Rob
@ausrob.bsky.social
I'm a husband/father/technologist/human not necessarily in that order. NSW-based, but have lived and worked abroad.
Interests include the environment, politics and film/tv, games and such.. I have a large vinyl collection.
Interests include the environment, politics and film/tv, games and such.. I have a large vinyl collection.
Imagine if you will, an alternate reality where the ALP is not shit and simply worked with the Greens to enact legislation which not only meets our international emissions obligations, but respects the science and actually triggers a true transition away from fossil fuels. #auspol
November 26, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine if you will, an alternate reality where the ALP is not shit and simply worked with the Greens to enact legislation which not only meets our international emissions obligations, but respects the science and actually triggers a true transition away from fossil fuels. #auspol
Sounds like he is channeling his inner Chuck Schumer: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Schumer Mocked for Mentioning Imaginary Couple Hundreds of Times
Comedian John Oliver is fed up with Chuck Schumer’s politics—and his imaginary friends. For decades, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has invoked Joe and Eileen Bailey, a fictional Long Island cou...
www.yahoo.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Sounds like he is channeling his inner Chuck Schumer: www.yahoo.com/news/article...
"Worst bushfire risk in years" is running alongside "ALP wants to water down environment protection laws" without a hint of irony. #auspol
November 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
"Worst bushfire risk in years" is running alongside "ALP wants to water down environment protection laws" without a hint of irony. #auspol
Giving the old Linn a spin with some classic #jazz on an overcast afternoon. #musicsky #vinylrecords
November 24, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Giving the old Linn a spin with some classic #jazz on an overcast afternoon. #musicsky #vinylrecords
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"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone
In the final days of October, the Federal Government quietly inserted a last-minute amendment into an unrelated bill. It has been trying to rush through a change that would allow police and the Home A...
thepoint.com.au
November 23, 2025 at 11:38 PM
"Poverty is not evidence, the presumption of innocence must apply to everyone" Smashing column by @kristin8x.antipovertycentre.org & @maiyazize.bsky.social #ThePoint
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
thepoint.com.au/opinions/251...
This is hands down my favourite former Beatles solo album. Harrison must have had heaps of material building up which he couldn’t add to the Fab Four’s final albums.
He’s joined by a stellar list of skilled musicians in compiling this outstanding album. Original UK pressing.
#musicsky #vinyl
He’s joined by a stellar list of skilled musicians in compiling this outstanding album. Original UK pressing.
#musicsky #vinyl
November 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
No matter which way you look at it, Trump's got to be removed from office.
November 18, 2025 at 6:06 AM
No matter which way you look at it, Trump's got to be removed from office.
From a time when “just following orders” wasn’t tolerated. We could use this…
For no particular reason….posting former U.S. Attorney General John Mitchell’s mugshot before he went to Federal prison for committing numerous crimes on behalf and or/at the direction of President Nixon including obstruction of justice and conspiracy.
November 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
From a time when “just following orders” wasn’t tolerated. We could use this…
You’ve got to hand it to Tool (the band), they’ve got a sense of humour: store.toolband.com/product/TLCT... #tool #vinyl #musicsky
ÆNIMA Where's The Vinyl Tee | Tool Band Store
ÆNIMA Where's The Vinyl Tee
4.3 oz.
100% combed ringspun cotton
Set-in 1x1 baby rib collar
Hemmed sleeves
Side seamed
store.toolband.com
November 15, 2025 at 5:58 AM
You’ve got to hand it to Tool (the band), they’ve got a sense of humour: store.toolband.com/product/TLCT... #tool #vinyl #musicsky
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We don't want overseas capital buying up our precious land and building behemoths that suck us dry of water and pollute the environment and never pay taxes. We're tired of predatory venture capitalists killing us. NO.
November 12, 2025 at 7:04 AM
We don't want overseas capital buying up our precious land and building behemoths that suck us dry of water and pollute the environment and never pay taxes. We're tired of predatory venture capitalists killing us. NO.
