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• Post #4410519

  I have a New York Times subscription through work and they just raised the limit for gift article sharing from 10 articles per month to unlimited articles per month, so I thought, as an experiment, I'd make this account to share stuff I find interesting and make use of the subscription fully. Follow here if you wanna ----> @nytimes@goto.byrd.ws (and let me know if there are any articles you want to read, and I'll share them)

• Post #4323662

  Happy World UFO Day to all who celebrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_UFO_Day

• Post #4223425

  Another day another company (Origin Energy) leaking my name DOB email phone number bank and credit card details and they're just like *whoooopsie soz* I seriously think companies should be banned from storing customer data until they can learn to store it securely. Or else force them to pay out each customer $50k per breach. That would stop it from happening pretty quick. 🤷

• Post #4185261

  Excited to be seeing The Odyssey as Christopher Nolan intended tonight ... in the old Brisbane IMAX cinema at South Bank that is not actually an IMAX any more but it still has a pretty big screen! :DealWithIt:

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• Post #3989400

  I got this little game called 'Mudborne' on special where you play as a small frog-like creature who has to restore a pond to its former glory and it's really cute and fun. https://tngineers.itch.io/mudborne

• Post #3974062

  It's happening https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-21/prepare-for-stock-market-pain-china-ai-boom-tech/106937282

• Post #3873703

  Just testing out @ash@bne.social's little voice note app thingy! #VoiceNote

• Post #3666184

  Such a weird cowardly self own when someone says that a far-right politician "has the courage to say what we're all thinking" and you listen to what they're saying and it's just the most stupid shit imaginable 🫠

• Post #3576189

  RE: https://mastodon.decentralised.social/@wezm/116452866473430023 Bit late to the party but I have just discovered the existence of https://payphonetag.org and it is amazing. I kind of want to go for a wander to the nearest payphone here in Hobart and test it out. But I won't because it's too darn cold. 🥶

• Post #3554047

  Pretty much

• Post #3486537

  I still don't think there's a podcast series made quite as satisfying as Dead Eyes is at coming to a final conclusion. It truly is incredible. Anyone got any other recommendations? https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/dead-eyes/id1494539046

• Post #2861769

  The Barry's Economics channel on YouTube is even better than the Gary's Economists channel who would have thunk it

• Post #2734514

  Shoutout from me on a bus to work. Actually, three busses due to the ongoing transportation strike. Maybe pay your workers mates, just a thought. 🙃

• Post #2542664

  “The comedy takes on sexual identity in Top Gun have become so widespread after Quentin Tarantino’s monologue on the subject that it would be revisionist now to claim that this film was 100% heterosexual.” https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/14/top-gun-review-tom-cruise-val-kilmer-kelly-mcgillis

• Post #2513471

  The media really out here trying their darnedest at making us feel sorry for people who own multiple houses rather than people who own zero houses is really quite baffling

• Post #2511752

  I have some reading to do https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/may/12/the-100-best-novels-of-all-time

• Post #2467511

  "If anything changes, I will be forced to raise it by the exact amount I already will be" he said to the media. https://chaser.com.au/general-news/landlord-warns-he-will-raise-rent-if/

• Post #2368395

  I wish Australia would do something like this https://itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-forgejo-migration/

• Post #2355493

  "I think the most important thing to understand if you take anything away from this video is that we are clearly using the wrong policy to fix the inflation because if we cause the inflation by giving money to the rich then the way to fix it is to take money from the rich." Why is this concept so hard for economists and politicians to understand???? 🤔 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcaiTZKlCj4

• Post #2324686

  "Imagine if I were to come to you … and put this proposition to you: I'll sell your house and I'll give you 30% and I'll keep the other 70%, and you should be happy with that because I've just converted an asset into cash. None of you would be stupid enough to do that." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy02pzxd4y4o

• Post #2224085

  Wikipedia’s founder, Jimmy Wales, has branded the Australian social media ban an “unmitigated disaster” and an “embarrassment” that is teaching kids to accept surveillance from tech companies when they go online. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/04/wikipedia-founder-brands-australias-social-media-ban-an-unmitigated-disaster-and-an-embarrassment

• Post #2224083

  Good news. Now do the Brisbane CBD. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-05/surfers-paradise-esplanade-closed-gold-coast-council-vote/106638184

• Post #2224072

  Using interest rates alone to try to control inflation is so incredibly stupid. Here's a few other ideas. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-07/what-if-we-used-taxes-or-superannuation-to-control-inflation/106645404

• Post #1990528

  "The figures show just how pointless such a rise would be at affecting inflation. It would instead just be another whack on households who have already been hit by fuel costs." https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2026/apr/30/inflation-rba-interest-rate-rise-reserve-bank-australia-abs

• Post #1867797

  Aussies pay more tax on beer than international gas companies pay on tens of billions of dollars worth of our offshore gas they export. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-02/david-pocock-viral-video-shift-gas-beer-tax-narrative/106626360

• Post #1823544

  I saw a video the other day explaining our persistence in performing the rituals of continual economic growth year after year by likening it to the Cargo Cults that formed in the Pacific after WWII. We're going through the motions of consumption, consumerism, and expansion, hoping that mid-century prosperity drops from the sky again. It's like we're treating infinite growth as a law of nature, a gift from our ancestors, completely ignoring that the system we're running is entir...

• Post #1757060

  “Every country that has tried to build its way out of housing crises without dealing with the underlying problem of inequality and distribution has built a slum. The whole world is filled with these places that have had no restrictions on housing, and they built a massive shanty town outside of their city. “And you think that can’t happen in a country like Australia. I grew up in Ilford, which is a poor suburb of East London...it was a poor suburb for working-class families, and it is now a slu...

• Post #1707010

  “Far from combatting antisemitism, these laws are criminalising peaceful protesters — including two Jewish Australians arrested this weekend.” https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/could-queenslands-controversial-banned-speech-laws-be-quashed-in-court/91h8ipixx

• Post #1694993

  This website is incredible --- Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly. https://walzr.com/IMG_0001