Nick Casmirri
@ncasmirri.bsky.social
Once described as 'one of the most tedious individuals on Australian Twitter'. 🇦🇺🇮🇹🇪🇺🌈
Do short-track speed skaters get dizzy?
February 16, 2026 at 12:51 PM
Do short-track speed skaters get dizzy?
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Albaneseism is predicated on the important starting point that everything about the place isn't fucking falling apart to start with, which I think limits UK Labour's ability to copy it
February 16, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Albaneseism is predicated on the important starting point that everything about the place isn't fucking falling apart to start with, which I think limits UK Labour's ability to copy it
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This is basically how Australia's Bureau of Meteorology explained Celsius to the public at metrication in 1972 too!
Its PR officer came up with jingles about frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties, and flaming forties
(frosty fives was -5 to 5, tingling tens 5–15, etc)
Its PR officer came up with jingles about frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties, and flaming forties
(frosty fives was -5 to 5, tingling tens 5–15, etc)
Negative: freezing!
0 to 10: Cold!
10 to 20: Mild!
20 to 30: Pleasant!
Above 30: hot!
The American mind cannot comprehend this.
0 to 10: Cold!
10 to 20: Mild!
20 to 30: Pleasant!
Above 30: hot!
The American mind cannot comprehend this.
Celsius is the scientist temperature measurement in that it’s the most conceptually coherent , Fahrenheit is the engineer temperature measurement in that it’s actually optimized to be useful for it’s main use case of communicating everyday temperatures.
February 16, 2026 at 12:16 PM
This is basically how Australia's Bureau of Meteorology explained Celsius to the public at metrication in 1972 too!
Its PR officer came up with jingles about frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties, and flaming forties
(frosty fives was -5 to 5, tingling tens 5–15, etc)
Its PR officer came up with jingles about frosty fives, tingling tens, temperate twenties, thirsty thirties, and flaming forties
(frosty fives was -5 to 5, tingling tens 5–15, etc)
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The thing about present day Liberals wanting return to ‘1960s and 1970s’ migration expectations is that it was precisely that period when Australia started experimenting with non-assimilationist migration policy. Inclusive language policy, welfare support, and things like SBS. Liberal achievements!
February 16, 2026 at 3:00 AM
The thing about present day Liberals wanting return to ‘1960s and 1970s’ migration expectations is that it was precisely that period when Australia started experimenting with non-assimilationist migration policy. Inclusive language policy, welfare support, and things like SBS. Liberal achievements!
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(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
February 11, 2026 at 8:41 PM
(1/11) If you live in NY, you’ve probably started seeing a new warning: “THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.” This mandatory disclosure went into effect late last year, and it’s the first attempt by a US state to grapple with a new generation of surveillance pricing.
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Just renewed my Oz passport: $422 ($42/year). Germany ($12/y), Korea ($6), Brazil ($2). This monopoly has got to be a total racket. All done on-line so SFA o'heads. Prices Surveillance Authority -- pls do you job. www.comparethemarket.com.au/travel-insur...
February 15, 2026 at 11:50 PM
Just renewed my Oz passport: $422 ($42/year). Germany ($12/y), Korea ($6), Brazil ($2). This monopoly has got to be a total racket. All done on-line so SFA o'heads. Prices Surveillance Authority -- pls do you job. www.comparethemarket.com.au/travel-insur...
I'm finally becoming litigious. Lodged my first application with the ART.
February 16, 2026 at 3:13 AM
I'm finally becoming litigious. Lodged my first application with the ART.
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This is very funny. We might actually get those subs! ...because they are outdated and the US has deemed them inappropriate for any plausible military scenario
February 15, 2026 at 9:30 PM
This is very funny. We might actually get those subs! ...because they are outdated and the US has deemed them inappropriate for any plausible military scenario
I have to cut the bit about our Principal’s talk on his visit to Israel. Purely for reasons of space.
February 15, 2026 at 9:40 AM
I have to cut the bit about our Principal’s talk on his visit to Israel. Purely for reasons of space.
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Sydney/Canberra
NYC bus ad: Every member of my polycule has this new app!
