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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 1h

The proper remedy to our budget deficit is not triming spending, it’s to increase revenue. 1) Have multinationals pay their fair share of tax. 2) Collect proper royalties for our (finite) resources. 3) Stop just exporting our rocks - value add here. 4) Stop Defence waste. #auspol

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1h

Ray Charles

Just me & him and his minder. Minder took up most of the lift so there wasn't room for anyone else.

It was a very posh hotel and Ray was making sure the kitchen was advised he wanted bangers and mash for dinner, like always.

Who’s the best famous person you’ve been in a lift with?

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 15h

Without knowing anything about it, it sounds like something awful that Microsoft will force onto it users whether they want it or not, and most will not want it.

Windows Central @windowscentral.com · 20h

Microsoft has teased that a big announcement about Windows is coming this week. What could it be? www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/wi...

Microsoft teases something big is coming soon to Windows — something that will give your fingers a rest

Microsoft has teased that a big announcement about Windows is happening on Thursday, and has hinted that the news will be related to how people use and interact with the OS.

www.windowscentral.com

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 19h

If dental was included in Medicare, fluoridation would be mandatory every where.

The mystery is why LNP want ordinary QLDers to pay more for dental than they really need to.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 20h

It's great peace of mind to know the fridge keeps running in a power outage.

Our power went out last night and we would not have known this morning except for the oven, not on the battery, had its clock reset and blinking from 4 hours earlier.

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

Don't go the way of the Australian Greens, they have a lot of great policies but they always have at least one extremist left nutter policy that makes them unelectable.

I wish Australian Greens would get a reality check, they could get government if they did.

Hope you guys can do it.

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 2d

We don’t have a gas shortage, we have a gas export problem. Santos are gaming the system and pushing up the price of gas paid by 🇦🇺 households & industry.

We don’t need new projects, we need to reserve uncontracted export gas for 🇦🇺 now!
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Why Santos is behind your soaring electricity and mortgage costs

It was a primary force behind Australia’s inflationary surge, it’s forced businesses either to the wall or to shift offshore, undermined national industry policy and resulted in the loss of countless ...

www.abc.net.au

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David Pocock @davidpocock.bsky.social · 1d

A new study published in Nature Climate Action finds Woodside’s Scarborough gas project could cause 100s of heat-related deaths & exposed 500k people to unprecedented heat.

Govt can’t claim climate leadership while approving projects like this.
www.afr.com//policy/ener...

Forrest-backed study links Woodside mega-project to hundreds of deaths

The research, conducted by academics at ANU, suggests the massive offshore gas project off the coast of Western Australia will cause warming of 0.00039 degrees.

www.afr.com

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

oh yes, I can have 4 bars and no data at all.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

Dan busy coding with claude.

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The Cathy Wilcox @cathywilcox.bsky.social · 2d

The lights on the hill.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Single frame. Parliament House Canberra by night - with bright neon signs saying “AUSTRALIAN PARLIAMENTARY SPORTS CLUB” “PLAY TO WIN - ACCESS” “TRY YOUR LUCK” “PAY TO PLAY” “‘RESPONSIBLE’ LOBBYING AUSTRALIA”

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

Nothing says “I don’t give a fuck” quite like the developer that defaults birth date to today.

Just how many new borns are signing up for MyGov ID?

Next time gov.au totally fuckup tech, you know just many fucks we’re given to ensure it works.
Age verification clusterfuck is brewing right now.

Screen grab of birthdate picker with today as default date.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

What's with the obsession for fucken barn doors in your house?

Every search for bifold door comes up with mostly barn door articles.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

I would find that really useful in my garage to move half a metre forward. Not a precision driver, sometimes the arse end is under the roller door.
Given they accelerate to 100km in a blink or two, tapping the accelerator sounds ill-advised in my garage.

(and yes, still not driven an EV yet)

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

I know that feeling.
I live in fear of this happening after it happened to me once.

I make a zip of the project now before I do anything that has the potential to go horribly wrong. Only takes a minute for insurance.

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

My cats are the same when clumps detach as warmer weather starts.

It doesn't hurt and it will make them even cooler with out it. Still very indignant that I'm stealing bits.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

The question remains then, Noosa Council, as to why these changes were not in fact proactive to prevent this disaster?

Usual penny pinching?
Inadequate/incompetent risk analysis?
Negligence to carry out appropriate risk analysis?

You've exonerated your staff, but not your own responsibility.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 1d

Alarming news from Noosa Council.

Notice includes a touch of gaslighting to ease the pain of their negligence.

No, Noosa Council, you a not proactive, you are reactive to the event.
Had you been proactive this would not have happened!

www.noosa.qld.gov.au/About-Counci...

Screen grab of part of council’s notice, the gaslighting bit:

We recognise there were some vulnerabilities with our processes which contributed to this incident, and we have proactively implemented measures to improve procedures.
This includes including investing in new external software, training and recruiting additional staff.

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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 2d

@albomp.bsky.social is sending billions to US & UK shipyards for #AUKUS and then can’t find money to support the core science necessary for future industry innovation, protection of the environment and improved quality of life. He’s short-changing our future. #auspol

Albanese urged to ‘secure the future of science’ as CSIRO reckons with ongoing decline in funding

CEO Doug Hilton says the agency’s budget allocation ‘has not kept up with the cost of doing science’

www.theguardian.com

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Pup Fiction @pupfiction.bsky.social · 2d

Someone needs to post that little clip just aired on Media Watch of 2019 Anthony Albanese pointing out all the problems concerning FOI that 2025 Anthony Albanese is intent on making worse

Massive hypocrite

#auspol

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 2d

I'm no fan of sssilly susssan, but she did try to keep her friends close and her enemies closer (on the front bench).

She's just responding to what frenemies do.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 2d

My mother still likes to show off by reciting phone numbers before you can find them in your phone.

Was always a top 3 you memorised.

Your own - to tell others.
Your mother - call often enough so not to forget it - might need bail one day
Your BFF - to organise socials

Any more was showing off.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 2d

Do unto other before they do unto you.

that works too.

Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 2d

Wednesday.
As in Addams family.

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Markus Biggus @serendipidude.bsky.social · 2d

School kids are way more computer literate than the fools making these nanny laws.

Already they can simply open a Google doc and share it within any group and have a chat function shared amongst the group.

It is trivial to bypass the rules.
Just like the website ban, simply use non-AU DNS server.

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