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2026-07-26 23:12:56 CEST

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-27/what-to-know-about-ausalert-emergency-warning-test/106919574 #link

2026-07-07 01:52:03 CEST

don't post https://ashk.au/2026/07/07/the-web-is-dead-whats-next/

2026-07-04 03:02:02 CEST

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-04/federal-government-rejects-un-lgbtqia-recommendations/106866788

2026-06-10 03:09:55 CEST

Mary, the missing Tasmanian devil has been spotted on CCTV roaming around the Gold Coast. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-09/tasmanian-devil-mary-still-missing-gold-coast/106762528
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/723/136/093/739/834/original/a7777f5dcde99587.mp4

2026-06-03 05:44:35 CEST

I feel like over the years I've become more of a generalist than a specialist, dipping my toes into design, accessibility, project management, backend, frontend, devops, the whole shebang. I used to think I was the cliched jack of all trades and master of none, but the longer I've been doing this I wonder how much any of us are truly masters of our domain? I am skeptical of anyone in software who claims to be.
We are all flawed meatbags doing our best with the tools we've got. Through all the trials life throws at us, and all the weird things the Sales team promised without first asking if it was possible.

2026-05-24 02:30:42 CEST

We visualised the scale of Australia's mouse plague — you may not want to look if you're squeamish https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-24/visualising-australias-mouse-plague/106696622 #link

2026-05-21 08:58:18 CEST

The scooters
#Brisbane
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/611/259/514/759/128/original/a9cc85fa363d675d.jpg

2026-05-21 01:07:20 CEST

All morning. ALL morning.
1, 2, 3, 4, I declare a thumb war to the tune of Avril Lavigne's ' Girlfriend'.

2026-05-12 04:46:02 CEST

A new quiz format? In this economy? Celebrate budget day with our More or Less challenge - a new one from our team. I'm keen to hear your feedback https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-05-12/budget-more-or-less/106654038
#AusPol

2026-05-07 09:36:21 CEST

killer sunset. ht @npub1duj…nvwz
#Brisbane
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/116/532/135/002/025/508/original/f848cc93ed196f04.webp

2026-05-06 01:23:47 CEST

I'm trying my hardest to get the word “mouthfeel” into our corporate lexicon. ‘Yeah, the mouthfeel of this design is excellent,’ or ‘this workflow has an abrasive mouthfeel’. Please join me!

2026-04-13 11:48:54 CEST

🛫 VA 353 to Brisbane

2026-03-31 10:35:47 CEST

My desktop needs more rams. Anyone got any DDR4 they want to get rid of for not lots?

2026-02-26 01:37:31 CET

The power button on my Shokz OpenRun Pros went mushy and stopped working after a year and a half. Shit product, generally. But I can still use them by jamming a screwdriver in the space where the mushy plastic button used to be. Bit cyberpunk.

2026-02-17 22:17:32 CET

RE: https://bne.social/@ash/116054766603142584
I've booked myself a little staycation in the city tonight. Kind of looking forward to it.
#note17dk…msjy

2026-02-13 05:25:55 CET

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haha i'm glad

2026-02-12 01:13:23 CET

“We are writing to inform you that on Wednesday from 10pm to 6am we will be operating noisy machinery outside your bedroom to shift the display home for our million dollar shoeboxes and there's nothing you can do about it so tough titties.”

2026-02-11 05:56:34 CET

RE: https://aus.social/@lukasm/116050114780877915
are you ready?
#note189w…9ykf

2026-02-09 23:41:54 CET

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the rains are 'ere!

2026-02-09 22:42:56 CET

It is not a miserable enough in Brisbane. Sure it's grey and brooding, but “shower or two” is not enough showers to me.

2026-02-06 06:07:29 CET

Gross!

2026-02-06 00:22:37 CET

Sometimes you have to accept that the ship has already bolted, and the horse has sailed.

2025-12-05 08:53:00 CET

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I haven't done it, but apparently you can make your root domain magically point to your fedi presence on a subdomain, though you'd have to look up how that works.

