Michael Gardner

If you're remote, ramble A lightweight way to add ambient social cohesion for remote teams.

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If 90% of success in life is showing up, the other 10% depends on what you’re showing up for. – Woody Allen

Reading War and Peace, one chapter a day for a whole year (361 chapters). Great idea. I exercise 5 days a week for 20 minutes. This shows the power of just showing up a little bit each day.

Pressure is piling on the Allan government to reveal the opening date for the Metro Tunnel. It comes as the premier digs in her heels on another rail project despite hundreds of fresh objections. Subscribe and set 🔔 » https://7news.link/YTSubscribe | For the latest Australian news and breaking Experts call for work on the Suburban Rail Loop to be halted | 7NEWS

We don't quite have the US-style inner-city vs (outer) suburban culture war confected for political purposes. But perhaps M Guy is giving it a red hot go.🤢

"(Campbell Arcade) is just another location in #Melbourne for us to go and get mugged by people who are out on bail"
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This is crazy. It really annoys me that these companies get away with not paying any corporate tax.
How much in the form of royalties has Queensland received?

Despite $22bn promise, Adani has paid zero corporate tax in Australia and experts think it won’t ever pay a cent Adani’s Australian assets regularly report annual losses despite strong revenue, in part due to big related-party payments

Adani was given free reign by both major parties to open up dangerous thermal coal mining in the Galilee basin.

They got grants, they got royalty holidays, they got favours and public money, and in return, Australians get nothing.
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More gas. Labor amps it up past twenty fossil fuel approvals - Michael West Two more offshore oil and gas projects have been approved in the last 40 days, bringing Albanese's fossil fuel approval tally to 20.

Two more gas projects win Fed Environment approval in the last 40 days. They sure are locking it in
#auspol Zacharias Szumer reports
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#booksky

I can't wait to see what the next 10 months are going to be like for Colbert. Now he has nothing to lose. It's a shame he lost his show, but this is going to be interesting. CBS, Paramount, and Dementia Don are all now fair game. Colbert ratings will go thru the roof. I ordered a case of popcorn.

Datastar The hypermedia framework.

This video on the front page of the Datastar webpage is one of the best I've seen in terms of the art of introducing what your library/package is all about. I love it. #webdev data-star.dev

Geordi Laforge meme: doesn't like the Clifton Hill derailed train being lifted by a crane, but does like the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games flying tram

What manner of shitfuckery is this!?!?
Sky & Rio Tinto admitting The Greens were right all along!!!!!
#AusPol

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Ashley
Photographer East Coast of Australia
"Here's a little #wildlifewednesday moment for you, filmed only an hour ago, as this gorgeous humpback descends into the water right on sunset, ready for the night to take over"

Comic, Tom the Dancing Bug, Ruben Bolling, 2014 What we imagine climate change deniers will say during the global warmageddon Man weeping, clutching another, both in deeply-flooded city street: Oh my god! You were right! How could I have been so stupid?! I'M A MONSTER WHO KILLED THE EARTH! What they actually will say: Man in yellow poncho in heavy rain, talking to other people similarly huddled: I never said the climate wasn't changing. I just said the change wasn't caused by human activity. And I still don't think so. Woman pushing shopping cart on yellow plain, fires in distance: If Obama had been a better leader, he would have created bipartisan action to prevent this. Thanks, Obama! Man on plain, dark smoke and bigger fires approaching: Whatever! The main thing is, during a continent-wide firenado storm, what we need most is lower taxes and less regulation! Woman in parking lot jumps at bullet near her feet. Voice off panel: Respect the perimeter around the Piggly Wiggly!

One sees it

They can't help but lie about us 💅

The Planning Institute of Australia's response to YIMBY Melbourne's research demonstrates exactly why our planning system is broken.

We never said that there are too many planners. We said that the sector's productivity has collapsed. 👇

Our lead organiser, @jonobri.com, writes for
@inflectionpoints.work about "The Problem with Urban Planning" 👇

Patience (TV Series 2025– ) ⭐ 7.4 | Crime, Drama Patience: Created by Laurent Burtin, Alexandre de Seguins. With Ella Maisy Purvis, Laura Fraser, Mark Benton, Ali Ariaie. Patience catalogues evidence in the Yorkshire Police records department. A bri...

I just finished watching Patience (season 1) on ABC iView.
Simply stunning. Moving and incredible.

Good job!

Australia's cities have extremely low densities relative to their international counterparts. The idea that this low density is impossible to overcome is silly.

This type of conservative thinking is partly to blame for the housing crisis.

Why is all the text in this photo reversed? It's doing my head in....

I continue to be surprised at just how stupid and useless Apple's Siri is.

2 wrongs don’t make a right;
1st Councils like Woollahra allowed only 3 storey apartments to be built on key sites, squandering their urban potential.
Now State Govt rightly allows 4-6 storeys (maybe 8) but gifts windfall profits to existing landowners, instead of mandating 20% affordable housing
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We need an Indiana Jones & Harry potter crossover movie. Indiana gets help from Harry to save the day.

Indiana Jones and the order of the phoenix.

I dunno, I just think Indiana Jones and James Bond would make a cute couple

Indiana Jones and the long wait for greet takeaway food.