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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 1h

No shade on you, but that is exactly the kind of talk that drives this little pedant around the twist!

zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 2h

I am a renown pedant about local authority boundaries.

zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 2h

Does the political boundary have popular meaning? New York City people, for instance, are very picky about ‘you must live in the 5 boroughs’ is London like that?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 2h

Does London have proper boundaries? Like ‘everyone who lives on this side of the line is in London, everyone else is not’?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 6h

I’m delighted to discover someone other than my father thinks this. (And this story is the most popular thing I have ever posted on the internet!)

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 9h

‘Saving Mr Banks’: wrong rolling stock, fictional network map, wrong track gauge.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10h

I watched Temple of Doom on telly with me old Dad decades ago. He sat quietly until the climax where British troops show up to save the day, and suddenly says ‘at the start they said it was 1933 but those rifles are Lee Enfield number 4s that didn’t enter service until 1941’

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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 11h

Time to bring back cigarettes with asbestos filters

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 22h

Mabo was part of a plan to allow Indonesia to claim native title over northern Australia!

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 23h

What cars get made in Brisbane?

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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

A once reliable and ubiquitous system, assembled voluntarily by NGOs using a platform provided and enabled by the state, now requires a private provider relying on ad hoc 'crowdsourced' labour so individuals can use the internet to 'discover' where they have the best chance to purchase a sausage.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thermoclines & Trump & all, sure, but I wonder if there's an angle where Abbot was previously a 'private matter' for Texas to deal with but people are drawing the line at letting him leave the house unaccompanied?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

It's a testament to the depth & breadth of electoral dysfunction in the state of Texas that Abbott has gotten as far as he has.

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

And once again: every actual artist has stories about being hounded and pestered and micromanaged over individual pixels, by the very same people who ship absolute fucking slop that can't even spell the company's name right and which makes all the food look like it's made of bugs and worms etc.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I took that screenshot on a Mac.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I am quite annoyed by whatever tf is going on with the position of the first asterisk.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I genuinely believe that anyone I am speaking to should be allowed to record what I am saying, and I should be held accountable for things I say. I don't see the argument against it. (third parties are different, obviously)

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Dave Lennon @davelennon.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

If this execution goes ahead what of the firing squad? by tradition all volunteers? will their faces be covered? they will each be taking part in an event that will change and taint their lives forever. what would the "optics" be if they covered their faces?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Booth work is fun. I am genuinely sad that 'election day' has faded as an event. It was the pre-eminent Australian cultural event. *Everyone* votes *today*, between 8 and 6. Crowds & pageantry. That's powerful stuff and concentrated but it's been diluted so quickly, almost without anyone noticing

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Tired: Freshbacked auntcrack Wired: Bookfresh backface

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The party room is Cory + six I think? That's a manageable size. I guess the next 6/12/18/? months will indicate whether Bernadi is a lucky kook, or a professional operator. (can anyone work with Pauline?)

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I hadn't thought about what a large ONP vote implies about the on-the-ground experience at polling places, for vollies and voters. There are new risks and they need to be avoided or mitigated.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The influx of that type from the Libs to ONP is going to be a thing.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I know a retired DPP guy who says Brandis was the laziest QC he'd ever dealt with

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Older libs aren't too bad. Ron Boswell was pleasant and chatty in '04. George Brandis was childish & sneering in '10 (at a 'wtaf is wrong with you' level). Most fun I've had with another vollie was the DLP in '10. We built a little routine we'd do about every 15 mins with the slow moving line.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

The worst vibes I've ever picked up from other vollies on HTV, was New Farm State School at the 2015 Qld election. Local poofs handing out for the LNP. They were in an absolute filthy mood all day.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Thinking about SA... Cory Bernardi probably explains much of it. He supplied local credibility to the local ONP, and removed his personal vote from the Libs?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I don't think we can explain the SA election without a major change in voters' perceptions of ONP. (Unless it's the start of a proper split in the Liberal party. But SA seems like the least likely place for that to happen 🤷‍♂️)

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

One Nation hasn't ever been like that, they've always looked like an amateur operation in most of the country. But that's changed.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Australians are strongly biased towards parties that look 'professional'. Visible campaign presence, volunteers everywhere &c. PUP did that magnificently in 2013. In SEQ one couldn't go to any kind of public event without a bunch of fresh-faced backpackers in yellow shirts handing out leaflets

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And look at the Palmer United vote and the Greens in 2013. 2010 Grn +4% 2013 Green -4.5% PUP +4.9% I think the Greens took themselves out of contention for those pox-on-both voters when they made such a song and dance about the C&S agreement with the Gillard government.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On the flip side, watching Mike Collins's worst moments I am thinking about Republican primaries and the departure of 'sensible people' from the population of their primary voters. How deep and wide is the Republicans' 'candidate quality' problem?

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Andrew, what did you think of that Netflix doco? (that I assume prompted the interviews)

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

After those two I believe his daughters staged an intervention and he retired from intervieweeing.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"In conversation: Quincy Jones" in New York Magazine. hat's the really salacious one I think

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

There were two print interviews I think? The 'Quincy Jones has a story about that' one in GQ, and I recall another that started rather more coarsely and unpleasant, a 'no fat chicks' kid of thing.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"claims by music producer Quincy Jones" was an amazing category a few years back.

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Bugs, Yaoist @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

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Can you explain to me like a 5 yrs old ?

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Every video game -- and every piece of software -- will be personalized exactly to your preferences.

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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Just saw someone say that if Starmer was still PM, Labour would have lost this by-election and while I don’t doubt the analysis of his personal popularity, I do feel like they’ve misunderstood the conditions necessary for a by-election to be held in his former seat.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

But didn’t Bowie himself say it was all a pose? (My wife, who is bi and used to be a big fan, put him in the ‘dead to me’ column after reading about some of his 80s interviews)

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And yet people *still* believe in the Efficient Markets Hypothesis

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

“In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President.” 25th amendment, section 1

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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is a really a key moment for Australia to rise to the moment and start walking the talk on a Future Made in Australia. We are the natural trading partner to deliver on this ambition with Korea. We can provide the clean commodities, like green iron, as Korea shifts away from coal and gas.

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 13/09/2026

The most important question that computer science answered was “What if we developed a new engineering field with no properly entrenched pedagogical or professional standards?”

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But Andrew Hickey Died Ten Years Ago This Very Night @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 07/10/2026

(This is a joke, I agree with the OP, I'm just riffing, not trying to dunk) Nobody *except Harry Potter fans* finishes a book and concludes "that was great; now I shall never read another one."

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Finfet @finfet.sh · 07/10/2026

people are certainly going to be normal about this and show their very consistent beliefs about copyright law.

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zz9pza @zz9pluralzalpha.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This looks like the perfect format for reading old comic book stories. Particularly those wonderful two-page spreads

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