Jason Murphy
@jasemurphy.bsky.social
Author of one(1) book. Journalist. Economist. #rstats #mecfs #ausecon. May be found walking his dog in Melbourne, Australia.
In the hazy interstice between Christmas and New Year, as the sun baked the earth outside, they played long games of "wheel chair race!" in Officeworks.
(Apologies to the staff there.)
(Apologies to the staff there.)
December 30, 2025 at 6:02 AM
In the hazy interstice between Christmas and New Year, as the sun baked the earth outside, they played long games of "wheel chair race!" in Officeworks.
(Apologies to the staff there.)
(Apologies to the staff there.)
Suzuki Jimmy has a waiting list for this exact reason.
They're making cars too curvy now. Everything looks like a dang oval. Do not explain the reasons to me please. I need cars to look like this
December 30, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Suzuki Jimmy has a waiting list for this exact reason.
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A year in the life of a B787-9: we tracked Qantas's B787-9 VH-ZNA Great Southern Land through 2025. She's had quite a ride:
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
December 30, 2025 at 3:34 AM
A year in the life of a B787-9: we tracked Qantas's B787-9 VH-ZNA Great Southern Land through 2025. She's had quite a ride:
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
🔴472 sectors, incl 5 charters & 7 positioning flights, covering 2.6m nm & avg 5568nm/sector
🔴10 day transit in HKG for heavy maintenance, so she averaged 1.3 sectors/day
I'm reading this weird book, and it contains a big word-of-mouth marketing paradox. Not sure how they resolve this. Will report back when I finish the book.
December 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
I'm reading this weird book, and it contains a big word-of-mouth marketing paradox. Not sure how they resolve this. Will report back when I finish the book.
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I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
www.news.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
Here's how Questacon's rubber is going, in case you are wondering. They put it in this funnel in the 1980s to prove it is a liquid. When I first saw it as a kid only a little had dripped down. First pic is this week, second pic is 2023.
December 25, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Here's how Questacon's rubber is going, in case you are wondering. They put it in this funnel in the 1980s to prove it is a liquid. When I first saw it as a kid only a little had dripped down. First pic is this week, second pic is 2023.
Just read The Poppy Wars by RF Kuang.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
December 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Just read The Poppy Wars by RF Kuang.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
50% amazing;
50% what? No!
Wikipedia tells me she wrote it age 19, which makes perfect sense.
If you like sliver moons in a sky full of colour graduations I recommend an immediate skygaze
December 22, 2025 at 10:16 AM
If you like sliver moons in a sky full of colour graduations I recommend an immediate skygaze
There's not just one kind of reading.
You don't use AI for furthering your nuanced understanding of a topic you care deeply about, you use it like you use Wikipedia.... 1/2
You don't use AI for furthering your nuanced understanding of a topic you care deeply about, you use it like you use Wikipedia.... 1/2
I'm not an academic but my understanding is, you don't read stuff to get the GIST of it, like - the interesting stuff, the stuff you can focus on, is the weird details, the bits that go against the grain, the things you read that make you say, wait a second, I want to dig into that
December 22, 2025 at 2:27 AM
There's not just one kind of reading.
You don't use AI for furthering your nuanced understanding of a topic you care deeply about, you use it like you use Wikipedia.... 1/2
You don't use AI for furthering your nuanced understanding of a topic you care deeply about, you use it like you use Wikipedia.... 1/2
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Mercilessly funny. Particularly liked the line about the English squad probably being back in the hotel pool by day four, engaging in bitter recriminations #TheAshes
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
www.news.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Mercilessly funny. Particularly liked the line about the English squad probably being back in the hotel pool by day four, engaging in bitter recriminations #TheAshes
Cricket's risk-reward balance could be improved, imo, with this crazy idea:
A four should be worth three.
A six would be worth seven. #theashes
A four should be worth three.
A six would be worth seven. #theashes
December 18, 2025 at 5:11 AM
Cricket's risk-reward balance could be improved, imo, with this crazy idea:
A four should be worth three.
A six would be worth seven. #theashes
A four should be worth three.
A six would be worth seven. #theashes
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
www.news.com.au
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 AM
I wrote a comedic piece about England's cricket performance destroying our summer economy's mianstay. But it's getting beyond a joke now. 🫣https://www.news.com.au/finance/economy/australian-economy/england-cricket-losses-cost-australian-economy-millions/news-story/7988d317497695b5ad41a60d6bca53a6
Bondi is sadly unlikely to be the last hate crime against Jewish people. Post Gaza I expect further hate-fuelled terrorism in Europe, the middle East, and especially in America.
Will make things worse for jews, for Muslims, and for freedoms of all kinds in western countries.
Will make things worse for jews, for Muslims, and for freedoms of all kinds in western countries.
