Bicycletim Stredwick
@bicycle-tim.eurosky.social
Bikes (repairing, riding and talking about them), sea kayaking, parties, music and beer. Not necessarily in that order or in equal quantities. Lutrawita.
It is absolutely preferable to not pick up the cigarette in the first place news.berkeley.edu/2026/10/09/u...
Using AI for just 10 minutes erodes your ability to persist at hard things - Berkeley News
A UC Berkeley researcher co-authored a study that raises profound questions about how we interact with artificial intelligence in education — and daily life.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 With this decision, the two autocrats are pursuing a threefold objective: 1️⃣ Defuse anger among the American public just three weeks before the midterm elections, 2️⃣ Deter Ukraine from striking Russian oil infrastructure—or, should it persist, pin the blame for the crisis on Kyiv and get a
Heads-up! Any time NewsCorpse tries to promote Josh Frydenberg or suggest he should return to federal politics, I like to remind people of his illegal misleading Chinese language corflutes in AEC purple, telling voters the "correct" way to vote. 😠 #auspol #KooyongVotes
@zackpolanski.bsky.social this wasn't the result you wanted, but it's still a hell of a result, and you & the campaigners fought like tigers for it. It's all practice, it's all worth it, it all moves us forward. Thank you. 💚
Ballot packs for the #lgtas elections go out this week, which seems as good a time as any to launch this cycle's edition of the Quick Links. Links to candidate statements and prefilled VotePlans at your fingertips! lgtas.tantusar.au/2026/
Bring your Christmas creativity to the parade! 🎄 Burnie City Council is offering grants of up to $200 to help eligible community groups, organisations, schools and other participants create and present a float in the... 08 October 2026 Burnie City Council #LGNewsRoundup #BurnieCityCouncil
Burnie Christmas Parade 2026 | Float Grants
Bring your Christmas creativity to the parade! 🎄 Burnie City Council is offering grants of up to $200 to help eligible community groups, organisations, schools and other participants create and present a float in the Burnie Christmas Parade on Friday, 11 December 2026.
burnie.tas.gov.au
you don’t hold "AI" accountable; you hold AI developers, vendors, and corporations that profit off it accountable holding "AI accountable" is like holding a toaster accountable. it's an inanimate object. it doesn't have wishes, feelings, or desires
You shouldn't have to chase the council for basic infrastructure maintenance. Vote 1 - Mark Donnellon #walk #bicycle #path #cargobike #ebike
“A source working with newbie community independent candidate Hannah Ferguson reports being shocked by the level of dissatisfaction with Albanese among hitherto loyal Labor voters;“
Jinjirrie@jinjirrie.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is where your addictive crawling to the rightwing, greedy ruling class, the US and #Israel gets you, @albomp.bsky.social - on the nose. michaelwest.com.au/albos-suppor... #auspol #FreePalestine #environment
Cops are knocking on doors around Australia threatening activists with three years in prison if they go near an arms fair in Perth. Here's what's going on.
Have the cops knocked on your door?
YouTube video by anticop
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𝚃𝚠𝚒𝚌𝚎 𝚊𝚜 𝚏𝚊𝚜𝚝. 𝚃𝚎𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎𝚜 𝚌𝚑𝚎𝚊𝚙𝚎𝚛. What 7,300+ tracked deliveries in Brussels tell us about cargo bikes versus delivery vans: 👇
Tas. HIA complains today about a lack of “shovel-ready” land for new homes. Macquarie Point is shovel ready for homes for about 3000 people. And it will employ many people as the project is developed over the years. And it will cost 1/10 of the cost of a stadium. #nonewstadium #politas
All you fascists bound to lose.
Scotland's No1 Comrade@scotlandscomrade.bsky.social · last wk.From Scotland to Northumberland, Blackpool to Leicestershire, Reform contested six by-elections yesterday. They lost all six. Six contests. Six defeats. Reform are not inevitable. Their bubble has burst😉 Have a great weekend comrades! #NoFascists #RightWingLosers #FailingFarage
“What’s being monstered here isn’t one senator from New South Wales. It’s a kind of politics. Call it the politics of conscience: rent, a wealth tax, a genocide in Gaza that Australia keeps finding reasons not to call by its name.”
The monstering of David Shoebridge | Urban Wronski
Four days into his leadership, David Shoebridge was cross-examined on 7.30, labelled, straw-manned and monstered. How the ABC and News Corp ran the same play.
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Geopolitics, shifting sentiment & fading FUD around Chinese #EVs are converging. After a decade of slow burn, adoption is accelerating. Australia hit 1 in 4 new cars fully battery-electric (BEV) a decade ahead of forecast & this is just take-off, disruption S-curves aren't gentle. #Bettrification
Well albanese has destroyed the public perception that labor is for workers so maybe it is time for this to change too
This is terrible analysis, all about framing and how politicians pitch themselves to journalists rather than whether the politician has anything to say about the issues of the moment - in other words, standard Karvelas
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · last wk.Greens leader David Shoebridge wants to woo the same angry voters as One Nation — but from the left
“AIs are not conscious. They do not feel, experience, or suffer. They do not have innate preferences or underlying motivations. They are sequence completion engines, internally hollow, designed to follow instructions, and accomplish goals set by humans,”
404 Media@404media.co · last wk.The "AI Torture Chamber" has opened an upsetting and absurd window into the effective altruist obsession with "model welfare."
World Chess Olympiad competitors boycott Israel Top women's chess player, Heather Richards, highlighted the double standards that Israel can play in the 46th Olympiad but Russia is banned
World Chess Olympiad competitors boycott Israel
Top women's chess player, Heather Richards, highlighted the double standards that Israel can play in the 46th Olympiad but Russia is banned
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