@billcawte.bsky.social
Maybe it'll all get a bit better rather suddenly...
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"Digital Independence/Sovereignty"
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
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Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
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Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
Denmark's digital affairs ministry says it plans to switch to the open source LibreOffice software and away from Microsoft products as part of an effort to make the government more digitally independe...
therecord.media
June 14, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Digital Independence/Sovereignty"
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
therecord.media/denmark-digi...
Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software in push for digital independence
therecord.media/denmark-digi...
I have never dragged the chain so hard about a @sammobile.com update as this week. AI this, AI bloody that. Feck orff.
Enshittification is coming for us all.
Tech has entirely turned on the customer
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
May 24, 2025 at 5:15 AM
I have never dragged the chain so hard about a @sammobile.com update as this week. AI this, AI bloody that. Feck orff.
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Enshittification is coming for us all.
Tech has entirely turned on the customer
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgiv...
May 23, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Enshittification is coming for us all.
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I think this debate could have been better with a more nuanced case against our single-member electoral system, so I wrote one here. #ausvotes
May 18, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I think this debate could have been better with a more nuanced case against our single-member electoral system, so I wrote one here. #ausvotes
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This will make a big difference to families... as long as they're in an area with good usable public transport.
More services in middle and outer Melbourne, regional towns and further afield are needed to ensure that more people can benefit. www.abc.net.au/news/...
More services in middle and outer Melbourne, regional towns and further afield are needed to ensure that more people can benefit. www.abc.net.au/news/...
Children to get free public transport in Victoria from 2026
The Victorian government will make public transport free for all children from next year in a bid to relieve cost-of-living pressures.
www.abc.net.au
May 18, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This will make a big difference to families... as long as they're in an area with good usable public transport.
More services in middle and outer Melbourne, regional towns and further afield are needed to ensure that more people can benefit. www.abc.net.au/news/...
More services in middle and outer Melbourne, regional towns and further afield are needed to ensure that more people can benefit. www.abc.net.au/news/...
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We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
January 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
We CT scanned thousands of vertebrates from US natural history collections and made them freely available. Countless people have used the data for research (>200 pubs) and to learn anatomy/morphology.
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
www.morphosource.org/projects/000...
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Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
May 17, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Just reposting this which I think is the most gorgeous thing I have seen in my career - a critically endangered orange-bellied parrot feeding on a carpet of daisies after an ecological burn. This was the first time they’d had the chance to feed naturally in 15y and was wonderful to witness
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
😭😭😭🧡🧡🧡🧡
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The extension of the Upfield path from Sages Road to the Ring Road path work is due to start in July. Keep in mind that since the state government first funded and promised this project in 2018, the date has shifted many times and the project scope has shrank considerably so 🤞🏼
May 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
The extension of the Upfield path from Sages Road to the Ring Road path work is due to start in July. Keep in mind that since the state government first funded and promised this project in 2018, the date has shifted many times and the project scope has shrank considerably so 🤞🏼
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Great map shown at a conference that I’m presenting at. We see the increase in restaurant spending along the path of the solar eclipse. I enjoy stumbling across fun maps in the wild.
May 15, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Great map shown at a conference that I’m presenting at. We see the increase in restaurant spending along the path of the solar eclipse. I enjoy stumbling across fun maps in the wild.
I saw a tallbike this evening. Everything's going to be alright.
May 15, 2025 at 8:44 AM
I saw a tallbike this evening. Everything's going to be alright.
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@cdnsciencepub.com has signed an #OpenAccess agreement with the Australian National University (ANU)! 🤝
ANU authors can publish Open Access with no APCs in BCB and get full read access to our entire portfolio through to Dec 2027! Learn more ▶️ buff.ly/0uT7h1X
ANU authors can publish Open Access with no APCs in BCB and get full read access to our entire portfolio through to Dec 2027! Learn more ▶️ buff.ly/0uT7h1X
May 5, 2025 at 2:04 PM
@cdnsciencepub.com has signed an #OpenAccess agreement with the Australian National University (ANU)! 🤝
ANU authors can publish Open Access with no APCs in BCB and get full read access to our entire portfolio through to Dec 2027! Learn more ▶️ buff.ly/0uT7h1X
ANU authors can publish Open Access with no APCs in BCB and get full read access to our entire portfolio through to Dec 2027! Learn more ▶️ buff.ly/0uT7h1X
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Someone calls up 3AW threatening to damage bike lanes in the city of Yarra. Hosts laugh uproariously.