2025-12-04 01:57:59 CET

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fwiw I get this all the time in Chrome, I can't connect to localhost/local hosts without it.

2025-11-27 08:43:57 CET

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how's your battery?

2025-11-24 22:55:58 CET

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they should just stop using the luggage piercing machines imo

2025-11-21 00:08:33 CET

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Love how Apple left MacOS a second-class citizen out of spite 🙃

2025-11-17 09:13:25 CET

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big thing of Nescafe and you're sorted 👍 (cc @npub1cml…t379)

2025-11-17 06:50:02 CET

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Have you considered a coffee?

2025-11-12 14:53:24 CET

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New Zealand is doing something right, a lot of stuff is filmed there now.

2025-11-12 14:48:52 CET

The Traitors Australia is coming back next year. Hosted by Gretel Killeen AND FILMED IN NEW ZEALAND.

2025-11-10 06:24:20 CET

#Brisbane
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/523/724/144/396/516/original/b75d346881082ef0.jpg

2025-11-09 11:02:11 CET

Are we all ready for the year 2026? Only 1,260 hours to go.

2025-11-06 13:57:26 CET

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I know you are but what am I

2025-11-06 13:11:35 CET

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it's a good day to be a brassica.

2025-11-05 02:43:45 CET

I love a good map https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-05/big-map-exercise-puts-disaster-risk-in-perspective/105972018 #link

2025-11-01 05:40:01 CET

The continuous rumble of Dolby surround thunder seems to come from everywhere at once. Fat raindrops slap onto my outdoor umbrella and the wind picks up bringing the smell of earth and vitality. A delivery rider with a yellow raincoat and matching taxi-chequerboard box on the back of his illegal ebike glides silently up the street. He doesn't look happy. It feels like there might be a storm.
#Brisbane

2025-10-31 07:40:26 CET

“The paint, even during the day when the sun is out, can be cooler than the air around it,” said the study’s lead author, Prof Chiara Neto of the University of Sydney. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/31/scientists-invent-roof-coating-reduce-indoor-temperatures-hot-days HT [@anathema_device](https://bne.social/@anathema_device ) & @npub162l…6qca #link

2025-10-31 06:14:06 CET

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hah, that gave me a good roffle 😆
alt text: beardy ginger wears a sad face and a cardboard cutout of a cloud over his head, the AWS logo, text “US-EAST-1” and a bunch of fire emojis pasted above a service health printout

2025-10-29 05:19:16 CET

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v. jealous

2025-10-18 07:34:42 CEST

“Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Large, Possibly Giant Hailstones And Damaging, Locally Destructive Winds” bring it #Brisbane

2025-10-07 05:19:58 CEST

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what's a sow? 😅

2025-10-06 15:39:50 CEST

The couple next door are outside. He's profoundly hard of hearing and she has a megaphone for a diaphragm. The cat's is named Greg, and they're trying to coax it inside. They're lovely people but these houses are close enough to hear each others toilets flush.

2025-10-05 12:13:42 CEST

As a tall person, maybe the cruellest thing you can do is tuck the sheets under the mattress at the end of the bed.

2025-10-04 11:29:30 CEST

Brissie Mastodon folks, come and hang out after work at the Ship Inn, South Bank on Thursday the 6th of November for our second biennial social meetup. It'll be fun! Please RSVP so we know numbers https://events.humanitix.com/november-social-ship-inn

2025-09-29 13:57:55 CEST

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My main pain point is nothing works the way literally every other terminal does, but maybe I should just learn the new keyboard shortcuts :]

2025-09-24 10:48:46 CEST

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whew! Would have been a worry otherwise 😰

2025-09-19 06:21:14 CEST

Looks like Apple has broken things again with iOS 26. Does anyone know offhand how to work around the fact that 100vh is no longer 100% of the view height? Is there another unit or something?
#WebDev
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/115/229/020/481/268/702/original/828f6c92086a2ab2.webp

2025-09-19 05:52:03 CEST

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Very cool. Looks pretty shady. What are you putting in?

