Imagine one day you go into the chicken operation you started and you’re now outranked by a bin.

Anyone have a link to the Watson report on the CFMEU? Libs are already out in force talking about the “$16 billion” it’s cost tax payers. I cannot for the life of me reconcile that figure and want to know how it’s calculated. #auspol

Australia - 2nd biggest natural gas producer in the world and yet its beer drinkers who pay more in taxes (to the tune of $1.2 Billion). Pocock is right - what the fuck is going on in parliament? youtu.be/UZln5YCghKo?... #auspol

Libs are so useless they can’t even do a proper #LibSpill

“It was Australian soldiers who liberated the Holy Land” Mate, you’ve literally bulldozed our war graves in Gaza

I see this kind of take a lot in posts on AI – "The agent knows the person’s budget limits, travel history, preferences, sensitivities, and what 'best value' actually means to them." Oh yeah. How? Does it surveil me? Tap what others have accumulated? Stalk my data? Infer from my histories?

It’s time for Labor to abandon failed reliance on “the market” to resolve the housing crisis. Public housing has and could again play a crucial role. Labor should go back to basics, create a national public housing commission and fund it by reducing CGT and -ve gearing rip offs!

It isn't an ethical double standard, it's a lack of ethics entirely. Their outrage isn't determined by the severity of an event. It is determined by which events can be exploited to further their political and economic agendas.

Australia's journalist class has basically collectively and immediately decided last weekend's terror attacks were the direct result of anti-genocide protests and the entire political response is now going to be guided towards actions that won't prevent another terror attack

Sussan Ley out there fostering hate and division. The Liberal Party has not learned one lesson from its election loss. They only now appeal to extremists. Using the “first they came for” lines is so fucking gross. Also her team putting in “applause” is truly pathetic.

Surely we should be using Robodebt as a precedent for not doing this … and as an ethical and legal risk that should have killed this a long time ago.

Final presentation of the year delivered. Over the last couple of weeks I’ve presented about #11ty for #ReclaimOpen25, open learning design systems for #OERCamp and yesterday on my teams work to Reframe learning design as a solution to complex problems at #Ascilite2025.

Not much action on the #ascilite hashtags for a while... So who's coming to #Adelaide for #Ascilite2025 #Ascilite25?

Day 1 in #Wellington. I am absolutely wrecked - completely ruined by running on multiple timezones across a couple of days and I couldn’t think straight. Assigned some time for a nap and went walking. Someone needs to explain the guys in suits with thongs/flip-flops/jandals though.

It was a pleasure to present this morning at #ReclaimOpen25. It's already up on YouTube, where I've included all the links to the sites mentioned. I really wanted to call out to the #11ty community, who are the ones that taught me everything I know. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9At...

Spent the weekend finalising slides for this week's #ReclaimOpen conference. Looking forward (and slightly daunted by being on after the keynote) to sharing some thoughts on using #11ty to reclaim the open web.

NEW POST: Limits heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/09... Having some time to think in August, I spent some time thinking about my limits. #blogging4life

The great Aussie gas giveaway is set to continue under Labor 🤯🫠 This is a total scam - we haven’t received a cent of PRRT for offshore LNG exports & the weak changes Govt made last term aren’t fixing it. Parliament needs to fix the PRRT. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

New post where I ask - what are the ideals of AI? What is the vision we are being asked to buy into?https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/02-18-ai-idealism/

Packed house at the Transformation Hub event for the #AdelaideUniversity Common Core Event. Bringing staff and students across two universities to co-define what these unique courses could be.

Thirty-one days into the year. How's it all going? My January update - heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/02...

One of the things that I fear within the AI hype and the desire to inject it into all aspects of life is that it's a process of outsourcing. heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/01... #blogging4life

The desire to outsource and centralise in organisations tends to do more harm and cost more when it comes to knowledge work. heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/01...

I created my first set of icons last year. Encapsulating an idea in a simple visual was much more challenging than I thought. heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/01... #LearningDesign #DesignForLearning

New post: AI says tomato but you mean potato Read more here: heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2025/01...

I have updated the Academic Workload Tracker for 2025. I strongly encourage all academics to track how long you actually work, and at what tasks. It's a crucial way to counter the deliberate wage-theft of obfuscatory university workload models. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Berries: Bananas Eggplants Oranges Not berries: Strawberries Blackberries Raspberries www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/...

I have the ability to influence a course aimed at embedding entrepreneurial & design thinking practice to help develop change making skills in students. Give me some ideas on what you would want to see embedded or practiced in the course! How do you think we should teach/facilitate it?

This is the news I want to see. 100% renewable by 2027. SA getting shit done. reneweconomy.com.au/cis-auction-...

Found some time today to play with #MarkWhen. This is what I've been looking for! Being able to create timelines and calendars using basic data structures so that I can pull together some planning for 2025. markwhen.com This is so good and fits in perfectly into my #Obsidian workflow.

All this new wave of commentary about #Enclosure and #SocialMedia is great. Back in 2015 though… timklapdor.wordpress.com/2015/11/26/s... I think I was on the money. Even the more radical evil shit in there has been done, but there is hope.

Weaving some thoughts on what's happening at work and on the socials and reflecting on what I should be doing. Staying in the fishbowl, or jumping into the ocean. ht to @catspyjamas.bsky.social & @kimtairi.bsky.social and a stroll down memory lane. heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2024/11...

An #introduction. I'm Tim, live in #Adelaide amongst the trees, birds and koalas. I work in #HigherEd and am passionate about #LearningDesign and creating great learning experiences fusing graphic design, #UX, learning and innovation. I build stuff with #11ty and dabble in dark magic via #CSS.