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Paul Castle

@sleeperpservice.bsky.social
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Velocity complex, Freo, EV convert, games and codes. Needs to do better. We all do.

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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Forgot to celebrate 2 years not smoking which allowed me to get quite a flash EV and haven't looked back. Now not giving money to tobacco and oil companies (Directly)
Grey Ioniq 6 parked on the side of a south west road in the forests near Pemberton. Taken from the back showing off its polarising double spoilers
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Found the first book i ever bought myself with my own pocket money, really loved 20000 Leagues Under the Sea as a kid. I must have been about 9 and got it second-hand from the Mandurah Book Exchange
Cover shot of the book 20000 Leagues Under the Sea from the 1968 edition from the Masterpiece Library. The cover graphic has people in diverse suits with harpoons in the water with the Nautilus of in the distance and a squid further back still.
60c is written in permanent marker on the top and it looks old but is in good condition and not too dog eared.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
The Mrs had this cell up on the wall since before we met and is pretty much exactly this
Two cell graphic
First cell close up of a woman with a gun running in front of a man looking behind saying "Havoc come on" He replies "Im with you"
Second cell from above further away in an industrial future as they run out of an opening she says "Are you ready for this?" He says "As I'll ever be, Harmony"
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The Samsung browser on my phone has a reading mode button that formats it to just text. Other browsers may have similar
ABC article heavy on flashy transitions  reduced to just text by clicking the button highlighted in blue
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Got an iFixit battery replacement for my now 12 year old late 2103 Macbook Pro 15". Didn't follow the instructions to take it all apart and use solvents. Found the alt method to slice out with nylon string and it worked #fixedit #replace #reuse
Dusty Macbook innards with swollen battery cells. A nylon string is looped beneath a cell tied to yellow punchesMacbook with the battery removedNew battery installed into a macbook with protective plastic still in placeMacbook starting up. It's alive and I didnt break it.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
So hating on a whole targeted group doesn't fall under the reasonable person test.
59  Subsections 80.2HA(3) and (4) of the Criminal Code

Repeal the subsections, substitute:

 (3) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), this subsection applies if a reasonable person who is a member of a group of persons distinguished by race, colour or national or ethnic origin (a targeted group) would consider that the conduct mentioned in paragraph (1)(a):

 (a) involves dissemination of ideas of superiority over or hatred of a person who is a member of the targeted group, or the members of the targeted group, because of the race, colour or national or ethnic origin of the targeted group; or

 (b) could incite another person or a group of persons to offend, insult, humiliate or intimidate:

 (i) a person who is a member of the targeted group; or

 (ii) the members of the targeted group.

Note: The object of this subsection is to give further effect to Article 4 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, done at New York on 21 December 1965. The Convention is in Australian Treaty Series 1975 No. 40 ([1975] ATS 40) and could in 2026 be viewed in the Australian Treaties Library on the AustLII website (https://www.austlii.edu.au).(4) For the purposes of paragraph (1)(c), this subsection applies if a reasonable person who is a member of a group of persons distinguished by race, religion or nationality (a targeted group) would consider that the conduct mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) involves advocacy that:

 (a) is advocacy of hatred of:

 (i) the targeted group; or

 (ii) a member of the targeted group; and

 (b) constitutes incitement of another person or group of persons to offend, insult, humiliate, intimidate or use force or violence against:

 (i) the targeted group; or

 (ii) a member of the targeted group.