Let’s hope Microsoft get an expensive lesson from this action: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #accc
Microsoft to refund customers for subscription price hike
Microsoft apologises to customers and says it will refund them, after the consumer watchdog alleged the tech giant misled about 2.7 million Australians over subscription costs so they would remain on ...
www.abc.net.au
November 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Let’s hope Microsoft get an expensive lesson from this action: www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... #accc
Cheney dies and Mamdani wins the election. At least now we'll have some certainty as to who'll be running hell and Hell's Kitchen, respectively. #latestnews
November 5, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Cheney dies and Mamdani wins the election. At least now we'll have some certainty as to who'll be running hell and Hell's Kitchen, respectively. #latestnews
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“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Members of this ‘silent majority’ come from all walks of life…’” #ClimateChange
‘I worry about the future of my daughter’: the ‘silent majority’ who care about the climate crisis
Readers who are part of the 80-89% of the population who want to see climate action tell us their ideas on how to make their voices heard
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 6:00 AM
“Recent studies show that between 80% — 89% of the world’s population wants to see climate action. Members of this ‘silent majority’ come from all walks of life…’” #ClimateChange
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Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
October 31, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Let me excerpt the concluding paragraph:
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October 30, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Gates eviscerated, and why you really shouldn’t listen to the ultra wealthy - timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga... #climate
Even Bill Gates knows he is full of shit
Did you hear about that “one low-income country set out to cut emissions by banning synthetic fertilizers”?
timinclimate.medium.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Gates eviscerated, and why you really shouldn’t listen to the ultra wealthy - timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga... #climate
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Nearly 6 feet of rain in 24 hours? Wtf has been unleashed
Whilst headlines quite rightly cover the devastation from Hurricane Melissa, a storm made more deadly through climate change, spare a thought for Vietnam where 1.7 meters (yes 5’7”) of rain fell in 24 hours.
phys.org/news/2025-10...
#climatechange #hurricane #Melissa #Jamaca #Vietnam #flooding
phys.org/news/2025-10...
#climatechange #hurricane #Melissa #Jamaca #Vietnam #flooding
Record Vietnam rains kill four and flood 100,000 homes
Flooding triggered by record heavy rains in central Vietnam this week killed at least four people and inundated more than 100,000 homes, the environment ministry said on Wednesday.
phys.org
October 29, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Nearly 6 feet of rain in 24 hours? Wtf has been unleashed
I’ve never before contemplated whether the USA would ever nuke itself, but apparently now I have.
October 30, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I’ve never before contemplated whether the USA would ever nuke itself, but apparently now I have.
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"A dangerous bubble that's sure to pop". @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social checks the numbers on AI & crypto
- and real world conequences
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/dangerous-bu...
- and real world conequences
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/dangerous-bu...
"Dangerous bubble sure to pop". Wall Street has AI crash in the wings - Michael West
“Keeping perspective” is Michael Pascoe’s mantra. He writes that AI mania has not just warped perspective, it risks blowing up reality.
michaelwest.com.au
October 29, 2025 at 8:53 PM
"A dangerous bubble that's sure to pop". @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social checks the numbers on AI & crypto
- and real world conequences
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/dangerous-bu...
- and real world conequences
#auspol
michaelwest.com.au/dangerous-bu...
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End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Sometimes defective, maybe unlawful: what can be done about Australia’s crisis-ridden welfare system?
Run by multiple departments and hundreds of private companies, advocates warn errors will continue to rock a system ‘in crisis’
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It’s a system designed to help Australians who most need it. Yet its created continuous scandals, with parts of it paused because the government can’t say if it’s operating legally.
Hundreds and thousands of Centrelink clients are affected by its frequent problems, being charged or overpaying debts incorrectly calculated as another class action is launched. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
End all funding every single private employment services provider.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.
Salt the earth so those in change of them never get any public money ever again - run them out of the country.
Get rid of mutual obligations
Bring back the CES
Raise the fricken rate
Ain’t hard.