iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

On a cycling holiday. Day 1: 37.5km, day 2: 53.5km, day 3: 70km. Seriously considering punching through to 95km tomorrow cause Wednesday’s weather looks damp. Let’s see how this goes.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 23h

I didn’t check for 3-eyed fish but if there are any here, they would obviously say Bonjour.

A tranquille pond beside a nuclear power plant in France.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 23h

TIL French for cul-de-sac is not that same term as you might expect. It’s impasse.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

So I thought the booking websites always just said positive things. Apparently not. I’m not sure what The Love Room is, but for €87 it’s not exactly priced by the hour.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Easy as that. Cause it’s all click bait crap from them.

Clicking ‘don’t show content from simple flying’.

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

And of course in amongst the many beach scenes, that icon The Sunbaker… & Dupain’s weary, frustrated comment!

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Philip Thalis @philipthalis.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Bountiful exhibition at #nswstatelibrary on master Australian photographer #maxdupain. Deservedly popular. Covers Dupain’s amazing output & range - landscape, figures, everyday scenes in the changing city, & some of the best C20th architecture. Covers Utzon, Seidler, Murcutt, Andrews, Buhrich 1/2

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The French all have such fashionable glasses; models that seemingly never make it to the anglosphere. (I had thought the same last time I was here, and that they’d appear for us eventually. Nah, they didn’t)

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

To take an Uber to the conference centre is about 40 minutes drive. It’s £22 direct. I could also walk 15 mins, take a train most of the way for £7 but then the the last bit is still £12. So take the car the whole way and be done with it. Still cheaper than a Canberra airport taxi to our house.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I see many card and platform payment systems that have quietly changed the terminology so it’s not a payment surcharge anymore but something else, that is precisely still the same thing. I guess I’ll just keep using cash to save money (and be annoying).

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Quite the photo of such a dangerous terrorist.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

George is constantly being misgendered but going for Anne now is mercenary.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Body corporate committees are where sense goes to die. Unit manager asks what we need repainted. I find the quote for the last paint job that happened in 2010 as a guide. Doofus committee member responds asking if this quote includes the balconies. Yes it did, they were repainted 16 years ago.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This airport sandwich contains bread (6 lines), tomato, mayonnaise (3 lines), bacon (2 lines), lettuce. Seems excessive for 5 different items.

Lengthy list of ingredients in a sandwich.

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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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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I for one am glad to read the Bogong Moths are having a good year. There’s been swarms of birds flying over Parliament House every night lately munching on the ones drawn to the lights. Also who can forget this moment? (people under about ~30 excused) www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

A Bogong Moth provides a surprise broach live from Sydney 2000

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Intercultural differences. Far lift door opens, as I get to it I can then see there’s an American coming out. I do a sidestep as we negotiate who’s going which way. She says ‘excuse me’ which to me comes across as rude, whereas we’d say ‘oops sorry’. But that’s just what they say?

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finally getting around to deleting everything on the bad site. Jeez I shouldn’t be surprised but they don’t make it easy yet there are so many fee for service grifting options.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Apparently this is the modern national food of Ireland.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

For several brief moments last week looking after my (sperm donor) kids, I appreciated how procreation could be a thing that people actively seek to do. Anyway then it went back to regular ‘all care no legal responsibility’ status and I took a plane 17,500km away.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just heard a Harvey Norman radio ad in a shop in Dublin. It had the same familiar Australian voice actor as at home, except the deals were in euros. (The lengthy terms and conditions were ready by an Irish voice)

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think this is old news, but the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank says it’s actually cheaper for them to do transactions by card payment than cash yet the card payment comes with the fee. I’m so glad the fees are being banned.

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Fiona Katauskas @fionakatauskas.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

All the answers- my #datacentres #climatechange cartoon for CPA magazine

A massive water guzzling, pollution pumping data centre with a sign saying "100% fossil fuelled" is looming over a tech bro and a group of people.
Tech bro is saying "...and thanks to data centres like these, AI will work out what we can do to stop climate change"

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Would you be surprised to learn they play Enya throughout the terminal in Dublin Airport?

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Arriving in Ireland for the first time, realising I know nothing about it beyond the basics, mostly from tropes and stereotypes. Like aside from drinking Guinness, bad weather, Father Ted, surviving English colonisation, potatoes and eating Guinness pie…what’s it about? Only one way to find out!

