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jae holzman @jael.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i hate digger and i love how much i hate digger. i am going to see the movie again in two days with more friends. it is climate change freddy got fingered
'Digger' review
The first 20 minutes of the film set up a brilliant comedy that skewers our modern lives today. And then it spends about 2 hours making us feel awful for thinking the first 20 minutes were good, on purpose, over and over again. It is a joyless, colorless film that poorly parodies Citizen Kane and Dr.
Strangelove intentionally, making a mockery of essentially all modern American liberal political commentary and comedy. And a parody of a parody is interesting but uncomfortable and challenging to watch.A parody of Donald Trump today is neither funny nor poignant and the movie knows that. By the film's conclusion, you're left wondering whether spending big budgets to make climate films at all makes any sense. It
would be reductive as well to say the film inspires you to take on the actual
catastrophe outside, because its so confident in its future of doom that really, you're only left with a wordless unease about the idea of apocalypse fiction itself. To watch "Digger" is to experience a deeply miserable punk rock waste of more than one hundred million dollars, à la Freddy Got Fingered - but you will not laugh, unless you're laughing at yourself for being in the theater at all.I enjoyed Digger, and then I hated Digger, and then I enjoyed hate-watching Digger, and then I felt weird because the movie flat out told me to feel disgusting for enjoying hate-watching Digger, and to like hating myself, and I didn't want to listen to that part, and that's the point. Andy Kaufman couldn't have done it better. The Wolf of Wall Street tried to pull this trick and failed. Vice and Don't Look Up both tried to pull this trick and failed. So many other meta-media films have tried to do this recently and they're boring because they are entertaining. Digger is so boring, and frustrating, and uncomfortable, and that's why it works, and I hate that, too, which I also love.Digger will be a massive commercial flop and then go to streaming where it'll be remembered as a cult classic forever. I will watch this movie again and again, and I will find new things to hate to love and love to hate. I couldn't recommend it more highly to anyone who wants to see a piece of ridiculous high-budget avant garde mistakenly promoted as a mass appeal "dark comedy" because it stars Tom Cruise. And yet even the inaccurate PR is part of the point of Digger, to reel you in with precisely the bait it wants to chide you for taking.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They don't appear to be in the Cabinet though, or not enough at least.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Labor is all in on AUKUS, so the only cross-party alliance that matters in that regard, Labor and the Coalition, is already in full swing.
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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 08/10/2026
Unity's new AI thing is a soulless joke: aftermath.site/unity-spark-ai...
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t remember anyone giving Jerome Powell a check for $100 million. Who gave it to Kevin Warsh, days before he was confirmed and why?
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's only just now breaking first light when I wake up to get ready for work, so it matters to me. Waking up before the dawn gets old after a while.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I've lived in qld half my life now and I still feel relief that I don't have to deal with that sht every year.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Youtube reminding us all to have our children circumcised before they gain bodily autonomy.
Sponsored video promoted by Youtube for a company that does circumcisions on juvenile children. The thumbnail shows a boy, approx 14yo, with the text 'School holidays and child circumcision'.
The video is titled 'Expert medical team. Virtually painless. Medicare rebates apply'.
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CONTINUE Magazine @continuemag.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
IT'S GAMES WEEK+!!!!!! CONTINUE 01 is here. We made a magazine to celebrate and interrogate videogames and culture. It's print. It's tangible. It's real. It's available to purchase now. Regular Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con... Special Edition -- shop.acmi.net.au/products/con...
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
To be fair, despite the size similarities they are aimed at different markets, so comparison isn't really necessary. If Honda has low sales volume expectations it will be a 'success' for them.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
“Too often in the past, we thought that kicking some of our supporters would do us political credit,” he said, “and we were absolutely wrong.” Offending people “in the progressive community”, he admitted, was sometimes done “deliberately”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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I heard one thing loud and clear in Andy Burnham’s landmark speech: the left has won the arguments | Owen Jones
The PM’s stated trajectory is a rebuke to past Tory and Labour governments. The challenge now is to make his project progressive in word and deed, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is he a close-talker? Real close-talker energy in this clip, anyway.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
i regret to inform you that people have absolutely lost it www.404media.co/someone-tort...
404media.co
Someone ‘Torturing’ LLMs in a Robot Prison Has Triggered the Dumbest Debate in AI Yet
The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
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Paul Karp @paulkarp.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
SCOOP: Australia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contract --new details of financial penalties being paid by Secure Journeys, US-owned private prison operator --Home Affairs asks AGS for all options including termination www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
politico.com
Australia eyes ripping up $2.3B immigration detention contract
ICE-linked contractor has been hit with millions in fines for its handling of immigration detention.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RBA raises rates…
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 28/09/2026
Australia’s most powerful battery has finally been given approval to run at full capacity and act as a giant shock absorber to the grid reneweconomy.com.au/australias-most…
reneweconomy.com.au
Australia's most powerful battery finally completed, and acting as giant shock absorber to the grid
Australia's most powerful battery has finally been given approval to run at full capacity and act as a giant shock absorber to the grid.
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
ASRC had TWO VANS STOLEN OVERNIGHT in Melbourne from our CATERING SOCIAL ENTERPRISE. We are all so distressed and angry. Who robs a charity! Here’s are the license plates of the two white vans 👇🏼 and photos of them too➡️➡️➡️ Call 000 if spot them please 🙏🏼 Renault 🚐 is 1UO2YV Peugeot van 🚐 is 1QR 8PO
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Kon Karapanagiotidis @kkarapanagiotidis.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I’m devastated this morning. We have just had two of our @asrc1 social enterprise catering vans stolen. Roller door smashed. Food stolen. Safe destroyed. Staff distressed. TWO VANS LICENSE PLATES - mini vans with ASRC Catering on them Renault is 1UO2YV Peugeot is 2DW4TB
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The Shovel @theshovel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Analysts urge investors to consider the potential impact of the apocalypse on their portfolios. theshovel.com.au/2026/09/28/a...
theshovel.com.au
AI Induced Human Extinction Could Devastate Share Markets, Finance Experts Warn — The Shovel
Analysts urge investors to consider the potential impact of the apocalypse on their portfolios.
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Thank you troops
Vintage pulp novel featuring an illustration of a man gasping for air as he pulls himself out of the water and onto the beach - he looks like he is thrusting passionately. Behind him a smoking plane is sinking in water. Copy and title read

