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We perform caricatures written by our rivals. Humour, music, lit. Managing the wastrel @sachaserend.bsky.social

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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
Check out this cool band from Perth — mastered by the same man (Mick Morrison) who engineered ‘Astral Peach’ by @sachaserend.bsky.social #ausmusic #deth #songwriting #music #album dethboorloo.bandcamp.com/album/deth
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DETH, by DETH
6 track album
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
I’m ashamed to be vulgar, but at the end of this we can see he’s clearly #SchmittHimself
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
What do you think? Hairy, furry, lightly furred or bare?
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 10h
‘Music for Seducing Alpacas’ was my suggested title, but @sachaserend.bsky.social insisted it be ‘Astral Peach’.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 14h
#nzmusic #ausmusic
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 15h
#ausmusic #songwriting #music
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
What do you think? Hairy, furry, lightly furred or bare?
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
I’m ashamed to be vulgar, but at the end of this we can see he’s clearly #SchmittHimself
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
“If you know, you don’t know” (Socrates).
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 18h
Check out this cool band from Perth — mastered by the same man (Mick Morrison) who engineered ‘Astral Peach’ by @sachaserend.bsky.social #ausmusic #deth #songwriting #music #album dethboorloo.bandcamp.com/album/deth
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DETH, by DETH
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Michael Jay McClure @mjmimages.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
POSSIBLE NEW IDIOMS oiling the swingset stop when you smell oatmeal placing ice cubes in orchids & hoping for bees subtle as stacked microwaves puppy, I ain’t a leg plink, plink! pearls coming off the strand rich in fruit peels backup singers taking a smoke break & THAT’S a Myanmar shave
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Not a political debate here this morning: Speaker A: “Hobbits definitely have furry bottoms.” Speaker B: “They do not!”
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Neil Cameron @neilcam57.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Helen Bennett 🌿's #BirdOfTheDay ALT theme is #AwkwardAvian Not sure there's competitors to Oz's parrots & cockatoos. Exhibits: Rainbow Lorikeet Little Corellas Cockatoo #ECK #birds #birdphotography #birdsofbluesky #wildlife #nature #Photography #Nikon #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBlueSky
Rainbow Lorikeet (Trichoglossus moluccanus) almost upside down in a bottlebrush tree at Toowong, Brisbane.Little Corellas (Cacatua sanguinea) wrestling, University of Queensland, St LuciaSulphur-crested Cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) being goofy by hanging upside down from the neighbour's TV antenna, St Lucia, Brisbane.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here’s his Bandcamp link: onyxashanti.bandcamp.com
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Onyx Ashanti
This is an archive of sonomorphic notes spanning the last 22 years. they chronical the journey through the many fields of electronic music mutation happening around us all. i find it most interesting ...
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Vale #AngryAnderson. #auspol
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Deplorable Venues: #DaveGraney - This is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In m.youtube.com/watch?v=uC5w...
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Dave Graney - This is The Deadest Place I've Ever Died In
YouTube video by dave graney
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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/09/2026
Okay so I've built a new Atlas, this time it lets you explore the conversations on Bluesky over the past 7 days graphically. It should update every ~6 hours and help you navigate the information environment that exists on here. I've learned a LOT about what people do here today... atlas.jazco.dev
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Atlas
A living map of what Bluesky is talking about: the past week's conversations, grouped into topics and regions and rebuilt every six hours.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Found out this is actually a new social fad in bohemian silicon SF. Going to a masque ball trouserless with a name tag.
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Dr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Scientists - be careful what ideas and data you share with chatbots in the name of "productivity" 🧪
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
There are blue dots in blue places so ‘mortally embarrassed’ they, with fingers in ears, chant “make it go away, make it go away.” But, dear reader, is this the way to make it leave?
Mostly different shades of blue dots on a light blue background, like bubbles effervescing
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New episode out today – Live at Union Chapel. @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social discuss how the Daily Telegraph’s deterioration from grey citadel of High Toryism to feral troll farm mirrors the cognitive decline of conservatism in Britain. Listen now ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Are you an inscrutable or scrutable person?
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Listening to the #album ‘Let’s Get Tight’ by #DaveGraney and #ClareMoore, and this song has mega #SteelyDan vibes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2X...
