fyi i'm over at u*scrolled it is very nice tku @ firstdogonthemoon
28.01.2026 22:57 — 👍 36 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
ABC’s Fake ‘Anonymous Youth Worker’ Promoted To High Commissioner To Ghana
hi everyone this is your regular reminder that @lyrebirddream.bsky.social is this guy: newmatilda.com/2020/06/28/a...
27.01.2026 09:22 — 👍 57 🔁 29 💬 7 📌 4
@decryption.bsky.social hello! is macfixit your go to for refurbished macs these days?
23.01.2026 03:11 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
yes! the novel! write the novel!
11.01.2026 08:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
hope 2026 is not as 2025 as 2025 was
31.12.2025 12:06 — 👍 154 🔁 17 💬 5 📌 0
maybe it was the same person who moved a whole hive of gigantic feral bees into the garden
29.12.2025 02:52 — 👍 79 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
merry seasonal whatevers to you
25.12.2025 07:18 — 👍 120 🔁 5 💬 16 📌 1
finished trimming maple’s face fur (for now) and when she left this guy came and sat down in her spot like “my turn at the spa please!”
21.12.2025 04:22 — 👍 230 🔁 22 💬 23 📌 1
oh dear. I didn't know that. It seems unfortunate.
20.12.2025 04:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
what are they doing? (thanks for reading the cartoons also)
19.12.2025 23:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
There’s a meta version of “stories of powerlessness that are apparently too difficult or niche for a national audience”. It’s called Tasmania. I’ve lost count of the number of stories I’ve encountered in the island state that should have scandalised the nation, but have been met with a shrug by the mainland media.
For example, did you know that the Tasmanian government recently paid $75 million in a class action settlement to 129 victims of child sexual abuse at the hands of dozens of government employees in its only youth detention centre? Probably not. Amid the lack of national attention, the Ashley Youth Detention Centre is still open, and this year almost 50% of its detainees reported they’d been victims of abuse. There is now a second class action in train for the many further Ashley victims who missed the first one. The impoverished state has estimated its total liability for child sexual abuse claims at over $600 million. Six. Hundred. Million. Dollars.
You cannot tell me that this didn’t deserve national attention, or that they wouldn’t have been leading national bulletins for weeks if they broke in Melbourne or Sydney.
Did you know that Tasmania has a functional adult literacy rate of 50%?
I’ve written about these and so many other scandals. Local Tasmanian reporters have also written about the horrific environmental impact of the salmon industry; about the clusterfuck of the biggest infrastructure project in the state’s history, the new Spirit of Tasmania vessels; about the dire state of the health system; about the cost of housing and the madness of building an unaffordable AFL stadium, and the ballooning government debt. In terms of ongoing national coverage, though, all of these stories have been outweighed by the annual nude swim that happens in Hobart’s River Derwent during Dark Mofo.
Take a look at @nickfeik.bsky.social 's writings, including and especially this one (pictured).
nickfeik.substack.com/p/a-rare-win
13.12.2025 22:38 — 👍 21 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