Note: The object of this subsection is to give further effect to Article 20 of the Covenant.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
So the PiHole Raspberry Pi has been upgraded to a Pi5 and now acts as a digital picture frame as well. Last one running for the last 6 years without me knowing the pw 🤪 #wa #raspberrypi
Computer screen on a wall displaying an image of Sugarloaf rock with the sea in turmoil around it. There are cables dangling down that have not been hidden yet. It is 8:27 in the morning
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Absolute cracking album Fontaine's d.c Romance #nowlistening #music
The Romance album cover standing up next to a record player, the album cover has a distorted pink heart on a blue background with a face in it, a tear is dropping from its right eye.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
We're they all trying to pull a Brunel uni and get themselves in a film like A Clockwork Orange?
Brunel universities brutalise lecture theatre in modern times. Tarted up with some minor colourful flower boxesThe same concrete theatre with no markings from a still from the film A Clockwork Orange with officers escorting the protagonist Alex away from the building on his way to his rehabilitation therapy.
When I went there they would have been walking towards the computer science department
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Happy pride month in Minecraft beacons
Multiple side by side Minecraft beacons coloured green, blue, yellow, red, white and pink. 
This was from before I had a wither farm so only had 6
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Now playing ZZ Top Eliminator in pristine condition from Rhubarb Records #music #lp
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I wonder if ou have to flip your Johnny Ive designed Ferrari over we to charge? www.drive.com.au/news/ferrari... #ev
The deeply stupid wireless Apple mouse you need to flip over and plug in on the bottom to charge rendering it uslessRed Ferrari Luce from the side
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
How cheap are EVs to run? The WA govt is giving a $100 'fuel support patment' This may get a gas car 5 or 600km, bit more for a hybrid. It will get our 6 7300km if charged at the daytime offpeak rate of 8c/kWh. It will get lil red 10500km becuase it's that efficient!!
A red 2020 Ioniq and a grey 2023 Ioniq 6 sitting shinning in a backyard after a nice wash
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I guess on a few of the images the text alignment doesn't work that well and covers the ship. How possible to allow left, right, top, bottom alignment? I know keeping it simple is better.
Original Star Trek Enterprise covered with the text "City on the edge of forever" next to a water planet covered with whispy white clouds
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
"Use of Weapons" actually makes a good star trek episode name
Close view of Star Trek Voyager space craft with the text "Use of Weapons" which is the title of an Iain M Banks novel.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Sunset #perth
Streak of orange clouds from a sunset sky between two angular buildings
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our champ stunted and broken orange tree is still providing even though it's not getting a lot of love but I did keep the water up over summer hence the long grass surrounding it #gardening #fruit
Stunted orange tree surrounded by long grass under a gum tree with quite a few oranges ripening almost ready to pick
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
So that was a wild last 4 minutes in the freo game for a come from behind win #freo
Freddie, Bolton, the best Reid, Voss and Young embracing after the final siren at optus stadium
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Now listening to a terrible compilation of well known tracks recorded and ruined on a Moog #nowplaying #Moog #music Only $2 though and in perfect condition.
A record, Golden Instrumental Hits featuring the Many Moogs of Killer Watts standing next to a record player.SIXTY ENTERTAINMENT
GDLDEN INETRUMENTAL HITS featuringgTHE MANY MOOGS OF KILLER WATTs
Side 1.
1. The Good The Bad & The Ugly 2. Telstar 3. Sleep Walk 4. A Walk In The Black Forest 5. Red River Rock 6. Man Of Mystery 7. Perfidia 8. In The Mood 9. Wonderful Land 10. Spanish Flea 11. Stranger On The Shore 12. Soul Coaxing
Side 2.
1. Wheels 2. The Persuaders 3. Amazing Grace 4. Manhattan Spiritual 5. Hoots Mon 6. Apache 7. I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman 8. Charmaine 9. Eye Level 10. We Can Work It Out/Hey Jude 11. Now Hear This

