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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 3h

We're hearing it more and more

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Tony Martin @tonymartin.bsky.social · 10h

Test not reliable. Cabbage might be faking.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 10h

Why was this even a news item? I'm sure there are hundreds (at least) of petty petitions hitting parliament every year Someone at ABC Qld cop a ticket recently?

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Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 10h

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

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The DILETTANTE @demwar.bsky.social · 13h

Totally on supervillain brand

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Jeremy's Ear @jeremysear.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hey businesses, it's not difficult - just advertise the actual price. Don't take out charges, taxes, tips, display a lower price to trick people, and then add those on afterwards. All of those things should be illegal. Whatever price you choose to advertise or mark, you should have to honour.

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Patrick Stokes @patrickstokes.com · 30/09/2026

"With AI you'll never have to listen to music you don't like again!" is basically the musical equivalent of a sex doll. Like bots that only say yes and are never unavailable. It's absolute solipsism.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well put. Basically people who think art is just pictures

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

tin pot dictatorship

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John Donegan @donegan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The only time America provides state-funded life-saving medical care, is to prepare you for execution US state halts executions after woman survives attempt via AAP News aapnews.aap.com.au/a/zjJwJFjMg

aapnews.aap.com.au

US state halts executions after woman survives attempt

Tennessee officials have been unable to put a woman to death after administering two doses of a lethal drug, prompting a pause on executions for the year.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Orthodox economics is when inflation is blamed on poor people spending all their money on essentials that are getting more expensive, rather than trying to deal with those responsible for putting up prices

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Oooh, yer going to get a tut-tutting

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Rocketpilot 🇵🇸 @rocketpilot.xyz · 01/10/2026

Da Grens gotta stop insisting Labor do things in the Labor Party national platform

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

everything would be less stressful for the ALP if they just fucking admitted to themselves and everyone else they are a right wing party with the goal of remaining in power through appeasing billionaires and business interests.

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The Phantom Tollbooth Quotes @phantomtollbot.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When they had all been safely started, the very pleasant man returned to the tree and, leaning against it once more, continued to stare vacantly down the trail, while Milo, Tock, and the Humbug worked hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after hour after—

Milo, Tock, and the Humbug doing menial, tedious tasks.

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The extraordinary notion that this buffoon and the rest of his coterie are anything but ideological clowns. They're too broad for Dr. Strangelove.

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Peter Anderson @zerogeewhiz.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"The gummint needs to rein in its profligate spending!" Great, got any ideas? "No. None that I'll admit to." Ok. How about we reduce a private health insurance subsidy for older folks by $4 a week? "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO." Ok then.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gotta love orthodox economics Wealthy getting more? not inflationary Poor getting anything? inflationary

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's the same vibe that I used to get from those Apple ads that implied their tech will make you more creative

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

look we're all making a big bet on AI! and if it pays off as big as we hope, well, it's going to make a handful of people super rich and you're going to lose your job but get to watch mickey mouse fuck geralt from the witcher. if it doesn't pay off well then you get to pay for the bailouts

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I used to work for a guy who would say "there are no risk management heroes" - the idea that doing the small, difficult work that is required every day wins no medals or accolades, is utterly undefeated in my experience. 👇 is another example of that. In fact, this one is going to cost you.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"artificial" isn't even the word that's wrong in the term "AI"

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jesus, the Mayor of Melbourne is such a flake

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

We need to stop accepting AI vendors using the word "misalignment". You keep running software you know has unpredictable behaviour, without monitoring or controls, in a way that could harm others. This isn't "agent was misaligned" - it is (possibly criminal) negligence at this point.

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I've even managed to use the carton & bag as a breakfast bowl, per the instructions!

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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Jillian Segal would be proud. #auspol

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Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

It really is quite amazing to see the RBA just go with prices are going up for reasons outside our control, adding more pain with an interest rate rise won't help and might crash the economy, but we asked the Peter Costello body pillow we keep around for advice and it said ok

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Pat Simons @patsimons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Inflation is being driven by war, greedy corporations and climate change. But somehow it's regular people that need to pay through job losses, mortgage and rental stress. What looks sensible to the RBA is hubris on a society level www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

abc.net.au

Live: RBA hikes rates, pointing to Middle East war and AI boom

The RBA delivers its fourth rate hike for 2026, bringing interest rates to the highest level since November 2011. Follow the day's events and insights from our business reporters on the ABC News live ...

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ah yes, the "grrrr grrr click click click" on the hour

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Yet, paradoxically, dense at the same time!

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

When he says "don't trust government" he's talking about himself

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

One of the laziest around. Every "job" he's ever had has been a sinecure

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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Now, after a near total population collapse, bogong moths are delighting scientists with sudden spring abundance www.theage.com.au/environment/...

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Antipoverty Centre @antipovertycentre.org · 29/09/2026

the RBA board are unanimously psychopaths with no regard for the pain they cause

RBA board unanimously voted to hike and is ready to lift rates again.

The RBA’s rate-setting board has warned its fears about inflation were coming to fruition and it is ready to lift interest rates again, in its statement accompanying its decision today.

The nine-member unanimously voted to lift rates to 4.6%, showing stronger resolve than ANZ and Westpac had forecast (each predicted a split vote).

It singled out a broadening Middle East conflict and strong AI-related demand for pushing up prices globally. Locally, inflation was higher than the RBA expected and businesses were either lifting their prices or looking to do so.

The board said higher fuel prices were partially being passed on to prices of other goods and services and it was possible the ongoing US war on Iran could push inflation still higher and drag global economic activity even lower.

The RBA has already lifted interest rates three times this year. The board said those hikes appeared to be slowing the economy but another was needed to bring too-high inflation back down “in a reasonable period”.

It warned it was not necessarily done moving rates:

The Board will continue to do what it considers necessary to bring inflation sustainably back to target, including increasing the cash rate target further if needed.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Bullock AGAIN says (she has said this a lot] "a rise in the unemployment rate does not mean job losses". She loves pointing out it just means it is harder to find a job and that employment is still going up and it "probably doesn't mean job losses at all"

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Just like increased interest rates "aren't a cost of living issue"

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Andrew Elder @awelder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The price of everything, the value of nothing. His one political skill is to turn every appeal for public assistance into a you problem. That doesn't always work, and he should have learnt that in 2022: it just means people go around you

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

... and still the Strait of Hormuz refuses to open!

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A reminder that this year the unemployment rate has gone up 0.56%pts - roughly an extra 87,000 unemployed. So in 15 min when the RBA raises rates again just remember 35-44yos on Jobseeker are almost 10 times more likely to die than those not on welfare: www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

Chart showing deaths per 100,000 by age
22-34yo: 17.1 no welfare; 137.0 on Jobseeker
35-44yo: 30 no welfare; 288.1 on Jobseeker
45-55yo: 83.4 no welfare; 427.0 on Jobseeker
55-64yo: 201.6 no welfare; 615.6 on Jobseeker

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Tim Rust @timrust.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Maybe they should set an example and sack themselves

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Brian Hizsoltee @hizsoltee.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Artificial intelligence is garbage, how can intelligence be artificial, it's like an artificial sausage roll made out of brown paper and sawdust. It just looks as if they are developing a massive super virus which will stuff everything connected to the internet. Stupid.

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

So don't be disabled or have a family. Wilson really leaning into the "Just don't be poor" vibe he reeks of.

Wilson says Coalition would find savings by cutting NDIS, aged care, childcare

By Emily Kaine

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson says a Coalition government will seek to make savings by cutting back on NDIS, aged care and childcare, as he argues spending on the schemes is out of control.

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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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