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Son Gokū 孫悟空
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102megan.bsky.social
If I were a football club, and a women’s squad player in her late 20s got engaged and married to a man… I’d plan sensible cover for her position in case of pregnancy - rather than calling it “unexpected” and having to rely on a 14-year-old as backup.

🤔

#alw
December 19, 2025 at 3:12 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
After my ice cream making efforts over the last two days, I now have six egg whites to find a use for. I suspect there may be meringues...
December 19, 2025 at 4:50 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Really, considering how well resourced they are, this is a massive cock-up by Australia's police and intelligence agencies. Most likely due to organisational and process factors, rather than available powers or resourcing.
lizhicks.bsky.social Liz Hicks @lizhicks.bsky.social · 13h
Focussing on this from a pure security perspective, it’s wild that an IS-linked attack was just carried out in Australia and we’re barely talking about it - the focus is on protestors and universities.

www.afr.com/policy/forei...
December 19, 2025 at 4:24 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Yearly tax affairs have been signed off and lodged with the tax office. And it looks like a small refund is due to me as well. Accountant has been paid and basically I'm done for the quarter (aside from quarterly activity statement, which is a task for the new year).
December 19, 2025 at 3:10 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
It must really burn Josh that not only do people think he's incompetent, they can also see straight through his naked opportunism. Remarkably like his idol and mentor, Costello.
strangerous.bsky.social stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 1d
After a staged performance & blaming the PM for the actions of #Bondi attackers, Josh Frydenberg snaps at the question on everyone’s mind.
Sarah Ferguson “How do we not see this through a political lens?”
Frydenberg, having already personalised blame, can’t handle it #abc730
December 19, 2025 at 2:33 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
2026: the year to make Sam Altman cry.
cuntleyjune.bsky.social Nightmare Mommy, Kink Sommelier (semper infidelis) @cuntleyjune.bsky.social · 13h
i want to point out how different this is from previous technological changes like smartphones and the world wide web. people were chomping at the bit to get smartphones and were upgrading them every year or two because they saw how much they benefited from the technology.
cerberusxt.bsky.social CerberusXt @cerberusxt.bsky.social · 2d
We can do even more.
December 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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floheinstein.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy
Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.

#foss #devops #cloudflare #infosec
Editor to generate a fake internal server error page complete with You, Cloud, Server in red and green
December 16, 2025 at 6:41 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
✔️ QVM shop
✔️ 5km run
✔️ 日本語の練習
🔜 Next, off to give blood.
Chilling on the railway station platform listening to Vini Reilly's lovely ambient guitar. Perfect for a warm, grey morning. #DuruttiColumn thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com/album/the-re...
The Return Of The Durutti Column, by The Durutti Column
15 track album
thedurutticolumn.bandcamp.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:09 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Not yet 07:00 and the last pre-christmas shop at Queen Victoria Market is done. Sorting out #coffee (or two), then it's home and #running.
December 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Made another batch of both blackened fish spices mixture, and salted liquorice ice cream. Plenty of spice mix for gifting. And ice cream for christmas lunch.
A half litre plastic tub, filled with light brown coloured ice cream.
December 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Went to run a couple of small errands and it's really quite spicy outside. Hot and windy, never a fun combination. It also appears that overnight temperatures will stay in the low 20-something celcius range, so tomorrow's post QVM run will be *fun*.
December 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Not only was the "look how fast Australia reacts to gun violence" stuff presumptious, the specific guy who enacted those 1990s gun laws has gone full on racist maniac, decrying gun control and turning the Bondi attacks into a xenophobic hate-fest (journalists euphemise this as a "culture war")
John Howard’s dog-whistle intervention in gun debate all but dashes any hope of meaningful reform
In the absence of strong, swift action from Anthony Albanese, the former PM is shifting political debate from gun control to a divisive culture war
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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proftimstephens.bsky.social
“John Howard’s contribution, with its focused criticisms of Albanese, was unbecoming for a former prime minister. The effect of his intervention was to give his assent to the Coalition to go full bore on politicising Bondi.”

