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The People’s Republic of Couch

@theotherprc.bsky.social
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Datavis. Flânerd. PhD student @QUT. Multiple-time childhood failure of the Marshmallow Test. In Couch We Trust. thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org

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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23h
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23h
part of getting older is starting to develop opinions about pill boxes
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
some rough ideas for the @bellingcat.com merch design comp
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
some rough ideas for the @bellingcat.com merch design comp
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
some day the last person to have watched hey hey it's saturday will die
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The Monthly @themonthly.com.au · 29/09/2026
A Shakespearean first folio and handwritten letters from Einstein and Newton make David Walsh’s new library unusually quiet for the brash Mona gallery mnth.ly/Cab6L16
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Phront man
A Shakespearean first folio and handwritten letters from Einstein and Newton make David Walsh’s new library unusually quiet for the brash Mona gallery
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
some day the last person to have watched hey hey it's saturday will die
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5.” Trainspotting 28 Days Later 24 Hour Party People Shaun Of The Dead Children of Men
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
like others, i've been looking at the new satellite images on google maps which show the devastation of gaza and the now out-of-date info about what used to be there - the chemists, the corner stores, the hotels, the schools, the cafes - before they were destroyed by the IDF in the ongoing genocide.
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
A timeline of One Nation’s instability: more than half of Hanson’s MPs have quit or been expelled. As party numbers swell to record levels, Guardian analysis reveals a three-decade history of tumult www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
pauline hanson's head surrounded by coloured dots showing the number of politicians who have quit the party, lost at election, or remain as incumbents
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
like others, i've been looking at the new satellite images on google maps which show the devastation of gaza and the now out-of-date info about what used to be there - the chemists, the corner stores, the hotels, the schools, the cafes - before they were destroyed by the IDF in the ongoing genocide.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
D is for Droste effect.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Google has started updating satellite images of Gaza. Holocaust. (📸 Barry Andrews MEP, European Parliament)
A single building is left standing amidst utter carnage. Every single building has been levelled across a few square miles pictures. Google maps identified one pile of rubble as a school.
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Whitney Curry Wimbish @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The youngest person his pager attack killed was 9-year-old Fatima Abdullah, who had just started 4th grade. The pager was on a table when it went off and she picked it up to take to her dad. It exploded in her face and reports said it covered the room in her blood. She wanted to learn English.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
as a mea culpa for the hack sam altman should buy everyone in australia a puppy.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
as a mea culpa for the hack sam altman should buy everyone in australia a puppy.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
now describing my phone preference as 'continental'
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
now describing my phone preference as 'continental'
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 23/09/2026
nathan fielder: you're a real PNG file, right?

Elizabeth Holmes on a gray checked background looking totally full of shit:
why would I decieve you?
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
honestly, who hears a mad despot rant about obliterating another country while speaking at the UN general assembly and thinks, you know what, i'm gonna grab and post a quick selfie with him. @albomp.bsky.social of course (comments have been turned off on the post as people rightly gave him shit...)
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
like a beautiful butterfly emerging from its chrysalis, so too is the state change when king gee pants finally go soft.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
ecological fallacy and all, but with football grand finals coming up, it's time to post this again, a map that shows which one people are more likely to be excited about, based on the barassi line, the dividing line between rugby league and aussie rules thepeoplesrepublicofcouch.org/the-barassi-...
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The Barassi Line - A Wikidata fellowship project
An attempt to plot its current path using the locations of all Aussie Rules & Rugby League clubs in Australia
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
my "I will post about this later" tshirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
counterpoint: giant fucking idiot in a foreseeable mess entirely of his own making. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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'Merchants of chaos' have forced Trump into a bind
A group of rebels once known as Iran's "merchants of chaos" have moved on strategic islands in the Red Sea and are now putting one of the richest and most powerful nations in the Middle East in a tric...
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samantha floreani @floreani.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I'm in @theconversation.com this week sharing findings from RentTech research that @chandnigupta.bsky.social and I worked on together for @cprc-research.bsky.social Dark patterns, vague privacy policies, dodgy personality quizzes + reward programs are just some of the things renters deal with!
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Personality tests, dodgy reward programs, AI bots: how rent tech platforms make renting a ‘dehumanising’ experience
Rent tech is an unavoidable part of modern renting – and renters have little control over what data they have to give up and what happens to it afterwards.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
vinnie blues.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
accidentally hit enter after i'd typed 'thweg' into the browser when i was meaning to type 'theguardian', and ended up learning about the 'thalweg' instead. 5 stars. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalweg
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Thalweg - Wikipedia
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
hey KIDS do you wanna have TOUGH FEET so you can walk BAREFOOT on the HOT GROUND and not get hurt by BINDIS this SUMMER then you need to START toughening up the soles of your feet by WALKING AROUND BAREFOOT from NOW.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
gonna write a browser extension that automatically updates all dollar values in song lyrics to the present day
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
why is it always banh mi, and never banh us 😞
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
gonna write a browser extension that automatically updates all dollar values in song lyrics to the present day
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
all this talk of the destruction of humanity by ai is merely an opportunity to post one of my favourite clips from futurama: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUjX...
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Futurama - Kill all humans, must kill all humans
YouTube video by Dont You Worry About Quotes
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
vinnie blues.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
same vibes
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
labor, finding new ways to disappoint, both home and abroad. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...
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Australia's sanctions statement withdrawl leaves EU states 'disappointed'
European diplomats say they were surprised and disappointed that Australia baulked at joining a UK-led move to impose trade sanctions on West Bank Israeli businesses.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
why is it always banh mi, and never banh us 😞
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
ah yes, the letter e, the wilhelm scream of letters.
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026
great art articulates eternal truths
script of the end of Waiting for Godot which has been modified to read

ESTRAGON: Well, shall we log off?
VLADIMIR: Yes, let's log off.
   [They do not log off]

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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
i lived in hong kong for a bit in the late 90s and was in awe of the bamboo scaffolding. sad to see it go. 99percentinvisible.org/episode/678-...
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Bamboo Is Innocent - 99% Invisible
When reporter Julie Blussé got on a plane to Hong Kong last November, she thought she was going to cover the aftermath of a disaster. The evening before, she’d seen the images on the news: seven huge ...
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
same vibes
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
counterpoint: it's just gibberish www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight
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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better! In other words: you're right to push back www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The dominance of AI is not inevitable. We can choose to change things for the better | Nick Evershed
Countries have come together before to make international agreements in the face of existential threats
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
counterpoint: it's just gibberish www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
theguardian.com
AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating barriers to monitoring and oversight
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ed sheeran very much with "and another thing: im not complicit. please dont put in the newspaper that i'm complicit" vibes today
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
don't love the fact that the new owners of our quiet local pub talk like brad from sales.
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Work of Art in the Age of Stochastic Reproduction
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Work of Art in the Age of Stochastic Reproduction
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
niche business idea: drones that retrieve washing that's been blown off rooftops/balconies and is now stuck in hard to reach locations (guess who's favourite tshirt just blew off the rooftop washing line of our apartment and is now hanging off a pipe on the neighbouring building 3 floors up?)
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The People’s Republic of Couch @theotherprc.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
may have another royal hotel to visit in a few years time. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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It’s a remote, roofless ruin in a Tasmanian ghost town – and it just sold sight unseen for $300,000
Historic Royal Hotel bought by Perth couple who have never set foot in Tasmania, with hopes its story will become a tourism drawcard
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