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Drifting Donna Reed
YouTube video by dave graney
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Origin Story @originstorypodcast.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Bonus episode out – John Rawls. This week the most celebrated liberal philosopher of the 20th century is the topic for @iandunt.bsky.social and @dorianlynskey.bsky.social listen / watch ➡️ linktr.ee/originstoryp...
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Listening to the #album ‘Let’s Get Tight’ by #DaveGraney and #ClareMoore, and this song has mega #SteelyDan vibes. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZI2X...
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Drifting Donna Reed
YouTube video by dave graney
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Smooth vibrations, evocative lyric. Vibe: Cocktail Hour in 9 Dimensions on a porch that is a shore that is a runway to the ether. #songwriting #ausmusic #ozmusic #song #viral
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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Chon Luiyainao Shimray
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Woah! Imposter group ‘Ladies’ of Perpetual Indulgence is active. Cells operating in #auspol See exposé vid.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This is a companion Order with the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Art has become a corporate exercise for the children of rich people.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is what an intergalactic multidimensional being looks like. Here he’s manifesting as Our Lady of Perpetual Treats.
Pic of a mini foxie scarfed in a blanket like a medieval mystic nun.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
All first dates end abruptly when you ask someone to help massage out an evacuation. "I get a bubble.”
Irma from curb your enthusiasm appearing uncomfortable on the sofa, perhaps due to one of her ibs bubbles
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Wow—the #DisclosureDay documentary finally told the truth. Thank you #Spielberg for using your platform to dispel ignorance. #ColinFirth was always suspect.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Social media has been effectively siloed—check ✅
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The famous #BobMarley song is in truth about this. And, yes, I like jamun too.
A big deep frying pan filled with brown and golden gulab jamun.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
#MartinAmis paraphrased: You can become rich without having any talent; you can become famous without having any talent; but you can’t become talented without having any talent; so, talent must go. From The War on Cliche.
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Lucy Hamilton @lucyham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
In Latin America, in 🇦🇺, in NZ/Ao, in 🇨🇦. The patterns are repeated. Atlas Network partners were in-country ops to erase impediments to eg resource extraction, profits as empires fractured into new potentially sovereign nations. Usually locally staffed & local donors. theintercept.com/2017/08/09/a...
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Sphere of Influence: How American Libertarians Are Remaking Latin American Politics
The Atlas Network has spent decades building up libertarian institutions across Latin America. Now the work is paying off.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Generalisers are idiots, said W. Blake. In fact, he wrote this: “To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit.” Then he wrote some other stuff after that.
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Lewys Tapscott-Nott @itsjustmelewys.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@manmademoon.bsky.social I admire you for this
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Duncan Jones on Why It’s ‘Harder Than Ever’ to Make His Kind of Movies (and Why He Refused to Use AI for His Newest One)
It took almost a decade for the "Moon" filmmaker to get his animated adaptation of "Rogue Trooper" off the ground. One shortcut he won't take? AI.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“Take it to the liver, one more time.” How prescient I was. #MusicChallenge #BreakingKindSongs Day 24 A song with lyrics commonly misheard.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Claude has now written the new religion, providing a 20,000 word primary text. I don’t currently have a website to upload it onto, so I’ll share my prompt below.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Sounds great, great sounds! #LiveMusic is #auspol
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Knitting Nannas rework an ACDC track for auspol. Crocheting Poppas will also like this.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Has AI generated any new religions or spiritual pathways yet?
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you age, you realise bribes need not take the form of money. These work a treat.
A box of Tokyo Milk Cheese Factory cookies.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Flying back through the worm hole. Take A, potentiate with B & C, and everything will be tickety-boo.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Knitting Nannas rework an ACDC track for auspol. Crocheting Poppas will also like this.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
100% Dementia Hitler at the UN.
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Rival Image @rivalimage.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The Japanese toilet’s privacy function is a mixed blessing in a small room. The waterfall feature sounds like a drain & crumpling foil. It brings every one of your esteemed guests’ attention to the ruse. I can hear them giggling in Japanese. It’s going to the masque ball trouserless with a name tag.
An explanatory image showing a Japanese toilet’s sounds function telling us it’s meant to preserve modesty
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