www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...
Howard has gone too far. His comments about Albanese tear us apart
Slagging off the man entrusted with trying to steer the nation through this powerfully difficult moment will not help John Howard’s side of politics.
www.smh.com.au
December 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
I think we're all deeply offended that Josh reappeared from beyond the S-bend, like a turd that won't flush.
anthonyklan.bsky.social Anthony Klan @anthonyklan.bsky.social · 1d
Australia’s former Treasurer Josh Frydenberg — who was exposed running illegal political ads of the CEO of Guide Dogs Victoria for his own political gain — says he’s “deeply offended” at suggestion he could be politically self-serving.
December 17, 2025 at 10:21 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
The unedifying spectacle of relentless political gamesmanship, obscures the fact that Sunday's events were a massive failure of intelligence and police services. What's required is a clear-eyed analysis of the failures and action to ensure such failure doesn't occur again in future....
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Nice to see failed tennis professional, and quite possibly Australia's least competent treasurer, cynically using tragedy to burnish his credentials. Quite likely planning a second run in politics. The citizens of Kooyong should rightly bloody his nose again.
December 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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leroylynch.bsky.social
Bondi exposed huge holes in our security framework. The right’s ‘distraction’ narrative will endanger all Australia.
www.crikey.com.au/2025/12/17/b... #auspol #ausdef #auslaw
But this “distraction” narrative might itself be a distraction from certain embarrassing facts. For example, while John Howard — a kind of anti-Keating who will happily trash any of his own policies from his time in office if it helps the current Liberal leadership — might insist gun laws aren’t the issue, it was his government that allowed the older of the perpetrators to migrate to Australia. It was during the Morrison government — which constantly hyped China as Australia’s biggest security threat — that the younger of the perpetrators was investigated by ASIO for his connections to a convicted Islamic State (IS) terrorist, with no action taken. The Coalition’s handpicked head of ASIO at the time, Duncan Lewis, later said that claims about the threat of China from that period had been “overegged” — raising the possibility that the politically motivated hyping of China distracted resources from a terrorism threat that had not retreated quite as far as some believed. Further, the older perpetrator’s application for a gun licence was approved by NSW Police under a NSW Coalition government in 2015, but lapsed, and he reapplied in 2020 — after his son had been investigated by ASIO. The licence was approved in 2023, the year the Coalition was replaced by Labor in NSW. If politicians really want to throw around blame, there’s a lot to go around. Journalists giving the likes of John Howard a platform might do well to remember that. But policymakers need to deal in facts. And the facts that are steadily being revealed are deeply concerning. A man whose son had been investigated for links to a convicted Islamic State-inspired terrorist was allowed to assemble an arsenal entirely legally — in a city that has been awash with guns and gun crime for years. We now also know that the alleged perpetrators travelled to a destination in the Philippines — a country with which they had no association of any kind — with links to IS, in November. It is now understood that they receiv While the laxity of gun laws that allowed the assembly of an arsenal in suburban Sydney must be addressed, there are clearly equally serious problems in the ways police and intelligence officials share information. No-one, evidently, had a joined-up and complete file on the perpetrators, despite the steady accumulation of evidence that they needed examination. A Joint Counter Terrorism Team in NSW that is supposed to bring together different state and federal agencies is meant to address such information-sharing issues, but clearly did not. And there are also questions over the extent to which people investigated for terrorist links remain on the radar of ASIO, or whether they are filed away and forgotten — as seems to have been the case with the younger perpetrator. Did ASIO even know that he had travelled to the Philippines, and inquire of their Filipino counterparts where he had gone? That’s three major areas of our security framework requiring attention. Urgent attention. How many arsenals have been assembled, perfectly legally, by would-be terrorists in our cities right now? What potential exists for another horrific attack on Australia’s Jews, or any other members of our community? The idea that fixing these issues is any kind of “distraction” or a low priority is deeply dangerous. And the idea that implementing any of the recommendations of the report by antisemitism envoy Jillian Segal is relevant to the issues would be laughable were it not so tragic. Which of Segal’s recommendations would have addressed the failure to spot an IS terrorist preparing for an attack virtually in plain sight? The one about the government unlawfully regulating the editorial content of newspapers? The one about the government “educating” judges? The one about unlawfully terminating funding to universities because they allow pro-Palestinian protests on campuses? Not only have 15 lives been taken, and scores injured, and a nation deeply scarred by this atrocity, but Australians
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
This afternoon's planned rehearsal has been cancelled, so I'll put my time to other uses. First up is making a big batch of blackened fish spice mixture, for gifting purposes. Then might tackle making a half litre of salted liquorice ice cream, which will be eaten at christmas lunch.
December 17, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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doctornerdlove.com
This is such CEO Brain bullshit, from a class that is so morbidly afraid of missing The Next Big Thing that they all end up like ants in a death loop because as soon as someone starts chasing a trend, the rest mindlessly follow, no matter how glaringly, obviously bad the trend is.
December 16, 2025 at 9:30 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Good piece about musical pioneers, Essendon Airport, in The Age this morning. Might have to arrange another #HPF show with them on the bill as well.
www.theage.com.au/culture/musi...
Melbourne wasn’t ready for their music in 1982. Things have changed
“We’ve never peaked and we’re never going to.” Forty-three years after their last album was released, post-punk band Essendon Airport are back with something new. Kind of.
www.theage.com.au
December 16, 2025 at 9:33 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Glad I got out #running early as it was a pleasant 13°C - though today's high is predicted to reach 32°C. It was already bright and sunny along the river at 06:30.
A river, with the clear sky and trees reflected in the still water. A cable suspension footbridge. Signage on the bridge reads "Kanes Bridge".
December 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Got a run of warm days coming up. Good time to get some laundry dry - and also to make sure your plants get some water. #MelbWeather
Screen capture of a weather forecasting app. Shows temperatures for Melbourne for the next few days as 32°C (sunny), 37°C (sunny), 32°C (rain), 26°C (rain) and 23°C (rain).
December 16, 2025 at 6:42 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
In fairness to Dan, he's only just learnt to tie his own shoes. So the delay was due to him wanting to dress himself, like a big boy.
natecochrane.bsky.social Nate Cochrane @natecochrane.bsky.social · 3d
Dan Tehan’s disclosure is also very late, coming more than 3 months after he hamfistedly outed himself on broadcast TV staying at the luxury 5-star $1800/night Hay-Adams hotel at the “epicentre of downtown Washington DC” courtesy of benefactor, Charles Kiefel.

#auspol

www.afr.com/rear-window/...
Senior Liberal’s luxury hotel TV gaffe
Opposition energy spokesman Dan Tehan outed his upscale accommodation while on a privately funded nuclear junket.
www.afr.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:07 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
@onetui.bsky.social One for you, I think.
December 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
secretchimp.bsky.social
Apparently, she'd feel safer with Pepper Spray. If she's wandering the mean streets of gentrified Ivanhoe, I completely understand. 😂
Two posters for the Libertarian Party. One depicts a balaclava clad man entering a window, with text: Defend Your Home and Family, Castle Law. The second shows two white women with text: I'd Feel Safer With Pepper Spray. A poster for the Libertarian Party depicting renewable energy technologies (wind turbines, solar panels), and the text: Dump Net Zero.
December 16, 2025 at 2:24 AM