Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Sure seems like Labor doesn't have the demographic representative weight substantial enough to be dictating policy alone, or they wouldn't need the cross bench. If we go down that route, we end up like the US - where two shithouse parties dominate government. Jesus wept what are we doing here 000
Reposted by TwistieGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Kogan CEO in June: Ruslan Kogan says changes to Capital Gains Tax will attract migrants motivated by “sick NDIS scams” and the welfare system." Today ATO Tax data for Kogan Pty Ltd: Income: $642.3m Taxable income: $0 Tax paid $0 20321152
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Fact check: the "ai actor" is not capable of wanting anything because it does not exist, the videos containing it are the machinations of psychopaths unable to engage with the humanity required to create art 010
Reposted by TwistieTim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 10/09/2026“Pack your boogie board bag carefully, says an expert who learned the hard way.” 1314
Reposted by TwistieSpice8Rack @spice8rack.bsky.social · 07/09/2026100's of fascists storm Dover *explicitly* to block roads with the threat of violence in a racist "protest": No arrests. Just Stop Oil members plan to disrupt a highway in a zoom call: 4-5 year sentences. The pigs don't go after fascists for the same reason Peter Parker never fights Spider-Man. 7497117
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Anyone who expected the stupid lake renaming to be the line at which big tech resists the fascism they've been enabling and encouraging to this point... why would you possibly think that. 020
Reposted by TwistieLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/09/2026The Canadians are starting to use ‘seppo’ and it is a thing of beauty 1028061
Reposted by TwistieThe Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A valediction. My @smh @theage cartoon. 2061475386
Reposted by TwistieRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 29/08/2026At least in Terminator, the humans all eventually agree letting Skynet kill everybody was bad 28111994
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Threatening to kill the president like that is going to get him in a lot of strife 1225
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I missed the first wave of reporting, and only saw headlines on them staying out late and drinking, and was honestly confused about what the big deal was. Pretty shit that this stuff is diluting the actual issue 110
Reposted by TwistieKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/08/2026It is deeply silly to have human legs on a machine in a factory, but it is extremely savvy to put human legs on a share price boosting scam attempt where you need simplistic and wide-eyed coverage in a major media outlet 824455
Reposted by TwistieRick Morton @squigglyrick.bsky.social · 08/08/2026My temporary return to Australia has been more stressful than anticipated and has brought forward parts of a much older life I thought we had left behind. rick-morton.ghost.io/something-fa...rick-morton.ghost.ioSomething FamiliarA few months ago my brother Toby went back to prison for the first time since his inaugural stint circa 2010. I was in Paris at the time and Mum was left to figure out what was happening and why, thou... 57404110
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026dontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayitdontsayit What's updoc? 020
Reposted by TwistieKevin Bonham @kevinbonham.bsky.social · 01/08/2026Andrews was a polariser, not unpopular. A large and very loud minority detested him but more liked him, pretty much throughout his career. 4673
Reposted by TwistieScott "KaiserNeko" Frerichs @kaiserneko.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Using A.I. for a shitpost/meme completely misunderstands what makes them funny. High effort ones are funny because someone put a ton of time into something silly/stupid. Low effort ones are funny in large part BECAUSE they're janky and handmade. 312120505
Reposted by TwistieAdam @kels316.bsky.social · 18/07/2026superannuation is neoliberal bullshit and should not exist, but it is not rocket science 073
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Tell me you don't know who the luddites were without saying you don't know who the luddites were 000
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 14/07/2026You know you can simply not go in to bat for the pervert glasses 010
Reposted by TwistieElias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 10/07/2026In my time in male leftist spaces I met, again and again, similar kinds of self-embarassed guys who held a deep, nostalgic longing for various forms of unreconstructed masculinity and a hissing resentment of feminism in general. Lost patience with one once and told him: "Go fight your actual dad!" 1223
Reposted by TwistieRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 08/07/2026anyway solidarity with all the laid off programmers and designers who make games people love. you are valuable and valued. fuck these bosses. 2117665
Reposted by TwistieLiam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 02/07/2026Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC 80114043392
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026I wonder which future Family First muppet the libs will put first in Metro West this November, they'd be doing well to find someone more damaging to the party than Deeming but damn it if anyone can find someone the Vic Libs can 000
Twistie @twistie.bsky.social · 02/07/2026Get Ramsay on the blower youtu.be/GqRQNGRvxcA?...youtu.be“Fresh Frozen?! There Is No Such Thing!” | Kitchen NightmaresYouTube video by Kitchen Nightmares 000
Reposted by TwistieTravis Jordan @grugstan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026If the federal government actually wanted to help kids from low-SES backgrounds go to uni, they'd expand access to Youth Allowance to kids over 15 in low-income families and significantly increase the rate so kids didn't have to work to pay rent or support their family while they study.abc.net.auWhat to know about the government's proposed university reformsThe government will spend an extra $3.6 billion over a decade on new university places, but some are warning the money could be wasted. 66729
Reposted by TwistieTwistie @twistie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Old mate is enshittifying ovens in days where it would have taken him years before, although looks like he's now strictly pumping out slop factories from the slop factory. 051
Reposted by Twistiebenjamin @benjamino.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Installing standard solar and air-conditioning on every Australian household would cost ~1/4 of the AUKUS subs 36422
Reposted by TwistieOverland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026Can you help us reach $12,000 by July 1st? All donations are tax-deductible and go directly towards sustaining Overland's future. overland.org.au/donate/ 01320
Reposted by TwistieJim Malo @maloism.com · 22/06/2026Maybe the funniest ad I've ever been served 811824
Reposted by TwistieNicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and— I said look. Look with your eyes! Oh now you’ve gone and touched it. The paint is peeling. My beautiful paint! I’ll have to call my pool guy back. Vandal! Antifa! I said look And despair Nothing but the algae remains. 232556568
Reposted by TwistieElias Greig @eliasgreig.bsky.social · 14/06/2026As Musk metastasized into a trillionaire yesterday, I kept hearing Robert Burns in my head: "The star that rules my luckless lot, Has fated me the russet coat, An' damn'd my fortune to the groat; But, in requit, Has blest me with a random-shot O' countra wit." The rich will never sing like us. 1315
Reposted by TwistieCeinwen Langley @ceinwenlangley.bsky.social · 11/06/2026I know Calvin’s dad is already having a moment, but every terrible “outsource precious and fleeting moments with your children to tech so that you can spend more time on your work” pitch makes me think of that one strip I never really cared about as a kid, but care a lot about as an adult. 117122373896
![Comic. [Two images of Earth, one centered on Africa, with a dotted line behind, and the other in the foreground with a target marked in the Indian Ocean.] [caption] Dire news: An asteroid is on course to hit the Earth exactly *opposite* the Yucatán Peninsula, bringing *back* the dinosaurs.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicpi7i7uw3s4sgd5vpw4vhqeoc6nqabk27v6agwwuoa67syokp54q)
