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@ausrob.bsky.social
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I'm a husband/father/technologist/human not necessarily in that order. NSW-based, but have lived and worked abroad. Interests include the environment, politics and film/tv, games and such.. I have a large vinyl collection.

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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 2h
For 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.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 10h
Apt and ironic
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I renew the notion of "eat the rich". Bring on the golden age of guillotines.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"the Board is focused on its mandate to deliver price stability and full employment." really?
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I 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.au
The RBA has raised rates again. Here’s what its statement really means
Greg Jericho, Chief Economist at the Australia Institute, annotates the RBA’s latest statement, breaking down what the central bank is really telling us.
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google 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.
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emily fraser 🌿🐌✨ @emilyesfraser.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’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?
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
If you know, you know #beatles #pleasepleaseme #stereo #uk
Very early UK stereo LP of the Beatles debut album
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Yo.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
BREAKING: "The Coalition remains thoroughly unelectable" #auspol
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Here’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?
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Albanese 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
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Here ‘tis. Buffalo’s 5th album. Reverse is dedicated (by hand) to the bass player’s (Ross Sims) nephew. #vinylsky #records #aussie
Australian hard rock band Buffalo’s 5th studio album (sleeve)
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 19/09/2026
At 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 #auspol
pearlsandirritations.com
P&I is growing – and its independence still depends on you
P&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.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I 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
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Apparently they have an issue with those who “won’t stand to attention” with the appropriate vigour..
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 12/09/2026
Breaking 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.
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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever www.theguardian.com/law/commenti...
theguardian.com
As Australia faces an AI-generated future, a human rights act is needed more than ever
Without laws requiring transparency or a right of review, our human rights will be rationed away by algorithmic and automated decision-making tools
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I 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
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Precisely why I started collecting vinyl records again, 22 years ago.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Tax fossil fuels #auspol
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Happy southern father’s/carer’s day to all those who celebrate! May your BBQs be forever tasty. #au
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I’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
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This shouldn't be a controversial position: the fossil fuel industry shouldn't be allowed to advertise. Period. Treat them like the tobacco industry. #auspol
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Running 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
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George's Σουβλάκια🏺🥙 @thebigsouvlaki.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The 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.com
The Reckoning
That imagery of the Himalayan tsunami smashing into the multi-story building in Nepal was horrifying, but then murder always is, isn’t it?
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Vale Dolly Parton. She was by all accounts a thouroughly good and decent person. We need so many more like her.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
If there are worse climate vandals than fossil fuel companies, it’s big tech.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is genuinely heartbreaking on so many levels, let alone Minns being a tool. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
theguardian.com
Missing teen hiker Lily Hooper found dead after disappearing in NSW national park a week ago
Premier Chris Minns tells parliament ‘this is obviously devastating’ after earlier announcing 18-year-old had been ‘found alive’ with half a bottle of water
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Now spinning.. Some classic Miles. #musicsky #vinyl #jazz
Miles Davis - Sketches of Spain LP
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Instead of voting for the bloody ALP, vote for the Greens or a worthy independent already. #auspol
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Anyway, 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.
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Lisa Catara (official)💎 @lisa-catara.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If 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...
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PBS Could Lose 70 Years of Historic Archive Footage Over Cloud Dispute
The 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.
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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.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Aye: "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."
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Fuck the RBA. #auspol www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
RBA interest rates: Reserve Bank holds cash rate at 4.35% but threatens more hikes if needed
In a widely expected decision, the Reserve Bank of Australia holds interest rate after three hikes earlier this year
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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
You 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.au
Appeasement of authoritarian voices dooms us to repeating history
No matter how much we know about history, we are doomed to repeat it. Appeasement of authoritarian voices will get us there faster.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
He’s right, of course. #auspol
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Your friday night music inspo #vinylsky #vinyl #music
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
ACT politics. Never change. #auspol
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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Dear 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
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 04/08/2026
As 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...
STEWART BRASH: There’s set to be 12 data centres planned for the Northern Territory,
some are more advanced than others. SunCable are talking about one, in the Barkly
Murranji Station, also in the Northern Barkly, one hyperscaled, one in the Darwin rural area
as well.
Now the Chief Minister, Lia Finocchiaro, wants a carve-out for the NT when it comes to
power and water, 'cause the Prime Minister's made it clear he wants unified guidelines
relating to the development of data centres across the country. The Chief Minister
wants – well, we're different, we have access to power, we have access to say gas, easy
gas, and also to water. What's the Federal Government's perspective on the call for that
carve-out by Lia Finocchiaro?
MINISTER MADELEINE KING: It is important to have uniform rules and to have a
framework around data centres, which is a new industry. And if we think about the gas
reservation. If only we had done this reserve type work 15 years ago before the exports
started, it wouldn't be as complicated to implement now.
And that's the same for data centres, we need to have some ground rules, because people,
you know, they read a lot in the media about how much water, we're not quite sure how
much water, some demand more than others, the power they require is enormous.
Nonetheless they're inevitable, and they're going to be important for our future, and I think
it was – well, I know it was the Pope in his encyclical wrote, “It is the building site of our
time,” or “the construction site of our time.”
STEWART BRASH: Well it’s the Industrial Revolution --
MINISTER MADELEINE KING: And we want to be part of it.
STEWART BRASH: [Indistinct] revolution.MINISTER MADELEINE KING: The Prime Minister's been very clear, they've taken it to
National Cabinet, so we work with the territories and the states to make sure we get this
right, and I'm sure the Chief Minister will put those views to the Prime Minister, as well she
should, and that's fine, and I think it's a good thing that these views are vented.
Having said that, a uniform framework is a good place to start because the needs for data
centres are the same around the country, they don't change, and I mean if the NT is able to
provide that power and water, then it's obviously fine.
STEWART BRASH: But the Chief Minister is saying, for instance, you know, say for the one
in the Darwin rural area, they're talking about gas but no renewables, but the Prime
Minister's been clear about the use of renewables in these, so if they don't comply with
what the PM and your government's asking for, how do you actually make the NT go along
with unified laws?
MINISTER MADELEINE KING: What we also find is these data centres themselves want to
invest in renewables so that they have a green aspect to what they're selling around the
world. So, I think it's to be encouraged. I do know whatever renewables are used will need
to be supported by gas right around the country, of course including the Territory, but
everywhere else as well.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Ugh Reddit. I don’t want to install your stupid iOS app. Stop blocking me from reading the website.
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Jane Whom? on the radio bleating the Liberal party won’t do something.. that’s reassuring. #auspol
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I’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”?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 30/07/2026
This 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...
Batteries and Natural Gas Become
Unlikely Companions
In their quest for power, data centers are building gas and battery power off th
grid.
Gas turbines at an KAI data center in Memphis. Photographer: Brandon Dill/The Washington
Post/Getty Images
By Mark Chediak, Michelle Ma, and Lili Pike
April 24, 2026 at 1:09 PM GMT+2
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Renewables and batteries go hand in hand. But for US data center
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Apparently 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
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Rob @ausrob.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Meta, Facebook, anything Zuckerberg has ever touched really is fucking insidious, not just morally or ethically dubious.
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Dave @daveb23.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
I'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.com
More 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
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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 24/07/2026
2026 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/...
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