Barry Leng, producer of this album rightly describes The Moog as "A very versatile machine" although he also lets on that quite apart from being just a machine, the Moog does possess a musical soul of its own. How else, in fact, could one conjure up the kind of sounds that make this 'Golden Hour such ar enjoyable listening experience. Barry describes his own choice of instrument as guitar but in fact on the session that helped make this album he played and engineered along with Derek Scott, composer of TV themes "Hine"'"General Hospital" and Marty Feldman's series, and Len Beadle who has written anc arranged for many big music names So. in everv sense although the machine is good the musicians behind and controlling it are experts in their field. They jointly believe that had the Moog been invented sooner its scope for handling some of the most tuneful songs of the day would have been considerably enlarged "All of the songs or this album are good pop instrumentals" says Barry "and in their day had the Moog been around they`d have been great for the machine. I'm only glad that we've done an album that exploits their strength as songs to be enjoyed. They're very much songs that are favourites with just about everyone and we have tried to give them a new approach, although, of course, they`'ve been done many times as instrumentals by other musical combinations. This then is the first Moog Synthesiser project for Barry, Len and Derek and a fine job they…
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
Youtube music has had an UI update, took a while to work out where the queue is but my biggest bug bear is still there. If you look at the comments while looking at a video, the vid is miniscule even on a zfold. 7 lines of actual text on all of this screen real estate. #google #enshitification
Screenshot from a zfold showing the YouTube music app while a video is playing and comments are shown with the vid a tiny square in the top left corner that takes up about 3% of the screen. Meanwhile the comments amount to 7 line of text across 3 comments. Insanely crap use of screen real estate. So much dead space
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Back when we first got our EV I tracked 95Ron petrol against WA electricity prices. Good old covid oil demand. Standard electricity tariff here hasn't risen than much and we now pay 8c off peak if not charging off solar.
Chart comparing petrol prices a d electricity prices from May 2020 until Sept 2022.
Petrol prices in an orange line rising from just over $1 per litre to $2 per litre.
Electricity prices are a steady 30 cents per kWh with a couple of very small rises each July.
Chart is designed to show petrol price volatility vs a more steady electricity price of the standard tariff.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
They are not solar panels on the Orion Module. Just a massive array of flash bulbs like on this old camera www.flickr.com/photos/captk...
Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera with flash bar
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Hello friend, I found one a couple of weeks ago
White spider on a white power cord
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Whatever happened to the fun times when those fuckers repealed the Carbon Tax!!!
Coalitions ministers hugging with glee at the repeal of the "Carbon tax"
Includes Peter Dutton, Kelly O'Dwyer, Christopher Pyne, Greg Hunt
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Reading Peter F Hamilton's new book Exodus and it has this trademark qualification of the word Exodus. Must have got a pretty lax officer that day who had never heard of THE BIBLE.
EXODUS is a trademarkof the Wizards of the Coast LLC and is used with permission 2024 Wizards ofthe Coast. All rights reserved.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
2 weeks ago we finally got the gas cut off after getting a heat pump. 6 years after the terrible fires prompted us to electrify everything in our home we got there. It's been expensive to do so but will save us in the long run. Red is nearly 6yo and going strong.
Brand spanking new Hyundai Ioniq in a driveway delivered in May 2020.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Sky doing weird things in Perth
Dark grey clouds with what looks like lighter quilted sections
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
This dog raises its paw
Little dog laying on its back on a beanbag raising its paw to my son who is off screen but who's shadows is on a white wall behind the pup.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Don't see this kind of permission on recorded works often. Found in the Mrs random record collection and was quite enjoyable. The boy liked it as well
The centre circle of a record

"RIDE
WITH THE SUN

STORIES FROM THE UNITED NATIONS
Read by John Clements

Permission grqnted for reproduction, radio, television or by other
meent All proceeds, payments and acknowledgementy to
Save the Children fund, Australian Capital cities,

SIDEL
MX14824

331 R.P.M.

1, UNCLE BOUKI HIRES A HORSE--HAITI 11.30
2. KANABOUSCH EGYPT 4.30
3. THE IGUANA'S POISON MAG-AUSTRALIA t
4 BUKOLLA-ICELAND (4,20
5. KING SVATOPLUK AND THE THREE STICKS
CZECHORLOVAKIA 4.00

Distribulers
GRAND SPICIALITIES, BOX K808
G.P.0.PERTH. 21.739"

A colourful album cover with stylised people from around the world.