He was supposed to fight a war, but he had sandier things to do

Beach
Humper

By Richard Sachs

A TRUE AMERICAN STORY

oh no he really is humping some sand while his friends die

"Questions the honor of veterans."
-Hump Magazine
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Photo of the back cover of Where’s My Leftover Meatball Sub? Plot summary reads:

Her meatballs went missing...
After five years together, Mark and Marianne were engaged to be married, but a small drop of red sauce in the fridge where half of a meatball sub had once rested called that all into question.

Where's my leftover meatball sub?

Salt and pepper had seasoned her meatballs, but shame and disgrace were now seasoning Mark's face.
Guilt and marinara were all over his lips, while the olive oil stain of • betrayal seeped into her heart. She tried to let it go, but this treachery lingered like garlic on her fingers for weeks. Could she really go through with the marriage? If this is who Mark really is, maybe she's better off aprovolone...

Another
PAPERBACK
PARADISE
BOOK
that you can grind up and add to any meatball recipe
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Photo of a book cover featuring a man with an intense face working a juicer with a carrot in his hand as he’s surrounded by fruits and vegetables. Copy and title read 

COMPLETELY LEGAL

TORTURING
FRUITS
VEGETABLES

GET THE
VEGETABLE SECRETS

THEIR BLOOD WILL MAKE YOU FEEL ALIVE™

"Torture is OK." - The U.S. Constitution

RALPH MOLTENSOLE
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We're just normal men @wejustinnocentmen.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We’re just normal men
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Maybe 5%? Yeah, unemployment will look good when it has a 5 in front of it. Inflation will just be totally under control when we hit the 5's, I'm probably pretty sure.
Australia's unemployment rate is currently 4.5 per cent.

