Marwan Bishara spelling it out for all the "But Iran is a brutal regime" excuses for yet another destabilising of the Middle East:
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I suppose you have to be Jewish to get any real action.
Dude can walk into an Iftar dinner, assault people, shout death threats, racism, etc, and Ballarat pigs will just tell the Nazi perpetrator (check those tattoos with banned symbols) to 'move on'.
This just means people are going to arm themselves, because the cops clearly aren't going to help Muslims in our community:
Home affairs minister to discuss right-wing attack on Ballarat Muslims with AFP
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I'm not sure about your kids, but mine have many questions about what's going on.
Bed time was delayed by 30 minutes as I tried to explain what's going on, in as complex terms as I think my kids can understand.
The one question that had me stop for the night was "Why did America and Israel do this?" I just don't have enough time to explain it before bed... maybe tomorrow morning
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Says something about submarines that the first kill by the US since WWII was against an unarmed Iranian warship returning from naval exercises that the US deliberately skipped to invade Iran. The submarine crew knew the exact location of the unarmed ship.
The fact Australian submariners were on this coward boat disgusts me
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AJ dropping truth bombs on dumbarse Americans and Israelis.
You cannot win a war against Iran without destroying Iran
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The death toll on the Israeli strike on a girls' school in Tehran has risen to 24.
24 girls killed because Israel and the US are Nazi regimes
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For anyone not from Australia: Vegemite is just like Nutella, eat it accordingly, in front of an Aussie
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I had to look up an AI video for work, and there in the suggested videos was an interview from the World Economic Form with Demis Hassabis (Google DeepMind) and Dario Amodei (Anthropic). Dario thought
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@troberts@theblower.au it's one of those things, they've been able to tamp down the naysayers for a while, but so many just don't believe them anymore and are voting with their pocket
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Testing... "If you are old enough to use social media in Australia, then you are old enough to act like an adult" Does this work? Is it stupid? #Parenting
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@troberts@theblower.au my 11 year old, with zero intervention from me, has gotten around the social media ban... so, yeh
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My daughter has decided to play Turnip Boy Does Tax Evasion... there's hope for her yet
#gaming
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'My petty gripe: a large flat white is an oxymoron – a bastardisation of the drink Australia gave the world' I think the author is barely making any sense here. I think I've been ordering a 'Large Fla
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@troberts@theblower.au yeh, flat white is a basically a latte with no foam.
It's a typical Gen X drink. Millennials it's Latte. Boomers love their caps.
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Oh, god, I realised I'm wearing a t-shirt my ex gave me years ago.
Sorry to my French friends, it's an SNCF t-shirt.
Luckily the logo is tiny and on the sleeve
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@randahl@mastodon.social I've had people outright tell me that any form of resistance is out of the question.
They aren't afraid because worst case, they'll get a pardon.
They aren't going to resist, they are collaborating every moment now
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A thing that bothers me a lot… This recent heatwave occurred during what was considered a La Niña weather cycle. I.e. the cooler, wetter cycle. What’s the next El Niño gonna be like? #ClimateChange #A
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@troberts@theblower.au the cycle is dead. What the BoM were saying 2 years ago is the cycle has broken down due to the interruption of the Antarctic-Pacific heat cycle
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@sortius@infosec.exchange I’m not an expert by my means, it they are still using that terminology. I pay need to drill into everything in the update below to properly understand it. https://www.bom.go
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@troberts@theblower.au maybe being overly dramatic, but, yeh, the cycle isn't swinging like it used to: https://www.bom.gov.au/climate/enso/soi/
They were quite clear that the cycle no longer predicts wet-hot and dry-hot years, it's just a thing that modifies our weather these days
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A thing that bothers me a lot… This recent heatwave occurred during what was considered a La Niña weather cycle. I.e. the cooler, wetter cycle. What’s the next El Niño gonna be like? #ClimateChange #A
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@troberts@theblower.au the cycle is dead.
What the BoM were saying 2 years ago is the cycle has broken down due to the interruption of the Antarctic-Pacific heat cycle
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The movie gods have demanded I watch Bloodsport. #JeanClaudeVanDamme #JCVD #Bloodsport
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Hot take… BALL X PIT is a better, more polished, version of Vampire Survivors. But like Vampire Survivors, once you’ve seen good combos explode the screen in numbers, I feel there’s not that much more
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@troberts@theblower.au I just couldn't get into it. Ended up refunding and getting Megabonk instead
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@sortius@infosec.exchange I got hooked for 2 or 3 days there. Once it clicked about how to make broken combinations that obliterate everything, I kept playing. The levels become harder to crack with h
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@troberts@theblower.au I was a bit like that with Dungeon Clawler. Fun, but by the time you unlock the last character, you're done
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Hot take… BALL X PIT is a better, more polished, version of Vampire Survivors. But like Vampire Survivors, once you’ve seen good combos explode the screen in numbers, I feel there’s not that much more
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@troberts@theblower.au I just couldn't get into it. Ended up refunding and getting Megabonk instead
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Ok, I'm done with rants for 2026. Only positivity for the rest of the year.
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@troberts@theblower.au now that's a lie
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@troberts@theblower.au I was super jealous that Jonathan Ferguson got one on EXP the other day... so I feel I need to watch it
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@sortius@infosec.exchange Glad you are feeling a bit better. You sounded horrible a few days go TBH.
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@troberts@theblower.au oh, I felt like I was near death. Thanks 😁
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Ok, I'm done with rants for 2025. Only positivity for the rest of the year.
