Stuart Palmer
@spalm.bsky.social
Professional engineer. Recovering academic. Data. Stats. Visualisation. Officially retired. Opinions my own. https://stuartpalmer2.github.io/spalm/index.html
[Pause in throbbing Art of Noise electro-synth music] A baritone Welsh voice croons: "Think I better scratch now!"
Is there a vaccine for old sports stars getting humiliated ? Novax needs a jab.
hey, with removal of pollution rules and food safety requirements, its quite possible American food might grow you another finger.
A banquet of saccharin, insubstantial and ultimately unsatisfying flummery.
ABC News Australia@news.abc.net.au · 15h agoAnnabel Crabb's dessert recipes from the latest season of Kitchen Cabinet
NSW work safety watchdog conducts blitz on Coffs Coast, Riverina farms after modern slavery inquiry
Workplace watchdog finds 44 safety breaches across NSW farming sector
Five labour hire firms across the Coffs Coast on the New South Wales Mid North Coast have been ordered to stop work in certain areas after a SafeWork NSW blitz.
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Just trimmed the rosemary hedge. Now desperately want a lamb roast, or at least rosemary potatoes. Still have to get through the third dinner from the lasagna.
I know exactly why, poindexter. It’s because it looks cool as fuck
It is not at all concerning that the leader of our principal ally is posting AI-generated videos and claiming them to be real
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 18h agoTrump posts AI slop with the caption, “Kharg Island being blown to smithereens!!!”
Trump is now posting AI slop of Kharg Island being “blown to smithereens.” If you can’t win the war in real life, apparently you can always retreat into AI fantasies.
Murray-Darling Basin Authority wins $1.5-billion class action
28,000 irrigators lose $1.5-billion class action against MDBA
The Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) has won a long-running class action brought by 28,000 irrigators who argued its mismanagement caused lost profits and high water prices.
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Alan Kohler “The period when everyone agreed that productivity was great & reform was happening was not when govt & business were working together, but when govt & labour were working together. That was the 80s & early 90s, when productivity grew more than 2% a year” www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
As rising inequality demands reform, business is 'circling the wagons'
Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and po...
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Really good work by Alan Kohler (and yes he does use a couple of my grpahs) www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFlg...
Australians got a massive paycut in 2021 — and they're angry | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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Huge Republic cover art vibes. Hearing a jangle pop guitar riff over an atmospheric synth just looking at it.
The WebP people are still fuming that JPEG 2000 never took off.
"We're with the United States - there's no question". Actually, Richard, there is a question, you've just decided to answer it for all of us.
AI biggest ‘sovereignty moment since World War II’
To avoid being a passive “taker” of AI, Richard Marles has declared: “We’re with the United States - there’s no question.”
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"Our search results are the best we know how to produce. They are unbiased and objective." - Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, 2004
A sign that your country is perhaps not doing as well as your president says it is
Onlookers said the lake now resembled a giant bowl of rancid guacamole, or a reflecting pool in a national capital. Read the full story: theshovel.com.au/2026/08/31/l...
The libs will wind all these changes back. Those potholes though 🫠 www.realestate.com.au/news/victori...
Victoria makes rental taskforce permanent in major crackdown on landlords - realestate.com.au
Victorian landlords and “dodgy agents” have been warned the new Carroll government is “out to catch you” after a major move for the state’s rental laws.
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