Paul Castle
@sleeperpservice.bsky.social
Velocity complex, Freo, EV convert, games and codes. Needs to do better. We all do.
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To the trans community, your families, friends, and allies - we love you, we see you, we need you, and we will keep fighting alongside you.
The Greens are committed to anti-discrimination and trans justice.
Because all of us deserve to be our best selves, today and every day.
The Greens are committed to anti-discrimination and trans justice.
Because all of us deserve to be our best selves, today and every day.
November 20, 2025 at 4:53 AM
To the trans community, your families, friends, and allies - we love you, we see you, we need you, and we will keep fighting alongside you.
The Greens are committed to anti-discrimination and trans justice.
Because all of us deserve to be our best selves, today and every day.
The Greens are committed to anti-discrimination and trans justice.
Because all of us deserve to be our best selves, today and every day.
Sure let's gut out future somehow worse than the liberals while we give $800 million every 6 months for vapourware subs.
Why dont we instead give 1600 scientists and research half a million each to do whatever they want. Do it every 6 months and get infinitely more benefits than nuclear subs.
Why dont we instead give 1600 scientists and research half a million each to do whatever they want. Do it every 6 months and get infinitely more benefits than nuclear subs.
Where to start, with a statement like this?
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
"Tim Ayres said the cuts were aimed at refocusing … CSIRO towards research priorities, such as critical minerals, iron & steel production in Australia."
From some rando down the bus stop, one would brush it off.
But this is from our Science Minister 🤯
CSIRO to cut up to 350 research jobs in major overhaul
After 440 positions were slashed last year, the CSIRO has announced more staff cuts across the country in a bid to remain financially viable.
www.abc.net.au
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Sure let's gut out future somehow worse than the liberals while we give $800 million every 6 months for vapourware subs.
Why dont we instead give 1600 scientists and research half a million each to do whatever they want. Do it every 6 months and get infinitely more benefits than nuclear subs.
Why dont we instead give 1600 scientists and research half a million each to do whatever they want. Do it every 6 months and get infinitely more benefits than nuclear subs.
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Got to sing on this #banger by Crooked Fingers check it out!
Crooked Fingers announce first album in 15 years, shares "Cold Waves" ft Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan
Crooked Fingers announce first album in 15 years, shares "Cold Waves" ft Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan
'Swet Deth' is out February 27 and features appearances from Sharon Van Etten, The National’s Matt Berninger, and more
www.brooklynvegan.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Got to sing on this #banger by Crooked Fingers check it out!
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This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
‘Sad day for publicly funded science’: up to 350 more jobs to go at CSIRO
Australia’s national scientific agency announces more research job losses as it looks for budgetary savings
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:00 AM
This is obscene.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
The challenges facing the nation means we should be scaling up CSIRO, not cutting it to shreds.
While we are sending billions to the US for nuclear shipyards, our science and industrial base at home is falling apart for lack of funds and direction.
I cannot believe how far towards inhumanity we have drifted in the last 20 years since I worked at a YMCA run asylum seeker housing centre in Stockwell.
Govt minister Alex Norris is asked if the govt will take jewellery from people [fleeing war and persecution]. Norris says the govt won't be taking peoples wedding rings but they will seize assets.
November 17, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I cannot believe how far towards inhumanity we have drifted in the last 20 years since I worked at a YMCA run asylum seeker housing centre in Stockwell.
Somehow the UK re-elected the fucking Tories in the last election.
“on article 8 of the ECHR in particular the right to family life ..we want to constrain in legislation the way that that is applied in immigration cases” Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood tells Sky’s Trevor Philips
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
Who would have imagined we would ever hear this from a Labour government
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Somehow the UK re-elected the fucking Tories in the last election.
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WA is seeking public submissions on greyhound racing. It's a cruel and unnecessary "sport" that sees massive numbers of injuries and killing of thousands of "waste" (too slow to race) dogs every year. Please consider submitting www.freethehounds.com.au/wa-governmen...
Submit by 17 Nov- this week!
Submit by 17 Nov- this week!
November 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
WA is seeking public submissions on greyhound racing. It's a cruel and unnecessary "sport" that sees massive numbers of injuries and killing of thousands of "waste" (too slow to race) dogs every year. Please consider submitting www.freethehounds.com.au/wa-governmen...
Submit by 17 Nov- this week!
Submit by 17 Nov- this week!
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This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
This is possibly the most fucked thing I've ever seen but also the bit at the end where the grandmother is straight up being tricked into providing training content for the app feels particularly revealing.
