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  Really loved Untitled Goose Game and thought I'd check out this new Big Walk game from House House down in Melbourne as I've heard good things. Let me know if you have it too and maybe we can play sometime! https://store.steampowered.com/app/1478500/Big_Walk/ #BigWalk #Gaming

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  > Across Australia, older parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents are looking back at the ease with which they bought their first homes, and questioning whether the country’s decades-long slide in affordability can be reversed for the sake of younger generations. “The supercharging of housing as an asset rather than a place to live should never have happened in the first place and had to be unwound to help our society become more equitable.” https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/...

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  So Americans call petrol "gas" right? So then what do they call gas??

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  New from our team: Pedestrian deaths have started rising in the US and, to a lesser extent, in Australia, leading to questions about the effects of this shift in popular car design. A new study of more than 10,000 crashes could provide some clues. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-18/big-cars-linked-to-pedestrian-deaths/107053810

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  Shout out to this project. "Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost." Absolutely incredible. https://standardebooks.org/

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  Some good news is always welcome https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02-11/meanjin-magazine-finds-new-home-queensland-university-technology/106331850

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  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)

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

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  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. 🤷

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  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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  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

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

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

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  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 🫠

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  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. 🥶

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  Pretty much

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  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

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

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  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. 🙃

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  “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

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  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

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

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  "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/

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

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  "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

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  "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

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  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

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  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

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  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