Reposted by Jakab BaileyEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Note to all journalists: If you are tempted to describe what you are trying to report on as "ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel", you have been taken in by the marketing department. >> 2462112
Jakab Bailey @kab-i.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Just read the first chapter of Dune Messiah in prep for the movie, and it has me hooked 🤩 030
Reposted by Jakab Baileymichael lutz @ztul.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Oh, is a massive ritualized deflection of our cultural anxieties happening? 335749
Reposted by Jakab BaileyMolly McKew @mollymckew.bsky.social · 10/06/2026It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future. 5278832552
Reposted by Jakab BaileyMatt Grote @dogthatbecameaguy.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Eyeing trade in the gym like 2845
Reposted by Jakab Baileyscott daGHOSTtino @scottdagostino.ca · 08/06/20262026: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 2003: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1991: I am struggling in a terrible economy because America has fucked up the Middle East 1982: I am struggling in a 21585661868
Reposted by Jakab BaileyGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Waiting for The Australian to run with glowing headlines on how unemployed can get about income rules to claim more Jobseeker and avoid mutual obligations... 15346112
Reposted by Jakab Baileyfinal girl austin @8kbps.com · 07/04/2026can a program pray to a machine god to manifest flesh? can a flesh person pray to a machine god to manifest a digital body? when the earth cries, doth its tears ever leave its body? the barista wiped the table. 031
Reposted by Jakab Baileymettabhavana.bsky.social @mettabhavana.bsky.social · 06/04/2026This would seem to suit the populist mythology of "out of control technology controlled by shadowy elites." This has the secondary purpose of reinforcing other populist fables of untrustworthy and impotent authorities and adds a boost to the hostile rhetoric of anti-science. #moralpanic 021
Reposted by Jakab BaileyLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 28/03/2026Hoarding is not the Australian way, except for housing, which is the key economic and cultural commodity of our society, which is hoarded to hell 3508
Reposted by Jakab BaileyDougExeter @dougexeter.bsky.social · 25/03/2026yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos 3790681449
Reposted by Jakab BaileySarah Z @sarahz.bsky.social · 14/03/2026I know it's a silly jokey joke, but people REALLY need to stop anthropomorphizing their boyfriends. "My boyfriend told me" your boyfriend didn't "tell" you anything. "My boyfriend thinks..." your boyfriend can't actually think or feel; just output a convincing simulation of it based on probability 🙄 6066001069
Reposted by Jakab BaileyYgrene @ygrene.bsky.social · 26/02/2026caveman: ugg caveman therapist: (nodding) ugg caveman: *starts crying* 730372
Reposted by Jakab BaileyPeter Norton @norton.bsky.social · 19/02/2026And the streetcar is electric. Wichita Falls, Texas, 1927. 16722
Reposted by Jakab BaileyOsman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 19/02/2026Even when journalists reference Hanson’s past comments on Muslims, they reach back to 2016. Why not just mention the case from 2025, that is currently in front of the High Court? Surely the entire media industry isn’t unaware of the case? So what’s the reason? 17621
Reposted by Jakab BaileyActual names @actualnames.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Queen Bitcher United States, Census, 1880 65815
Reposted by Jakab Baileymarque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 07/02/2026Oh there’s an idea, putting responsibility where it actually belongs: perpetrators, not kids 11536174
Reposted by Jakab BaileyDenise Difficult-Shrivell @deniseshrivell.bsky.social · 31/01/2026Actually - the entire comment is good... 25821
Reposted by Jakab BaileyNothings Monstered @nothingsmonstrd.bsky.social · 26/01/2026Woody Guthrie at McSorley's Old Ale House — Eric Schall, 1943 03510
Reposted by Jakab BaileyMelissa @artistaffame.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Australia has had a rise of 237,000 children living in poverty. Which brings the total up to 950,100 which means this year we are at risk of it surpassing 1 million bcec.edu.au/media/anothe...bcec.edu.auAnother 237,000 Australian children in poverty in four years - BCECAlmost a quarter of a million children have been plunged into poverty in just four years - a 33 per cent increase. 139570
Reposted by Jakab BaileyScott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Adelaide writers festival, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne Symphony — in every case of censorship, boards have shown themselves. They will destroy the reputation of the institutions they lead, to be on good terms with people in their cocktail set. 25819
