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Karan J

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Tech-focused dude down under / he/him on Dharawal land Site: bitstories.net

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Oh no :( this guy was the sound of the news as far as I was concerned growing up. RIP.
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James O’Loughlin @jamesoloughlin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
OH MY GOD HOLD ON IT'S A SNEAK PEAK
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Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I went and made this for ya, it was too good a meme
meme featuring three panels. the top panel is a picture of a headline over Jason from the Good Place. The headline says "AI could be a bubble and is not yet making Australia more productive, Michele Bullock Says".

Underneath is a caption: "I think AI might be a bubble".

The second panel is Michael with a shocked expresson standing next to Janet. He says "The RBA figured it out? the RBA?"

The third panel is Michael touching his stomach. He says "This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
when ai leaves u behind
7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2: 
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4: 
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6: 
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy. 
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
2030 is not so abstract any more
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Jeff Terflinger @jeff-terflinger.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 06/02/2026
A reminder to Australians, we'll get a decent solar eclipse in a little over two years. eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/eclipse-aust... Centred right over Sydney during the later part of its totality, it'll also cover Bourke, Nyngan, Gilgandra, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Mudgee, Lithgow and Katoomba.
A map showing NSW's path of totality for Australia's 2028 solar eclipse, showing it passing right over a wide swathe of new south wales, including Bourke up the north west, down almost centred over Sydney in the south east and covering frankly the vast majority of the population in New South Wales.
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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/09/2026
I remember, many years ago, I first heard the phrase “climate anxiety” and thought it silly. Now here in Sydney - in the first week of spring - we face temperatures of 33*c and a total fire ban due to “extreme” fire danger… Now I’m anxious! www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...
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Total fire ban declared for millions as unseasonable early heatwave bears down
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?
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Oden @oden-gjallarhornet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds arstechnica.com/science/2026...
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El Niño is now stronger than at any point in the last 1,000 years, study finds
“One more warning sign here of what we're facing in a warmer world.”...
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026
Politicians like Anthony Albanese say stuff like "now is not the time to discuss climate" in the wake of fossil-fuelled disasters because they know that **there is no single better time** to talk about it, and his fossil fuel donors know that too.
News article screenshot headlined "Climate change a debate for later, PM says on Nepal floods," showing a serious middle-aged man wearing glasses and a light-blue button-up shirt outdoors against blurred trees.
PRIME MINISTER: Look, I think on Nepal, there will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support to Nepal. And we'll continue to do that. Those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time. My focus is very much on people who are incredibly traumatised by not knowing what has happened to their loved ones.
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
1/4 In August the Rhine at Kaub, its shallowest point, fell below 10cm. The previous record low, set in 2018, was 25cm. In June 2025 the body regulating Rhine shipping said flow would not clearly change before 2050, and deferred any decision on measures to 2027. www.ccr-zkr.org/files/infovo...
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You reckon there might be a lesson in this for some other navy procurement we have going on
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
NEW: This must one of the most violent natural disasters ever recorded. This is the immigration centre on Nepal’s border at 11am, this morning (Aug 26). That is a seven-storey building about to be obliterated in seconds. (🎥 NDTV)
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/08/2026
Excellent piece here www.theguardian.com/membership/2...
A narrow class of people is profiting from our anguish. They know they’re setting our world on fire. They persist because they love neither the Earth nor its people. What they care about is money. Not just enough to get by on. Not even enough to become grotesquely rich with. They want the kind of money that bends others to their will. They seek power, buy it, co-opt it, leverage it and always thirst for more of it. As far as they’re concerned, the rest of us can go to hell – so long as we bend the knee and keep paying them as we stagger towards the flames.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026
www.ft.com/content/8158... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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https://www.ft.com/content/8158cb5a-4bbd-43fd-b329-15a54e8422c8?syn-25a6b1a6=1
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Liz Climo @lizclimo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We couldn't do a 25% tax of gas exports. Those gas companies are truly battling to break even. Good thing the govt is caring for them.
Graph showing wages, inflation and Woodside profit growth 2025-26:
wages: 3.2%
Inflation: 4.0% 
Woodside profits: 27.0%
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
So good that the RBA is worried about wage growth driving up inflation...
Chart showing growth of wages, inflation and Coles profits in 2025-26:

