Jamie Hall
@jamiehall.cc
Absolutely. Here’s a bio which balances audacity with polish, while covering up the weak points and anxieties you mentioned. You can paste it directly into Bluesky, or let me know if you’d like edits or changes: My background blends high-stakes strategy,
Last week a live stream of President Prabowo speaking to business leaders was cut off and journalists ejected after he said "it is being said that Iran already has nuclear weapons", and that could lead to further proliferation in the Middle East www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Indonesians mock Trump-style 'personality politics'
Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's repeated controversial comments spark debate over his "populist" communication style.
abc.net.au
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
“That’s one of those irregular verbs, isn’t it? *I* restore orderly functioning in FX markets, *you* are manipulating your currency, *China* is using predatory mercantilism to deindustrialize the planet”
Reuters@reuters.com · 5d agoEXCLUSIVE: Bessent's 'to do' list: buy $5-10 billion worth of Japanese yen, Reuters photo shows reut.rs/4w1pLC6
I want to buy an ownership stake in the concept of football itself. Why won’t FIFA sell it to me!? I want it
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
Right now, based on market share, organised crime effectively is Big Tobacco in Australia.
Three things Australia must do to end the tobacco wars
theconversation.com
It's interesting that these "Correct" scores are so low; you'd do better by flipping a coin
Very good to see this! Employment services is a conspicuous failure of the neoliberal model—it’s overdue for a wholesale cleanup
Bratislava@nondescriptive.bsky.social · 2w ago🚨New @cictar.bsky.social report today on profit extraction in Australia's employment services system 🚨 "privatised employment services [system] is structurally broken, and its prized federal contracts are being used to enrich millionaires and private equity firms" www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07...
The faster we rollout some AI licensing arrangement the better, we can ensure Elsevier/Wiley/Informa, Murdoch etc get their due compensation and everyone can be satisfied the copyright problem has been solved. Social justice prevails!
They used to pile shit on Southeast Asia for this sort of thing
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoThe sister of Senator Graham, Darline Graham Nordone, will finish his Senate term after his death on Saturday, the South Carolina governor said. She does not appear to have previous political experience. nyti.ms/4fjvMnp
Recent falls in housing prices are welcome. We should take the win. I have an op-ed in the Canberra Times. www.cis.org.au/commentary/o...
Stop panicking and don’t listen to pollies. Falling house prices are a win - The Centre for Independent Studies
PETER TULIP: Fretting about housing prices will be useful if it leads to a discussion about where we want prices to go and how to achieve that.
cis.org.au
i predicted this, but regardless, welcome twitter refugees
drewtoothpaste@drewtoothpaste.bsky.social · 2y agoguy who joins bluesky in July 2026: hey everyone, going to be spending more time here ever since the Hell Site required users to manually type the 14 Words every time they post! and i was tired of turning on my camera to do the you know... german hand
They’re going to have to rename the Gravity Model of international trade
American Association of Wine Economists AAWE@wineecon.bsky.social · 4w agoNew data: Since March 2025, U.S. wine exports to Canada have been approaching zero. Canada was once by far the largest export market for U.S. wine. In 2024, 35% of U.S. wine exports—worth US$446.4 million—went to Canada.
Happy Fourth and happy 250th. I find myself re-reading FDR’s third inaugural address often these days. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/th...
Haha sucked in, Toyota!! They’ve spent years insisting that fossil fuels are the future, now they can reap what they’ve sown
Chris O'Regan@chrisoregan.bsky.social · last mo.Pretty crazy that Toyota and Mitsubishi both had 30% sales drops in a month. I don't know what is happening outside of Australia but it seems to me that focusing on hybrids was a terrible bet???
they're not bot factories! we are so collectively unprepared for this. it has completely rooted the discourse in Indonesia we need to wise up real quick
stranger@strangerous.bsky.social · last mo.Sarah Hanson-Young says it beggars belief that One Nation, who say they stand for Australia, “are running their political campaign from offshore” using digital bot factories in “Indonesia, Vietnam & India” Calls for ON to to be investigated, “This is foreign interference”💥💯
Things often make more sense here when you realise that 'European' usually means 'British' in American English.
Roberto Artellini@robertoartellini.eurosky.social · last mo.Define "they"
just as bazball was a cheap facsimile of the dominant australian batting of the 2000s, so now does england mimic the antipodes in an unhealthy churn of prime ministers.
I wrote a piece for @news.abc.net.au about the false dichotomy of the multicultural vs monocultural debate & how it misses the deeper concerns that we are an increasingly atomised, disconnected country www.abc.net.au/religion/cur... #auspol
The current debate about multiculturalism is built on a false dichotomy - ABC Religion & Ethics
Pauline Hanson’s recent speech to the National Press Club, where she declared that “we cannot be a multicultural society” and that Australia “must be monocultural” has reignited a familiar and polaris...
abc.net.au
I reckon the key to understanding Australian politics at the moment is @dmk1793.bsky.social’s theory that this century’s main ideological axis is open liberal democracy vs the billionaire-neonazi coalition, in the same way that 20th century politics was mainly about how you responded to communism.
obama loved music and was pretty open about it. trump loves theater and spectacle. hell, even biden’s love of ice cream did political work for him. more recently, mamdani just clearly loves new york & being a new yorker. what does vance love? as far as i can tell, nothing other than lecturing people
One Nation want to replace actual, existing, vibrant cultures, the ones you and I spend our time reproducing, in actual, existing groups of people in civil society, with Facebook uncle sentiment and paid-for slop. Those are the stakes.
anyway, you should read this important piece about how elon is, in fact, a killer:
The world’s first trillionaire is a killer
Elon Musk’s empire of wealth is built on suffering.
theverge.com