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2026-08-29 06:30:12 CEST

Prepping for Vada's birthday party

2026-08-22 00:09:03 CEST

Good morning friends! Happy Saturday! Does anyone want a game of #chess? I'm not giving up that easily :)
First to click plays (no account needed) and subsequent clicks spectate. Rapid casual. 10 mins per side.
I've been on a bit of a losing streak lately so you'll probably have a good chance of winning!
https://lichess.org/aY4P55fp

2026-08-21 16:46:26 CEST

I'm 3 wines in and it's a quarter to 1am but sometimes I truly don't get how I am still so bad at online chess. I just lost like 9 games in a row. Probably should just give up lol.

2026-08-21 00:15:59 CEST

I'm on a bus to work. Hi everyone 👋 what are you up to?

2026-08-18 15:31:01 CEST

Hmm power outage here in #Brisbane Northside around Everton Park area. No WiFi networks detected anywhere close by now so must be a bit of a wide area. Everyone else got power where you are?

2026-08-15 15:52:08 CEST

Lately I've been making my way through this 'Ramy' show and I've been surprised by how good it is. "First generation Egyptian-American Ramy struggles to balance life as a 20-something-year-old Muslim in a politically divided New Jersey neighbourhood." Funny, edgy, weird, pushing the boundaries, but also dealing with the complex questions of life, and coming at modern existence from a perspective rarely seen on TV. Anyone else seed it at all? I feel like it's quite successfully flown under the radar here in Australia, but I have noticed that it is coming to SBS in 2 weeks. Anyway, give it a go, though I know it might not be for everyone. Here's a trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGvl4s4FBoo

2026-08-12 06:51:32 CEST

"It has sat around two thirds for a generation while the number of adults who actually own their home slid underneath it.
"The people locked out of ownership are propping up the very number that says the market is fine."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-12/home-ownership-rate-lower-in-reality-australia-census/107009168

2026-08-06 09:56:34 CEST

I have a New York Times subscription through work and they just raised the limit for gift article sharing from 10 articles per month to unlimited articles per month, so I thought, as an experiment, I'd make this account to share stuff I find interesting and make use of the subscription fully. Follow here if you wanna ----> @npub169q…ml9e
(and let me know if there are any articles you want to read, and I'll share them)

2026-07-30 04:55:11 CEST

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Yeah, I hadn't been a customer for years and I still got info leaked 🤦‍♂️

2026-07-30 04:31:54 CEST

Another day another company (Origin Energy) leaking my name DOB email phone number bank and credit card details and they're just like *whoooopsie soz* I seriously think companies should be banned from storing customer data until they can learn to store it securely 🤷

2026-07-29 07:59:25 CEST

Excited to be seeing The Odyssey as Christopher Nolan intended tonight ... in the old Brisbane IMAX cinema at South Bank that is not actually an IMAX any more but it still has a pretty big screen! :DealWithIt:

2026-07-28 03:27:52 CEST

"A really concerning number of illegal knackeries and the result of that is that you've seen horses and other animals ending up in what people would assume to be minced beef or minced lamb."
I would simply eat a Beyond Burger 🤷
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-28/horse-meat-detected-as-mince-in-food-safety-breaches/106936504

2026-07-27 16:30:05 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MastodonEngineering/116974442462944015
Me and @npub1scp…6zy8 were up past midnight to patch this on the server asap. All done! You're welcome. LOL :D
#note1uek…j6zt

2026-07-26 23:27:30 CEST

New from our team:
The countdown begins! 🚨
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/what-to-know-about-ausalert-emergency-warning-test/106919574
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2026-07-26 23:13:30 CEST

Ten degrees is not enough degrees. Bring on spring I say.

2026-07-26 16:14:12 CEST

Weekend went too quick :(

2026-07-26 04:03:39 CEST

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correlation always equals causation :D

2026-07-25 13:57:07 CEST

https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/980/482/352/354/124/original/58f324a468b6f4bf.webp

2026-07-25 08:12:30 CEST

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Why does bamboo grow so darn fast!??