Great comment in the Valve hardware announcement on YouTube. (I know right)
November 13, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Great comment in the Valve hardware announcement on YouTube. (I know right)
Didn't JB HiFi already get pinged for deceptive pricing?
Apparently "Clearance" doesn't necessarily mean a price reduction just that the product is end of life on the shelves and the yellow sticker denotes this.
Not that they want to get rid of the stock at a better price.
Apparently "Clearance" doesn't necessarily mean a price reduction just that the product is end of life on the shelves and the yellow sticker denotes this.
Not that they want to get rid of the stock at a better price.
November 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Didn't JB HiFi already get pinged for deceptive pricing?
Apparently "Clearance" doesn't necessarily mean a price reduction just that the product is end of life on the shelves and the yellow sticker denotes this.
Not that they want to get rid of the stock at a better price.
Apparently "Clearance" doesn't necessarily mean a price reduction just that the product is end of life on the shelves and the yellow sticker denotes this.
Not that they want to get rid of the stock at a better price.
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If you polled the public(ok #auspol public, so they’d know who Brereton was) I reckon…
Ah heck-let’s do this:
👇 👇 👇
Do you want Brereton removed from his position in the #NACC?
Yes - REPOST/QUOTE POST👈
No - LIKE👈
#EnoughIsEnough #AccountabilityNow
#TransparencyNow
#RobodebtRC #RoboDebt #auspol
Ah heck-let’s do this:
👇 👇 👇
Do you want Brereton removed from his position in the #NACC?
Yes - REPOST/QUOTE POST👈
No - LIKE👈
#EnoughIsEnough #AccountabilityNow
#TransparencyNow
#RobodebtRC #RoboDebt #auspol
November 6, 2025 at 11:26 AM
If you polled the public(ok #auspol public, so they’d know who Brereton was) I reckon…
Ah heck-let’s do this:
👇 👇 👇
Do you want Brereton removed from his position in the #NACC?
Yes - REPOST/QUOTE POST👈
No - LIKE👈
#EnoughIsEnough #AccountabilityNow
#TransparencyNow
#RobodebtRC #RoboDebt #auspol
Ah heck-let’s do this:
👇 👇 👇
Do you want Brereton removed from his position in the #NACC?
Yes - REPOST/QUOTE POST👈
No - LIKE👈
#EnoughIsEnough #AccountabilityNow
#TransparencyNow
#RobodebtRC #RoboDebt #auspol
We would not have our beautiful boy without a fertility clinic. Zero reason to bomb one unless you want to prevent births.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
World must fight Israel’s genocide in Gaza like it did apartheid, pioneering South African judge says
Former UN inquiry chair Navi Pillay says ‘what’s so unusual about this genocide’ is that ‘we are all witnesses to it’
www.theguardian.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:51 PM
We would not have our beautiful boy without a fertility clinic. Zero reason to bomb one unless you want to prevent births.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
A month without Netflix/Disney and honestly does not feel like I am missing out on anything.
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 AM
A month without Netflix/Disney and honestly does not feel like I am missing out on anything.
Kid is super enjoying Flash Gordon. Running around the house shouting "Flaaassshhhh Aaahaaaaahhh"
boxd.it/257a
boxd.it/257a
Flash Gordon (1980)
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.
boxd.it
November 1, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Kid is super enjoying Flash Gordon. Running around the house shouting "Flaaassshhhh Aaahaaaaahhh"
boxd.it/257a
boxd.it/257a
Trying to repair this vacuum head is super fun without the right tools, a proper guide and possibly shouldn't be doing it on the computer desk. Dust everywhere!
November 1, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Trying to repair this vacuum head is super fun without the right tools, a proper guide and possibly shouldn't be doing it on the computer desk. Dust everywhere!
After 4 months of kerfuffle at the somehow still going DaDa records here in Perth have finally got the first Middle Kids LP
Super nice purple colour 💜 #music
Super nice purple colour 💜 #music
October 28, 2025 at 10:58 AM
After 4 months of kerfuffle at the somehow still going DaDa records here in Perth have finally got the first Middle Kids LP
Super nice purple colour 💜 #music
Super nice purple colour 💜 #music
Liked Tron Ares a lot. Banging NIN soundtrack that called back nicely to Wendy and Daft Punk. JL didn't shit me. Tron tech IRL looked good. Tron tech IRL was patently stupid though but belief was suspended.
Boy was the cinema loud. Not complaining.
So that's all 3 viewed on the big screen :) #tron
Boy was the cinema loud. Not complaining.
So that's all 3 viewed on the big screen :) #tron
October 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Liked Tron Ares a lot. Banging NIN soundtrack that called back nicely to Wendy and Daft Punk. JL didn't shit me. Tron tech IRL looked good. Tron tech IRL was patently stupid though but belief was suspended.
