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SBS Recommender @sbsrecommender.bsky.social · 11h

Premieres on 3 October 📺

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 20h

I am old enough to remember the nanobot Grey Goo problem that was absolutely going to kill us.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A lot of AI slop imagery is the end result of people not understanding the difference between design and decoration.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I joined the yacht club up at Lake Boga so I could get access to the club boats every once in a while. They have a catamaran racing season which starts this weekend and asked me to race. I told them I haven't raced since I was a kid — I can sail but I will absolutely come last.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The fundamental thing people need to understand is that Australia is a polity of compromise and consensus. This makes it a pretty good place to live but it also means our politics are incredibly wishy washy. We will never be terrible but also we will never be great.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On the one hand, I don't think the current carceral state is in any way a defensible justice model, but on the other hand I think we should use short sharp jail terms and corporal punishment more often.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It took me ages to go back to the pub after I made a clear and determined decision to stop drinking. I kinda feared my mates would pressure me to drink. We all made friends from drinking in Fitzroy and they’re still Olympic level booze hounds Not one gave me a hard time Love those lads.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Good on Kyles for wearing the fly straps from a 1970s milk bar.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Melburnians, make sure you’re a good host if you see startled guests from Western Australian stumbling around. They’ve probably just never seen a machete before.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Everyone’s favourite guy, @dmccreath.org willed Pickle Jesus into this world. PJ needed to be a t-shirt. Dadbod model’s own.

A middle aged white guy wearing a white t-shirt with a design of pickle Jesus.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Potentially the greatest obviously AI-generated music of all time. #chasingbrotherhood youtu.be/Ug44aQBa4rU?...

youtu.be

VIC SKI RIDERS - BATAM INDONESIA

YouTube video by VicSkiRiders

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Asher Wolf @asherwolf.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

People saying “the purpose of the system is what it does”: the APS put data on a forward facing public server. Everything after - “meant to be private” or “assumed it was confidential” - is a postscript

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Many years ago the Doug Anthony Allstars proposed the Nana-gotchi— a small handheld device that could only contact your grandmother so you could make a game out of keeping her alive.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Don't make fun of the way Siri pronounces words. Maybe they've only seen them in writing before. Did you ever think of that?

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Spotted in the wild today on a Chery Tiggo 7

Bumper sticker of the democracy manifest guy but it says
SUCCULENT
CHINESE
WHEELS

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/09/2026

Seems the AI Labs are running a free pen testing service.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Grubinator is so ineffably miffed that Vinted is the number 3 app on the iOS App Store. Maybe it’s because the economy is so terminally fucked that people are selling their CLOTHES?

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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 24/09/2026

Your package of F-35 parts could not be delivered and has been taken to the nearest Auspost collection point

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Donate blood and get tiny pies for breakfast!

Two small meat pies with bbq sauce, sat on a white plate.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is a post about Megalopolis.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Without doubt the best “customer” experience I have on the regular is with LifeBlood. You make your appointment, you wait almost zero time, they take your blood, give you a snack and a pat on the head for being a good person. They text you when someone gets your donation squirted into their veins/

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Shit I haven’t trolled LinkedIn in a week.

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Jim Ray @jimray.net · 23/09/2026

Design Twitter decamping to Threads now arguing about one of their own creating a logo for Meta's AI like it's 2012 is a perfect encapsulation of the rot of that industry and also why Threads (and Instagram) are the worst networks because they force you to perform the most obvious self-deception.

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dunkingdad.bsky.social @dunkingdad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

very sad about Angry Anderson. growing up in suburban Melbourne in the 80s, his music taught me that it was ok to be weird

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Adam @kels316.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

the selfie was to win votes from the right - i.e., people who hate Albanese with the fire of 1000 suns, will never vote ALP, and who vote using HTV cards given to them by someone with a swastika face tattoo.

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El Yobo @elyobo.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It goes without saying that you should sign the petition to overturn this ridiculousness. www.change.org/p/free-the-s...

change.org

Sign the Petition

Free the Strip: Protect Carlton North's Community Green Spaces

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Hey, if you were thinking about getting a turntable, the new Audio-Technica is very beautiful and subdued in the flesh. Looks like something you'd own if you would like to listen to music but have no desire to make people think you're a DJ in training. www.audio-technica.com/en-au/at-lp70x

audio-technica.com

AT-LP70X

At the heart of the AT-LP70X is a top-notch phono cartridge for unmatched, high-fidelity audio. Built with Audio-Technica’s industry-leading phono cartridge expertise, the AT-VM95C is a vers ...

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MODERN @modern-001.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Aliens don’t probe like they use to

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Qantas has been *announcing* this to a breathless and uncritical press (all too happy to take the endless test junkets) for over a fucking decade. At this stage we need to recognise that it's a long con PR exercise that may _eventually_ fly small numbers of passengers.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I sure feel like a valued customer now!

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

You think you have wasted your money on a 3D printer and then a friend asks you if you could make a 25cm diameter illuminated translucent gem.

A light frosted translucent diamond cut gem — 3d printed with a light source underneath so it glows.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The sound that film & tv has told us is the sound of a propellor plane crashing (or something falling on Wile E Coyote) is actually a recording of the ram-air siren on a nazi Stuka as it did a dive pass. The siren had one job, to instill terror on those below. youtu.be/UQzv-8pJSqY?...

youtu.be

Stuka Dive Sound

YouTube video by tyoma_14

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Fkn hate that our tool for cooling down the economy is to make bank shareholders wealthier. If we need to reduce the economy’s liquidity we should have a variable component to the tax system so the money goes to consolidated revenue hey I have a arts degree don’t listen to me

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mobland s2e1 ends with a Pete and Bas track. Old Geezer Drill is so fkn in. youtu.be/SLIZpWrK8xo?...

youtu.be

Pete & Bas - T-Pain

YouTube video by Sindhu World

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

As long as it’s still kosher to turn up to a job interview having just rehomed a couple of albino caterpillars off the back of your phone then I don’t see all the fuss.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Who's up for a roadtrip to Nhill to see the Australian Pinball Museum? No time wasters.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New favourite tv genre is 'dude goes back to teaching and gets roasted by hilarious ensemble cast of students'. Rooster AP Bio Lucky Hank etc

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

AI dorks have really given sex parties a bad name

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

We need to talk about the cake on Ahab.

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inthefade @ihavethatonvinyl.com · 21/09/2026

this is such a fun song to sing, but i forgot my windows are all open and there are teens outside and i am sure they are making fun of me. owned by the teens once again music.apple.com/us/album/sha...

music.apple.com

Shady Lane by Pavement on Apple Music

Song · 1997 · Duration 3:50

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I wish Swan Hill had NextDoor.

Swan Hill & District Community
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I would like to let the person who took my purse that I left behind in a trolley in Beveridge St Swan Hill in between the roundabout and the crossing near Woolworths this afternoon between 03:00pm and 0400pm I have reported to the police. It would be very nice if you could please return it.
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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Every now and then I have a flashback to when John So was Lord Mayor and he had Livinia Nixon as his enthusiam interpreter.

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Ian Whitney @iancwhitney.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Presumably while you are in the 'B' scales, we will soon get the Bristol.

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Ross Floate @rossfloate.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The other day I mentioned th Bortle Scale for astronomy. Today, because someone in my mentions raised it, let’s talk about the Beaufort Scale. It was devised in 1805 as a way to ascertain likely seas condition and wind speed from observations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufor...

en.wikipedia.org

Beaufort scale - Wikipedia

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