El Yobo
@elyobo.bsky.social
Software dev. Somewhere on the left. Australian Kiwi. Build more homes.
YIMBY Melbourne and VIC Greens member.
I like to ride my bike: http://strava.com/athletes/elyobo
YIMBY Melbourne and VIC Greens member.
I like to ride my bike: http://strava.com/athletes/elyobo
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A recent acquisition to my social history collection. It looks innocuous enough. A late C19th cocoa tin. Thanks to the Temperance movment, cocoa became a popular breakfast drink - as in France today drunk from a bowl or basin. And cocoa was really popular amongst railway workers. So whats different?
January 9, 2026 at 10:18 AM
A recent acquisition to my social history collection. It looks innocuous enough. A late C19th cocoa tin. Thanks to the Temperance movment, cocoa became a popular breakfast drink - as in France today drunk from a bowl or basin. And cocoa was really popular amongst railway workers. So whats different?
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Kyiv is currently entirely without power and heating after today’s attack. Authorities urged people to leave the city if they can. This is a humanitarian disaster, in case anyone didn’t know
January 9, 2026 at 11:07 AM
Kyiv is currently entirely without power and heating after today’s attack. Authorities urged people to leave the city if they can. This is a humanitarian disaster, in case anyone didn’t know
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Abandoning a long-term project to explain my passion to you
January 9, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Abandoning a long-term project to explain my passion to you
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All countries with Guzman y Gomez have gone to war against each other
January 9, 2026 at 5:58 AM
All countries with Guzman y Gomez have gone to war against each other
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Everyone forgets the "blood of patriots" limb of the tree of liberty quote.
January 9, 2026 at 10:58 AM
Everyone forgets the "blood of patriots" limb of the tree of liberty quote.
Calling it: at 26 degrees outside it’s now cooler than even the cool parts of the house so time to open things up until tomorrow morning.
January 9, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Calling it: at 26 degrees outside it’s now cooler than even the cool parts of the house so time to open things up until tomorrow morning.
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Kakanui looking ethereal this evening
January 8, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Kakanui looking ethereal this evening
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Family members with post-polio deformities. But younger folks will be familiar with what that is like soon enough.
Without revealing your actual age,what's something you remember that if you told a younger person they wouldn't understand?
January 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
Family members with post-polio deformities. But younger folks will be familiar with what that is like soon enough.
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You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.
January 9, 2026 at 7:26 AM
You know, I wouldn’t even know writers festivals existed if it weren’t for their regular paroxysms of weird unit behaviour.
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Never before has the placename Vite Vite been so apposite.
emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
January 9, 2026 at 4:50 AM
Never before has the placename Vite Vite been so apposite.
emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/
I would like there to be fewer black ants on my black couch please.
January 8, 2026 at 11:42 PM
I would like there to be fewer black ants on my black couch please.
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Callenson had the courage and conviction to stay with the scene and keep filming. Not to run away, but instead to follow the scene. To continue documenting what was unfolding.
I'd like to think I'd have done the same. I'm not sure at all that I would have.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/le...
I'd like to think I'd have done the same. I'm not sure at all that I would have.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/le...
Let’s Call a Murder a Murder
Caitlin Callenson’s courage in the face of insane danger is just remarkable.
daringfireball.net
January 8, 2026 at 9:29 PM
Callenson had the courage and conviction to stay with the scene and keep filming. Not to run away, but instead to follow the scene. To continue documenting what was unfolding.
I'd like to think I'd have done the same. I'm not sure at all that I would have.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/le...
I'd like to think I'd have done the same. I'm not sure at all that I would have.
daringfireball.net/2026/01/le...
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Should you be feeling that 2026 is irretrievably terrible just keep in mind that thanks to the beneficience of Daniel Andrews we were spared from having to have the Commonwealth Games in Victoria this year.
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 AM
Should you be feeling that 2026 is irretrievably terrible just keep in mind that thanks to the beneficience of Daniel Andrews we were spared from having to have the Commonwealth Games in Victoria this year.
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Trains and coaches cancelled in much of regional Victoria tomorrow due to 'catastrophic' fire danger declaration.
For those able to spend a couple of nights in Melbourne, it might be best to come this evening.
For those able to spend a couple of nights in Melbourne, it might be best to come this evening.
