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@benhr.bsky.social šŸ‘ agreed!


@benhr.bsky.social Twice as many as we need


@liamhogan.id.au Negating the lived experience of Baby Boomers, you should be ashamed.


@oysta.au Performantive agenticity


@oysta.au CEO mindset: being placed on gardening leave is cruel and unusual punishment, someone must pay.


@librarian.bsky.social You consistently have great stories and anecdotes, a life well lived.


@damonyoung.com.au Are you sure it’s not here?


@liamhogan.id.au I’ve been thinking about lessons for the world at large from what the social sciences and humanities went trough in the ā€˜80s and ā€˜90s. My conclusion: prepare to have your carcasse picked over by STEM know-nothings.



@thewetmale.bsky.social Fresh in our memories.


@thewetmale.bsky.social Return of the shadow ban


@oysta.au Being lectured about the male loneliness epidemic by an AI is pretty on the nose


@ketanjoshi.co Isn’t the problem that the shame should attach to those with the greatest power over use at scale. Instead it just devolves to fixating on individuals’ behaviours instead of systemic drivers. It’s the redeployment of the littering playbook in yet another domain. Shame is a waste of time.


@benhr.bsky.social Written by a former translator, librarian and journalist - seems very pod-adjacent! I thought to myself that I need to let you know about it while I was reading, but I presume I’m also the fiftieth person to mention it. In case not!


@karaschlegl.bsky.social the range of things that could be considered partly socially constructed might be the real shock


@bastardsheep.com rip in peace


@grogsgamut.bsky.social real heads know music.apple.com/au/playlist/…


@jdkite.bsky.social Make Windsor Road Wider is real ā€œturn the rivers inlandā€ energy.


@rantlaw.bsky.social Do they know they’re stuffing up?


@pollytics.bsky.social He was previously my local member before redistribution and I agree, having met him several times in person. He’s the member for Parramatta, not Wentworth.


@benhr.bsky.social When most of the unhinged online nonsense was still contained to Facebook.


@benhr.bsky.social And if you’re a Wikipedia fan like me, don’t forget to pre-order @rgcooke.bsky.social’s new book The Last Best Place on the Internet: A Human History of Wikipedia (pre-orders are just about the best thing you can do to help authors afaik)

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@benhr.bsky.social Guess that is quite a tale


@erincook.bsky.social ā€œActually Belconnen is a great place to liveā€


@rantlaw.bsky.social Glad to hear you’ve stopped working for a living.