Captain Sidecar
@captainsidecar.bsky.social
Mostly unfunded retiree. Collector of cats, dogs, and non-functional workshop equipment. Likes toy trains, motorbikes, fried food, and sniffing nitromethane. Broadly left. Intolerant of wankers of any stripe. Holds grudges for decades. Blocks for AI use
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If there's one thing you can say about social media, it's that it has allowed people who are bad at thinking to more easily locate other people who are also bad at thinking and gather into poorly-thinking groups where they think poorly together in a self-reinforcing manner.
February 10, 2026 at 1:25 PM
If there's one thing you can say about social media, it's that it has allowed people who are bad at thinking to more easily locate other people who are also bad at thinking and gather into poorly-thinking groups where they think poorly together in a self-reinforcing manner.
Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
February 9, 2026 at 6:20 AM
Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.
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“It was a this point that I slipped on the wet tiles. My trousers then fell down and, I regret to say, the artillery piece entered me…”
February 2, 2026 at 5:39 PM
“It was a this point that I slipped on the wet tiles. My trousers then fell down and, I regret to say, the artillery piece entered me…”
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just choked on my beverage
January 29, 2026 at 11:19 PM
just choked on my beverage
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Hint: it'll be much more expensive than they originally promised....
January 28, 2026 at 9:35 PM
Hint: it'll be much more expensive than they originally promised....
My prevalent memory of my (thankfully distant) school days is being surrounded by a braying ring of mouth breathers with 300 word vocabularies, calling me stupid. I had no idea how well this would prepare me for adult life in the C21st.
January 27, 2026 at 2:00 AM
My prevalent memory of my (thankfully distant) school days is being surrounded by a braying ring of mouth breathers with 300 word vocabularies, calling me stupid. I had no idea how well this would prepare me for adult life in the C21st.
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YouTube just offered me a video, from the IPA, quelle surprise, titled "Australia's Future, With Tony Abbott". Which may have been self defeating, because the title alone makes me even more enthusiastic for a future *without* Tony Abbott.
January 24, 2026 at 5:39 AM
YouTube just offered me a video, from the IPA, quelle surprise, titled "Australia's Future, With Tony Abbott". Which may have been self defeating, because the title alone makes me even more enthusiastic for a future *without* Tony Abbott.
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Lots of people end up dying shortly after breaking a hip. That and pneumonia are usually death sentences when really old.
January 19, 2026 at 9:11 PM
Lots of people end up dying shortly after breaking a hip. That and pneumonia are usually death sentences when really old.
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A joke for the history buffs.
January 20, 2026 at 12:39 AM
A joke for the history buffs.
It is entirely typical of Australian retail that, in other markets, TKMaxx offers remaindered brand name goods at attractive prices, whereas here it appears to just be a shittier version of Target/KMart/BigW/Aldi centre aisle with less selection and higher prices.
January 18, 2026 at 3:24 AM
It is entirely typical of Australian retail that, in other markets, TKMaxx offers remaindered brand name goods at attractive prices, whereas here it appears to just be a shittier version of Target/KMart/BigW/Aldi centre aisle with less selection and higher prices.
If I admit to feeling no trauma whatsoever (over and above the usual background level due to the general existence in the world of terrible things) do I risk having my citizenship revoked?
Chris Minns trying to say everybody in Australia is having a significant trauma reaction to the Bondi shooting incident is certainly something. If he needs help, he should get it and not drag the rest of us into it.
January 16, 2026 at 11:37 AM
If I admit to feeling no trauma whatsoever (over and above the usual background level due to the general existence in the world of terrible things) do I risk having my citizenship revoked?
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Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
January 16, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).
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Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
January 6, 2026 at 8:47 PM
Grass roots.
My @smh cartoon.
My @smh cartoon.
I blame home makeover reality shows and the real estate industry in approximately equal measure.
Watching old Murder She Wrote makes me miss comfortably eclectic old set dressings of middle class TV homes. Every house interior now - even in purportedly middle class homes - is a glossy minimalist painting. Fresh flowers! Immaculate sinks! Shiny counters! Matching tableware and napkin holders!
January 11, 2026 at 3:14 AM
I blame home makeover reality shows and the real estate industry in approximately equal measure.
You'd think at least a few of them would have watched Gladiator.
They are so stupid as well. 1 or 2 of them regularly go peeling off from their buddies to try chase random protestors who threw a snowball. That’s great way for them to eventually get overwhelmed and really hurt when protestors start fighting back
January 10, 2026 at 3:41 AM
You'd think at least a few of them would have watched Gladiator.
There might be a reason for that...
They're trying SO HARD to be BigStrongAlphaMen and all they manage to do is look like incompetent middle school bullies.
January 10, 2026 at 3:37 AM
There might be a reason for that...
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The world has many brutal dictators. How come the US is only ever concerned by the ones sitting on massive oil reserves?
January 4, 2026 at 4:27 AM
The world has many brutal dictators. How come the US is only ever concerned by the ones sitting on massive oil reserves?
As a short bloke he's probably been regularly at the centre of pub fights his whole adult life.
It’s not few times I’ve thought to myself that the local bus drivers aren’t paid enough for all the annoying people they deal with. Special creds to the short driver who threw out a bunch of drunk teens on the risk of his own safety on NYE.
January 3, 2026 at 4:00 AM
As a short bloke he's probably been regularly at the centre of pub fights his whole adult life.
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Charity is a failure of Government.
January 3, 2026 at 2:59 AM
Charity is a failure of Government.
Post Xmas reminder. Lego has *always* been fucking expensive. It's a precision product manufactured in Europe. The *only* reason you think it used to be cheap is that other people were buying it for you.
January 3, 2026 at 3:32 AM
Post Xmas reminder. Lego has *always* been fucking expensive. It's a precision product manufactured in Europe. The *only* reason you think it used to be cheap is that other people were buying it for you.
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I think it’s that horrible middle class thing of valorising frugality because slumming it is a kind of adventure for them.
January 2, 2026 at 1:19 AM
I think it’s that horrible middle class thing of valorising frugality because slumming it is a kind of adventure for them.
Let's be honest. Until someone actually physically drags him, in shackles, out of the Oval Office (or the MaL dining room, or off the golf course, or wherever) and bangs him in the slammer, all the legal findings in the world aren't going to stop him.
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Let's be honest. Until someone actually physically drags him, in shackles, out of the Oval Office (or the MaL dining room, or off the golf course, or wherever) and bangs him in the slammer, all the legal findings in the world aren't going to stop him.