2026-07-25 08:06:14 CEST

Still battling bamboo in Mums backyard attempting to make a comeback

2026-07-25 04:21:50 CEST

I decided to migrate a site over to Codeberg and the next thing I know the whole site is down hahah 🙃
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/978/225/709/643/595/original/a4ff43622c325262.webp

2026-07-24 00:26:42 CEST

https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/971/637/427/011/805/original/ebf2927ad7455d3e.webp

2026-07-23 03:33:47 CEST

RE: https://mastodon.art/@mobydick/116966531890534400
Gonna start using “he must die the death and be murdered” in general conversation

2026-07-23 02:12:02 CEST

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I don’t know if I’d say I was scared but House of Leaves gave me an uneasy feeling while reading it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Leaves

2026-07-23 00:06:10 CEST

Bit foggy out

2026-07-22 13:06:36 CEST

"While Queenslanders are working hard, paying their taxes and struggling with fuel and transport costs, the AirTrain's foreign owners are ripping us all off." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-20/airtrain-paid-no-company-tax-greens-mp/106935730

2026-07-22 04:44:12 CEST

“We’re dancing, Emma and I, and I didn’t know this would become the poster for the movie,” he told The Wall Street Journal. “We were supposed to have our hands up, and I thought it would be cool to put my hand like that: [Bends wrist gayly.] Even though everyone told me it wasn’t cool, I was sure it was cooler. And now when I look at it, and I have to see it all the time, you know what would’ve been cooler than this? [Bends wrist gayly again.] That. [Straightens hand.]” He then added insult to injury by saying it “killed the energy” and was “lazy,” noting that he called it the “La La Hand.”
😂😂😂
https://www.vulture.com/article/ryan-gosling-gay-little-wrist-la-la-land.html

2026-07-21 09:49:54 CEST

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Happy Veganniversary!

2026-07-21 03:00:04 CEST

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Oh, so this is maybe why all the US tech bros are freaking out about
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/955/252/902/384/731/original/6f0f7d420462c5d0.webp

2026-07-21 02:54:44 CEST

It's happening https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-21/prepare-for-stock-market-pain-china-ai-boom-tech/106937282

2026-07-18 13:12:17 CEST

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cheers Rae. I had one too!

2026-07-17 01:17:24 CEST

#VoiceNote
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/932/204/536/149/725/original/5cdfa6b66954ccae.mp3

2026-07-17 00:16:12 CEST

Was just listening to this episode of The Economy Stupid and was extremely surprised to hear this economist actually saying great stuff that makes 100% sense and wanted to know who it was (Richard Denniss) and as an added bonus I spotted my name in the show notes. Anyway, have a listen. And tax wealth not work. 😄
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-economy-stupid/why-not-tax-wealth-and-why-not-start-with-billionaires/106850212
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2026-07-16 11:08:46 CEST

No one told us the 2026 Lego Masters season has started! Watching episode 1 now as a family. They're doing Lord of the Rings force perspective builds!

2026-07-14 23:12:36 CEST

Good morning everyone. It's 10 degrees outside and SpaceX stock is down another 2.2% overnight. I hope everyone has a glorious day.

2026-07-13 15:48:08 CEST

One of the most beloved actors in Hollywood, the late Sam Neill is remembered as our “honorary Aussie” with a breadth of talent. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-13/sam-neill-remembered-obituary-honorary-australian/102963260

2026-07-13 15:32:16 CEST

Kinda wanna watch Event Horizon again, but it scared the hell out of me when I watched it in the cinemas when I was too young and now I don't think I can haha

2026-07-11 04:58:03 CEST

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I came third place!!! 🥉

2026-07-11 00:41:39 CEST

Off to do some go karting at Slideways for Jimmy's bucks. Hope I don't get blue-shelled!

2026-07-10 09:01:34 CEST

Taking another look at #BunnyNet CDN as an alternative to #Cloudflare and so I just put my newly resurrected #GoToSocial instance behind it as a test and it seems to be working (after a few DNS breakages) pretty great. Anyway, follow @npub1g0u…u6py to give the bunnies and my server a bit of workout if you wanna. Cheers!

2026-07-09 01:50:12 CEST

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recommended https://www.airbnb.com.au/rooms/1704175263988794963?source_impression_id=p3_1783554557_P3vgeyK5gRx1Je5Z

2026-07-09 01:01:20 CEST

Just watching this brand new doco "How to Get Filthy Rich with Gary Stevenson" on Channel 4 in the UK. The free Firefox VPN does a pretty good job giving access. https://www.channel4.com/programmes/how-to-get-filthy-rich-with-gary-stevenson

2026-07-07 09:09:15 CEST

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yeah it's not bad

2026-07-07 02:14:51 CEST

Sorry to inform everyone that I think I'm becoming a "radio guy" and I just picked up this cute little Sangen digital radio refurbished on eBay and I love it.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/875/802/995/063/288/original/140ff40dd166a308.webp

2026-07-07 00:14:49 CEST

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hmm this is odd. Haven't seen this before. I'll try to reproduce the error and fix. Thanks

2026-07-06 15:45:57 CEST

We're back!