2025-09-19 03:01:17 CEST

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It was pretty great. I appreciate that it was a bit more _human_ than the first one.

2025-09-18 04:53:15 CEST

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ohhhh I thought you were back already. Bone apple tea!

2025-09-15 01:38:17 CEST

Today in weird shit: my work MacBook camera keeps turning on and I can't work out why :]

2025-09-08 02:24:23 CEST

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Also what's the best thing that's happened for you in the past week?

2025-09-02 09:41:55 CEST

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There's _nothing_ more satisfying than stifling a sneeze when you've got a bad back.

2025-08-30 15:19:39 CEST

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I can't wait to follow along

2025-08-30 15:10:12 CEST

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wow, that sounds sweet. What kind of trailer are you going to get?

2025-08-19 04:49:24 CEST

Friday was a Very Good Day and caffeine was the only variable I can think of. So in an attempt at biohacking after an abysmal weekend I had a cup of coffee this morning. Apparently caffeine helps painkillers work better (paracetamol and ibuprofen usually have a bit in them anyway), and today I do feel markedly better? Has this helped? Maybe I'll become a coffee junkie again.

2025-08-14 22:33:35 CEST

"Aircraft fly best into the wind, so in certain wind conditions, 'as many as 500,000 people' can be impacted by flight noise." - the thing about this quote is that it's close enough to 100% of the time to be complete bullshit.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-15/flight-path-changes-brisbane-airport-calls-for-curfew-caps/105643976

2025-08-13 06:59:24 CEST

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It's been one of several of those days.

2025-08-13 06:58:45 CEST

*sneezes*
*back spasms*
“ah fuck!”

2025-08-11 09:43:51 CEST

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Yeah, wouldn't hurt to shop around. I've got a mortgage now so I have no savings 😭 but I used to regularly shop around for the highest introductory rate and shift to whoever had the best deal at the time.

2025-07-23 08:49:28 CEST

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I'm using VSCodium. Obviously the proprietary but basically identical VSCode is fairly industry standard for web stuff.

2025-07-21 06:10:04 CEST

"Electric weapons are regularly used to secretly remote-control bionic brain implants that are put in people/humans (including children) and other fauna against their will and without them knowing" - informational poster on wall, Maryborough

2025-07-20 04:52:29 CEST

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(I did approximately 2 minutes of gardening)

2025-07-20 04:52:10 CEST

Me:
My body: how about an allergic reaction?

2025-07-20 04:51:47 CEST

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haha good luck! I'd love a machine to do that for me. But also totally can't justify it 😅

2025-07-20 04:47:14 CEST

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yeah you do! That looks excellent

2025-07-16 02:02:07 CEST

Today, due to circumstances.

2025-07-15 01:49:25 CEST

They keyword mutes are not holding today. Using cutesie names for prominent assholes is annoying at best.

2025-07-09 02:57:38 CEST

The Brisbane Metro is a bendy bus with grand, but misplaced aspirations. Translink just sent out an email full of friendly reminders like "don't forget to hail the metro driver or it won't stop"

2025-07-02 13:20:39 CEST

I don't understand how they can just unilaterally decide that your home is under a flight path now. And every night there's to be a procession of machines bit by bit destroying the planet and your sanity alike, directly over your bedroom.

2025-06-30 06:59:41 CEST

Nerdposting: after all my wifi issues I bought a little USB ethernet dongle and stuck on my hub. So now it's part of my one-cable-to-do-everything desk setup. Feels weird running networking over USB but it's a 20gbps link so apparently USB got good faster than ethernet did.

2025-06-25 10:37:05 CEST

Does anybody know whose plums these are in the icebox?

2025-06-24 01:49:03 CEST

I was gearing up to buy a new mouse because my Logitech has started dropping out randomly, but a three year old reddit post pointing to a setting in the Logitech app solved my issue for about two minutes until the entire thing turned off and now it's completely dead.

2025-06-20 06:01:04 CEST

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It's a feature conspicuously missing from MacOS and I miss it every day. Though looks like Gnome isn't especially well implemented either.