DC bus ad: The Lockheed Martin Mk 9 Childkiller Missile uses AI to keep America safe
DC bus ad: The Lockheed Martin Mk 9 Childkiller Missile uses AI to keep America safe
February 15, 2026 at 7:04 AM
Sydney/Canberra
Are you into turn of the millennium nostalgia, stories with gay and disabled characters, and cricket? You could be the target audience for my book?
February 15, 2026 at 5:06 AM
Are you into turn of the millennium nostalgia, stories with gay and disabled characters, and cricket? You could be the target audience for my book?
Editing is hard. I’ve still got 97,000 words for just the 1997 and 1998 parts.
February 15, 2026 at 4:09 AM
Editing is hard. I’ve still got 97,000 words for just the 1997 and 1998 parts.
Remembering how during Covid the Victorian government placed residents of post office boxes in lockdown, and the NSW government banned people living in a cemetery from attending the cricket.
February 15, 2026 at 1:26 AM
Remembering how during Covid the Victorian government placed residents of post office boxes in lockdown, and the NSW government banned people living in a cemetery from attending the cricket.
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The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
February 14, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.
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Doomscrolling.
Name a videogame you've put 500 hours into.
February 14, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Doomscrolling.
I guess declaring the international rules-based order is over gives Europeans an excuse to be less critical of Israel.
I don't think it's a good idea. The EU depends on maintaining as much of that order as you can.
I don't think it's a good idea. The EU depends on maintaining as much of that order as you can.
February 14, 2026 at 3:11 AM
I guess declaring the international rules-based order is over gives Europeans an excuse to be less critical of Israel.
I don't think it's a good idea. The EU depends on maintaining as much of that order as you can.
I don't think it's a good idea. The EU depends on maintaining as much of that order as you can.
I had to delete more of the Simpsons references.
February 14, 2026 at 3:05 AM
I had to delete more of the Simpsons references.
I’m still surprised I managed to piece together a day-by-day account of school life in August 1998, but I have to try and delete more of it.
February 14, 2026 at 2:23 AM
I’m still surprised I managed to piece together a day-by-day account of school life in August 1998, but I have to try and delete more of it.
Bush watching the bombing of Baghdad.
The Jets continue to tear the place up, so fucking good
February 14, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Bush watching the bombing of Baghdad.
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BREAKING: Britain’s High Court rules that the government’s decision to outlawed the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.
Britain's High Court says it was illegal to outlaw protest group Palestine Action
Britain’s High Court has ruled that the government’s decision to outlawed the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.
bit.ly
February 13, 2026 at 10:30 AM
BREAKING: Britain’s High Court rules that the government’s decision to outlawed the protest group Palestine Action as a terrorist organization was unlawful.
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Our first piece for the year:
Interstate play was decisive in making Australian Football what it is today, but after a quiet death in the 90s, how will it play out in the truly professional era?
Interstate play was decisive in making Australian Football what it is today, but after a quiet death in the 90s, how will it play out in the truly professional era?
After 25 years, interstate football is back — but can it recapture its former fire?
After a break of more than a quarter of a century, AFL State of Origin returns in Perth tomorrow with a battle between two proud football states, Western Australia and Victoria.
www.abc.net.au
February 13, 2026 at 5:32 AM
Our first piece for the year:
Interstate play was decisive in making Australian Football what it is today, but after a quiet death in the 90s, how will it play out in the truly professional era?
Interstate play was decisive in making Australian Football what it is today, but after a quiet death in the 90s, how will it play out in the truly professional era?
I’ve deleted the bit about how I used to draw maps with imaginary electoral boundaries on my first home computer.
February 13, 2026 at 5:53 AM
I’ve deleted the bit about how I used to draw maps with imaginary electoral boundaries on my first home computer.
More by-election news.
February 13, 2026 at 12:01 AM
More by-election news.
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One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media
February 12, 2026 at 5:24 AM
One thing that astonishes me about the Herzog visit is that Israel has murdered more journalists than any other state in the 21st century, and he hasn’t faced a single question about this (to my knowledge) from the Australian media
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Sentences I never ever thought I would write:
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS
February 12, 2026 at 12:10 PM
Sentences I never ever thought I would write:
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS
ITALY WIN BY TEN WICKETS