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Phil

@defaultjudgment.bsky.social
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39, gay, legal, of no fixed abode Australia (this was true when I joined Bluesky and remains substantially correct)

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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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 · 05/10/2026
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.
Map search showing bad ratings.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My school bus in the 90s had that. Occasionally a bit nauseating when the bus lurched sideways and you swayed backwards.
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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
I’ll try and get some photos or something. They’re big, they’re bold, they’re colourful, they’re interesting shapes.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I’m gonna say that company is probably to blame.
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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 · 01/10/2026
That whole story made no sense aside from being a series of half hearted and random attacks about Shoebridge.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Microsoft has a lot to answer for, continually forcing that language on me despite turning it off constantly.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I had no idea we had a Golden Rectangle in our midst. I’d have to say it was more of an oblong just to be different. Anyway the Territory will be poorer without you.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Where’s that Kudelka ‘everything’s fine’ cartoon when I need it!
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s a sex reveal alright. The baby won’t know its gender for years. And if calling it a sex reveal makes your skin crawl, then good; stop having these gross parties.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Does anyone read the profile anymore? Let alone even look properly at the photos. (Humans are weird and men are trash but we knew that already).
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Driver tells me uber has monopolised the market and now increased their commission to 50% as in the US. Won’t be long until they do it in Aust I’m sure.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
At least in SEQ the train would be 50c. But the rigmarole is real.
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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
Good news, no one at all likely to vote greens reads Murdoch so they might as well be screaming into the void with this pointless hit piece.
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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
The Victorian e/a is becoming quite apparent to me these days although it turns out it’s not new. Haha it’s termed the salary-celery merger.
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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 · 27/09/2026
I have no idea why anyone would pay a significant premium plus a delivery fee to get tepid food.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Yep, he can’t fly but I’m telling you he can run the pants off a kangaroo.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
What kind of well to do restaurant lowers itself to selling on that platform.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I’m in two minds. At least you’re not sober cleaning someone else’s fridge?
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have some regrets after making it through about half the serve.
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Apparently this is the modern national food of Ireland.
An Irish spice bag.
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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
I really did a double take. My first thought was the shop was playing some Australian internet radio actually.
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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 · 24/09/2026
All pretty excellent!
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I got excited that they’d dropped the full new/old album but not yet?
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
It ended with the year 6s doing Baby Shark and forgetting that they were very cool 12-year-olds and were allowed to be fun for just a minute .
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Phil @defaultjudgment.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I was surprised the washing dried overnight too! Assuming it would be saturated I was ready to take it off the line, re-spin and hang it inside.
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