Wages: +3.2%
Inflation: +4.0%
Coles Profits: +13.7%
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It has the special celebratory sparks!
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Is this what it will take for those in power to wake the fuck up about the need for climate action?
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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Bro. People are cool as fuck.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026
I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.
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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse
Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 07/08/2026
Australia’s government-run “carbon neutral” certification scheme is being wound up. It is good news for the climate reneweconomy.com.au/climate-active-…
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Climate Active is dead. The funeral will not be certified carbon neutral
Australia's government-run "carbon neutral" certification scheme is being wound up. It is good news for the climate.
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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · 04/08/2026
Unusually hot & dry conditions worldwide have fueled a deadly wildfire season, costing lives and destroying communities. “If these infernos don’t bring policymakers to their senses and force necessary changes to grapple with the fossil fueled climate crisis, what will?” writes UCS's Rachel Cleetus:
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A World Ablaze: The Climate Future We Feared is Here - Union of Concerned Scientists
Unusually hot, dry conditions across many parts of the world—including in Algeria, Canada, France, Greece, Morocco, Spain, Tunisia, and the western United States—have set the stage for the catastrophic wildfire season underway now. Just over this weekend, rapidly spreading wildfires have exploded around Spokane, Washington, forcing nearly 65,000 people to evacuate thus far. Unrelenting hot dry weather, supercharged by climate change, is contributing to the dangerous conditions causing these fires.
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Any remaining programmer who thinks Musk is a galaxy mind genius should look into this for, like, 10 minutes and figure out this guy's as thick as two short planks.
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the babahuck @tylerhuckabee.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
never thought short form video would be able to capture a type of humor i can only describe as “the far side-esque” but this comes close.
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Deepcut News @deepcutnews.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Anthony Albanese – the great Australian sellout. From salmon to supermarkets, gas to gambling – we detected a pattern. Albanese consistently backs powerful lobbyists. www.deepcutnews.com/p/albaneses-...
deepcutnews.com
Albanese keeps backing lobbyists over public opinion, our analysis shows
From salmon to supermarkets, gas to Gaza, the PM has consistently backed those with power and wealth
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/08/2026
Two thirds of all the climate impacts we experience comes from fossil fuel combustion that produced energy that was NEVER USED BY PEOPLE. It was dumped as waste heat and noise, because the conversion process is so comically inefficient that is inherently funny, and fossil fuels are inherently silly
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Veerender Singh Jubbal @veerenderjubbal.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
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cool use case of chatgpt work i heard last night:
connect your family calendars and explain your kids' interests.
every morning for the drive to school, have it make a podcast that talks about one kid's soccer game that afternoon, one kid's upcoming birthday, some news, etc.
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Film you've watched more than 6 times (hard mode: no franchises)
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Leeloo's Multipass
Alt: A short clip from the movie The Fifth Element, showing Leeloo's Multipass
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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Huh. Sure sounds like an industry of serial law breakers, pretending that actually the computer program that we designed, wrote, and ran did the crimes, not us.
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Has the whole place gone insane or what
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This guy making half the politicians in the Anglosphere look like cowards and the other half appeasers
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The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
On the other hand, this is a great way to illustrate the spacial inefficiency of cars. It's good reminder that cars aren't a technology problem; they're a geometry problem. Or, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net succinctly put it, "Geometry hates cars."
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness
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Rosa Diaz's Funny Face in Brooklyn Nine-Nine
Alt: Rosa Diaz and Terry Jeffords from Brooklyn Nine-Nine making funny faces at each other
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phylan @phylan.website · 17/07/2026
I love the bird in the beginning that's like Y'ALL SEE THIS? THIS PILE OF POOP IS FUCKING MOVING
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Oh yeah we're fucked this coming summer
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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
live the kind of life that has MUSEUMS posting nicely about you lmao
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Scott Mitchell @scottmitchell.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
We counted, so you don’t have to. Insane is the number of things Jillian Segal actually HERSELF conceded she had no evidence for, or backflipped on, but went completely unreported. www.lamestream.com.au/we-counted-a...
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We Counted All the Errors in Jillian Segal’s Attack on the ABC and SBS
Jillian Segal wants a new body to vet journalism. If she had submitted her evidence in front of the Royal Commission as an article to a newsdesk, it wouldn’t pass fact-check.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
When the right wing exploded in ridiculous outrage over Mamdani's 78F thermostat advice, it was a smokescreen for a deeper attack on energy efficiency that serves only one constituent: the fossil fuel industry Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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Energy Efficiency Is No Communist Plot
Of all the culture-war flash points that could become political wedge issues, you might think “don’t waste energy” would be toward the bottom of the list, down around “a hot dog is a sandwich” and “pu...
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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Germany losing on penalties to Paraguay, and now Netherlands-Morocco going to penalties too... what a day #worldcup
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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 30/06/2026
honestly I'm not sure I'd have raised my eyebrows more reading than than if I'd read it was a truck carrying tigers and one carrying wolverines, all colliding with a truck of angry wasps. ...in a hyena preserve.
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Seán Doran @theseaning.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
"Crazy Beautiful!" 5,234 images from 2 time-lapse sequences photographed by Sophie Adenot & Jessica Meir on ISS Expedition 74 are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this video of aurora australis with music by Andreas Vollenweider. 11m19s 4K youtu.be/22mTjdmpG1M
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.
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bystander1.bsky.social @bystander1.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Straight from the horses mouth - well said Hoges 👏 "Hogan counters that migration and different cultures and customs have made Australia what it is today. If Hanson wants a monoculture: “She’s a pelican, yeah. Outrageous, so racist. It sounds very much like this stupid boofhead over here, Trump.”"
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‘She’s a pelican’: Paul Hogan says no thanks to Hanson’s praise
Pauline Hanson described the actor and Norman Gunston as ‘essential features of Australian monoculture’. Hogan says the One Nation leader is living in the past.
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Juraj Mikurcik @jurajmikurcik.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This is why cities need trees. Hard surfaces and parked cars can reach extreme temperatures, while shaded grass and tree-covered areas stay dramatically cooler. This is the urban heat island effect in one image: hard surfaces absorb and radiate heat, while vegetation and shade reduce it.
Photo showing a combination of hard and soft landscape with callouts of surface temperatures
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