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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict

@Heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy

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t=58years, h=1.96m, m=90kg Few discernible talents, bionic eyes, one with unusual iris (ibid). I like weird people, especially the nice ones. I block when you post […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ aus.social/@Heterokromia, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

oh no! my #lifebloodau keyring broke.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

[#AusPol] the #australian government runs a retail invest company (they call it "issuing bonds"). Why do they do that but not run a retail airline? not run a retail bank? not run a retail supermarket? Because we fell for the neoliberal lie. The bond market people didn't. They're not so stupid […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Go over to the Public Domain Review. Now.

PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW
NEWSLETTER
NEW ESSAY
“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping
Frenchmen of Maine

In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, scemed to jump, strike out with their limbs, or mimic languages they could not speak. Ross Bullen introduces us to these so-called “Jumping Frenchmen” and to their greatest investigator, George M. Beard, who saw a link in their behavior between religious frenzy and neurasthenia.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

"Think hard". Yes. For this thing, yes. AND, in general, is a Good Idea.

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

[#AusPol] #Greens. this is the wrong approach (censoring is always a mug's game, more so for the modern net). The problem is The Event, not the seeing of it. The problem is the USA. "Our friendship with the #USA is based on shared values, ..." said #Albanese repeatedly, regarding AUKUS, ANZUS […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Heard from Global Roaming Waleed Aly has written a Quarterly Essay. Should I drive down to Bungendore and buy it, or should I leave it till next time? More abruptly, am I gong to read it nodding, only to be disappointed somewhere along the line and shout 'Fucksake Waleed! Your belief in god […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

[ASX, AI, IT, (not that IT)] Well telegraphed by "sources" yesterday. Insiders and Trading. They go together like carpet and dogshit. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-09/firm…

Breaking: Data centre operator pulls share market float after lacklustre investor demand

The company searching for private funding as IPO gets pulled just a day after it closed its books to investors.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

OpenAI is responsible. Not (merely) morally responsible, but responsible as a matter of law, in the USA, and in Australia, for the acts (like sending emails) that it does. Not their agents. The company. And if the company acts criminally? Who goes to jail? That is a matter for the court. (I […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Lovely day flying a Raytheon Learjet from Nowra to Canberra via a few wave-top buzzes off Moruya. Don't let anyone tell you that arms selling ain't fun, kids. Weeee!

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Legislation will have to be; bloody obvious (think "Coal Mines Are Deemed Military Installations Act" or similar) and bloody soon (rammed through at midnight after the last sitting day of the next parliamentary session).

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Over 58 years on the planet, I have never once confidently said "huh, there is Mercury". But there it was, at RFS training, tonight. There's always something to see. Look down, look up, look out, look near, look far. #space #sky #sunset #mercury #astronomy #Wamboin #Bywong

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Does anyone have a chatty contact in/at the Blind Creek Solar Farm? I would love to know what the various shapes, colours and reflections that I see from 5km away mean. Last update (blindcreeksolarfarm.com.au/project-…) was for July, and things have been rollicking along since […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

raining doona there's jobs out there somewhere

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Average woomba levels across Australia

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

DA has a NB today. SitComs. Hmmm I wonder if they ar fifty-friendly ones? Oh yes, turns out they are. Phew. #Cryptic #crossword

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[#AusPol] The Government, as well as banning fees, could direct the government-owned bank to administer a nationalised electronic payment facility that provided free (cash-equivalent) transactions, removing most transaction fees altogether. Oh wait. What? Sold off the CBA? No. That can't be […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[#AusPol climate] In which Matt Kean, a member of the Liberal Party, does more to fight climate catastrophe than the NSW #ALP. Explain again why the #Greens owe the #ALP any favours? www.theguardian.com/australia-news/…

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

[Good news. Some things we can fix.] [Oddly thinkerating this morning, I am not sure why. Blue cheese for dinner? IDK.] Preamble: In 1978, my grandfather, always going at some windmill, formed a lobby group called 'Save A Life A Day 79'. (SALAD79) winceable - he […] [Original post on aus.social]

A graph with a decline from 3.5 in 1979 to 0.7 in 2006

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

on my walk today

an orchid, about 3cm across

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

#Australia #Aero people please. Why do commercial services fly over CBR when going BNE-MEL? Simiilarly why fly over SYD when you are doing CBR - BNE?

