@jeanweber.bsky.social
Feminist. Atheist. Renewable energy & EV enthusiast. Mac & Linux user. Retired technical editor. Grumpy old woman.
Electricity usage and solar export graphs for Feb 2025 to Feb 2026. High usage in Feb, March, Nov, Jan.
Our electricity usage clearly shows when we use the air conditioning! December would have been higher if I had not been away for three weeks. Not sure why January was so low; I was gone only 8 days. Also shows when clouds or day length limit solar input.
19.02.2026 00:56 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Iโve been doing my strength & cardio workouts despite the low pressure system bringing back my old friends the Screaming Knees. They donโt scream as badly as when I was taking prescription meds with joint pain as a side effect. When summer is over, they should stop screaming.
19.02.2026 00:48 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Australia Institute research shows a 25 per cent tax on gas exports could raise $17 billion every year, while incentivising producers to prioritise the supply of gas to domestic customers.
Read the full piece on The Point: https://theaus.in/4tIpzaM
Queensland coal generator celebrates the commercial start of its first big battery, which will provide essential firming capacity and reliability โwithin fractions of a second.โ
18.02.2026 04:09 โ ๐ 18 ๐ 6 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 2I fly to Bali on Saturday, to join a cruise ship on Sunday. I just checked the weather forecast: thunderstorms! Both days, plus several more as we head east to Komodo etc. Joy, not. Luckily I wasnโt planning any sightseeing, and Iโve been to Komodo and seen drsgons.
17.02.2026 07:13 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Australia: Unlock solar for renters teport
www.solarcitizens.org.au/unlock_solar...
A wooden desk with CRT monitor above an Apple computer with two floppy drives, and a keyboard. To the left, a dot-matrix printer.
1985: my first personal computer, an Apple ][E IIRC, with dot matrix printer, later replaced by a hacked IBM Selectric. Two 5โ floppy drives. Wordstar.
15.02.2026 20:22 โ ๐ 10 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Thatโs mall *walk* of course. ๐
15.02.2026 09:50 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Between my morning mall wall and an afternoon cardio workout that involved a lot of footwork, Iโve been credited with over 10,500 steps today. If I included step equivalents of my evening pedal on the recumbent, It would be quite a bit more. No wonder my knees are complaining!
15.02.2026 09:19 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0All now booked.
15.02.2026 04:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Forget the sentimental bs of โValentineโs Dayโ and celebrate the death of Captain James Cook on 14 February 1779, killed by the native Hawaiians following typical arrogant activities by the British explorer. He wasnโt welcome in Australia either.
14.02.2026 05:22 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 029 May - 1 June 2026
14.02.2026 05:20 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Swancon 50, Perth, WA. I should book my flights & hotel soon. But first I need to decide how long to stay in WA before & after the con. Decisions, decisionsโฆ
I do not plan to go anywhere else in WA except the Perth-Fremantle area, for Reasons. Rottnest? Maybe. Further away? Unlikely.
Updated Linux Mint and various programs on my second laptop, which hasn't been getting enough love from me. In fact, I've not been using either laptop very much recently. (For social media and email, I mostly use my iPhone and iPads.) But I expect to be doing more writing & editing later this year.
13.02.2026 07:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Talking Down ย After having listened to Richard for twenty-five minutes, Stifling her yawns as he Enlightened Her on the origins Of the term โmansplainingโ, Lisa was finally able to get a word in Edgeways. Brian Bilston
Hereโs a poem called โTalking Downโ.
11.02.2026 09:32 โ ๐ 241 ๐ 50 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 3
Three curlews. Two adults on left, young bird on right.
Bush stone curlew family in a nearby garden. Photo taken from our back patio with iPhone 15 Pro Max at high zoom. The young bird hatched on 1 January.
12.02.2026 05:44 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
Wooden bobbin for sewing thread, about 3cm long by 2.5cm diameter.
I found this wooden bobbin, which Iโm sure Iโve been keeping for historical reasons. I had many of these when I was young, before they were changed to plastic and cardboard.
12.02.2026 05:38 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Black plastic case with two magnifying lenses that rotate outward.
Finding this item sent me into fine memories of my botany + entomology + arachnology days. The case is about 2.5 x 3 cm, with two lenses of different magnification, that can be used separately or together. Still in beautiful condition. Weighs almost nothing. Want to count the hairs on a flyโs leg?
12.02.2026 05:35 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Well, boo hiss. Hope itโs sorted soon, but FB has been a dumpster fire lately for too many of my friends. I guess I better cross post here so you can see what Iโm up to.
12.02.2026 00:38 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0We really need a photo! Of a parrot, even if not on your shoulder, though that would be ideal.
09.02.2026 09:36 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
Add your name to the call to make polluters pay for the damage โ๏ธ
nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
Friendship Centred SFF Book Bundle 37 Books Feb 1st-15th Background photo: four friends standing with arms around each other. Photo by Helena Lones, Itchio Covers: The Unidentified Champagne Charlie and the Amazing Gladys Walking the Knife's Edge Bonkpocalypse Bad Grains A Spark in Space The Damsel AN UNCOMMON CURSE Courage Is the Price Puppetry Duckett & Dyer, Dicks For Hire The Old Goat and the Alien Spirits of the Relentless Without Wings Clipped Sing In Me, Holy One, and Through Me The Lucky Machine The Lost Star Chart Werecockroach Rescue from the Orc Fortress Riyati Ripple Wherever the Stars Call The Crows Woodspell Common Accord Awakenings River of Crows A Study on Magic and Crystals Once Upon A Wave of Witches Fortitude Waters Dust & Lightning The Re-Emergence
SFF Readers, do you like stories which centre friendship, or where friendship groups tackle plot problems?
To help you find them, I've organised this 37 book bundle. It's an even split of Fantasy, SciFi & SciFi-Fantasy, available till Feb 15! (Book blurbs in link ๐.)
๐๐๐ช๐๐ itch.io/b/3486/frien...
Congratulations to the finalists of the 2025 Aurealis Awards!
aurealisawards.org/2026/02/01/2...
Add your name to the call for a climate disaster levy โ๏ธ nb.australiainstitute.org.au/climatedisas...
06.01.2026 05:14 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I havenโt been posting here about the cruise. Started in Singapore; have been to Thailand, Malaysia (Borneo), Philippines, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, & Thailand again. Finish in Singapore on Saturday. Holland America Westerdam. Good weather after dodging a typhoon at the start.
17.12.2025 12:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0
So Mozilla has a new CEO, who is keen to turn Firefox into a โmodern AI browserโ. Whatever that means, Iโm not going there when I leave Google.
blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/l...
They twist everything to fit their preferred narrative.
16.12.2025 13:04 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0
A wrong Grok post making up a white guy who stopped the Australian mass shooting.
BBC 'Hero' who wrestled gun from Bondi shooter named as Ahmed al Ahmed Emily Atkinson Sun, December 14, 2025 at 1:06 p.m. CST 2 min read A "hero" bystander who was filmed wrestling a gun from one of the Bondi Beach attackers has been named as 43-year-old Ahmed al Ahmed. Video verified by the BBC showed Mr Ahmed run at the gunman and seize his weapon, before turning the gun round on him, forcing his retreat. Mr Ahmed, a fruit shop owner and father of two, remains in hospital, where he has undergone surgery for bullet wounds to his arm and hand, his family told 7News Australia.
This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites.
The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.
In case anyone has missed it. Applies to Australians as well as others.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
