Even better, I taught him to use teh Interwebz - guess which was the first website he wanted to visit?

My friend @paulwallbank.bsky.social fixed Bob Hawkes computer.

Ok Bluesky, what are your most low key celebrity interactions? I once shared a lift with Tim Finn and put drinks in Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward’s fridge. My husband sold cheese to John Cleese and my mum delivered groceries to Gough Whitlam. Go!!

🚨 We're close to selling out again! Get your ticket now! Join Alain Bertaud (author of Order without Design) and Brendan Coates (Grattan Institute) to discuss how to make Australian cities work better for everyone. [Link to tickets in next tweet]

Who is the bad immigrant that Angus Taylor speaks of? Is it my late father Leo who would be up at 4am to work on farms in Mt Beauty, doing back breaking work no one born here was willing to do? Is it my mum Sia? Who when we moved to Melbourne worked in factories in exploitative conditions,

I've been on another fact-finding tour to see the impact large-scale blueberry farming is having on the beautiful mid-north coast. You honestly won't believe where this one is 🤯

Meet Alba the Alpine Dingo! Victoria's native Alpine & Mallee Dingoes are crucial to Indigenous culture and the ecosystem - but they're classified as threatened Find out more about the important work to protect these beautiful creatures at www.dingoes.net

One thing I admire about the Dutch and the Netherlands 🇳🇱 is that many of their elected officials cycle for transportation. To them, it's unremarkable, but to me, it's inspirational.

'Big tech industry’s claims about the climate benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are a hoax. 74% of claims about AI’s climate benefits are unproven, serving the profits of tech & fossil fuel industries, downplaying the major climate harms of AI'. foe.org/news/report-... @foeus.bsky.social

Vale Jesse Jackson. My @smh @theage cartoon.

@timrichards @ajsadauskas I did, but only from one of the take away fish and chip stalls, rather than from a fancy seafood restaurant.

Anzac Bridge, aka The other Sydney Harbour Bridge, as seen from the Sydney Fish Markets. #Sydney #NSW #australia #bridge

And one of the very last Lone Star restaurants anywhere in the world is no more. Seems even Parramatta has given up on the chain. (For context, earlier post here: https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/831136302694502008 ) #restaurants #LoneStar #Parramatta #NSW #australia

Can't. Here comes sickness Walking down my street Shaking her hips Like she's some kinda treat All the neighborhood dogs Licking at her feet Here comes sickness Here comes sickness Here comes sickness Walking down my street Yeah

Don’t forget, when Pauline drops racist bombshells into the media for everyone to react to, she’s now being funded by Gina Rinehart, major contributor to racist propaganda group Advance and inspired by MAGA-guru Steve “flood the zone with bullshit” Bannon. The offence is the point.

I often think about how so many cities are AGONIZING over the idea of turning a single street, or even a block, into a people-place and pedestrian stroll, while thriving communities like Gràcia in Barcelona are filled with networks of pedestrian streets and squares with no cars, or “tamed” cars.

Can't... And it's really got me worried, I'm goin' nowhere and I'm in a hurry. You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone!

Yes, and it's gone to a middle-ranking duffer who's apoplectic at the thought of it going any further. "We've invested a lot in World Cup 2026. The last two were in Qatar and Russia. I don't want to hear another bad word about it, do you understand?"

You know who lives in these new suburbs? First and second generation immigrants who can feel the contempt from the Coalition and One Nation but wonder why they're taken for granted by Labor.

@ajsadauskas.bsky.social I would follow STUC, Scottish Trade Union Congress - and I just tweeted to them (yes, they're still on the birdsite) that I would like to see them on mastodon.scot.

I follow @sallymcmanus.bsky.social

@ajsadauskas @aj Did you have lunch there?

The head of the ACTU, @sallymcmanus.bsky.social is here, not sure if the union is

i'd follow Game Workers Australia on bluesky (on a work account). which i don't think is a major union but that's what's relevant to me

Hey, quick question: Does anyone know if there's any unions, either in Australia or overseas, currently using BlueSky? Also, if a major Australian Union were to create an account here, would you follow it? #auspol #union #TradeUnions

@ajsadauskas @aj Nice. I'm looking forward to seeing it later in the month.

Inside the shiny new Sydney Fish Markets. Despite the crowds, it's a very spacious modern building. (Warning: This gallery contains images of fish. And fruit.) #fish #market #Sydney #NSW #building #architecture

Sorry all this is my fault; and speculation has grown worse because I have been sick in bed with a high fever and unable to reliably address it (still am sick) I was told by management not to comment until they did. Here is my statement in images below arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

Sydney's shiny new fish markets. I took a lot of photos, so I'll break this up into two sets: Outdoors (today) and indoors (tomorrow). #Sydney #building #buildings #architecture

Ars Technics's statement: "On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards." arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

Backup of the story: mttaggart.neocities.org/ars-whoopsie

did you see that the plot thickened tl;dr Ars Technica might've posted AI-hallucinated pull quotes in their coverage infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/1...

So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213... Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...

I was an editor at two places that churned out a ton of content (5-8 posts per staffer daily, some ad powered listicles, and usually one or two longer pieces from freelancers bi weekly) and we got on fine. AI kills jobs, but it also makes the people left behind who use it lazy as shit

Feel like this is a good lesson to keep generative AI far from your editorial process as a matter of policy. Ars is a great website. If it can happen there it can happen to anyone that allows these tools in

Ars' statement on the matter is here: arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0...

Ars Technica does not permit the publication of AI-generated material unless it is clearly labeled and presented for demonstration purposes. I always have and always will abide by that rule to the best of my knowledge at the time a story is published.

I have been told not to comment on a now-retracted Ars story while an investigation is ongoing.

(I have a video on Australian transit in the works. It busts some assumptions people have about transit in interesting ways.)

Sydney's Haymarket district. Being the weekend before the Lunar New Year, it's particularly vibrant with nightmarkets and artists. #Sydney #NSW #australia

Hey @nerd4cities.bsky.social, any chance of doing a video link this, comparing transit ridership between North American and Australian metro areas? Similar challenges in terms of suburbanisation, sprawl, and culture (British colonial settler societies)... www.youtube.com/watch?v=17up...

Spice Alley, near UTS and One Central Park in Sydney. Not anywhere nearly as good as Burwood Chinatown, but still a nice laneway with many good eateries. #Sydney #NSW #australia #street #streets #buildings #architecture

It needs a power wash ...

The final days of Dangerously Modern at the Art Gallery of NSW. This exhibition highlights the works of the trailblazing female artists who studied modernist painting in Europe at the turn of the 19th century, and brought back artistic movements like cubism and impressionism. #art

Wow! Those sculptures are amazing.

A beautiful but worn art deco building on Phillip St, in the Parramatta CBD. #building #buildings #architecture #Parramatta #NSW #Australia #art

Victoria has a very grand, goldrush-era state parliament building: https://pixelfed.social/p/ajsadauskas/910837703008398380 In contrast, New South Wales could charitably be described as humble. A humble parliament building for a humble state 😇😁 #auspol #vicpol #nswpol #building #architecture

A truly wonderful video on the lack of science or sense in Forester’s “Effective Cycling”. How were so many people convinced by his baseless assertions?

Worth noting the bankrupt property developers behind the Carlingford buildings, Dyldam, are different to the bankrupt property developers being investigated by ICAC for trying to bribe Parramatta city councillors: https://gts.sadauskas.id.au/@aj/statuses/01KG1M5SJWMNC6190XKZ3AJ8EB These […]

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]