Bob Joyce

It is a truth universally acknowledged that you can vote fascists into power, but you cannot vote them out again.

My lucky day Wordle 1,321 2/6 🟨🟨🟨⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

It has been a very long January. And it’s not over yet.

NSW is facing severe heatwaves, raising concerns about power outages. Analysis shows that Australia’s ageing coal plants are increasingly unreliable, driving power shortages and price spikes, especially in summer. With coal set to retire by 2035, we must accelerate the shift to renewables & storage.

The very first piece of Occupational Health and Safety advice I ever remember was my maternal grandmother saying “Take the pot to the kettle, not the kettle to the pot”.

“I urge you to please notice when you are happy.” – Kurt Vonnegut

Banksy!

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Exploring the back yard. Spray Tunnel, Zeehan, Tas

Fascism never ends well. Never.

Apply this to your socials…

Current whereabouts. Up the creek, NWTas.

“Children among 58 killed in latest Israeli strikes on Gaza, say medics” It’s genocide. This is beyond dispute. www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d...

when I get to 400,000 followers I will smite a major evil doer. only 7.5k to go.

Apparently SPIT ON A TESLA is an actual thing. It’s not coordinated, but people are just doing it in protest against Musk’s enthusiastic embrace of Fascism.

Talking about the local Xmas parade, my 7yo granddaughter asked “Is it going to be the real Santa, or just an old person in a Santa dress-up” She has obviously been disappointed previously.

Why is it ‘a nice glass of wine’ rather than ‘a glass of nice wine’? I understand that the glass is important, but I still think that the wine is importanter.

Save 20%, save 35%, blah blah Black Friday Sale, Cyber Monday Sale I’m saving 100% by buying nothing in my ‘IDGAF about your profits Sale’.

EVs rule the efficiency game. They use ~77% of energy for motion, vs gas cars wasting 85%. 🌍💡 Example: Kona EV costs ~$436/year to charge, gas Kona? $1,415. Each $ on EV energy gets you 3.2x the range. Plus, less maintenance & more fun! #EVs #Efficiency yaleclimateconnections.org/2024/01/elec...

Ladies and gentlemen, may I present the “pro-life” Republican Party.

@woolworths.bsky.social How about you just pay your warehouse workers a decent wage. It’s not as is you can’t afford it. Why are you doing this?

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12... Overly dramatic excuse to say we aren’t making enough profits due to free solar energy.

Congratulations to Rebecca Evans and Leigh Robb, curators of the Radical Textiles exhibition currently on show at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Let’s hope for a national tour www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Two cat themed #dailyglimmers, the Cat & Fiddle arcade clock from Hobart/ nipaluna. A bit of 1960 nostalgia. I don’t know what the cow is on but it appears like it’s loosing its head 1/

In 1967, Harold Holt, the Prime Minister of Australia went missing whilst swimming in rough conditions at Cheviot Beach, Victoria. A few years later, in his memory, the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Pool was opened.

You knew it was coming.

View from the deck of our local brew house

Goodreads is owned by Jeff Bezos. A better alternative is StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform. And before y’all start, you can transfer all your Goodreads data to Storygraph so you literally have no excuse.

There’s still a couple of days left in that tube…

Today I choose sanity. And by that I mean Nutella toast and coffee in bed while I watch season 2 of silo

Too much? lol

“What would Jesus do?” they asked “He would say ‘I’ll be right back’ and then disappear for two thousand years…”