Johannes Jakob
@jojojakob.bsky.social
editor at Penguin Random House Australia
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going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
going to be awesome to be 15 years old in victoria, where you won't be allowed to watch youtube but will be allowed to go to prison for a thousand years
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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Overdoing “on the other hand” alternatives for dinner to impress my octopus date
August 14, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Overdoing “on the other hand” alternatives for dinner to impress my octopus date
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it was viral enough. here's my copy that I downloaded September 14 2009 at 7 PM.
September 29, 2025 at 12:53 AM
it was viral enough. here's my copy that I downloaded September 14 2009 at 7 PM.
working at PRH has all just been a decade-long scam to get a new Pynchon novel slightly early
September 9, 2025 at 11:22 PM
working at PRH has all just been a decade-long scam to get a new Pynchon novel slightly early
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Vampire who’s been wallowing after a bad breakup whose buddies finally convince him to get back out on the blood rave scene and he immediately gets cut vertically in half by Blade
April 17, 2024 at 2:27 AM
Vampire who’s been wallowing after a bad breakup whose buddies finally convince him to get back out on the blood rave scene and he immediately gets cut vertically in half by Blade
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my new book YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE is out now. it has 45 short stories, including some of my favourites from the last four years of INFINITE GOSSIP, and unreleased ones. buy it from maxlavergne.square.site
August 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
my new book YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THIS IF YOU WANT TO LIVE is out now. it has 45 short stories, including some of my favourites from the last four years of INFINITE GOSSIP, and unreleased ones. buy it from maxlavergne.square.site
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we’re living in pretty unprecedented times but luckily in Australia we have some of the worst journalists in the world to help navigate us through the waters
July 27, 2025 at 6:43 AM
we’re living in pretty unprecedented times but luckily in Australia we have some of the worst journalists in the world to help navigate us through the waters
you MUST hire editors
July 22, 2025 at 6:27 AM
you MUST hire editors
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[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
July 10, 2025 at 12:46 AM
[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad
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Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "
June 22, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Penny Wong, 2003: "I say suspicion is not enough. To justify going to war we need more than suspicion. What sort of world would we live in if suspicion alone was justification for participation in unilateral military action outside the auspices of the UN? "
i guess you'd say Tyrese Haliburton is the Aziz Behich of the NBA
June 6, 2025 at 3:28 AM
i guess you'd say Tyrese Haliburton is the Aziz Behich of the NBA
no spoilers but the plot in Murder on the Orient Express is really being pulled along by a loco motive
June 4, 2025 at 6:06 AM
no spoilers but the plot in Murder on the Orient Express is really being pulled along by a loco motive
hang your machetes by the front door in solidarity with the machete wholesalers
May 26, 2025 at 3:52 AM
hang your machetes by the front door in solidarity with the machete wholesalers
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This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.
May 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
This didn't happen by random chance of the market or some neutral development of technology. The game industry, like many industries, figured out how to outsource all the risks and costs of production onto the aspirational while capturing their own cut as rent. Game devs are uber drivers now.
never closer to going Sephiroth mode than election night
May 3, 2025 at 9:21 AM
never closer to going Sephiroth mode than election night
pretty fun to sample the sausages at each booth i’m voting at
May 3, 2025 at 2:51 AM
pretty fun to sample the sausages at each booth i’m voting at
i don't have a parasocial relationship with the shadows projected onto the cave wall, those are really my friends!!
April 7, 2025 at 11:49 PM
i don't have a parasocial relationship with the shadows projected onto the cave wall, those are really my friends!!
if 'i'll remember i put this object here' was a crime, i would be doing life in prison
March 27, 2025 at 5:54 AM
if 'i'll remember i put this object here' was a crime, i would be doing life in prison
i can't believe sports broadcasting in australia has become so moronically fractured across 100 different shitty platforms, and still not a single one shows the UWCL
March 26, 2025 at 10:17 PM
i can't believe sports broadcasting in australia has become so moronically fractured across 100 different shitty platforms, and still not a single one shows the UWCL
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Hossam Shabat, a 23 year old journalist who documented the genocide of his people left a final message. shared by his team.
March 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Hossam Shabat, a 23 year old journalist who documented the genocide of his people left a final message. shared by his team.