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james hennessy

@jrhennessy.com
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respected Bluesky poster. ideas editor @capitalbrief.com. co-host @ Down Round

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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 27/07/2026
What's up
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 19/03/2026
completely starstruck. just saw the innocent punter getting slugged at the bowser. the one from the news
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 18/03/2026
i could achieve regime change through air power alone, sorry to the US but i move different
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 05/10/2025
when the AI bubble pops I'll be swooping in and buying those data centres and turning them into dining precincts. i'm talking a Guzman Y Gomez, a Grilld, a Rolld, a Coffee Club, a Fratelli Fresh, a Strike Bowling
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 02/10/2025
he looks like a bond trader in exile in Tuscany. he's about to say "we anglos never truly understood Machiavelli"
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 01/10/2025
Your AI slopfeed will never make the human soul sing like this
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ally @allyhennessy.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
made a playable zine for FREAKON that incorporates a whole heap of stories of how games media helped feed our community
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 01/10/2025
Staring absolutely dazzled at the masterful pun in this Macquarie report today. Hotel Computerfornia
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 26/09/2025
Keep coming back to check out Bluesky but I'm just not sure it has enough brain melting infohazards. Prefer a sort of Tough Mudder style info environment
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 18/08/2025
i'll be hosting a session on dropshipping le creuset knockoffs from aliexpress at the jim chalmers productivity roundtable. see you all there
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 15/08/2025
I'm chopped and unc
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 14/08/2025
I was hooting and hollering at some of the costuming and design choices in ep 2 of Alien Earth
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 14/08/2025
love the fake trendy businesses that are given leases at sydney metro stations. a cafe that sells "banana croissants" which also offers a laundering service for your Nikes. sure ok
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 30/07/2025
the black skivvies. wiggles inc. the wetwork specialists. the big red car — why does it have no doors, no visible engine?
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 28/07/2025
Looking to connect with Labubu collectors and the Labubu community on Bluesky. To discuss Labubu and related matters
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 11/06/2025
for my myriad sins, i wrote about Q+A www.capitalbrief.com/article/qa-w...
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Q+A was built for another era of media, and died with it
Once a cornerstone of the national political conversation, Q+A ultimately couldn’t survive an increasingly fractured media landscape.
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John Buckley @johnbuckley.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Scoop: ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air via @capitalbrief.com www.capitalbrief.com/article/abc-...
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ABC to axe Q+A after nearly two decades on air
The ABC is set to pull the plug on its late-night panel program, ending years of speculation over its future.
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 11/04/2025
wrote about canva www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 09/04/2025
OK well I feel like THIS time the proletarianised middle class will respond normally to their new station
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 08/04/2025
US: late imperial psychosis, hegemonic drift, decadent technocracy, elite panic, managed decline, post-legitimacy politics australia:
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 07/04/2025
cool feature of the economy now is that a huge number of voters are now retail traders with a line go up/line go down dashboard in their pocket at all times probably underrated in aus politics in particular, where market performance and politics isn't usually very correlated
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 05/04/2025
Wrote this a month ago about the coming clash on the tech right over tariffs. some might say eerily prescient. disturbing evidence of precognition? www.capitalbrief.com/article/from...
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 05/04/2025
wrote about tariffs. for the ol newsletter www.capitalbrief.com/newsletter/c...
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 12/02/2025
Waddup Bluesky
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Down Round @downround.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Today we're joined by New York Times tech correspondent @mikeisaac.bsky.social to talk Meta: - The about face on politics, fact checking and DEI - Mark Zuckerberg's based turn - Meta's increasingly confused vision of what it wants to be omny.fm/shows/down-r...
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Based Mark Zuckerberg (ft. Mike Isaac) - Down Round
Over the last couple of weeks, Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have signalled a shift in the way the company is run — eliminating factcheckers, rolling back internal DEI policies and bringing politics conten...
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BayBayFriend @baybayfriend.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Logging into your boyfriend’s YouTube on the big TV: For You: Medieval historian ranks stews in cinema Building a catapult with dirt from my yard Programming a robot to unwrap KIND Bars Petite woman can eat the hottest sauce in the world The real John Wick was an Irish milkman
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 10/01/2025
A new era of free speech is upon us
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 07/01/2025
Each resident of Greenland to receive an Xbox 360 or equivalent console in exchange for joining the US
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 04/01/2025
New drip
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 02/01/2025
deeply disturbing
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Novelty Cistern @noveltycistern.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
had an absolutely brutal moment of self awareness as I realized that when I listen to ambient music called like Aleaeris 7: the Adonis Tapes by Hørst it's fulfilling the same purpose as my grandparents buying records called The Jimmy Cresp Orchestra Presents Tahitian Melodies
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 01/01/2025
Nosferatu good. Nicholas Hoult gets cucked by his consumptive goth wife and her Romanian forums boyfriend. Tale as old as time. 4 stars.
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 30/12/2024
poster for a missing cockatiel in Marrickville which stipulates that it "unfortunately might be hard to catch"
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 30/12/2024
Lots going on in this ad
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 28/12/2024
watching Hypernormalisation. putting aside some specific detail, he was absolutely cooking on a vibes level
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 25/12/2024
Junior partner in the grand coalition moment
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 24/12/2024
nolan doing The Odyssey... wow. too prideful, cocky, arrogant. of course I will be seated.
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 23/12/2024
subletting half of my apartment to a Chinese state-owned utility company under the belt and road initiative
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Down Round @downround.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
This week we're doing another Down Round Q&A as part of our critical Christmas programming. Drop your Qs here 👇
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 20/12/2024
the Zynternet hit its late Roman phase remarkably quickly
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 18/12/2024
perfect concept
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 16/12/2024
enjoyed. now here's a guy. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-com...
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How to Stage a Coup
"I'm now going to offer you a megalomaniac explanation of the course of events"
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 15/12/2024
Exciting new developments in cinema in CARRY-ON, where a plot revelation is conveyed by having explainer journalism headlines from Business Insider and Vox floating around Taron Egerton's head while he looks shocked.
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 13/12/2024
New look: member of royal council disapproving of recent military strategy in the northern provinces
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 12/12/2024
apple's generative AI emoji — a slap in the face for the Unicode Consortium's role as a truthmaking institution. i'm livid
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 11/12/2024
lol www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/au...
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John Buckley @johnbuckley.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones are preparing to make an announcement on the future of the news media bargaining code on Thursday afternoon, according to people briefed on the matter www.capitalbrief.com/article/seve...
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Government set for announcement on future of media bargaining code
The Labor government is preparing an announcement on the future of the code on Thursday afternoon, culminating months of policy debate.
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james hennessy @jrhennessy.com · 11/12/2024
hmm, guess i've never really formed a specific opinion on a more dense layout with all message bubbles aligned on the same side
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