09/01/2026 - Catastrophic Fire Danger
09/01/2026 - Catastrophic Fire Danger
www.vline.com.au
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM
Trains and coaches cancelled in much of regional Victoria tomorrow due to 'catastrophic' fire danger declaration.
For those able to spend a couple of nights in Melbourne, it might be best to come this evening.
For those able to spend a couple of nights in Melbourne, it might be best to come this evening.
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I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
January 8, 2026 at 7:49 AM
I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
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I kinda feel for the journalists on this story. They can't be expected to know how web apps or APIs work, and there's a bunch of us nerds out here yelling technobabble at them: "it's the TLS!", "the DMARC is at 39%!", "it's the API!"
How are they supposed to know what's true?
How are they supposed to know what's true?
I think it's important for the non-technical people to understand: this is dumb. This is not an elaborate hack. This is an exploitation of a very big mistake.
January 8, 2026 at 8:20 AM
I kinda feel for the journalists on this story. They can't be expected to know how web apps or APIs work, and there's a bunch of us nerds out here yelling technobabble at them: "it's the TLS!", "the DMARC is at 39%!", "it's the API!"
How are they supposed to know what's true?
How are they supposed to know what's true?
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These bloated American trucks are not suitable for passenger duties in Australian suburbs. It’s time we regulated these dangerous, polluting, oversized vehicles properly.
Sign the petition - stop the Truckzilla invasion: katherinecopsey.org.au/issue/truckz...
Sign the petition - stop the Truckzilla invasion: katherinecopsey.org.au/issue/truckz...
January 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM
These bloated American trucks are not suitable for passenger duties in Australian suburbs. It’s time we regulated these dangerous, polluting, oversized vehicles properly.
Sign the petition - stop the Truckzilla invasion: katherinecopsey.org.au/issue/truckz...
Sign the petition - stop the Truckzilla invasion: katherinecopsey.org.au/issue/truckz...
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Tells you everything you need to know really.
Quote-unquote "Jewish leaders" concerned that the Royal Commissioner on Bondi will be "too left-leaning".
And Frydenberg further detailing that they want someone to deliver the right(-wing) conclusions.
(cont'd)
Quote-unquote "Jewish leaders" concerned that the Royal Commissioner on Bondi will be "too left-leaning".
And Frydenberg further detailing that they want someone to deliver the right(-wing) conclusions.
(cont'd)
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Tells you everything you need to know really.
Quote-unquote "Jewish leaders" concerned that the Royal Commissioner on Bondi will be "too left-leaning".
And Frydenberg further detailing that they want someone to deliver the right(-wing) conclusions.
(cont'd)
Quote-unquote "Jewish leaders" concerned that the Royal Commissioner on Bondi will be "too left-leaning".
And Frydenberg further detailing that they want someone to deliver the right(-wing) conclusions.
(cont'd)
Christchurch, possibly the flattest city on earth, still maintains an inexplicable obsession with mountain bikes for people just biking around.
Sure, many of the roads are a bit crap, but they’re not “need a MTB” crap, ~none of these people need the burden of suspension and fat tyres.
Sure, many of the roads are a bit crap, but they’re not “need a MTB” crap, ~none of these people need the burden of suspension and fat tyres.
January 7, 2026 at 4:36 AM
Christchurch, possibly the flattest city on earth, still maintains an inexplicable obsession with mountain bikes for people just biking around.
Sure, many of the roads are a bit crap, but they’re not “need a MTB” crap, ~none of these people need the burden of suspension and fat tyres.
Sure, many of the roads are a bit crap, but they’re not “need a MTB” crap, ~none of these people need the burden of suspension and fat tyres.
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I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
January 6, 2026 at 7:10 AM
I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.
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All the people the Americans assume would join them, mostly wont. All the people who'd enthusiastically join them, they'd mostly reject.
January 6, 2026 at 6:06 AM
All the people the Americans assume would join them, mostly wont. All the people who'd enthusiastically join them, they'd mostly reject.
Someone needs to start doing this Manuka smoked sourdough in Australia please
January 5, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Someone needs to start doing this Manuka smoked sourdough in Australia please
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This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.
January 5, 2026 at 8:18 AM
This poem is dedicated to anyone heading back into work and having to endure dull conversation about what they got up to during the Christmas holidays.