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Homepage Editor and stuff at SBS http://www.sbs.com.au Previously long reads/features and tech/internet. Began on Gen X student newspapers. Mzungu. Born a Scot. Probably on a bicycle.
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@timmiller.bsky.social You're needing musicals again! Reason NYC needs barber verification is Sweeney Todd.

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So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

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Apparently this needs to be said. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it. Iran was complying with the JCPOA until Trump abandoned it.

submitted 9 days ago • 11 comments

Sound engineers pointing out in the comments that the applause is from an indoor audience on an outdoor event💀

submitted 5 days ago • 587 comments

@timmiller.bsky.social re having only a certain type of soldier at Trump's speech. Isn't that actually even worse? Marks out who's MAGA and who's not for any future partisan clash.

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LAPD fired rubber bullets at Australian journalist @laurentomasi.bsky.social

submitted 12 days ago • 2537 comments

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

submitted 12 days ago • 264 comments

Now that I own an EV, I realise it's a phone on wheels. With either, you can start your day at 30% charge, but it might not be a good idea. There's fast charging and slow charging like a phone. It even runs a modified Android. Is everything going to become a phone?

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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

submitted 13 days ago • 732 comments

Washington Post on the alleged truth about Elon's black eye.

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At the ICE raid and subsequent community resistance in Paramount, California this morning, this skater kid ate dozens of munitions from Border Patrol agents, walked away slowly and flipped them off.

submitted 13 days ago • 1156 comments

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

submitted 15 days ago • 230 comments

New show from someone who really should have a new show @akilahhughes.com so here's the preview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQR4...

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A note from the prophet Lou Reed. ('Sick of You', 1989)

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Betraying my child's trust by squeezing important unwanted medication into his open mouth after asking him to show me his wobbly tooth or some other reason. Three times a day.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Czar Wars: A New Pope

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Two nuclear powers start fighting each other. US: "That's a shame."

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www.sbs.com.au/news/live-bl...

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David Speers just now: “That would be the lowest Coalition vote ever.”

submitted 49 days ago • 15 comments

#binnight Is this going to be the smallest LNP parliamentary cohort since…??? #auspol

submitted 49 days ago • 4 comments

Early numbers etc, but…

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Liz Oyer, the DOJ attorney who got fired for refusing to reinstate Mel Gibson’s gun rights after Trump took power, is on TikTok now and she’s making some interesting videos. Follow her here: www.tiktok.com/@lawyer.oyer...

submitted 51 days ago • 45 comments

Despite seeing several people I totally trust say this was real I still felt I had to verify it with my own eyes. And having done so I still can't believe it's real.

submitted 52 days ago • 3147 comments

www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZ5...

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Holding all parties to account is called doing our job.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

As a European I just can't get my head round this. A family member had a mini health scare a few weeks ago - scans and specialists all arranged in a couple of weeks on the NHS and it cost precisely nothing. They were OK too btw.

submitted 56 days ago • 389 comments

That's inflation though.

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

SORRY. Sorry. Have we seen this *incredible* news video coming out of Queensland? Wait for the witness/witnesses statement

submitted 61 days ago • 807 comments

“.. Basically, what we’re doing is eating our inventory and hoping that it will last us until this gets settled,” he said. “If it doesn’t, we’ll be out of business.” @wsj.com @jeannewhalen.bsky.social www.wsj.com/economy/trad...

submitted 60 days ago • 58 comments

"I'm talking about a matter of days". USA is about to walk away from Ukraine. www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/e...

submitted 64 days ago • 1 comment

Hi, I’m autistic and I’m the mayor of my city.

submitted 65 days ago • 639 comments

JUST IN: Deputy Assistant to the President and "Counterterrorism Czar" Sebastian Gorka says anyone advocating for due process for Kilmar Abrego Garcia could be viewed as "aiding and abetting a terrorist" and be federally charged. (h/t Philip Germain)

submitted 65 days ago • 6955 comments

The DOJ lawyer who made the mistake of answering the court's questions about Abrego-Garcia candidly (eg yes he was mistakenly deported, a fact the Administration already has acknowledged), which got him put on administrative leave, has now been fired, ending his 15-year DOJ career..

submitted 66 days ago • 1171 comments

I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.

submitted 66 days ago • 987 comments

Listened specifically to the drumming on the sad occasion of Clem Burke's death, and wow. So many ways that it makes the song. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGU_...

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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?

submitted 70 days ago • 2314 comments

All you need is the headline. This is the question I have. www.afr.com/world/north-...

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This seems important. Conservative think tank finds a major mathematical error in the (nonsensical) Trump tariff formula, across the board. RETAIL prices not IMPORT prices were used in calculations. The biggest tariff on any country should have been about 12%. www.aei.org/economics/pr...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

A true heater 48 hours for The Onion, in my unbiased opinion.

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