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@troberts@theblower.au agreed. I'll take the kids to the pub then! 😆
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Ok… so just quietly, there’s been a bunch happening at the neighbours (i.e. the ‘cult house’). Lots of cars coming and going the last few days. At least one car which attended a previous Thursday nigh
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@sortius@infosec.exchange It definitely seems like the home base for “something”. But the high degree of ‘sensible casual’ dress code keeps pointing me back to something religious.
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Ok… so just quietly, there’s been a bunch happening at the neighbours (i.e. the ‘cult house’). Lots of cars coming and going the last few days. At least one car which attended a previous Thursday nigh
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@troberts@theblower.au honestly, just sounds like drug dealers
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I think the worst thing about Australia is that Pademelon and Paddy Melon are both things.
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@troberts@theblower.au and they are vastly different things
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Dear Americans,
It's eee-mew, not eee-moo.
Regards,
Every Aussie
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One good thing about my work is we usually have a big card game / board game lunch at the end of the year. This year was dominated by ‘The Red Dragon Inn’ which I hadn’t played before, but seemed good
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@troberts@theblower.au I like good little social games like that. I haven't played it, but looking at it, it seems similar to others I've done. I kind of feel funny getting games out at the pub, becau
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@sortius@infosec.exchange I think it’s a matter of the right game for the time and the location. Especially when playing with people who aren’t familiar with complex games. At one point someone today
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@troberts@theblower.au you know it went well when you go over.
But, yes, right game, right group of people, right time. There's some that are fun and stupid, but, yeh, some social games can get a bit complex, especially once you go down the deduction route.
I'd love to play something like "Two Rooms and a Boom", but it requires two decent sized groups of people, and literally two spaces to "play" (talk)
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One good thing about my work is we usually have a big card game / board game lunch at the end of the year. This year was dominated by ‘The Red Dragon Inn’ which I hadn’t played before, but seemed good
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@troberts@theblower.au I like good little social games like that. I haven't played it, but looking at it, it seems similar to others I've done.
I kind of feel funny getting games out at the pub, because people roll their eyes, but some are quite fun for a bit of time passing while you talk
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@sortius@infosec.exchange I am jealous.
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@troberts@theblower.au thank AliExpress
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I got my filter up so I can process this at my pace and nope out if needed. SMH are reporting multiple dead. There’s some graphic sounding comments on the ABC feed too. #AusPol
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And yeah, there’s video everywhere. #AusPol
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@troberts@theblower.au yeh, not hard to find, which is why I'm not posting anything
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Like in the top line here (lots of storm cloud icons with rain), and the bottom line (0mm rain expected) feel in significant disagreement. I've been wondering if the millimetre units are misleading, s
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@troberts@theblower.au the mm measures are over 3hr periods (thus the blocks), the percent chance is new and I have no idea how to read that most of the time
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@sortius@infosec.exchange Ok, the 3 hour blocks makes sense. I hadn't realised that before.
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@troberts@theblower.au yeh, they used to do 6 hour, before their predictions got better. I suspect the % stuff is part of that
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My biggest criticism of the BOM website is I find it hard to tell whether it's going to rain or not. This feels like a problem.
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Like in the top line here (lots of storm cloud icons with rain), and the bottom line (0mm rain expected) feel in significant disagreement. I've been wondering if the millimetre units are misleading, s
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@troberts@theblower.au the mm measures are over 3hr periods (thus the blocks), the percent chance is new and I have no idea how to read that most of the time
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There was this exploding churro video going around a while back. It had some weird food science stuff going on in it that I don't think anyone has talked about yet, so here it is! https://youtu.be/Mtr
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@sarahtaber@mastodon.online some great commentary on the end about food science
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Today’s ‘proof of life’ photo. It seems Pippin has let eldest child mess with the TV setup. There’ll be words…
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@troberts@theblower.au I gave up on my TV years ago
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@skeletor@mas.to and this is why I'm alone
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@cheryanne@aus.social … don’t … do … the washing … Got it!
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@troberts@theblower.au @cheryanne@aus.social that's why you have kids, right? 😆
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Since I’m keen to see when this AI silliness will end I’ve been paying attention to the stock market. I find it interesting that it’s considered bad when the tech stocks drop 2% in value (as they did
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@troberts@theblower.au the problem is it's not about the share price, that's kind of the visible sign confidence is waning, but, as we know, the share market is a casino, rigged for the rich. So it's not the best indicator of an impending collapse.
The problem is when it comes to big investors bailing. $500m, or even $6b, being ripped out of Nvidia might not seem like much, but it's these events that trigger the collapses like the 2000's, and they happen fast.
As I keep saying, it's tulip season
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Eldest Kid (aka Cinema Kid) turns 18 today.
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@troberts@theblower.au happy birthday to him. Now the real trouble begins
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The 'AI Plan for the Australian Public Service 2025' is gonna have aged like milk by this time next year. https://www.digital.gov.au/policy/ai/australian-public-service-ai-plan-2025 #auspol
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@troberts@theblower.au I see you're being optimistic on the timeframe
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@sortius@infosec.exchange Maybe. If the bubble pops in the next 12 months, I don't think Microsoft will be able to continue offering Copilot at anywhere near its current pricepoint. And that will flow
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@troberts@theblower.au Oh, I was thinking sooner than 12 months. Softbank already ripped near $6b from Nvidia, the bubble already burst, which is why there's been a hard sell to governments. Need chumps with endless supplies of money to be the bagmen
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The 'AI Plan for the Australian Public Service 2025' is gonna have aged like milk by this time next year. https://www.digital.gov.au/policy/ai/australian-public-service-ai-plan-2025 #auspol
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@troberts@theblower.au I see you're being optimistic on the timeframe
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