2025-06-17 07:05:37 CEST

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somebody get this boy a boba 😤

2025-06-13 03:07:20 CEST

I will ALWAYS fav your selfie. Unless I miss it, or it's a really bad one. But I'll never tell you which.

2025-06-10 03:59:15 CEST

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(it's fine, the containers didn't leak, just there's mayonnaise all over everything)

2025-06-08 07:02:11 CEST

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Yeah I think you're on something there. I rarely eat out anymore, it's just not worth it.

2025-06-08 01:06:50 CEST

Why isn't there a diagnostic kit to measure all my bits and tell me why I feel like this? Tbh, could also just be a little box with a screen that says "you should rest".

2025-06-07 02:46:24 CEST

EatClub, a commercial business, has plastered stickers all down my street. I must have peeled ten of them off this morning on the way home from the gym, because fuck em polluting our public spaces like that.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/114/639/310/199/650/772/original/057eaaca958688f7.webp

2025-06-01 05:19:05 CEST

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my skyline is kinda done at the moment. I could, I suppose.

2025-05-30 06:19:44 CEST

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yeah :)

2025-05-28 10:06:47 CEST

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That's one of many, many names as it turns out

2025-05-25 04:30:00 CEST

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Mmmmm. Could do. Or I could just invite you over for a cuppa this evening if you'd like?

2025-05-25 02:04:07 CEST

Welp it's the last day of my week of leave. It's been very relaxing, but should I do any one of the things I intended to do at the start?

2025-05-20 23:09:57 CEST

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that's not a bad idea. @npub12wa…tkuw what do you reckon?

2025-05-14 06:03:59 CEST

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aw sorry to get your hopes up, I refer to the tasty segmented fruit ^_^

2025-05-14 05:49:42 CEST

I suppose there's nothing stopping me from eating a second mandarin, is there.

2025-05-03 02:42:56 CEST

I lined up, and talked to the nice lady in front of me about how there's usually a sausage sizzle, but today there's no sausage sizzle, but it's probably too early for sausages anyway (but a cake would be nice)
#AusVotes #WestEndStateSchool

2025-05-03 01:14:33 CEST

The climate crisis is overwhelming and I generally can't deal. But seeing yesterday afternoon, after the sun went down, for a brief moment in time that five and a half percent of Australia's electricity came from batteries full of renewables just fills me with hope. A year ago it was barely a blip.

2025-05-02 01:03:47 CEST

Love that my work mac just has this entirely nonsensical popup in the middle of the screen at all times and can't be gotten rid of.
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/114/435/068/292/240/718/original/5e6288318e4af9ad.png

2025-05-01 00:19:28 CEST

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Really, it's going to be fine.

2025-04-28 22:37:02 CEST

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And the endless parade of planes have started. Could the world just fuck off for a bit? (good morning)
https://assets.bne.social/media_attachments/files/114/417/505/286/685/919/original/35557f9b36e8fd7f.png

2025-04-28 22:34:22 CEST

JFC it's not quite 6:30 AM and I'm woken by the dude with the black hatchback with modified exhaust, just idling the thing outside my bedroom window. I've asked him nicely to fuck off and he keeps doing it. Apparently TMR are responsible for dealing with fucked up cars so I'll give them a ring during business hours. But I'm so fucking done.

2025-04-26 04:06:53 CEST

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Oh yeah this latest season is not doing for me at all.

2025-04-21 12:29:49 CEST

Wow, this thunderstorm is really something. #BNEStorm #BNEWeather

2025-04-17 03:34:14 CEST

common curses: your orange juice tastes of rind

2025-04-17 00:04:58 CEST

0530 - dog barking
0553 - asshole with reversing beeps
0600 - first plane of the day. Upstairs dog wakes up
0615 - moron with a loud car hooning it
0645 - garbage truck
0650 - construction site wakes up
0804 - mild headache

2025-04-16 02:13:20 CEST

`git bisect` is very good.