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AJ Sadauskas
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Personal account. The views expressed on this account do not reflect the views of my employer.

This account on Mastodon: @[email protected]

Main account @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy on BSky or @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au on Mastodon.
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Going forward, I'll mostly post from @aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy 👇👇👇

One small ask: If you haven't already, please follow @ap.brid.gy so your posts are visible on GoToSocial.
Hi BlueSky 👋

This account is an experiment in hosting my own BSky and Mastodon social presence, at my own domain, on my own server, using https://gotosocial.org/
GoToSocial - Fast, fun, ActivityPub server, powered by Go.
gotosocial.org
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Far out, the renovated and recently reopened Richmond Regent (RRRRR!) looks brilliant. Now do the Roxy in Parramatta.

www.theregentrichmond.com.au
The Regent Theatre - Coming Soon
We know you’ve missed us, and trust us, we haven’t forgotten you! The Regent Richmond is currently undergoing repairs due to water damage. Some of the work required is a little more complex than we an...
www.theregentrichmond.com.au
November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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10 Valentine Avenue, Parramatta, Australia (1987)

#Architecture #80s #1980s #Eighties
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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Yvonne Lam is just brutal in her review of KFC's bánh mì, and rightly so.

Why wouldn't you just go to a Vietnamese bakery and get the real deal for less than KFC's fried chicken coleslaw and mayo sandwich?

"I bite into my KFC bánh mì, and there is silence. No crunch, no crackle. My teeth sink […]
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gts.sadauskas.id.au
November 29, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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@aj https://activitypub.space is NobeBB and seems to have a lot examples on how communications between different ferdiverse software works (and not)
⁂ ActivityPub.Space
activitypub.space
November 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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So, does anyone here have experience with a NodeBB discussion forum on the Fediverse?

What's your experience with it?

Does it play nicely with Lemmy, Piefed, and other groups software?

Can you post *to* it from the Mastodon, as you can with something like Lemmy?

#askfedi #nodebb
November 29, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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@aj @incrediblemelk @luca @jandi

And in the 80s, for some inexplicable reason, the video for Fleetwood Mac's Tusk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATMR5ettHz8
November 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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@incrediblemelk @luca @jandi Hey, I remember that! 😁

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMIUT48I8tU

Back in the early '90s, the ABC used to run a block of kids shows.

Widget the World Watcher, Captain Planet, Around the Twist, Babar, Raggy Dolls, Johnson & Friends, Thomas the Tank Engine, Noddy […]
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November 30, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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@luca @jandi @aj

I also wonder how the ABC, the Australian national broadcaster, picked up European programming

There was this one Italian animated short series that was drawn in a sandbox. I had no idea what was going on, but the theme song was kids singing vowels […]
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aus.social
November 30, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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@jandi @aj

ahah 🙂i wonder how european national tv's picked up stuff to broadcast!
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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@luca @aj Oh, may I introduce a little tangent?

In Spain we got "Let the Blood Run Free", dubbed*, but I've never ever met anyone who has seen it (not that I ask that often lil, but I've asked): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_the_Blood_Run_Free

Was it big in Australia?

It's absolutely […]
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mastodon.social
November 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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@luca It was a little before my time I'm afraid, I wasn't around yet in 1969 when it aired.

Although I'm sure someone on here would have watched it?

The Wikipedia page claims 39 episodes, so I'm guessing Woobinda stuck around a little longer on Australian TV than in Italy.

But it was well and […]
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November 29, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Hey @aj
In Italy most not so young people remember an australian tv series called Woobinda, the animal doctor, produced by ABC and broadcasted ONCE in Italy in late seventies.

It stayed fixed in our collective memory because we were kids, and it was never broadcasted again.
Just curious if it […]
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sironi.xyz
November 29, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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What an amazing Day 1 for the #metrotunnel !

Thousands of people showed up to see the new stations, ride the trains and have a look around.

Everyone I've spoken to had lots of good things to say, with hopes for the improved public transport services that this […]

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November 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Someone is going to be grateful that your book exists. Keep creating followed!
November 26, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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A happy little cockatoo...

#bird #birds #australia #cockatoo #Australia #Wildlife
November 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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The former Female Orphan School, built in 1813, on the grounds of what's now Western Sydney Uni's main campus. Today, the building is home to the Margaret Whitlam Gallery and Whitlam Institute.

#building #architecture #auspol #parramatta #westernsydney #history
November 27, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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The Margaret Whitlam Galleries has an exhibition titled "Where to from here? Visions for Australia" where 12 Western Sydney artists to respond to the 50th anniversary of the Dismissal.

https://www.whitlam.org/events/wheretofromhere

#art #politics #history #australia #auspol
November 28, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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We are a developed nation

We are a rich nation

We are a literate and educated nation

And this is how we treat people…

We are awful

What happened to ‘a fair go’

#straya

#auspol
An overrepresentation of Aboriginal defendants has led to the NT government shutting down Legal Aid, cutting free legal representation and leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court, reports Russell Marks. satpa.pe/7q6wTin
NT cuts legal aid for anyone out of custody
The Northern Territory has made widespread cuts to free legal representation, leaving children as young as 10 to represent themselves in court.
satpa.pe
November 26, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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I'm about halfway through. I didn't know a lot of the background info on Bannon (but it's unsurprising he was a tech investor). Great research!

I hope @vanbadham.bsky.social does a follow-up too. It'd be interesting to learn how the trolls reacted to the orange man's Epstein links... #auspol
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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This is a point that needs repeating. It’s fiscally conservative to house the homeless, it’s also the right thing to do.
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?

Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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These pics capture so much of what's wrong in the world today.

It's BP using a crane to replace a perfectly functional fossil fuel price sign with a new one, because of a brand refresh. On a six-lane stroad.

#photography #streetphotography #climate #climatecrisis #urbanism
November 25, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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Have to recommend QAnon and On for anyone wanting to know how something as bizarre as QAnon could leave the depths of the Darknet and and infect so many people, including here in Oz. It's crying out for a sequel or update #VanBadham! 😛
November 23, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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I get my stash in brown paper bags...

#CD #music #record #records #parramatta #nsw #australia
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 AM