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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Time to run another big bike ride together with @bicyclensw.bsky.social for National Ride to Work Day 🥳 This time we get to go into NSW Parliament House thanks to @kobishettymp.bsky.social for a morning tea together with the Parliamentary Friends of Active Transport bicyclensw.org.au/get-set-to-c...

A photo of a group of people posing for the camera, standing holding their bicycles.
The overlay text reads:
National Ride to Work Day
Wednesday 14th October
Balmain, Rozelle to NSW Parliament House
Joined by special guest Kobi Shetty MP

At the bottom are logos from Bicycle NSW and Climate Change Balmain-Rozelle

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Gross, I guess NSW Labor have decided to chase the One Nation vote with this rhetoric. It seems right-wing even for Minns. Plenty of opportunity to reskill coal workers into renewables, it's already happening in my hometown of Wollongong. But no, extend coal and lock us into further climate disaster

NSW premier says controversial mine expansion ‘hugely important’ for economy: ‘this is the right decision’

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, has welcomed the approval of the controversial Hunter Valley Operations (HVO) continuation project.

Yesterday the NSW Independent Planning Commission approved the proposal, the biggest coalmine project to ever go before it, allowing mining to continue until 2045. Climate groups have described the HVO project as a “carbon bomb”.

Asked about the decision on 2GB this morning, Minns said:

This is a hugely important decision for the New South Wales economy. It props up and is responsible for literally thousands of direct and indirect jobs … It also produces billions of dollars of royalties for the NSW government, which we put into schools and hospitals, as well as the renewable energy renovation of the state.

So, look, this is the right decision. The IPC has determined it. I think they’ve made the right call here, and it would give a lot of certainty to that businesses up there, but alongside that, a lot of workers that were sweating on this decision over a long period of time.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Sorry, I know I've been banging on about the Greens a lot, but joining has honestly been one of the best things I've ever done. The world seems fucked and so much makes me mad. But then working with other people who care, and are fighting to make things better - it gives me hope!

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Ugh, normally my ride to work is fine, but this morning I ended up in 2 shouting matches with drivers. One Uber who cut in front of me to park in the bike lane, and another driver who ran a red light and almost hit me as I was crossing with the green bike signal 🙃Apparently my fault according to her

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

So sad, please look after yourself @larissawaters.bsky.social. Thank you so much for all the work you've done for the Greens - led us with compassion, strength and hope 💚

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sydney games peeps - neat looking event as part of Sydney Games Festival next month, "Every Game Talk Possible" at UNSW on the 16th of October everygametalkpossible.org

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Every Game Talk Possible

Every Game Talk Possible at UNSW CBD Campus on Friday 16 October 2026.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hey Aussies, last few days to get a free covid booster. After Wednesday you'll have to pay. I just walked into the pharmacist today and they gave me one immediately, super easy. Covid seems to be doing the rounds again here too, have a few mates laid up at home with it www.abc.net.au/news/health/...

abc.net.au

COVID vaccines no longer free for many Australians from next month

Only some people will continue to get the COVID-19 vaccination for free after October 1. Here's what the changes mean for you.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That's cool. I'm sure all the BitReactor devs that were furloughed weeks before launch are gonna see some of that $50 million... right? Residuals are standard in other creative industries. If the people who actually made the game got their share of the profits, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ok, huntsman spider inside the shower tap was a new one for me. Neither of us enjoyed that experience.

A cold tap in my shower, with some spider legs poking out from where it joins the wall

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Glad we ensured today's CEOs and big shareholders still get a pay rise every year, and didn't waste time looking after the planet so we can ensure the survival of the human race. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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‘Planetary boundaries’ necessary for flourishing of life have been massively breached, scientists warn

New report shows key indicators of Earth’s health are ‘outside the safe operating space’ as climate disaster looms

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Interesting lesson after getting to work from the Nixxes office IRL this month - I seem to be at the point of my career where my actual direct code output is sort of less important than making sure the more junior graphics programmers are working well and hitting their goals.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Ugh, looks like Cariuma has stopped making skate shoes. Does anyone have a good skate shoe/Vans alternative that's reasonably sustainable and ethical?

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Such a good thread. Additionally I'd make an educated guess that the "AI" bubble has expanded faster than you can realistically train new programmers at a company, meanwhile experienced programmers are under huge pressure to work faster than competitors. A recipe for dumb bugs and security flaws.