2026-07-06 12:46:56 CEST

LOL at this message on Tusky. Muting this hashtag as a warning to all other hashtags they better watch their backs! 👀😆
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/872/621/335/565/130/original/cf323455554cd676.jpg

2026-07-06 08:48:34 CEST

For our final night in Hobart my cousin gifted us a stay in a fancy cabin on the mountain with a bath tub on the deck. Didn't quite get a chance to use the bath, mostly due to it being about 5 degrees outside, but we woke up to a spectacular moonset over the ridge.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/871/691/356/809/382/original/2fcadfa000ff839c.webp
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/871/691/202/063/255/original/aebc1f501e5ac0cc.webp

2026-07-06 03:13:43 CEST

The Apache-2.0 software license.

2026-07-06 03:12:24 CEST

"The top 10 per cent of households hold over half the nation's wealth. The top 1 per cent hold somewhere between 15 and 20 per cent. The bottom 40 per cent hold essentially nothing, many, on net, hold less than nothing once debts are accounted for. Wealth in Australia is now substantially more unequally distributed than income, and the gap is widening."
How about instead of turning to fascism we tax wealth not work. It's literally the only solution. 🤷
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-06/house-prices-household-debt-voter-sentiment/106881978

2026-07-06 01:28:45 CEST

😅
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/869/959/649/972/556/original/eaf55ca381d71d19.jpg

2026-07-03 23:54:36 CEST

5 degrees feels like 1 degree in Hobart and apparently it's snowing up on the mountain!

2026-07-03 00:35:33 CEST

New from our team:
For decades Australian house prices have grown. This is what a fall could mean
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Over the last six years, house prices have more than doubled in Brisbane.
“It feels like the game’s rigged against us,” he says.
“Houses need to fall for it to be a reasonable thing for anyone to buy a house.
“If house prices continue to go up at the rate they are, it doesn’t matter if we save till we’re 45, we’ll never have a big enough deposit.”
Mr Northcott says at present all he can afford is a one-bedroom apartment.
“We need more than one bedroom so that we can have a family, have space,” he says.
“If house prices don’t fall, that might mean that we just flat out don’t get to have kids.
“It’s our life goal. We’ve always wanted a family, a home, the same thing that our parents and grandparents had.”
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-03/what-would-a-house-price-fall-mean-for-australians/106827028
:BoostOK:

2026-07-02 09:13:19 CEST

Tassie here we come!

2026-07-01 02:01:24 CEST

Hmm our power just went out. A quick wifi scan returning zero nearby networks suggests it's a wider neighbourhood issue. Guess I'll just have to wait it out. Not ideal WFH conditions haha. Can't even make a cup of tea!

2026-06-30 01:54:33 CEST

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ah yes. I get what you're saying now. There is a small chance of course! About one in the number of atoms in the galaxy I believe. Small enough for me to confidently bet multiple trillions of dollars on it. Similar concept to these zero knowledge proofs which I find fascinating. They are technically called "proofs" even though they're not 100% certain. https://www.zmescience.com/future/the-crazy-mathematical-concept-that-underlies-all-your-online-security-zero-knowledge-proofs/

2026-06-29 23:54:57 CEST

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A dice is one in six lol. Anyway I'm not here to convince you and you can believe or not believe what you want but have a read up here:
"What if all 108 billion people who have ever lived all started shuffling a deck of cards once per second at the moment of the Big Bang, 13.8 billion years ago, and continued until today? With only 435,196,800,000,000,000 or 4.351968e17 seconds having elapsed so far since the beginning of time, we would still only manage 4.7e28 shuffles."
I guess we better start shuffling :D
https://puzzlewocky.com/brain-teasers/probability-puzzles/every-shuffle-of-a-deck-of-cards-is-probably-unique-in-history/

2026-06-29 22:39:27 CEST

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truly random shuffles only. No cheating lol. I'm calling Vegas security 😁

2026-06-29 13:55:53 CEST

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it's apparently true believe it or not :)

2026-06-29 11:22:34 CEST

It still blows my mind that every time you shuffle a standard deck of cards you create a unique card order that has never happened before in the entirety of human history of card shuffling

2026-06-25 11:16:19 CEST

“Any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up today is a bum.” – Bob Hawke https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/25/world-cup-australia-friday-work-sick-day-great-australian-socceroos-sickie

