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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Geez Severance is well written. My psoas is trying to kill me so I've been afforded the luxury of a lot of TV time

Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Top shelf weekend here. Played a football friendly this afternoon and we crushed them but aside from that the vibe was impeccable. Football is life.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Got the juniors back into football training tonight. Some haven't kicked a ball in 5 months. Some have improved a little bit. One has gone through puberty and suddenly looks like a different (better) footballer

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Due to an administrative error one of my favourite juniors is coming back after a season in reps. Now I get to say that I hired well during the offseason which is important for my coaching CV

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

I have invented a mocktail called "I just mowed the lawn". Half fill a metal milkshake cup with ice. Add 30mL Bickford berry cordial and 1-2 Woolworths generic electrolyte tablets. Fill to the brim with fizzy water.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

One [unimportant] thing I will say about the Musk-Trump transition team is they look like any child in my U14s football team would beat them in any 1 v 1 physical contest. Football, pushups, wrestling, sprints, 5k time trial. Every single one of them would lose to a 14 year old.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Unsure what triggered it but I've got up today with a clear memory of Faith No More's "The Real Thing" is an outstanding album

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I'm on the verge of committing to learning to play this album (drum parts only) end-to-end open.spotify.com/album/0qwqlN... Brant Bjork - Jalamanta and yeah I prefer the remaster. Anyone keen on the lead or bass parts let me know.

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Jalamanta (Remixed and Remastered)

Brant Bjork · Album · 2019 · 14 songs

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

They have this model in a lot of degrees and it's insane to me. We had to do 12 months of placement in engineering, but it was paid work. I couldn't have managed a year unpaid.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I just had a perfect taste memory of a prawn cracker I had in a Chinese restaurant about 30 years ago. It wasn't particularly good, but for some reason my brain has just regurgitated it in perfect clarity No I can't smell toast

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Work tweet: Everty is a good little business and I sincerely wish Carola all the best. But also: you can't do an announcement like this without $$ and %%! www.agl.com.au/about-agl/me...

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

The only upside that is sustaining me with Elno Watch is that when he comes off the metaphorical rails it will be very entertaining assuming you are at a safe distance. I'm betting on full ego death, probably in public.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Rereading a public report I wrote years ago and get to the last paragraph and discover it says "NEED TO WRAP THIS UP SOMEHOW" highlighted in yellow.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Are car chargers going to end up like USB a cables where there's a special angle you need the plug to go and you've got to stand there driving your hip into the side of a 300A DC plug

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I think this is the most frightening switchboard I've ever seen, apart from a few inconsequential little ones in warehouses. This board runs a 500 seat pub in Coffs. Which no exaggeration I think had a fire?

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I'm going to set up a Discord server where we talk about how great a particular album is. Have like a channel for each album, eg "Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms" and in that channel we talk about all our favourite bits. No negative talk.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I think Fischerspooner's album #1 might be about/supportive of trans kids coming out. I'm pretty sure that's what the single off the album "Emerge" is about. It's an all-time banger in this household. Time and place stuff. But also dirty, deep synth and hammering house beats.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

I called in sick for football tonight because 1. I hurt my hip digging a trench like an idiot and 2. Kick off is 9:20pm (!!!) Anyway, the perfect scenario happened and the game was rained off anyway so I missed nothing

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Here's a meme from about 2014

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Accidentally just coined the term "cunsultant", referring to myself. Feels accurate.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

There's a guy I know through work who I've seen around the sector in various ways for a decade. The whole time I've had this burning feeling that he's a total spiv. Absolutely all mouth and no trouser. I'm still not sure.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Back in the working [strikethrough] procrastinating saddle

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💧 simon holmes à court @simonahac.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

sizewell c, the #nuclear power plant that’s doubled in cost since 2020, yet hasn’t officially started construction! ~A$79,000,000,000! hot on the heels of an existing construction project, this is $24,700/kW. dutton reckons he can build it for $10,000/kW. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

theguardian.com

Sizewell C cost ‘has doubled since 2020 and could near £40bn’

Treasury expected to decide whether to support EDF-backed nuclear power plant in this year’s spending review

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The Australia Institute @australiainstitute.org.au · 14/01/2025

"Australians may have to pay more for their home insurance as catastrophic fires in the United States add to a growing list of climate disasters driving up premiums." Don't believe in #climate change? Well, your insurance company does. buff.ly/4gRjlP5 #auspol

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

After roughly 25 years of using Microsoft Excel I have remembered the commands for skipping to the bottom of a column of data without scrolling.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

@pollytics.bsky.social Hello mate. This must be about 15 years knowing each other on SM?

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

I'm making my website and looking at similar business websites. I collaborate with businesses a bit so was looking for some "collaboration" photos. Checking out the website of a related business I find they have a photo *of me* collaborating with them! I've received the originals from them!

