Hey #auspol does USA or China have more control over your finance and military capabilities? The third guess is independence. We have space, resources, talent, culture. A mature Nation seeks trade over invasion.

I have an idea for solar powered libraries/ Wikipedia servers that are only on a private radio network (and short range wifi access) which update each other (like router configs). Crazy or visionary? You decide!

I can see personal websites with a Links page becoming very useful again soon.

Check out the YouTube channel Nomad Sam.

Hi @miloedwards.bsky.social . are you no longer a part of TF?

are we up to the political class that has not studied classics, only economics and business. either they believe history just doesn't happen anymore, or they never bothered to find out.

@blindboyboatclub.bsky.social Hello there Mr Boatclub. I'm not sure if you like Red Dwarf but they had an episode very similar to that story you wrote about the time travelling sperm. It was called Ouroboros from 1997. bye for now.

cherry tomato seeds, $2. a punnet of cherry tomato, also $2 and i get to eat most of them! yes, i have re-invented farming. in an apartment!

This is what happens when you look to the future instead of 1955 #auspol

Congratulations, @albomp.bsky.social & Minister allegedly 'for' the environment, Murray Watt! "More than 57,000 hectares of threatened species habitat was approved for destruction by the Australian government in 2025 – the most in 15 years..." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I dress *very* casually so people don’t know I’m secretly very wealthy. I mean, I’m not but they don’t know that.

I wish we had a 24 hour library in #melbourne

Well look what showed up at the Deschutes Public Library!

Don’t be surprised to see Trump arresting politicians soon.

Rare set of varied factors triggered Black Death by Jennifer Ouellette arstechnica.com/science/2025... Original paper: www.nature.com/articles/s43... The Black Death at PG: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subje... #books #environment #epidemiology

I seem to be extra preachy today. “Left” and “right” are antiquated terms that originally mean one is for the crown or private industry. Neither of them originate from being for the people. The sides you should be on are working class or industrial class. If you have any job, you are working class.

They have this backwards. First ban X until they can prove, via independent testing that are compliant again.

Bees are disappearing 100–1000× faster than the natural extinction rate. The last bee isn’t science fiction — it’s a countdown already in progress. Pesticides, Monocultures, Climate change,Habitat loss We created every cause. We can still reverse most of them. Time is not honey-sweet anymore

Remember if someone is saying rubbish, it’s up to them to prove it correct, not for everyone else to prove it false.

I feel the world has collectively humoured morons too much. Just because someone says something that is obviously false doesn’t mean you have to spend time to fact check them.

#auspol remember USA January 6 2020 when MAGA stormed the capital, then Trump suffered no consequences and is now killing people on the streets? Well if a coalition of nations don’t decouple from USA now, there is a very real chance he will start a world war.

I’m very sensitive to tones. This causes many real world issues for me but one that is really hard is when someone is saying something interesting but has a harsh voice. it’s physically painful to listen to them, yet I must.

Santoss made an ad for the 2026 Tour Down Under and it's surprsingly honest and informative! 🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

If you are a UX designer and have core functionality in a submenu, you are a bad person and need to rethink your life.

At what point will we twig that the inquiry most needed is into the extraordinary power and influence the Zionist Lobby is wielding over Australia's mainstream media and cultural and social institutions?

I really like this. Make the EURO the new basis currency. Get off the USD which is no longer credible as a basis currency. Dump your US Bonds as fast as you can.

Nothing personal - it’s just business said the Mafia hit man “In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the value of saving human lives, documents show” www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Absolutely “The Albanese government should urgently reconsider Australia’s alliance with the US, two former Labor foreign ministers have said, as they voiced alarm over Donald Trump’s military intervention in Venezuela and renewed push to claim Greenland” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

What a legend!

#auspol What’s that legal term when your knowing inaction causes death?

Brazilian tennis player João Lucas Reis da Silva is set to become the first publicly gay person to compete at the Australian Open this week in Melbourne. www.attitude.co.uk/news/joao-lu...

You can’t say bigoted things, but your religious text can say bigoted things and you can say the religious text out loud. No more special rules for religion and religious people, they’ve proven they don’t respect that privilege. I suggest we cease electing religious people to represent us too.

“I didn’t know facism was bad until it happened to me” is my impression of listening to Ashley StClaire

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Finally some common sense.

What is the end game here? No publicly funded cultural events that aren’t approved by Israel? No arts boards that aren’t pro-Israel? The sections of our political class and media who are active in this attempted gutting of our cultural landscape need to ask wtf they are doing here.

Women are murdered by current or former partners at a rate of more than one a week. If women call themselves a religion the government may call an emergency session of parliament to pass laws to protect them. (before you say it, other groups in our society too, this is the example I chose)

“after being appointed global president of the international relations thinktank the Asia Society. Rudd will also head the society’s Centre for China Analysis” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

All the wars, all of them are rich people trying to stay or become richer. And they never fight.

#auspol it is clear that poverty is a choice made by the powerful. To have even one billionaire and any homeless is proof our monitory system is corrupt. Our career politicians have broken their oath of office. It is a criminal act they are perpetuating.

it is sad that our current civilisation won't leave much for future archaeologists. Our culture is mostly digital. Our weapons completely destroy most buildings. Our middens are full of crushed material.

I preach a lot about decoupling from the USA. some folks can't imagine it. "USA is too big". Even a brief look at history shows that every empire falls. The fall isn't quick, it's a slow transition to a different way of doing things. The USA has speed run empire.

2026 sumo is gonna be lit !! 🔥

January 2026... #Archaeology 🏺

my opinion on CES? Glad you asked! people that actually invent things no longer run silicone valley, it's all investors and staffed by software engineers that are great at resumes. So not only are they solving problems that don't exist, they are solving problems they think "other people" have.

""Log on, Lean In, Slop Out". #sloppers. #StanfordOrKetamine

I have just been walking the Merri-creek. I have never seen it so dry. In many places it had even stopped running.

“We need a society that values its visionaries, those who go against the grain to create new dreams that reveal other ways of being,” writes Ben Quilty in his essay, Collective Ambition, featured in A Time for Bravery. Buy your copy of A Time for Bravery: australiainstitute.org.au/store/A-Time...

#auspol I have been yelling about this for YEARS! every nation must have digital sovereignty for critical systems. It is entirely achievable in Australia. We have the talent it just requires the political will.

"This is further evidence that the share of Australia’s wealth held by the very rich is increasing.” Read the full piece on The Point: https://thepoint.com.au/off-the-charts/260112-capital-gains-for-the-rich-outpace-the-national-wages-bill-by-whopping-300-billion