2026-06-24 10:50:14 CEST

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I'm imagining you're tooting this from the on-screen car web browser 😁

2026-06-22 23:21:37 CEST

Everyone get ready for the "Space X stocks come crashing back to Earth" headlines 📉
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/795/850/352/121/029/original/110ec5950d7a763e.jpg

2026-06-21 01:32:18 CEST

Happy Winter Solstice to all who celebrate AKA me because it's my birthday! 😁🥳 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_solstice

2026-06-19 21:31:51 CEST

Up watching the USA v AUS game for some reason because my daughter wanted to wake up and watch it hahahahaha (come on Australia) 😴

2026-06-18 14:38:45 CEST

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Barry's vids are pretty great actually, and a bit more structured too!

2026-06-18 07:35:51 CEST

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Sounds like someone has a Simon's Economics channel to start. I'd watch that actually 😄

2026-06-18 07:27:50 CEST

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*shakes fist* I quite like the long form stuff actually. Gotta feed that content machine somehow haha. You might be interested in this new thing called vertical video shorts ;) https://www.youtube.com/@GarysEconomics/shorts

2026-06-18 05:53:17 CEST

This video is so funny because you can hear the ever-growing frustration in Gary's voice that people still don't get this simple concept. All the economists and bootlickers arguing against a wealth tax are literally arguing for more tax on themselves and they don't even realise it.
"Governments will be politically forced to step in to try to deal with the growing poverty. But because they do not have the capacity to tax the richest people in society, they are going to tax you. [...] So when you argue for not taxing the very rich, what you are arguing for is the taxation of yourself."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8mfqPNdENw&t=1826s

2026-06-18 00:06:35 CEST

232 days ago my "Fix thumbnails for links from The Guardian (and possibly other CDNs that check URL hashes) not showing up (#36139 by @npub1m0e…mqsy)" pull request was merged in to main. Today it's fully released to the public! We'll be upgrading this instance soon. Enjoy!
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.6.0

2026-06-16 11:25:49 CEST

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I think this might be the greatest music video ever made. I challenge you to show me a better one thank this hahaha

2026-06-16 08:34:03 CEST

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Just watching this clip again. It certainly is something 👀

2026-06-16 02:37:53 CEST

Had to switch from Developer Edition to standard Firefox to test it out, but I'm giving the new free built-in VPN a go. Seems pretty decent. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/06/firefox-vpn-unlimited-data-promotion

2026-06-15 00:19:30 CEST

"We built an economy that rewards asset owners and pulled the ladder up behind us, then blamed the young." https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pop-culture-mental-health/202606/we-built-the-machine-then-blamed-the-kids-for-unplugging

2026-06-14 08:01:51 CEST

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We won!! 2-0 🏆

2026-06-14 07:03:19 CEST

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Australia is having a great game so far. 1-0 to Aus after half time. Let's keep it up! 🤞

2026-06-14 03:12:24 CEST

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I've actually been watching a few of the World Cup games. So far I'm enjoying that the field is just grass and not plastered with in-your-face advertising like whenever you see pretty much any sporting match in Australia. 😅

2026-06-14 02:10:25 CEST

A little something I've been working on for the past little while in collaboration with the ABC Sports Desk. Australia is about to play their first game in the 2026 World Cup at 2pm today. Before this story I knew virtually nothing about the Australian World Cup team and their global origin stories. Now I know a tiny bit more. Feel free to have a read and share with friends. Go Australia go! ⚽ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-14/one-goal-many-journeys/106684994

2026-06-11 11:15:59 CEST

Thinkin about The Substance (2024). What a film.

2026-06-03 00:55:54 CEST

What a glorious day for eating a veggie pastie outside the servo and basking in the sun before work

2026-06-02 05:23:33 CEST

"There is something fundamentally wrong with a system where extreme wealth keeps skyrocketing while so many people are struggling to afford the basics."
If you have just 1 billion dollars of assets, even at a relatively low return of around 5 percent, you will be getting 50 million dollars of passive income each year, or almost a million dollars a week.
Now you can live like a king and it would still be hard to spend a million dollars every week, so what do you do? You invest that money into buying more assets. And who has those assets that you want to buy? The middle class, who is increasingly struggling to afford the basics.
And the cycle continues.
(Solution? Tax wealth not work.)
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-02/australia-has-most-billionaires-on-record-oxfam-analysis/106746904

2026-05-31 23:16:10 CEST

It got down to 9 degrees this morning apparently. That's not enough degrees.