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Steve Baty (He/him) @docbaty.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

The opening paragraphs of our new book talks about the crunching sound you hear when you hold a mutton bird on Lord Howe Is, from all the plastic in their stomachs, but sure, let’s wait. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Labor ditches new packaging laws to cut plastic waste, sparking unprecedented ‘scale and breadth of outrage’

Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Mad props to this lady I just emailed whose OOO auto-response was basically just "I'll respond on my return", with no information at all about when that would even be.

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Lia @liasae.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Dutchies again (guess it's that week) - d'you folks have a trans org a teen with unsupportive parents could turn to over there?

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

"The NSW government told ABC it had not considered an overpass due to the topography of the land, environmental impacts it would have had and the disruption that would have been placed on Appin Road" What rubbish. What about environmental impacts and disruption for koalas being murdered by cars?

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Sven @svelle.dev · 03/09/2026

If you want to do the hosting yourself vaultwarden is a good open-source reimplementation of the bitwarden server. KeepassXC is another good cross-platform alternative.

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Thierry☀️ @avioto.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Keepass is great and open source.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

If you're a 1Password user, probably time to find an alternative, unless you want your password data in the hands of white supremacists. And urge your employer to make the switch! www.alilleybrinker.com/blog/1passwo...

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1Password Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe — Andrew Lilley Brinker

1Password has committed $300,000 to Omarchy. This is unacceptable and must be rescinded.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I'm in Utrecht for work at the moment, and in the last two days I've seen 3 teenagers riding the one Lime bike (one in the basket, one on the seat, and one standing on the back wheel case), and then last night an elderly lady with no arms riding a modified bike. I have missed this all so much.

A photo of a tree lined street in the Netherlands, with a 30 speed sticker on a light post in the foreground, car parking and bike parking in on the background

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Extremely the wrong time to post this for Australia - but I'm finally in the market for an e-bike. Any recommendations? Basically just want to not arrive to work sweaty, and not have to struggle up hills anymore. Also for the battery to not burn my house down while I'm asleep. #bikesky

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Ben Abraham @afterclimate.com.au · 27/08/2026

A not-insubstantial part of why the games industry has *remained* in crisis mode since ~2023 is that all the investment has been siphoned off into chips and data centers that have almost zero chance of making back their money. But that doesn't matter, since someone still gets paid.

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

Another very useful reminder that technology matters, but policy design matters way way way more. We get nowhere until we tackle corporate greed.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Not sure if it's cute or creepy that my cat seems to love me so much that she drools on my dirty clothes while she's huffing my BO.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 18/08/2026

It is already very clear that the countries that'll emerge victorious from this moment will be the ones who were savvy, patient and clear-headed enough to avoid the hype, the obvious psychosis and sycophancy and the FOMO. Australia is.....not in that group.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

🤮 NSW Labor government is fast-tracking AI data centre builds. Not only is this a massive environmental step backwards for both energy & water, but locks us into the AI techbro investment bubble/ponzi scheme - what do we do when that crashes?

The NSW has committed to assessing new datacentre proposals within 75 days if they meet “world-class” energy, water and environmental standards, under a framework announced today.

The Minns government’s new datacentre guidelines follow the prime minister’s announcement last month of a national office of AI and regulatory framework for datacentres, amid growing community concern about land, water and power use by the rapidly expanding industry.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Wow, this was a fascinating read. Had no idea Aus uses double the diesel per capita than the US. That's horrendous. We're so far behind most other countries who have at least electrified short distance deliveries. There's no reason our cities can't support this too, we're not that different.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Bonus of living near a florist, free flowers at the end of the day that they can't sell the next day

A pink rose surrounded by some purple flowers in a glass vase, sitting on a wooden table top

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It's been a little while, but picked up another game credit 🎉This time for work on Helldivers 2, helping Arrowhead improve stability and performance. So nice to see some of our Nixxes graphics team here together in a credits screen again.

A screenshot from the credits screen of Helldivers 2:
Principal Graphics Programmer - Marco Bouterse
Senior Graphics Programmer - Hilze Vonck, Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea
Medior Graphics Programmer - Nico Van Bentum, Menno Bil
Graphics Programmer - William Narchi
Junior Graphics Programmer - Luca Bert
Graphics Programmer Inter - Rares Dumitru

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Ben Kosmina @kosmologyb.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Okay Australians, I am officially on a mission now. I want to know how many of these posters are out there! Here’s the ones I know about already. Please repost this and reply with your photos, I really want to see them all! I know there’s a Squidward and Ren and Stimpy out there somewhere!

Princess Bubblegum talking on a phone in a Telstra booth

Hans Moleman being carried away by magpies in a phone booth as he holds a phone

A futuristic man with a floating upside down head (i don’t know if this is from a show or an original Telstra creation!)

