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@suetas

Editor, publisher, dachshund fan, hoping to make my bit of the earth in southern lutruwita Tasmania a bit better.

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Electrifying all road freight between Sydney and Melbourne is a no brainer: The payback is less than 4 years The economic case for electric trucks in Australia has become outstandingly clear over the past couple of years, and the payback period is just two to four years.

Makes sense for Australia in so many ways #auspol

“Battery powered trucks that can carry 60 tonnes already exist, and are purpose designed with 450 km plus of range and are capable of being recharged in an hour. They are better than diesel trucks in every way”

reneweconomy.com.au/electrifying...

07.03.2026 11:02 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 3 📌 1

He meant dearth, obvs. Anyone can have a slip of the tongue.

17.02.2026 06:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Actually I think you're right, the ones with dogs do generally say hi.

15.02.2026 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

ikr?

15.02.2026 18:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've been saying 'morning!' to people I meet out walking the dogs here in suburban Melbourne just as I would at home. Some surprise me and say it back; a lot just nod/smile uncomfortably; but the ones who just look right through me – it's a bit soul-destroying.

15.02.2026 08:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

That headline is pretty much what I said when I heard.

15.02.2026 01:08 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

FFS I follow just about every Australian I see just to try and get a bit of Oz content in my feed amongst all the overwhelming US stuff, and now this.

14.02.2026 20:05 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

'Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows.'😂❤️

13.02.2026 07:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just said this, not so pithily, in comments on a dev edit.

11.02.2026 22:26 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

A content warning for very, very significant police violence on this video: Israeli President Herzog is visiting Australia, and police in New South Wales are violently bashing prone protesters.

The media is framing it in completely neutral terms.

Watch the video, then look at the headlines.

09.02.2026 20:57 👍 362 🔁 189 💬 25 📌 8
Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb.
Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

Scene is Julia Gillard and Chris Bowen (then Min for Immigration) in a lighthouse with "Light on the Hill: written under the bulb. Gillard is turning the light off, saying 'It was attracting the boats"

I have many, many favourite Kudelka cartoons but this, from 2011, is possibly one of the best Aus pol cartoons ever drawn.

09.02.2026 01:49 👍 565 🔁 133 💬 12 📌 7

This rolls on. Like a snowball. But made of shit.

Remind me again @albomp.bsky.social why this site is safe for Australian consumption (& why you still use it)?

#auspol

03.02.2026 20:20 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Let’s be super clear.

Disallowing a protest of a foreign leader who has been an enthusiastic participant in a genocide leading to international warrants for the arrest of members of his government, is the most undemocratic, unAustralian and fascist action I have ever seen in Australia.

Rise. ✊🏽

03.02.2026 20:20 👍 43 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 1

Could someone please remind me which search engines still work and are not corrupted by AI? I'm finding Google useless now.

02.02.2026 20:37 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 5 📌 0

Yeah macros are one reason for using Word imho.

31.01.2026 21:27 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

What an excellent, detailed write-up of the copyediting process, showing how it's so much more than many people imagine. I'll have to give reading aloud as I edit a try.

31.01.2026 21:22 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Who else has the time?

31.01.2026 07:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I've seen/heard them around our place (near you I think) a few times ths past year too. Love their song.

19.01.2026 10:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Still gobsmacked at the woman in my dying mum's shared hospital room, scrolling thru high-volume TikToks till late at night. Outraged when I asked her, politely, to use headphones or even turn it down.

19.01.2026 03:02 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

You have my vote.

19.01.2026 03:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The bed keeps my feet warm and has room for my 2 dachshund assistants.

15.01.2026 19:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was astonishing. I mean, why would you?

15.01.2026 10:26 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I really miss those gift-wrapping videos that were filling my Instagram at Christmas time. So soothing.

14.01.2026 01:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.

13.01.2026 21:40 👍 605 🔁 218 💬 32 📌 6

Their statement show that clearly. They don't think they were wrong; people are just being meanies and taking it the wrong way and that's why we can't have nice things.

13.01.2026 09:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Absolutely. I'm increasingly missing out in information because I don't want to watch a video. Transcripts all the way!

11.01.2026 20:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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‘Add blood, forced smile’: how Grok’s nudification tool went viral The ‘put her in a bikini’ trend rapidly evolved into hundreds of thousands of requests to strip clothes from photos of women, horrifying those targeted

@albomp.bsky.social , if you ever do have that RC on the flourishing misogyny in Australian society and why so many women get killed, this will be in the evidence. Ban it now.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

11.01.2026 20:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It was an excellent cartoon, and the paper should have supported you.

11.01.2026 19:19 👍 14 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bannon resigned over that one.

11.01.2026 09:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

OK that job you didn't get, Naomi? It wasn't because you were white.

11.01.2026 08:19 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0