2026-05-31 06:01:47 CEST

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cossie is old skool

2026-05-29 11:51:31 CEST

When founders say, “I worked hard, didn’t pay myself a salary and poured the profits back into the business”, spare me. Yes, we all did that, not because we were saints, but at least in part because it helped us reduce tax. Most of this is still allowed.
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/as-a-founder-i-ll-pay-albanese-s-tax-spare-me-the-whining-we-re-not-saints-20260525-p600d5.html
Archive link: http://archive.today/0wcC1

2026-05-28 01:11:58 CEST

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Hilarious that the first comment on this article is straight away the stereotype "It seems a lot of the youth now want the latest tech, a new car, fancy clothes, holidays, eating out etc" 🙃

2026-05-28 01:09:59 CEST

"I'm a millennial with Baby Boomer parents.
"I'm from a generation that was raised on the beliefs of the Baby Boomer generation that hard work will be rewarded with all the trimmings of a middle-class life - owning a big house, having a well-paid job.
"But the recipe that all but guaranteed this middle-class success for Baby Boomers does not stack up today.
"The rules have radically changed."
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/9253892/australian-housing-crisis-birthright-film-explores-boomer-rift/
https://archive.md/Ik5Tl

2026-05-26 12:31:45 CEST

BTW if anyone uses Firefox on Android and wants a way to keep YouTube videos playing in the background while using other apps or with the screen locked, this add-on is for you. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/video-background-play-fix/

2026-05-25 12:10:00 CEST

Did I read correctly the other day that one of the Murdochs was going to buy half of Vox Media? How very sad. There goes the neighbourhood.

2026-05-25 04:05:39 CEST

"There were people who were planning their strategy on negative gearing and buying properties because of the negative gearing strategies. Now they need to sit back and give a chance to first-home buyers."
A promising first step. Housing is a human right, not an investment.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/auction-clears-rates-drop/106714340

2026-05-23 15:59:12 CEST

Real talk.
We either find a way to tax billionaire asset hoarding, reverse the trajectory of ever-increasing wealth inequality and drastically address the falling living standards of ordinary people that has been going on for decades now, or else we get the far right. They will literally be the government.
Simple as that.
People are sick and tired of the same old shit from politicians and things continuing to get worse each year.
The writing is on the wall. We have a choice to make.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-23/poll-predicts-one-nation-federal-opposition/106714586

2026-05-21 00:51:37 CEST

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Good to see a bit of a downturn in house prices predicted (before shooting back up) ... But to match your grandparents' home-buying power, prices would need to fall by around 73%.
On a $75k wage houses should cost around $255k. Instead they're pushing $940k nationally, and over a million in many areas.
So yeah, a downturn is a start, but we'd need prices to fall by almost three quarters to get back even a semblance of intergenerational equality.

2026-05-18 12:08:55 CEST

This song was playing in the Woolies while I was shopping tonight and it really brought back some memories of a simpler time just listening to X&Y on my Discman back in the day. Decided to look up the film clip and I'm very glad I did. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAGbq3A9HfA

2026-05-17 23:06:14 CEST

☔

2026-05-12 22:50:22 CEST

Good morning friends 🌞

2026-05-09 02:21:33 CEST

Going on a picnic

2026-05-07 09:37:23 CEST

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Dang it. Not a good time to try and buy a hard drive. *shakes fist at AI industry*

2026-05-07 05:41:31 CEST

This morning's car-brain related adventures involves a two lane road with a dedicated designated bike lane, so this dude in the far lane drives past me riding in the bike lane, beeps at me and gestures that I should be riding on the footpath. Mate, there's a full car lane between us, how does me riding in a designated bike path impact you in any way? I swear. Some people.

2026-05-07 03:51:29 CEST

Using interest rates alone to try to control inflation is so incredibly stupid. Here's a few other ideas. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-07/what-if-we-used-taxes-or-superannuation-to-control-inflation/106645404

2026-05-06 15:45:31 CEST

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OK, luckily there's only about 900GB of files videos and photos etc that I really would prefer so I'm doing a transfer of those to a spare drive I have (yes I know I probably should have some kind of additional cloud backup, I'm in the middle of scoping out some kind of glacier storage or something) and then I should probably get some sleep. I'll have to source a new drive tomorrow! Night friends. Wish the transfer luck and also that the other drive doesn't die overnight! 🤞

2026-05-06 15:35:15 CEST

Ah dang it's just past 11:30pm and I just discovered one of the drives in my 2-bay mirrored NAS has died ... not ideal timing.