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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

@TerribleMaps Jervis Bay Territory is a Territory, not a state. It is on the coast, but entirely within New South Wales (as is the Australian Capital Territory)

Image of a Google map showing the Jervis Bay Territory surrounded by red dashed lines on the east coast of New South Wales, north of Bateman's Bay.

Also shown in the Australian Capital Territory.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

@fakeyarratrams highlight of my evening - seeing a Tesla heading down the tram tracks, headlights bouncing up and down as it drove over the sleepers as it headed down to where the tracks split between the 96 to St Kilda and 109 to Port Melbourne. I am guessing […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Map with dropped pin showing roughly where a Tesla was driving on tram tracks.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

@ecosurrealism fuck my timeline: Fuck #AI Fuck alt text warriors burning the forests and dead dinosaurs.

A fucking #AI generating fucking alt text about AIs fucking the planet, kindly telling us just how much they fucked the planet to do so.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Apparently I could have turned off the #AusAlert today if I had gone looking more carefully...

Wireless emergency alerts - disabled?

Apparently I could have turned them off.

AusAlert from the Wireless emergency alert history - the same section that can be disabled entirely - at least in theory.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

The enshittification of Commsec by #AI in four (limited Alt Text) pictures. Commsec (the trading platform of the Commonwealth Bank in Australia) has added a clearly AI driven "Stock Story" button which, when clicked on a stock that has been suspended for nearly […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Is CTD profitable?

Corporate Travel Management Ltd's net margin is 14.40%.

Yet the scandal is that its margin is based on false accounting.

And it hasn't lodged accounts for more than a year.

So yeah, nah, it's probably not profitable.

What is Corporate Travel Management Ltd?

Inaccurate peers : Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd (FLT) (true)
Guzman Y Gomez Ltd (GYG) (false - burritos)
Tabcorp Holdings Ltd (TAH) (gambling, FFS)

0 employees

How is CTD performing?
CTD is up +2.36% over the last year.

Sure, but it's been suspended for 11 months, FFS!

How much debt?

Not such a breezy report.

So much that it's in safe-harbour provisions, and the banking syndicate is reportedly unlikely to finance it.

Does CTD have strong earnings?

Sure, if you ignore the fact that it hasn't reported for 12 months, and previous reports were fraudulent.

And a dividend payout rate of 0.000%.

Maths aint mathing.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 19/06/2026

If you are not subscribed to the Betoota newsletter, you should be, if only for gems like this:

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

Well, blow me down with a feather: the AFR has published an article pointing out that a drop in house prices as a result of changes to CGT and NG doesn't actually matter: AFR article […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Image from AFR article: picture of a house.

Headline: Economists say property prices might fall 10pc. So what?

Leader: With property prices up 400 per cent since 2000, what does a 10 per cent drop actually mean? And what happened the last time governments made major changes to property taxes?

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Oh, #AI hallucinations now with ads. The #enshittificaton deepens. The losses continue and the grasp for paying customers continues.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

@fakeyarratrams Now that there is free public transport in Victoria, why have you sent crews to Hiroshima to disrupt their trams, rather than disrupt #Melbourne #trams? Their trams are better than ours, so maybe that is why they need more disruption. Cheaper, too: ¥240 is around $2.18

More tram track work in Hiroshima. Better class of barriers that you see in Melbourne.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 21/03/2026

Almost as if I planned this trip six months ago to arrive at exactly the right time. #sakura #Japan 🇯🇵🌸

A notification from an app (Navitime) telling me that Sakura season will peak the day after I arrive in Tokyo.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026

@chetwisniewski I don't know what sort of logos you want, but my timeline just delivered the perfect answer from @lowqualityfacts via @0xThylacine

Image of two toots: this question that I am answering, and a low quality (in name, only) fact: deaths on Mt Everest of more than 405 (not fact checked, of course).

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 27/01/2026

This tickled my inner Viz / Roger's Profanisaurus sensor.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 26/01/2026

I saw the first image in the background of a video analysing the first ICE killing in Minnesota, and could not really believe that it was real, but sure enough, this is how the department of homeland security is advertising. Not for ICE agents - though some of […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Racist dog whistle.

YOU BE THE JUDGE

Help write the next chapter of America. Apply today to become a deportation judge and you may be entitled to these benefits.

What a crock of shit:

Define America for Generations

70 Nationwide locations

Potential for remote and intermittent work/full-time telework

Preside over cases in federal Immigration Court and determine whether an alien has to leave the United States or gets to stay

Make decisions with generational consequences; ensure that only aliens with legally meritorious claims are allowed to remain

Ensure adherence to the law; combat fraud and ensure those seeking to exploit vulnerabilities in our immigration system are not successful

Restore integrity and honor to our Nation's Immigration Court system

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 11/12/2025

@SeaFury apropos your poll the other day, spotted near MSAC

Photo of a road intersection with a billboard and a railway bridge.

Cropped image of the billboard:

Bachelors Handbags and Groceries yada yada yadz

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2025

I guess this is why #trump thinks that we should be paying #tariffs for #pbs #pharmaceuticals. Not happy about having COVID-19 for the third time, but very happy to have access to antivirals at reasonable prices #auspol

Combined image of a prescription label for lagevrio showing the full price of $1146.99, and a receipt showing the price I paid of $31.50

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2025

@Nonilex @HitchhikersGuideQuoteBot2 your two toots appeared one after another in my notifications. Timely reminder of what is happening in in #uspol and how prescient #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide was.

Two toots that happened to be consecutive in my notification timeline: one from the Hitchhiker's Guide bot, and one from Nonilex.

Both talking about figureheads and actual power.

Text:

The President is always a controversial choice, always an infuriating but fascinating character. His job is not to wield power but to draw attention away from it.

and

The #shutdown is the first since Jan 2019, & the 4th of #Trump’s 2 terms. Admin ofcls this time, though, have signaled plans to use the closed agencies as a way to vastly reshape the #FederalGovernment & consolidate #power under the presidency.
#OMB dir #RussVought ordered agencies to consider #MassFirings rather than #furloughs. His instructions to agencies include guidance on rewriting #regulations surrounding federal #grants & challenging #Congress’s constitutional #power over spending.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2025

I know that it is a radio station streaming app, so I shouldn't expect "bank grade security" but a basic understanding of how data gets from the app to your servers in the data centre doesn't seem to beyond the capabilities even SEN. #infosec

Image from SEN app indicating that their data centres aren't accessible from the internet.

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Bernard Sheppard @bernardsheppard.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2025

Have postal voted. Lazy as fuck this year - partly because I have a slightly sprained thumb, so a full BTL senate would have really hurt, even though choosing Bernie Finn to go last would possibly have been worth it. Still did a full ATL run though - needed to […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

Snippet of above the line senate vote showing 2nd preference for incumbents, 18 for the wannabe handmaid's tale commanders, 19 for the OG racists, and 20 for the fat fucks MAGA wanbabes

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