Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 2hFor all the stuff I complain about on here, I would like to throw kudos at a most unlikely recipient: Aus Post. They have been consistently getting small parcels from Brisbane delivered to me on the NSW far south coast *within* 4 days. If it reaches the ‘Gong, it arrives next day every time. Kudos. 000
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I renew the notion of "eat the rich". Bring on the golden age of guillotines. 021
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"the Board is focused on its mandate to deliver price stability and full employment." really? 000
Reposted by RobGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I give you the annotated version of the RBA statement (just in case you want to know what they really mean) thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...thepoint.com.auThe RBA has raised rates again. Here’s what its statement really meansGreg Jericho, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, annotates the RBA’s latest statement, breaking down what the central bank is really telling us. 78830
Reposted by RobAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9251903177
Reposted by Robemily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I’m only seeing people with ME or Long Covid sharing this. If you’re not affected, can you please read it & share? Ableist propaganda goes viral all the time, which encourages outlets to publish more of it. Can we please make the truth go viral instead? 3197158
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026BREAKING: "The Coalition remains thoroughly unelectable" #auspol 132
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Here’s something we’re not seeing in the datacentre/AI debate. Australia is remote, even by Internet standards. With continuing data sovereignty requirements (globally) where’s all this DC workload going to come from? A country with a population of around 26m people? With our latency? The pacific? 122
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Albanese is the same muppet who thinks regularly enacting “world first” legislation is a good thing. Maybe sometimes we should sit things out and be opportunistic in the aftermath? No, we’re governed on balance, by idiots. #auspol 030
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Here ‘tis. Buffalo’s 5th album. Reverse is dedicated (by hand) to the bass player’s (Ross Sims) nephew. #vinylsky #records #aussie 130
Reposted by RobPearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 19/09/2026At 91, I may be slowing down a little, but P&I is not. Its readership is growing, younger voices are joining us and its independence still rests entirely on readers, John Menadue writes. #IndependentMedia #auspolpearlsandirritations.comP&I is growing – and its independence still depends on youP&I is reaching more readers, attracting younger voices and becoming an increasingly important part of Australia’s democratic conversation. But as John Menadue writes, our independence still depends entirely on reader support. 013442
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I just completed my (Australian 70s hard rock) Buffalo collection, acquiring the rarely seen 5th studio album (LP) on the Vertigo label at the markets this morning. #vinylsky #vinylrecords #aussierock 010
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Apparently they have an issue with those who “won’t stand to attention” with the appropriate vigour.. 000
Reposted by RobProf. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/09/2026Breaking News! Code: y-Axis Alert! On September 11th, the preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature measured 2.98°C above the 1991-2020 mean, which was 4.03 standard deviations above the mean. No previous year has broken 3SD. The Climate 8-ball is feeling oblong. 28771400
Reposted by RobAsher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever www.theguardian.com/law/commenti...theguardian.comAs Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than everWithout laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools 03215
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I know the Greens are in the spotlight today, but how about levelling criticism towards insidious climate policy on the governing party with a supermajority in the HoR? The ALP are the climate vandals as well as the right wing nutjobs. #auspol 1123
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Precisely why I started collecting vinyl records again, 22 years ago. 010
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Happy southern father’s/carer’s day to all those who celebrate! May your BBQs be forever tasty. #au 020
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m going to double down here. Any media which paints the Greens as either crazy or hysterical but covers Pauline Hanson as a credible political option should be exiled into political purgatory and is not worthy of anyone’s time. #auspol 15114
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This shouldn't be a controversial position: the fossil fuel industry shouldn't be allowed to advertise. Period. Treat them like the tobacco industry. #auspol 053
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Running update: I broke a PB yesterday: 16km in 1:46:16 with elevation +/- 168m/163m. The New Balance SuperComp Elite 6s made a big difference, though breaking them in caused an instep blister, right foot. #skyrunning #distance 100
Reposted by RobGeorge's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026The perpetrators were the boards and CEOs of fossil fuel companies who have known for decades what they were doing, have known the consequences of it, and carried on with reckless indifference to those consequences. aliensideboob.substack.com/p/the-reckon...aliensideboob.substack.comThe ReckoningThat imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it? 077