December 17, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Bondi is sadly unlikely to be the last hate crime against Jewish people. Post Gaza I expect further hate-fuelled terrorism in Europe, the middle East, and especially in America.
Will make things worse for jews, for Muslims, and for freedoms of all kinds in western countries.
Will make things worse for jews, for Muslims, and for freedoms of all kinds in western countries.
This early take was delivered in anger and so might have been dumb. However, it was not.
ASIO. If you work for this organisation hang your head in shame. You failed us dreadfully yesterday.
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
December 17, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This early take was delivered in anger and so might have been dumb. However, it was not.
I visited Substack Notes over the weekend and it felt, not vibrant, not buzzing, not busy. but definitely smart and interesting ... It's a possible successor. I'm not convinced this place has the diversity we need.
Dear Bluesky liberals. Come back to Twitter. Please. PLEASE.
December 15, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I visited Substack Notes over the weekend and it felt, not vibrant, not buzzing, not busy. but definitely smart and interesting ... It's a possible successor. I'm not convinced this place has the diversity we need.
Gehry's reaction against efficient forms that tesselate was ... fine. But excessive and indulgent architecture for fancy museums doesn't scale.
Make cubic forms cool: that's the actual challenge in arhcitecture.
Make cubic forms cool: that's the actual challenge in arhcitecture.
December 15, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Gehry's reaction against efficient forms that tesselate was ... fine. But excessive and indulgent architecture for fancy museums doesn't scale.
Make cubic forms cool: that's the actual challenge in arhcitecture.
Make cubic forms cool: that's the actual challenge in arhcitecture.
ASIO. If you work for this organisation hang your head in shame. You failed us dreadfully yesterday.
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
December 14, 2025 at 8:56 PM
ASIO. If you work for this organisation hang your head in shame. You failed us dreadfully yesterday.
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
Nobody talks about them because of the secrecy but we are spending billions to stop this from happening. And it didn't work. #auspol
Everyone says they only make sequels and cartoons and superhero movies these days. But I just watched 'Ballad of a Small Player' on Netflix. A feature length movie about Buddhist theology starring Colin Farrell set in Macau, it's not a winner on paper! Credit to Netflix for making it. 1/2
December 11, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Everyone says they only make sequels and cartoons and superhero movies these days. But I just watched 'Ballad of a Small Player' on Netflix. A feature length movie about Buddhist theology starring Colin Farrell set in Macau, it's not a winner on paper! Credit to Netflix for making it. 1/2
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Dear @albomp.bsky.social,
Please indulge me a bit of a story…
When I was 14, I was living in a regional town where you were nobody if you didn’t play for the right footy club, wear the right surf gear, get invited to the right parties, and generally follow the right crowd.
Please indulge me a bit of a story…
When I was 14, I was living in a regional town where you were nobody if you didn’t play for the right footy club, wear the right surf gear, get invited to the right parties, and generally follow the right crowd.
December 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Dear @albomp.bsky.social,
Please indulge me a bit of a story…
When I was 14, I was living in a regional town where you were nobody if you didn’t play for the right footy club, wear the right surf gear, get invited to the right parties, and generally follow the right crowd.
Please indulge me a bit of a story…
When I was 14, I was living in a regional town where you were nobody if you didn’t play for the right footy club, wear the right surf gear, get invited to the right parties, and generally follow the right crowd.
They asked my date of birth and said I'd need to do some sort of confirmation process. I haven't done it, but I do still seem to be on here.
December 11, 2025 at 4:18 AM
They asked my date of birth and said I'd need to do some sort of confirmation process. I haven't done it, but I do still seem to be on here.
My book club read so many books about WWII we needed a new rule: no more books set in WWII.
The problem is Musk has never read *any* books about it.
The problem is Musk has never read *any* books about it.
Elon Musk and his Russian friends call for the abolishment of the EU
December 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
My book club read so many books about WWII we needed a new rule: no more books set in WWII.
The problem is Musk has never read *any* books about it.
The problem is Musk has never read *any* books about it.
Been a brutal start to "summer" here in Melbourne. Rained a lot today and didn't crack 20. Has me looking wistfully at Sydney's weather data....
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Been a brutal start to "summer" here in Melbourne. Rained a lot today and didn't crack 20. Has me looking wistfully at Sydney's weather data....
Whenever you see the words "flying taxi" being spouted remember to substitute "road-legal helicopter" to fully grasp how stupid the idea is.
December 5, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Whenever you see the words "flying taxi" being spouted remember to substitute "road-legal helicopter" to fully grasp how stupid the idea is.
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Putting lights on your Christmas tree, it just offers less value at a latitude where it is light until 9pm and then again at 530am! 🎄🌞
December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Putting lights on your Christmas tree, it just offers less value at a latitude where it is light until 9pm and then again at 530am! 🎄🌞