@BernardSheppard A man whose prime ministership was a total disasterpiece. Just ask Sir Prince Phillip. Before his first term was up, a majority of his colleagues said: "Let's give Malcolm another go." His biggest political achievement was allowing foreign mining companies to pay even less tax […]

#auspol #abc730 what the fuck is Sarah Ferguson doing giving #themadmonk Abbott a platform to say that '50s immigration policies (go work on the Snowy scheme, FFS). If he wants to live in the past, he should go on a retreat to a monastery and observe a vow of silence.

Captured with a DSLR and a 24mm shifting lens, shifted vertically to preserve geometry. The tiny ghost town of Harvard, one of a series of sometimes extravagantly named, now largely abandoned communities near the Union Pacific Railroad and former Route 66 in the Mojave, was perhaps a victim of […]

Federal district court judges continue to issue forceful, important opinions and orders against the Trump regime. This one, from a judge in West Virginia, grants habeas corpus to a couple seized by ICE […]

Vince has made a great new mapping app including bike lanes, off road paths, detours, rider hazards. Also includes active bush fire areas for regional travel. Check it out at https://www.vicbug.app/ He'd like feedback on the app. It uses Open Street Map data, so […] [Original post on aus.social]

You might think I’m a naive idiot with my comments on US elections, but I am going to continue to hold on to my idealistic view that knowing things is useful, and that sharing information about how these systems actually work has value, especially when they’re being threatened and tested.

An extraordinary and excellent judicial opinion granting habeas corpus to a child the Trum regime detained and held on the basis of only an administrative warrant. My annotated copy at https://drive.proton.me/urls/2NVJSW3K8R#eTJeXmYjZcYa. 1/ #lawfedi

If you're a fan of the cafe Mr Tulk at the State Library of Victoria, please sign this petition to help save The library's board - mostly interim appointments - have decided to lease the cafe's space to a catering company, thus depriving the public of an affordable place to gather which has been […]

#sydney #weather how do Sydney people cope without air con? I am staying with my MIL, and although she has air con, and she runs it in her bedroom at night, she does not like running it in the living room or to keep the unit from heating up. It is 29° inside downstairs now, 31° upstairs, and I […]

This tickled my inner Viz / Roger's Profanisaurus sensor.

One of the fun things about Mastodon is how if you post an observation (especially about politics) you immediately find out how stupid and obvious and naive you were to have assumed that everyone didn’t know that already.

I saw the first image in the background of a video analysing the first ICE killing in Minnesota, and could not really believe that it was real, but sure enough, this is how the department of homeland security is advertising. Not for ICE agents - though some of […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Wrote this paragraph 17 days ago, about the killing of Renee Good.

Guy on the bus today: "Everyone can hear me on the phone, hang on a minute" as he yells his conversation into his airpods. Takes his airpods out. "Hang on a minute, I just had to take my airpods out, everyone on the bus could hear me'. Mate, we can still hear you. "I wouldn't date a chick if […]

#auspol #noalitionsplit LOL https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-22/politics-live-blog-nationals-coalition-liberal-ley-littleproud/106255658

The incomparable Louise Adler shoots down the media and the political class in ten words (while doing a drive-by on the real villains) : "its stenographers in the media and a spineless political class" #auspoi #antizionismisnotantisemitsm I could have added a few more hashtags, but these two […]

About 10pm last night, my almost four year old Samsung S22U went into a boot loop. I managed to get it out a couple of times into download firmware mode (easy), bootloader mode (trickier - it was a tight boot loop, and it wasn't responding to the boot to bootloader keypresses, other than […]

Years ago, I paid way too much for a USB 3.0 128GB memory stick. I had plans for doing things like running my own Windows 10/11 image off it, fast image backups when I was about to do something dangerous that I probably shouldn't, and so on. Most of the time, it just sits in the drawer […]

And another tipping point reached!Batteries are powering #australia all through the night. Not much, but it's a start. #auspol #rewiringaustralia

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

Still looking at the archive of this brief note that appeared in Australian newspapers in 1912 and shaking my head. 1912 'COAL CONSUMPTION AFFECTING CLIMATE.', The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal (NSW : 1888 - 1889; 1895; 1897 - 1954), 17 July, p. 4 […] [Original post on aus.social]