Reposted by Jakab BaileyLeena 🌵 @leena.reuben.games · 07/01/2026Expanded on this rant a little on my blog: yeahrighto.substack.com/p/the-point-... 26534
Reposted by Jakab BaileyValentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈⬛ @valentenya.bsky.social · 07/01/2026Albo et al finding there’s a big difference between talking about fighting tories at the Uni bar and fighting actual fascists as a grown arse adult. 04511
Reposted by Jakab BaileyKat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 02/01/2026I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement. spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...spitfirenews.comHow Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping pointNonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform. 4941181838
Reposted by Jakab BaileyTed @tedboothmain.bsky.social · 02/01/2026incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children. 012744
Reposted by Jakab BaileyTom Studans @maximumwelfare.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Regardless of the merits of the issue the social media ban is indefensibly poor policymaking and legislation, it's a corporate quid pro quo with News, and the public have been asked to pay for the victory lap. 36026
Reposted by Jakab BaileyJessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 02/12/2025Fill out the Sweltering Cities Summer Survey! They run it every two years to see what affect heatwaves and climate related temperature rises have on communities.swelteringcities.typeform.comSweltering Cities Summer SurveyHow do you feel the summer heat? What can be done to keep our communities safe? Add you voice to the Sweltering Cities Summer Survey 176
Reposted by Jakab BaileyUrsula @ladyofsardines.bsky.social · 16/05/2025but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. (From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad) 020474
Reposted by Jakab BaileyThe Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 18/11/2025Being exposed to trauma in childhood is linked to serious mental and physical health issues later in life. These findings show trauma is not rare.theconversation.comNew study finds 2 in 5 Australians experience traumatic events as children 0137
Reposted by Jakab BaileyBlair Lorenzo / The Fox and the City @thefoxandthecity.com · 11/11/2025Man, and here I was thinking I was being too hard on planning in my most recent piece... thefoxandthecity.com/articles/urb... 0122
Reposted by Jakab BaileyGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 11/11/2025Gough raised unemployment benefits to their highest level relative to poverty - then Fraser (and his treasurer John Howard) fucked it up as soon as they could. Hawke/Keating repaired some of the damage... then Howard fucked it up for good thepoint.com.au/opinions/251... 24385176
Reposted by Jakab BaileyJohn Delmenico @thebigjohnnyd.bsky.social · 03/06/2025It’s crazy that the marketing wing of an Aussie gambling company runs a large platform dedicated to radicalising teen boys into the alt-right pipeline as a way to get the kids illegally gambling, and it doesn’t get any coverage in Aussie media 614265
Jakab Bailey @kab-i.bsky.social · 19/04/2025As anticipated, Hannah Conda is the highlight of the drag race finale. 120
Reposted by Jakab Baileyeileen ulich @certifiedflop.bsky.social · 03/02/2025“is your pony pink?” 4698113
Reposted by Jakab BaileyPop Base @popbase.tv · 03/02/2025“DEI is not a threat. It’s a gift.” — Alicia Keys accepting the Global Impact Award at the #GRAMMYs . 115167462502
Jakab Bailey @kab-i.bsky.social · 03/01/2025Hear hear!!theguardian.comMy petty gripe: the pride movement has come so far, but it’s high time for rainbows’ endI am an out and proud inner north Melbourne lesbian. We don’t do colour and we definitely do not wear rainbow 050
Reposted by Jakab BaileyRoyce Kurmelovs @roycerk2.bsky.social · 27/12/2024I first reported on this story in 2019, and I have doggedly pursued it since. It involved many hours, often unpaid, and it may not have won me any awards, but I remain fiercely proud of this work. There's not many who can say their reporting helped get a community uranium-free drinking water.sbs.com.auCompany remains shtum on plans to filter Laramba's contaminated water supplyThe health of a remote Aboriginal community north of Alice Springs continues to be put at risk due to high-levels of uranium contaminating its water supply. 107117
Jakab Bailey @kab-i.bsky.social · 27/12/2024On the Gold Coast for Christmas, re-realising why I leftmedia.tenor.coma close up of a woman screaming with her mouth open and the words `` knotty pine '' written on the screen .ALT: a close up of a woman screaming with her mouth open and the words `` knotty pine '' written on the screen . 040