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@jbau.bsky.social
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Aussie queer dude. 30 something. Nintendo. Politics. Butts. Photography. Cheerleader for proud nerds and good causes.
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jessielilley.bsky.social
Interrupting the depressing news cycle with a happy announcement: the program is live for Footscray West Writers Fest, March 27-29.

30 events across 15 venues along Barkly St. Lots of excellent writers, poets, journos, thinkers sharing thoughts and work. Program & tickets: FWWF.com.au
IMAGE ALT TEXT: an illustration by Oslo Davis of a person in a contorted position reading a book, with the Footscray West Writers Fest logo above it, surrounded by yellow and pink stars. Under the image a headline reads: OUR PROGRAM IS LIVE! VISIT FWWF.COM.AU
February 10, 2026 at 12:19 AM
jbau.bsky.social
Broadcast TV is just the start. They bought out TikTok for a reason. They won’t regulate X/Grok and its CSAM generating AI for a reason. They’ll censor YouTube and other platforms soon enough too.

America isn’t sliding into fascist rule. It’s there.
February 17, 2026 at 6:44 AM
jbau.bsky.social
So I got ripped off by a designer a while back. Hugely overpriced work, pretty sloppy, wouldn't take on any feedback.

Today I logged in to Apple Creator Studio to see what templates I get access to as part of the subscription.

I login to see almost an exact replica of what they delivered me 😤
February 17, 2026 at 6:05 AM
jbau.bsky.social
Today's Starlight Children's Foundation Australia swim sponsored by my lovely colleagues Kate and Nermina! 1.5km!
I've surpassed my distance goal, but still have some way to go on the final donation goal - help me out! superswim.org.au/jbau
JB giving a thumbs up at the pool
February 17, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
Wait, you mean putting our hands on our hips and saying "he's not following the rules" isn't going to stop him?
onewickedwonka.bsky.social onewickedwonka.bsky.social @onewickedwonka.bsky.social · 1d
🎩 He should be executed for TREASON!
February 16, 2026 at 10:43 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
A supermassive black hole of slop collapsing under its own slop gravity
February 16, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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australiainstitute.org.au
“You don’t need to be Indigenous to engage with First Nations mobs and our ancient, sustainable Law in the twenty-first century. You simply need to be a decent, mindful human who cares about your neighbours and the earth.” - Melissa Lucashenko

Read more on The Point: https://theaus.in/4qA0trV
February 16, 2026 at 5:39 AM
jbau.bsky.social
I don’t want digital slaves?

I want relationships with human beings. I want to make and do things with human beings, regardless of their faults, quirks, fallibilities because sitting at a computer is boring. Talking to a computer is boring.

I don’t want to be “productive” 24/7. I don’t want this.
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.
February 16, 2026 at 1:04 AM
jbau.bsky.social
Well that’s all you need to know about the quality of the Cass Review. She thinks Instagram “transed” all the kids up. Completely evidence void remarks. 100% talking out of her ass www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Lady Cass told Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg: "There are a tiny number of people who will never be comfortable with their biological sex, with the gender associated with their biological sex. For them, a medical pathway is the only way they're going to live their life comfortably. "We don't understand why that is, but we have to try to help those people thrive as much as the young people who are going to grow out of this." Cass said she believed that the number of children who have gender dysphoria is increasing due to social media and gender stereotypes. "Ithink what has kind of misled children is the belief that if you are not a typical girl, if you like playing with trucks, or boys who like dressing up or that you have same-sex attraction, that means that you're trans and actually it's not like that, but those are all normal variations," she said. "I think children and young people were being given a narrative that it's not OK to be anything but absolutely typical of the other girls on Instagram."
February 15, 2026 at 9:51 PM
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swearyanthony.bsky.social
Caliper Claire, last seen trying to stir up a reactionary "was Epstein that bad, really" angle, remains a tedious dullard. A far less successful local attempt at the grift Bari Weiss uses.
davidshoebridge.bsky.social Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 2d
How dare they try to patronise powerful and principled women like this while they obsessively attack their every utterance. This paper is a disgrace.
February 14, 2026 at 10:51 PM
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stevoisiak.bsky.social
I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for
* Google AI Summaries
* YouTube Ask button & chat summaries
* GitHub Copilot
* Facebook AI chat
* X's Grok buttons
* Deviantart DreamUp
* Booru AI images
* And more

github.com/Stevoisiak/S...
Google with AI buttons Google without AI buttons
February 3, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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landbeforetim.bsky.social
This is blackout poetry to me
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.
February 14, 2026 at 2:26 PM
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katharinehayhoe.com
Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes!

"Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."
Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky
Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For
academic.oup.com
February 13, 2026 at 10:08 PM
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cursedpingu.bsky.social
lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard
r/analytics • IOh We just found out our AI has been making up analytics data for 3 months and I'm gonna throw up. Support So we've been using an Al agent since November to answer leadership questions about metrics. It seemed amazing at first fast answers, detailed explanations, everyone loved it. I just found out it's been hallucinating numbers this entire time. Our VP of sales made territory decisions based on data that didn't exist. Our CFO showed the board a deck with fake insights. The Al was just inventing plausible sounding percentages. I only caught it by accident when someone asked me to double check something. I started digging, and holy shit, it's bad.
February 14, 2026 at 11:47 PM
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grogsgamut.bsky.social
Always enjoy being told that the private sector is a more efficient and productive way to deliver public services
February 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
jbau.bsky.social
But everything’s better as a “market” right? Human services outsourced to “the market” is always better than Government actually delivering the services, right?
February 14, 2026 at 11:13 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
This is what a rigged economy looks like.
February 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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tuphlos.bsky.social
Huh. How ‘bout that.
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
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jailbirdstreet.bsky.social
ANU academics have produced papers that show migration. Is always highest under the LNP

They tell you to hate migrants with one side of their face while importing cheap labour for their corporate donors out the other.
jessielilley.bsky.social Jessie L @jessielilley.bsky.social · 3d
“Standing in front of six Australian flags, Taylor used new rhetoric to talk about the problems with Australia’s migration program. He argued that not only were migration numbers too high, but that too many people who “hated” Australia were arriving…”

Straight out of Grok casting.
‘Change or die’: Taylor puts forward new vision as Ley lobs byelection bomb on way out
Angus Taylor won the Liberal leadership in a party room vote on Friday morning, while former leader Sussan Ley a short time later gave notice she would resign from parliament.
www.theage.com.au
February 14, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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anatosaurus.bsky.social
Reactionary centrist advice to Democrats boils down to one thing: avoid making the argument, about anything. Don't defend what was known as "the a-word" (abortion), promise to also "get tough on crime" aka don't speak out on injustice, hop on board xenophobic policies & rhetoric (Laken Riley).
February 14, 2026 at 4:57 PM
jbau.bsky.social
Starlight SuperSwim goal beaten TWO WEEKS EARLY 💪

Thank you so much everyone for your donations and motivation 🥰

With two weeks left - who’s got some stretch goals for me?

superswim.org.au/jbau
JB at the pool holding up his fist in his speedo Chart showing 14.2kms seam of 14kms
February 14, 2026 at 5:18 AM
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claireconnelly.bsky.social
‘Under international law, the right to protest is particularly important for marginalised groups. These include the victims of Israeli violations in Palestine, whose families also live among us,

www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...
NSW anti-protest laws were rushed through to keep the peace. They’ve failed
NSW is now one of the most draconian anti-protest jurisdictions in the democratic world, with anti-protest rules that violate international law.
www.smh.com.au
February 14, 2026 at 3:17 AM
jbau.bsky.social
Gonna share the very sexy preparation I do before a swim…
February 14, 2026 at 3:21 AM
jbau.bsky.social
The Federal Liberal party will decide the “female” experiment failed and won’t try again for 20 years (or a male Liberal PM will screw up so badly that they only put a female leader in as PM to save the furniture before a disaster election).
picketer.bsky.social Tim Lyons @picketer.bsky.social · 3d
A 3-Bloke byline piece in Ninefax says Ley was "shrill." Not a quote from an MP the word they chose to use. *Hysterical* was right there lads, why not go hog wild?
February 14, 2026 at 2:19 AM