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@petermclarty.bsky.social
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Data Analyst & engineer, security nerd, needs to be near the sea in warm places;

Husband, dad, bodyboarder, sometimes SUP.
Leaning left for good things to happen

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In case you were wondering

#ai
Screenshot of a post from Twitter(x) It repeatedly says"Don't upload your family photos to AI"
January 20, 2026 at 9:23 PM
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US economy is going well

NOT

7.23% loss and trending down over the year

#finance
A currency chart of USD to AUD from xe.com showing an overall trend of the USD losing value over the last year. Shows a 7.23% loss. It temporarily blipped lower meaning that value loss was higher again, but had a slight recovery in the last 24hrs @ 9th January 2026
January 9, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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This little map will be telling on the Australian government in years to come.
Several countries and Europe have enacted AI laws to regulate it.
Australia has a plan

TBF it looks more like a plan to have a plan
#auspol
Global map from Microsoft showing the various enacted laws around the word to regulate AI. Australia has an action plan. Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/security/security-for-ai/govern
December 17, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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New Murdoch scam happening
This is a redirect from backaustralia.com.au. Saw it on billboards when heading to the office today. QLD goes to CM, I bet Melbourne it goes to the herald-sun.
Very biased articles. I few headlines
Screenshot of Murdoch news page with various articles from them purporting to support a better Australia. Things like union bashing, and alleged funding of activist group from government funds
December 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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Wow!!!

#health
#diabetes

x.com/SamaHoole/st...
Follow the link to the original post on Twitter 1850: "Diabetic patients must avoid sugar and starch entirely. Meat and fat are safe." 1900: "Diabetic patients should eat only meat, eggs, and butter until symptoms resolve." 1920: "Diabetic patients need insulin but should still restrict carbohydrates significantly." 1950: "Diabetic patients can eat moderate carbs if they take enough insulin." 1980: "Diabetic patients should eat plenty of whole grains as part of a balanced diet." 2025: "Diabetic patients should eat 45-60g carbs per meal and take metformin, insulin, and GLP-1 agonists." Notice the pattern? As pharmaceutical options increased, carb recommendations increased. It's not that the science changed. It's that the profit model changed. The treatment that kept diabetics alive for centuries was progressively replaced by treatments that generate recurring revenue. Your great-great-grandfather's doctor knew carbs were the problem. Your doctor knows you're a revenue stream.
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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Was that the Liberals surplus they had the mugs printed for?
Image of Mugs created by LNP on left side, for surplus that never eventuate and right side Kermit drinking a cup of Lipton's tea
November 26, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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While this was abhorrent, to ignore the Palestinian journalists in this statement is more whitewashing from the MSM.

Israel murdering Palestinian journalists while denying access to foreign reporters has been equally abhorrent

Do Better @australia.theguardian.com

#freepalestine
#MSM
#journalism
Excerpt from Katherine Viner's Saturday Edition - 22 Nov 2025 The killing of Khashoggi remains the most notorious attack on a journalist in recent memory and US intelligence agencies concluded in 2021 that it was approved by the crown prince himself (Prince Mohammed has denied involvement). Mohamad Bazzi explored in depth why Trump was so happy to lavish the prince with praise, while Karen Attiah’s op-ed reflected on the visit and the “Saudification” of America, something Khashoggi warned of in his columns for the Washington Post when she was his editor.
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Matt Barrie outing himself as one of the problem

#auspol
Text over 2 images Headline in News.com.au "Wonder why house prices are up?": Migration fuelled home loans driving the Aussie Dollar creation, Matt Barrie says Images are several $50 dollar notes and a second image of people in front of a house, possibly an auction happening
November 16, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Imagine as AI gets stronger how much worse this stuff gets. Without seeing the bits from any neurons wetter these deliberations were held is difficult Toto believe Blieje in what he says.

We know ideologically he was opposed so it's hard to believe he wasn't swayed by these lies.
Front page Courier Mail newspaper with headline " It's a lot of hot air" relating to a misrepresentation of information potentially used to cancel a major wind farm project The main body of the article leading on the front page
November 12, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Admiral Mike Rogers taking why the USA doesn't have key cybersecurity laws

#cybersecurity
Admiral Mike Rogers during on stage talking with Gorgi Coghlan at CyberCon 2025
October 17, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Brian Krebs taking security and AI at CyberCon
#cybersecurity
#CyberCon
Photo of Brian Krebs aka krebsonsecurity
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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CoberCon about to get under way

May be lots of posts coming

3 days of too much information and too many talks not able to attend

#cybersecurity
October 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Heading to Melbourne for CyberCon
Picture of me at the airport
October 14, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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Fixed part of it for
@australia.theguardian.com
Text in article linked in part this is areply to I edited the bit about 1200 people killed by Hamas to say mostly killed by IDF. Which is the correct response with the IDF having used their action known as Hannibal Directive
October 12, 2025 at 9:29 AM
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Heading to the city.

#freepalestine
Picture of Pete on the bus heading the Palestine protests in Meeanjin
October 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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It's interesting to read this and see how Christianity in America is enabling it all over again.

Which will rise and crash this time?

