Dances with dingos
ozjon.bsky.social
Dances with dingos
@ozjon.bsky.social
Old retired dude living in Oz.
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative

electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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twitter is making mainstream reporters dumber, and because they're all getting dumber together, none of them can recognize it and they actually think they're getting smarter
October 21, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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"Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems."

What the actual fucking fuck. How did this get published? Do they think this is how anything works, or that these data centres are in the UK?

www.gov.uk/government/n...
National Drought Group meets to address “nationally significant” water shortfall
Five areas remain in drought with six more in prolonged dry weather
www.gov.uk
August 12, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I miss Steve Jobs. Imagine how he well he would have humanised this technology, instead of tedious tech bros talking acronyms, pumping the stock, and forgetting about letting the user tells us how it feels.

youtu.be/YK8r5vdpozA?...
Control an iPad With Your Mind? Breakthrough Demo Using Apple’s BCI HID
YouTube video by Synchron Inc
youtu.be
August 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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have been confused for days about insane cats invading our yard and destroying the plants for no reason only to find out I have accidentally planted fucking catnip all over the place, I am this neighborhoods feline drug lord, ive devasted their society
June 27, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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This is an amazing read from The Oatmeal. Well worth a look.

theoatmeal.com/comics/plane...
It's going to be okay. - The Oatmeal
This is a comic about a plane crash.
theoatmeal.com
June 19, 2025 at 12:07 PM
RIP Bill Atkinson, creator of my all-time favourite application, Hypercard, and without whom the Apple Macintosh would definitely have sucked.
June 8, 2025 at 12:35 AM
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The life cycle of an 80s pop song.

1. Release.
2. 12 inch
3. Cover version
4. Re-release
5. Sample in rap song.
5. Sad emo version on movie soundtrack
6. Closing number in musical about band.
7. Performed on Jools Hootenanny by aged original singer.
8. Karaoke
6. DFS ad.
June 6, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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dropped my egg & kimchi breakfast taco and accidentally made a michelin star plating?
May 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This woman's story is pretty remarkable.

"Ali France, the Labor candidate who is the first person to unseat an opposition leader at an election, is a disability advocate, former journalist and world champion para-athlete.

France lost her eldest son, Henry, to leukaemia last year."
Who is Ali France, the Labor candidate who has unseated Peter Dutton in Dickson?
The 49-year-old disability advocate is the first person to unseat an opposition leader at an election
www.theguardian.com
May 3, 2025 at 10:04 PM