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Transiting through Singapore. Shortly before landing they read the mandatory arrival information. I’ve never heard a warning of death penalty for drug trafficking being read so chirpily like the Qantas gay did.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I took qf1 to London it’s a slight surprise that on the Singapore changeover all the staff go from being skips from Sydney to brits from Bristol.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Kid rather slow out of bed yesterday. Denied that she’d been up late on her iPad. Bad news my dear, your mum gets notifications when you unlock it late at night and you know we talk about you right?

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@livesarah.bsky.social This is the primary school version of Melville High, near identical but just a small people version, down to the uniform colours.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I’m at school 40 year assembly and it’s cute. They’re doing a dance for each decade since the school opened in 1986. 80s starts with jitterbug, footloose and queen.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Hanging out at the Service NSW because you can no longer do the transaction I need online (yes, they really did that). Reminds me of the ticket line and huge wait in an Italian post office except the Italians were more efficient.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“Households who also purchase a solar PV system, home battery and electric vehicle could reduce their combined energy costs by around 40 per cent or $4,300 per year, after accounting for upfront and financing costs.” www.yourhome.gov.au/energy/elect...

yourhome.gov.au

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

At the stage of life where I wake up on a weekend and think ‘gee, the world isn’t great and my elected representatives aren’t helping. I should write and tell them what I think.’ (Today’s missive was about choosing the right side of history for when the Palestine Nuremberg trials eventually come).

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Neices are playing ‘school’, the one who was teacher has come to complain to dad that the cousin wasn’t paying attention and was writing about something else. Dad points out that’s a realistic experience so enjoy teaching, just ask your mother.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Child #2 (10yo) has no real concept of money but definitely knows about finite resources. Her iPad thing definitely has limited storage and fitting everything she wants to record and photograph has its limits.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I lightly sugared the steaks at mums having picked up the wrong container in the kitchen Let’s see how they go, but I guess if it works for McDonald’s?

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don’t usually drive much in places that aren’t Canberra nor during peak hour, but after doing western sydney and the F3 the past 2 days, I do wonder if the drivers of NSW really are getting worse at it.

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Michael Bell @disirregardless.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Worth noting again today that exactly none of these smug scumbags have suffered any inconvenience let alone punishment for their role in the deadly #RoboDebt scheme. #NACC

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ok so now Ed Sheeran is cancelled (and I’m not mad about it.)

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I saw a video this week of someone travelling in Argentina and he referred to meals out costing hundreds of thousands of pesos if not millions for a larger group. Didnt seem right. Ok wow they had inflation, checking back in 2009 airport taxi cost 120 pesos now it’s 38,000. That’s some inflation.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Seems very legit! Came from Canada apparently, but with a French stamp on the envelope to an address I moved out of 8 years ago. The convenience of a QR code too! So if you need me, I’ve quit my job I’ll be living on a beach somewhere.

Very legit letter about my inherited fortunes!

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

When I was a yoof Triple J was too cool for me. Now they play Zara Larsson and gush about her upcoming tour. Has Triple J become a teenie-bopper station with occasional death metal thrown in?

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The Point @thepointau.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Where's the government headed with its position on Israel's aggression?” by @fionakatauskas.bsky.social View the full cartoon on The Point: thepoint.com.au/opinions/260...

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Boomer brain moments from dad this week (radicalised by Facebook and Sky news): thinks governments selling off assets is a left wing agenda. Was not willing to accept actually quite the opposite, Thatcher, Reagan etc. Choosing to ensure the free education from Gough Whitlam is worth what he paid.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’ve turned off Siri always listening and you know actually the apparently failing battery life on this 22 month old phone has improved.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

No one on Hard Quiz knew ‘can I buy a vowel’ is from Wheel of Fortune.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Idea: if Penny Wong says something like Ed Milliband did, the embassy will probably close up shop and she won’t have to kick out the ambassador (although she should) over them killing Zomi Francombe. It’ll make a change from him being in the Parliament House members dining room unaccompanied tho.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I might have missed that Pink is cancelled but here we are.

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

The new #4corners theme music is rubbish. Bring back the tympani!

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