iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Years ago my partner left me alone with our children for a three-day weekend. I didn't do any washing. When she got home she berated me and said she washed every day.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Interesting that winning government outright is pretty rare.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What I find really weird about that is the water bowl is smaller than the food bowl. My Labrador never leaves any food in the bowl, but requires a big water bowl. When he drinks his whole nose is submerged...

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Embarking on physical hull fabrication before completing a preliminary design review (PDR) and freezing the 3D spatial design model risks severe engineering setbacks." I am sure Bent Flyvbjerg would consider this to be a bad way to start a project and keep it on time and budget.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

"Recent developments in the UK demonstrate that this political optimism is fundamentally disconnected from the physical, contractual, financial and industrial realities on the ground at BAE Systems’..." So it is only the physical, contractual, financial, and industrial realities holding things up.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“We’re the only major country in the world losing visitation,” the head of the US Travel Association said. “It’s mind-boggling.” It may be mind-boggling but totally understandable.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I appreciate your new outlook, however, I used to look forward to your Sydney street scenes as I have not lived there for 36 years.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

All one has to look to for shared values is gun control. The US is content to put up with school shootings to keep their access to guns.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It looks like bicycles are still a big thing in China.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Alan made finance / economy reporting interesting.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Has the take up of EVs in China improved the air quality in Beijing? Back when the Olympics were run everyone was worried about the pollution.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I think Amy must be the straightest shooting journalist on the planet.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excellent. Just about sums up the situation.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

In looking at football clubs in England I was amazed how many appeared to be in walking distance from each other.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"But our leaders dare not even think about, much less discuss the consequences of our long-running, but profoundly misguided search for security." The last one who thought about it was Gough, and Look what happened to him.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Australia has always been the 51st state.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I guess this is just a stranded asset and we will see more of these as more renewables come on-line...

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I was under impression that miners had to lodge a fee for clean up of sites. Obviously that is working well.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I have a dog that is pretty much like that...

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Why does every photo of Taylor look like he is shouting?

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Cannot wait till he knocks out that last one and it collapses on him.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Doing a conversion would be hard work. (I would have loved to convert my S2000.) One cannot really be telling people to move to EVs via a conversion. They have to be commercially available.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ten years sounds more reasonable. If one forgets about the GM EV1 and considers EVs really only started with Tesla providing a commercial EV ten years sounds about right. In 2009 I was in a Tesla workshop watching them work on the Lotus variant. In 2013 I used to see a Model S on the road each day.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I doubt you have been saying that for 20 years.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Remember Lindy Chamberlain. Everyone was saying nobody would react like that if a dingo took her daughter.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Fantastic. Sounds like a great wedding.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am all for abyss-hurling politicians.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Are you allowed to grow blackberries in your backyard in NZ?

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

"It’s not the fault of migrants that Australia does not have a population plan and doesn’t even know how big it wants to be... still so heavily reliant on fossil fuels that an energy shock overseas has a detrimental impact on the domestic economy." Great paragraph. Spot on.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Unfortunately we will be losing one Pocock at the next election.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Does this mean they are going to get serious and shut the project down?

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"The United States hollowed out its manufacturing base over three decades. It now faces a skilled-labour shortage and permitting friction." That is the real issue. The US (driven by bean counters) outsourced its manufacturing for short-term profits.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

'“That really fell through once the credit rating agencies gave AAA, the top rating, to a lot of very dubious securities that promptly collapsed.' Those credit rating agencies permitted the GFC. Often wondered how they got away with that...

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Perhaps you could do a tea-towel out of the one that has cased such controversy.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

From Theo Moudakis regarding the Canada V US trade war.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Liebreich said: “Whenever you hear anyone using the words ‘primary energy’, one of two things is happening. Either they don’t understand what they are talking about, or they do, but they are hoping that you don’t.” That guy is really good value.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Seems fair. Too bad she screwed the LNP before making the move. A healthy opposition is always good for democracy.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Sure, that is going to work (for women).

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

You have hit the nail on the head. I use DuckDuckGo and whenever it puts up an AI summary it looks a lot like a Wikipedia article also being displayed.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Sorry, I didn't have your optimism. I didn't listen in, so I will never know.

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Bryan McGinty @bryanamac.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Not sure I could spend a week with four Trump supporters. You were a brave woman.

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