May 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Someone calls up 3AW threatening to damage bike lanes in the city of Yarra. Hosts laugh uproariously.
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This is a fantastic idea. Passenger rail connecting Auckland and Tauranga. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
‘No-brainer’: Commuters go loco for Tauranga to Auckland train
‘Cheaper, safer and faster’ journeys by rail are a better option than driving or flying, avoiding increasingly unbearable traffic and airfares.
www.stuff.co.nz
May 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
This is a fantastic idea. Passenger rail connecting Auckland and Tauranga. www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3606...
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Melbourne's population is projected to exceed 9 million by 2050 and this bloke, who wants to be the leader of our state, is still complaining that there's too many bike lanes in the city. Do better.
May 12, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Melbourne's population is projected to exceed 9 million by 2050 and this bloke, who wants to be the leader of our state, is still complaining that there's too many bike lanes in the city. Do better.
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May 8, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Karl Marx was born today in Prussia in 1818.
He once photobombed me while I was off the west coast of Scotland.
He once photobombed me while I was off the west coast of Scotland.
May 5, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Karl Marx was born today in Prussia in 1818.
He once photobombed me while I was off the west coast of Scotland.
He once photobombed me while I was off the west coast of Scotland.
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I totally get why some people want to knock all statues down, but have they considered Bergen’s absolutely demented statue of Henrik Ibsen
May 5, 2025 at 5:02 PM
I totally get why some people want to knock all statues down, but have they considered Bergen’s absolutely demented statue of Henrik Ibsen
And I learned from this interesting discussion that the synchronous condenser thingamajig illustrated in the Wikipedia article is in Templestowe, Melbourne, and was built in 1966. Brings a little warm inner glow. (The illustrations, not the whosamawatchit.)
I learned from a @sammyroth.bsky.social story that CA has capacitors, but now I want to know if we have enough synchronous condensers
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchro...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchro...
May 6, 2025 at 5:17 AM
And I learned from this interesting discussion that the synchronous condenser thingamajig illustrated in the Wikipedia article is in Templestowe, Melbourne, and was built in 1966. Brings a little warm inner glow. (The illustrations, not the whosamawatchit.)
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I thought it pitched outside leg, myself
May 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I thought it pitched outside leg, myself
Classic photo.
Today's historic pic: This snap from my grandfather's collection shows South Australian Railways 4-8-4 streamlined 520 class steam loco no 524 and train in Ellen Street, Port Pirie, SA, 1950. Twelve broad gauge 520s were built in 1943-47 and they ran until the early 1960s. 524 was scrapped in 1969.
April 30, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Classic photo.
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Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy - The Shot
The consequence of not good enough, as evidenced in the United States right now, is that you inevitably get much, much worse.
theshot.net.au
April 11, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Here's me. 'On doing the same inadequate shit over and over again until the end of democracy'
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
At last, a good coalition policy. (Ducks for cover.)
At last, a good coalition policy. (Ducks for cover.)
Coalition vow to end EV lease discount may inflate prices $15K
The Coalition's promise to end electric vehicle subsidies could drive up prices for popular EVs by more than $15,000 under a typical novated lease and have an almost immediate effect on sales.
www.abc.net.au
April 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...
At last, a good coalition policy. (Ducks for cover.)
At last, a good coalition policy. (Ducks for cover.)
Hope the old guy gets to ride his beloved metro again up there.
english.katholisch.de/artikel/5307....
english.katholisch.de/artikel/5307....
April 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Hope the old guy gets to ride his beloved metro again up there.
english.katholisch.de/artikel/5307....
english.katholisch.de/artikel/5307....
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Everything you need to know about America’s headlong descent into fascism, in one chart.
Billionaires are the cancer that rots democracies.
Billionaires are the cancer that rots democracies.
April 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything you need to know about America’s headlong descent into fascism, in one chart.
Billionaires are the cancer that rots democracies.
Billionaires are the cancer that rots democracies.
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I don’t think I need to worry too much about AI making drawing of rail maps redundant.
April 19, 2025 at 11:26 AM
I don’t think I need to worry too much about AI making drawing of rail maps redundant.