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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The stuff that gets me is just how spineless the government is even with their massive majority.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh no :( this guy was the sound of the news as far as I was concerned growing up. RIP.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

L'MAGA has a French whiff about it

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Someone whose salary depends on it?

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

You can verify by checking for the signature of Slartibartfast in the glaciers of Norway

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oil prices are in turn an input cost to most other stuff (e.g. production & transport of food). The RBA is basically signalling for a wide-scale decrease in economic activity in response. Problem is it's mostly hitting inelastic demand.

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Rowdy Rebel @rowdyrebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I also have White Coat Syndrome & need my bp taken 3 times for accuracy. 😱🫨🫤🩸

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REwadent Evil @ewacat.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

OH MY GOD HOLD ON IT'S A SNEAK PEAK

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Dash Nehring @punningstunts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I went and made this for ya, it was too good a meme

meme featuring three panels. the top panel is a picture of a headline over Jason from the Good Place. The headline says "AI could be a bubble and is not yet making Australia more productive, Michele Bullock Says".

Underneath is a caption: "I think AI might be a bubble".

The second panel is Michael with a shocked expresson standing next to Janet. He says "The RBA figured it out? the RBA?"

The third panel is Michael touching his stomach. He says "This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts."

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Serfdom wasn't that long ago

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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

when ai leaves u behind

7 panel comic.

Panel 1:
A Red Guy with AI across his chest looks like he’s about to run away. A Yellow Guy stands next to him. Red Guy says “I’m the future, buddy. You comin’?”
Yellow Guy replies “Nah”

Panel 2:
Red Guy is almost out of the panel. He leans in and says “Enjoy getting left behind, pal”
Yellow Guy replies “ok”

Panel 3:
Yellow Guy stands alone.

Panel 4:
Close up on Yellow Guy, there is a quiet “huff-huff-huff” noise coming from behind him

Panel 5:
Yellow Guy turns to look behind him

Panel 6:
Close up on Yellow Guy’s face as if from the point of view of an attacker.
Yellow Guy yells “Jesus Christ”

Panel 7:
AI Red Guy is now chasing the Yellow Guy.
Red Guy: “Use me”
Yellow Guy “No”
Red Guy “USE ME”

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Generally we expect higher unemployment => less employers pressure to increase salaries (wage growth) The relationship was fairly stable 1998-2012 - blue dots It dropped 2013-2019 - orange dots. it's been chaotic ever since Covid - red dots. RBA insists it's at a new level now.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

2030 is not so abstract any more

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The very post below this in my timeline names Nvidia's global head of AI clouds. So maybe you're not paranoid.

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Nanoraptor @nanoraptor.danamania.com · 06/02/2026

A reminder to Australians, we'll get a decent solar eclipse in a little over two years. eclipse.asa.astronomy.org.au/eclipse-aust... Centred right over Sydney during the later part of its totality, it'll also cover Bourke, Nyngan, Gilgandra, Dubbo, Orange, Bathurst, Mudgee, Lithgow and Katoomba.

A map showing NSW's path of totality for Australia's 2028 solar eclipse, showing it passing right over a wide swathe of new south wales, including Bourke up the north west, down almost centred over Sydney in the south east and covering frankly the vast majority of the population in New South Wales.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

The absolute irony of course being that we're committed to the $350bn+ AUKUS subs to align against China, but rely on China for fuel supply security, particularly for jet fuel...

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

You'd think someone in government might've put some incentives together to have some domestic capabilities... but no it's all about shoring up those relationships.

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Strategic Cities @strategic-cities.com · 04/09/2026

I remember, many years ago, I first heard the phrase “climate anxiety” and thought it silly. Now here in Sydney - in the first week of spring - we face temperatures of 33*c and a total fire ban due to “extreme” fire danger… Now I’m anxious! www.nine.com.au/australia-ne...

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Total fire ban declared for millions as unseasonable early heatwave bears down

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Still wondering why people are fed up with the system?

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 01/09/2026

Politicians like Anthony Albanese say stuff like "now is not the time to discuss climate" in the wake of fossil-fuelled disasters because they know that **there is no single better time** to talk about it, and his fossil fuel donors know that too.

News article screenshot headlined "Climate change a debate for later, PM says on Nepal floods," showing a serious middle-aged man wearing glasses and a light-blue button-up shirt outdoors against blurred trees.

