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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And I didn’t have room for “Juice” on that shelf - that’s a fat Winton!

𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

But I don’t have any room on this bookshelf for more JB books* (*time to shift books around on the 15+ bookcases in our house. Again.)

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it.” (You know the book, you know the author…)

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One of my fondest memories of leaving my corporate job a couple of years ago was getting my work inbox down to this just before I left:

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This is where I'm at with my novel. (Well, that and posting on Bluesky about it, to avoid actually writing the blurb). Why is writing 100,000 words easy, but 200 is impossible? #Booksky #writing

Smeagol: We must write the blurb.
Gollum: But we HATES it.

(Not in picture: so do I Gollum, so do I)

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

ZX80, with its massive 1k of RAM. Later we upgraded it with the external 16k memory expansion, and swapped out the ROM for the ZX81 version. Sorry that we sold it!

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Pretty sure that was Gough Whitlam. He had another one that I really like: When National Country Party member Sir Winston Turnbull shouted, "I am a Country member!", Whitlam instantly retorted, "I remember," to roaring laughter from both sides of the chamber.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

A tale as old as time… “If Croesus makes war on the Persians, he will destroy a great empire.” You’d think a lesson 2,500 years old might be worth heeding. But no.

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

20 years ago, that headline would have sounded like complete gibberish. Not sure I’m happy about living in a world where I understand it…

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Surely 1st of April should have been International Fact-Checking Day! A missed opportunity…

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

My mood is on aeroplane mode - seatbelt fastened, tray table up, waiting for the oxygen mask.

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

“Australia is a lucky country run mainly by second rate people who share its luck. It lives on other people's ideas, and, although its ordinary people are adaptable, most of its leaders (in all fields) so lack curiosity about the events that surround them that they are often taken by surprise.”

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Nah, just chuck in some ellipses inside the quote marks instead, and you’re all good.

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

I think that Larry Hagman, at the age of 81, carried the look better…

Larry Hagman, aka JR Ewing, wearing trademark cowboy hat in 2012.

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

* at least all the books I bought today were from a market stall * (But I did buy 3 of them)

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𝕋𝕠𝕟𝕪 ℕ𝕖𝕚𝕝𝕤𝕠𝕟 🇦🇺🏏✍️📚🥃 @tonyneilson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Just finished reading “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies“. Grim reading, but very clearly articulated. The AI bubble popping and smashing the economy is the least of the problems we face from AI…

Extract from the book:
“If anyone builds it, everyone dies.

It doesn't matter whether it's built by benevolent corporations or selfish ones. It doesn't matter whether it's built by researchers in the East or researchers in the West. It doesn't matter whether it's built by reckless optimists or people who say they respect the problem. Nobody has the knowledge or skill to make a superintelligence that does their bidding.”

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