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

[#AusPol sweariness peace war] Chalmers blaming "the US war with Iran" ... His government was one of the first to *endorse* the #USA attack on #Iran. In that endorsement, the #ALP was factoring-in the economic pain of war - a serious fucking business - surely. Take responsibility, #ALP. You […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Sat beside a USA couple on a flight to London. He was reading. She said they lived in Nevada. I said oooh, tell me about water use there, I live in a dryish part of Australia, and water is a thing we think about quite a lot. She: I just use it. I water my garden. [snip]... Me: Have you always […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Back in #Australia, and waiting in the letterbox is a Government demand for me to send in my poo on two sticks. girt! girt! girt! #Straya

an unopened envelope bearing the arms of the Commonwealth of Australia, a decent the words: national bowl cancer screening program.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Can we have #Katsaukas back now please #guardian? No need to apologise to all of us, (only her), just fix it up?.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

the Prime Minister has met with a self confessed head of a #cyber crime organisation. He has not referred the crime, nor criminal to the #AFP, and has not demanded #Altman's extradition from the #USA Albanese says #OpenAI #hacked Medicare and told Australia months later via email to generic […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#Fashion note from #Rome. Women and men wearing their shirts half tucked in. Usually the placket bearing half is hanging down, the button half tucked in, producing a left/right, male/female (apologies, gender, I do know...) distinction. It is thoroughly intentional. These were the most […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I'm thinking of buying a #Citroën #Ami to import into #Australia for use as a farm vehicle (a wheelbarrow, essentially). Does the fediplex know anything about importing a notacar like these? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_… #EV #shitbox #car #import #tax […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

In #rome #Roma. Stopped at a place off the west side of the river heading north towards Castel St Angelo. Why relevant? The coffee was weak, tasteless, slow. Cannot even. Never ever have I had bad coffee before in Italy. Quite a shock. Rescued the situation about 5 minutes amble later with a […]

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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The word pirate has one i and an r.

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Amy Remeikis @amyremeikis.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Every single Pauline Hanson story reporting on her latest racist comments should also include that a court has upheld that she racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

In #Greece, Σερίφος in particular anyway - there are scribbly gums without the bugs that scribble. It's a really weird look. I wonder how the tree feels without its friends? Since we're in the place of serifs, perhaps these are sanscribbley gums? #Australia #Serifis

phote taken on a pseudart angle, of a tree trunk. There's makes feet, crossed at the ankles in the foreground, resting on the table

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Christina told me to go to the Museo #Fortuny in #Venice. Buggerme™, was she right. Go there, real (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palazzo_Pesar…) or wikionly, you'll be amazed. Painter, printer, sculptor, stage technologist... seemingly brilliant at them all […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

[AusPol] Balcony #solar for renters? Twaddle. #labor, try this: "All renters are eligible for a power rebate. You rent? You get a discount on your power." Fucking simple. Do it. #AusPol #voteGreens

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I'm a Conscious Objector regarding the culture wars.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

ah I see. Looked at a calendar The Americans are doing their nana because of the date. Which they can't spell. Bin Laden is O(n!) to Luigi Mangione's O(n).

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stib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I've been using Futo Keyboard for Android for a while, because I agree, your keyboard *shouldn't* connect to the internet. One annoyance has been the way it would autocorrect all my swears, which was ducking annoying. Just discovered the toggle switch for "block offensive words" in the settings […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

One of the things #Venice offers is pissing in a public toilet for the completely normal rate of €1.50. The cheaper end of the entertainments available in a really quite expensive city.

Receipt with QRcode

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

?Ashqabat?

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

#London not similar much to #Bywong

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Please please, if you are using a large language model for your posts, let me know. There's plenty of reasons for using them, and absolutely no reasons to keep it a secret. If you use an #LLM and you don't say it, then I take the produced slop as a direct personal insult. At the very least you […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

More #shingleback news from #Bywong. The sunny weather continues. A middling sized shingleback came up to the kitchen door. Very much looking like their reptile brain can remember that this is the place where raisins get served. Have no raisins, he/she got two sultanas instead. Shingleback seems […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

[LLM content] Bugger it, I have come across some slop from a local source. I am going digging.... Result: FMD, use #wikipedia you goose. Details: ChatGPT prompt "Write a paragraph about Bywong": Bywong is a small rural village in New South Wales, Australia, located about 25 kilometres […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Day before #spring in #Bywong A #shingleback, looking fatter than the should - the winter hibernation has been very short - sunning themselves in the dappling of a blackwattle. An #echidna hiding oh-so-effectively from me while I collected kindling. (Echidnas subscribe to the three-year old […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

Feel that #ICACradio should include "Do not take this as tax advice, consult a professional" disclaimer.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#ICACradio Counsel Assisting is massively cross that Anita has done _hours_ of stonewalling, holding the line, and Charles feels he can swan in, blithe as can be. I am infuriated. This kind of gender politics is antediluvian, at best. It should have no place in the 21st century.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#ICACradio A number of people 'mentioned in ICAC' here. I wonder where these namings are heading? popcorn please

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#ICACradio Interesting (to me, a professional and private Google Drive user) point to watch later. The ICAC has reason to subpoena Google for the contents of these (supposed) shared drives. I presume they did that long ago. Would be interesting to see what response Google gave them. Yes - here […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

#ICACRadio This is agony. We have to be pretty close, hopefully, to a flat out: "Are you an accomplice or are you a patsy?" question.