PRIME MINISTER: Look, I think on Nepal, there will be time to examine the science and what has occurred here. My thoughts are solely focused, at this point in time, on the families and on the extraordinarily difficult time that we’re going through and offering our support to Nepal. And we'll continue to do that. Those debates will take place. But I don't think, from Australia's perspective, now's the time. My focus is very much on people who are incredibly traumatised by not knowing what has happened to their loved ones.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

1/4 In August the Rhine at Kaub, its shallowest point, fell below 10cm. The previous record low, set in 2018, was 25cm. In June 2025 the body regulating Rhine shipping said flow would not clearly change before 2050, and deferred any decision on measures to 2027. www.ccr-zkr.org/files/infovo...

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

You reckon there might be a lesson in this for some other navy procurement we have going on

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Mum 5'3" Dad 5'5" Sister 5'4" me... 6'2" - so i guess 11" & 9" respectively? My cousin born 1 month later has the same story (our mums are sisters). Whatever was in the water back then hasn't been replicated.

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

NEW: This must one of the most violent natural disasters ever recorded. This is the immigration centre on Nepal’s border at 11am, this morning (Aug 26). That is a seven-storey building about to be obliterated in seconds. (🎥 NDTV)

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 26/08/2026

Excellent piece here www.theguardian.com/membership/2...

A narrow class of people is profiting from our anguish. They know they’re setting our world on fire. They persist because they love neither the Earth nor its people. What they care about is money. Not just enough to get by on. Not even enough to become grotesquely rich with. They want the kind of money that bends others to their will. They seek power, buy it, co-opt it, leverage it and always thirst for more of it. As far as they’re concerned, the rest of us can go to hell – so long as we bend the knee and keep paying them as we stagger towards the flames.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 25/08/2026

www.ft.com/content/8158... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... www.bloomberg.com/news/article... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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https://www.ft.com/content/8158cb5a-4bbd-43fd-b329-15a54e8422c8?syn-25a6b1a6=1

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

We couldn't do a 25% tax of gas exports. Those gas companies are truly battling to break even. Good thing the govt is caring for them.

Graph showing wages, inflation and Woodside profit growth 2025-26:
wages: 3.2%
Inflation: 4.0%
Woodside profits: 27.0%

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Greg Jericho @grogsgamut.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

So good that the RBA is worried about wage growth driving up inflation...

Chart showing growth of wages, inflation and Coles profits in 2025-26:

Wages: +3.2%
Inflation: +4.0%
Coles Profits: +13.7%

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

It has the special celebratory sparks!

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Even if we went to zero carbon in a year, we have more heating locked in already. Years to come where this will be worse than this year.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Is this what it will take for those in power to wake the fuck up about the need for climate action?

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852dude @852dude.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bro. People are cool as fuck.

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Dr. Damien P. Williams, dread portent down from a mountain cave @wolven.blacksky.app · 11/08/2026

I remember when someone tried to argue with me about this on here, saying it was survivorship bias, and not my own comparisons of the same brands' material quality and stitching over the past 30+ years. Anyway, yes shit is actually more poorly made now than it used to be even a short while ago.

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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

You're talking about a couple of charismatic generational talents when it comes to political messaging; it's not as though any other country had their own version of Obama. Our lot tend to get compromised on their way to the top and be neutered (Rudd, Turnbull, Albo...)

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Sure, Alanis Morrisette type ironic

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What pristine economic model does she live in where the cost of the roof over your head doesn't form part of the cost of living?!

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Check again, there's a "will it pay for itself" calculator on the site - if you have the low speed blades, a 4m/s average wind speed is a couple of years payback?

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

There's something like this - tesup.com/de You'd probably go with the Atlas line rather than the full on windmill type. But probably need to have some measurement/estimate of the wind on your roof to see if it's worthwhile, what speed fins you should get, etc. Looks pretty simple to set up though.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Solar though, I would guess it still doesn't make sense where you have shading? East and west faces of my house have trees so it would be low production. That said I should probably upgrade my dad's place, the panels are getting on 10 years old and it's comically undersized for the house.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yeah I think my battery's size is closer to p10 - in winter I'm off-grid basically on sunny days, so it's just falling short on cloudy/rainy days. But now I'm thinking it's undersized as we look at the rest of the electrification journey for cooking and water heater.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Back of the envelope... my 10kWp solar generates ~35kWh on a sunny day May; 3x that with a 29kWp solar array would be 100+kWh? And give it a 10% reserve SOC. Then feed to grid at 15kW/hr based on the inverter size, could smash that out every night. Heck that size solar justifies 20kW inverter.

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Karan J @karanj.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I feel like I undersized mine just a bit because I didn't account for the 10% minimum state of charge they set - didn't realise that before installation. Need some rules of thumb to be established for the relationship with solar panel size and median consumption.

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