humans.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is that why you stole that baby in Melbourne? To adopt it and make sure it never becomes an Australian waiter?!?!?
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CRAAAAAAAIG 🎃💀👻 @craiging619.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
TBT: Channel 4 journalist Alex Thomson was given free drinks on the train to Glasgow for the first Old Firm match in ages, and got absolutely blitzed.
Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“Problem is : have not eaten today and hen Virgin started dealing free wine. It's going downhul .”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“New trin now. Train I men. Think it said Glasgiw . Some bloke yelled get in. Or on. No free wine now so something is def wrong .”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“I am I. Troy! Or Coy? Sounded like it Really .
The woman just said on the tannoy. I deman a wood horse .now.”Alex Thomson @alextomo tweets in 2016:
“@aberquine some woman gave me 4 Jaffa cakes near the loo. That but I  remmor”
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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 · 30/09/2026
Cute little toasties with boot tootin’ cuties. Was delightful to see you both 🥰
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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
Can confirm the gay bar was ALIVE.
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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
Anyway, we need a trillion dollars a month to pay for the SmartyPants Gas™️ now. Governments we promise to try and stop killing 10% of students if you give us all your money. By the way, if you don’t huff SmartyPants Gas™️ you’ll be left behind.
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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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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Any time I vaguely consider trying something, I try it and then manually do it myself to double check it hasn’t hallucinated a bunch of stuff and got it wrong…and then realised doing the thing took twice as long. I’m not sure I can ever get over the trust barrier.
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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 · 14/09/2026
Wait until you hear the beginnings of Gay Guy Music Video Night™️ - that’s the window to get to safety.
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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
I could see you rocking this at the supermarket.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
You’ve got a real opportunity to sell merch that says “I shaved my nipples for this”
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Yep tackling flag burning is gonna bring my power bills down. I can just feel it in my bones.
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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
There are no exceptions to this rule.
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And the man tweeting that is one of the key political messaging experts who created the brainrot.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Also Meta released a hearing aid like feature that was hardware based (so not relying on cloud compute and able to work without any extra cost)…then chose to paywall it after hooking users on it. Evil monsters.
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JB_AU @jbau.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I went to a class that gave us amazing metal gloves which meant we could shuck without fear of cutting ourselves. Was genius and made it a lot faster!
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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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