"I think between 4.5 and 5 [per cent unemployment] will probably take enough heat out of the labour market that it'll ease pressure on inflation," Bullock said.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hbomberguy's face showing through a hole in the wall he just made with an axe. From the clip you probably all know.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Wrote about Ed Sheeran, censorship, and the transformative power of collective action by Irish artists in solidarity with Palestine.
irishtimes.com
Una Mullally: Irish artists became the biggest in the world when they walked away from Ed Sheeran’s tour
Until now, there has been a perception and reality that speaking out against Israel’s genocide in Palestine will hurt the bottom line
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
In June I did a calculation of the downstream environmental and harm of a strike on a refinery like this, and I’ll repost it here: The Moscow Oil Refinery processes 12M tonnes of crude a year, ≈ 240,000 barrels a day. It's in a residential area, with people living within 500m of the tanks.
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Andy Fleming @slackbastard.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
High skool students respond to the presence of convicted spousal abuser & serial pest Avi Yeminem at the strike today (Yeminem is w his bodyguard Daniel Jones & Xtian nationalist Nick 'Banjo' Patterson) by chanting 'wife beater' & 'smol d!ck' (?).
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 16/09/2026
Israeli airstrikes continue to hit #Gaza every day, killing and injuring people across the Strip. In the last 24 hours, our teams have treated 11 people, including five children, wounded by airstrikes.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/09/2026
thread time, my lovelies Let me take you through what we found, and why I think NVIDIA's climate approach is extremely consequential drive.google.com/file/d/1rX7d...
NVIDIA ceo jensen huang on stage holding a phone, and the phone now says NVIDIA'S CLIMAT EHOAX
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
It's all processing power though, not data storage
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A little bit of ONP promotion thrown in too
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
ABC working hard to conflate data centres with ai data centres again
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Dr Ingrid M🪁 @ingridm.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine, and violent occupation” - Aaron Rowe pulling out of Ed Sheeran The Loop tour🇵🇸Free Palestine🇵🇸
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I have made the decision to withdraw as a support act for Ed Sheeran's 'The Loop' North American Tour.
I don't take the decision lightly. Ed has been a friend to me and has changed my life, I could never thank him enough for this.
But as Irish people we know all too well about genocide, forced famine and violent occupation.
I cannot stand by and allow billionaires to use their position of power to silence the rightful voices of those who speak up against Israeli genocide and who highlight the savage murder of children.
I would lose all respect for myself to carry on as normal.
I need to be true to myself and my ancestors who resisted colonisation, and fought for a freedom that I enjoy today in Ireland.
FREE PALESTINE
aaRON
RODE
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musician Aaron Rowe has said he is withdrawing as a support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The Irish musicians, Beoga, who play alongside Ed Sheeran, have withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour. This is the statement they published on Instagram:
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The artist Finneas, who was due to support Ed Sheeran on upcoming dates, has withdrawn from Sheeran’s tour.
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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Lukas Graham, another support act on Ed Sheeran’s tour, also now withdrawing from the tour.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/09/2026
Australia's already-severe housing shortage is about to get a lot worse thanks to data centre growth sucking workers and resources away from housing www.afr.com/policy/econo...
Data centre boom to put pressure on interest rates, housing
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New modelling predicts the data centre building boom will tip hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy over the next four years and lure workers away from home building, fuelling inflation and the housing shortage and keeping pressure on the Reserve Bank to raise interest rates.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
OK then. Fuck off.
Screenshot from The Australian

“OpenAI’s ultimatum to PM: dilute creatives’ rights or we won’t discuss renewables”
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I can’t think of a better qualified person
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Renew Economy @reneweconomy.com.au · 14/09/2026
Australia needs to phase out coal, gas and oil faster than planned to meet its climate commitments, a report says, with changes in energy, transport and mining reneweconomy.com.au/hitting-climate…
reneweconomy.com.au
Hitting climate goals means no coal power, and no new petrol and diesel cars by 2035, report finds
Australia needs to phase out coal, gas and oil faster than planned to meet its climate commitments, a report says, with changes in energy, transport and mining.
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Here's hoping that Japan will be the nation that works out how to fit the square peg of 'closer communication between politicians and intelligence services' into the round hole of 'robust democratic oversight'.
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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The NSW government is now fighting a High Court case to prevent Chris Minss' chief of staff from appearing before NSW's upper house to answer questions about the Dural caravan hoax www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
abc.net.au
NSW premier's top staffer in High Court showdown over arrest powers
James Cullen faced being detained and forced to give evidence before a committee after refusing to attend a parliamentary inquiry over the leaking of confidential minutes.
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This Week in Videogames @thisweekinvideogames.com · 10/09/2026
Xbox has announced a deal with Kojima Productions to publish its in-development action-espionage title Physint. Physint was first announced as a project developed in partnership with PlayStation Studios in 2024. Hideo Kojima has stated that Sony decided to cancel the project in June 2026.
thisweekinvideogames.com
Xbox to Publish 'Physint' in Deal With Kojima Productions, Following PlayStation cancellation
The deal comes in addition to the partnership between Kojima Productions and Xbox to publish horror title OD, and comes with the film adaptation rights to both titles
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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
In a joint statement, Senators Nick McKim, Vanessa Bleyer, and Jordan Steele-John said “we have decided to exercise our right to take a position according to our consciences.” Read the full piece on The Point: thepoint.com.au/new/260910-a...
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Is Dec 2028 close to a genuine finish date for Snowy 2, do you think, or just the most recent update? reneweconomy.com.au/no-word-on-s...
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Jewish Council of Australia @jewishcouncilau.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Jewish Council supports the decision of the 12 countries who have put trade restrictions on illegal Israeli settlements and urges the Australian government to do the same and then go further, imposing country-level sanctions. www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2026/09/jewi...
jewishcouncil.com.au
Jewish Council welcomes UK, Canada, France and others banning settlement trade, urges Australia to not be left behind
MEDIA RELEASE 09 September 2026 The Jewish Council of Australia welcomes moves by twelve countries including the UK, Canada, and […]
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David Milner @davemilbo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Here's @lucyham.bsky.social. "Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis"
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Governments (and their corporate owners) have no safety net plans for our climate permacrisis - The Shot
Australians are walking a tightrope. Imagine a long line of us traversing a chasm. Some of us – not many...
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Joe Tracey @smoothcaramel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Me, after punching a knife to make the food taste better
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