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Experimenting with being a Business Owning Adult this year and doing things like making LInkedin useful and current, updating Capability Statements and etc etc

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

In 2020 I wrote a forecast for renewables uptake in Australia, based on an absurd and almost indefensible compound-growth model. Here's the 2024 update tracking reality against that forecast and incredibly, reality is ahead. evcricketenergy.wordpress.com/2025/01/02/2...

evcricketenergy.wordpress.com

2030 Renewables in Australia forecast – 2024 Update

The end to another year means we have another chance to see how my ridiculous 2030 Forecast for Renewables In Australia is tracking. I forgot to do this for a couple of years, mostly because the ba…

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

We've done heaps of earthworks in the last month, very much a breaking eggs phase of making this omelet. Now as a result, there are loads of potential new water runoff problem areas, and I want to know where the water will go. It's been threatening to rain for *days* now

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Aaron Smith @aaronsmith333.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

EVs now dominate Shanghai’s streets - quieter roads, cleaner air. It's weird that this prospect annoys so many.

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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

France has added a 1.6 GW reactor to its grid after 17 yrs building. It will be taken off line shortly for repairs as discussed in the thread. In that time, the US added 191.8 GW of solar. After accounting for capacity factor (~25%) that's still 30x the capacity added. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🔋

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Isis's album Wavering Radiant is so good I often listen to it twice in a row.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

7-a-side update: played the team with a guy that hates me. It's very funny for me. We drew 2 all, we had fun, they were angry. Why do these people continue playing community sport if they hate it so much?

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

20 years ago when I was at Uni i thought Studies were important and useful. EG forecasts for the price of nuclear power in Australia. Now I think most studies are a complete waste of time and everyone involved is a fool. Real arguing about how many angels fit on the head of a pin areas.

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Nick Evershed!? @nickevershed.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Nuclear (in Australia) continues to be more expensive than other forms of electricity generation - updated chart from draft GenCost projections

chart showing cost estimates for various methods of producing electricity in Australia in 2030. Cheapest is wind and solar, followed by gas, coal in various formats, and then nuclear

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Genocide. Israel should be banned from all international forums, events, sporting competitions. Trade with Israel should be embargoed. Anyone associated with the IDF should be denied visas.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Ooooofffffttttt just hit send on my last major task for the year. I can feel my (already quite low) stress levels deflating like an inflatable flamingo next to the pool.

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Surely it's no accident that the account code for ENTERTAINMENT in Xero is 420

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Evan Beaver @evcricket.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Should I do the 20 books in 20 days thing? Might be a bit revealing, not sure I can name 20 books I've read, particularly if I remove Douglass Adams, Terry Pratchett and Robert Jordan (Brandon Sanderson) [Wheel of Time inside joke]

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Jane Gardner @janeclimate.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I took this photo of a peaceful XR march in the Melbourne CBD a year ago. Does something seem a little off? Then today this brilliant article came out examining just how heavy handed Australian law enforcement is with climate protesters. The priorities are so very wrong!

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Chris Bowen @chrisbowenmp.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

After years of pretending that nuclear is necessary for heavy Industry, the Liberal Party’s nuclear costings show the opposite. The only way they can make nuclear look cheap is for the Liberals to base their costing on less Australian industry.

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Michael Bell @disirregardless.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Tingle is half right here. Spud doesn't need to play the voters for mugs; that's not who these 'costings' are for. They're aimed squarely at our political media who are hungry for a fig-leaf to allow them to deploy their trademark 'both-sides' journalism. Will they fall for it? Of course.

abc.net.au

There's something spookily familiar about how Dutton handled his nuclear plan

The opposition finally unveiled its much-promised nuclear energy costings yesterday. It will be hoping Labor continues to prove it is not very good at politics.

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ĤΨ = EΨ @hpsiequalsepsi.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

The Frontier Economics report's most important chart. Emissions reductions are the primary reason for the energy transition; fast reductions are crucial. If the nuclear pathway is slower (as shown), then it fails at the first hurdle. It may be considered a long-term hedge, however. #auspol

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Victoria Fielding @drvicfielding.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Here is @timhollo.bsky.social A DECADE AGO pointing out Liberals only support nuclear energy as a culture war. It was as true then - under Abbott - as it is now under Dutton. Repeat after me: Dutton’s nuclear plan is all about delaying climate action. That’s it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

theguardian.com

Nuclear power keeps the corporates in charge. No wonder it's conservatives' preferred solution to climate change | Tim Hollo

Tony Abbott says he has ‘no theological objection’ to nuclear power. That’s fair – only blind faith could justify his belief in a power source that’s so costly and risky

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Joel Courtney ☀️ 🔌 💻 @joelmcourtney.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I wonder if Frontier Economics has costed carbon given the *area under the curve is critical*. Oh wait. Nope. They've ignored that.

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