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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

@microsoft.com should know that every time I see the 'upgrade your plan' message in the top right corner of my Word application I'm reminded that I'm already paying Microsoft money that I'd rather spend elsewhere and I'm very happy that I went with Google workspaces for my main platform.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess I need to stop buying Blistex...

The back of a blister pack showing that the stick has to go in the rubbish bin, the cap has to go in the rubbish bin and the blister pack has to go in the rubbish bin. But luckily the cardboard can go in the recycling.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I guess I need to stop buying Blistex...

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I have a micro business and meeting the ATOs requirements is going to break me. At the moment if I don't record a voice verification to get through, they are hanging up on me. I have to talk to someone to meet some mandatory requirement and I can't get through.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ed finding out that 'can't we all just get on' and 'it's complicated' are not sufficient at this time is making my day. #FreePalestine

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

This is the manipulation our government is willing to use to further isolate minorities and vulnerable people. Real people. Fuck them.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

What is the basis on which all of these mathematicians decided they could trust OpenAI? Come on people, the AI is not your friend! Watch Terminator, go back to working on an air gapped computer, or maybe paper would be safer.

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Sonny the Robot Says No.

ALT: Sonny the Robot Says No.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Lobbyists push voters out of the democratic process and remove them from the table literally." So true. Politicians use bullshit terms like populist as if a democracy wasn't supposed to be about doing the right thing by people.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

With the cost of living, has anyone else noticed that the blades on razors are now recessed, so it's much harder to strop them on a belt?

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Here's a headline soon to be buried by 'adults who know better'.

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Abra / Jessica Conwell, Carmella Creeper's Gender Doula🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽🌼 @pairofclaws.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

On that note: Trans authors (I mean authors who are trans, NOT cis people who write about trans people), drop your book links here and I'll try to repost as many as I can throughout the day. Cis people: Repost trans authors' book links. Cis people who want to complain about being excluded: gtfo

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Chinese firm are watching ai hoover up all human scribblings in the last 500 years without regard for ownership, and journalists are still writing this story. Lol. Chinese memory firm relied on leaked Korean technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims www.techspot.com/news/113568-...

techspot.com

Chinese memory firm CXMT relied on leaked Samsung technology to skip years of R&D, court testimony claims

That origin story came directly from a former Samsung Electronics engineer surnamed Jeon, according to Maeil Business. The veteran employee spent almost three decades at Samsung before...

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I get that if a tile breaks in my bathroom, I have to replace it. But my body literally made these teeth. How is it the dentist has to fix them? disappointed 😞

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Every story about the uss whatever should be saying why they are there, so far from home, hungry sitting in shit, projecting colonial power into a strait that was closed after they or their colleagues bombed innocent civilians. #JustGoHome

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

What's up with the malt-o-milks? I'm pretty sure they've shrunk. Photo with matchbox for reference size.

Photo of malt-o-milk biscuits and an oversized box of matches.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm reading a business book which is describing evacuation of patients from a hospital in flooded New Orleans and I read "frequent sniper fire". What? There's a rabbit hole here. And the NRA must hold some culpability. Also, what?

Text from an ABC (USA) News report about sniper fire.

Sniper fire broke out on a freeway overpass overlooking the Superdome on Saturday as thousands of exhausted hurricane Katrina refugees waited for buses to take them to safety.

"One man with a gun was shooting. The police heard about it, so we got everybody down," said Lieutenant Colonel Scott Elliott.

"As this deteriorates, those guys (snipers) are going to be out more and more," he said.

"They've shot at the buses. At the convention centre they've shot at the troops."

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Little paranoid voice on my shoulder suggesting I buy a dashcam thingy. Is that the boomer speaking?

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Last responsibly for the week - coaching sess by Tanuba (aka Qld's Fitzroy River).

Photo of a drink of lemon squash with palm trees and green foliage in the background.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Reminder to Australians: If you want a secular state, you might need to stop saying Christian or similar on the Census. Especially if you haven't graced the doors of a church in years or decades.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

What's the fuss? Don't you guys do the smallpox blankets ritual at Thanksgiving?

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Queensland planning to send young people out in the bush again. To 'build character'. I fear we're going to be back investigating institutional child abuse again in 20 years time.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Apparently it's a thrice microwaved cup of tea and homebaked cheese and bacon toast morning.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Must have a drivers licence. Such an innocuous requirement. Turn back the layers. Young people in households without cars, young people in abusive households, young people in households characterised by neurodiversity, mental health, chronic illness. Jobs at a single site. This is exclusion.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's nice of the Guardian to keep track of my reading of their articles and I'm proud to say that I'm reading a lot less Guardian articles now than I was a year or two ago and loving much better local content that covers the issues that I'm interested in.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

This sums up the gaming industry, the patriarchy, the oligarchy, and one of my cats (the belligerent one).