There isn't a pretty future for some of these people
From the book Saving a Sick America:a prescription for moral and cultural transformation Here in America, “studies find that in the United States the irreligious are far more likely than the religious to believe in a whole array of occult beliefs such as Atlantis, Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, astrology, UFOs, haunted houses, and ghosts.”34 So it is not those following the Scriptures who believe in fairy tales and superstitious myths. It is those who reject God’s Word who are more likely to do this. In the oft-quoted words of G. K. Chesterton, “When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing—they believe in anything.”35 On October 14, 1941, Adolph Hitler commented: So it’s not opportune to hurl ourselves now into a struggle with the Churches. The best thing is to let Christianity die a natural death. A slow death has something comforting about it. The dogma of Christianity gets worn away before the advances of science. Religion will have to make more and more concessions. Gradually the myths crumble. All that’s left is to prove that in nature there is no frontier between the organic and the inorganic. When understanding of the universe has become widespread, when the majority of men know that the stars are not sources of light but worlds, perhaps inhabited worlds like ours, then the Christian doctrine will be convicted of absurdity.36 Today we can say that it was not Christianity that died a natural death. To the contrary, it was Nazism that died a violent, ignominious death while the Christian faith, despite setbacks in the West, is thriving worldwide like never before. Nazism, for its part, has been “convicted of absurdity”—and far worse.
October 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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The headline looks OK. The first part seems reasonable, and then the switcheroo

Dan, the expert, spruiks nuclear with his fictional SMRs

#auspol
News.com.au headline "Never ending demand: Household bills expected rise due the AI energy consumption " picture of Sky News taking head The global AI boom is well on its way to Australia, with the prices of energy and property expected to rise as a result. The government will need to find a solution to prevent Aussies from footing the bill, with a Coalition minister spruiking nuclear energy as a potential solution. Increased investment from international firms in Australian AI infrastructure over the coming years is set to drive up demand for land and energy to support the technology. Energy and utility expert Phillip Vrettakis said the demand for energy from technology companies “is much more than we’ve got available”. “It’s going to be a challenge for the entire energy sector,” he said. Mr Vrettakis, an executive director of energy advisory firm Rennie, said the increase in energy demand from data centres would lead to “bigger bills for consumers going forward”. Data centres have a “never-ending demand” for energy and are “hungry” for data, land and water to cool their facilities, he said. “At the moment there’s a real scramble for locations that are close to city centres to make sure infrastructure, especially fibre connections and latency are short.” The warning comes after US-based software giant OpenAI confirmed plans to open its first Australian office in Sydney, and Amazon pledged a $20bn investment in local data centres. A spokesperson for the federal government’s trade and investment promotion agency Austrade, said they are “seeing strong interest from international investors” in AI. An April report from the International Energy Agency projected electricity demand from data centres worldwide is set to more than double by 2030. Coalition spokesman for Energy Dan Tehan said nuclear innovations in the United States including small modular reactors could provide a solution to Australian energy demands. “There’s basically a nuclear renaissance taking place in the US,” Mr Tehan told ABC Radio National on Thursday following a trip to the US touring nuclear sites. “Everyone that I spoke to is incredibly confident given the use of AI, given the use of quantum, that they will continue to make rapid developments with nuclear technology.
October 5, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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The irony is elephantine proportions for this mob.

But sure, let's have a chat about all the things the government should be subsidizing. Oil, Coal, Gas, capital gains.

I'm sure someone better has the other great tax candidates for Matt to start an argument about.
October 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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Looks like people are expressing their dissatisfaction with Disney
#disney
#jimmykimmel
Screen shot of a facbook ad for pay for 10 months for 12 and the majority of comments are from people showing their displeasure with the ABC decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. First post shows someone saying "Thanks for the reminder to cancel"
September 19, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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I wonder why Grok would be on there. Could it be that Elon tweaks it to only tell what he wants it to respond?

ia.acs.org.au/article/2025...
Text that reads "China-based chatbot DeepSeek, text-to-image generator Stable Diffusion, and xAI’s controversial large language model Grok were found to be among the 10 most blocked AI apps in Australia, according to the company." from Information Age article https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/cyber-workers-losing-more-hours-to-burnout--survey.html
September 17, 2025 at 6:18 AM
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We have one like that. She wandered in our door 17 years ago. She been dumped as we could not find an owner
White cat "Crystal" on a timber desk. She has been called a ragdoll as her breed by a vet. A keyboard and monitors can be seen in the background
September 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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This will age about as well as "Iraq has WMDs"

#auspol
August 26, 2025 at 11:47 PM
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The @australia.theguardian.com has the headline wrong

At least 32 Palestinians murdered in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food

I fixed it for you, but maybe you should have gone with massacred.

Time for stronger language

#freepalestine
Clip of article from the Guardian Headlines, which states. "At least 32 Palestinians killed in Gaza as IDF fires on crowds seeking food" image of a women in traditional black clothing holding someone, clearly in grief
July 19, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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I dropped into Distillery Rd Markets at Beenleigh this afternoon as a friend is playing. Honestly, this place is a great addition to SEQ, and I hope it has a long and prosperous future.
#queensland
Photo of a crowd of people in the area known as the FED in Distillery Road Markets Sienna Larsson on stage playing a guitar dressed in a long chocolate skirt and sleeveless top
July 19, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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My picks for the year triple j hottest 100
I could easily do another 5 sets completely different, all with great songs that should earn their place. I could have done 10 for almost any decade for reasons.

It's going to be interesting to see the final result

I don't think 10 votes were enough
Triple J Hottest 100 of Australian Songs list. The Church - Under the Milky Way Divinyls - I Touch Myself Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red wine INXS - Never Tear us Apart Dynamic Hepnotics - Soul Kind Of Feeling Middle Kids - Edge of Town Maltreat - Groceries Gretta Ray - Drive GANGgajang - Sounds of Then The Cruel Sea - The Honeymoon is Over
July 16, 2025 at 9:36 AM