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Dick Denyer

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Aussie interested in all things technical, mechanical,renewable energy, water, politics and social equity. (Escapee from X)

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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 12h
The USA is totally cooked, there is this and now their “Secretary of War” staying that they will live stream the firing squad execution of of Fort Hood shooter. www.smh.com.au/world/north-...
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US to livestream firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter
The Pentagon says the military execution of Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed after Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said it would be “public”.
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Matt Golding @goldingcartoons.bsky.social · 13h
Christa Pike recovering after botched Tennessee execution #christapike
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 21h
As of October 7, the preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature once again rose above 30.0°C. Below is a graph showing a timeline for the Niño 3.4 SST for every day from January 1, 1982 through yesterday. The Climate 8-Ball is busy calculating p(Doom).
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Stephen Moran. @moranstephen1000.bsky.social · 23h
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Gekko @gekko.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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The great AUKUS deception: Australia pays to defend America
AUKUS has been sold as a plan to strengthen Australia’s defence. Its deeper purpose is to bind Australia permanently into US military strategy against China and make American security dependent on Aus...
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Trump and Musk’s corruption is now built into Australia’s most expensive defence procurement. Congrats everyone, never saw this coming.
aljazeera.com
US firm gets $2.9bn sub deal after boss joins war study with Musk
Anduril said it would invest $3.7bn to develop shipyard that would build submarine parts.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#AUKUS is a massive waste of money, is strategically stupid, and represents Australia giving up what little national sovereignty we have left for the privilege of being an ATM for the US and UK governments. And now we can add; corrupt. #EndAUKUS #aispol www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...
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US firm gets $2.9bn sub deal after boss joins war study with Musk
Anduril said it would invest $3.7bn to develop shipyard that would build submarine parts.
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The US needs to be building 2.3 subs per year to deliver us #AUKUS subs. They're only at 1.1. And they're struggling to keep built subs at sea. USS Connecticut damaged in 2021. Repairs started in 23 for a finish in 25, now 27. Deactivation in 2031. #auspol
slashgear.com
Damaged Nuclear Sub Dashes US Navy Hopes For A 2026 Return To Service - SlashGear
Although the U.S. Navy was hoping to get the USS Connecticut back into service this year, that seems not to be on the table as the timeline gets extended.
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It’s worth pointing out that our other partner in AUKUS, United Kingdom can’t keep its subs operational and is way behind in building new ones, but some how they are going to build the new AUKUS class subs with Australia?
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's been an interesting transition in the tactics of Israel's mass destruction and mass murder operation in Gaza across the last 3 years. Initially, much of the attack was by conventional (unguided) gravity bombs, a 100 year old technology: x.com/ishaan_jhavs....
Tweet from thread by @ishaan_jhavs, December 2023:

"Further, our final crater count (208), likely only captures a portion of 2,000lb bombs dropped on south Gaza during our analysis period. Here are some additional reasons the analysis might have missed bombs."
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Lulz "AI agents are driving up costs but enterprises are struggling with ROI, says Splunk executives" Gee, ya think? itwire.com/business-it-...
itwire.com
AI agents are driving up costs but enterprises are struggling with ROI, says Splunk executives | iTWire
The rapid adoption of AI agents is creating a new financial headache for enterprises with many lacking a reliable way to determine whether their increasing AI investment is...
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#AUKUS is a costly, stupid and strategically dangerous investment in US sycophancy. But what has got not enough publicity is that the "ludicrously overstaffed Australian Submarine Agency" has "1,200 people and growing". How many staff does it take to send money overseas? #EndAUKUS #auspol
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📷 Grant Swinbourne @grantswinbournephotography.com · 05/10/2026
When you don't own the house, you don't make the rules. Gina Owns One Nation #auspol
abc.net.au
Live: Joyce confirms Rinehart purchased $8m One Nation head office in Brisbane
Barnaby Joyce has confirmed that billionaire Gina Rinehart purchased an $8 million office for One Nation's headquarters in Brisbane. Follow live.
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Ok, if its all above board and done at commercial leasing rate, put all the relevant documents on the public record .
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Michael West @michaelwestbiz.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Chris Minns’ fashion police. Being Palestinian is now a public order offence Andrew Brown reports. Read it here: michaelwest.com.au/chris-minns-fash…
Michael West Media story graphic
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Rex Patrick @mrrexpatrick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Defence Minister Richard Marles is oblivious to that which is obvious to everybody else: Britain cannot deliver our future #AUKUS subs on schedule (if at all). Luckily for Richard, it’s only our money and national security that’s at stake. #auspol
johnmenadue.com
Why Britain cannot deliver SSN-AUKUS on schedule
Britain says SSN-AUKUS remains on track. But its shipyards are already stretched while new reactor and workforce capacity is still being built. Australia is betting heavily on that gap being closed in...
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Amy notes that China has joined Japan is now onselling Australian gas. FMD we *really* need to tax the gas. Barely a more obvious policy has presented itself. One political party will do it and they will get all the advantage. #TaxTheGas www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Two things easily missed while we were distracted by trivia
In Australia, we’re too busy looking at the next carriage on the political sushi train to realise the track itself is broken.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
There's one useful thing about the "sensible centre" label: It's a quick way of identifying which journos have no intention of "speaking truth to power", but much prefer to operate as power's megaphones and stenographers. In legacy media, that's most of them. #ThisIsNotJournalism #auspol
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Michael Pascoe @michaelpascoe01.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"Some experts"? No, every expert who's not being paid one way or another to support the folly. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Hegseth calls US-built nuclear submarines the ‘apex predator’ of the seas. But are they right for Australia?
Some experts argue Virginia-class submarines government is buying second hand are good for fighting American wars, but not for defending Australia
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
“Australia’s interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi” Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The interest rate rise is the wrong medicine and an even worse alibi | Yanis Varoufakis
Inflation is again being used as an excuse for acts of vandalism on some of Australia’s important institutions
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Let’s just call it “Housing Australia” and have them build and look after homes available to all Australians?
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Who’s responsible is it to adjust settings that will increase productivity? How does increasing interest rates improve productivity? #AusPol #Insiders
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The Wolfpack @wolfpack11720.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Codfather #FBPE 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @codfather.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
So true, only a complete idiot could possibly believe this drivel. Did mosquitoes,hornets,penguins and kangaroo’s go on two by two as well 😂🤡
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Chasbell 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪🇮🇹🇨🇦 @chasbell.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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CAKE @thebandcake.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 02/10/2026
Breaking News! y-Axis Alert! With yesterday's preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature spiking to a new record at 29.975°C, the y-axis was raised to 30.5°C. Meanwhile, the Niño 3.4 anomaly now sits at 3.33°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. Until tomorrow ...
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
New uniforms for the USA Armed Forces
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy. When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice. The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wading into the "relative versus absolute" El Niño intensity debate: I genuinely think both are important--and I think we lose important information if we focus solely on one vs another. And both, as of late Sep, have now reached or exceeded record levels! [Thread]
Plot by Daniel Swain showing temporal evolution of ONI vs RONI index during 2026, representing two different ways to visualize El Nino intensity. The ONI has been at record levels since May, and the RONI has been at near-record levels since June. Data directly from NOAA.
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The Saturday Paper @thesaturdaypaper.com.au · 01/10/2026
Future historians of this period will be grateful for the archive Gil Durán has assembled in The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy, but the real interpretive work remains to be done. trib.al/ngoOCH4
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The Nerd Reich
The Saturday Paper is a quality weekly newspaper, dedicated to narrative long-form journalism.
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Simon Rosenberg @simonrosenberg.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Same in Australia. Chinese or Russian foreign interference is seen as a national security threat, and ASIO takes action against it. But Israeli foreign interference is "lobbying". The PM gives the chief lobbyist a job and staff, and the ASIO boss invites the Israeli president to a private briefing.
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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It takes years of training to perfect this manoeuvre. #WorldBollardAssociation
An NYPD police car balances its rear wheel in a black bollard leaving the car stranded in the air.
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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 30/09/2026
Breaking News! The preliminary Nino 3.4 sea-surface temperature anomaly for Sept. 29th came in at 3.18°C above the 1991-2020 baseline. This marks yet another record all-time high and the 123rd consecutive record daily high at 1.1°C above the previous daily record set in 1997.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable.
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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 01/10/2026
Netanyahu denies receiving warnings before Hamas’s 7 October attack. But reports now point to alerts from both the UAE and Egypt, while a source says he privately sought a denial from the Emirati president, Jack Khoury and The Associated Press report. #Israel #October7
pearlsandirritations.com
Netanyahu asked UAE leader to deny October 7 warning report, source says
Netanyahu has repeatedly denied receiving warnings before 7 October. Now a source says he privately asked the UAE president to deny one of the accounts.
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
But they employ so many people! (Guess what, they would be lucky if they employed 3600 people) so not that many really
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
"Santos paid zero company tax for 11th year in a row, ATO data shows" Me for @thepointau.bsky.social thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Santos paid zero company tax for 11th year in a row, ATO data shows
The latest corporate tax data released today by the Australian Tax Office (ATO) showed that once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax, and despite claims that changes to the Petroleum ...
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As has been extensively argued, public sector pay rates tend to determine economy-wide rates. That Australian rates of pay have fallen far behind profit growth, even behind weak productivity growth, and now behind inflation, is very much because of the games played by operations like the RBA.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to tax gas? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to build public housing? Why doesn't Labor work with the Greens to end AUKUS? Greens are happy to be constructive about things that materially benefit the public. We are not a rubber stamp.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
There's no prospect of one of these foreign AI co's *ever* paying tax in Australia. The (deductable!) capex interest expense is too large, and the scope for fradulent transfer pricing too great. Will. Not. Happen.
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Senator David Shoebridge @davidshoebridge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Under Labor we have seen wages flat line, the rise of the far right and record war profits from fossil fuels going untaxed. We think these are ‘somewhat concerning’.
Albanese says new Greens leader's remarks 'somewhat concerning'
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Pretty sure Brexit was a direct result of “trickle down” economic theory failing the people of the UK 🇬🇧
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Western Governments, predominantly the English speaking ones, need to recognize that the small government, low taxing ideals of Thatcher and Reagan have failed ! #auspol
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Dick Denyer @denyer2.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Households in pain, but budget crisis can be solved www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/politic...
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Households in pain – but our budget crisis has an obvious answer
Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
ICYWW, BOM weekly trad Niño2 is also +5.34°C, vs 1991-2020.
BOM graph of its 'traditional' (unadjusted) Niño2-box temperature anomaly since mid 2022. The latest value is +5.34°C for the week ending 27 September.
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Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Things: 1. NOAA RONI appears similar to the Australian BOM's rNiño3.4 — anomaly vs a fixed baseline (1991-2020), relative to the all-tropical-oceans SST, with a fudge to preserve the prior stats. 2. But NOAA *ONI* is not like trad Niño3.4. ONI uses a centred 30-year baseline adjusted every 5 years.
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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My column on the latest inflation figures out today thepoint.com.au/off-the-char...
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Petrol price surge sees inflation hit 4%, but yesterday’s rate rise won’t help
Inflation in August rose from 3.5% to 4.0%, which might make you think the RBA had a point in raising interest rates yesterday. The problem is that all of the increase was due to petrol prices.
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