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@hingehead.bsky.social

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Library technologist music nut. Walking inference engine. Knows a little bit about everything but not much about anything. Still prefers not to identify as human It/That.

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 11h

Good piece from Sophie Scamps on the ‘slightly less shit party’ moving to become the shit party, refusing to release the Briggs review on political appointments and making FOI all but inaccessible. Rank hypocrisy from Albanese.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/comment/topi... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Labor’s jobs for mates test

Late last month, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese used a speech at the British Labour Party’s yearly conference to define himself as a defender of “democracy itself”. He placed himself in this category...

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 15h

Must have had a looot of books on hold to pick up.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 16h

Well full library is over 500k tracks - so it's always a long playlist on shuffle.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 1d

ICE: Incel C**ts Employed.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 2d

TBF to Penny Wong, Trump does do a lot of 'tongue in cheek'. Sadly he doesn't do much 'brain in head'. #auspol

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 3d

Oh. Not @alankohler.bsky.social

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

“At toilet time, you sign in via a fingerprint sensor so that the device knows who's using the facilities. (Please wash your hands before signing out or tracking your progress.) Then, check in with the app for the day's analysis and trends over time.”

Kohler Wants to Put a Tiny Camera in Your Toilet and Analyze the Contents

The company's new Dekoda toilet accessory is like a little bathroom detective.

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 3d

Depressing irony. #NoKings protests against Trump’s power grab while Prince Andrew loses a title as the noose tightens around his Epstein connections. 250 years after 1776 who’s doing justice better?

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry I can't join #NoKings but if I could:

Generic protest sign meme with words: NO KINGS IS NOT A CIVIC HEALTH HAZARD

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

If it was the first time I wouldn’t be reliving it #analretentivegrammarnazi

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Have the Amphifa frog reclaiming genus politics from Pepe has my full support #NoKings

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Caught me out with daylight savings today 🤦‍♀️

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

That a much higher fuckwit ratio than I’m comfortable with.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Really thought this was going to be dog story
SMH.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Will do it, but you’re my desktop support 😉

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Jeepers Bethany, so the book a week marathon through JCU library was just BAU? 😲

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Two thoughts:
East Sydney Technical College? Before my time, but I’m guessing one of the bits that became UTS.

Wouldn’t it be cool if someone owned and operated one of these still? Highly unlikely given planned obsolescence was well and truly a business model in 1970.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

if I had time and motivation I’d shoop or AI this photo so the roundabout was white with a red cross.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politic... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

‘Peace in the Middle East’

While Donald Trump boasts about his Gaza ceasefire deal, experts say the real work to end the war is just beginning.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

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Rosegarden54 @rosegarden54.bsky.social · 4d

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 4d

Anyone know the evolutionary advantage?

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 5d

JFC, how many times before everyone realises ‘we should read what the AI produces’. There’s no staff member whose report was going to a government inquiry you wouldn’t check.

Or is being ‘anti-renewable’ automatically mean ‘stupid’?

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 5d

‘Willy’ clearly a bit of Brit-style nominative determinism.

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 5d

Remember folks. The original bluesky ethos by us bluesky elders (apparently I count?) is block and move on.

Don't quote dunk, don't pick fights.
Block, and move on.

This is what made this site unpalatable to the right early on, and we can continue to make it unpalatable to them.

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Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 5d

Tbf, not much effort had to be put into capturing them. Consultancy firms on my list of indictees at the climate Nuremberg trials. As is much of this govt.
www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/environ... via @thesaturdaypaper.com.au

How the fossil fuel lobby captured a landmark Labor policy

The federal government’s Future Gas Strategy, which backs extending production through to 2050 and beyond, is based on contested EY research commissioned by Australian Energy Producers.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 5d

And from a member of an administration big on totalitarianism and religion.

Hingehead @hingehead.bsky.social · 5d

That either of them sees personal or political advantage in this makes me think they have RFK brain worms.