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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 · 2h

Is this a tolerably good idea? When the AI companies go bust and their nVidia datacentres go dark, repurpose the sheds as bulk energy storage systems. Stack them full of batteries. When stripped, the sheds would have: At least two good high power grid connections. And probably ductwork for […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

@liamvhogan is the seppuku of all wisdom.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

[#AusPol] I read an article yesterday about bulk billing rates in the ACT. The burden of it is; more GPs are bulk billing, and more patient visits are bulk billed. This has got to be #GoodNews. Thank you #ALP for giving this thing a shake and improving it. We need more actions like that please.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

There was a lightning strike nearby yesterday and my venerable (15 year old?) (I have replaced the batteries three times) APC RS 1500 UPS is making protest beeps rather than making much 240VAC. :blob_cat_ohnoes: I am thinking of replacing it, but the idea of buying another lead acid unit seems […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

[#AusPol] It just struck me, forgive me I am slow. UnAustralian:

Australian PM Albanese smiles enthusiastically next to the over inflated orange teeth balloon monster head of Donald Trump

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@dangillmor started to read the linked article but the advertising made it impossible to continue.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Goodness me, it turns out I am cross. David, If you have *ever* been on Murdoch's payroll, then you have profited from spreading and encouraging hate. Polarising, isolating, red hot hate, industrialised mass-produced hate. For-profit hate. "we need to turn down the temperature" and the like - […]

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Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Up early for the drive to Sydney. Clouds to the north, so no chance of #orionids.

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 · 16/10/2026

@xankarn when a tree has a fungal infection, the visible stain on the outside is the end, not the beginning. Trump is the fruiting body.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

[#AusPol] @IndyMediaAus Tangential at best, but I still wonder what happened to the lump of coal in this picture? It belongs in the Museum of Australian Democracy. Most certainly, someone went to trouble to get it to Parliament. It is just the right size; big enough to show up on the TV, not […]

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

@b0rk YES! EXACTLY these characters please. Do you need Malvino, who has decided git is too hard to learn and uses an LLM to drive it?

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

@mooseallain.bsky.social I'm not an axe-murderer, but...

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 · 09/10/2026

@pelicangut not a firm, just "us". An inside trader, and an underwear salesman. There's further to go, I'm sure. This story will rival Bond, Skase, Poseidon, Alpine Printing, all the rest.

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

@amyremeikis.bsky.social [I am trying to not go all ad hominem, on fascists, but...] Possibly sensible to remind new players to Google "Albrechtson Sofranoff" to get a flavour of Janet's character.

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

@sundogplanets Here (Bywong, Australia) a well meaning local producerr said - blackberries? Get goats! A more goat-savvy person said: hmmmm, yes, the *will* eat blackberries, *after* they've eaten everything else first, you have to fence them close to get the job done. Do you have some kind of […]

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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

@etp their orange juice was nice though. If you are not a caffe addict, you could be Just Fine there.

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

@etp Mammo Trastevere

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.

Flotsam, jetsam, lagan and derelict @heterokromia.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@mooseallain.bsky.social I live on the continent of Great Tasmania, I suppose.

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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.