Charlie Pickering is much smaller in real life than I had imagined.

Genuinely heartening to see that there are still parts of the economy keeping POETS* day alive Down Under. [P*ss Off Early, Tomorrow's Saturday]

Decent final public address by the outgoing ASIC Chair. Invoking the name, and work, of Ferdinand Pecora post the Great Depression, was a classy touch.

The economy explained. My @smh @theage cartoon.

In Paris, physicians make house calls and they arrive on eCargobikes #paris #velo #bike #cargobike #medicine #doctor #ebike #ecargobike

73 yrs ago today, May 6, 1953, the Hobart Mercury reports on carbon dioxide build-up, in article titled “Industrial Gas Earth’s ‘Greenhouse’ allouryesterdays.info/2026/05/05/m...

Just had a Mexican-Aussie standoff with the alpha male roo in the local mob. He held his ground and, with a kick like Bruce Lee, an honourable retreat on my part was the logical decision. 🌲🚵‍♂️🦘

Now at the "have you considered wreckers?" stage of spare parts discussions with my mechanic, oem production long since ceased.

A Harvard study just published estimates Elon Musk's destruction of USAID has already caused 600,000 deaths 2/3 of them children. That is his legacy in this world.

My old boss Dave from my investment consulting days used to say "never catch a falling knife" and that's pretty sound counsel right now.

Sit back down GameStop, you're drunk.

'The Algal Bloom Formerly Known as Harmful'. [with apologies to the estate of Prince ☮️]

Happy #StarWarsDay from me and the coolest cat in the Universe. May the Fourth Be With You. ✊🏽

Six #wind farms, two huge solar-battery #hybrids and several seven and eight hour #battery projects emerge as winners of the latest CIS tender.

Awesome pivot by the US to a proven business model perfected by the Brits, against Spanish galleons returning from the New World stacked with gold. In the 16th and 17th centuries.

Orban was pretty load-bearing for the global right wing media ecosystem huh

If you do a cognitive test to assess for dementia, and mistake it for an IQ test, it *might* prove you need a cognitive test to assess for dementia.

Short LIVed. ⛳️

Morning view. 🍁⛰️

AEMO's new QED shows that 50% of demand growth in the National Electricity Market (NEM) was thanks specifically to data centres. That is the same proportion of power demand growth as the United States. So much for "stop saying Aus has any similarities to the US" www.aemo.com.au/energy-syste...

Jerome Powell is 73 years old and worth tens of millions of dollars

First hills road ride in ages. Had forgotten how easy bitumen is to roll across, compared to gravel. And just how awful vehicle fumes are to deal with as you're sucking in the big ones uphill. 😖🤢

Transport sub-index up 8.9% year-on-year in the March CPI release. Can't for the life of me understand why. 😐

Star Trek but the Computer is Australian. 🤖🦘 youtu.be/ukKGG3Vpegc?...

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.” Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life. Common sense. Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

German Chancellor Merz: It is quite obvious that the Americans have absolutely no coherent strategy whatsoever. There is a sense that a whole nation is being humiliated by the Iranian leadership, particularly the Revolutionary Guards.

Just so good

Booing the Welcome to Country at an Anzac Day ceremony is the same racism that Pauline Hanson performs every time she turns her back on the Acknowledgment of Country in the Senate. It doesn’t require a lot of analysis; it’s as sophisticated as she is.

With the booing at Anzac Day services, it's worth remembering it was Gina Rinehart's disinformation group "Advance" that ran a clinical anti-Welcome to Country campaign immediately before last year's dawn services (ICYMI): theklaxon.com.au/liberals-adv...

Post-Dawn Service ride. Lest we forget.

Palantir staff right now.

Not all of us have forgotten. Lest we forget. bsky.app/profile/term...

I'll likely be at the #ANZAC Day dawn service tomorrow morning. But in addition to the diggers, I'll be remembering the four Gurkha battalions and one Sikh battalion who were on that peninsula too, but somehow have been erased from the dominant narrative. Lest we forget.

so Bibi..

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices. The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026. Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice. This is digital sovereignty being taken back

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ― George Orwell, 1984

It’s crazy to think how Meta’s name references a product the company isn’t going for anymore. It’s kinda like if Apple renamed themselves Pippin.

Pouring one out for Leo, a legendary mechanic who wrenched for Possum Bourne, and kept my old GT Spec B in fine fettle. Gone to that great car meet-up in the sky. RIP. 🙏

Cheeky Wednesday lunchtime ride between Zoom calls. 🚵‍♂️

Not knowing what the worst people in the world were thinking every fucking day

Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day. climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...

Schrödinger's Vance. He is simultaneously in and not in Pakistan. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

What is the best, least acknowledged, song Toto ever released and why is it 'Georgy Porgy'?

Powering up an old laptop that's sat in a cupboard for years, just to check some details in an obscure paper I know is on its hard drive. Because facts matter.

Hilarious watching John Barron of Planet America finally, reluctantly, have to admit a concern with Trump's deteriorating cognitive capabilities. 😂

Have moved straight past yacht rock and entered my yacht house era. 🎧

Iran indicating that they're disinclined to send a delegation back to Islamabad is a not unreasonable position to take; given previous bad-faith actions by Trump.

We're moving into Keynes' "anticipating the anticipation of others" phase of the conflict.

"NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!"

"I got this friend, big fat guy, I won't tell you his name, he's so fat, wants me to stop talking about him being fat and neurotic and unstable and fat, let's just call him 'Elon M', and he's so fat, what was I talking about?"