Sideshow Bob wearing a straitjacket using one of his giant feet to hold the phone

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Me: "I really don't know why I got asked about spiders so much when I was overseas and introduced myself as an Aussie" Meanwhile, Australian spiders:

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stranger @strangerous.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

JUST IN: Australia’s Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Brendan Dowling rejects calls to narrow national deradicalisation programs solely to Islamist extremism, telling antisemitism RC they must target all extreme ideologies. Something I assume media won’t jump out to report on today.

Image of Counter-Terrorism Coordinator Brendan Dowling giving evidence at the antisemitism royal commission.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

OK first of all 🤮 that Minns is endorsing Kyle Sandilands. Every time I think I dislike the premier he finds new ways to make me dislike him more Secondly, annoyed about ban on kids using e-bikes, if Sydney's hills are hard for adults to ascend by bike, they are worse for kids. Better 12 than 16 tho

The NSW premier, Chris Minns, says the government is examining introducing a minimum age of 12 to ride ebikes in the state, the strongest indication yet of where the government will land following an independent expert review.

Minns appeared this morning to cut a gold ribbon on the debut of Kyle Sandilands Live, the new digital radio show hosted by the former Kiis FM host after the cancellation of the Kyle and Jackie O Show in March.

The premier told Sandilands “I was worried for you” following the show’s cancellation, while the pair joked about running into each other recently at an ice-cream shop in the Blue Mountains. Sandilands said:

I thought you were a meth head because you had had the beanie on, you were you all rugged up.

But the conversation did turn towards policy, after Sandilands said he had bought his 11-year-old godson an ebike. The premier said the government is “examining an … age limit of 12” for ebikes.

“We haven’t finalised the details yet,” he said.

After a surge in injuries and an incident in which 40 or so e-bikes swarmed the Sydney Harbour Bridge in February, an expert review was asked to recommend an age limit of between 12 and 16, and was due to report back to the government in June.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We can't afford to keep this up. Imagine all the things we could be spending money on per year instead of propping up private cars & the motor industry. Time to better subsidise other, cleaner forms of transport and save money for things like housing, education, health, etc.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Really curious if FIFA are now just setting up Infantino to take the fall here so he's the only head that will roll and the house doesn't get cleaned out. Hopefully the pressure on FIFA stays high even after he gets the chop.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

We're so fucked. Are we meant to feel grateful that if Peter Dutton had won the election last year these data centres would be powered by nuclear, and at least Labor aren't doing that? Just.. increasing coal mine and gas production instead, awesome. Minister for exacerbating Climate Change..

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

A reminder: 🚗: I hope I find parking. 🚴🏽‍♂️: I hope I don’t die. Our priorities are not the same.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Doing a talk later this month about my not-so-linear path into the games industry. Hopefully interesting to aspiring game devs, especially at the moment when it's very difficult to break into games. Or stay there once you do..

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thought I'd check the Steam forums to see what they had to say about our anniversary, and was not disappointed. Somehow if there's anywhere even more unhinged than Facebook comment threads, it's the Steam discussion forums.

A comment from the Steam forums which reads "My most favorite game of all time. I will name my firstborn Tricky Tower"

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Great, more incentives for people to drive instead of use public transport. This is just buying votes for the state election from Western Sydney to try and stop from losing them all to One Nation. And subsidising Transurban and the motor industry.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Oh wow, Tricky Towers was released 10 years ago. Time flies! I learned so much while working on this at WeirdBeard, and had such a great time with my colleagues. Only the 6 of us on the core team!

Artwork from the game Tricky Towers, with extra text reading "turns 10!"
Two little wizards are floating on clouds next to unstable towers made of tetrominoes. There's a blue sky and still blue sea in the background.

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Rebecca Fernandez O'Shea @rebeccafernandez.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

So weird watching Not Just Bikes videos and seeing streets in my old neighbourhood/on my old commute that have been upgraded since I left. Marnixstraat looking so good now! youtu.be/0s86kEUxxak?...

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Amsterdam Just Keeps Getting Awesome

YouTube video by Not Just Bikes

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Galaxy Games Fest @liquidcat.studio · 28/07/2026

Come say hello to all these amazing #industryspeakers and hear a bunch of cool talks! 👾 They're speaking at #GalaxyGamesFest on Sat 22 Aug 2026 — hear straight from someone in the #gameindustry about what it's actually like to work in #gamedev 🎮 REGISTER HERE events.humanitix.com/galaxy-games...

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