Boy was the cinema loud. Not complaining.
So that's all 3 viewed on the big screen :) #tron
Boy was the cinema loud. Not complaining.
So that's all 3 viewed on the big screen :) #tron
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"Australia has the know-how and the opportunity to help lead the global energy transition to a clean energy future... But first we need to take our foot off the gas."
@billhare.bsky.social in today's Guardian
#auspol
@billhare.bsky.social in today's Guardian
#auspol
Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare
Australia fiddles with fossil gas while the country swelters in record heat. It doesn’t make sense | Bill Hare
Australians have an obvious interest in action against global warming. Focusing on gas instead of renewables for the energy transition risks sabotaging our future
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Sydney’s record October heat; high winds battering both Melbourne and New Zealand, causing death and destruction; the algal bloom caused by South Australia’s marine heatwave wreaking havoc on our marine environment; coral in both the Great Barrier and Ningaloo reefs suffering horrific bleaching.
There’s barely an Australian who hasn’t been affected by one extreme weather event or another, some badly. Some have lost their lives, their homes or both. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:35 AM
"Australia has the know-how and the opportunity to help lead the global energy transition to a clean energy future... But first we need to take our foot off the gas."
@billhare.bsky.social in today's Guardian
#auspol
@billhare.bsky.social in today's Guardian
#auspol
Future @wtyppod.bsky.social episode
Reading about this luxury apartment building that's falling apart after only ten years because the developer wanted a pure white building, a color only achieved by weakening the concrete. LOL what a fucking living metaphor.
432 Park Is Cracking Up
Developers wanted the supertall’s cement façade to be a pristine white. Turns out that’s not great for durability.
www.curbed.com
October 24, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Future @wtyppod.bsky.social episode
Ahh hotter weather at last and the time every car at the school pickup is sitting around for 20 mins, half an hour, idling to run the AC stinking up the joint.
Why do we put up with this?
Why do we put up with this?
October 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Ahh hotter weather at last and the time every car at the school pickup is sitting around for 20 mins, half an hour, idling to run the AC stinking up the joint.
Why do we put up with this?
Why do we put up with this?
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In the end, the last thing the fossil fuel industry wants is for people to stop using their products. So let's make that happen!
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@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social @steveclimate.bsky.social @glenpeters.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social
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@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social @steveclimate.bsky.social @glenpeters.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social
a dinosaur is holding a sign that says make the fossil fuel industry go extinct
ALT: a dinosaur is holding a sign that says make the fossil fuel industry go extinct
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 11:50 AM
In the end, the last thing the fossil fuel industry wants is for people to stop using their products. So let's make that happen!
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@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social @steveclimate.bsky.social @glenpeters.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social
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@lwhitmarsh.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social @steveclimate.bsky.social @glenpeters.bsky.social @doctorvive.bsky.social
So our XP farm produces a lot of gold, even nerfed as it is, so we decided to cover a mountain and then it really needed a dragon on top.
#minecraft
#minecraft
October 11, 2025 at 11:29 AM
So our XP farm produces a lot of gold, even nerfed as it is, so we decided to cover a mountain and then it really needed a dragon on top.
#minecraft
#minecraft
I know in Oz there are hard to electrify industries but it's this calculus that shows just how inefficient burning stuff is and makes me shudder at the recent biofuels govt announcement
nff.org.au/media-releas...
Maybe incentivise using the land for food instead.
nff.org.au/media-releas...
Maybe incentivise using the land for food instead.
October 9, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I know in Oz there are hard to electrify industries but it's this calculus that shows just how inefficient burning stuff is and makes me shudder at the recent biofuels govt announcement
nff.org.au/media-releas...
Maybe incentivise using the land for food instead.
nff.org.au/media-releas...
Maybe incentivise using the land for food instead.
I feel like a bit of a dill. The NBN speed upgrade wasnt there and Belong were very patient with me even though we didn't have their router. I was adamant all our network should support the new speeds. They said it was our router.
Router had a QoS setting set to old bandwidth that was limiting it 😐
Router had a QoS setting set to old bandwidth that was limiting it 😐
October 9, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I feel like a bit of a dill. The NBN speed upgrade wasnt there and Belong were very patient with me even though we didn't have their router. I was adamant all our network should support the new speeds. They said it was our router.
Router had a QoS setting set to old bandwidth that was limiting it 😐
Router had a QoS setting set to old bandwidth that was limiting it 😐
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Does the news reflect what we die from?
October 7, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Does the news reflect what we die from?