Ian Whitney
@iancwhitney.bsky.social
I do one thing very well and therefore assume all of my opinions are impeccable, no matter the subject.
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Ian Whitney
@iancwhitney.bsky.social
· May 16
Pinning this mainly to remind myself:
Hmm that looks like an American Problem. Sucks to be them, I guess. Hope they sort that out but not my rodeo.
Hmm that looks like an American Problem. Sucks to be them, I guess. Hope they sort that out but not my rodeo.
As the saying goes, Liberals who Can Do, Liberals who Can't brief the ABC and call the Graun.
February 13, 2026 at 2:15 AM
As the saying goes, Liberals who Can Do, Liberals who Can't brief the ABC and call the Graun.
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there are some rare times you do want Malcs to just get in there and make it about himself
Malcolm Turnbull says the problems he had while PM weren’t with Labor, but “with people like Angus Taylor & Tony Abbott, & their friends in the media”
“They had control over Dutton, they burnt it to the ground.”🔥
“They’ve now got their man in again with Angus Taylor” #auspol
“They had control over Dutton, they burnt it to the ground.”🔥
“They’ve now got their man in again with Angus Taylor” #auspol
February 13, 2026 at 2:08 AM
there are some rare times you do want Malcs to just get in there and make it about himself
Based on a sample size of 2, female leaders who lose the highest office look at their colleagues in Canberra and say "fuck, I'm out." whereas male leaders like to stew and simmer on the back benches.
February 13, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Based on a sample size of 2, female leaders who lose the highest office look at their colleagues in Canberra and say "fuck, I'm out." whereas male leaders like to stew and simmer on the back benches.
And I hope that my Henry Cavill wants to do me and my husband gives me a hall pass. About as likely, I'd say.
February 13, 2026 at 12:23 AM
And I hope that my Henry Cavill wants to do me and my husband gives me a hall pass. About as likely, I'd say.
Surely the biggest danger to Angus is that the Nats have demonstrated that they will act in their worst interests to change the Lib leader whenever they want.
February 12, 2026 at 11:57 PM
Surely the biggest danger to Angus is that the Nats have demonstrated that they will act in their worst interests to change the Lib leader whenever they want.
Hopefully we get the thrill of a LIB/NAT/ONP Farrer contest.
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Hopefully we get the thrill of a LIB/NAT/ONP Farrer contest.
I know the #Olympics time difference is tricky and you have to fill bits between advertisers, but Ch 9 is really failing to grasp that 'how our reporters feel about this athlete! let's talk about the reporter's emotions! here's footage of them reporting! look at the emotion!' is irrelevant.
February 12, 2026 at 9:27 PM
I know the #Olympics time difference is tricky and you have to fill bits between advertisers, but Ch 9 is really failing to grasp that 'how our reporters feel about this athlete! let's talk about the reporter's emotions! here's footage of them reporting! look at the emotion!' is irrelevant.
I had forgotten this! What is really striking with Taylor is how many of his scandals are just so, so stupid. Like why was the member for Hume so anti the mayor of the Sydney CBD??? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Angus Taylor apologises to Clover Moore 'unreservedly' over false travel figures
Sydney lord mayor has received a letter from the minister conceding the numbers he relied on ‘were not correct’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2026 at 3:31 AM
I had forgotten this! What is really striking with Taylor is how many of his scandals are just so, so stupid. Like why was the member for Hume so anti the mayor of the Sydney CBD??? www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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im gonna be the first person to perfectly articulate a complex thought that addresses every single avenue of approach and leaves out no edge cases in 300 characters or less. many millions have been trying to do this for years. all of them wasted, because i'm about to do it for the first time
February 11, 2026 at 11:43 PM
im gonna be the first person to perfectly articulate a complex thought that addresses every single avenue of approach and leaves out no edge cases in 300 characters or less. many millions have been trying to do this for years. all of them wasted, because i'm about to do it for the first time
Gonna be a big couple of days for the exiles from 💧auspol
February 11, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Gonna be a big couple of days for the exiles from 💧auspol
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A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.
February 11, 2026 at 10:14 AM
A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: ‘muscle’ and ‘mouse’. To the Roman imagination, the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. ‘Musculus’, in Latin, means ‘little mouse’.
FYI, there is an absolute batshit T20 game happening in Ahmedabad. Afghanistan vs South Africa. We are now going to a SECOND super over as the first super over tied.
February 11, 2026 at 9:28 AM
FYI, there is an absolute batshit T20 game happening in Ahmedabad. Afghanistan vs South Africa. We are now going to a SECOND super over as the first super over tied.
Adding the folks I did the AICD course with on LinkedIn has really confused the hell out of my algorithm lol.
February 11, 2026 at 8:03 AM
Adding the folks I did the AICD course with on LinkedIn has really confused the hell out of my algorithm lol.
Such a pity we don't have an opportunity to raise this at the highest levels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘A step in the wrong direction’: Israel’s West Bank plans prompt global backlash
US, Britain, EU and Arab nations condemn plans that Israeli ministers say will ‘kill the idea of a Palestinian state’
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Such a pity we don't have an opportunity to raise this at the highest levels.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
I really like how the male figure skaters are now allowed to get a little gay in their programs rather than everyone maintaining the fiction that this is an aggressively heterosexual event. #Olympics
February 10, 2026 at 9:01 PM
I really like how the male figure skaters are now allowed to get a little gay in their programs rather than everyone maintaining the fiction that this is an aggressively heterosexual event. #Olympics
Complaining about free to air #Olympics coverage is dull but fuck with the timezone difference whenever I turn on Ch 9 I get an ad, or a ridiculously long piece to camera about an Australian injury or something happening in hours. I don't care what it is, but for the love god, show SOME sport.
February 10, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Complaining about free to air #Olympics coverage is dull but fuck with the timezone difference whenever I turn on Ch 9 I get an ad, or a ridiculously long piece to camera about an Australian injury or something happening in hours. I don't care what it is, but for the love god, show SOME sport.
Very good. Am knackered.
You guys, I am doing the thing I used to mock endlessly: the AICD Company Directors Course and I hate to say it, but Day 1 was pretty solid. Will report back.
February 10, 2026 at 10:01 AM
Very good. Am knackered.
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As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time?
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
February 9, 2026 at 8:47 PM
As a logistics nerd, I just eat this stuff up. Do you have *any* idea how tightly choreographed and practiced all these movements had to be to get the scene set in one commercial break of time?
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
Then to tear it all down and remove it just as quickly after!
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Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
February 9, 2026 at 3:36 AM
Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.
You were his protege! You wrote articles and gave quotes defending him LAST SEPTEMBER! Do you think we all acquired a brain injury since Christmas???!!!
Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting
Ignore the smears: I was never a close friend of Peter Mandelson. And I fully understand the lessons we must learn | Wes Streeting
I knew him but not well, and worry now that he thrived in our political culture. There was a failure of moral seriousness, says health secretary Wes Streeting
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 8:25 PM
You were his protege! You wrote articles and gave quotes defending him LAST SEPTEMBER! Do you think we all acquired a brain injury since Christmas???!!!
Worth remembering they know they're being filmed.
Assistant police commissioner Peter McKenna: "It was really quite precarious at times for our officers who were significantly outnumbered by the protesters and the people who wanted to act in a violent and offensive manner."
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
#auspol #nswpol #PoliceViolence #HerzogNotWelcome
February 9, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Worth remembering they know they're being filmed.