Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I caught up with some people on Tuesday and had to excuse myself to the bathroom because I inhaled a visible glob of pollen and couldn't stop coughing for a good 20 minutes 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I know I'm a crank, but apart from it also seemingly being comfortable hosting and sometimes funding far-right commentators, I feel a bit weird about a newsletter compiler commoditising what could be free blogs from many. Obviously there are exceptions, but publications and editors are good actually 110
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Also finding this on Medium (hey, remember Medium? Substack before Substack? Definitely not a harbinger of Substack's future?) reminded me of my favourite wordless mini-comic I've donemedium.comA COVID-19 comic poemA small moment in a big time 272
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I have been cycling and running a lot in Melbourne in this horrendously hayfever-y and buggy spring, and have been reminded by the numerous I have inhaled of this 2014 cartoon. 2141
Reposted by Wes MountainCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/09/2026Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure. 5843461195
Reposted by Wes Mountainregular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25/09/2026i asked them about your posts and the reviews are in 272222297
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"The dog appears to be attached to your arm, its jaw slowly crushing your radius and ulna bones. This is why we have argued for greater dog regulation, and ask the government, and neighbours, to work with us to ensure safe dog ownership for all. Together, we can train the dog." 0242
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026"It appears the dog has mauled your child. The dog definitely presents challenges for yard security for all home owners, and we recommend working with us, and leveraging the strength and ingenuity of the dog, to avoid future adverse events like child maulings in future. We're here to help." 2252
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Sam Altman: "My dog has shit in your yard. In fact, it turns out it has been shitting there for several months. The fence I built for it does not have a bottom rung, which it appears is key to keeping the dog in our garden. Thanks for your help in cleaning up as we investigate how this happened!" 36418
Reposted by Wes MountainJulia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned 381648288
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Really enjoying Rachel Cusk's Life of M, it is well drawn and also quite brutal. Also maybe just an indication that, with both this and the Jonathan Safran Foer debacle, Natalie Portman shouldn't hang out with writers? 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 17/09/2026This is from yesterday's Politico, but it's the mood of the day... the government's policy is the current law/targets. We're not in an election campaign, they're the sitting government. Why are we taking talking points from ON as prompts? 0123
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Dear increasingly broken by Gemini inclusion Google Sheets, I do not want to convert to a table. I never want to convert to a table. I'm using a spreadsheet because it's a spreadsheet. If I wanted a table, I'd go to a doc. 050
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Oh I get it, Norvig wanted the Lonely Island guys for their ad and they couldn't afford them www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEVd...youtube.comWe Like SportzYouTube video by thelonelyisland 000
Reposted by Wes MountainMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 14/09/2026It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online. 485297797667
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026100%. And people think that because there might be a core of economic/systemic inequality that's their justification, ignoring the racism... as if that isn't what got every fascist movement in history over the line. bsky.app/profile/ther... 021
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Yeah, I think this might have been it. They formatted it like a +61, so I filled out accordingly and it didn't flag as an issue, but it seems like pretty abysmal form design if so. 100
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Anyone else never get the second stage SMS for Radiohead tickets in Australia? Seems to be a lot of people online saying they were in a similar boat. 110
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I love the liberal use of inky black shadows and accents in the new Netflix animated show Dang!. It's a lovely and novel choice for an animated series. 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Mr President, a second meme has hit the 9/11 anniversary 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Interesting that a man who farms cattle is getting to AI rights before animal tbh. Charity starts at home, with the things that actually live and feel 1101
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Fundamentally misunderstands that journalism is the talking to people part mostly 0560
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 12/09/2026I like to fundamentally misunderstand many fields and be smug about it sometimes too, I get the impulse 0101
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Ted Lasso went to shit in season 3, why is it kinda good again in season 4, when it had no need to come back and felt like it had overstayed its perfectly timed COVID welcome? Back to actually enjoying it 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026The government's Help to Buy scheme is using equity to help people on lower incomes into their (mostly) first homes with just 2% deposits. Melbourne regions make up the top six areas where applications have been approved since the scheme started... and it's already our third cheapest city.theage.com.auWhere first home buyers have been getting into the market this yearThe typical buyer had a deposit of $31,000 and some areas had a much higher rate of take-up than others, new figures show. 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Productivity as a lazy "we can't pay people more" or "this will solve all our problems!" justification is one of my biggest bugbears 000
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/09/2026From Politico today... AI is not going to help our productivity, because our productivity "problem" is a measurement one. We don't measure productivity in some of our largest growing industries in a useful way, i.e. is comparable or captures improvements. www.abs.gov.au/articles/pri... 121
Reposted by Wes MountainJason Wilson @jasonaw.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Helen Dale has gone full calipers in the last several years (either that or she has chosen to be more public about those beliefs). There hasn't been a lot of media interest which you could see as a mixed blessing. 68226
Reposted by Wes MountainBec Shaw @brocklesnitch.bsky.social · 21/08/2026would appreciate if non fat people read this 712034
Reposted by Wes MountainJohn Allison @badmachinery.com · 22/08/2026Very enjoyable, particularly the description of the smell of the carpet 1254
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I don't want to read your think piece about "woke 1.0" being a mistake unless it's about the lack of real change that resulted and you are willing to talk me through what woke 1.1, 1.1a and 1.1.2 (beta) involved 063
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Final!? Sorry to hear it. Have loved your Graun toons 030
Reposted by Wes Mountainda share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 09/02/2026ITS FINE - dashare.zone ADMIN 02439565
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Might I suggest this actually is a question for the group chat? 020
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Like a lot of things AI promises to replace (hello journalism), it's also not like the writing is the hardest bit. It's the process mapping and knowledge work, checking with other people etc. Congrats, you've taken away the achievement stage of all of the work someone has done. 030
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I get a lot of AI ads about writing SOPs and there have been periods of my life where I had to write these, but I don't see how that's a long-term business strategy for AI companies given how relatively infrequently most people have to write or update them and how few people specifically do this 121
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I actually think he looks like a mid-tier US lesbian comedian (not derogatory, I just can't unsee it) 020
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 20/07/2026This is apparently 4 years old, but the vibes still feel right 0132
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 19/07/2026It's giving "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas" 020
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 14/07/2026So Sunday and yesterday I massively crashed because it turns out you can't up your exercise like 50-100% without also increasing your mostly vegan diet. But STILL. Today I feel a lot better. 010
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 10/07/2026I am training for a half Iron Man and I am always tired, always hungry, and always off to hit a new goal on the path, because it's a long one. It's great, I fucking love it. I don't talk about it much because I realise it's insufferable, but here is my occasional dispatch. 060
Reposted by Wes Mountainmarque lawyers @marquelawyers.com.au · 09/07/2026"Independent" is a word which does not mean what Jillian thinks it means. 1527071
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Anyone ever had their Amazon Prime account suspended? Mine's been suspended with no detail, but the offer to appeal... Not sure on what grounds, given I don't know why it was suspended. 100
Wes Mountain @therevmountain.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Possibly the US could fuck up the whole world, as long as they would weather having their sports teams absolutely demolished at regular intervals to keep ill sentiment at bay 010
