Paul Castle
@sleeperpservice.bsky.social
Velocity complex, Freo, EV convert, games and codes. Needs to do better. We all do.
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Landleeches are literally ruining our economy and still having a sook about renters being entitled for demanding habitable homes
#AusPol
#AusHousing
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#AusPol
#AusHousing
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Australia spends more on tax breaks for landlords than social housing, homelessness and rent assistance combined
Exclusive: Acoss report shows property investors received $12.3bn in tax concessions in 2025, while the share of social housing dropped to a record low
www.theguardian.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Landleeches are literally ruining our economy and still having a sook about renters being entitled for demanding habitable homes
#AusPol
#AusHousing
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
#AusPol
#AusHousing
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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January 27, 2026 at 4:18 AM
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Why anyone would give this fucking company money utterly escapes me. I am amazed that they still manage to amaze me with how shit they are.
January 23, 2026 at 11:29 AM
Why anyone would give this fucking company money utterly escapes me. I am amazed that they still manage to amaze me with how shit they are.
Just finished sprinklering that part of the yard and all the birds came
January 16, 2026 at 10:19 AM
Just finished sprinklering that part of the yard and all the birds came
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Hard to believe the scenes in Wye River.
The Great Ocean Road closed twice in one week - bushfires then flash floods. Just terrifying for all those affected.
Once again emergency services doing an incredible job.
We cannot accept this as the new normal.
The Great Ocean Road closed twice in one week - bushfires then flash floods. Just terrifying for all those affected.
Once again emergency services doing an incredible job.
We cannot accept this as the new normal.
January 15, 2026 at 5:50 AM
Hard to believe the scenes in Wye River.
The Great Ocean Road closed twice in one week - bushfires then flash floods. Just terrifying for all those affected.
Once again emergency services doing an incredible job.
We cannot accept this as the new normal.
The Great Ocean Road closed twice in one week - bushfires then flash floods. Just terrifying for all those affected.
Once again emergency services doing an incredible job.
We cannot accept this as the new normal.
Watching the Get Smart pilot, the only one shot in black and white. How much of a fox is Barbara Feldon?
January 11, 2026 at 9:21 AM
Watching the Get Smart pilot, the only one shot in black and white. How much of a fox is Barbara Feldon?
January 8, 2026 at 3:29 AM
Then: Driver - loved the way the car felt.
Now: Unreal Tournament - played via Dialup from a Pilbara minesite to Perth with a 2 second ping.
Now: Unreal Tournament - played via Dialup from a Pilbara minesite to Perth with a 2 second ping.
Quote this with your favourite game from 1999 NOW, and what your favourite was THEN (if you had one)
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
- PSA: Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life were 1998 -
Localisations/expansions count, remasters/ports don't. Remakes depend.
Two-way ties count.
For a fuller refresher: backloggd.com/games/lib/po...
- PSA: Metal Gear Solid and Half-Life were 1998 -
January 5, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Then: Driver - loved the way the car felt.
Now: Unreal Tournament - played via Dialup from a Pilbara minesite to Perth with a 2 second ping.
Now: Unreal Tournament - played via Dialup from a Pilbara minesite to Perth with a 2 second ping.
90s dischordant Indie perfection - Icky Mettle
December 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
90s dischordant Indie perfection - Icky Mettle
JavaScript was a mistake we may never recover from
billions of dollars and everlasting fame to whoever figures out how to stop webpages from loading new elements just as you’re about to click on something
December 27, 2025 at 7:40 AM
JavaScript was a mistake we may never recover from
Am I a grinch for having Paul Kelly fatigue?
December 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Am I a grinch for having Paul Kelly fatigue?
I mean I can travel at two hundred and thirty three thousand times the speed of light so what Mr M says about the Iains The Culture must be true
December 20, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I mean I can travel at two hundred and thirty three thousand times the speed of light so what Mr M says about the Iains The Culture must be true
Thank you @rahaeli.bsky.social setting things straight in a clear and concise manor as usual.
yeah, those are just the ones they've said "we're proactively declaring those sites are affected". Not being on that list doesn't mean a site won't be considered covered by the law: the notes under the list make that clear. They're basically telling the public one thing and the industry another.
December 17, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Thank you @rahaeli.bsky.social setting things straight in a clear and concise manor as usual.
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“Let them be kids”
[Except if they’re queer, disabled, rural or from a CALD community relying on social media to connect and communicate with peers and remote support and family]
[Except if they’re queer, disabled, rural or from a CALD community relying on social media to connect and communicate with peers and remote support and family]
December 10, 2025 at 12:11 PM
“Let them be kids”
[Except if they’re queer, disabled, rural or from a CALD community relying on social media to connect and communicate with peers and remote support and family]
[Except if they’re queer, disabled, rural or from a CALD community relying on social media to connect and communicate with peers and remote support and family]
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Stuff I voted for
Action on climate
Fed ICAC + truth in (political) adverts
Scientifically literate gov (yay!)
Funding for arts & science
Return of my ABC + objective journalism
And CSIRO and ABS
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Action on climate
Fed ICAC + truth in (political) adverts
Scientifically literate gov (yay!)
Funding for arts & science
Return of my ABC + objective journalism
And CSIRO and ABS
bsky.app/profile/prof...
November 18, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Stuff I voted for
Action on climate
Fed ICAC + truth in (political) adverts
Scientifically literate gov (yay!)
Funding for arts & science
Return of my ABC + objective journalism
And CSIRO and ABS
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Action on climate
Fed ICAC + truth in (political) adverts
Scientifically literate gov (yay!)
Funding for arts & science
Return of my ABC + objective journalism
And CSIRO and ABS
bsky.app/profile/prof...
Mclaren really hate Piastri. What a stupid race strategy.
December 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Mclaren really hate Piastri. What a stupid race strategy.
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Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
December 6, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Just a reminder that Aaron Swartz was threatened with 50 years of jail time for downloading public domain documents and meanwhile AI companies bulk download copyrighted works
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Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn
Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn
It’s hard to overstate the potential dangers of replacing discretion with algorithms in a system as consequential as the national disability insurance scheme
Never again. That was the resounding message delivered via the robodebt royal commission from the thousands of Australians whose lives and livelihoods were upended by the cruellest experiment in bureaucratic automation the country has ever seen.
Now, with plans under way to automate the calculation of individual NDIS support plans, it appears we’ve reached new heights of institutional amnesia. Once again, vital lifelines to support will be placed at the mercy of automated systems. Only this time, the mechanisms for review and redress will be vanishingly thin. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Did we learn nothing from robodebt? NDIS automation will put vulnerable lives at the mercy of machines | Georgia Van Toorn
Gas stove is being replaced with induction today. Only one more appliance left to swap and thats the hot water heater and more intertwined with old building problems.
a man stands in front of a crowd with the words " it 's electrifying " below him
Alt: John Travolta stands in front of a crowd with the words " it 's electrifying " below him
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Gas stove is being replaced with induction today. Only one more appliance left to swap and thats the hot water heater and more intertwined with old building problems.
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The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
November 25, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The dismantling of Science in #Australia continues...
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience
I remember that hopes were high in 2022 that the new Labor Government would end the decade-long decline. We are now in the second #Albanese term, and things are worse than ever.
ABC News article: www.abc.net.au/news/science...
#PlantScience