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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · Jun 3

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🅡🅞🅑 🅜🅔🅢🅤🅡🅔 @robmesure.bsky.social · May 29

I have been logged out of my toothbrush.

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 28

Put it this way - the Greens got over 12% of the primary vote in 2022 but only ("only") hold four house seats. Their influence in getting policy deals out of Labor is proportionally higher than their presence in parliament, and they should be using that.

(Unless minority govt. Then things get fun.)

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 28

I'll admit I misremembered how many seats One Nation had in the late 90s - it feels like it was a similar level of influence but now that I look at it they only really did well in the Qld state election (and media attention)

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 28

Sure there's an argument whether Labor "really" disagrees with the Greens or just think they have to to hold the centre, I'm happy to listen either way but I think the practical difference is pretty marginal

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 28

Oh yeah I totally agree, but the point of minor parties has always been that they can talk ideological (for better or worse) while most of their actual effect on the election is to funnel preferences to a major party.

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 28

to be fair that also describes the Greens/Labor dynamic

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Apr 12

My current feeling on this is if you're scared to deploy on Fridays then you have bigger problems. But, sometimes you DO have bigger problems. In that case, be honest about that and don't deploy on Fridays (but work on fixing the bigger problems).

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Mar 31

Random #auspol thought: tariffs on politics. If you import your ideas wholesale from the US then 25% of your votes don't count.

Yes Clive I'm looking at you.

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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · Mar 18

I spoke with Prime Minister Albanese over the phone this morning about strengthening Canada and Australia’s trade and defence relationship.

Against tariffs and a shifting global economy, Canada is working with reliable allies to build lasting and resilient ties.

@albomp.bsky.social

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · Mar 18

oh god, the people who were predicting Iraq WMD style fabrication of "fentanyl labs in Canada" as a pretext for invasion might have been spot on the nose

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Mar 18

SCOOP—Trump plans to issue an executive order designating fentanyl as a "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per copy of EO reviewed by me. Source at State speculates purpose is to designate cartels as terrorist orgs/justify military ops in Mexico/Canada.

Context/full text of draft only on The Handbasket:

Trump to declare fentanyl “Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO

A copy of the draft was obtained and reviewed by The Handbasket.

www.thehandbasket.co

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · Mar 15

Huh, I thought I wrote a whole piece on why managers perceiving their role to be "shit umbrella" is a bad thing, but the only thing I'm turning up is this Twitter thread from 2023. 🤔

However, you specifically mention contracting and clients, and that can be a very different matter!

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rob pike @robpike.io · Mar 13

5 years ago today I said, in a video meeting, that the team should stop coming to the office.

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Mar 10

RFK Jr is blaming a dead child for not exercising more

whet moser @whetmoser.com · Mar 10

um www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/h...

“It’s very, very difficult for measles to kill a healthy person,” he said, adding later that “we see a correlation between people who get hurt by measles and people who don’t have good nutrition or who don’t have a good exercise regimen.”

West Texas is “kind of a food desert,” he added. Malnutrition “may have been an issue” for the child who died of measles in Gaines County.

Texas health officials said the child had “no known underlying conditions.”

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Corey “🎃Managed NAT Gateway👻” Quinn @quinnypig.com · Mar 6

Reminder: if you haven’t yet read “The Mythical Man Month,” buy two copies so you can read it faster.

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Feb 23

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Feb 23

Doing my part to raise the next generation of nerds. I'm running Keep on the Borderlands - adapted to Cairn - for Mr 11 and Ms 9. #ttrpg #cairnrpg #dnd #osr

A top-down view of a table covered with the articles of a session of a tabletop roleplaying game - character sheets, grid paper, dice, pens and pencils, a DM screen, and a booklet titled "Cairn".

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · Feb 21

Jesus Christ what craven cowards. I know it's always been rainbow capitalism but this fucking hurts. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Meta and Google opt out of Sydney Mardi Gras amid move away from DEI in US

Former sponsors walk away from 2025 event – while organisers say they do not meet partnership requirements

www.theguardian.com

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · Feb 19

I understand why these stories exist but it’s important to be clear that he’s not “saving” 16 billion, he’s choosing, personally, without oversight, to wipe out 16 billion dollars of government services to veterans and the disabled and food safety etc etc

Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · Feb 19

DOGE says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that

DOGE Says It’s Saved $55 Billion, Itemized Data Show Far Less

The federal cost-cutting effort dubbed the Department of Government Efficiency says it has saved $55 billion in federal spending so far, but its website only accounts for $16.6 billion of that.

www.bloomberg.com

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · Feb 19

Slashed zero (0̸), a representation of the number 0 (zero) to distinguish it from the letter O
Slashed letter 'O' (O̸), a representation of the letter O to distinguish it from the number 0 (zero)

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Feb 13

Also screwworm and rinderpest! And if you don’t know what those were, hoo boy, if you think beef is expensive now…

Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Feb 13

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY SCIENCE:
1. Chickenpox
2. Diphtheria
3. Measles
4. Pertussis
5. Pneumococcal Infection
6. Polio
7. Tetanus
8. Typhoid
9. Yellow Fever
10. Smallpox

DISEASES ERADICATED OR DECIMATED BY RFK JR. OR PRAYER:
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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Feb 7

The swordfish were kind of a one-sided combat?

But, yeah.

David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Jan 19

I'm running my first game of pf2e in two weeks, can you put up the beginner guides, like, yesterday? ok that'd be great thaaaaanks

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David McLeish @mcleish.id.au · Nov 24

Black Mirror S6E04 came out a year and a half ago and Supermassive Black Hole is *still* stuck in my head

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · Feb 3

In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling.

I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on.

I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.

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