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Vale Dolly Parton. She was by all accounts a thouroughly good and decent person. We need so many more like her. 010
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026If there are worse climate vandals than fossil fuel companies, it’s big tech. 020
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026This is genuinely heartbreaking on so many levels, let alone Minns being a tool. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...theguardian.comMissing teen hiker Lily Hooper found dead after disappearing in NSW national park a week agoPremier Chris Minns tells parliament ‘this is obviously devastating’ after earlier announcing 18-year-old had been ‘found alive’ with half a bottle of water 000
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Instead of voting for the bloody ALP, vote for the Greens or a worthy independent already. #auspol 2437
Reposted by RobGreg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Anyway, a reminder. Fuel Tax Credits over the next 4 years will cost the Govt $47bn. The savings from the cuts to the NDIS is $38bn. Gillard in 2010: "Budgets are about choices, and you show what you value through the choices you make" Indeed. 14437207
Reposted by RobLisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If ever a case were made to get all of your stuff and things out of the cloud and amass physical copies of everything, here is a prime example of why: PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute | PCMag share.google/mVR4o9Uk84T9...share.googlePBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud DisputeThe lost footage, said to amount to roughly 50 terabytes of data, reportedly included historical items shot over roughly 70 years of the station's programming. 34263232903
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 15/08/2026 Exactly this, plus also wanting to save the planet/environment isn’t a right wing/left wing thing either. 000
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Aye: "Europe staggers into its fifth lethal heatwave of the northern summer, wildcat elements of the Trump regime and the US fossil fuel industry are manoeuvring to create a premise for seizing Greenland, and four point five million voters in Australia are playing footsie with bunyip fascism." 000
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Fuck the RBA. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comRBA interest rates: Reserve Bank holds cash rate at 4.35% but threatens more hikes if neededIn a widely expected decision, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds interest rate after three hikes earlier this year 110
Reposted by RobAmy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026You can’t appease power. In 1938, the head of the BBC assured the Nazi ambassador to Britain the UK broadcaster was ‘not anti-Nazi’ and willingly censored BBC news. Appeasement doesn’t work www.thenewdaily.com.au/opinion/2026...thenewdaily.com.auAppeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating historyNo matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster. 24517209
Reposted by RobPeter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Dear Australian news media, I have zero interest in your daily coverage of everything Pauline Hanson says and does. Yes, report her policies (when she releases them). But also report the policies of the Greens too. For balance. With some factual analysis of both. Do some bloody #journalism! #auspol 1227362
Reposted by RobKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/08/2026As I wrote a few weeks ago, Australia's federal data centre guidelines **DO NOT** limit the use of fossil fuels. You can build a single 1 watt solar panel plus 2 gigawatts of gas and be in compliance. Nicely laid out here: www.minister.industry.gov.au/king/media/i... 15221
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Ugh Reddit. I don’t want to install your stupid iOS app. Stop blocking me from reading the website. 000
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Jane Whom? on the radio bleating the Liberal party won’t do something.. that’s reassuring. #auspol 012
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026I’d really like it if some big player in tech actively pushed back against this shit and focused on decent quality technology that actually solves problems. Perhaps that’s too “old school”? 000
Reposted by RobKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026This is one of the reasons why hyperscalers are buying batteries -to help smooth the fluctuations in their gas turbine use and reduce wear and tear Essentially using what should be an energy transition technology to enable worse, more prolonged use of fossil fuels www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 214348
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Apparently we couldn't have a "Voice to Parliament" because it might have granted favour to indigenous folks under the constitution, but this is OK? #auspol 130
Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026Meta, Facebook, anything Zuckerberg has ever touched really is fucking insidious, not just morally or ethically dubious. 000
Reposted by RobDave @daveb23.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I'm starting to think that a large part of life in the future is going to be taken up with fighting fires and, during winter, preparing to fight fires. What we're seeing is barely the beginning, a lot more warming is already baked in, and CO2 emissions rising. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...theguardian.comMore than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency 071
Reposted by RobZeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/07/20262026 is on track to be the warmest (~35% chance) or second warmest (~63%) year on record, while 2027 is very likely (92% chance) to be the warmest on record on the back of a growing super El Niño event. For more, check out my new Carbon Brief State of the Climate Q2 update: www.carbonbrief.org/... 7312161