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Tim Lyons

@picketer.bsky.social

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Ex union boss. Organising, political economy, labour markets, tax, pensions, climate, China, Spinoza. Proud @UnitedWorkersOz member since 1990.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

It's funny that Miliband looks like he's on the set of In The Thick Of It, Meloni looks like she's in the witness box and they are playing the wiretaps, Merz appears to be in an attic flat and Carney has a coffee from Tim Hortons.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

Savage. RIP in pieces Possum.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 7h

Nah I've seen it in a bunch of places.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 8h

Tomorrow on ABC Insiders, the new Greens leader discusses the "national question" and the policy of Korenizatsiia because ........ its 1926

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

The ABC didn't notice it happened at all, which is in some ways worse.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

The two main newspapers in Melbourne just reporting this like it's a normal thing to say.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 9h

Not original but you are welcome to it.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11h

"Carnage" is up to thirdy flat tyres.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11h

The ABC gets someone to pose by a highway after > a month's rain in a day. One for @apiln.bsky.social

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 11h

NBD. This is also the opex some Pretendgineer at the firm spent trying to pick and order *date evening nice food plus sexy not too sexy gift*

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 12h

"Waiting for my cake man" great B-side.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

Takes a weird Stupol-Style Braine to spend your first days talking about this.........

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

Maybe Shoebridge sees 12% as a challenge but not in the direction you might expect.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

Also he said "The Ukraine" in a deliberate intervention into the issue which is very, very weird these days............

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

The other parallel between the 86 Cox Plate and tomorrow's RL is, obviously, a whole bunch of Kiwis in the mix.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

It's 5 furlongs to the post son, keep your head.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 14h

This is like the 1986 Cox Plate and the field is around the back near the Primary School and Bill Collins intones "Have they gone too early?"

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 15h

(I nearly tagged you but decided to wait.)

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 15h

You could easy get 391 Queenslanders to agree that purple is the mark of the beast (or that felafel is biphobic) and petition accordingly.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 15h

My issue here is that any random right-wing coded garbage like "abolish stop signs!" is reported as the authentic cry of the masses, the will of the Volk.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 15h

“391 people.” I could get double that in an hour to make a random TISM song the National Anthem.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 16h

Gonna get a tee that says “Read Theory Not Sci Fi”

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 16h

Also what counts as “growing anger”? You’d get more poasts about a dodgy free kick in a random game of footy.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 16h

But mate “@blueydingo1488” was very mad about it.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 17h

This is an excellent piece. (The Pharmacy Guild represents chemist shop owners not the employee pharmacists.) www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/heal...

thesaturdaypaper.com.au

The secret power of the Pharmacy Guild

Our health system is under growing strain. Universal health insurance was created for a much younger Australia: when Medibank began in 1975, fewer than one in 10 Australians was 65 or older. Today, it...

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 02/10/2026

Harvard Is Selling a $699 Course Taught by A.I. Clones of Its Faculty
To create a new bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. avatars of its instructors.

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Kate Littlejohn @kelittlejohn.bsky.social · 19h

My brain will always instinctively think that 'Butlerian Jihad' is a Judith Butler reference no matter how many times I correct myself

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19h

Me too! And for years I presumed that's what it actually was - some meme I'd missed!

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 19h

Oh sure, very marginal though.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20h

The small-business lobby may want to have a think about if responding to any change about anything ever with "we are just too stupid to deal with the modern word" is a great public message.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20h

Paying bank fees and charges to get a 6am Jetstar flight to the Goldie. Genius.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20h

(I suspect most of this is very small businesses using a debit card attached to an operating account - ie not credit - and you can still use the same funds to pay the ATO via bank transfer anyway! Non-issue.)

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 20h

If you need to pay your tax bill on credit, you should pay any finance charges not the Commonwealth (ie the rest of us.) This is not hard to grasp.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This remake of Spinal Tap may not fly mate

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ask forgiveness from all the gods.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

TOWN HALL SNACK SAGA! (local government delenda est)

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is what your stoner mate at Uni made when he said he'd cook dinner for his girlfriend's birthday. (She was vegetarian.)

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Inconsistency, but some Qld kids don't need teeth. More news at 7.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is a party (he was in the Gov) that mandated council decisions about fluoridating water in 2012.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The mad big bloke in country footy who stands in / near the goal square and [redacted] people.

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Clean hit wasn’t it!

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

We can get rinsed for different sorts of racing……

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spring Racing really kicks off. Traditional big day at HQ tomorrow.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@fakegeoffdellar.bsky.social

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

well, Xenon say a werewolf with a Chinese menu in his hands.

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

(This tech will reach a tipping point and riots will start. It might be revolutionary violence but more likely plain old riots.)

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

“Drizzle with Sesame oil beforehand.”

Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What does AI say about people just burning down the Maccas because it decided to charge $117 for a meal deal?