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Not an hour ago I saw an Audi and wondered what happened to the Quatros they were giving away on Sale of the Century about a century ago. And here I am drinking the last Tennents of my Glasgow trip, and a black Audi with black trim and black air dam with Quatro in silver reverses into a tenement.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm not a big footie fan, but I'm even less of a fan of cutting people just because it doesn't suit you. So I wrote an email to the AFL supporting the Kynton Women's Football Club, the Wedgies.

Email to a general AFL email address saying:

You guys should know that you are an embarrassment to Aussie Rules Footy. You are so out of line with your supposed values at the moment.

Do you seriously think that it's appropriate to tell the Wedgies that they can't play?

With the sort of money you are making, you could create a whole league around this one team if you're really cared. Not that that's what they want. The Kynton Women's Football Club just want a chance to play. So make a space and let them play, cos that's good for football.

Disappointed,

...Geoff

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Eating pickled something and wondering if it's ok to cry at the Palestinian restaurant for something as innocuous as spices. #StopTheFuckingGenocide

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Arrived in Glasgow today for a conference next week. I arrived 63 hours after I left home. Living regionally demands a time tax on international travel.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I thought the benefit of the robots was they wouldn't need to be fed human food. But like for a person lost in the desert, once the human water is gone, we won't be needing the human food either.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

'Michael's Mum' on Facebook just described the NDIS atm as clearly as I have seen it done. I also think some honesty, transparency and integrity from government would go a long way to repairing trust and the system itself.

Plain text on a white background: The NDIS debate is really about two things Australia is currently pretending are separate but are actually sitting in the same leaking canoe (or lifeboat if you prefer).
The first is state capacity, which is a fancy way of asking: can the government actually deliver complicated services without accidentally creating a paperwork-themed Hunger Games?
The second is freedom, which is a fancy way of asking: can vulnerable people actually participate in society, or do we just say lovely things about inclusion while quietly leaving families to duct-tape entire support systems together in their lounge rooms?
So when we hear stories about provider rorting, excessive administration, inconsistent assessments and cost blowouts, I don’t think the conclusion should be, “Well, clearly supporting disabled people was a terrible idea.”
That’s like saying, “The plumber overcharged me, therefore bathrooms were a mistake.”
The conclusion should be that Australia needs more honest plumbers.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Interesting ad placement on Reddit...

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Spell check strikes again. What do you think I was trying to type Word? I can see 'part curly', ok, but 'Parti curly' with a capital P?

Screen print from Word, shows the spelling particurly, and the spell checker does not offer particularly as an option to correct the word.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

A bit of a longshot, but is anyone I interact with on here in Glasgow, or attending the IACD conference there the week after next?

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

That Mansfield Park is a thing isn't it? I would not like to be in Jane Austen's head. 😰

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I just typed the word 'archetypoes', and I cannot continue my lit review until I post this for all of you. Beware of the coregiver, the roler and the autist, for they may vex your character arc.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Watching lots of ads from the Aust govt about having a conversation about child sexual abuse. Must be that no Australians are listed in the Epstein Files, since this is our best chance at solving child sexual assault.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Curious to see over the next couple of years how hackers respond to the honeypot of personal data that's been collected banks and other financial institutions due to Australia's money laundering regulations.

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Winnie the Pooh's Honey Delight

ALT: Winnie the Pooh's Honey Delight

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Important work. Indigenous mental health hardly understood in western practice.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I made some pita things with my youngest the other day.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

@proctor&gamble is super proud of this product packaging. RECYCLABLE BOX proclaim on a green tab. P&G and others might notice that these 8 cartridges could have fitted in a 24 pack of paracetamol, with room left over for all 24 caplets. Late stage capitalism just keeps on letting us all down.

Very large empty box beside two small plastic packages with razor refills.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Thanks for nothing AI. Yes, I typed 'abd' instead of 'and' — for about the thousand millionth time. And the AI suggested:

Three suggestions to replace 'abd' from the Word spell checker:
Abd [No reference information]
abed - in bed
bad - evil, unhealthy, regretful

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

It's interesting how few people on social media think, I'd better say where I am, so people reading this will not panic thinking it's happening in their state/country/continent/hemisphere/(soon) planet.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

I see the future of the Nationals at dire risk of disappearing up their own fundamental. Libs only need one partner to govern. Anything else is just messy. Two's company, three's a crowd.

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GeoffHiggins 🍉 @geoffhiggins.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

"Officials at the Food and Drug Administration have blocked publication of several studies supporting the safety of widely used vaccines against Covid-19 and shingles in recent months, a spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed." is peak dystopia.

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