The ABC's running a piece in which a young woman says antisemitism & anti-Zionism are the same. The ABC doesn’t need to argue with interviewees, but it has a responsibility not to let contested definitions or misinformation be presented to audiences as settled fact. #BondiShooting #AusPol

Sunday chore status update: #1 of 4: fix template bug in SQL sensor in HA ✅ #2 of 4: AA battery for kitchen clock ✅ #2.5 of 4: Bunnings Rotary snag while picking up AA batteries and 5m Cat6A Ethernet cable for $10.75 ✅ #3 of 4: New PoE Camera installed to provide coverage when the local […]

@SeaFury apropos your poll the other day, spotted near MSAC

#qantas #scam doing the rounds now: Text call to action with a pretty good believable domain, and enough points to suggest urgency. New domain (three days old). Website only captures one thing - phone number. Interesting. Are they harvesting for a second round? […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Judge Patti Saris of the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts vacated #Trump’s Jan 20 executive order blocking wind energy projects & declared it unlawful. Saris ruled in favor of a coalition of state attorneys general from 17 states & Washington, DC, led by #nyag #letitiajames […]

So many conspiracy theories, so few conspiracy experiments.

How short are journos’ memories? It’s wild that Jacob Greber quoted Sussan Ley’s outrage at Anika Wells’ eye-watering spending without also referencing Ley’s own history charging taxpayers for questionable flights as context. And who recalls #Bronniecopter? #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

Alarm Panel Upgrade Fail: As advertised followed by as received. #diy #diyfail

#ai #vibecoding #lolsnort https://www.reddit.com/r/google_antigravity/comments/1p82or6/google_antigravity_just_deleted_the_contents_of/ Probably old news for everyone else, but new to me. Vibe coder loses entire D: drive to #AI IDE.

Oh, fuck, it's #auspol #antinetzero #abc730report tonight with #cosplay coal #canavan and #lockthegate anti transmission line farming fuckwits.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@anirvan/115629509983086255 "Denied food, she was told she could only have water if she purchased a cup. She was rebuffed in her requests to contact family or a lawyer. Velez was held two days, until June 4." "To be clear, Velez had committed no crime and is a […]

@mattblaze I don’t think this will impact tourism because we’ve done our best to discourage any sane person from visiting the USA.

This paragraph is everything wrong with reporting on #energystorage in #australia in the dumbing down of content for #auspol: "The Waratah battery will be able to supply 970,000 homes with electricity for one hour or charge 45.95 million smartphones when running at full capacity. With a total […]

@GossiTheDog have you seen this https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-06/microsoft-to-refund-customers-for-365-subscription-price-hike/105977094 "In response to the demand for advanced AI tools, we introduced AI capabilities into the Microsoft 365 Personal and Family subscriptions that we offer […]

I guess this is why #trump thinks that we should be paying #tariffs for #pbs #pharmaceuticals. Not happy about having COVID-19 for the third time, but very happy to have access to antivirals at reasonable prices #auspol

This pro-Zionist propaganda on #abc730 day after day is getting old. Where is the balance?

@Nonilex @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 your two toots appeared one after another in my notifications. Timely reminder of what is happening in in #uspol and how prescient #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide was.

#latingle is perfectly correct, as usual. #aukus is, as it always has been, an expensive white elephant that will never be able to be delivered, but continues to delay the obvious choice - the French subs that we ordered, but perversely decided to convert to older, less suitable diesel. #auspol […]

Was feeling crook today (probably the new drugs), and the subconscious craving tool identified that vegemite toast was the solution. Only had slightly stale sourdough (bought on Sunday), but toasted it and it was fine. I spread the vegemite on like I was an American tourist who didn't know […]

Fucking enshittification with #ai - Google workspace (Gmail) used to automatically create calendar events from things like event tickets and airline tickets, or at least prompt to right in the email. Now there's a fucking #gemini #ai prompt to create the calendar event. It mostly gets it right […]

I know that it is a radio station streaming app, so I shouldn't expect "bank grade security" but a basic understanding of how data gets from the app to your servers in the data centre doesn't seem to beyond the capabilities even SEN. #infosec

Testing Email @Boss