The cover says

"Ride with the Sun
FOLK TALES AND STORIES
FROM COUNTRIES OF
THE UNITED NATIONS

Read by JOHN CLEMENTS
Edited by Harold Courlander
for the United Nations Women's Guild"
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
What about rebuilding Every Single Building surrounding it being destroyed as well.
Ariel photo of the Gaza Commonwealth war cemetery that was partially bulldozed by Israel and nearly all of the surrounding Buildings have been destroyed. Just streets of piles of rubble where homes used to be.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Around people: 1 Around dogs: 3
Little chihuahua cross pomegranate lying in the sun on some grass with a red body collar on
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Just finished sprinklering that part of the yard and all the birds came
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
A little bit too much like Star Blazers / Space battleship Yamato Just need to add a Wave Motion Cannon to it
Space battleship Yamato flying through clouds from the animated series.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Anyone know why cookers are still standing outside WAs Government House with umbrellas everyday? #auspol
Two dudes with umbrellas leaning against the wall of WA Government House
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Watching the Get Smart pilot, the only one shot in black and white. How much of a fox is Barbara Feldon?
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Do we know how Mr Dodds shiny Volvo is going?
Green Volvo Electric Prime mover
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Golden what???
Meriam Webster's 2026 word for me - Golden
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Oh dear I need to stop for, checks notes, 7 mins in Kojonup on a drive to Albany from Perth. #electric #ev Will definitely have to stop in Williams first for a pee break and get something from the woolshed
A screen clipping of an A Better Route Planner trip from Perth the Albany, a distance of 414km showing a charge stop is needed of 7 mins in Kojonup
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
90s dischordant Indie perfection - Icky Mettle
Album cover of Icky Mettle by Archers of Loaf
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Stopped by the Corrigen dog cemetery today. They were all very good boys and girls. #dogs
Statue of a dog at outside the Corrigin Dog Cemetary with marked pooch graves behind
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Found this and put on the other day in my most excellent Mrs collection. Pretty sure it's an original pressing. Sounds really good coming out of the record player too. Only 12 bucks from Kmart.
Princess 1999 album in LP format with the plastic cover looking a bit worse for wear and a yellow Kmart price tag of $11.32
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
I loved Our Flag means Death
The cast of 'Our Flag Means Death' behind the scenes of Season 2 (Samba Schutte via Instagram)
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
It has actual knobs for the hob rings instead of stupid capacitive touch buttons on the ceramic surface like most induction cook tops.
Close up of four hob control knobs for an induction cooktop
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
That gurning twat should be precluded from receiving any public money ever.
Greg Hunt, Kelly O'Dwyer, Christopher Pyne, Peter Dutton and some other prick celebrating the repeal of the Carbon Tax in 2014
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Hitting sitemap at the bottom is probably lying the best way to navigate the site although its incomplete. Those menus are god awful. You still have to go through More maps and scroll and know what your looking for. Luckily I have links to daily observations for Perth saved that I look at routinely
Screenshot of the top of the BOMs sitemap page showing the following text 
Main navigation
Weather and climate
Forecasts and observations
Warnings and alerts
Rain radar and weather maps
Specialised forecasts and observations
Coasts and oceans
Marine weather safety
Marine weather hazards and warnings
Boating safety
Rock fishing safety
岩钓安全 (Rock fishing safety, Simplified Chinese)
岩钓安全 (Rock fishing safety, Simplified Chinese)
岩釣安全須知 (Rock fishing safety, Traditional Chinese)
바위 낚시 안전 (Rock fishing safety, Korean)
An toàn khi câu cá ở ghềnh đá (Vietnamese)
Keselamatan memancing di batuan tepi laut (Malay)
Water sports safety
Weather information at sea
Marine radio broadcast guidelines
Weather safety guidelines for commercial vessels
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Everyone involved in this who didn't say no should have been fired.
An upside down apple mouse with the charging cable plugged in on the bottom rendering it unusable if it has no charge.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Great comment in the Valve hardware announcement on YouTube. (I know right)
Text from a YouTube comment saying "An announcement by a tech company without mentioning AI is a blessing at this point"
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Didn't JB HiFi already get pinged for deceptive pricing? Apparently "Clearance" doesn't necessarily mean a price reduction just that the product is end of life on the shelves and the yellow sticker denotes this. Not that they want to get rid of the stock at a better price.
Yellow price tag of $47.99 over the top of a white price tag where you can see the same price of $47.99
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Fixed up the wire, soldered the twist join, shrink wrapped somehow got everything together without breaking anything and its working Quite chuffed with myself for effecting the repair. Hit me up if you need to take apart a LG cord zero A9 power drive head. Not easy feels like you need to break it
Cleaned and repaired vacuum head.
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Paul Castle @sleeperpservice.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Trying to repair this vacuum head is super fun without the right tools, a proper guide and possibly shouldn't be doing it on the computer desk. Dust everywhere!
Dissasembled electric vacuum cleaner head showing broken wires in the flexible joint.
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