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Tim Hutton

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Part time teacher | Occasional freelance writer | Full time sick/disabled person (ME/CFS) | Published in Eureka Street, Junkee, Crikey. Views my own. Based in Meanjin (Brisbane)

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SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

06.03.2026 19:09 πŸ‘ 10982 πŸ” 2363 πŸ’¬ 280 πŸ“Œ 150

He's not actually made of flesh.

04.03.2026 08:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
04.03.2026 03:36 πŸ‘ 697 πŸ” 198 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 6

Also to be clear: this is not a slight on the developers at all. It is just Not My Kinda Game.

04.03.2026 08:44 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The nickname β€œBibi” might be a BIT too cute for a guy addicted to war crimes?

03.03.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 104 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I really wish anything about Marathon's gameplay appealed to me, because I really enjoy the vibe of all the cinematic trailers.

04.03.2026 08:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Sometimes, when you teach study of religion, you need to call your ex-Jesuit father and your ex-nun mother and just make sure you've got your understanding of the bodily resurrection correct. Y'know? (I'm sure this is extremely relatable content.)

04.03.2026 06:41 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Why is it that whenever @michaelhobbes.bsky.social mentions Brisbane in #maintenancephase it's never about something good?

27.02.2026 10:19 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Lmao yes it's usually more like "politely asked to clarify their intention"...

26.02.2026 10:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My current No. 1 media literacy tool is to always ask "Who specifically do they mean?" when you see a headline that says something like "Some/many/people are angry at [person/group/organisation] for [alleged transgression of some sort]."

Most of the time it's, like, four guys on Twitter.

26.02.2026 08:22 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1

I realise as a person with ME/CFS I am incredibly lucky to be able to work at all, but still: ouch.

25.02.2026 10:23 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Worked two days in a row, which is not a thing I usually do but my work really needed me in for some stuff today.

Anyway, I currently feel like every cell in my body is dying.

25.02.2026 10:20 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

is life just a series of days where you're tired in the afternoon and wide awake at night, running behind on weekly deadlines, and seeing pants get slim and big and then slim again over the years until you die?

23.02.2026 23:51 πŸ‘ 12689 πŸ” 1086 πŸ’¬ 616 πŸ“Œ 140
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a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' . ALT: a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
23.02.2026 03:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Man linked to international sex trafficking ring finally arrested for improper email forwarding

Man linked to international sex trafficking ring finally arrested for improper email forwarding

β€œIn the criminal justice system, some offences are considered especially heinous" chaser.com.au/world/man-li...

20.02.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 552 πŸ” 147 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 10
Graphic Design Is My Passion layed out in the worst way possible.

Graphic Design Is My Passion layed out in the worst way possible.

I can’t find the original source for this visual crime, but I let out a cry of pain when I saw it.

18.02.2026 13:58 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why do the media treat rising wages as dangerous β€” but $200m sponsorships aren’t? Perhaps the most screwed aspect of how the media covers economics and business is how profits and business expenses are written about as though they are glorious things with no losers, while wages gro...

A report that Comm Bank is spending $200m on sponsoring the Olympics. My post on how isn't it weird how such things are never reported as something that will cause fees/prices to rise, but a wage increase?? Horrors!!
thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

18.02.2026 03:20 πŸ‘ 299 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 2

The Left Won't Embrace Explicitly and Overtly Fascist Technology That Destroys the Water and the Air and Our Very Minds for the Profit of the Worst Most Fascist People Alive and Other Core Definitions of What It Means to be on the Left

18.02.2026 10:46 πŸ‘ 637 πŸ” 160 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 1
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David Pocock is right: more tax is raised from beer than from petroleum resource rent tax (PRRT) Senator David Pocock has produced viral social media content claiming that Australia’s beer tax raises more revenue than the gas industry pays in Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). Can more public mo...

Not that it was ever in doubt, but the gas companies' jimmies are very rustled, so here you go:
thepoint.com.au/factchecks/2...

17.02.2026 05:52 πŸ‘ 362 πŸ” 102 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 5
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a man in a room with the word hackerman on the screen Alt: A man in a room with the word "hackerman" flashing on the screen.

Just solved a tech issue that plagued me for hours last night.

17.02.2026 06:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Found some old hard drives and was extremely chuffed to locate some old photos I thought had been lost to the data worms long ago.

16.02.2026 10:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

more like, John Luigi-uzamo, amirite

16.02.2026 02:14 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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15.02.2026 03:25 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1

Peak FAFO from Drew. Yeah if you deliberately cultivate an online persona as someone who is an insufferable pest, don’t get upset when people believe that you are one.

15.02.2026 07:22 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A photo of an Australian Tawny Frogmouth (Australian bird) perched on the edge of a tipped over recycling bin.

A photo of an Australian Tawny Frogmouth (Australian bird) perched on the edge of a tipped over recycling bin.

Went to put the recycling in the bin. Discovered a Tawny Frogmouth.

14.02.2026 22:18 πŸ‘ 283 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 3
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.

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.

This is blackout poetry to me

14.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 23261 πŸ” 4794 πŸ’¬ 222 πŸ“Œ 169
Letter from the AFP:

Dear Mr Taylor,

I'm writing in regards to your role in the Cayman Island company which received $80 million from the Federal Government as part of a water rights buyback that occurred without tender in 2017 when Barnaby Joyce was agriculture minister. 

Even though you were director of Eastern Australian Agriculture and have said "I was a consultant" of the company, here at the AFP we can't find any evidence at all that you're in anyway dodgy or corrupt. In fact, it's surprising that anyone brought it up. You are hereby completely exonerated of everything.

Good on you. Keep it up. You're a legend.

Yours sincerely,
Reece Kershaw
AFP
(Angus Taylor's signature)

Letter from the AFP: Dear Mr Taylor, I'm writing in regards to your role in the Cayman Island company which received $80 million from the Federal Government as part of a water rights buyback that occurred without tender in 2017 when Barnaby Joyce was agriculture minister. Even though you were director of Eastern Australian Agriculture and have said "I was a consultant" of the company, here at the AFP we can't find any evidence at all that you're in anyway dodgy or corrupt. In fact, it's surprising that anyone brought it up. You are hereby completely exonerated of everything. Good on you. Keep it up. You're a legend. Yours sincerely, Reece Kershaw AFP (Angus Taylor's signature)

From the archive...

EXCLUSIVE: Angus Taylor has released a new letter from the AFP clearing him of corruption over a Cayman Islands company.
chaser.com.au/national/ang...

13.02.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 296 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 15 πŸ“Œ 2

Support every trans, non-binary or questioning person you know. Speak out for those you don’t. Vote for politicians who want to expand humanity, not shrink it. And for god’s sake, stop buying Harry Potter or the works of those who want to ruin the lives of our loved ones out of their own ignorance.

13.02.2026 10:25 πŸ‘ 295 πŸ” 105 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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Taylor says there’s β€œgood migration and bad migration”. He’s right - the Liberals are not One Nation lite. They’re One Nation full cream milk. Abhorrent, nasty, divisive, racist politics. Shame on all the Liberals.

13.02.2026 11:01 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 22 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 2