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This is your friendly periodic reminder to cancel any streaming services you’re not using. They mount up.

Petrol sales in Australia down 7% compared to the same month last year. Same happened last month. Who’d be a petrol station owner right now. EV sales are climbing fast. I give it two years before EV charger anxiety is replaced by ICE petrol station anxiety. www.energy.gov.au/publications...

So true. www.betootaadvocate.com/uncategorize...

Is there an Australian version of Maple Scan? maplescan.ca

Hands up all those who think one of the reasons Labor aren’t interested in changes to taxes as they apply to housing is that many of their MPs will be personally disadvantaged. @australianlabor.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just wow. I knew the coalition were in trouble electorally but this report, commissioned for a Liberal think tank, lays it out in stark detail. blueprintinstitute.s3.ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/Final_YouGov...

Migrant community marches in favour of making themselves leave Australia chaser.com.au/general-news...

AI strikes again. At this rate technology could see a backlash not seen since the 19th-century Luddites.

Gotta love South Australia. Pouring with rain, severe weather warning in place and with almost no solar at the moment, still manages 98.9% renewables over the past three days.

Of course it’s raining in Adelaide - the Royal Adelaide Show starts on Saturday. Given that it’s such a rain magnet, why don’t they move it to the summer when we need the rain?

Oh good. Labor are going to win the next election too. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Shorter Jarrod Bleijie - some of you may die but that's the sacrifice I'm willing to make 😡

Browsing Google Maps reviews can be quite amusing. This is one of the recent best for Burnside Village in Adelaide.

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The rest of the world seems to be entering a new phase of engagement with the US. To start with the world was concerned about Trump’s actions. We worried about Americans and America’s place in world affairs. Now, to be frank, we don’t care. We are working around the US. It’s becoming irrelevant.

Talking about road user reforms: how about removing the diesel fuel rebate, which gives nothing to roads while subsidising miners? #Auspol www.pv-magazine-australia.com/2023/09/14/r...

I have no problem paying a road user charge as long as it’s fair. And it’s not fair if it doesn’t: 1. Take account of how far people drive, and 2. Apply to all road users, including EVs, PHEVs, HEVs and ICEs. And mining and farm vehicles driven on roads. #auspol www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This paints the stark picture that America really is a fading power. I've lived here long enough to know that Americans are beginning to reject new ideas, new technology, and efficiencies. It's a socioeconomic, cultural and political problem that's become deep rooted.

Just been talking to an AI expert who’s just turned down phenomenal salary because it would require him moving to the US. “Too dangerous for my family”, he said. With the US President now saying the nation’s capital is too dangerous to go out at night, this attitude isn’t going to change.

Snow. Flake. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The full headline should read - “Hard choice for cattle farmer after Biloela property contaminated by PFAS from Callide Power Station”. I wonder which side of the argument the Nationals are? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Given that this is from a satirical columnist, it hits home harder. And now for Australia to show some leadership too. Come on Penny, Albo. @senatorwong.bsky.social @australianlabor.bsky.social @albomp.bsky.social #auspol www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well there you go

Noticing a pattern here.

Too easy! My @smh @theage cartoon.

We have two cars (family of 5). Running costs (similar distance covered): 1. ICE - service $1,300 (needed new battery - ironic huh), petrol $2,200 pa (~$40pw). 2. EV - service $120, electricity $230 less whatever I get from solar panels. Difference over 10 years over $30k!

In 2024, the US was involved in 8.31% of global trade. So that’s 91.69% of global trade that Trump’s tariffs won’t affect. You do have to wonder what proportion of global trade the US will be involved in in 2025. Tourism is tanking for a start. www.forbes.com.au/life/travel/...

Trump's trade war probably qualifies as the greatest madness in economic policy in a developed country after WWII: 1. All decisions are made by one single person (Trump). 2. No principles are applied. 3. No economic rationale or theory. 4. All is based on Trump's emotions. /1

"Canada must remove barriers with the European Union to more deeply integrate Canada's economy with the EU in order to reduce our dependence on the US" 🟢 Agree: 85% 🔴 Disagree: 12% canadianpolling.substack.com/p/as-us-rela...

Sussan Ley, having lost control of the right wing of her party, now loses the moderates. Suggesting that free speech about an ongoing genocide is so unimportant that motorists shouldn’t be mildly inconvenienced is, quite frankly, incredible.

If you watch nothing else all day, spend 13 minutes and 20 seconds watching this. The great Andrew Scott gives Edith Sampson’s graduation address. Then send it to your kids. youtu.be/wM_-O8GREGA?...

Oh, yeah!! Good on ya mates!🇦🇺 Imagine the police "protecting" protests in the U.S.? Imagine a city shutting down the major bridge in a US city for 5 hours, for a protest? Imagine a protest for Palestine of maybe 50,000 people, in the U.S.? I'd say we need to "catch up" with the Aussies!

This is not an entirely stupid idea. Of course, a family of five could have five properties negatively geared but it would still stop the insane gouging from people who claim against 10, 20 … or more properties. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

So a report that would have been ignored by 99% of Americans and 99.99% of the rest of the world is now headline news. Hasn’t he heard of the Streisand Effect? www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...

Just a reminder that BlueSky works differently to Twitter. . Repost = Retweet But . Likes in Twitter influence who else gets to see the post. BlueSky doesn’t do that - it trusts YOU to repost stuff you think others should see. Essentially, likes in BlueSky are just between you and the author.

Sorry, I am not giving up my Adelaide-made solar panels so that Adani can keep digging up Queensland. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Just in case you thought #Spotify was doing artists a favour. No wonder so many are closing their accounts.

Spotify CEO invested in AI weapons, now bands are pulling their music - Los Angeles Times www.latimes.com/entertainmen... @spotify @youtube If you require government ID or facial recognition to use your apps, we are all leaving them. - All of us.

I was teetering on the fence of cutting loose from #spotify but AI controlled weapons used for genocide has launched me over the fence like a cartoon circus cannon #spotokillin #aiweapons #musictomurderby #buhbye #noprideingenocide